an engagement trail, when so many find themselves, will depart, we choose to look for common ground in ah, trisha brakes ranks going against native van to help you train against russia seine will withdraw his troops from the alliance at the conflict escalate situation which joe biden has worn moscow healed beef up the east in europe with thousands of troops. as the case hospital waiting time crisis worsens. during the panic we speak to a mother who lost a son after he was made to wait more than 4 hours. despite turning up with chest pains, last january, the price of gasoline in manhattan was roughly $2.37. but now here it be 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 them badly to speak to people in new york. you have to make concessions to, to fit your budget by drive the car. almost every day, the cost, the gas is going up, a firm is really going up really quickly, really high high that very good afternoon. thanks for joining us here on our gracious president says that he will withdraw his country straight from nato. in the case of a russian, you crank conflict, prompting care to label him an anti ukrainian propagandist me. well, joe biden reiterated. thousands of nato troops are now on high alert for deployment in eastern europe. should russia invade its navy ukraine? something russia has repeatedly denied intending to do all these. peter oliver

reports on how it's all lead to divisions within nater, corporation, president, zora milan. of ich, making so many 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 and nato headquarters. it's also unlikely to gone down particularly well in ukraine either because mr. melana, which 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. i feel obliged to be proper present. little present in an easter front was fortunate i learned are the part of our nato operation. now saw you, us operation. the language was a lot more diplomatic. here in berlin on tuesday as the chancellor all f sholtes welcomed french president emanuel macaroni 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 all fit be good to talk with olaf sholtes. 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'd 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 brute force

to terrify reasonable people into giving way otherwise completely unacceptable demands. i think the americans are desperate to try and pressurize a new government to come on board, but it's new cold war against her and against russia. but clearly there are still some in the german government who work at russia and see not as a threat as a potential. i'm so 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 be is gonna officially classic situation of the americans taken away for by the poodles in france and britain and with other various are eastern european states, russia to help. and we are seeing now america and britain pumping arms pumping its visors into ukraine and making threats of actual sanctions and saw there's also major military made in navy wargames underway in the mediterranean. those nato ad drills surrounding the and revolving around the bad. the american aircraft carrier,

the u. s. s. s. harry truman ongoing in the mediterranean. there was also promises earlier this week from the netherlands, spain, and 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 normandy 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 veteran british and p and arty host. george galloway believes as a deep split between european nato members on how exactly to deal with the crank crisis does a splintering all 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, 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 consequences. they don't hate russia. you know, i made this point you before they hit putins, 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. those tensions with the westmount rushes announced huge naval drills in the atlantic arctic. pacific and mediterranean versus northern fleets, already lost 4 games in the parents see the forces there are honing. there are 2 combat skills. the exercise would involve more than $1200.00 troops. and some 3rd ma'am, with russian invasion hysteria gripping the media. some outlets are getting a little ahead of themselves, that same sin and labeling ukrainian territory as russia read all about the confusion on our website party dot com turned into the u. k. now where the pandemic is aggravated a crisis in hospital admission waiting times, in one case back in october 27 year old norman barker was taken to a and e with chest pains. he died outside the emergency unit, waiting to be seen as to being told he'd have to wait for hours. we spoke to his mother who expressed dismay at the lack of treatment her son received. now tommy,

in a chest pains, they said they'd pay for an ambulance, but they got told there was going to be a chill out. why actually told us to sit down, but there was no way to say that people were standing outside normally patch, you know, given a week night leave. wow. well, i was still got given my whole symptoms and i'm only wasn't able to tell. 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 for an i bridge to come to you. that isn't, you know, i'm not the one that foster mom on, you know what the for my last lunch because of my the disastrous situation in a n a that norman barker's mother described. there is only getting worse seems videos of immersed, which is claimed show ambulances lined up outside hospital waiting to deliver patients. it comes with research published early this month by the emergency

medicine journal, finds the case national health services struggling to meet the demand for treatments. according to that study, more than 40 percent of u. k. hospitals fail to meet the national for our waiting time target so far this year, 6000 patients. if i'm to wait more than 12 hours in a day to be treated, patients waiting more than 5 hours, i'll consider that far greater risk of dying. in cases similar to norman bark is around the rise as the pandemic post ordinary service on hold. in his 1st year, more than $53000.00 had the cancer treatment delayed. in the same period more than 4000 excess deaths were recorded. we spoke to jordan grover, an emergency medicine consultant. he says the fact is like the overcurrent variant, all having a dangerous impact on. and he just waiting tons the last 6 to 8 months within the united kingdom. in many countries, i'm sure they haven't been around 10 to 20 percent of occupancies related

only to go with patients which has meant is slow processing patients listening to video for people who come in problems other than nice people are in much longer in the emergency department before they can go to the hospital. so if you look at the last 2 last year, they were both to 90 percent of patients who came to the 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 to all arguments in the united to face new survey shows small businesses in america are being crushed under the weight of spiraling inflation. despite up beat messages from president biden on the issue and

overwhelming majority of them tripping to say the financial, how has it deteriorated in the last 6 months with households also having to tighten bulbs. hello morgan ripples from new york. as the saying goes on, dollar ain't a dollar any more, an 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 982 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 red in new york state and 2021 was $0.88 here. and a popular supermarket in manhattan. there's bread for sale for roughly $3.48 or

$4.27. now, prices in manhattan are lock 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 flu sec. we got a phone going to boise that on just a regular trip to the supermarket as it is becoming um, you know, 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 need anything. last 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 about inflation. that's not likely anytime soon with 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 is the 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 n f are 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 or 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, jo, biden's protest has to tackle the problem of inflation or just words. prices are still rising. caleb martin, r t new york tech john spent a record amount on lobbying in 2021 according to filing submitted to congress. the

top 7 firms spent a combined 70000000 dollars finding legislation aimed at limiting their market power at the top of the list for amazon and facebook. now notice method, they spend around $20000000.00 each persuading, though mike is not to. i don't tough new regulations in the process. the dozens of into major firms and deployed professional lobbyists with close ties to members of congress and biden administration officials. but not all of the efforts succeeded. last thursday, the us senate judiciary approved a bill that prevents tech johns from giving preference to their own businesses on the websites innovation and choice on line act as it's no still has to pass a full senate vote though in order to become law, which but we've been one host of our business show been bust. 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't 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 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 is 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. and if you most time, we'll look at how high tenisha bills and the pandemic are proving a bad mix of ingredients for italian restaurant with many now police to go bust that's coming up after the break. ah ah.

join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. i'll be speaking the guess of the world of politics, sport business, i'm sure business. i'll see you then. ah look back, italian restaurants are struggling to make ends meet as record energy bills. compound be impacted the pandemic,

and many fear that they'll have to close. so you don't see the situation is not sustainable. so raising the alarm, we compare the bill of about 1500 euro we had in 2019 you know the last 2 months i i'll cost triples in november. i went up fivefold into some of our latest bill if the 5300 euro, which is the price was we just can't afford the moment when a 5 hold increases ordering the death, the business, the conduct key because we're seen fewer people go to restaurants since koby over cancellations have been rife and the future is uncertain with the next few months look in particular. so and i was when i get through a good time with all these restrictions that we are get in penalize the future for business is also at risk simply to an increase in electricity and gas coves. it is given as a big problem. there conroy, there was for those feeling the pinch, the italian government set up a public pulse of 5 and a half 1000000000 euros to offset some of the burden for households and businesses . we spoke to italians though. he said the help was made little different sofa

classy what i meant, eh, 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. hello. i mean, if we continue like this, i don't know where we will end up with the economy is collapsing, that it would be a serious blow for all of us to effort to them and their own. this bill increases an attack on families and businesses that don't touch the low income, coupled with the cost of these bills, will force them to lay off workers scaling root could be thought. so now i've read the situation, is true. a dramatic i received a very high bill and in a family we're only one person works, but it's really hard to get to the end of the month. the european court of human rights is hearing complaints against russia lodge by ukraine on the netherlands over the mh 17 tragedy of 2014 moscow. seeking to get the case dismissed. get onto our tea correspondent, donald coatings across developments. search for is the don. what's his stake?

in this case, and what is the russian position either, neil, well, the european court of human rights is now considering a complaint lodged by ukraine and the netherlands against russia. in connection to the downing of malaysian airlines flight m 817. but russia's representative to the court says that this complaint should actually be completely disregarded. he also says that the higgs belief that moscow has not been cooperative throughout this investigation is just nonsense. let's take a listen to what he said. unfortunately, the dutch authorities are clearly misleading the court by saying that the requests were left unanswered by the russian authorities. 29 requests for legal assistance from the netherlands have been received so far and 28 of them have been answered. now just to remind our viewers, mh 17 was on its way to qualify poor from amsterdam when it was shot down over done yet. so this was shortly after the conflict in ukraine broke out in 2014.

unfortunately, none of the nearly 300 passengers on board survived, and kiev was close, was quick to blame this, this tragedy on the militants in the breakaway region. the kiev said that they were using actually, russian provided equipment to shoot down this plane. this is something that moscow denies, and the millet and the militants, the mill, the militia from the self proclaimed p people's republic of done yet also said that they didn't have the equipment that would make it possible to shoot down a plane at that distance. a number of theories have floated around since then one, including even the possibility that perhaps ukrainian jets fired on that passenger plane and shot it down. now, the court process surrounding this tragedy has been going on since 2020. and since then, ukraine has still refused to provide any radar data connected to the event. washington has yet to provide the satellite images that it says capture the exact time of launch of the rocket that hit the plane. but this court process is still going on,

were set later in this specific meeting to see a representative from though of those who lost their family members in that tragedy . so it'll be interesting to see how this court process plays out on appreciate it, on quarter with the latest force. and finally this hour. if you've ever been told to mind your language, it's may well have been because you were swearing, but now it could actually even happen when you use words widely deemed to be in defense, especially if the university of washington is new language style guide gets its way called anything lame recently? well, the vote please. so on that wait said get you. the problematic word was put on the right up by the university of washington. plain abel. ism implied. this where it is offensive, even when it's used in slang for own cool because it's using a disability in a negative way. minority offensive in various context implies a less than attitude towards the community being disco mantra,

cultural appropriation. many people in the foot in hindu community hold the same as highly spiritual and religious experience, and it is not to be used with nonchalance webmaster races. the words may have been chosen who emphasized the concepts of a free master, that is no work and a slave that followed the master's boards and every day word or an offensive slur. it takes an expert to tell a difference. nowadays. history tells us one thing that the ancient greeks and the latin language gave us most roots to our language today. and to start trying to change this phases of years later is just crazy and unnecessary. i think we should respect language for what it is and not trying to adapt language to suit a particular political rhetoric. it is

a form of censorship. this is a small body of people with a very strange view of the world who feel virt. although they might not be affected by certain words, other people might be so yes, censorship is definitely a good description of this. it is this strange fraction who feel they are right and only they are right. i feel that we need to be very careful, abides expanding this work situation. and i think you're right. it is. i think she company be watching archie international, of course, lost more news on our website if you have chance had t r t dot com with

to bring you the very latest every out the day. this is now snow from everyone here with with hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . winds 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 was presented it's vision in writing while washington falls back on our k. a cold war cliches. ah, discuss these issues and more. i'm joined by my guess. ryan becker in washington. he is the executive director of the answer coalition. in new york, we have john rowley. he is a political animals, as well as a former foreign horse and in russia and in london we cross so unreal, concerned that he is the founder of ha, consulting in a foreign affairs analyst, hard gentleman crosstalk rules and effect. that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it. okay, let's go to brian 1st in washington. i sent him introduction where we've had 2 weeks of high level ox um everyones positioning. um, i think what we know.