ah, ah, the u. s. supreme court vote to hold jo biden's cobit vaccine monday for large businesses. but the allows the monday for health care workers to go ahead. the queen of england, 2nd thought prince andrew is stripped of his military titles over high profile sexual abuse case with allied peacekeeping mission, cars are stain, comes to an end of the situation. the country stabilizes that despite most speculation in the west, that the russian part of the contingent wouldn't leave and also coming up have a job or pick up the top candidates back province is planning to punish the and vaccinated with a special type. locals tell us how they feel about the hugely controversial plan. i

think it's unfair to just suggest it's the responsibility or the fall to those that are on vaccinated. we can, for anybody to have, with your watch, not international. my name is peter scott taking over the home from unit oneal. welcome to the program. the u. s. supreme court has blocked joe biden's covey vaccine mandate for large businesses. it would have required staff accompanies with more than $100.00 employees to get vaccinated on the go regular testing. the court did rule, however, that's a separate mandates. required vaccinations for health care workers can be enforced . ortiz, kellen moore, in reports. joe biden had put forward vaccine mandate for any business with over 100 employees that all employees had to either be vaccinated or get a weekly test at their own expense. now the u. s. supreme court said you can't do

that. the president does not have the authority to impose these kinds of regulations on businesses. here is what was said in the supreme court ruling. although congress has indisputably given ocean the power to regulate occupational dangers. it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly requiring the vaccination of 84000000 americans selected simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees certainly falls in the latter category. it is instead of significant encroachment into the lives and health of a vast number of employees. now this ruling would have required any business over $100.00 employees to have a vaccine or require all their employees to be vaccinated or get tested at their own expense. every week, but now the supreme court has said that this is not valid, the president does not have such authority. furthermore, we have a situation where the health care mandate for health care workers has been upheld.

now this was brought to the supreme court by a coalition of republicans and business owners and others who felt this was government overreach, that this was the biden administration in the white house kind of stepping out of downs. now, we have a statement from the white house at this point, joe biden says he's disappointed and as a result of this ruling, it is now up to individual employers as well as state and local governments to make these kinds of decision. but then we heard from whitehouse spokesperson jen socket . and she said that despite this ruling, the biden administration is still going to put pressure on businesses in order to make sure their employees are vaccinated. here's what was said by the white house spokesperson, the supreme court's decision. on the osha mandate essentially means that the penis pandemic is up to individual employers to determine whether their workplaces will be safe for employees and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers. so president biden will be calling on and will continue to call on businesses to

immediately join use those who have already stepped up. now at this point, despite the fact that this ruling has been overturned, we do have the white house and many of its allies adamant that there should be a mandate that they may have lost at the supreme court. but that hasn't changed their desire to push a mandate throughout u. s. society, but yet, this is another blow for, for the biden administration, at this point, they are coded response has been unpopular, these mandates have been very unpopular. this is a victory for the opponents of the white house who have opposed his mandate and now have a supreme court ruling that is in their favor. well, to discuss this court ruling further, we can cross live now to peter earl from the american institute for economic research. peter, great, have you on the program? thank you so sad. president biden was certainly had an incident new territory with this mandate. and now the supreme court puts a whole to it. how surprised by this ruling or was it to be expected given the

makeup of the cult itself? so i don't think it's ter, we surprised because that sort of executive order that was issued by biden's vastly outside the purview of your struggle. but given some of the ridiculous things said during the hearing, for example, just as sorta buyers comment about 100000 kids being an intensive care and some of the recent decisions by the supreme court. it's, it's a little bit of a relief. i think it was pleasantly surprised so, so people are very surprised by this. i mean the white house does remain defiance, however, and has said that it will continue to pressure employers to get their employees vaccinate. so do you think they'll see any results with us? when in jawboning is a recognized political tactic right down will be successful. the profit motive speech much larger than political dictation. and frankly, at the 2 years business people, their customers, their suppliers, people are tired of this,

they're trying to hiding in their homes. they're trying to under employment and unemployment and are very tired of political attempts to control which ultimately not control. well, it's no secret that biden's approval ratings currently on. exactly. great. so is this just in the hammer blow and how it reflects in his approval among the population as a whole? sure, so, so opinion polls are showing very clearly that the bi demonstration is failing in virtually every category which has been on a particular top week for about his policies aren't having any effect on the spread of the on the con variance which no policy could result but with this on top of the december c, p i number, yesterday, it's difficult to see is ratings, you know, left. on the other hand, the lower the ratings go, the lower they can go. but i expect that the, like we spin by demonstration on this, is that, you know, we tried to save you at the supreme court stop, which is absurd, but then again, this is the realm of politics. this vaccine monday, it appears to be part of

a wider trend. we have some businesses in the u. k. lowering sick pay, phone, vaccinate, employees, and countries impose in taxes for the non vaccinated. do you think business in america will be breathing a sigh of relief that this wasn't past, given the pressure they've been under during the pandemic? all to be honest, i think, i think for the most part, private businesses are relieved. but they still have to worry about governors and mayors and regulatory agencies. it's a find the never should have started. but i think it would be premature to say that ends with the supreme court decision. okay, with that takes me on some to my next question already sort of tony's too premature to say that this decision will lead to sort of economic growth in america because, you know, they'll have a few problems with workforce. i assume well, i mean there's 2 things, right? i mean, the supreme court decision is going to prevent the u. s. government from again attempting to convince people that we have to choose between public health or a functional economy,

which is the forces of dichotomies and also put the u. s. government on notice as to which constitutional limits. so i think it may translate to growth, but the big threat right now, of course, is inflation. so, you know, any businesses that would have shot because of the actually mandates are now going to be open. they're still going to be affected by higher prices. so we move from one quandary to another. well, it's a pleasure, as always, to have you know, nazi international pizza from the american institute. economic research pleasure to talk to you. thank you. thanks for having me. ah, prince andrew has been stripped of his military type. those amid a high profile sexual abuse case, he will no longer be known as his royal highness in any official capacity. it comes after us judge refused to dismiss the civil lawsuit from a woman who accuses the duke of look of sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager ortiz shot edwards dusty reports from london. well, it's a huge move from buckingham palace as prince. andrew will no longer use his royal

highness in any official capacity as the queen has now stripped him of all of his appointments. so as a member of the royal family, how many of the sort of duties they will now be handed to all the members of the royal family. and that's been made official. and this statement was the queen's approval and agreement that you could york's military affiliations. and royal patronage is happy in return to the queen. the duke of your will continue not to undertake any public duties and is defending this case is a private citizen. i'm just going to look at the statement in a bit more detail because it read that the duties have now been returned. of course, if we read between the lines, the queen may have applied a bit more for them to prince andrew than give back all of those duties. but the 2nd part defending this case, as a private citizen. of course, that is referring to the civil case that a u. s. judge gave the go ahead to just yesterday, the queen, 2nd son to face a sexual assault civil law. in fact, the duke review is facing the most serious now of allegations of sexual assault

against minor. but junior, you fray alleges that she was traffic by jeffrey epps, the when she was just 17 years old and poor to have sex with andrew. now since these allegations stuff, it's some 2 years ago as military appointments were in a bad and softer, he stepped down somewhat, but he's still very much linked to around 8 british regiments including the granted the gall. 8 to stream the angry consent and they've been quite vocal about that because that many events they were asked even coast to prince andrew. so over the last 24 hours more than a $150.00 veterans wrote directly to the queen, off the strip. andrew of all of his honorary military rolls. now that has, of course, happened. we don't know whether that's because andrew will try and fight this case or try and reach some sort of settlement. prince andrew has always denied these occasions concerning his relationship with virginia to fray, even saying he doesn't recall even meeting her now full. the queen herself is very

much tarnish. the reputation of the royal family has given them such a dock reputation and burden them entirely into disrepute this year though for the queen is incredibly significant. it mocks, the cheaper lease celebrations. and so all of this has put a very dark cloud on to what was supposed to be a time to bring the country together, but full the queen herself and incredibly difficult position to be. and not just as a monarch, but of course a mother as well. as her 2nd son now faces the most of this sexual assault allegation. meanwhile, form a home office minister norman baker says, is the rights moved by the queen to remove prince andrew's titles? think we're going to have a summer or a year old. embarrassing revelations, as under, was required to provide evidence to the american coach distance between him and themselves as possible. so that's that coach required, right?

to say the legally people are jo proven guilty in this country. i didn't even america. and therefore, you could argue that you should operate until the cold case is cool. so you also refer to a new report, the veterans, and many others myself. how to get him proper, really and gently distasteful for him to carry on. with that, he started building roads, need all the start remoting, long as they are within to get to the queen, and they're always dollars every thing. find during open in britain, you simply having what was given to me by the queen taken away the world's largest security body. d o. s c. has warned of the highest risk of war in 30 years . the organization for security and cooperation. europe is meeting in austria, in the hope of easing tensions on ukraine's border. although russia, which is also a member, complained the book was too busy listing to itself rather than pressing concerns at

the club. no, we don't, said ultimatums, we offer to delve deeper into problems that russia and other countries have and find compromises. we haven't heard any adequate response or any reaction to our proposals. unfortunately, all the talk was about their concerns about what they call aggressive russian actions. an accusation that there was a lack of listening and even the lack of interest when it came to the issues of the allegations of russia ration against ukraine at that. our c meeting in vienna on thursday. those allocate came from the russian representative to the o. s. c, e, and now he also talked about and they needed to be agreement on key issues. and that european security really did depend on the united states and russia coming together and finding solutions on that. and he said,

if they couldn't reach agreement, they could be a catastrophic outcome. he also address nato's position when it comes to itself, being described as a defensive alliance, something we heard from yen stilton berg earlier in the week. however, he said that is simply not the case. and nieto with his expansion has essentially become aggressive his expansion into those eastern european countries, which were part of the former soviet union and use possibly savannah georgia because of the o s. e 's, inability to fulfill its obligations demonstrates the negative effect of nato expansion or the u. s. and nato continued to conquer militarily. the territories of the countries included in the alliance in place offensive weapon systems. there with this directly poses a threat to the interests of the russian federation. here i, he also had some concerns about some of the infrastructure within the o. s. c,

e. so i assume criticism of not for much at which the chat, the recei it said earlier on thursday was a neutral space will discussion where these issues could be addressed. these issues of security and the tensions particularly over eastern europe could be addressed. he talked about as the issues at the moment and raised concern that what is happening in eastern europe at the moment could escalate at any moment. it seems that the risk of war in the o s. c area is now greater than ever before in the last 30 years. for several weeks we have been faced with the prospect of a major military escalation in eastern europe. well, the current polish chair of the o. s. c. e. o. so said the issues at the moment really come from a very different interpretation over the regulations and old security in

europe. i believe that always tensions ah, in the v o. c area result in the 1st price for all the different understanding of european security. now the chair very see was quite clear about not pointing the finger at any particular country during his press conference, and that is remarkably different from what we have heard this week. coming out from the usa and nato following. they talked with russia in geneva and then in brussels . we heard from both the under secretary of state for the united states, and also from the secretary general of nato, that russia is the aggressor at the moment. it being aggressive towards ukraine. it's a massing these troops on the board and it is set and ready for an invasion. as soon as the snow melts at that is something that has been repeatedly denied by russia

and russia continues to ask for assurances in regards to the security situation for it own country. and that it says depends very heavily on the future over membership of countries like ukraine in georgia of nato, something it says can never ever happens and it wants these secure guarantees. these the legal guarantees that that won't happen. and for the assurances for its own security in the future. and despite the fact that we've had our this rejection from russia, that it is about to invade ukraine, there is still this discussion of crippling threats, economic threats of sanctions against russia that were discussed by the u. s. and discussed by nato not just by them. we've now seen that those list of possible economic sanctions have just been unveiled in the u. s. senate by the democrats. so really, it shows you how tense things just are at the moment. and russia is essentially

said that it feels as if there was a monologue coming from the one site here. and we know that ukraine is a it align. nita says it's not willing to discuss that. it won't even put it on the table. of course, this discussions on thursday in vienna, not the last set of discussions. there are further talks to you to be held next week. but really, it does seem as if there is a huge amount of a lack of optimism and the bar leading into those talks next week has been set very, very low. indeed in regards to a breakthrough to canada. now where people could soon be fined if they refuse to have a coven job, quebec is planning on becoming the 1st province in the country to impose a touch on the vaccinated. the no shot to levy was proposed by the regions premier who says it will be at least 50 to a 100 canadian dollars. adding though that he thinks it should be higher. the

controversial measure comes as canada as a whole. registers a spike in daily covey cases, where we ask people in quebec for their view on the new tox. i think it's unfair to just suggest it's the responsibility or the fault of those that are unvaccinated. this is coming after decades of neglect and a dysfunctional health care system in quebec. you know that often pits people against each other. instead of the government taking responsibility, what i've heard is there's different reason why you might not be vaccinated inside because you're against it. for taxing all of these people to me doesn't make any sense. i'm pretty sure it would be good if everybody can choose what they want to to to do with the vaccination. i know, i'm pretty sure it would be better if everybody would be vaccine, but we can't force anybody to have the vaccine. and quebec province isn't alone in penalizing the on jobs from next week increased and vaccinated citizens will be

fined $100.00 euros a month. and plans reflect elsewhere in europe to austria, for example, is mulling a tax over of over a 1000 years a month while italy is considering a monthly no job levy of $1500.00 euros. we got some contrasting views on the story from political commentator anthony webber and foreman minister in the european parliament on duca. those unvaccinated are putting tremendous pressure on the, on the nation on our health services. and so denying, you know, not people that have been vaccinated in acting properly, not having medical treatment. so in, in sometimes i think, yes, it's these right to a proctor that if they will have a vaccine in voluntarily what they should be maybe really penalized in another way . and that's why come from, i think we come across this line that the minority all know severely affecting the right. so the majority who acted in the responsible and carrying manner. they're

not at all like reasonable. it's not some very recharged to wells. governments would consider the have to look at the contract because in quebec they've had the resignation of their magical director of how they got a new one. and they're trying to find a state gates for their terrible kirby policy may well be that they're trying to warn people for and driving me. started backseat and swiss protect primarily our to back is just distracting attention from his own. and miss managed when she became a policy on to a group of people who happen to have decided to not be vaccinated. the allied peacekeeping mission in carfax done his winding down now with troops

handing over the duties to local counterparts. the soldiers un preparing to leave the country that been there for a week after the catholic authorities requested help with an anti tel opperation launched amid the deadly unrest after successful operation. which is president said it's time to go home rosamille. it's a story. it is obvious that people who've been protesting for a gasp, price reduction, and those who've been fighting with the armed forces for several days with weapons in their hands surrounding them in places of deployment, are completely different people. they have different goals are the fact that with the help of the c s t o, it was possible to restore the situation is very important to this is the 1st such operation of the c s t o to allow catholics to on to solve it. socio economic issues and com dialogue with the people in general. we need to go home. we've completed our task less than a week after they were deployed to context on the c s t. trips will begin their

withdrawal today at with catholic sand. now, in a much more stable position than it was a week ago, i t infrastructure has been secured according to the russian defense minister say, showing he reported to president putin. he also said, assured machine, today the situation is stable. we are working in full cooperation. we have approved a decision on the phased withdrawal and returning of infrastructure back to cause its dawn machine. today we start the withdrawal and furthermore, within 5 days as the infrastructure is transferred, the withdrawal will continue and we plan to complete it on the 19th. now, until the 19th, when those final trips will leave cause like sound, the state of emergency in kazakhstan will remain in place. understandably, the country is still in a state of shock. its been through so much in such a short amount of time, just 2 weeks is that there for the time frame. so now the peacekeepers are planning that to leave the country. it's also become very apparent at the evolution at the c

s t o which previously which is considered to be a mouthpiece. now it's shown it can be very effective, a can be very helpful at president psychiatry, kind of extend elidah. he expressed his gratitude to the frame what i would like to express my gratitude to the mission commanders for the job they did over these days . the c ceo peacekeeping mission in catholic stun, including and l. my t was very important in terms of stabilizing. the situation in our country is undoubtedly had a major moral impact on pushing back the aggression of terrorists and bandits. now leading to say, it's been absolutely extraordinary thought to the full context on a relatively peaceful country. that within the space of a week went from normal daily life to absolute chaos. across the entire country, we saw mass riots. we saw government buildings ransacked and set on fire. the entire country was in a state of emergency. exact number of faith policies is still being calculated, though it said that over a 1000 people have been injured over 100,

have been killed and more than a 1000 police officers injured and 16 killed all efforts within those 1st few days by presidents a kind of to come the street that they just weren't working, he needed to call on the c s t i framework to help secure these vital infrastructure in the country when it comes to the all members of the cfc. basically getting involved for the, from the request of, of the contact leader in essentially functioning like nato, where 11 member of the family calls for help from the other members of the family. this is the c s t o, but when it became clear that russia was going to step in and help cuz it's on the senior diplomat in america, secretary blank and he said, you've got to look out with the russians. once they get into your house, you can't get them out. house out looking at as it has russia now secured a foothold according to the west and catholics don't lose such an intense light. as soon as it was revealed that russia was part of this frame, the work that would be entering this foreign country, no alarm bells were ringing around the. well, that with these sensationalize headlines saying things such as putin sees is on

crises. there was unfortunate that russia going, it's complex down with these other countries who were hardly mentioned in the news pieces was looked upon that way, not just by the mainstream media, but also by washington. one less than a recent history is that once russians are in your house, sometimes very difficult to get them to leave. and of course, such harsh comments like that always invite some kind of response and russia did respond early today in fox, the deputy foreign minister, sick, a rap called that the us, his reaction was self revealing. he said it confirmed russia's worst assumptions about washington's intentions in eurasia. so, you know, politics aside, it is going to be very interesting. we're going to be closely watching what happens in cars like stand off to the troops leave on the 19th. and that's just hope that things can get back to normal to a very stable way of life for people in context on the amid record to

high us inflation. supermarkets in the country are struggling to fill the shelves with disconcert shop as making it clear who they blame hosting images with the hash tag. best shells biden supermarket themselves a citing a number of reasons for the shortages from the on the con surgeon, but winter weather the disrupted supply chains. joe bought in. those seems to think that the lots of problem in particular has long since been solved couple months ago . were a lot of dire warranties about supply chain problems, leading to a crisis around the holidays. thanksgiving and christmas. we act. we brought together business and labor to solve the problems. the much predictor crisis didn't occur. and grinch did not steal christmas. meanwhile, almost 70 percent of americans. they economic problems are the biggest worried right now. and we asked us shoppers how the situation with impacts in them. i'm no longer able to get everything on my grocery list when i come. sometimes i have to

go to 2 or 3 different stores to find something. i'm out of just picking up tracy. i'm like, all this is a, this is a lot better than what i normally bad impression will happen higher than in our prisoner is not hammering in that way. you really sure. i think president biden just sitting back, letting things happen and our president trump made things happen. so, you know, it's 2 different kind of presidents right there and it really shows right now. well, that's it. you're buying up today with the latest news from around the world. my name is peter scott and i'll be back again in just over 30 minutes with another news bulletin. ah ah

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