ah ah, weeks top stories from r t, germany shuts down half its nuclear plants, while belgium commit to fully the nuclear rise within 3 years, to shift to eco friendly power ramps up. meantime across europe, soaring energy bills are stretching household budgets to the limit with worse predicted to come consumers tell us there's not much more they can take out. the price has skyrocketed, but the government is not helping you rattle anyone. i don't know what we will do if it continues to go out. we will have to make a fire in the middle of the room and civilian deaths and destroyed homes and afghan whistleblower lift the lid on america's drug program. the former operator, currently in hiding from the taliban talks to ortiz, unheard voices series. throughout the operations,

we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong targets. i'm in hiding alone putting underground. i live in fear speaking. honestly, i am fed up with my life the hello sunday morning at 9. i'll be getting some hour now. this new year's weekend i'm calling bray with the or addition of the weekly this, our 1st journey shut down half its remaining nuclear power stations on new year's eve. as part of it shift to more eco friendly energy. that leaves the country with only 3 nuclear plants, which are also planned to go offline by the end of this year. the decision though has been met with some major criticism because a significant portion of german electricity comes from nuclear sources. the country will now have to dramatically ramp up production from sustainable sources and in the meantime, also increased its reliance on coal. opinions have been divided among the germans.

we spoke to who lived near one of the recently closed nuclear plants. yes, i. santa fe was on another. i love, it has its pros and cons. but actually here in bergdorf we only saw advantages other countries are building nuclear power plants to and the question is, where do we get our electricity from? i'm and it isn't the others as finally it's happening and i'm very happy about it because you never know if an accident might occur, ortho people might try to destroy it. of course, there are people in the village that see things differently because the village has become rich on taxpayer money. if you drive through the village, you'll see how much was invested in it, auto, pollution. i think it's an important decision, but i also think we're not there yet. we can't get from renewable energy. what we're getting from nuclear power. many locals work, sir, and we have to see where they will end up. but some people definitely lose their jobs. germany is not alone and facing out nuclear power. belgium is also decided to shut all of its reactors within the next 3 years. as despite the fact that nuclear

energy generates almost half the country's electricity, belgian engineers of already slammed the decision as counterproductive. the government's decision to face out nuclear energy, the largest source of low carbon energy in belgium and to finance new fossil gas power plants is paradoxical and counterproductive. this decision would only reinforce the predominance of fossil fuels in the belgian energy landscape on top of that. and europe grappling with an energy crunch that so prices saw to all time highs last month. discussing it with us on our t journalist charlie boyles says the eco friendly moves are more about scoring political points. it's all about lack of planning and seeing cool point score and they may well out those beliefs. but as usual, the practicalities always take now the reality is sinking high inflation. a huge demand surge going in the winter. and we, we simply can't have

a situation where energy prices are going up. 1200 percent. we need to have a proper plan around the world to transition to renewables. what the mixture is going to be in, we're going to need to be honest about me, which are completely on the use accelerating attempts to transition to renewable energy sources. coupled with the ongoing surgeon prices have fueled an energy crisis with households bearing the brunt that shall do bend. ski explains winter isn't coming. it's already here. it's e u. countries struggle to find a unified response to record high energy prices. there are warnings the block could face shortages or even potential blackouts. many including luca face, a winter full of difficult decisions. ciscano dish. oh no. yeah. have already

received a reminder for the charges for heating that's increased while at the same time we have less heating. so myself and several tenants are really worried about the choices we will have to make. people are already having difficulty, so it's not easy with you a little neglected. living hand to mouth is worrying me, becoming more normal in some of europe's richest societies, that the vessels literally feel safe will have to make choices, will have to buy cheaper foods that are lesson traditional. math problems like that . people will lose their health. tens of millions of people in europe are already living in energy poverty. and there are fears that this figure is about to see a steep rise energy crisis across that you, you has been escalating for many months government to been scrambling to find a solution because they consent. the household simply won't be able to pay the bills in france. the poorest households are to receive a one off payment of

a $100.00 euros to help shield them from price rises. italy meanwhile, is put in place a 3000000000 euro aid package. while the spanish government has passed emergency measures that to redirects billions of euro's from the profits of energy companies to the consumers in a beads to lower their bills. yet despite such measures, many fear that they simply will not be enough. but in the law organized, the government is not doing anything. and on top of that, whoever retires from politics, they put them in electricity companies, money that they take from another place. so if you just as others but out the price has skyrocketed, but the government is not helping europe or any one. i don't know what we will do if it continues to go up. we will have to make a fire in the middle of the room. the idea, your one, if it were me, i would like to get hold of anyone in charge and give them a low salary and see how they like their life. and really, what is this structural problem in an achieve policy shaping and policy making in

many countries is who is really in charge. we have an interaction of various authorities, bodies. and on the other hand, we have seen various governments of being very much occupied with themselves. so there is an energy in my eyes. it's still not yet having to priority it should house. here in france, there is particular worry. because whilst most energy does come from nuclear stocks of the electricity that it generates are said to be low as concern a hard winter could see the country really one out of power. low energy stalks are an issue throughout europe. why? well, although the pandemic, so large scale industry and workplace is closing down when the locked downs were lifted demand short straight up. and companies just haven't been able to keep pace

. to add to that the e u is also trying to move toward source is or renewable energy such as wind energy, but less wind in 2021 meant less renewable energy was produced. these have always been to the days bits and of generation where experts have been warning against air possibility or even broke ability offer a of a stand still in the world of renewables. photovoltaic and went fox, the one that is now in the thought of come back is new. as a, i always say within 2 european union, not only that, we don't dispose of a common attitude policy. we don't even dispose of something like a common energy mentality. it may say, because that is a completely different attitudes to, for instance, nuclear energy, east and west of the rhine. you just like everywhere else needs

a steady supply of energy to function. now russia says that could be supplied bytes, new and stream t pipeline. that is still waiting to be signed off, not just by germany, but also the european commission. the pipeline has faced opposition from within the you, with some fearing that it could make a block for you dependent on moscow. others. those say that the link is vital to secure energy supplies and ensure that people can heat their homes at reasonable prices. such political games could end up pushing even more people into fuel poverty, this winter, and even cost their lives. geology belsky oxy. paris, a lack of back up supplies and market forces on the only drive is apparently, politicians have also been quick to blame russia for not supplying more gas despite moscow, insisting that it is complying with its contract. saskia taylor looks at how western politicians never missed an opportunity to point the finger. how did it happen

though, or rather who's to blame? because if there's one thing, every politician knows it's that every crisis needs a guilty party. and sure enough, brussels landed on a tried and tested one. we could on the european commission to urgently open an investigation into possible deliberate market manipulation by gas prom and potential violation of e competition roles. yes, sangree that russians were warm and toasty be you accuse, stay, tone energy, giant gas problem of being shady and then furious that moscow wouldn't just take pity and pipe over some free extra gas had accused the crumbling of paint dirty politics. the increase in price is for energy has deep geopolitical roots. it's part of the geopolitical battle, rushes on it all, its contracts, it cannot be said they are not delivering when they said they would, but it has not increased the quantities contracted full. so now at biting by a contract is foul play. o the things people will say to dodge responsibility. and

so there is no need to shift the blame, like some of our partner said, trying to do. sometimes you listen to what is said on the score. you are surprised is just amazing as if they don't see the numbers. i'd like to read rate. they don't see the realities. they just cover up their own mistakes. you know, maybe brussels should have gone all in on green energy before long. cold winter may be brussels didn't talk of banning long term contracts with gas from before long cold winter may be brussels shouldn't rely on the notoriously volatile spot market before a long cold winter. but sure. luton sitting in siberia with his hand on the tap. in fact, he's so greedy and mean that he wanted gas prom to top up europe stored supplies all the while. a solution to this crisis lies idol, ever heard of north stream to the german regulators should make this decision. they have not yet decided. of course, if we expand supplies along this route,

then 100 percent, i can say with absolute certainty, the tension on the european energy market would significantly decline. and that would influence prices. of course, this is an obvious thing, but with the green light still not given. it seems the use not actually that bother about it citizens off to rural, but it's not enough to negotiate with the russian back. if it's any consolation to the europeans, it wasn't just valley, does his political shenanigans left people bankrupt and shivering, post pandemic oil prices skyrocketed on americans? will i fucking out more on fuel than they had since 2014, which would have been bad enough by itself. but then historic inflation hit, this is a historic inflation report, inflation has it a 31 year high with prices rising to more than double. we've seen in recent decades, everything going up and up in up in prices. new numbers showing inflation surging to its fastest pace in nearly 40 years. following up she came year though it's

pretty windy outside, it's very windy. i almost felt coming up the steps myself. i didn't was determined to prove those hate has wrong and show he was up to the task. at the same time, he obviously wasn't going to admit that his own warren oil was to blame, spoilt or not killing pipelines, halting oil leases and proposing to tax the industry into oblivion. all within the space of 11 months makes the market jittery. so instead he found you guessed at the guilty party, if you take a look at, you know, gas prices and you take a look at the oil prices. so that is a consequence of thus far. the refusal of russia or, or the opec nations to pump more, or of course it is, but to really make himself look the compromising innocent good guy. and all this, he did make one little pledge announcing that the largest ever release from the u.

s. strategic petroleum. reserve health providers supply we need, as we recover from this pandemic, guess how many barrels of oil a day the u. s. consumes around 20000000. how many barrels did bite and release? 50000000. 2 and a half days was not exactly a big when about big enough to come out looking like a decisive leader taking action. after all, sometimes all that matters is that you'll seem to be doing something even if you do fail to win them all over. the reason gas prices are going up is because the oils and louisiana and texas and the dipstick store in washington d. c. 2021. the people prayed that lights wouldn't get caught. also the year politicians showed that it's a crime to not a good crisis. go to waste your without t still to come. britain's new cobit cases surpassed a 160000 on new year's day,

cutting off a week in which it was claimed that vulnerable children's lives are being put at risk by the overstretched health service. it's one of our store is still ahead on the weekly from odyssey. ah ah ah.

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 an offense, very dramatic development. only nationally, i'm going to resist. i'll see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk ah hello. more of the weights, biggest stories from r t and afghan drone operators working for the united states were kept in the dark about civilian deaths. that's from a whistleblower who's spoken to quality about his job during the us war on terror. he's currently in hiding from the taliban, him fear for his life, refusing to even contact his family to keep them safe. now he's been sharing his story with our unheard voices, project, lalellah. we live in

a horrible situation. very bad conditions. went on to speak. honestly, i am fed up with my life that's not about so i'm in hiding alone with the way underground. yeah, i can't go outside. i'm hopeless for somebody. i ask myself, do i have the right to live a peaceful life in my own homeland will not let me say strange and i wish i had been born in a different country to me that the decimal got the telling me the only one mm. for pillow top, we had to operate our drones. i was an 8 alice today. and then the same at night there was a u. s. company and the afghan government assigned an agreement with he said we were employed by this company. they scam eagle with

each month one pilots conducted $1720.00 drone strikes. it could be more than that, but not blessed with data throughout all operations, we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target to that, and the statistics on this were out of our control. we didn't have access to this data.

ah, ah, dominate the port. we lost a couple of our pilots in the last days of our work and after the taliban took over, one was arrested in cobble and the 2nd, when he was visiting his family, some drone pilots were also beaten and humiliated. and 3 or 4 of our colleagues are missing, where they even the closest relatives don't know where they are. sex, age stay blinking. is leading the continued diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any american afghan partner or foreign national. who wants to leave afghan as to what we're doing? every single minute of every single hour of every single day is working to create a safe passage for all civilians, including the afghans who worked for us to the airport to get them on planes and

get them out. we worked intensely to evacuate and relocate and work alongside us and our particular risk reprise, of our commitment to them has no deadline of let me put it this way and i've lost my own people. know i'm hiding at different places. i can't stay in one place. i can't meet my family, follow them. i don't even know how my family is doing now. i can't see them with my colleagues. we can't see or contact each other because we are afraid the taliban are tapping our phone. me, i guess we have lost our way. what can we do and what will they do to us? we are counting our last breast because they might kill us today or tomorrow. i have one son staying with me and when he goes out to buy something to eat, he says he is afraid of being killed or kept. there is no one to help us in this

situation. i live in and i have to wonder why i was born in this hell. i am a human being. i have the right to free life away from the u. s. lead mission in afghanistan defended the drawing program, saying that the afghan army can now operate it without outsider systems. of for more stories on how the war on terror in afghanistan change lives. check out on heard voices, projects on our fi, dot com, and also on, on june britain's daily cove infection right here, over a 160000 on new year's day and with the health care system. a full stretch right now. it's being claimed that the pandemic is seeing other patients sidelined and their lives put at risk parents and campaign to say that vulnerable children are being discriminated against to free up bed space, highlighting a spike and do not resuscitate orders for children with down syndrome and autism. one mother who was asked to sign one for her son has been sharing her story with us

when she said it, all right, well just in case because, you know, and that's my son's life that you're asking with each site or not. and, and i haven't been asked that my other 2 children. i mean, she has down syndrome, but that's got nothing today when we're shipping the tight. so now he was in the right. and she was asking him a lot of questions. and he a con and he's a, he understands. and he think luckily for him and i, and i asked me because he was, i'm 16 anyway. i wanted to say, are the parents i know that are there any children in one respect, i was glad he was on the 6th day because the others where i was 16 and where else themselves do not resuscitate. orders are offered to people who are gravely ill.

once signed, doctors won't perform cpr to help restore the patient art. but in the u. k. do not resuscitate. orders are increasingly being offered for teenagers with autism, a condition that affects and 700000 people in the country as well as for teenagers with down syndrome. and the national health service insists it's not discriminating . stressing that it sees blanket policies is inappropriate. but karen would begs to differ with for a child, and every ad though, it's got the right especially to life. and i just don't understand why there's a difference in society for anyone. discrimination, of even the question is why are people with adults children and will delay while we why are they all trained differently with the lack of humanity, hey, given the health care system i deserve on the social system, i did that, i get the and i just was paying for under extreme cab again today with

higher than the and i just isn't as the government needs to pull their finger out and so much as out and isn't it isn't our kids to say, oh, your children are not valuable with everyone else's children. so they're not going to be put on that list. list i was arc isn't it will leave you out. the dumbest idea, because there's not a lot of we're not so fast and indigenous leader in new zealand accused australia on monday if using his country as a dumping ground. the national murray authority chairman, once camera, a scrap it's policy of deporting new zealanders when they're convicted of crimes. and it is not good enough. now that new zealand is becoming a penal colony for australia and, and just deporting your problem away, does not solve the problem of gangs and both australia and new zealand. it is not good enough just to say we're going to stick a whole lot of people on applied on

a government charter plane and seem them back to new zealand. that is not the spirit of friendship. and that you would expect between 2 neighbors. under australian law, if foreign nationals are sentenced to more than a year in prison, they automatically lose their right to stay in the country that applies even if they've lived in australia their entire lives. now the last couple of years have seen hundreds of new zealanders sent back home. australia's immigration ministers defended the policy though, saying the government will continue to expel foreign nationals who commit serious offenses. matthew to khaki though, says they need to work with new zealand to find a better solution. now i also did that australian citizens, you know, it's easy just to deport the problem away. and australians want exactly what we want. we want safe communities. we do not want to say drugs being sold to our children. we are sick and tired of saying gun violence on our streets. one possible

solution is a joint task force to address a couple of different things. and even though our police forces, they do share information, data and intelligence at the moment, they would be good to see if we could just increase their, including invest in joint resources. and that, that means also having a look at information and intelligence to find out where these drugs supply networks are establishing themselves across southeast asia, even into the pacific than been let's do that job together as australia and new zealand and had an experience. and as the way the way it looked on our t, i'm calling bryan moscow. thanks for watching. i'll have you next edition in just over half an hour. ah, ah, colorado became a test bed for medical and then later recreational marijuana and it started with

something. so innocent, i was wanting to socialize, everybody does it? so why can't i? and then it just keeps going and going and going. i'm just going to do it was, yeah. and then it's, i'm just going to try this. one said, never do it again because the one wife was one and i'm right on inside. okay. and you surround yourself with people who are encouraging you to do it not to stop or it's all like my life was over, jumped officers all balcony and died. mm. she knew the just that we can stand you looking at the here and review in the year ahead bringing in the all star guests from all over the world. we've got a great one today, stacy, it's charles cute smith. oh, of 2 minds dot com. oh

oh yeah, it has to be rash to be able to afford any thought and find the luxury that for sure, despite having the most expensive health care system in the world, we have poor life expectancy. we have higher infant mortality. we have more deaths from treatable causes, so americans are suffering every day from it. it's as if these people don't count as how, how they can choose your customers and dump a sick tone also satisfy their wall street investors. no parents that have to see what i saw if you're denying payment for someone's care, your make life and death decisions and determine to get to live and who dies to me

. that's best getting away with murder. ah i was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 the doctors didn't really know what kind of cancer it was or how to treat it. they explained i was part of a growing population of people with hybrid cancer's from environmental factors. my tumors were growing aggressively of a dangerous. they'd eventually grow over my organs and kill. i became a full time patient. my life only happened in between surgeries, radiation, and experimental drugs. when the doctors told me the cancer was incurable,

i knew i had to make a change, and i decided to give up the comfort of security and instead, travel around the world, investigating environmental pollution in crime and see if i could find other reasons that were leading to these rising cancer rates and i got to work on some amazing direct action campaigns. really took me into remote areas. there is pollution everywhere. but aside from the plastics, there were also multinational corporations polluting into local river ways, getting everyone around them sick for profit. and with access to clean water disappearing every day people were fighting back and at the same time, i saw that back home, people were being poisoned by the industries around the childhood cancer rates for up to 6 times the national average. if we can prevent any kids from going through what i've been through then it's our duty to investigate.