the ah, as the world celebrates the new year, are t looks at some of the positive predictions for 2022 with financial experts forecasting the global economy is set to grow while inflation will start to fall. and of course, we review the year that has just gone as well with a look at some of the big political spats that unfolded it, including a controversial defense field that saw friends at loggerheads with it's our 2021 was many things, but it also gave the online world plenty of ammunition to have fun making mean from bernie sanders and his mittens to a boat stuck in the suez canal. we look at the top event last year where the digital muslims in

the barbara gets a lot of direct from us to give them also this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you. with right now, 2022. it has only just begun and some of the positive expectations for the year ahead concerning the economy with financial experts, predicting things that could be looking up american investment bank. morgan stanley has a pretty positive outlook and thinks inflation in major markets will rise, but then retreat. while the global economy should grow by about 5 percent, and the bank's 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 warn 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 2 coven blighted years, during which prices have sword, especially for energy and fuel. we ask to economists for their predictions for the coming, you 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, our financial upheaval that the world has seen. i think the biggest issue in turn c 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 crept to 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 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 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 in 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 panel at her kansas bread and games. it 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 protests that have been occurring. indeed, in recent weeks of places like holland, the pride to lock don once again with the new year ahead, people are also trying as its human nature to stay positive and look back at some of the funnier moments of 2021 particularly on line here's a lighter look at the year just costs ah, a in. c

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but jokes aside, pandemic remainder of 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 boise johnson's new year's message. 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. all right, that said daily infections in the u. k. had another record high on friday. and england's top health officials say the health service is on a war footing. u. k, though, of course, is not alone when it comes to struggling with the pandemic,

or she's nic air 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 and lead as it's an old time low. and people's spinning on to the streets 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, rattle your neighbors, and cancel your parties. as the pm was alleged to exempt himself from the rules. and i,

oh i ah, there's a meetings of people at work today, but this is where i live in to our work. and those are meetings of 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 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. 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 soon 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 make his 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 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 company is behind 2 of the most successful coffee 19 vaccines pfizer by and taken the durn are making combined profits of $65000.00 every minute, despite receiving public funding of over $8000000000.00, the trigger probations 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 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 cova jobs all fired regardless of their reasons to defy the mandates. i am being escorted out of kaiser permanente hospital for my religious beliefs. 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 their fingers. a little uncertain of what the year will bring. still ahead on our international 2 decades of fighting only to disappear chaotically in just a matter of months. we look at how the war in afghanistan has left veterans who served. asking, was it worth ah, well happy new year special kaiser at bard went the one and only gerald salenti or it's nader of the trans forecast. man, you know stuff oh,

is your media reflection of reality? in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? high selection, whole community. are you going the right way or are you being led to somewhere? direct? what is true? what is great? in the world corrupted, you need to descend, ah, to join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, ah.

just call them back. this is our g international. now, a major international rift developed last year between old friends. and it saw 2 countries on opposite sides of the planet, driven even further apart, australia and france fell out after the french were snubbed at the last minute when britain and the us would, australia, into a new defense packed archie showed. davinsky has more on the deal to turn sour, triggering the nuclear option is always going to be risky. business as a trainer found, i think 2021 we need to. so i did to renee, going to 56000000 euros submarine deal with franks. 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 you. thank you very much. appreciate it. 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. 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, i 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 than 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 require. we discussed that candidly. then one of who 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 submarine deal,

inelegant crude confidence has been completely shattered. that's how the french saw 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 co operation a great. so they are profound implications for stria financial maturity, sy, fi environment. so they're also very much about the same cost and al concessions and perception 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 trying, we would also consider or welcome a nuclear pallet submarine option. and there is a real concern that this will now, right. i sort of understanding and lead to increased 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 prey 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 crone 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 ski r t. paris in another major story. last year, u. s. troops and their allies rapidly pulled out of afghanistan after 2 decades of war. but for many who served there still a looming question, was it worth it? as part of our unheard of voices project at r t dot com? we spoke to you k army veteran about the conflict. i tried to take my life last year and i was in

a real bad way my mind and that 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 there and one tried to delete it and moved away from all. but quite a few people lives in the last, but for 5 years i think the 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 the somebody wouldn't understand, you know, and given the order to kill someone and stuff, you know,

people get upset about things today that don't need it. i want so i walk in my coffee, i really just drink the coffee the when i 1st went on we were told that we were going to burn the puppy feels to the promise to work. do not, not plan, change them out. we landed in a scar on 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. i'm not questioning 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 why we here. what do we think we know? look at castanan, i think there was a point this 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 in the tell about her already. 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 would run the plot 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, had binds 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 your flyers, your military, and then go what about the with the civilians. tom and i got sick at home be 600016 weapon systems, 3000 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 give up. 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 his foreign policies when in power, as war crimes. all government despises its citizens. yes, tony blair deserves a trial at the hague rather than knighthood. and imperial honor system, which naked every one from muscle we need to. jimmy salvage 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 the iraq war. during his years and office blair sent troops to combat zones 5 times. he also strongly supported the launch in 2001 of the us war on terror that led to the invasion of iraq and as casualties mounted in that campaign

. blair faced accusations that he had misled parliament over weapons of mass destruction in the country. that was largely debunked. reason given. so coalition forces could attack talk radio host and the columnist john gaunt 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 jude got away prediction of 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. they'll be 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. 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 hot demand for decorations one pensioner has taken a particularly creative approach. me what's your oh, i can't feel my legs. i can only sit and 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. that's when people start my bobbles ah, 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 them too much money. me the most fishing folks. 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. ah, that does it for me this hour i will be back in about one and a half minutes with another full and fresh look at your news. he said, i change nationalism ah ah, ah

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good. well, the new year special kaiser report with the one and only gerald salenti, originator of the trend forecast. man, you know stuff, we spend every new years eve with joe to lead to if you will have us even if you want have us. we just like hang outside his house and say, hey tara, let us, let us then joe, look into kaiser report. thank you. so much for having me. i admire both of you so much for all that you do and the information that you give the people around the world. thank you so much for having that. we've lived through another year 2021 and we're heading into 2022. i suppose we'll kind of.