ah, a week top stories from our team, germany shuts down half its nuclear plants, belgium commit to fully the nuclear rise within 3 years. will shift to eco friendly power ramps up in time across europe, storing energy bills, a stretching household budget. so the max with worst 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 or anyone. 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 and civilian deaths and destroyed homes and afghan whistleblower lift the lid on america's drone program. the former operator

currently and hiding from the taliban talks to ortiz, on heard voices series throughout operations, we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target. so i'm in hiding alone with underground i live in fear who's speaking . honestly, i am fed up with my life with godaddy with this this new year weekend. it's sunday and i would say that means we're going to take you through some of the biggest stories reported on here over the past 7 days. that in mind 1st, then germany shut down half of its remaining nuclear power stations on new year's eve. as part of it shift to more eco friendly energy. now that leaves the country with only 3 nuclear plants, which are also planned to go offline by the end of this year. but the decisions been met with major criticism as a significant portion of german electricity comes from nuclear sources. countries

now have to dramatically ramp up production from sustainable sources and in the meantime also increase its reliance on coal opinions of divided among the germans. we spoke to who lived near and one of the now close to nuclear plants and south on a former enough time. and 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 or thought people might try to destroy it. if of course, the people in the village that see things differently. because the village has become rich on taxpayers, money, money. if you drive through the village, you'll see how much was invested in it order, other than i think it's an important decision, but i also think we're not there yet. we can't get from renewable energy. we're, we're getting from nuclear power, but many locals work sir, and we have to see where they will end up. but some people will definitely lose their jobs. or you, germany is not alone in phasing out nuclear power. belgium's also decided to shut

all its nuclear reactors within the next 3 years of just by the fact that nuclear energy generates almost half the country's electricity. belgian engineers, civil ready slammed the decision as counterproductive. the government's decision to face out nuclear energy, the largest source of flow, 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. and on top of that, europe's grappling with an energy crunch that so prices leap to an all time high last month, discussing it with us on our tea. journalist charlie boyle says the eco friendly moves more about scoring political points. it's all about lack of planning and as soon as point a score and these positions may well those beliefs. but as usual, the practicalities always take. now the reality is sinking high inflation.

a huge demand surge going in the winter. we, we simply can't have a situation where energy prices are going up. 1200 percent here. we need to have a profit plan on around the world. but i think it transitions renewable is what the mixture is going to be. and we're going to need to be honest about me, which are completely high and use accelerating attempts to transition to renewables . and the ongoing surgeon prices of left households bearing the bronze. the charlotte to 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, is quantities, oh no,

you 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 are literally chill faith. we'll have to make choices. we will have to buy cheaper foods that are less nutritional 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. this energy crisis across that you, you has been escalating for many months. government have been scrambling to find a solution because they consent, the household simply won't be able to pay the bills. in france,

the poor's 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 or another, 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. 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 you want, 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 the 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 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, theories put st kilo worry because was 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 was 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 the days bits and of generation where experts have been warning against a 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 her dead, i always say within the 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 though, 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, or lack of stored supplies and market forces on the only drivers. apparently, politicians have also been quick to blame russia for not supplying more gas despite moscow, insisting that it is complying with its contracts. southgate taylor looks at how

some western politicians never miss an opportunity to point the finger. how did it happen, though? 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 you competition roles. yes, sangree that russians were warm and toasty being you accused, stay toned energy giant gas problem of being cd and then furious to moscow when to take pity and pipe over some free extra gas and accused the kremlin 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 a 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 shouldn't have gone all in on green energy before a 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 from 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 roll, 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 had 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 yeah. 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 is wrong and show he was up to the task. at the same time, he obviously wasn't going to admit that his own war and oil was to blame, spoilt or not killing pipelines, halting oil, nieces 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 it, the guilty party, if you take a look at, you know, gas prices and you take a look at the oil prices. and 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 dredge announcing that the largest ever release from the u. s. strategic petroleum reserve help provide the 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 win, but big enough to come out looking like a decisive leader taking action. after all, sometimes all that matters is that you'll seen 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 sure and wash and they say 2021. the people prayed, the lights wouldn't get caught. also the year politicians showed that it's a crime to not a good crisis. go to waste. okay,

well happening right now in south africa, major fire is broken out in the national parliament building in cape town. it's thought to have started in a 3rd floor office overnight and then spread to the national assembly chamber video area showed the roof well and light. if i were to say firefighters, have the situation under control? will the reinforcements are being deployed? no interest being reported. there's no indication yet as to what may have started the fire. still to curl the weekly, britain's new coven cases surpassed a 160000 on new year's day. capping off a week, which claimed that vulnerable children's lives are being put at risk by the overstretched health service. just one of our store is still ahead after the break . i can't stand you looking at this 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 hugh smith. oh, of to my sound. oh, is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation, whole community, are you going the right way or are you being that somewhere? direct? what is true was is great. in the world corrupted, you need to descend. ah,

so join us in the depths. will remain in the shallows. ah, ah, i'll come back to the weekly afghan driven operators working for the united states were kept in the dark about civilian deaths. that's from a whistleblower who's spoken to r t about his job during the us war on terror that he's currently in hiding from the taliban in fear for his life. refusing even to contact his family to keep them safe. now he's been sharing his story with the artes unheard voices project. vallejo. we live in a horrible situation. very bad conditions with mm. be honestly, i am fed up with my life that's out of it. so i'm in hiding alone with underground . yeah, i can't go outside, i'm hopeless. but then when i ask myself, do i have the right to live a peaceful life in my own homeland will not let me save strength. i wish i had been born in a different country to me that the decimal got in telling me

w m a pillow top. we had to operate our drones as an 8 hours today. and then the same at night there was a u. s. company and the afghan government was signed 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,

[000:00:00;00] with data throughout all operations, we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong targets. and the statistics on this were out of our control. we didn't have access to this data. ah, ah, ah, settlement at 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 with a even the closest relatives don't know where they are. sex age they blinking is leading to continue diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any american afghan partner or foreign national wants to lead up against what we're doing every single minute of every single hour of every single day. it's 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 up, our commitment to them has no deadline of let me put it this way. yes. 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. 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. 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 can well for it's paul to give us admission in afghanistan. previously hailed the drug program as a success in providing the american backed afghan army at the time with the capability to operate the system on it. so for more stories on the how the war in

terra and understand change lives, check out on her voice is project. you'll find it at r t dot com and also on britain's daily cove infection right here, over 160000 on new year's day. god with a health care system, a full stretch right now. it's being claimed that the pandemic is seeing other patient sidelines and their lives put at risk parents. and campaigners say vulnerable children are being discriminated against to free a bed space highlighting a spike and do not receive acetate orders for children with down syndrome and autism. one mother who was asked to sign one for her son shed 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 now. and i haven't been asked that my other 2 children. i mean she has down syndrome,

but that's got nothing to do with whether shipping the heights or not. 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 i think luckily for him and i asked me because he was, i'm 16 anyway. so well to say are the parents i know that are there any children in one respects? 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. one signed doctors won't perform cpr to help restart the patient's heart. but in the u. k, do not resuscitate. orders are apparently being increasingly offered for teenagers with autism, a condition that affects some 700000 people in britain as well as for teenagers with down syndrome, you know,

the national health service insists it's not discriminating. stressing that it sees blanket policy says inappropriate, but carol will it begs to differ where every 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 b, a n n. why are people with adults children l delay while we why are they all trained differently with the lack of humanity? hey, given the health care system, they deserve the same. so system i did that, i get the and i just, it was painful 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, you know, just out and isn't it, isn't our kids say, oh, your children are not as valuable as everyone else is. children. so they're not

going to be put on that list list. i was arc isn't it will lead you out. the are going to stay because there's not a lot of we're not so fast and indigenous leader in new zealand accused australia on monday using his country as a dumping ground. the national mary authority, chairman, once camera, the scrap it's policy of deporting new zealanders when they're convicted of crimes . it is not good enough that new zealand is becoming a penal colony for australia and just deporting your problem. why does not solve the problem of gangs in both australia and new zealand? it is not good enough just to say we're going to stick a whole lot of people in applying on a government chat, applying and seen them back to new zealand. that is not the spirit of friendship, and that you would expect between 2 neighbors and roster alien lower. if foreign nationals are sentenced to more than a year in prison,

they automatically lose the right to stay in the country that applies even if they've lived in australia their entire lives. the last couple of years have seen hundreds of new zealand has sent back home. australia immigration ministers defended the policy, 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, find a better solution. now i also did that australian citizens, you know, it's easy just to deport the problem. white 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 buy to share information, doctorate intelligence at the moment, it would be good to see if we could just increase their including and beastie in joint resources. that means also having

a look at information and intelligence to find out we are these drug supplies networks establishing themselves across se, asia, even into the pacific. been let's do that job together as australia and new zealand, and that an expert. and that's it for the weekly there. thanks for spending some of your new year's weekend with us here at our play. i'm calling bright back with your next edition in just over half an hour there that ah, ah colorado. he came on the 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 i cannot and then it just keeps going and going and going. i'm just going to do it one. yeah. and then it's, oh, i'm just going to try this once and then never do it again because they want my

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