can national expertise help understand, and we'll see this pandemic for 100 years. that protecting young people from something with a risk profile, those 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. she working element of the n h s and the scope has been very, very over the past years. it's important that we continue that kind of approach as we, as a nation. and a lot of, i mean, i'm hearing stories of people being told to. so we are used. ready by seen rather than find somebody to get to, you know, to give it to someone who's not here or whatever. but it's not we need,

we need to trust program staff to, to do the right thing with it. and for sexual stage, for health and social kind of side, you johnny to lay a lot of singular singular emphasis on boosters. boost is boost, as is a smokescreen. the important way of managing 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 other issues. the other issues are equally important. the other issues being where your mouth very properly, where you can crowd to places where you don't buses, students trains, and crowded supermarkets. furthermore, 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's the, our score card or score card is we have been able to prove that 10, or actually 13 vaccines are safe and cases by different regulatory standards by enlarge, that's the answer. so that was relatively simple. we did it in record time starting from scratch in january 2020 getting to that seems approved by november of 2020. great. the bigger questions though aren't around vaccine research and development. but really around can we make enough this vaccine in order to vaccinate 8000000000 people around the world? and then can we distribute that actually do we have the logistical system in place that will be able to put jobs into the arms of those 8000000000 people? and those are going to be far more pressing questions this year. and next, this mean of what, what struck me about the sign to stopped us that we had on what excellent

communicate us to become them. and they really explain things have less that with the ones we had on explain things very well. and at the end of the day, the public can only factors like different information as we can gets to help them to on the less crisis that the older 15 and i life painful. i think it's a general position having to pull on for a p defense explained for free from those very important but colon, nobody to the headlights, the international poet politics was also back with a vengeance in 2021. a new president was faced with the end game in afghanistan, the most and glorious ignominious american foreign policy, the treat since vietnam come along. wilkinson was the late general cohen pulse chief of staff. he described for us how america entered the 20 year long wallen, tara, while anthropologist said, professor wade davis and professor act. but i'm and explained what the flight from

could bu, tells us about the future. the moment we selected the war instrument, we elevated al qaeda and it's lie to warrior status. we even had extraordinary difficulty coming out with a term to describe them. so the geneva conventions and other things wouldn't apply to them. and we loss, and we understandably loss. i think because president bush himself told a group of angelica was visiting the white house, my rages up, please help me, help me restrain my rage. i think that was the most telling comment. the then young meal fight inexperienced president made. and it was all about revenge, and secondarily about preventing a 2nd attack. and we thought if we went after the head of the snake, we would prevent a 2nd attack better. but it was an ill informed decision to decide to use military power. we now are bade in the matter, sony and 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 a plug on that on that the, that, that war couldn't go on forever. but sake, on the other hand, you know, the famous same by harry truman, the buck stops here and whether he likes it or not, those images from come to 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 thinks the man protests is too much. refusal to draw any kind of parallels to what happened in saigon, 975. 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 that it was utterly parallel. you know, we, we left in 1975 nixon having spent billions of dollars to,

to arm the self in these army, was called the, the victimization of the america vietnam war. a 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 well, whatsoever to fight and had 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 menu units on dead bodies in the sun, all flush the put on down the toilet. that is going to upset not only that i live on, but almost since and then to create problems. people didn't pick that up. and recently a professor noam chomsky was considered now one of the leading about leading an american public intellectual. again,

top of that is and then the end of june and said this, that this is the book that should be rented. now after the fall of gobble because me make the same mistakes again and again. i don't like how the human side. and i just found it better. we can save on. wrigley, i wouldn't once held captive by the taliban icicle, his tiny ask, i mean, he has gone to great success in the king. don't walk away the last time you walked away. you isolated the time on the international stage and understand became a playground for every one of 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 the 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 got women are so oppressed and they're painted as these. i mean, they're not, they're just be humanize. you know, lives, they're 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 afghan women are known as a in the world. so i just wanted to show the world that know we're, we're also capable. we're just as good as anyone else. it is so lovely to see how my so wonderful success story. i, 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 his lies were touched by afghanistan with both of compelling stores. absolutely. in 2021,

the political conference season was back. who better to survey the political landscape than the dwyer and the political commentary. professor 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 sub braxton still structures. how people are going to vote so much to the conserves and break and suitable 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 please. so that legacy of breakfast bridge will be it is not in the headlines. you still very have a restructuring party choice. i'm because on the remain side, the 1st part mentally, on the leave side, it's relatively concentrated,

thus giving the conservatives and ballast. that means it's proven very, very difficult for labor to get the can service blood flow to the center want the lot of people fry. now it seems to me to speak their mind a sickness, thomas labor party. and, you know, we're 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 of the, on the capacity to absorb, to see this latest nonsuch a so called this deal between australia, the k and the u. s. is 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 cabin was falling over themselves. the condo up to the, the chinese of the course, hensley point, a massive investment and chinese nuclear technology for a civil taylor lea exporting nuclear technology to, to a strayer, with china as the, as the target, what's going on? it will occur. oh, french were very, very upset about it, not least because they had the queue, 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 france have, which is nuclear power submarines. you notice it would have been fantastic if we'd

be able to have up here at the school to get there. we could have a place that i've received or seen right here for everybody to see. i was interested in the, one of the female voices in the house of lords baron 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 base 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 that was on a diamond superficial, but i understood it includes people, you know, we did have big rallies. that's true. care stammer. what does he offer? you know, he supported the corbin project. what 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 corbin, 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 anything other than labor domination and now look at them. and i think that the less amazes that was that slippery slope starts in quite as dramatic away than i call it, see how they can recover. it was interesting about clear, false, awesome, and then through she comes across quite competitive, but not $1.00 to $1.00 interview to warm personality maps. and of course, grad deep political thing could have been the buckle of ideas. festival has been partly her idea. i should say the staff we were discussing before the shoot. you know, we need to skip and start 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 the bites. but join us after

the break when we look at some of the sure business highlights. so my 2021 shows you will see you then. oh oh often it oh, even susie children have been cared for at the fountains house only. yeah. papa blue i give them a devout cord. take my much mom with my chinese cuz i so many goals my show in the middle of the issue. ah, national man is violet. mon loans, violet. but then a mom with

me. okay. allow me to book a loaner. you will. i will let me. um, you know, i want you to know, you know, some young in the description on, on shes i can medina, 14 i said, well come back. economics of to panic would 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 danny by slower and dr. richard, i think there is a genuine issue for the countries that allow the virus to become more endemic. that even us the mortality, right? as for him, because the vaccination rates are taking off, we should be very mindful of the fact that some is more than one way to creation economic costs from the pandemic in san illness ability thing. and it's talking people from living, their normal lives, working the normal jobs, etc. that's actually a very costly thing. and so if we think about the i will 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 far from speeding. but we do need to be very mindful, sorry, of these other enduring possible health consequences. i think is other people are worried. especially be young. i mean, the united states in the southern states,

this is a b, y, we, a tory lane, we got back in the back. and we've never seen anything like that. so, there we have it from the united states all the way down to new zealand. but of course, alex, you're an economist. you must have a view on the, on the long term impact of called it globally. but it does last for good friend, a very, very prominent economist. but daughter, it should be the i never met before, but really interesting work on the long term impact because you say of long cove it came to john miller, kanes, when served in the long run. but all dead famously. well, hopefully the long term will be dead from corporate, 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. these were the types we took a trip to their comic partnered with studios to find out why the women are so 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, your business, the, i mean your, your mom and dad, of course, the creases of the 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 actually got all the credit, which isn't fair, is it? so it, 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 didn't ever thing. and in those days it was always the guy got his name about 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 tass goes without saying, but you know, it has been difficult for us and i think we should do more to get, you know, women center stage in the industry. it was so lovely to see debbie d and linda in person because obviously was done online entities. it was certainly 2 of them before and lenders has finished a 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, sylvia who's a quiet recognition as women. and she'll business should get, follow up. she did on thunder by spiritless, wonderful to have such great women and well fun to, to meet them at pinewood. sure. they're calling fine with just with the phone all the the bon forbes. you want us sean connery? yes. ed in sped it. no. thank god places, so no wonder both is

a new online. sure. but the biggest blockbuster on tv now as succession starting dunbar and brian cooks as a profane, taciturn pit jack dungy, born looking roy, he spoke to alex of a active life and politics. you know, i'm a socialist, i believe in gala train us, and i believe that we're all as i say in scotland, 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. and edge happened in the theater and i think it's really sad. i do know that i love success and being still enjoying watching it. but i something really important near that 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 phase, a kidney sits at my old job. thompson's fantasy is a lovely face that the brand her deep political finkel. but that i thought the folly of story he told us was because look at roy's famously ix with the little for

to everybody that people come up to brighten mac because it's such a simple summer asking for selfies and wanting bright to swing them, asked look, and roy m as good as image of, of mind, of people rushing up the bright corks and asking to be sport. 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 a bathing interest to the sho. in 2021, we come to history and historical fiction for insight into whether scotland stands, where it will in late him, in, in a. edinburgh has 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. yeah. was kind of boring to me. all of a farming implement innovations in agriculture. we should have learned about the scottish enlightenment were fascinating chapter in history that was eisley alex,

you to main me one of these characters. and i mean that in a, an, an aisd way because it came of love visionaries, progressive thinkers at the time when 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. breton venture, or 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 nation must. the proof of english incompetence dance is actually much more valuable than shall we say a nationalist street 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, or fascinating stuff. and i have to take this opportunity to thank and in the close way, i'm representing a beautiful necklace. we have one on issue and i will definitely wait again. so thanks famous. well, that's going to contrast with these guys. we did a historical fiction historian also that the eating 20 rising. so those so what we can say is a history in one way or another. the scotland is alive. well, in that way i, scotland was in use in november as cop 25th decided this feature of the planet. and indeed whether there will be one we want to top scientists. the fallacy alex sharma a chair, is the cult you take care of the carpet, laid out for things before people assembled in pasco, one was to become 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 cop 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. let's just see you at glasgow next week. we would you rather be would you want to be outside the conference hall giving these well leaders a pc of mind or, or tampa? would you like to be inside giving them a, 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. well, here's i, we forecast for the new year. let this issue of carbon capture the ability to take

carbon dose it back and stood it in the ceiling aquifers of the north sea. or otherwise, that's going to be a big issue in this coming. you notice something we're going to have to teach again on the shoe as well. now we have 20 locations forming the here as well. my favorite i was, hey, broadcast was from wembley, we previewing the heward i between england and scotland and the euro champion, who knows, with 14, is going well and qualification. so be a replay at this year's catallo cup, behind the tournament. issue of racism and support was never fife. and this year's headlines for an important reflection on the subject. alex tends to england. legend to join binds very easy to point the finger at a family throws up on on, on the field, 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 see 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 black footballers and they are

probably less than 2 percent black managers, as much as black managers not 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 bigger 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. i do believe denise come, i will 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, and do things that make sure it doesn't keep happening as i've been for many years . it was really good to hear from both john and mike with some real life stories of what faces sports, triple and indeed many in society that the sharp ends of, of racism. and i, i hope that their knowledge, wisdom at no standing will allow them to, to demonstrate why things must get better,

though enormous stars of the 1980s. and it's worth remembering that both these players in scotland and england faced bananas being thrown at them regularly on the patches extort with when you think about and that they could talk about her such an intelligent ways from mark extent with john barnes, i should say was mileage and celtic, for a brief period, but he was pleading to point out to me, statistically, at least a very successful what of course you've got interest and felt it being a high supported and do have, you know, it's, alex said that was a year that was a know as tentative date are christmas g and the to what's coming up next year. alex, i spent call it will be over with us across atlantic, where the question is, can buy them, how to skate the political wars, or are really vulnerable to come. people come back and at home will a challenge from scott on, finally, a merch to cause ballast johnson some sleepless afternoon. i suspect so. well,

what else? by 2020 or it's from all of us here at the shoe. i 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 ah. and it said it has to be rash, to be able to afford enzyme 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 so also a to satisfy their wall street investors. no parents should have to see what i saw. so if you're denying payment for someone's care, your make life and death decision and determine to get to live and who dies to me. that's best getting away with murder. mm

ah, the breaking use, the seller from context on local media sources are reporting explosions like going fi in math while further west in the country. the road to the airport is blockaded the area where the unrest 1st broke out. at least 18 police officers report and being killed in marcy and government building storm. the torture local journalist described couldn't find near the police h q in the country's largest city. every 20 minutes, you can hear shooting the police department. there's automatic fire and crystal shots. i think it seems like they are trying to storm the police department and peacekeeping troops. from a russian lead, secure.