[000:00:00;00] the news, as the world celebrates in the new year, archie, look at some of the positive predictions for 2022 with financial experts forecasting the global economy has got to grow while inflation will start to use. and of course, we review the year that is just gone as well with a look at some of the big political spac that unfolded, including a controversial defense deal. it's all french, got blogger, head with its allies. 2021 was many things, but it also gave the online world plenty of ammunition to have fun making means from bernie sanders and his mittens to a boat stuck in there. now we look at the top events of last year deemed worthy of

digital. the news broadcasts direct us to do as a master. this is our international, sean thomas. certainly glad to have you. witness right now, 2022 has only just begun and some of the positive expectations for the year ahead concern the economy with financial experts predicting things could be looking up american investment bank. morgan stanley has a pretty positive outlook and think for inflation in major markets will rise, but then retreat. while the global economy should grow by about 5 percent and the banks, optimism doesn't stop there either. supply chains are expected to recover boosting commerce and driving down inflation throughout the world. emerging markets are predicted to grow faster than the global average, especially in asia. although china's economy may slow down compared with last year

. unless they won, the government uses up on certain regulations, including on carbon emissions. now if those forecasts do come true, they will bring much needed relief to the many who have suffered in economic squeeze after to cover the blighted years during which prices have sword, especially for energy and fuel. we asked to economists for their predictions for the coming. 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 of 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 prep the currency so far have reached significantly wide enough acceptance to really beat the alternative. the need to,

i'm 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 of something like the euro. the next best option, when we see the europeans in math 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 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, it's going to come with a huge price tag is the 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 swathes 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 bill go up, what's the basis of politics while the engine romans 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, simply keep 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 log on. once again, with the new year ahead, people are also trying as human nature to stay positive and look back at some of the funny moments of 2021 particularly online. here is a lighter look at the year just gone. ah,

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in but jokes aside, pandemic remained at the global word of the year for britain. however, 2021 has put the country in a much better position. specifically when it comes to the covered crisis. this is, according to prime minister boris johnson's new year's 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. that said daily infections in the u . k. had another record high on friday, and england's top health official say the health services on

a war footing. the u. k. though of course, is not alone when it comes to struggling with the pandemic, nikia and looks back on the past troubled 12 months. 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 in lead as it's 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 jones and flip flopped on guidelines, leaving brits confused and frustrated. where mosques don't wear mosques,

how give friends don't hug friends rust on your neighbors and cancel your parties as the p. m, with alleged to exempt himself from the rules. and a oh, i'm ah, there's a meetings of people at work today, but this is where i live and to 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 bonds from much of public life and there were take to germans, made their thoughts on this herd. ah, similar angry scenes in australia, crowds opposing restrictions and vaccine mandates flooded the streets. ah. stateside vaccine mandates recreating 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 bringing us closer together. it became another example of the disparity between rich and poor vaccine makers, 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 they know equitable sharing of those vaccines has cost many lives. while some countries are not rolling out blanket booster programs, only have off w just members, states have 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 19 vaccines, pfizer by and taken the durned,

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 ecology and know how with capital producers and low and middle income countries. for those who was counting that money in 2021 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 mandatory 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 a 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 from may be forgiven for looking at 2022 through the fingers. a little uncertain of what the year will bring. i still had here on our international 2 decades of fighting only to disappeared chaotically in a matter of months. we look at how the war and f gonna stand has left veterans who served,

asking if it was worth in the hello, driven by drill shapes bank, concur. some of those with there's things we dare to ask for. 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 often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully,

very difficult time. time to sit down and talk with ah, welcome back. this is our international now a major international rep to develop the last year between old friends and it's all 2 countries on opposite sides of the planet, driven even further apart, australia and france fill out after the french were snubbed at the last minute when britain and the us would australia into a new defense pact, or she shall davinsky has more on the deal that turn sour triggering the nuclear option is always going to be risky business as us training 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 saw rollin select flabbergasted, but it was not at a loss the woods. it's really a stop in the back. a relationship of trust have been built with australia, and this trust has been betrayed. france, livid that deal of a century wave keyboard. and i want to thank her that fellow down on thank you. very much appreciated to premise was scrapped without a claims. only warning. what followed was an a bomb of a diplomatic for lance. we had the president of france calling the prime minister a lawyer. we have a try block. we have the recall of the ambassador and we have

a very frosty 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 why it was managed, was clumsy with cham in presidential 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 make a strategy as strategic requirements. we discussed that candidly. then one of those 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 guidance 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 environments so they're also very much about the same cost and as completion and perception by cells and how 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 welcome nuclear pallet submarine option. and there is a real concern that this will now break, i sort of understanding and late to increase my military expansion of pressure and technical capacity increases in the region. while

australia may, if hope that sampling up to the u. s. might have given it a boost on the international stage. what it seen is the reverse tray talks through 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 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 in another major store. last year, u. s. troops and their allies rapidly pulled out of afghanistan after 2 decades of war. but for many who served there is still a looming question. was it worth it?

as part of our on heard voices project at r t dot com? we spoke to a u. k. army veteran about the conflict. i tried to take my life last year. i was in a real bad way, my mind ended. i needed 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 gonna try to delete it and move away from all put, put quite a few people lives in the last but for 5 years. which reason is only a few months ago a few been through hell and you're still living it. you eat, eat us, get

a feeling of fear. somebody wouldn't understand, you know, and given the order to kill someone was stuff you know, people get upset of it. things today that, that don't need to go up satellite. i want so i'm ok my coffee. i really just drink the coffee with what i prefer to have gone on. we were told that we were going to burn the poppy fields to the palm, to wait and do not pon, changed them. we landed in afghanistan, our troops in a way that they hadn't for many years, are going to be fighting alongside other countries and situations. a great danger, the shoulders are very good at the taken orders and just getting on with it. i'm not questioning orders, but as you go through the years and you mature and you start to sort of have a brand to think 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 is that residents about title to tell about trying to get back power the water 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 of 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 rational 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 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 bias, and then fly them. what you don't do, your flyers, your military and angle. what about the one with the civilians? tama and i got tional sick at home, be 600000 m 16 weapon systems, 3 stars and bombs left behind. so munitions that can be used for id. like last night 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. and britain's war in afghanistan and tony blair's part in it is very much back in people's minds. this new year, a wave of anger has rolled across the u. k. at the announcement that the former prime minister is to be knighted by queen elizabeth with the highest possible ranking, many described to his foreign policies. when it, when in power, as war crimes. all government despises its citizens. yes, tony blair deserves the trial at the hague rather than knighthood and imperial honor system, which naked every one from us. we need to jimmie southfield doesn't really have a reputation to protect. so does it. blair can disgrace what's already shameful. tony blair, getting a knighthood, is the establishment sticking out 2 fingers to ordinary people in the hundreds of

thousands who were killed in the iraq war. during his years in office blair's sent troops to combat zones 5 times, he also strongly supported the launch in 2001 of the us war on terror that led to, to the invasion of iraq and as casualties mounted in the campaign. blair faced accusations that he had misled parliament over weapons of mass destruction in the country that was largely debunk to reason given. so coalition forces could attack talk radio host and calmness. john, god says people have every right to be angry at tony blair's knighthood. 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. i 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 june 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 room that for many people saying 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. finally here in russia, the holiday season is only just getting started with the orthodox christmas being celebrated next friday and with ornaments and other festive items. still in the hot demand for decorations one pensioner has taken a particularly creative approach. me what's your

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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. 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, that does it for me and for all of us here at our national for about 31 minutes, i'll be back then with another look junior to stay

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