a with police, dogs and buttons are deployed against anti lockdown. demonstrated in amsterdam. this is mag gave the order to break up the 1000 strong, illegal rally. and in some of the big stories of the week, just gone. germany shows down the hall this nuclear power plant, while belgium says it will close down all of its reactors within the next 3 years. as the transition to green energy got this pace of 1000000000 death and destroyed homes. and i've gone with the lift the lid on american drug program, the form operator currently and hiding from the taliban. so the op these on the project throughout our operation, we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the

wrong target for the. i'm in hiding alone with underground i live in fear. speaking honestly, i am fed up with my life to with you're watching the weekly here on our international. my name is peter scott, and i'll be bringing the stories that shape the news this week. first until locked down demonstrators of clash with the riot police in amsterdam, police dogs and but phones were used to break up the illegal protest. ah ah. ah.

thousands of people, as you saw their rallying in the dutch capital on sunday, defying a ban. amidst the corona virus lockdown measures that have been in place in the netherlands for the last few weeks. now the right places you saw there with their battens and their shields were trying to break up, the crowds who had gathered in amsterdam to show their continued anger against the restrictions that are in place and also against vaccines that the local government, which had allured 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 protesters from that. but to despite that protest is turned out regardless. now the netherlands has been in this extended lockdown hour since december 19th. and as a result of that, restaurants a shot and all non essential shops are also 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, is concerned that yes, we're heading into 2022. it's yes. many people who only think this is the 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 groundhog 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 panel eating and drinking on long distance trains and also a requirement now for children as young as 6 to wear a mosque i, when necessary. previously, it was only applied to children over the age of 11. so 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 at something that is back in force here in paris. meanwhile, with 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 and vaccinated further. at the moment, anyone who is not fully vaccinated, thus 3 vaccines, the 2 vaccines plus the booster, i'm can going to restaurants and cafes, et cetera. if they show that they've got a negative p c r m teaching test. but that's something that they can only hold for

24 hours and they have to pay for it. now the macro 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 shells, alisa, and the muted festivities. but in, despite that they were crowded. louis stone to the shoals, leasing, causing problems to the police there. and of course, the country we saw a much lamented new year's tradition making a big comeback. this is the burning and torching of cars. 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 have 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 on the chrome is less likely to damage 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 in 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 germany showdown, half of his remaining nuclear power stations on new year's eve of bathrooms, shift to more eco friendly energy. it leaves the country now with only 3 nuclear power 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 germany. electricity does come from nuclear sources. the control now have to dramatically ramp up producing production from sustainable sources. and in the meantime, increased its reliance on coal. opinions were divided among germans. we spoke to

you live near one of the power plants that was closed. hasn't on a former enough taylor. 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 other thing. 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. of course, the 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 for a loop. and 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. many locals work sir, and we have to see where they will end up, but some people will definitely lose their jobs. and germany is not alone in phasing out nuclear power. belgian is also decided that should all of his reactors within the next 3 years. and thus, despite the fact that nuclear energy generates almost half of the country's

electricity and generic radi slammed the decision, dis it 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. and on top of that, europe is grappling with an energy crunch that sol record prices last month. we discussed this with journalists, charlie boyle, and he believes the pace at which green policies are being introduced. is more about political gain. it's all about lack of planning and as soon as point score and they 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. we need to have a profit plan on around the world, but 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 pilots. and while europe switches to green energy households that have been left grappling with a higher cost of living and west and politicians have seized the moment to blame russia, claiming its behind the spike in fuel prices. the stuff gets taylor has the details . 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 competition roles. yes, sangree that russians were warm and toasty the you accuse stay tuned. energy giant gas problem of being cd and then furious to moscow when to take pity and pipe over some free extra gas had accused the crumbling of pain dirty politics. the increasing prices 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 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 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 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 it's fast as pace in nearly 40 years following up she came. yeah. no, 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 war and 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 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 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 sure and wash and the say 2021. the people prayed the 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 life from moscow with me, peter scott. britain's new covey cases topped 160000 on new year's day, dropping off a week in which he was claimed, vulnerable children's lives, a being put at risk by the overstretched health service. that story and more after this short break.

ah, worse 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 left hemisphere representation is not real. it doesn't take into account any of the complexity of reality. the subtlety of the areas in complex and below puts them into categories is this lot 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 kills me.

join me every 1st day on the alex simon, sure. and i'll be speaking together in the world. politics sport, business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. ah, welcome back. now afghan drone operates is working for us. we're kept in the dark about civilian deaths. that's from a whistleblower who's spoken to archie about his job during the u. s. war and tara . now he's currently in hiding from the taliban in fear for his life and even refuses to contact his family to keep them safe. but he shared his story without sees on heard voices, project vallejo. we live in a horrible situation. very bad conditions. want them to be, honestly, i am fed up with my life. that's kind 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. and i wish i had been born in a different country to me at the decimal. got it telling me that would be like a pillow top. we had to operate our drones as 8 hours per day. and then the same at night there was a u. s. company and the afghan government was signed an agreement with he. so we were employed by this company. they scam eagle with each month, one pilot 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 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. 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, of 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 capping our phone. this. me 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 and i have to wonder why i was born in this hell, i am a human being, i have the right to free life. you know, the u. s. the admission in afghanistan previously held the job program as a success. instead, he provided the american by afghan army with the capability to operate the system

on its own. now, for more stories on how the wants her enough going on, change lives. do head over to our on heard voices, projects, but to go home. britton's day, the coven infection rates, it's more than 160000 on new year's day. and with the health care system, a full stretch is claim. the pandemic is think of the patient sidelined, their lives, puts at risk. parents and campaign is say vulnerable. children are being discriminated against to for your bed space, while also highlighting a spike in do not facilitate orders for children with down syndrome an autism. we spoke to one mother who was asked to sign one for her own song when she said it, all right, well just in case because, you know, and my son's life that you're asking with fish site or no. i

haven't been asked. that's my other 2 children. i mean, he has down syndrome, but that's got nothing to do when we're shipping the tight. so now he was in a, she was asking him a lot of questions and he a con, he's a he understands. and i think luckily for him and i asked me because he was, i'm 16 anyway. i want to say are the parents. i know that our 7 children say 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 was supposed to take orders, are offered to people who are gravely ill. one signed doctors won't perform cpr to help me start the patient's heart. but in the u. k, do you notice the states orders are increasingly being offered for teenagers with autism? it's

a condition that affects some 700000 people in britain and teenagers with down syndrome are also affects it. however, the national health service insists is not discriminating and stays the blanket policies are inappropriate. current woodward again begs to differ where every child and every adult is called 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 bank and why are people with adults children l delay while we why on a on trade differently with a lack of you must say given the health care system, i deserve on the social system. i did that, i get the and i just, it was been 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 valuable with everyone else's children. so they're not going to be put on that. less. i missed 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 thus the way the week looked here on oxy international. my name's peter scott's reporting live from moscow. thank you for watching. ah, a financial survival guide, stacy, let's learn about 3 allowed. let's say i'm a true, i can agree, tom grease on banks of the fight. wall street broad, thank you for helping with enjoy.

that's right. fill out slavery. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be in arms. race is often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk with me.

hello, welcome to worlds of immortal or in the last i realized, i know that was a very humble and on some level of very hiring admission by some bridges. the father of western philosophy, an admission that reached over the last, during the half down here, it has been accrued by many of the worlds of brightest scientists. how does our disposition to the a book to discuss that i'm now joined by in mcgill, christa, british like high threes, an author of the matter with things dr. me gilchrist. it's a great privilege, both personal and professional for me to engage in a conversation. thank you. very much for giving me this opportunity. thank you very much. now i hope many of our of yours are familiar with your previous best seller, the master and emissary in which you laid out the keys for how the last hemisphere of our brain, which evolved to deal with narrow, practical, and mental things, has become too full of itself too bossy and too eager to remake the world. and it's

rather constrictive image. you made that argument very eloquently more than the day to go. what has happened or what have you learned seems down to your versus that your volume in this new book? well, i suppose the, the gestation of this book goes by quite a long way, and it hasn't just been precipitated by recent events. but i do see the thing is that i outlined at the end of the master in his embassy, where i gave an experiment. we're that will be like if the left hemisphere is way of thinking, had dominated completely and we no longer have access to the wisdom that the right hemisphere could give us. what would it look like? and the also was very like the society. i think readers could recognize that we were living in that sense. and i think things have accelerated and the situation has become critical in many respects. and i believe very strongly

that it's not necessary to do many practical steps to the destruction of the planet and destruction of our society. but it's not just enough to do those practical things, because if we don't change the way we think we'll just carry on repeating the same mistakes. you set it on many occasions, but i think it's worth repeating, that the master in santa clara metaphor is based on that class of china. the secret of the golden flower which compares our conscious mind to astride in general who wants to control things from a distance until the sword is turned around. and then any such tales and nessa around the world, usually resulting in things falling apart. i you sure that we are indeed on the down toward jack tree as opposed to, you know, things taking their natural developmental route and our consciousness or collective

consciousness. differentiating through trials and tribulations me inevitably include some extremes. i call myself a hopeful pessimist by which i mean it doesn't look good, but i hear rush and then at least by spirit. good will i like that? thank you for the coven. i think i'm hopeful in the sense that we never do really know what is coming next and times in history. one can be very surprised by 710 in the human spirit when required. but i do think we need such a to know. i'm mostly hopeful that there are enough people who see this problem is as important as it is. and what i want to do in this book is just give courage really, to people to see the world in a different way, which i think intuitively they have an understanding that historically, as you pointed out in the mythologies are.