ah ah headlines this hour's eyes turned to the latest round of moscow security talks with the west happening right now, rushes envoy to washington warns the u. s. official remarks are an attempt to derail the negotiations. cuddle your pets and to star jumps if you want to stay warm this winter. a major british energy company feels the hate for its advice while fuel costs rocket. i think i've completely lost the floor on that when i 1st went out, she paid for the phrase in our in house because we're trying to get the clothes down. you just think what else i said today more top talent quits the baby. say this time a veteran presenter who's left off to 46 years telling our teeth it's because too much work agenda being pumped into a job. they were very keen that we should have

a balance of men and women. the list has been case for many years. my group has always that we should just have people who are right to the program. and the novak joke of each drama deepens as the world's best tennis player admits breaking cobit isolation, rules and errors in filling out a travel form. but he blames his agent with either live on worldwide. this is our team from moscow. i'm calling bright. the big story we're across for you. this. our russian and native delegations begun talks in brussels and an effort to reduce tensions on the continent. it's the 1st time to that the nato, russia council has convened more than 2 years. although russia's envoy to washington thinks that us officials recent remarks could the rail any progress. while nato secretary general has emphasized the importance of dialogue for european security, the block has been re,

to accept moscow's request to hold his expansion towards russia's board is particularly concerning. you cried. i wasn't a sign of optimism earlier this week when russian of u. s. senior officials got together in geneva and while a u. s. representative called frank and forthright, both sides expressed little optimism. afterwards. we do not see any significant reason for optimism. the only thing that deserves positive assessment is the way the talks were conducted with openness, thoroughness, and directness. but this is not something that can bring satisfaction because what is important is the result, not the process. it was not what you would call a negotiation. we're not to a point where we're ready to set down texts and begin to go back and forth will, as you heard, that not a huge amount of optimism heading into these talks. even the nato secretary general saying that a good result would just simply for to be for an agreement for further talks and a head of these negotiations are also bob's exchange between the u. s. and russia. their accusations from the white house press secretary that russia could be ready

to spread this information about the meetings we are preparing herself for the civility and likelihood. no one should be surprised. i should say, if russia spreads disinformation about commitments that have not been made, or if it goes even further, and instigates something as a pretext for further destabilizing activity. and so we will continue to urge everyone not to fall for any attempts to pushed and disinformation out there. as for the numerous statements made by the white house press secretary, cleveland, but it is sincerely regretable that the american leadership is represented by people who do not know the subject well enough, but it's done. and we advise you, colleagues not to forget to use critical thinking and carefully double check with at least the most important story, so as not to show your incompetence to the whole world. and also then there are all the threats from those such as un stilton burg. who said that if these talks fail, nate who is ready and is preparing crippling economic sanctions against russia.

then there's also new information coming out from the united states with one under secretary of political affairs, saying that the us is working to hamper the nude stream to pipeline. this is a pipeline that would pump gas directly from russia to germany. and at the same time that the u. s. in nato allies already to talk to countries like finland and sweden about membership. interesting not just because of geographically where they are, but also because these 2 countries have pursued for a long time. now, a policy of neutrality, what we are doing now is working with the germans, working with the e. you are too slow. they are consideration of implementation of the pipeline yet suspended, if russia aggressive against ukraine. and there is, of course, the intense media speculation about these talks and accusations that russia is

moving into these discussions, essentially brandishing a gun against nato and headlines, telling nato allies how they should be treating russia and dealing with president putin. all of this, of course, can't be particularly helpful. now russia has been clear going into all of the discussions this week. what it's red lines on. this is particularly in regards to nate to expansion in former soviet union countries. if you look at the map, since the end of the cold war need to has increasingly expanded eastwards and now it has members where countries are but the russian frontier. and that is seen as being an issue for russian security, which is why the deputy foreign minister, early this week, following those discussions in geneva, outlined once again what russia is after. we are fed up with loose dog, half promises, misinterpretation of what happened,

but different forms of you go see asians behind closed doors. we do not trust the other side. so to see, we need iron clad waterproof bulletproof legally binding guarantees not assurances, not safeguards guarantees. and of course, there have been the accusations for the last few months from the united states that russia is increasing its troops near the ukrainian border and is ready for an invasion. some say, as soon as the snow melts. now that has been denied consistently by moscow is denied again. following those talks in geneva, russia saying it's not preparing to invade. and in fact, from it's point of view, there is aggression that is coming from ukraine. it says because kiev is failing to abide by the treaties governing the ongoing crisis in the east of the country in

the don't bass region. now from the ukrainian side, we're also getting a tid bits ahead of this meeting. and we heard from one ukrainian m p who is part of present zelinski is governing a coalition. who said that once again, ukraine is not at the table and this is discussing ukraine without ukraine. so lots of unease with this meeting as discussions take place and of course we'll be keeping you up to date on any breakthroughs or just what happens in these talks here on our t international actually time in britain right now. so a bit of advice for household struggling to heat their homes this winter major energy provider ovo has told customers to cut your pet and do star jumps. if you want to stay warm. a bill for expected to double the share. it incomes are expected to face a big squeeze. his shoddy edwards dash the on the advice that's called customers fight up. are you weighing up, eating or heating?

is still the predictor to sort a 2000 pounds a year will threaten no more as one of britain's biggest energy suppliers has come up with no one idea. the 10 ways to save on heating cost, not only laira, but get the hot rate going with some starch. i'm. and if that doesn't work, how about a comes in is a cutter with a cat? okay, i don't have a cat, but i do have this guy. another central suggestion is to leave the oven door open after cooking, the capital of your kids love and eat a hearty bowl of porridge. and of course, make sure you have a decent pair of socks or slippers. apparently, all these are simple cost effective ways to keep warm this winter. but the company can't be serious, can it? i think they've completely lost the floor on that one. i have to say a one way, not stupid. i are. we are need to try and notes that i eating on really freezing in

our, in house because we're trying to get the cost down. you just think my, what else was today if that's real advice and you know, i'd be slightly and salary by are either hopefully by now why with the event i need to stop suddenly my energy done up for an extra jumper on seminar. so yeah, i want to be in solid bio for any other company that i got to say. i wouldn't listen. so i was, i was, i got to fix them. that would suit me. the advice sent to customers comes as many households are extremely worried about rising energy costs. and despite the company apologizing for the l. judge, suggestions, politicians have criticize the coal haunted approach. it is lawful and insulting. but then with this government lack of an energy strategy, you almost expected those comments will be right by people who have to choose between eating and heating it's. that's the state of the country. we're now and i find it quite depressing. being told to put on

a instead of turning on your heating, if you can't afford it, at a time of such difficulty for so many families is plainly offensive. 2022 has already been given the total year of the squeeze of the one since a 2008 financial crash this year. wages will barely quote one of the same time. 7 bill jumped by 50 percent around 2000 pounds when britain's new energy price cap is sense in april. this means in real time, people actually get to pay cars. and the situation is being described as a cost of living catastrophe. i think the health and information we had, the way to use that you could possibly have in business local support from the government can be forced to close our doors. we're only we're trying to close our way back. so we're in a hotel and everything else. we use quite a lot of electricity and it's hard to find. i am terrified of the impact

of businesses in the country, not just me. when i mean small business is struggling. i just have to stop. we pay the bounce back government and supposedly gave us. but we've got to pay them back to order something and i'm not going to do that. it's time to money and we were in debt anyway from the lock that i now they energy cost to sort of electricity and gas e. sorry, i don't know how we supposed to pay them because we have no income and she's not alone. in fact, one in 3 people are worried that bills will become totally on affordable this year . and i'm thinking the government to the bill. labor also piling on the pressure for the government to ditch tax hikes and scrap v a t on feel all together. conservative ministers council the 0 carbon homes program. they bond on show when development, they launch the eco installation program. they tore it up within one year, they were, you see, you case gosh,

storage capacity. and it one particularly silly moment the current foreign secretary claims solar panels were risk to domestic food production. all of these decisions that have made this country more dependent on volatile wholesale energy prices than we otherwise would have been right now. we know this means as extremely situate, extremely difficult situation to british household, but also risks making archways the british industry and competitive a talk, a combination of spiking prices, tax hikes looming energy, big bills, and the government's a power reluctance to address these issues. may actually see ridiculous ideas like cuddling pets, how people overcome this, and the upcoming winters become a reality. shot. edwards, dashti, arte, london, the bbc's facing a fresh wave of concerns about pushing woke issues. one of the broadcast is longest serving present as quit his network radio show last month of the 46 years. blaming

an obsession over diversity. nigel reese told us he was too frustrated to remain with the bbc's woke agenda. it was a difficult series to record because what one could call a, b, b, c, work the b, b, c suggested or so quietly insist that we include a certain types of guests obviously. and they were very keen that we should have a balance of for men and women, that this has been case for many, many years. but of course, reasons. one has had been under pressure or one has been persuaded that one must house persons of color or ethnic minorities. and this particular series i was also told that we must have a disabled people taking part. and so i went along with and i went along

with the persons of color, et cetera. and i think they were all extremely good able to have on the program that i have reacted against this prescription. if you that we should have certain types of people on the program. my rule has always been that we should just have people who are right for the program who are trying to do it. never mind, but that color is all that religion is or what have you. so that is the basis there have also been whistleblower allegations about a climate of fear of the b, b. c over reporting on race and transgender issues. with an inside a saying, the broadcast was employing overwhelming censorship. b. b. c. officials though have repeatedly denied catering to political bias within the organization. but it's not fair to stop some of its top faces from leaving one of them recently, political broadcasting veteran andrew mar, equate after 21 years saying he wanted to be free to speak his views, while robin aid can another highly experienced journalist said he was fed up with

the company's quote, institutionalized left him now to raise claims the broadcast is putting pressure on reporters in various spheres. certainly in other areas and not this is in the entertainment area. so i'm, i'm, i was working and, but obviously in this political field, i'm sure that these precious do come up all the time as to the people. that money's going to interview her and the things that said reporters and correspondence. and so i can say, so i think that is going on and there is also, so i mean the media i will change out or exists since, since i stuff back in the 1960, i mean the tickler producer i was working for the last series that was 50 years younger than me and she was very much in to watch my book right on causes and so on. so inevitably she pushed those, ma'am, and i, i resisted up to

a point that so anyway, it's all over now. ah, i'll tell you superstar novak joker, which has admitted breaking isolation rules off to catching covey last month. the well, number one's also confirmed errors in the travel form, but he used to enter australia for the grand slam, which starts next week. but he says it's not his fault. my agent sincerely apologizes for the administrative mistake and taking the incorrect box about my previous travel before coming to australia. this was a human error and certainly not deliberate. hey, process for us is corresponded. danny armstrong. hi again. he is supposed to be concentrating on his game instead, this clarification, as he puts it to try and bat off expulsion from australia. yeah. it's not the best preparation for the australian open that of course, if he does in the end play. now a new twist in this story. of course it's been developing since he was detained the border on wednesday. we'll get to that in a little minute. the latest development in the story is the joke of it has admitted

that there was a mistake on his paperwork before he entered australian on that mistake relates to his travel in the past 14 days, 14 days prior to his arrival in australia, he said that he didn't travel when in fact it has turned out that he did. he went to his native serbia. he went to spain to train. he's training now in australia. he got a little bit of some training in december the end of december before going to australia . now there was also the question of his positive p c r test. he attended a basketball game in serbia. on december, the 14th on december, the 16th he said he took a test, took, it took an anti gen test that came back negative. the results was p c. i didn't get back in time, they ended up to be positive. however, he went to an event the day after he took the test and he was pictured with children. it was picture without the mask. he has said he wore

a mask in all the instances other than being photographed, of course, as quite convenient, but we don't know when he wore a mask. and when he didn't know non december, the 18th, he had another interview with le, keep the french publication. and the journalist there said he was masked all the time. he didn't ask him to take his mask off at any point. and of course, the main argument was about his medical exemption. when he arrived in australia last week, here he was detained at the border. he said he had a medical exemption. the board force said that he didn't meet those requirements. he was detained in melbourne, a judge on monday said that the australian authorities unfairly revoked his visa unfairly detained him and reinstated it, which meant he was free to remain in australian free to travel around. however, the will that sparks protest in support of him. there was people in serbian flags

draped around their shoulders. there was serbian football shirts they were wearing to show our support for this national icon in sibley. we can take a look at some of the protests that happened in melbourne on monday. hey, so those people have come out in support of novak jack rich. of course it has also been a diplomatic fallout. scott morrison, you're sharing prime minister says rules are rules. if she, there's one rule for the country that can't be another exemption as it were, literally an exemption there for no jock of it's, especially if he doesn't meet those requirements. however, the soviet prime minister should be president rather alex and the future just said it. so which ones are over? somebody who just wants to come there and to honor a the tournament,

one of his favorite ornaments. the 9 time champion, there is the possibility that the australian government could cancel his visa at any time. alex hawk, the immigration minister has said that he does retain the right to do that. so it's still in the balance whether we will get the chance to break this grand slam record in australia or not still or hanging very much in the balance. yeah. all the while the reputation or damage for well tennis and the australian government deepens, it divides. okay. next service for the australian immigration team. much better. i, danny, i'm from thank you for that. without c on the way of getting caught out by the capital riots a year ago, the give us justice department got a new domestic terra unit. the republicans, though, suspect is designed to silence critics of the democrat leadership who is going to be on next story. when we come back with

join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. i'll be speaking together in the world of politics, sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. i emotions, medieval institutions. and then i go to like technology and the combination of these 3 very you could say historically distinct seeks fixes with psycho physical makeup. i have rendered us pretty dangerous to ourselves too, but to the planet. and the russia west fox in geneva were highly anticipated. but expectations of a positive outcome were low,

very low rushes. chief negotiator says americans under estimate the gravity of the situation, these are ominous words. what will be the cost of this failure? ah, hello again one year after the capitol hill, riots the u. s. justice department is set up a new domestic terrorism unit to combat threats. they claim have doubled in the past 2 years. i decided to establish that domestic terrorism unit to augment our existing approach. this group of dedicated attorneys will focus on the domestic terrorism threat, hoping to ensure that these cases are have a properly and effectively coordinated across the department of justice and across the country. that was testimony we heard from mark olson, who is a deputy attorney general with the national security division of the u. s. department of justice announcing the formation of this new entity that will deal

with the issue of domestic terrorism. now this comes as part of the senate judiciary committees hearings about january 6th. that was the capital riots and the aftermath of that we see an investigation. now, in the testimony we heard today, we heard department of justice officials talking about how white supremacist anti government activists and others are the primary domestic terrorism threat. and in some of their language, they even compare them to his lama stream it. here's what we heard from my perspective of spending a lot of time focused on the radicalization of international terrorists and islamic extremists and extremes of all stripes. this group shares many of the same characteristics. people who feel like their way of life is under attack. many of those people i would, i would guess last year had carried those exact beliefs and thoughts as they march their way to break into the nation's capital. now,

republicans described all of this as a, with chance setting the stage for a clamp down on the sand in the united states serving a political agenda that will only further divide the country and increase division and polarization. u. s. society here some of the republican reactions. unfortunately, one year later, the majority party seems no closer to answering the central question of how the capital was left so unprepared and what must be done to ensure it never had pins again. instead, they are using it as a partisan political weapon to further divide our country. now, republicans have also raised concerns about why this single riot that happened on capitol hill is getting far more attention than the year of rioting that preceded it. and the protests around the country, almost every major city had rioting, property, destruction going on in the lead up to the 2020 election in the aftermath of the killing of george floyd. and such, there's a, there's a feeling that democrats are using january 6th to serve political ends and that

these ongoing hearings and investigations and potentially this new unit being formed to investigate domestic terrorism, serves a political and for the democratic party. but we did hear this announcement of the department of justice has said that this formation of this new unit is taking place . so that's what we've heard from testimony and capitol hill, about the u. s. department of justice and their ongoing efforts against domestic terrorism, terrorism. the domestic terrorism prison has been the main way that this administration has tried to frame what happened on january 6, in this case, the true enemies of the administration on the far right. and those are the intended target of this move. there's a real sense on the political rights that they are being treated unfairly, that, that they're being targeted that the government isn't just going after tara,

but that the government is acting as the police. and that's simply holding on popular political preferences, both on the political right, especially go to our trump, supporters is, is getting trans, actually a traveling milestone for the u. s. it broke the global record for daily registered cove infections on monday, with more than 1000000, 300000 cases reported. the number of hospitalizations is also doubled in the past 3 weeks. and that's in california issue new guidelines for the health care workers who test positive for cove. it can return to work immediately if they're not symptomatic from january 8th, 2022 until february 1st 2020 to health care personnel who test positive for saw is called 2. and a cinematic may return to work immediately without isolation and without testing and health care personnel who have been exposed to a systematic may return to work immediately without quarantine and without testing . positive testing,

medics are required to wear extra protective masks and should only be assigned to treat cove at patients. it's still not quite clear though, how that's going to be put into action and the california hospital association admit there are no guarantees that hospitals will even adopt the approach. plus the head of america's biggest health and public sector union says, allowing the mildly infected to continue working could exacerbate the crisis. it, you know, it's a really scary, dangerous time because you know, our job, our 1st job is to protect the people we serve. the patients and these hospitals, and by forcing our nurses and health care workers to tap to come in, if they're covered positive, it puts these patients at risk. so we're, we're asking, you know, our local elected officials here and, and our community groups and anybody that will listen to you. we want to reversal this policy. and we, we really believe that it's health and safety crisis if they force our nurses to have to come to work while their cobra expose we, we thought it could be,

it can make a really difficult crisis even more difficult. president biden thinks the government's doing a good job, though, continuing to take credit for what he calls america's economic recovery and praising his administration's pandemic policies. to day america is the only leading economy in the world where the economy as a whole is stronger than before the pandemic. no wonder one. leading economic out me analyst describe what we've accomplished in 2021 is the strongest 1st year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years. well, despite the surgeon cove cases at 68 percent of americans say the economy is that biggest worry while only 37 percent. see the virus is one of the top 5 concerns. and that's a major shift an opinion from just a year ago. on top of that, of course, u. s. inflation is currently at its highest point and around for decades,

president biden's pressing on though trying to paint a rosy picture, saying the government's on top of the issue. it's just that the results have been a bit slow than expected. the director of the rumpled institute for patient prosperity says biden's dreaming if he thinks the economy is in great shape. well, the, the pull that came out just recently was actually conducted early in december. and that's why it's so interesting because it indicated that even at the height of the arm across the scare campaign in the u. s. media, the propaganda to be terrified and stay home, she said, don't go out for christmas, keep your relatives away. even at the height of the scare, you saw a huge dialing back on the part of the population with regard to the importance of cove it to their, to their concerns and their voting activities. my guess is now after they warned us that this will be a long dead, deathly winter when those tests have not occurred. probably if you took a poll right now, it will be even less of a concern for koby, particularly as the u. s. administered the by the administration's coven narrative,

narrative is falling apart as we speak, much less concerned for that than the economy, that runaway inflation and build the supply chain problems, the lack of goods in the stores, the inability to even purchase a new car. you know, i think these things are even going to be a more concert. it's a big problem for democrats going into the mid term election. well, if he's going to run on the economy, he's going to have a tough row to hoe. in fact, no matter what the democrats run on in 2022 is going to have a difficult time of it. obviously, the inflation, which they claimed was transitory. and then said, well, actually it's not transitory is having a huge effect. we're seeing the effect of shutting down the economy, which is that the supply lines have been shut down. you're seeing a lot of stores empty in the united states and people are noticing it. in fact, trending on twitter, i think the other day was people taking pictures of the.