[000:00:00;00] a ah, the wind top stories, and i think germany shuts down half its nuclear power plant bow. belgium says it will close all of its reactors within the next 3 years. the free transition to green energy gathers pace. mean time across europe. fuel shortages are driving up prices and household budgets are being stretched to the limit per se, predicted to come consumers tell us, they can't take much more, but the price has skyrocketed, but the government is not helping you or at all. anyone. i don't know what we will deal 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 american stroke program. a former operator currently

in hiding from the taliban talks to our teeth on heard voices project. throughout our operations, we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target. i'm in hiding alone underground. i live in fear speaking. honestly, i am fed up with my life. good evening, the latest news and look back at the last 7 days you watch in a weekly here on arte international. now germany shut down half of its remaining nuclear power stations on new year's eve is 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. but the decision has been heavily criticized as a significant portion of german electricity does come from nuclear sources. the

country will now have to dramatically ramp up production from sustainable sources. and in the meantime, increases to reliance on coal. opinions were divided among germans. we spoke to who do live near one of the power plants that was collect. yes i santa fe wasn't enough . i love, it has its pros and cons, but actually here. and bergdorf we only saw advantages. other countries are building nuclear power plants too. and the question is, where do we get our electricity from? i'm and it is and the others. finally, it's happening and i'm very happy about it because you never know if an accident might occur or if, but 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 pollution. i think it's an important decision, but i also think we're not there yet. we can't get from renewable energy and we're, we're getting from nuclear power of many locals work there. and we have to see where they will end up. but some people definitely lose their jobs. are you or

germany is not alone in phasing act, nuclear power, belgium is also decided to shut all its react is within the next 3 years. and that's despite the fact that nuclear energy generates almost half the country's electricity engineers. have already slammed the decision, is counter productive 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, while on top of that here apiece, grappling with an energy crunch that so record prices last month we discussed this with the journalist charlie boyle. he believes that the pace at which green policies are being introduced is more about political gang. it's all about lack of planning. i seen a missed call point score and based on my well those beliefs. but as

usual, the practicalities always take. now the reality is thinking, inflation a huge demand surge going in the winter. we, we simply can't have a situation where energy prices are going out. 1200 percent here. we need to have probably around the world, but i think it transitioned renewables. what the mixture is going to be, and we're going to need to be honest about me, which are completely high. and so as we've been hearing vantage, europe switches to green energy households have been left grappling with a higher cost of living with more home that he shot it to been ski 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. you have already received a reminder for the charges for heating. now 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 up already having difficulty. so it's not easy with your little neglected. living hand to mouth is worrying me, becoming more normal in some of europe's richest societies. that the vessel to literally chill faith will have to make choices. we will have to buy cheaper foods that are less nutritional. you know, we have 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. governments have 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 $1.00 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 level, retired from politics, they put them in electricity companies, money that they take from another place or if you just as others, but out the price has skyrocketed, that the government is not helping you rattle anyone ninana. i don't know what we will do if it continues to go. we will have to make

a fire in the middle of the room. the idea you want anything with 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 there is 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 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 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 a bit, 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, new janet, she 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, nude 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, blue sky, r t, paris. what, another factor being blamed for high fuel prices is russia's refusal to supply more

gas. at least that's according to some western politicians who never seem to miss an opportunity to point the finger ascii taylor reports. 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, the moscow wouldn't 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 reiterate. they don't see the realities. they just cover up their own mistakes. you know, maybe brussels should've gone all in on green energy before a long cold winter may be brussels shouldn'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 is 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 he's not enough to negotiate with the russian bath. if it's any consolation to the europeans, it wasn't just that he 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 it's fast as 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 warren 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 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 dredge announcing that the largest ever release from the u. s. strategic petroleum reserve help provide a 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 seen to be doing something even if you do fail to win them all over. the recent 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 let a good crisis go to waste. tusky taylor,

then i still to come on the weekly burtons new cove cases, top 260000 on new year's day capping off a week in which it was claimed that vulnerable children's lives are being put at risk by the overstretched health service. we'll have the details just off the front . ah, hello, driven by drill shaped bankers and those with

sinks. 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 move is often very dramatic development. only nationally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk with ah, hello again. now afghan drone we're operators working for the u. s. were kept in the dark about civilian death, stats from a whistleblower who spoken to r t about his job during the us for on terra? well,

he's currently in hiding from the taliban in fear for his life and even refuses to, to contact his family to keep them safe. he shared his story with our seas unheard voice his project vallejo. we live in a horrible situation. very bad conditions. be honestly, i am fed up with my life. that's kind of it. so i'm in hiding alone. underground. yeah, i can't go outside. i'm hopeless and 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. ned, that hasn't got been calling me w i n a pillow top, we had to operate our drones. i was 8 hours a day. 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 less with data throughout 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, at the port we lost a couple of our pilots in the last days of our work. 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 again as to 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 as 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 phones in. 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 here and i have to wonder why i was born in this hell. i am a human being, i have the right to free life. while the us lead mission in afghanistan previously hailed the drone program as a success and said it provided the american backed afghan army with the capability to operate the system on its own. not for more stories on how the war on terror in afghanistan changed lives to go to our unheard voices, projects, and you can find that you don't come with high britain's daily caveat. infection rate hit more than a $160000.00 on new year's day. and with the health care system for stretch it is claimed,

the pandemic is seeing other patients sidelined and their lives put at risk of parents. and campaigners say vulnerable children a being discriminated against to free up bed space and highlight to spike and do not re saturday orders for children with down syndrome and autism. we spoke to a mother who has asked to sign one for her son when she said, well, doctrine is because in home and that's last on life that you're asking what you should have on all. and i haven't been asked that my other 2 children. i mean, she has down syndrome, but that's got nothing to do when we're shipping the stuff still not. he was in the room and she was asking him a lot of questions and he a con and he's been class is that he understands. and i think luckily for him

and i asked me because he was on the 6th day anyway. but to say, are the parents, i know there are 7 children in one respects. i was glad he was on the 6th day because the others where i was 16 and were asked themselves or do not resort to say to orders are offered to people who are gravely ill and one signed doctors won't perform c p r, to help restart the patients heart but in the u. k, do not receive a date or does are increasingly being offered for teenagers with autism is a condition that affects some 700000 people in britain and teenage with down syndrome are also affected. however, the national health service doesn't say it is not discriminating and does say that blanket policies are inappropriate. karen will out though, makes to differ where every child in every ads always 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 n. m. why are people with adults children, l delay while we why on i will try it differently with the lack of humor, say, given the health care system they deserve. and the social 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, yeah. and isn't it, isn't our kids to say, oh, your children are not as valuable with everyone else's children. so they're not going to be put on that. less than list i was arc isn't it will leave you out of the i don't to say because there's not a lot of room must offer an indigenous leader

in new zealand as accusing australia of using his country as a dumping ground for criminals. the national mary authority chairman once cambra to scrap it policy of deporting new zealanders when convicted. 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. while under strongly and lower foreign nationals are sentenced to more than a year in prison, they do automatically lose the right to stay in the country that applies to even if they have lived in destroyer their entire lives. the last couple of years have seen hundreds of new zealanders sent back home. now were strategies immigration minister

has defended the policy saying the government will continue to expel for national to commit. serious offense is, although matthew to khaki again says that they do need to work with new zealand to find a much better solution. now i also did that australian citizen, 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 st. 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 by dosier information, data and intelligence at the moment, it would be good to see if we could just increase and including and beastie and joint resources. that that means also having a look at information and intelligence to find out we are, these drugs supplied new works, establishing themselves across south east asia,

even and through the pacific and being lead, stay that job to give a strategy, a new field. and that ends expert, much in the weekly here, and i see that brings you up to date. don't forget that. we've always got plenty story see, you can see you on our website. and as usual, you can find that at all with things that have happened in the world were being done by people who had a great vision of how society could be better than that. great vision is typically the last time this year representation is not real. it doesn't take into account any of the complexity of reality, the subtlety of how various and complex people i put them into categories as this love is bad, we'll get rid of them. you know, and change is an organic process. change is an evolution and the opposition is not

between the status and everything must stay the same and everything must be radically changed. a radical change is not the way that that q l look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order is a conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about our personal intelligence at the point, obviously is to great trust, rather than fear a job with artificial intelligence. real, somebody with

a robot must protect its own existence. with the release video shows las vegas police waiting in the hallway at the mandalay bay hotel. even as steven paddock continues to murder people below the ever killed and this coward stayed on the 31st floor and not one attempt was made to reach the 32nd floor. vice could have been saved if they were to take an action. absolutely. they had a team of armed individuals that did nothing but a coward while his shots were going on $58.00 people died at night and the town cub could have done something for him. but they don't tell anybody about it. i found out about it and i did a story on it. there were about 30 police officers with shotguns and they are going

to handle the emission for now on the 32nd floor into the room. 1121 of the water watch discharges weapon in the room where they went into the room and they completely destroyed the crime scene. which is something you all do when they turned over patrick's body, they ransacked the room. that goes against any stand that police protocol anywhere in this country. they handle the crime scene like a bunch of incompetent because they call my the biggest crime scene in american history at that point. the bottle never brought this out until i broke the story and was followed up by some news me after he would not have won the election. in my opinion, had this information been released the way it should have been released in the timeframe is, should have been released in the footage, he was forced to release. you have the body chair videos where you hear officers directly saying,

turn your cameras off. make sure your cameras are off why