these are really a market as a private arena, a wild, where a single company controls the distribution of all day, the products and the infrastructure of our economy. is this the world according to amazon? ah, your top headlines right now here we're knocking international, the west cranks up the temperature again over alleged russian plans to invade ukraine, bolstering his military presence in that region. and that comes as the key of itself says, there's no reason to panic insisting an attack is next to impossible. a solution to this group pursue joe biden was caught on a hot mike can think of fox news journalist trying to get answers from the president of recorded inflation. also in the program. fighting for transparency,

we speak to a lawyer who help forth the f. d. a to release documents on the authorization of the pfizer job. he explains concerns the decision was russian very same health authorities that are telling you this part of the state are the same. federal health authorities that gave pfizer madonna and jane j complete immunity from any liability for injury caused by the product. walrus, please, pray them if slavery, ignorance is strength, and now george orwell. as prophecies appear, one step closer to reality. the british universities slaps a trigger, warning on his antique censorship. novel, 1984. with all right, broadcasting your headlines about 100 countries worldwide. it's asking international with me role restriction. so the united states has now put more than 8000 troops on

high alert because it sounds the alarm over, i suppose, a russian invasion of ukraine. moscow continues to deny any such plans. but now even kiya is urging com. saying it will not be attacked, these would be additional brigade, combat teams, logistics personnel, medical support, aviation support, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as transportation, and maybe even some additional capabilities after that loser. bohack them that you know, lots of such param, militarism, appears in the media, and i asked to reduce the intensity that exist today. little given the situation is quite clear to us. there is no reason for us to punish her little sister, no grounds for searching a full scale offensive, a chainsaw country. it is even physically impossible to achieve them. not so comes in on monday. top us diplomat, anthony blink, and met with his e. you counter pos to discuss the ukraine sanctions. it has exposed divisions between washington and its allies, with some countries urging different responses to the situation on the border. it's

tough to get a clear picture. here. ortiz, or peter, all of i now shed some light wild troop deployment. sand high alerts are being su. diplomacy remains the number one goal when it comes to finding a solution to these tensions between russia and nato. on monday we saw a series of meetings between e. u. foreign ministers take place in brussels. during that meeting, germany came under an awful lot of pressure. this is over the berlin government's decision not to send weaponry to ukraine. as a di bonus, the gillum cut the federal government, has not changed its position on the supply of arms to ukraine, including the supply of lethal weapons and in view of the conflict in ukraine, it will not issue a permit for the supply of military weapons ina where there are 2 very different messages coming out of the nato camp when it comes to the situation on the ground in ukraine. on the one hand, you've got the united kingdom and the united states who have both withdrawn some embassy staff and their families from their diplomatic embassies in ukraine. on the

other hand, you have the european union embassies, who have said what we heard on monday from the chief, all fair, e u foreign policy, yoseph burrell, as well as a you foreign ministers, they're saying essentially that could cause more harm than good sector in lincoln. to strollers at he was not an evacuation. he was just letting to people who want one not crucial. the staff are free to decide to leave the country. i don't think it is a need for us to do any kind of a precautionary measure from defined to reorder number of our staff and their berman engine. okay. i'm either very clearly in the counsel at this moment. i see no reason are forced to pull out our diplomatic stuff. and i think your, our presence, our diplomatic presence in cuba is absolutely key because what we're seeing seeking is of diplomatic solutions and diplomas on the ground for quite a while. the u. s. is placed 8 and a half 1000 troops spaced in the united states on standby for potentially being

sent to eastern europe. also massive navy war games underway. nato war games with the u. s. s. at the u. s. s. harry truman, the american aircraft carrier at the center of those underway in the mediterranean . and on monday, we heard from a number of nato nation, saying that they would be sending military hardware towards the east of the alliance. what this is seen is the kremlin spokesperson, dmitri pess. gov saying that moscow is paying close attention to what's happening to reduce to occur, such nato actions and increase nato activity. now, borders cannot be ignored by a military who are responsible for the security of our country. there is a constant process of drills, maneuvers and military build up, which has never stopped and will continue. the french president emanuel mac kron is here in berlin. on tuesday, he'll be having meetings with chancellor all aft sholtes as they get that franco german alliance in line ahead of wednesdays, meeting in paris,

between delegations from france, germany, ukraine, and russia. to try and find a solution, a diplomatic solution to the ongoing tensions in eastern europe. we had a chance to speak with anti war activist david swanson. according to him, he says there's a full scale effort to make moscow out to be the bad guy. the point is to paint russia as the aggressor, unprovoked, engage, or in evil aggression against innocent bystanders. most people are not in the military have nothing to do with the military pay. very little attention to the news that all i and are horrified of vladimir putin or having nightmares about vladimir boot and have been ward that, that the evil dr pollutant is trying to take over the world. and something must be done to stop it. building up the hostility, you're increasing the likelihood of war under the pretense of preventing it,

discouraging it. but it's a vicious cycle. it is in the interest of, of european governments and the european public's not to go along with the madness of war. that seems to be in the interest of certain individuals in the u. s. government. meanwhile, the u. s. stock exchange experienced a turbulent day over concerns of american involvement in the ukraine. russia, a crisis of this comes after a day of hysteria, the white house ordering officials to leave ukraine of affairs of an imminent conflict. now stalks tumbled over 10 percent with a dow jones taking a big hit. the things did recover a little by close of play one market expert we spoke to, so you can blame almost all of this on politics. drawn from the u. s. equity market today had 3 direct costs. the 1st is the growing tension between the united states and russia. ukraine. the 2nd is the u. s. federal reserve. meaning later this week

to discuss either going to fight inflation. and then 3rd of the stock markets have risen extraordinary amount from their march 2020 lows. without a correction, investors are going to generate it. biggest factor, the tension between the u. s. western europe and russia and ukraine. anytime to major superpower space off, they're worried about the cost of a conflict on the risk that it will spill over job areas plus energy. as you job export of russia and western europe, has a lot to lose. if trade in energy is hindered or stop by a conflict, and further there's, there's worry among some that if the u. s. doesn't look strong in front of the world facing russia, well trouble and all hiccups for the u. s. president, a hot mike moment has caused embarrassment for joe biden. all of the media conference, the president was simply asked about the record inflation rates gripping the us the john list instead of getting a straight answer. i got well more but insult good

with my colleague, neal harvey. talk with ortiz model, guys. dia on. well, why, why it's such a reaction from the u. s. president. polly was a nasty, black baby and befitting the president. but that is the imagine he was. he was stressed right he, he, he needed an outlet was a silly moment. we will have moments like that. but the issue here is the subject neither not is inflation because there are, there are 2 explanations for what but, and said the 1st is that perhaps he was kidding. you know, he was angry. this is an outlet, again, again for his stress, for his ag, unless the 2nd option, which is even scarier is that he actually believes that inflation is a great asset. i'm you felt abroad. you felt that the inflation that has gripped

the world, not, not only of, of the past year, but over the past 2 years of the course of the pandemic. you walk into a shop, you look at the process. this is at the 7th and fuel for our cars, clothes, for food, the prices, and in supermarkets, i mean cars, computers. everything's gone up into the stratosphere. nobody's gaining from this. people are literally watching that their salaries, their wages, especially people have a fixed income or even worse, poor people, low income people. they are watching their salaries, their purchase in power, evaporate. that to have, as an example, say you were making $10000.00 just just for supplier simplicity sake, $10000.00 a month, right? given this inflation in the united states and of 7 percent over the past year, your effective sales of so what you can buy is worth $9300.00. this is in the, in the span of a year. so again, if, if someone gives you a raise, if you get

a raise, well that's just, you know, getting back lou and back what you've already lost. and so it is incredibly strange reading, reading what some and the media wrote. and i'd like to note that this is, this is left wing media that inflation is somehow a good thing, why inflation can actually be good for every day americans in bad for rich people. why the inflation we're seeing now is a good thing. my inflation might actually be good for the economy. jain enter. that is. so someone telling me why you can afford to put food on your table is a good thing. it's, it doesn't contrast well, well it's essentially the same thing. and those headlines that some of them have apologize. the authors, they have been ridiculed to such an extent that they had to, they had to go back on what they wrote because there is, there is no justifying this with the reflection we, we are seeing in the united states, right, inflation, that is an absolute record in 40 years and 40 years, i mean the,

the numbers are absolutely tremendous how much people are using. now you'll hear some say this is even worse for bill. they're billionaires, they have no problem affording or buying whatever they want. sure, they made me. they might make in a year 5000000000 dollars instead, instead of $6000000000.00 at they are feeling old. seeing this is a catastrophe. that the reason that this is all happening will part of the reason because there is the pandemic. but there is also the printing press on which the united states to a, to, to a greater extent than the european central bank to a lesser extent, quintin trillions, trillions. they ran these for, for so long. they give our people checks, covered checks, and more people used these covered checks for a is a by basic necessities. they, they went for electronics, they went from for luxury things. and what this did is these caused inflation been

a supplier. supply chains already disrupt that. there's less things for more people, which means higher prices and people are people have raised prices of people are willing to pay the my not. now we're, we've said all of this, the only way to combat all of this is to is a for central bank. we, we've all heard, you know, central banks, high rates or whatever, and we'll wait for what the hell that me, what it me is that by way of increasing the interest on all loans, central banks cool off an economy by making sure there's less money to go around the problem here is that the united states is now $29.00 trillion dollars in debt, $29.00 trillion dollars in debt. and if they hike rates, they, if they hi, grades long term. so for example, for, for 56 years, the issue will be that they're going to make much more payments, many more payments on the existing debt. so for them it would be like,

shooting themselves in the foot. so they're trying to balance the needs of the economy versus the, the outcry from the public them from the people, and try to squeeze by are either pleasing, ultimately, no one. meanwhile, job irons rather rude comments, offer press conference, did core some online outrage with people saying the insult was directed at anyone who's concerned about the state of inflation. joe biden may think it stupid to care about inflation, but a whole lot of americans disagree and they are going to vote this november working families are being crushed by this white house and their solution is to curse out anyone who questions them totally out of control biden's message to americans concerned about inflation. very stupid son of a big is left himself open to more criticism about being a hypocrite about, you know, how we talk for, you know, during the, during the campaign and over the last year about how he was gonna be more

respectful with reporters. and then he acts this way, i think, frankly, what we saw was frustration, frustration over the fact that his policies have helped lead to this inflation that we're seeing this record inflation frustration over his rhetoric about shutting down the virus meeting up with the reality of the fact that the virus isn't getting shut down frustration over the fact that now he seems to be flirting with a direct conflict with russia. not only is he acting rattled, he's cherry picking data and trying to whitewash what's happening. americans are hurting. and i think an underrated element to all of this is the fact that his energy policy is also contributing to the rising prices of consumer good. you know, at his 1st day in office, you know, he went ahead and revoke the license for the keystone pipeline that drove up and then american energy costs the cost of energy for transportation for creating goods for running factories for everything. i mean, that has a direct correlation to deal the prices that americans pay in terms of at the

retail level. so you combine that with the inflation from all the printing of the money and all the paying them expanding. and we wind up in a very tough situation it is good to have you with us today for this program of the us. food and drug administration will soon have to hand over documents that had wanted to sit on up to 75 years. these relate to the authorization of the pfizer vaccine, which critic say was to hasty. the information will now be released thanks to a group of scientists taking the matter to court. and we spoke one of the lawyers. aaron siri who says transparency is vital. know our representative individuals injured by that means we've been representing them for years. we do that for all the other vaccines. we don't do that for the pfizer, that scene with me during our j. j for kobe, because you can't see them in any manner. we've got waning immunity there instead of eating unity got the cdc saying that the vaccine doesn't prevent transmission.

and there are obviously some harm to that scene causes that public health officials don't deny. there are totally issues with the vaccine. and we need every independent scientist on board and looking at the data looking information, helping address those issues with a real problem here in my view and view, i think of many is that the very same house authorities that are telling you this is stated are the same federal health authorities that gave pfizer, missouri, and jane j complete immunity from any liability for injury caused by the product. and they gave them that immunity before the products were even authorized before they were even made in life since then and put on the market. that creates a moral hazard by decoupling the company profit motive from its interest and safety . and i think that does concern a lot of people and it should certainly are a number of doubts over the fast track approval of the pfizer shot the judge. you

ordered the f d a to release the relevant information says it is all in the public best interest . john f kennedy likewise recognised the nation that is afraid to lead its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open markets is a nation that is afraid of its people. there may not be a more important issue with the food and drug administration than the pandemic. the phase of vaccine getting every american vaccinated, and making sure that the american public is assured that this was not rushed on behalf of the united states. even if it wasn't russ, there's no reason not to have transparency but certainly in a situation where. busy was rush transfer is certainly important. it does beg the question, why does the f b a one away elise initially? why did it wanna wait? as long as it did, it claimed it doesn't have enough resources, but it has over 18000 employees, a budget over $6500000000.00 revealing a few $100000.00 pages for what a claim is,

the most important product it's ever reviewed and put out there presumably, and so we did couple the public health authorities own reputation from the products, right? such that they're just viewed as any other products. and then we can actually address individuals who are injured by these products and get them the treatment that they need. all right, for 20 pm in moscow on this tuesday. thanks for joining us so far for the program, roughly halfway through it right now, many more stories still become. we are back in just a sec. oh, i join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business and show business. i'll see you then. me.

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you may be surprised. you may be shocked. there's been a dramatic escalation to boris johnson's party gates scandal in the u. k. the metropolitan police now say they are launching an investigation into parties held in downing street during the pandemic. the police commissioner said they're looking into a potential breaches of lockdown rules at number 10 over the past 2 years. or the announcement comes after fresh allegations of a birthday event being held for the prime minister in june 2020. that was when the 1st coven lockdown was still in full force. now rules at the time band, most indoor gatherings of more than 2 people. it is that the later than a series of damaging leaks about boozy events at the heart of government that recently forced the prime minister to apologize to both the queen and parliament. i want to apologize. i believed implicitly that this was a woke event. but mister speaker, with hindsight,

i should have sent every one back inside. i should have found some other way to thank them. and i should have recognized that even if it could be said technically to full within the guidance, there would be millions and millions of people who simply would not see it. that way. that see how bad is going to get here were naughty, international lisco live now stephen wolf joining us here. the director of the center for migration on economic prosperity. great to see you today. thanks for coming on the program. now the police are involved a, how much more serious has his suddenly become to the prime minister? you thank. this is extremely serious now re, and this is a critical part of the campaign for those who've been seeking to oust forest. johnson is the prime minister of the united kingdom, is very clear that there has been a strong city of leaks and other stories to damage his credibility and to ensure

that he feels under pressure consistently and began obviously before christmas with the 1st leaks of the party gates, as we now know them, is more leaked from his former chief of staff, dominic cummings that lead to the allegro stratton being removed as the header communications. we've had more parties, we've had the letters into the 1922 committee. when we've heard yesterday, the claims of islam, a phobia from one of his m. p. 's, who was fired. so this is a critical we can, i think, is a hanging on, or will he be the last person at the party whilst everyone else has moved on to the party next door? i think by the end of this week will no more mister wolf. johnson perhaps may have hoped that by apologizing to the queen and parliament, perhaps he thought he had put the whole matter to bed. but it does seem others determined to keep it going. doesn't it?

yes, there is a very critical part of the conservative party. it's party 1st people 2nd and the brand matters a great deal. and up and down the country, the party gay allegations when people were not able to see their loved ones who were dying at hospital. my close friend and neighbour passed away. i was not allowed to have a funeral with his wife present and they've been married for 60 years. people like that are extremely angry. and the m. p. 's, particularly those who are the new m. p 's and 2019 at i seeing that from their constituents. so an apology has not seem good enough and the brand is damaged and so there is a feeling with in the new can and piece of 2019 on the old hands. that pipe protecting the conservative party requires the removal of boris johnson. and that is why they are now leaking more information and over again. this is the 2nd police

inquiry william rag has gone to the police about the bullying claims of the party whips. so the police now going to investigate 2 aspects of boris johnson's regime. well, when it rains, it pours, he certainly facing pressure from a number of sides right now. did you think johnson can do anything to repair the damage? or would you perhaps consider this to be a fatal wound? this is certainly like the eyes of march, whether there's enough nice that have gone into him to finish him off the one thing i think that's protecting him other than the cove. it reactions and what's happening in the country, there is what's happening with russia. and if there is a full determination that they are able to enhance, say, a conflict with russia, that would be very little appetite from conservatives to remove him at that particular time. so i think that is one reason why he could be ensuring that list trust is putting an echoing very strong language at this moment in time to remind

those m p 's that there are other issues out there and he can't be removed when will that work? will only say again, i think if another revelation comes out and the police investigations, i think that could be the end for him. but this week is the critical week was going, i was going to ask you, you know, you mentioned recent scandals. i mean, you know what, when, when he's a so i guess at some point in the past couple of weeks when he was facing political death, suddenly he councils all the restrictions on cove. it. he gets rid of all of those things that some people said there's a bit of a destruction now because of the scandals that you have russia, ukraine, some people calling that another destruction as well. i mean, is there any, can you put any faith in any of these allegations made online by people saying that he's using distractions now to, to take attention away from the scandals? i think this is part and parcel of government and of prime ministers, and we see in the, in the past with other promise, if you look at david cameron,

when he was in the pressure from political parties about the referendum on the e. u. he suddenly, he was issuing policies that said we will get on immigration again. morris johnson has done exactly the same thing that we will get an immigration and issued kind of eat it. so i do, but we're going to build camp for them and stop them. this is part of parcel of the politics of a prime minister. i don't believe at the moment that what he's offering the people are saying to themselves is enough to keep in this. the only big issue, the massive international issue. save prime ministers and presidents in the pass filter. clinton was saved by his international goings in the defense, for example, above, near tony blair was saved by his attempts to join with the united states in was in afghanistan and iraq. so i think now looking internationally to see if there's something else that strong enough and big enough for them to save him,

but locally and nationally, he's very weak and he's been very hurt, badly. very interesting conversation with steven wolf, the director of the center for migration and economic prosperity. joining us live here on nazi. thank you very much. i really appreciate that. thank you. george. all. well, it's classic 1984 is a chilling cautionary tale warning of the dangers of censorship. but now, one british university has seemingly ignored the message and well put the novel in its crosshairs, slapping a trigger warning on the work for its apparently explicit material. correspondent takes a closer look. trigger warning. this item discusses trigger warnings. i'm now going to quote george o wells 1984. so if you feel at risk of being offended, please meet your tv now. war is peace, freedom is slavery. ignorance is strength. future where freedom becomes slain.

ah, where privacy is forbidden. the past, due for god, his prophecy remains us terrifying. miss beverly incentive, engaging in individual critical thinking. students at north hampton university, studying the dis, stokely and censorship nightmare ah, well receiving trigger warnings from the institutions very own thought police. while it is not university policy, we may warn students of graphic depictions in relation to violence, sexual violence, domestic abuse on suicide. 1984 centers around a government worker renee totalitarian state. he is followed by the ever present gaze of the ruling party. and as dictator, big brother, but maybe north hampton university is different from the big brother, and simply one that's looking out for as little siblings who might just get upset with something trigger. warnings can be a spoiler and skew students perception or worse, shut down, discussion inquiry,

and dare i say it thought there's a certain irony when universities start adding trigger warnings to 1984. there's something very big brother about it. i think 13 year olds might find some of the scenes in the novel disturbing, but i don't think any one of undergraduates age is really shocked by a book any more shock that i don't know perhaps by how all? well, in his dystopian science fiction depiction of mass media control, censorship and surveillance is becoming airily familiar. in fact, 70 is on. it's so relevant today that it's still on amazon's best sellers list and sets quite well on north hamptons, academic courses, alongside samuel beckett's play, and game, as well as alan laws, v for vendetta. oh, but they to come with trigger warnings. of course, i mean generations of students are ready with being offended and being able to re do without any kind of supervision. so.