ah, ah, police dogs and buttons are deployed against anti lockdown demonstrators in amsterdam. the city's mayor gave the order to break up the 1000 strong, illegal rally. and in some of the big stories the week just gone. germany shut down half of its nuclear power plant. well belgium says it set to close all of its re access to within the next 3 years as the transition to green energy plus civilian death and destroyed homes in afghan whistleblower. lift the lid on america's drone program, the former operator currently and hiding from the taliban talks to our teeth, unheard voices project. for our operations, we were not told about any civilian dance. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target,

so i'm in hiding alone for the way underground. i live in fear who's speaking. honestly, i am fed up with my life with hey there, good morning. the latest developments look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days. you watching the weekly here? announce international live from moscow with me, kevin, i just heard midnight here now. and 1st, until october demonstrate has have clashed with riot police and amsterdam, police dogs and battens were used to break up the illegal protest. ah ah

thousands of people as you saw there rallying in the dutch capital on sunday, defying upon amidst the corona virus lockdown measures that have been in place in the netherlands for the last few weeks in the right places you saw there with their battens and their shields were trying to break up the crowd to gathered in amsterdam to show their continued anger against the restrictions that are in place and also against vaccines. the local government, which had a mood this particular gathering, had also issued an emergency ordinance which gave the police the right to head into the central museum square. and to clear those protest is from that. but to despite that protest is turned out regardless. now the netherlands has been doing this extended look down there since december 19th. and as a result of that, restaurants, a shaft, an all known of central shops are all so shut. and that's going to take place and continue going on until at least the middle of the month of january,

public gatherings. as part of these restrictions means that no more than 2 individuals can gather at the same time together. so this protest was clearly outside of the, the block. it's absolutely against those cart measures. but despite that, we saw this chaotic scenes in amsterdam as the police and those protest as were clashing something we have seen elsewhere to know across europe. there is concerned that guess we're heading in to 20. 22. it's you. many people only think this is time for fresh opportunities of fresh chance, but there are many people who really fear that the fresh restrictions that are coming in to force mean this will be essentially another ground hole here. as the authorities continue to try and grapple with the virus, just to give you an example here in france, there are new restrictions coming in to force. it includes a ban on eating and drinking on long distance trains and also

a requirement now for children as young as 6 to wear a mask. and i, when necessary. previously, it was only applied to children over the age of a lab, and that's a big shift here. and in, sometimes in cities across france, there has been the regulation once again to have to wear masks outdoors. that something that is back in force here in paris. meanwhile, those who remain unvaccinated, there is some really bad news. the national assembly is going to continue debating this week a new law that would essentially curb the liberties of those who remain unvaccinated further at the moment, anyone who is not fully vaccinated, that 3 vaccines, the 2 vaccines plus the booster am, can going to restaurants and cafes, et cetera, if they show that they've got a negative p c r n t in test, but that's something that they can only hold for 24 hours and they have to pay for

it. now the macklin administration wants to change this yet again, essentially saying that if you're not vaccinated, it doesn't matter if you have a negative test antigen or p c, or you will not be allowed into bars, restaurants, et cetera. and you can imagine that that is going to cause a lot of consternation here in france, where around 10 percent of the population remains unvaccinated. there is anger here to resort with the new year's eve where they should have been celebrations. they were bound on fireworks on the shoulder elisa and the muted festivities. but in, despite that there were crowds, the fewest on to the shoals, elisa, causing problems for the police there and across the country. we saw a much lamented new year's tradition making a big comeback. this is the burning and torching of cause. almost $900.00 vehicles were burned on new year's eve is part of that. now there was also, i'm good that's been felt in germany too with violent riots in some cities,

including in one where they were clashes between the police and protest. is there something we seem to be seen quite a lot of in europe at the moment. the protesters setting up barricades, but then even set bo was a light. now the police say that they had to respond to almost $200.00 calls in just over 2 hours. so very busy new year's eve for police there. now all of this comes amidst another grim milestone. the pandemic shows that there has been over a 100000000 cases of covert a positive cases that have been quoted across the european region. however, to give you some light to this, this does come at a time when studies suggesting that omicron is less likely to add damage to lungs than previous variance, such as the delta variant or even the alpha beat of variance. and that it also

provokes a less severe, adamant type of disease. so good news, but at the same time, with all the restrictions in place and the continuum fear that we are seeing from authorities, many people will be questioning if this ongoing tightening of restrictions is in fact the right path to tried. this is big news during the week, germany shot a gun and half of its remaining nuclear power stations on new year's eve. as part of it shift to law, eco friendly energy. that leaves the country now with only 3 nuclear plans, which are also planned to go offline by the end of this year. but the decisions been heavily criticized as a significant portion of germany. electricity does come from nuclear sources at the moment. the country will now after dramatically ramp up production from sustainable sources and in the meantime, increased its reliance on coal. opinions were divided among some germans. we spoke to who live near one of those power plants that was closed. less than

a 1000 enough. now it has its pros and cons, but actually here in bergdorf we only saw advantages, other countries are building nuclear power plant steel. and the question is, where do we get our electricity from? i'm and it isn't the other thing. 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 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. what we're getting from nuclear power. many locals work, sir. we have to see where they will end up, but some people will definitely lose their jobs. joan is not alone and phasing out nuclear power. belgium's also decided to shut all of its react because within the next 3 years, despite the fact that nuclear energy generates almost half that countries 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. on top of that, europe's grappling with an energy crunch had so record prices last month. we talked about it with jonas, charlie boyle. he believes the pace at which green policies have been introduced more about political gain. it's all about lack of planning. i seen a missed call point. the score and politicians 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. and we, we simply can't have a situation where energy prices are going up. 1200 percent here. we need to have

a plan around the world, but how they can transition to renewables. what the mixture is going to be in need to be honest about me. so don't worry which are completely pilots. so while the euro switches to green energy households therapy left grappling with a high cost of living alone, the way the western politicians have seized a moment to blame russia, leaving it behind the spike and fuel prices that he says could tailor reports. 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 you competition roles. yes, sangree that russians were warm and toasty b, you accuse stay, tone, energy,

giant gas problem of being shady and then furious. the moscow wouldn't just take pity and pipe over some free extra gas and accused the kremlin of paying dirty politics. the increase in price is for energy has deep geopolitical roots. it's part of the geopolitical bottle, rushes on it all, it's 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 abiding 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 . it's 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 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 a 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 nord 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 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 het 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 fast. his 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 with myself. i was determined to prove those hate has wrong and show he was up to the task at same time, he obviously wasn't going to admit that his own war an oil was to blame, spoiled, 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. so that is a consequence of. thus far, the refusal of russia or for the opec nations to pump more oil. 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 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 buy to release $50000000.00? 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 of 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. still to come on the weekly live from moscow, with me, kevin o' in britain's new coven cases, top 260000 on new year's day capping off a week that in which it was claimed, vulnerable children's lives, would being put at risk by the overstretched health service we talk about it after the break. ah ah

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ah, attempting post. the owner has got drone operators. what he was, the u. s. were kept in the dark about civilian death, thus from a whistle blow spoken to r t about his job during the us war on terror. he currently in hiding from the taliban in fear for his life and refuses to contact his family in fear for their lives. but he shared his story with our teeth unheard voices project vallejo. we live in a horrible situation, very bad conditions, but then, you know, be 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, assented 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 at the decimal. got the telling me that would be

long. mm. a pillow top. we had to operate our drones as an 8 hours per day. and then the same at night there was a u. s. company and the afghan government to 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 less with

data throughout our 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 ah, 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 stay 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 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 in our particular risk of reprising. our commitment to them has no deadline of let me put it this way and yes, i've lost my own people. know i'm hiding at different places. i can't stay at 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. this. me

in. i was, we also 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. there is no one to help us in this situation . i live in fear and i have to wonder why i was born in this hell. i am a human being. i have the right to free life. to your submission enough to understand previously held the drone program as a success and said it provided the american back to afghan army with the capability to operate the system on its own. for more stories on how the voluntary enough going to stance change lives. do go to on heard voices, project, tea. britton's daily cove infection rate hit

more than $160000.00 on new year's day and with the health care system, a full stretch. it's claimed a pandemic and seeing other patients side lined in their lives, being put at risk her parents and campaign a se vulnerable children being discriminated against, to free up bed space and highlight a spike in do not resuscitate orders for children with down syndrome and autism. we spoke to one mom who was asked to sign one of those things for her own son when she said it, all right, well just in case because, you know, and 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 and yes, he has down syndrome, but that's got nothing to do with whether shipping the sites or not. he was in the room and she was asking him a lot of questions. and he

a con these and christina, that he understands. and i think luckily for him and, and i asked me because he was, i'm 16 anyway, because they are the parents. i know there are there any children in one respects. i was glad he was on the 6th day because the others where i was 16 and were asked themselves to laura. so stay daughters are offered to people who gravely ill on science. doctors don't perform cpr to help restart the patient's heart. remy ok, do not research state orders are increasingly being offered for teenagers with autism is a condition that affects around some 700000 people in britain, teenagers with down syndrome are also affected. but the national health services says it's not discriminating and says that blanket policies are inappropriate. karen willard begs to differ where every child and every ad hours 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 being put in and why are people with adults children l delay while we why on a, on trade and differently with a lack of he must say, given the health care system they deserve. and his social care system. i did that. i get the and i just, it was painful under extreme and can again, today with higher than the and i just isn't as the government needs to pull their finger out. and so yeah, as out and isn't it now? is it 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. less than the list i was arc isn't it will lead you out. the dumbest idea, because there's not a lot of room,

not so fair. and indigenous lead. renew zealand accusing australia of using his countries. a. dumping ground for criminals. the national murray authority chairman . once camber, than to scrap it's policy of deporting new zealanders when they've been 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. under a strange law, if foreign nationals a census 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. new zealand does the removal of that right. so more troubling, as opposed to strain as i need

a lens is supposed to be free to visit, live and work in each of those countries to the last couple of years. those seen hundreds of years in the sent back home stories, immigration ministers defended the policies saying the government will continue as well to expel foreign nationals who commit serious offenses. although matthew to khaki says, in fact, it will be better if they worked with the zealand to find more appropriate solutions. now i also did battle stray and citizens. you know, it's easy just to de pulled 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 by do share information, dr. and intelligence at the moment, that would be good to see if we could just increase that including and beastie and joint resources. that, that means also having

a look at information and intelligence to find out we are these drug supply networks, a stablished themselves across se, asia, even into the pacific and being lead, stay that job to give a strategy and you feel it. and that ends expert unless the way the week worked out as far as some of the new stories we reported to you here at outs, international, my name is kevin o in for me. and the tape, thanks for watching this live edition of the weekly, from moscow. with join me every 1st day on the alex salmon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess with the world of politics, sport, business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. ah,

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