ah, for june . welcome to the alexander. so i'm a very happy new year to you. oh yes, happy new year, but before we bid a final form for well to 2021, we thought we'd take a look at some of the show highlights from a turbulent year. corbett still dominated in 2021, and they still feel that the leading international expertise help understand. and we'll see this pandemic for 100. you're protecting young people from something with a risk profile, the sorts of the same frequency as the side effects of the vaccine,

but the wider protection isn't being taken into account. so i think it's a difficult decision. i can see why they've made it, but i would personally have supported encouraging. anyone is talking about getting a job because i think it will contribute to our ability long term to control the virus. if she were a score and has been very, very powerful over the past years, it's important that we continue that kind of a chest we as we do. ready actually and a lot of, i mean i'm hearing stories of people being told to solely i'm used. ready by seen robin for somebody to give it to you, you're not allowed to give it to someone who's not here or whatever. that's just nuts we need. we need to trust program staff to to do the right thing with it. and full set, real state for health and social kind of study johnny to lay a lot of singular singular emphasis on boosters. boost is boost, as is

a smoke screen. the important way of my in case numbers will be as follows. it is multi layer. it has to be multi layered, so you have to immunize people who have not yet been immunized. you have to give the boosters to the wonderful people. and furthermore, you have to also address issues. the other issues are equally important. the other issues being where you mock very properly where you can kind of places where you don't buses, tubes trains, and kind of supermarket for them all the big elephant in the room that we're not addressing. and this is extremely serious, is the seasonal influenza vaccines. we need to suppress influenza very much so this year. so it's a multi pronged approach multiple layers, as well as please attend to seasonal influenza immunization urgently. so what the, our score our score card is. we've been able to prove that 10 are actually now 13

vaccines are safe in that case just by different regulatory standards. but by and large, that's the answer. so that was relatively simple. we did it in record time starting from scratch. it in january 2020, getting to vaccines, approved by november of 2020. great. the bigger questions though aren't around vaccine research and development. but really around can we make enough of this vaccine in order to vaccinate 8000000000 people around the world? and then can we distribute that actually do we have a logistical system in place that will be able to put jobs into the arms of those a 3 people and those are going to be far more pressing questions this year. and next we know what struck me about at least scientist doctors that we had on what excellent communicators the become limited really explain things that were the ones we had on explain things very well. and at the end of the day, the public are always after much detailed information as it can get to help them

oversee the crisis that the all of us have seen and lifetime. so i think there's a general position of having people on for a period of time to explain the situation. but colon dominated the headlines. international power of politics was also back with a vengeance in 2021. a new president was faced in game and the afghan stuff, the most inglorious ignominious american foreign policy, the treat since vietnam come along. wilkinson was the late general colon paolo's, chief of staff. he described for us how america entered the 20 year long war and tara while i'm for follow just professor wade davis and professor as well. um and explained what the flight from can bill tells us about the future. the moment we selected the war instrument, we elevated al qaeda and it's like 2 warrior status. we even had extraordinary difficulty coming up with a term to describe them. so the geneva conventions and other things wouldn't apply

to them. we lost and we understandably last. i think because president bush himself told a group of, of angelica was visiting the white house. my rage is up. please help me, help me restraining my rage. i think that was the most telling comment. the then young neophyte, inexperienced president made it was all about revenge and secondarily about preventing a 2nd attack. we thought if we went after the head of the snake, we would prevent a 2nd attack better. but it was an informed decision to decide to use military power. we now are bade in the mad assoni an morning of when you give the executive unlimited more powers, you are on a dangerous track, a very dangerous track, and we're paying for it. and i've kind of sounded just one of the debts we owe. obviously somebody had to pull the plug on that on that the, that,

that war couldn't go on forever. bud sake. on the other hand, you know, the famous, sane by harry truman. the buck stops here and whether he likes it or not. those images from come to. ready light, the image is in 1975 in saigon, which, incidentally, it was interesting how the administration immediately went to those images with this incredible. and you know me think some and protest is too much refusal to draw any kind of parallels to what happened in saigon in 1975. but any one of the eyes to see could see on the video cameras. and i mean on the, on the television monitor that it was exactly like saigon in 1975. i mean, it was utterly parallel. you know, we, we left in 1975 nixon having spent billions of dollars to arm the south vietnamese . army was called the via the victimization of the american vietnam war. whole idea that nixon's can, you know, strategy was to get the american boys out of the coffins and back home. and,

and we could, we could just use money and power and arms to equip an army that in the end had no will whatsoever to fight. and had just rampant corruption from the level of the field up into the presidential palace will surely that's exactly what we saw in afghanistan. but i also pointed out that when you urinate on dead bodies in a fun to sun, off, lushly put on down the toilet, that is going to upset. not only that i did, but almost since, and then to create problems. people didn't pick that up. and recently professor noam chomsky was considered now one of the leading of as the leading american public intellectual. again talk about this and then the end of june and said that this is the book that should be read. now after the fall of college, because me make the same mistakes again and again. but all conflicts. how the human side, and i just found it better. we can save on. wrigley,

i wouldn't. once held captive by the taliban, i am icicle. his donnie ask, i mean, he has gone to great success in the king. don't look away the last time you walked away, you isolated the time on the international stage and understand became a play around for as we want to beach hockey. so don't walk away. it won't work, however, if you going to come back on me all of this time with a, with practical help with socialist motivation. i'm not sure the west can do that. but you know, that country needs to know me. if teachers, they have just kind of brain drain, they, they need doctors, professionals who can help rebuild the country on the west. this time can try nation building without weapons. because i feel like i've gotten women

a so oppressed and they're painted as these. i mean, they're not, they're just the human eyes, you know, lives the getting lost left right, and center children and women and girls with what's happening right now. they're just in the, in the scene as numbers as these blue goes with the brokers. that's all i've got. women are known as a in the world, so i just wanted to show the world that know we're, we're also capable over just as good as anyone else. it was so lovely to see how my so wonderful success story, a for the crunchy, a young women of color who stands to well after coming over from from such difficult tendons. those interested in the other 2 women. quite different, but whose lives were touched by mascot est with both compelling stores. absolutely . in 2021, the political conference season was back. who better to survey the political landscape than the dwyer in the political commentary. professors of john curtis and 2 experienced political hands who disagree just about everything. former label m b,

chris williamson and former tory minister, adrena cunning, the father braxton still structures. how people are going to vote. so much to the concern is a very considerable advantage. in contrast, remain, vote is still divided between labor to some degree than it would have a cross and north of the border. the ascent piece of our legacy of breck street bridge will be it is not in the headlines. you still very have a restructuring party choice. i'm because on the remain, so i devoted smart men to leave, so i, it's relatively concentrated, thus giving the conservatives and ballast. that means it's proven very, very difficult for labor to get the conservative blow 40 percent of what the lot of people are right now. it seems to me to speak their mind a sickness, thomas labor party. and, you know, we seeing the, you know,

the propaganda building on the on t, china propaganda building up and we should be seeing the opposition speaking out about and, and opposing. and what we should be ongoing for is a huge investment in our public services. we have our own sovereign currency, money is no object in this country with loss of spare capacity. the only kind of inflationary pressures that are generated is when use when the government spends beyond or any entity in the economy for that much beyond the capacity to absorb it . and to see this latest don't say soccer, so called this deal between australia, u. k. and the u. s. is so just another example, it seems to me of how acts of touch are political leaders all but not dealing with the real issues. the real problems that are confronting every day people just only 5 years. so this is david, the cabin was falling over themselves, the cuddle up to the, the chinese and the course hensley point, a massive investment and chinese nuclear technology for

a civil taylor lea exporting nuclear technology to, to a strayer, of china as the, as the target. what was going on, and when i cut it, oh, french were very, very upset about it, not these because they had the kids, they really didn't let me think about it. unless you know a bit sorry for them because they've lost this huge project, this enormous order for many billions of years worth of diesel powered engines are the french, the traditional enemy and we're orcus is going to do is enable them to have what lots of other countries including prompts have, which is nuclear power submarines. latasha would have been fantastic if we would be able to have up here at the school to get there. we could have a place that i proceed. oh, seen right here for everybody city. i was interested in the, one of the female voices in the house of lords,

barren as clear fox. if anyone can upset musty convention, they clear fox is certainly can. will the irony is i think that corben is hm. did have a base. i might not have agreed with it. i might have thought it space was limited, but it gave a certain enthusiasm to a particular group of people around you know, what passes for life when politics. i mean, i'd be very critical of it. i think a lot, it was an, a dining superficial, but i understood it in food. people, you know, we did have big rallies. that's true. care star met. what does he offer? you know, he supported the corbin project, but was a bit lackluster. he was very much associated with the remain camp, which as i say is not going to play well. and then he comes in and is not clay. what he stands for, rather than not being corbett. they could have found a way of being a different party, but they didn't. and i, i think it's gone that. so the main thing i'm saying is if labor is finished in scotland, and i think that the lesson is the labor when i used to have mason,

scotland spend every summer there, the labor party were the dominant party. i could never imagine in those days that the would anything other than labor domination and now look at them. and i think that the lesson is, is that once that slippery slope starts in quite as dramatic away, then i can't see how they can recover. it was interesting about clear false, often and untrue she comes across is quite competitive for it, but not $1.00 to $1.00 and to view a warm personality, a mass. and of course, great deep political think i have been the battle of ideas. festival has been partly her idea i say to soften were discussing before the hit that you know, when you just given that to say, consider a minute for a sign, but it's quite difficult to get your personality across at the end of the day. people do want to understand what politicians are all about, but join us after the break when we look at some of the show business highlights. so my 2021 shows you seating good

to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on, often very dramatic. that development only really i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk with well, come back. the economics of the pandemic will occupy tech specs for many years to come. but all of us are living through the experience. we look for explanation from one end of the world to the other, from professor daniel by slow and dr. bit kidneys. i think there is

a genuine issue to the countries that allow the virus to become more endemic, that even us the mortality, right? as for him, because the vaccination, right. so taking off, we should be very mindful of the fact that some is more than one way to create an economic costs from the pandemic and chronic illness, especially billets icing, and it's talking people living the normal lives working the normal jobs, etc. that's actually a very costly thing. and so if we think about the overall economic cost of the pandemic, we can think about the human cost of life and the g. p impacts of whatever measure we put in place to try and stop the forest from spreading. but we do need to be very mindful, sorry, of these other enduring possible health consequences. i think the only implications other people are worried. especially be young. i mean, the united states in the southern states, this is a, b, y, a we, we see a tory, the labels,

and they didn't the own back. and we've never seen so that we have it from the united states all the way down to new zealand. of course, alex here and economist, you must have a view on the, on the long term impact of course it globally. well, with douglas for good friend, a very, very prominent economist. but daughter, it should be the i've never met before, but really interesting work on the long term impact, as you say, of long covert men. kim's john miller kanes, when served in the long run, but old dead famously. well, hopefully, long term we're going to be dead from cobra. but nonetheless, the long term economic effects are going to be with us for many years ago. it wasn't just economics and business, but sure. business which came back into life in 2021. what else did you online shows which prosper during lock bone was a wonder bugs on a warm summer day and these were the types we took

a trip to their chronic pinewood studios to find out why courtesy women are still good. that recognizing each other as a perfect example in front of us and appreciating each other, what you have to offer. do you get the same from remaining? sure business day. i mean your, your mom and dad. of course, the creases of lucky right on the things who got the fee amount to the old. oh, my dad. definitely. my mother was actually the creative entity. she was the one who came up with all the story lines that she built, the characters, she created all the characters. and she wrote most of the scripts. and yet my father, i got all the credit which isn't fair, is it? so it's so now, you know, people do say to me about, oh, it's great, you know, that to meet your dads into, to know your dad. but actually it was my mom who did everything. and in those days it was always the guy got his name above the title and it still, it hasn't changed that much really. and it said, people like yourself, alex, who,

you know, you really support women of course tiles and goes without saying, but you know, it has been difficult for us and i think we should do more to get, you know, women's census data in the industry. it was so lovely to see debbie d and linda in person because obviously it is done online entities. it was certainly 2 of them before. and when does this finish that gate pantomime run, i think case enjoyed being awake a bit to not and of course d as you know, as, as busy trying to get justice for a mom. so yeah. who requires recognition as women, and she'll business should get, follow it. she did on thunder by fitness, wonderful to have such great women and went home fun to, to meet them at pinewood. sure. user colleague pain with the phone, all the, the bon forbes. you want us sean connery? yes. ed in sped it. no, thank god playful. so. no wonder both is a new online. sure. but the biggest blockbuster on tv now is succession starting

density born. brian cooks as a profane taciturn pitt jack dungy, born look enjoy. he spoke to alex about acting life and politics. you know, i'm a socialist, i believe in gala trainer. so i believe that we're all, as i said, scott, we're all jock thompson's been and we only got equal opportunity. unfortunately some people are more equal than others and that's what happened. edge happened in the theater and i think it's really sad. i didnt, alex, i love success and being still enjoying watching it rises and really important here like job thompson's bearing for me as a, as a next phase presence of women of color. i know how much it means to people who need scott in the home. whatever it is comfortable to have that face activities, it's at my old job thompson's fantasy. it's a lovely face that the bride's a deep political thinker, but that i thought that the funniest story he told us was because look at roy's famously ix with the little for to everybody that people come up to brighten math

because it is such a super super asking for sophie's and wanting brine to swing them. asked look, and roy, i'm as good as image of of mind of people rushing up the right course and asking to be sworn. i've been going, brian of a probably does it goes, hadn't. are there any way that i was a good heart? i'm sure. absolutely. the future of scotland is on the bathing interest of the show . and 2021. we come to history and historical fiction for insight into whether scotland stands with it. well, the enlightenment in edinburgh is a fascinating chapter in history and it's not taught in schools enough. i don't think when i went to school, we did the industrial revolution to me. that was a bit, you know, was kind of boring to me. all the farming implements and innovations in agriculture should be learned about the scottish enlightenment. what a fascinating chapter in history that was eisley alex, you to main me one of these characters and mean that an a, an, an aisd way because the tame of love, visionaries, progressive thinkers,

attainment, even the judges and the lawyers were philosophers and personally concerned with justice i think as you yourself said, when you were 1st minister, that would be fantastic to have thomas from europe and the other radicals, which would mean the radicals of 18 twenty's as well. written them to the curriculum of the press time, the peaceful time, largely the very fact that northern ireland itself is being used as a political football means that with them as well as the scottish fashion must, the proof of english incompetence that is actually much more valuable than shall we say a nationalist strain which kept on talking about grievances and how badly people are treated. the simple statement that the union is no longer fit for purpose. that seems to be the case as far as britain is concerned. all fascinating stuff and i

have to take this opportunity to thank and in the close life i'm representing a beautiful necklace, which i've worn on issue. and i will definitely wait again. so thanks famous and right, well that's going to contrast with it with these guys. we did a historical fiction historian also that the eating 20 rises of what we can say is a history in one way or another. and scotland is alive well and that me and i, scotland was in use in november as cop 25th decided the feature of the planet. and indeed whether there will be one we want to top scientists, the fantasy. alex sharma, a chair, is the color you take care of the carpet, laid out for things before people assembled in pasco. one was to come with better pledges to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from different countries that was not a success. and so that is a problem, a major problem for the world in that before the cops,

the world was heading for about 3 and a half degrees of global warming by the end of the century. and we're still now heading for $2.00 degrees of global warming. so some progress, but nothing like enough. so that's got to improve in the next caught in the cop after that. well, let's just say you are the glass good. next we live. would you rather be would you want to be outside the conference hall giving these well leaders a pc of my door or tampa? would you like to be inside? go about a few solutions. well, i'm going to be there and i'm going to be outside because that i think is where things are going to happen inside. it's very important that we have this political process, this, this legislative process getting things right. but then what follows on from that is we've got to act on the commitments or we forecast for the new year . let this issue of carbon capture, the ability to pick carbon don't sit back and stood in the ceiling aquifers of the nor c o. it was, that was going to be a big issue in this coming. you know,

that sometimes going to have to feature again on the shoe as well. there will be plenty location for me this year as well. my favorite, i just hate broadcast was from wembley. we previously the huge i put in england and scotland and the euro champion, who knows, with 14, is going well and qualification perhaps. so be a replay at this year's katara. well cup behind the tournament. the issue of racism and support was never far from this year's headlines. for an important reflection on the subject, alex turned to england. legend joined vines. very easy to point to thing rest. find the toes of an on, on the feel or who abuses you on twitter. however, real is that real racism, as i like to call it, is of the majority of you can't see it. it's obvious the overt racism the bananas under, under twitter. but of course, when you look at the fact that there are 30 percent blackfoot bowlers and they are probably less than 2 percent black managers,

as much as black managers aren't being racially abused. the fact is that they're not being given opportunities. so why don't we speak about that? and that's, that for me is a big problem. it is very disappointing to think that there is of a still a lot of problems with that you guys, you said overt racism. don't get me wrong. i do believe denise come, that would become slightly symbolic. it's fantastic that not only your teammates, but your opponents, are being empathetic with your situation. and so i think now it's time to maybe do a bit more action if you like, can do things as a, make sure it doesn't keep happening as i've done for many years and was really good to hear from both john, i might with some real life stories of what face is supposed to print, and it's at many in society that the sharp hint of, of racism. and i, i hope that their knowledge, wisdom at nest dancing will allow them to, to demonstrate why things must get better though enormous dos of the 1980s. and

that's what remembering that both these place in scotland and england faced bananas being thrown at them regularly on the patch is extraordinary when you think about it and that they can talk about and such an intelligently as remarkable. incidentally, john bombs, i should say, was mileage and celtic for the police beat it, but he was keen to point out to me, statistically, at least a very successful what of course you find interest and felt it being high supported into tabby. no, it's alex. so that was a year that was a now is 10 state data. our christmas g to what's coming up next year. alex i spoke call. it will be over with us across atlantic, where the question is, can bible hollis escape the political was or are really vulnerable to accompany a comeback? and a home will a challenge from scott on. finally, a match to cause ballast johnson some sleepless afternoon. i suspect so well what every 2020 offers from all of us here issue our crew whole team would like to wish

you all a happy and prosperous new year. as, as we say in scotland, have a good new year. and we hope to see all again, next week until then. bye bye for now. ah ah oh oh yeah, it has to be rash. can be able to afford any time and find the luxury that for sure. despite having the most expensive health care system in the world,

we have poor life expectancy. we have higher infant mortality. we have more deaths from treatable causes. so americans are suffering every day from it. it's as if these people don't count. i saw how you can choose your customers and dump a sick tone also a to satisfy their wall street investors. no parents should have to see what i saw. if you're denying payment for someone's care, your make life and death decisions and determine to get to live and who dies to me, that's best getting away with murder.

the it is breaking news with our here and see international as protesters regroup and context on the largest city of nazi report . lee blocking access to local hospital the country. it's been a rough by days of deadly unrest ultimately, and originally triggered by a fuel price. well, in the meantime, and tara operation is underway, and therefore it's on the shootout. authorities say thousands of writers and offices have died with 3 of them report really bareheaded. we did have a chance to speak to one local john. now everything is broken. the money was taken, the windows smashed military helmets are lying on the grout. there's lots of rubbish and contact forces retake the country's biggest. that board officer it was over run by rioted, but flights are still grounded. leave.