the ah, breaking news and i'd say unrest, waves celtic over storing fuel prices with rioters trying to storm government. things doesn't have been a risk will get the lead us with our correspondent in moment. also add on the program. european countries are divided over an e u proposal to label new killer and gas as green forms of energy with the new german government flemming the planets green washing. those the ordinance are grounding flights in america with stuff shortage is due to cove. it all to being blamed for travel scale on more than 600000 people in the u. k. sign a petition calling for a former prime minister, tony blair's knighthood to be withdrawn. it's alleged more problems in iraq

who's promoteco to the world. this is art. see i'm you know, neil bringing you the latest global news updates. welcome to the program. we begin with fricking news from catholics where there is mos on rest. over soaring energy costs. crowds are nice flying. we believe the storm government buildings on more than a 100 people nationwide. c have been arrested. let's get the full picture and i from donnie armstrong, dunny cars expounds and major energy producer boot oil and gas at give us a bit of background as well as the latest and what's happening now in terms of the spike and prices. how the government is responding to what is a large wave of public anger? you know, of course, as you said, mean catholic style is a huge export of fuel. in general, this came from when the government did away with

a price cap on liquefied natural gas. that caused the fuel prices to saw that has been great on rest, great protests in major cities, of course, in our marquee, in the 2nd 15 catholics. and, of course, a large is not the capital. the current in the capital in north fulton, formerly known as us to not have been over a 100 arrest, according to media reports more than 20 and almighty people aren't happy about the soaring fuel prices down the are storing arthur. they're going literally doubled from new year's day people going to the pumps and having to pay double the price. well that, i mean, the civil unrest is social unrest comes from these socio economic problems that would cut was lifted a new year and the fuel prices keep you say doubling even tripling and the government did come in and backtracked a little. they reimpose some limits, but people are happy, nothing to quell the president to kind of is come out and urge people not to join

in the on rest, not to join in the protest, but it really has done nothing that has been police trying to quell these protests with flash grenades with tear gas, but nothing seems to be we can, we can hear the woods of presidents, a kind of right now that i use. okay. dear compatriots. so if i need to show prudence and not to come to publications from the inside and outside, nobody protest euphoria and calls to attack, the military and civilian offices are illegal and the government will no longer collect for revenue by machine you're going down to you. so you hear those words encouraging people not to get involved in these protests and in all the rest that have been a according to media. was it not been confirmed by police as of yet, but over a 100 arrests? as people calling for the resignation of the president of the government,

as you say, has extended to fix exports of fuel. if this problem isn't sorted out, it could cause big problems, not only socially, he cannot mclee and of course for the government. there have also been reports of internet being disconnected in cities like marty an astronaut, and popular messenger site being disconnected also me. so those pictures were just looking at donnie and on screen those you were talking there, the main square in the biggest city and cows extend a lot of unrest. it looks as if it's going to be happening for a little while to come. you got police, you know, frog marching people away trying to empty that area. they did backtracked some. what is there a feeling of that would quell what's happening now or after days is, is, is the situation likely to, to worsen or what, what's the finance? there's little snippets coming back from the country both. what can we say basically about what's likely to occur will, of course, be as the words of the president,

haven't done anything to calm these protests. and as you see on the squares in the major cities that had been calling for the resignation of the president, looks like it's not going to calm down. the government did come in and re imposed some limit, kept on the price of liquefied natural gas. but it really did nothing to petroleum . so when they go with filler, they are well in the people need this to get about. yeah. especially in kind of sound where it's very, very cold temperatures can get some minus 14, some of the major assistant people need it to get about. and if they can afford it, if it doubling and tripling in price, this is only going to lead one way and people don't look like they're going to take this line down. okay, but as you said, the president calling for demonstrators to, to relent and get some dialogue going as well. donnie, thanks very much for bringing us to that. we'll keep a very close sign developments in context and i'm sure now brussels is facing backlash from major. you nations after proposed re categorizing nuclear,

natural gas as green energy, when you, german governments economy minister, branded the proposal a form of green washing that's of energy prices in germany, the prison dramatically over the last 3 months. charlotte davinsky takes up the story a new year and a new spat is brewing between new members. bickering has a wrapped in with states split over how energy from nuclear and gas sources should be classed in the future. the e u wants to categorize investments in some of these projects as being green, but others argue this is essentially green washing label in nuclear energy as sustainable is wrong. this is a high risk technology. it is questionable whether this green washing will find acceptance on the financial market at all. that we think nuclear technology is dangerous. we still think the waste issue was um is, are we expressly reject the assessment on nuclear power under the commissions

proposal investment in new nuclear energy facilities should be classified as a group if they meet certain technical standards. now that's led to accusations that the commission is he destroying the credibility of the european eco label, financial investments with germany leading the charge of nations against these proposals. that could put it in direct collision, of course, with the blocks or that heavy weight. that is france, 70 percent of energy here is generated from nuclear power. so convinced is president black on that nuclear is the way forward. he's announced a 1000000000 euro investment, expanding the industry for gallant yolanda, in order to guarantee france is energy independence to ensure our country's electricity supply and to achieve our objectives in particular carbon neutrality. in 2015 we will, for the 1st time in decades,

will really launch the construction of nuclear reactors in our country and continue to develop renewable energies. i'll be has the support from some austin block nations with slovak as prime minister agreeing that climate neutrality just can't be met without nuclear energy. but australia is furious over the plans, saying it will take the commission to court if it moves ahead with them. will examine the present draft carefully and have already commissioned a legal opinion on nuclear power in the taxonomy in these plans are implemented in this way. we will sue because atomic power is dangerous and not a solution in the fight against the climate crisis. meanwhile, germany is also coming under pressure over its anti nuclear stand from the czech republic. berlin has just all the clues of half of germany's remaining nuclear power plants as part of a plan to withdraw completely from the technology. prague describes that as being

a radical step. our government will have to work patiently and hard look for allies in europe and convince partners. finally, it also has to move forward with the construction of nuclear units and to encourage investment in other reasonable renewable sources. that is the way out of the energy crisis. the alternative is under development and poverty. and nobody wants that. all of this comes as europe is in the midst of an energy crisis, with some expert suggesting that the crunch will last roy the way until 2023. that moved by germany and closing nuclear react is also could push up prices even further. as prices in german neil was twice as high as they could be. there is an energy crisis that the prices of the rising rising cost means that the industry need more energy and that heating your home becomes expensive. we need

cheap, stable energy to petition. run our country a lot, focused on the interest of jim and industry in german customers. but that's the holo ideological agenda and de polar to your logical agenda. the 1st thing they don't need get because they want to do everything with the nubile. it's a kind of magic, they believe that they can do that again. as the 2nd audiological agenda, they follow that there are hard core intro, rushing one solution to that coin. this could be the approval of the nord stream to pipeline that would supply got us directly from russia to germany. however, we've tension tie you between the you and moscow. the green light for that project is far from so i've been leaving the u scrambling to find the money to pay increasing energy bills,

while members remain bitterly divided over the future of energy policy. charlotte, even sky artsy, paris america is battling down the hatches as a winter storm pummels parts of the country. it's causing chaos for flights with around 5000 councils over the weekend, leaving hundreds of thousands of would be travelers unable to fly. the conditions also forced federal offices in the u. s. capital to close on monday. not as the latest for accounts are predicting up to 8 inches of snow in the region, but our lines haven't just been grinding flights over the inclement weather. the latest on the kron colbert. i'd break has been having an impact too. well, back in october, southwest airlines counseled almost 2000 and flights. just days after a pilot union sued the carrier over a vaccine mandate. or the biden team's been trying to reach a cobit shot target among american workers of 2 thirds of that workforce. a moves

being resisted by senior government figures the by the ministration has to follow all they have follow constitution. they're implementers of the law. they can't just make it up, and in this case, they're forcing american workers to decide between their health and their job, and they just can't do it. it's just wrong. and the us has registered over a 1000000 new covert cases in the past day alone. kellum up and has been taking a closer look at job biden's efforts the bottle the pandemic. many will remember jo biden's harsh words to donald trump during the presidential debate last year. and he won his response from that many dish should not remain as president of the united states of america. when those words were said, the cova death hall was around $220000.00. we'll since then, coven death numbers have risen to about 800000. the united states just set a record high for corona virus infections. remember, when biden said that he would quickly and easily solve this problem?

how's he doing? now back in may, joe biden set his goal to partially vaccinate 70 percent of the population by july, well, fast forward and that 70 percent has still not been vaccinated. what vaccine mandates have achieved is to further polarize the country. a large number of professionals in vital industries have lost their jobs. protests of shaking the country. with what we're doing here today, and that is writing, i me with

a large number of medical workers have been suspended. is kind of surreal, honestly, because i love my job, and i have been a coven nurse for since the beginning of the pandemic. i've been a nurse for 10 years. i worked for kaiser for 5. and when the pandemic happened we, we were scared in the beginning, like everybody by it is this amazing time to where we have really is people i work with amazing doctors and nurses to set up to work every day. and just rolled up their sleeves and faced their fears and walked into these rooms. not knowing if they were going to get co vater, bring it home to their families, more than 2000 flights got canceled by american airlines due to a pilot shortage. law enforcement has also been hit my reductions. it's not the issue that the public wanted or the,

the politicians said they're going to deliver. they want this black and white issue . it's a gray area between you're going to have this big gap between qualified police officers who are trained your season new cops coming in the, the quality of new cops coming in is going to be held to a lower standard. so you're not going to get the best candidates, so do up patrol your streets and keep you safe. it's going to be a very organic living, breathing problem that us now has no solution and site with so many things going wrong. jo. biden's approval ratings are now in free fall. the depths haven't slowed down either. in fact, more people have died of covered so far in 2021. then in 2020. so this year biden's 2 main plans. rebuild the people's trust and better fight. coven have failed. to come true, kayla martin r t new york. and just a reminder that w h o and other mainstream medical bodies say that vaccination is the best way to stay safe. ah, it's

a happy new year so far for the embattled former governor of new york. andrew cuomo, 2 charges against them have been dropped. those of covering up co debts in nursing homes and inappropriately groping an aid. that's a nice been from the manhattan district attorney's office. sparked out ridge the new man had and da as excusing our former corrupt governor of several charges. he was facing regarding nursing homes and sexual assault. there are still investigations underway with f, b i. d o j, eastern district and act. but there's no doubt they're making deals with the devil . today's news that the manhattan dahl won't press charges against disgraced former governor cuomo over his cove at nursing home scandal is yet another politically motivated decision by left wing prosecutors. cuomo has blood on his hands, his victims and their families deserve justice. democrats allowed corrupt in

disgrace governor cuomo to escape criminal charges for nursing home deaths. however they harassed president trump. justice is not blind in new york. while in office, andrew cuomo was accused of letting people into care homes with on testing during the early stage of the pandemic. he's also been accused of under counting care home co deaths by 50 percent formal himself, us constantly denied wrong doing but key years 3328 died in the hospital, died in a nursing home. they died the obligations on the nursing home to say: i can't take a coven positive person. on too crowded, i'm too busy. i don't have enough p. p. e. whatever the answer is, does it matter? is if they say i can't take the person, they can't take the person when we didn't provide information, it allowed press people, cynex politicians, to fill the void. i just want to be sure people know. these are the facts. these

are the facts. ah, everything that could have been done was done. cuomo resigned in august after a decade, an office amid public pressure over harassment allegations he was charged with inappropriately groping and 8. but late earlier today, a district attorney concluded that although the teacher is quote, credible, there was not enough evidence to bring the case to courts quite a bit to on pick can very happy to say it were joined live on the program by legal on media unless line or to help us do just that's good to see line or so there we have the charges against andrew cuomo dropped, the former governor. is he an innocent man? is not how he know will be considered? well, i don't want to be technical, but i'm going to be technical regarding charges against him for battery, for

a salt, for the impermissible touching of another against their will. the criminal aspect of it under new york law. * yes, because there was no evidence whatsoever of injury. new york law is a little different. it doesn't require merely in offensive touching, but something that is extreme. and as if you were to allege sexual contact, sexual battery, it would involve far more than what he was alleged to have been involved in, and wanted kissing and alike. so legally, as far as that goes, yes, that makes sense. dismissing any type of criminal activity or others regarding the deaths of the elderly in assisted care, that's a different story. especially when there were well founded apparently, well found an allegations that he and his staff might have fun, you'd,

or allegedly manipulated the numbers. and that might also involve federal investigation down the road, so he's not completely out of the woods, so to speak. but you're going to have lots of families watching this very closely asking, i would suppose if mr. quote, did not break the law, who should then take responsibility for the huge number of care. hm, that's a new york. well, let's look at it. if i were to represent him and, or anybody for that matter, i would say that during this crisis, it would be manifestly unfair, manifestly incorrect to hold him to, to pay, to painstaking levels of accuracy when the entire world was falling apart. by virtue of this pandemic, he would allege that in retrospect, yes, this was incorrect. it's, it's not,

at least at this point tangible enough direct enough. there's not enough of a approximate cause for him to be held liable. but there is also civil ramifications. and there were people expert who would come forward and said, the last thing that you do, no matter what is to take people, who are coven positive? and if you recall, during the nascent period of this, of this pandemic, the, the people were the most of them royal inn and infectious, and to put them into these, basically these, these homes of the most are vulnerable with co morbidities in age. i mean, if that's not criminal negligence, nothing is so is going to be a battle of the, of the lawyers, but he's not out of the woods yet. as far as that goes, sexual battery and other battery. yes, but not this one. interesting. we know know thou donder,

coma was helped i by his brother chris, then up cnn. does that deserve a criminal, proven itself? thought story? well, not really, but let's look at it this way. c n n, as you can imagine, is under a lot of attack. by virtue of having no no ethical standard whatsoever regarding anything even attempting journalism. so at the time andrew cuomo, excuse me, chris cuomo, who enjoyed at that time, one of the highest rated shows, if not the highest rated to hold zocker and the other individual from cnn. i'm merely giving advice to my brother. i'm not doing anything other than brotherly advice. that's all i'm doing. oh, okay. we'll take your word for it. well, in the text messages that they were able to look at from chris cuomo and to go to

governor cuomo, assistant. he was not only planning strategies, but how they could smear, perhaps, potential accusers, and theoretically use his position with cnn. to find out who these people are to dig the dirt. now, i ask you, brotherly love is one thing, but aiding and abetting, perhaps obscuring, if not, obstructing justice in an investigation at a different story. we all know the courts of public opinion can be very different from the legal one. it is andrew cruise career over or do you expect to come back done, finished toast. there was another issue during the course of this when he was absolutely the woo. but he was basically abandoning his position. he rides a book on leadership about how he handled us coven nightmare,

allegedly. so some say, using members of his staff, he was paid about 5 mill, $5000000.00, and now they're saying must he disengaged himself, of, of the profit and return them. so that was going on, i mean, just think about this, you're, you're, you're, you're basically doing x, y, and z, which many people consider to be criminal. you write a book perhaps being using members of your staff and he had 5000000 hours for it. for i mean just there's no end to this. and he remember he was on his way. he was the darling. he was the governor of the largest state. he was the day he could have named his ticket. this is the sunday. don't fan the scion of the cuomo family, and all he had to do was, is basically not do what he did it over. he is gone the way of the edsel say good night. gracie ly from new york city legal and media analyst line

offering us for his thoughts. thank you very much. as always. thank you, sir. ah, now the covert infection rate across the atlantic from there in the u. k. has hit an all time record with 220000 new cases in the past 24 hours. it is expected the pallet for the pressure on what's been described as an overloaded health care system. since the arrival of the army from the irving colbert related hospital admissions, they've written 50 percent. medical unions have called it a national emergency, although the british prime minister has resisted calls for further restrictions are locked on the chrome is milder than previous variance. so well, hospital emissions are rising quickly with 15000 patients now hospital in england alone. this is not yet, thankfully translating into the same numbers needing intensive care that we saw in previous waves. we have a chance to write out this on the con,

waive without shutting down our country. once again the added burden on. busy hospitals in the u. k, comes amid stop shortages. the british medical association has worn the throat the coming year, one and $6.00 doctors and nurses are likely to be out of action to, to cope on unions have called on the government to urgently re salaries or face industrial action or the national health service say's the pandemic has created unprecedented pressure, adding it's doing all that come to support doctors, nurses. earlier i spoke with senior and a chest consultant, psychiatrist, dr. j. s. barbara, he said metix, they remain under a huge tree. the chess front line workers and other frontline voters. i should say, have put in a huge shift to me, a shift of looking after patients, many of whom are vase the very ill. it's very sourcing stuff. if you need any

effect to cope with themselves, many of them have been affected because good friends, relatives, colleagues, have died from clover. those delays, a huge amount of stress and anxiety within the system. i think the prime minister on shallow, please says that everything needs to implies that everything is ready and ready to return to mobile. and i would say, well, no, not yet. those be the way it was. shock, rice, in infections around december, going into january. we have. busy a record number of admissions in hospital, and we will not enter that. he's actually, it's a 60 percent off i to your patients or at the moment on vaccinated 90 percent. haven't had to stop seeing with the u. k to the story that's got a lot of people talking and writing more than 600000 people have signed a petition against the night 100 wanted to tony blair. they want it rescinded merely over the former prime minister's role in the 2003 invasion of iraq. tony

blair was personally responsible for causing the death of countless innocent civilian lives and service men in various conflicts. for this alone, he should be held accountable for war crimes. we petitioned the prime minister to petition her majesty to have this honor math. despite being a tuesday successful politician winning 3 consecutive elections, lawyers legacy has been over loaded by his support for us lead interventions. aside from iraq, he also sent british troops into costco in sierra leone, and more significantly, up gallus them where they stayed for 2 decades. with about 20 years, tony blair's views on iraq have shifted, although he's never express remorse for the invasion. that he has a brutality oppression, and fear the death and torch account, the barbaric prisoners i would still have thought it right to remove it. it's not long since given up trying to persuade people to the right decision. i apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was was wrong. i think they'll do

everything they can to avoid debating. and parliament certainly should be, because this is a terrible decision that clearly fries in the face of what the vast majority of people in this country believe and think. i mean, the polls show the majority of people in britain and actually in the united states, i believe the war was a terrible mistake, and it was the worst foreign policy mistake the britain is made in. certainly in modern history, we're talking about about a 1000000 people dying in iraq. we're talking about huge numbers of people having to flee their homes. we're talking about a rack becoming a failed state. the whole region actually thrown into thrown into disarray and chaos as a result. of, of the invasion. so it was an absurdity, catastrophic decision on the vast majority. people know that it was wrong,

and it's not only that he took this decision age that he lied to the british people . he lied to parliament. he went behind the back even of the cabinet, to make disagreement with george bush. and so in that sense he corrode days and corrupted. the kind of pretty political process as well as another visit to the kaiser report studio was ad and moment see was god max and stacy talking today for the shortest break. ah, join me every 1st day on the alex summon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me .