an engagement equal the trail. when so many find themselves will depart. we choose to look for common ground in ah, teresa brakes ranks going against nature's found to help ukraine against russia, saying that it will with draw its troops from the alliance. if the conflict escalate, the situation in which joe biden is, will moscow he'll be for peace in europe with thousands of troops su, case, hospital, waiting, time crisis worsens. during the pandemic, we speak to a mother who lost her son after he was made to wait over 4 hours despite turning up with chest pains. last january, the price of gasoline and manhattan was roughly $2.37. but now, here at the p in midtown manhattan, they won $4.79. most americans say that top concern right now is rising prices,

while the overwhelming majority of small businesses, se spiraling us inflation is damaging the badly. we speak to people in new york, we have to make concessions to fit your budget by drive the car almost every day. the cost, the gas is going up by food reform is really going up really quickly, really high. good morning. great to have your company, this is our t international. gracious president says that he'll withdraw his country's troops from name. so in the case of a russia ukraine conflict, prompting care to label him and to ukrainian propagandist. meanwhile, joe biden reiterated that thousands of nato troops are now on high alert. for deployment in eastern europe. should russia invade its navy ukraine? something brushes repeatedly denied it intense. today,

i feel obliged to be proper presence, little presence in on eastern front of sources and i learn are either part of our nato operation now. so you us operation creation presidents or i melana vetch making. so min century comments on tuesday, he said that if there is a conflict between ukraine and russia, he would order the croatian troops to pull out of deployments that they're involved in with nato. now this was a statement that's not only unlikely to have gone down particularly well in nato headquarters. it's also unlikely to gone down particularly well in ukraine either because mr. milan of each also went on to say that the 2014 might done revolution in ukraine was a coo. and he said that ukraine had absolutely no business in joining nato. not only will we not send troops, but if there is an escalation, we will withdraw. every last corporation, soldier,

everything is happening on moscow's doorsteps. it is necessary for an arrangement to be found that will take into account russia's security interests. i worked in the european council when the democratically elected president young cove ich a scoundrel who sat on 3 chairs was overthrown in a cou. it was encouraged primarily by the e. u and the united states. the language was a lot more diplomatic, here in berlin on tuesday as the chancellor all f sholtes welcomed french president emanuel micron to discuss further how to calm down how to take the heat out of the tension surrounding russia, nato, and everything to do with ukraine. now, the 2 of them use their press conference to emphasize the importance of continuing dialogue, the french president saying he would never give up on dialogue. however, he did say that there would be a high cost if there was any aggression, also emphasizing the importance of it being good to talk with all of schultz. but

he did also use his time at the podium to say then to again clarify that germany would not be sending any weaponry to ukraine. also talking about this ongoing situation in europe on tuesday, over in london was boris johnson. the british prime minister. he was speaking in westminster to parliament, and he said this essentially diplomacy was the only way that there should be a solution. he said he be having further calls further contact with the russian president vladimir burton. and it was important to listen to the concerns that russia had. however, he did say that if there was an invasion of ukraine by russia, they said could well end up being the resulting in the worst bloodshed that had been seen in europe since world war 2. and it wouldn't end well for russia, there is nothing new about large and powerful nations using the threat a brute force to terrify reasonable people into giving way to otherwise completely

unacceptable demands. i think the americans are desperately trying fresh rise, a new government to come on board, but it's new cold war against her and against russia. marquilla, there are still some in the german government who look at russia and see not as a threat as a potential. i'm sorry, my business partner, we don't want to meet no great those links. and if the germans don't come on board, what the situation is going to bid is gonna obviously, classic situation of the american stake, annoyed for by the poodles in france, britain, and with other various are eastern european states, russia to help. and we are seeing now america and britain, pompey arms pumping advisors into ukraine and making threats, natural sanctions, and so on. there's also major military made in navy war games underway in the mediterranean. those nato ad drills surrounding me and revolving around the badly american aircraft carrier,

the u. s. s. s. harry room and there on going in the mediterranean. there was also promises earlier this week from the netherlands, spain, and at denmark to send military hardware to the east of the of the nato alliance. the search for a diplomatic solution moves to paris on wednesday and norman, the format talks, will be taking place in the french capital. it's the 1st time that this type of talks have taken place since 2019. what that means is representatives of the russian government, the ukrainian government, the german and the french governments will meet to try and find a solution. well that's in british and p, a naughty host, those callaway police that as a deep split between european niter members on just how exactly to deal with the crime crisis does a splintering all of the european side of the nato alliance. germany has made it plain that it does not support the build off of war materiel in

ukraine, and does not want a confrontation with russia to turn into a war. they want a new european security architecture that is not led by the nose, or by a senile american president, that most people wouldn't send out to the shops for a low for bread, but may well lead his european allies into war with the hypersonic thermonuclear superpower called russia, so it's all beginning to break apart the law of unintended consequence that they don't hit russia. you know, i made this point you before they put ins, russia, because putin has dragged russia up from the floor where it was lying, having its pockets picked and restored prestige and respect, self respect to russia. that's not the kind of russia they want. well as tensions

with the west, mount rushes announced huge naval drills in the atlantic arctic pacific and mediterranean, which is northern fleet, has already launched wargames in the baron c. b forces there are holding the aunt to combat skills. the exercise will involve more than 1200 trips, some 30 with russian invasion hysteria, gripping the media similar to getting a little bit ahead of themselves, sienna labeling, ukrainian territory as being russia. we talked about that on our website, on my list and attention to the u. k, now, where the pandemic is aggravated a hospital admissions waiting time crisis. in one case, back in october 27 year old norman barker was taken to a any with chest pains. he died outside the emergency unit after being told that he had to wait for 4 hours until he could be seen. we spoke to his mother who

expressed her frustration of the lack of treatment. her son received a foul tommy and a chest pains. they said they'd pay for an ambulance, but they got told there was going to be to allow, why was actually told us to sit down. but there was no way to say that people were standing outside normally, hot, you know, given a week night leave. wow. well, i was still got my given my whole symptoms and i'm only wasn't able to help me. now need to be told. we have to wait for was a come across to me in a hallway teacher down in york. stop. stay in barbara. it's just come to you. that is, you know, i'm not the one that lost a lot of lunch because of my the disaster situation in a, in a normal box, his mother described is only getting worse. recent videos of immersed. and it's claimed they show ambulances lined up outside hospital waiting to deliver patients

comes as research probably silly this month, by the emergency medicine journal, finds the case national health services struggling to deal with demand for treatment goal. according to that study, more than 40 percent of your hospitals failed to meet the national for our waiting time target. so far this year, 6000 patients have had to wait more than 12 hours in a any to be treated. patients waiting more than 5 hours are considered a far greater risk of dying. and as pressure on hospitals grows ever more cases like that of normal barker are emerging, particularly among those with serious illnesses other than cove. it in the 1st year, the pandemic, $153000.00 patients with cancer at the treatment delayed over the same period. well, the 4000 excess deaths were recorded. we spoke with joy deep grover and emergency medicine consultant who says, factors such as the amik on very into having a dangerous impact on, on it just waiting times the last 6 to 8 months within the united kingdom.

in many countries, i'm sure there hadn't been around 10 to 20 percent of occupancies related to patients, which has meant is slow processing of patients listening to video based for people who come in with a problem with which to nice people are spending much longer in the emergency department before they can go to the hospital. so if you look at the testing in the last to last year, they were about 90 percent of patients who came to the us department. the last 6 to 8 months dropped to get to the from 90 percent to 65 to 70 percent. so that's a significant problem. departments in the united kingdom office and

use of asia, small businesses in america being crushed under the weight of spiraling inflation. despite up beat messages from president biden on the issue, and overwhelming majority of them took no say the financial help has gotten worse in the last 6 months with households also having to tighten both kellum open reports from new york. as the saying goes, a dollar and a dollar anymore, and american families are being squeezed by inflation. there has been a 7 percent increase and consumer prices over the past year. that's the fastest increase that we've seen since. 1982 joe biden has promised that he is going to fight these increasing costs of pretty much everything. and he has already found someone to blame for the crisis. so bottom line, this isn't just about quick winds. it's about reversing decades of concentration of her workers, consumers and small businesses. it didn't happen any one time. it's been over a period of time now a long time. the average cost of low bread in new york state in 2021 was $0.88.

here, a popular supermarket in manhattan, there's bread for sale for roughly $3.48, or $4.27. now, prices in manhattan are loc, steeper, even in good time. that's a pretty significant increase in cost for the consumer. i food thickly thumb is really going up really quickly, really high. and the fruit check we got off, we going to boise that on just a regular trip to the supermarket as it is becoming, becoming more difficult. you have to, you have to make concessions to, to fit your budget, to, to buy the essential things through a feeder family's got 3 kids in the cost, the food is going up. i drive the car almost every day, the cost, the gas is going up. i don't think there was anything class january the price of gasoline and manhattan was roughly $2.37. but now here it be p in midtown manhattan. they want $4.79 per gallon to fill up your tank. if i

could get this under control, a lot of people would breathe a huge sigh of relief. but judging from the way he reacted to a reporter's question, not inflation. that's not likely anytime soon, a more inflation. the super, some new survey shows that 76 percent of small firms in the united states have felt the negative impact of inflation over the past 6 months. there's nothing natural about it as a result of political decisions. and the result has been vast borrowing of money to speculate in the stock market. it and some of that money has now fallen over into the rest of the economy. and so we have an inflation mostly because businesses

have wanted to offset profits last in 2020, and the 1st half of 2021 by raising their prices. now it is a profit driven decision not to be clear. it's not like biding did all of this personally, this is a result of supply chain issues and a sudden increase in demand as we come out of the pandemic and lot downs. and some of the i a nap or warning that it's not over yet. and it might actually get worse. the emergence of new coven 19 variants, could prolong the pandemic and induce renewed economic disruptions. moreover, supply chain disruptions, energy, price volatility, and localized wage. precious mean uncertainty around inflation and policy policies, high serious public health disaster. colvin and an economic crash on a scale with the great depression of the 19 thirty's to have these 2 things at the same time was excruciating. and now at the end of those 2 years to have the added

to it on inflation currently rising 7 percent per year. when workers, wages on average are rising between 3 and 5 percent per year means that the working class is now hurt by the new 2022 already in the 1st month. yes, this is going to be a very rocky a year and the stock market vibrations this last week are more evidence. now in 1971, u. s. president richard nixon imposed a 90 day price free is to curve inflation. now, economists are debating what the results would be. biden was so bold and how that would affect the economy. but regardless, so far, job items promises to tackle the problem of inflation or just words. prices are still rising. kayla martin. archie, new york tech john spent

a record amount on lobbying in 2021. that's according to filing submitted to congress. the top 7 firms spent a combined 70000000 dollars fighting legislation aimed at limiting their market power. at the top of that list for amazon and facebook now known as matter, they spent around $20000000.00 each persuading law makers not to adopt tough new regulations. in the process, they use dozens of intermediary firms to prime professional lobbyists. we close sized members of congress and biden administration officials, but not all of those efforts succeeded last thursday, the u. s. senate judiciary approved a bill preventing take johns from giving preference to their own businesses on their websites. the innovation and choice on line act as it's known, still has to pass a full senate vote to become law. we spoke with ben swan host of ortiz business show being bused. remember, there are about 5 different laws that have been suggested in terms of being able to

rein in these tech companies. in this particular case, this, this freedom of choice app, essentially what it's saying is if you're amazon, you can create your own product on your own marketplace and then compete directly with the other sellers who are on there. especially since amazon is constantly deriving information and data from those sellers. so they're essentially utilizing someone else's research, someone else's market position, someone else's understanding of price points to basically copy all of that and then compete directly for a lot of years. companies like facebook and amazon and twitter and google didn't have to spend a lot of money to lobby lawmakers because they were essentially left alone. so you could throw a little money here and there in key positions. i don't think what we're seeing now is a much wider swath of congress, receiving donations and receiving money from those tech companies because they recognize what they really have to do as muddy the waters. you don't want one party to be on your side because when the other party gets into power,

then you have problems. instead, you wanna as white of a swath of both democrats and republicans in order to influence them. and then you can't really get legislation passed. you can't get it in front of committees and you can't get the votes that you need. because as you know, we have a very divided congress here. if an ordinary citizen tried to buy that much influence for their own gain, it might be considered bribery. how much of a difference is there in reality, between lobbying and bribery? i think there's very, very little difference, especially when you consider the fact that not only do these law makers receive money directly from these companies in order to push their agendas. many of the lobbying firms that do this, this bidding also right. the bills that go before congress, many lawmakers don't write the bills themselves. it's a lobbyist on behalf of those companies that write the bills that ultimately become law. would you dictate the laws that govern and regulate the companies if that makes sense? so it's such a backward system that you've created here in this country where there is very

little accountability and very little ability for the average person to actually have a representative. that's what we're supposed to have in this democratic republic representatives who stand up for our interest, not the interests of these companies. can. if you months look at how hiked energy bills and the pandemic approving a bad mix of ingredients for italian restaurant donors with many of them now poised to go bust, that's up to the bank. ah ah, lines have been drawn and positions made clear after 2 weeks of high level talks, russia and nato, we main poles apart on how to define pan european security moving forward. moscow is presented, it gets vision in writing while washington falls back on our cape cold war. please

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restaurants are struggling to make ends meet as record energy bills, compound the impact of the pandemic. many fear that still have to close of course you don't see the situation is not sustainable. so raising the law, we compare the bill of about $1500.00 euro we had in 2019 with the last 2 months i our cost triples in november i went up fivefold in december. our latest bill is to 5300 euro, which is a price which we just can't afford at the moment when a 5 hold increases, ordering the death, the business, the calm down key because we're seen fewer people go to restaurants since coby, the other cancellations, have been rife and the future is uncertain with the next few months looking particularly so and i wasn't gonna get through a good time with all these restrictions that we are getting, penalize the future of our business is also at risk simply to an increase in electricity and gas coves, it is given as a big problem pick on, on oil. they want to see for those feeling the pinch the italian government to set up a public pot of 5 and

a half 1000000000 euros to offset some of the burden for households and businesses we spoke to italian. see said the help has made little difference though. so far, classy what i meant there. hey, it's a dramatic situation with many companies on the brink of closing and others already closed. the government aid has also not arrived and if it doesn't arrive, there will be chaos of if we continue like this, i don't know where we will end up on the economy is collapsing that? yeah, it would be a serious blow for all of us to effort germantown. this bill increases an attack on families and businesses that don't term much of the low income, coupled with the cost of these bills will force them to lay off workers. bill in moves 50 or sooner, but i'm situation is true or dramatic. i received a very high bill and in a family we're only one person worked much better. it's really hard to get to the end of the month. for us, johnson could be the 1st british prime minister in history to be interviewed under caution to police in the u. k. last a formal prob, into parties held that his residence in apparent violation of kobe locked down

restrictions of the time, parallel to that the results of an internal government inquiry are expected to be released imminently. with reports, the chief investigator was shown, photographic evidence of the p. m. standing next to bottles of booze with other people and burn, pays of coal for the embattled leader to step down. i'm much more or less embarrassing stuff, just calling a to remove that mind from office. got them in a success, the prime minister's or 40 in taxes. will he advise his boss to do the right thing in the national interest and to resign? a prime minister, not simply compounding his previous terrible mistakes by continuing to deny culpability leading to on necessary and expensive police inquiry when he could do the decent thing and resign. well, what a hectic time it feeling westminster,

at the moment to all kicked off when the metropolitan police chief was asked whether or not the police covering up to those in power. and she hit back. officially announcing the launch of an investigation into the downing street party allegations. well, it's a big move from the metropolitan police because we've always heard from them that they don't normally investigate retrospectively. and many people are saying this actually goes to show what significant evidence there must be out there to suggest an element of criminality. but for the prime minister for his johnson, he's actually welcoming this move from the metropolitan police saying he hopes it will help to draw a line under all of these issues and allow the government to finally move on. but it's certainly bold words coming from a man who many people, including politicians think is going to be out of a job any time soon. but of course, this week we were really expecting to see the investigation led by stu, gray. 2 have findings and her conclusions to be published. many people, though,

thought that all of this latest news about the metropolitan police would mean that investigation would be kicked into the long grass. however, the metropolitan police are saying it's happy to see all of 2 great findings and welcome at that as soon as possible. we know it's almost ready. it certainly feels like it's just a matter of time now. but full burress johnson. a very sketchy time and deeds downing street has a says that the prime minister does not believe that he has done anything wrong. we know just last week, boris johnson, i simply said, inc involving one party. at least he thought it was a work, a vent, he had no idea. he was attending a party and on these late his birthday party allegations that being played down by many people saying it was simply just a bit of cake during the working hours. so all eyes are now on to gray on her findings were really just waiting to see what the conclusions may be before any politicians perfectly come out and call for boris johnson to go at least within the tory party itself. it is, as i say, just a matter of time, but one tori,

m p. i just, yesterday described the news as another nell in the coffin. the birds johnson is already lying in the director of the u. k. center for migration and economic prosperity. steven wolf says the police investigation is a tipping point in the party gay scandal. this is a critical part of the campaign for those who've been seeking to oust horace. johnson is the prime minister of the united kingdom, is very clear that that has been a strategy of leaks and of a stories to damage his credibility and to ensure that he feels on the pressure of what he consistently so an apology has not seen good enough and the brand is damaged and so there is a feeling with in the newton and piece on the old hands. that pine protecting the conservative party requires the removal of forest johnson. and that is why they are now leaking more information. there is so much going on there now that i think more

revelations are bound to come not he that been told to mind your language. probably that was because you were swearing, but now it could happen even when you use words widely deemed to be inoffensive, especially if the university of washington new language style guide gets his way. called anything lame recently? well, the low please. so on the way to get you, the problematic word was put on the rate up by the university of washington. lane able, is me, find this weird is offensive even when it's using slang for own cool, because it's using a disability in a negative way. minority offensive in various context implies a less than half the tooth was community being disco mantra, the cultural appropriation. many people in the buddhist and hindu community hold this to him as a highly spiritual and religious experience,

and it is not to be used with nonchalance webmaster races. the words may have been chosen to emphasize the concepts of a free master. that is no work and a slave to follow the master's board is an everyday word or an offensive slur. it takes an expert to tell a difference. nowadays, no one hears that those supposed to be no offensive words, and you don't know whether to laugh what i mean. this is a politics and a culture of order bay. now let's eat and relevance. and here you have steady intellectuals coming out of u. s. universities that are fixated on this pretty symbolism and really playing a word game with no relevance whatsoever to the burning issues of you know, of our day. this is just is inexplicable. censorship a free and open speech and we're looking for things to sensor issues. how do we

solve the burning problems that the majority of people in united states and world wide sites and what is the relevance of this woke language to those problems? there is no relevance of this language to the real problems that we face that we should be discussing, thinking about and trying to resolve. and you run it today. appreciate company. this is alt international updates for you in half an hour with do you know the number one place for the rich to go to get richer congress and there are parts to being a french, as well as a record lobbying revenues in 2021. are now being reported with those tied to the president and his administration at benefiting the most. we will discuss the dollars and asked if it was just a.