ah ah, the least dogs in buttons deployed against the low down demonstrated in amsterdam dismay, gave the order to break up the 1000 strong illegal rally in some of the big stories of the week just gone. germany shows down hoff this nuclear power plant, while belgium says it will close up all of its reactors within the next 3 years. with the transition, the green energy gather space plus the 1000000000 and destroyed homes and afghans with lower lift the lid on america's drone program. the former operates a who's currently in hiding from the taliban. folks to our fees on heard voices, objects around. so operations, we were not told about any civilian deaths, nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target. i'm in hiding alone with

underground i live in fear speaking honestly, i am fed up with my life. so welcome to the weekly here, not international. my name is peter scott, and i'll be bringing you the stories that shape the news this week. the 1st anti low down demonstrates is have clashed with riot police in amsterdam, police dogs and buttons. we 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 upon 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 had gathered in amsterdam to show their continued anger against the restrictions that are in place and also against vaccines. 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 protest is from that. but to despite that protest is turned out regardless. now the netherlands has been doing this extended lock down our since december 19th. and as a result of that, restaurants a shot, an all known of central 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 current 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 guess 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 ground hold 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 applying to children over the age of 11. so that's a big shift here. and in some times, 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, 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 at 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 on teaching 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 ban on fireworks on the shells, alisa, and cool the muted festivities. but in, despite that they were crouched, versed 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 cars. almost $900.00 vehicles were burned on new year's eve is part of that. now there was also anger 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 study says, suggesting that only crohn is less likely to damage to lungs than previous variance, such as the dell to bear into even the al from beat of variant. and that it also

provokes a less severe adamant type disease. so good news, but at the same time, with all the restrictions in place and the continued 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 shut down half of its remaining nuclear power stations on new year's eve, us as part of his 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 german electricity does come from nuclear sources. the country will now have dramatically ramp up production from sustainable sources. and in the meantime, increases reliance on coal. opinions were divided among the germans. we spoke to you live near one of the power plants that was closed. if that wasn't enough time,

now it has its pros and cons. but actually here, and 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, 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. i think, 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 worker, and we have to see where they will end up. but some people will definitely lose their jobs. and germany is not alone in facing out nuclear power. belgium has also decided to shut down all its reactors within the next 3 years. and thus, despite the fact that nuclear energy generates almost half that country's

electricity, engineers have already slammed the decision as counter productive the government's decision to phase 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 all that europe is grappling with an energy crunch that saw record prices last month. we discussed this with journalist charlie boyle and he believes that the pace at which green policies are being introduced is more about political gain. it's all about lack of class and seen as those are point score in these policies. you may well out those beliefs. but as usual practice, counties always take home and now the reality is sinking in high inflation.

a huge demand surge and going in the winter. and we, we simply can't have a situation where energy prices are going up 1200 percent year. we need to have a decent plan around the world, but country by country as to how it transitioned to renewables. housing, what the mixture is going to be and we're going to be, i need to be honest about lisa don't ones which are completely high sky. no, while europe switches to green energy households, there have been left grappling with a higher cost of living. and western politicians have seized the moment to blame russia, claiming it's behind the spike in fuel prices. ortiz at southgate. 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 being you accused, stay tone energy giant gas problem of being cd and then furious that moscow would just take pity and pipe over some free extra gas and accused the crumbling of paint dirty politics. the increase in price is for energy has deep geopolitical roots. it's part of the geopolitical battle, rushes on it all, its contracts, it cannot be said they are not delivering when they said they would, but it has not increased the quantities contracted full. so now at biting by a contract is foul play. o the things people will say to dodge responsibility. and so there is no need to shift the blame, like some of our partner said, trying to do. sometimes you listen to what is said on the score. you are surprised, it's 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 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's so greedy and mean that he wanted gas prom to top up europe stored supplies all the while. a solution to this crisis lies idol, ever heard of north stream to the german regulators should make this decision. they have not yet decided. of course, if we expand supplies along this route, then 100 percent, i can say with absolute certainty, the tension on the european energy market would significantly decline. and that would influence prices. of course, this is an obvious thing, but with the green light still not given. it seems the use not actually that bother

about it. citizens off to rural, but he's not enough to negotiate with the russian bath. 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, and americans will i fucking out more on fuel than they had since 2014, which would have been bad enough by itself. but then historic inflation hit, this is a historic inflation report, inflation has it a 31 year high with price is rising to more than double. we've seen in recent decades, everything going up and up in up in prices. new numbers showing inflation surging to its fastest pace in nearly 40 years. following up she came year though it's pretty windy outside, it's very windy. i almost felt coming up with 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 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 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 announces, says the largest ever release from the u. s. strategic petroleum reserve till 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 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 store and wash 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. afghan drone operators working for the u. s. were kept in the dark about civilian deaths. that's according to a whistleblower who's spoken to archie about his job during the u. s. warrant terror. 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 with artes on heard voices, projects, lalellah, we live in

a horrible situation. very bad conditions, not be honestly. i am fed up with my life stuff out of it, so i'm in hiding alone with underground. yeah, i can't go outside. i'm hopeless for somebody. i ask myself, do i have the right to live a peaceful life in my own homeland or not it me said straight, and i wish i had been born in a different country to me at the decimal that he's telling me that would be long. mm. for 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 assigned an agreement with he said we were employed by this company. they scam eagle with

each month one pilots conducted 17. is it 20 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, dominate the port. we lost a couple of our pilots in the last days of our work and after the taliban took over and 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 was a, even the closest relatives don't know where they are. problem, sex, age they blinking is leading the continued diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any american afghan pardoner or foreign national wants to lead up. again, this is 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 work 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 reprice 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 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 or kept so there is no one to help us in this situation. i live in phil and i have to wonder why i was born in this hell, i am

a human being, i have the right to free life. the u. s. lead mission in afghanistan previously held the drone program as a success. instead it provided the american, but after all me, with the capability to operate the system on its own more stories on how the warrants are enough going on change lives. feel free to head over to our own heard voices, projects. it's ok. you don't call britain's daily cove infection. rates have more than 160000 on new year's day. and with the health care system, a full stretch is claim. the pandemic is think other patients sidelined and their lives put to risk parents and campaign is say vulnerable children have been discriminated against to for your bed space while also highlighting a spike in do not facilitate orders the children with down syndrome and autism. we spoke to one mother who was asked to sign one for own song 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's my other 2 children and yes, he has down syndrome, but that's got nothing today when we're shipping tight. so now he was in the room and she was asking him a lot of questions. and he, a con i, he's and crusty, isn't that 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 there are 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

miss. so say orders off, it's a people who are gravely ill and won't signed. doctors won't perform cpr to restart the patient's heart. but in the u. k, do not receive states orders are increasingly been offered for teenagers with autism. a condition that affects some 700000 people in britain and teenagers with down syndrome are also affected. however, the national health service insist it's not discriminating and says the blanket policies are inappropriate. karen will, it begs to differ where every child in 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 b n. why are people with adults children and will delay while we why on trade? differently with the 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 as valuable as everyone else is children. so they're not going to be put on that list. list i was are isn't, it will leave you out. the dumbest idea, because there's not a lot of room must offer an indigenous leader in new zealand is accusing australia of using his country as a dumping ground for criminals. the national murray authority chairman wants cumber to scrap his policy of deporting new zealanders when convicted and it is not good enough. now that new zealand is becoming a penal colony for australia and,

and just reporting your problem. why does not solve the problem of gangs and both australia and new zealand. it is not good enough just to say we're going to stick a whole lot of people on applied on a government chartered plane and seen them back to new zealand. that is not the spirit of friendship that you would expect between 2 neighbors. under australian law, a foreign nationals, a sentence to more than a year in prison, they automatically lose the right to stay in the country. that's applies even if they've lived in australia, their entire lives for new zealanders. the removal of that rights is even more troubling. as both australians and new zealanders are supposed to be free to visit live and work in each of these countries. the last couple of years though, have seen hundreds of new zealanders sent back home. australia's immigration minister has defended the policy saying the government will continue to expel from national to commit serious offenses. although matthew to khaki says it will be

better if they work with new zealand to find more appropriate solutions. 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, they do share information doctrine 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 where these drug supplies networks are establishing themselves across se, asia, even into the pacific being, let's do that job together as australia and new zealand. and that ends experience

and that's the way the wiggles here on our theater national. that's all from me. peter scott reporting live from moscow. neil harvey will be here in just over 30 minutes with the full news program. thanks for watching. ah . join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. mass kaiser's financial survival guide. liquid assets are those that you can convert into cash quite easily. but keep in mind, no, as if the me to inflation datawatch guys report with

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a with i'm after it has been watching going underground team and i will be back for brand new season on wednesday, the 12th of january. but until then, we'll be showing you some of your favorite shows from this season than interview with the usa, former un ambassador president, donald trump's national dirty advisor. john boldly joins me now from washington. d . c. it is memoir about his time in the white house, the room where it happened is out. now the master, thanks so much for coming on her. if it carnage news coming from couldn't do is in kandahar you're actually the 2nd national security advisor of donald trump to be on going underground. you say in your book the room where it happened, the afghanistan deal that's trumps one time will prove who is right. and the full

extent to the deal may not become apparent until after trump leaves office. what is your assessment as a for the national security advisor of the by the administration, the foreign policy, especially on afghanistan? well, i think this is one of the few instances where biden and trump agree on on policy both wanted to get out of afghanistan and both ignored the consequences. i think many people thought were foreseeable, what biden did was take trumps deo, which was flawed in many, many respects and essentially adopted it as is on policy, disregard of the advice of senior advisers and the pentagon state department, the white house. and i think the consequences have been plain to say return to afghanistan to control by the taliban and everything that's flowing from that, including the likelihood of foreign terrorist returning and again,

using afghanistan as a base to plan terrorist operations around the world. so this is a retreat by the united states, from the international stage, something by and believe then since at least 2009, they say ironically, trunk, believe it to i think it's a mistake for the u. s. make it's a mistake for well stability. certainly it's a mistake for the people of afghanistan. well in fact, as trumps feel, the date of a withdrawal was made the 1st you don't think that makes any difference. now look i, i think all by and did was extended a couple months and it showed how, how little planning had been done, either by the trumpet ration or by for the execution to withdraw itself. i should note my own polling on this subject, i think affirms what other people have observed that while at the beginning, many people said the withdrawal itself was executed poorly.