ah, with ah, this i was top headlines right now here were naughty international, british prime minister boris johnston's political life. it's hanging by a thread with a government inquiry into downing street locked down violations expected to be released later today, while the police prob gets under way. we are going live to london in just a moment. also in the program, we speak to a british mother whose son died off the he went to a any with chest pains, but was told to wait for 4 hours in order to see a doctor and croatia brakes ranks going against nato's valve to help ukraine against russia saying it'll withdraw his troops from the military alliance. if

a conflict does indeed breakout with. i don't see you live in a 100 countries world wide. it's good to have you with us today. i'm rural, re sushi. so the british prime minister is on the ropes with an inquiry into a so called pot. he kate locked down violations about to be released of orest johnson. as we understand, faced the fury of m. p. 's and a commons showdown with colds for his immediate resignation. illegally for drawing parliament, misleading the house. decorating with dodgy cash part to him while the public suffer. every moment he stays, his dragging of the agony for families who reminded of the sacrifices they made a drug in his party, father through the dirt. the public knows that the house knows it. even his own and peas noise. when will the prime minister talk on go?

he didn't need the excuse. i don't have a party, but it did help, didn't it? so when he had groups of people singing to him, when illegal gatherings in door were illegal and communal singing was band, my constituents think that he has like my constituents think that he lied to this house and my constituents think he lied to them when he was hopping and telling them all right, crossing lie to london right now and i was, he's shot it was dr. joining us here at shotwell. good to see you. it did seem as though johnston was taking a bit of a grilling right there. what. what more can you tell us while another wednesday and another very heated prime ministers questions this afternoon is the long awaited investigation. the su gray investigation into the downing street parties is still yet to be published. now. it could come really at any minute,

but m. p 's are now saying in the house of commons, do we really need this report? do we really need a police investigation into all of these allegations to confirm that bar as johnson and his colleagues broke the rules during the pandemic? now the leader of the opposition to care stammer, he's been calling on morris johnson to go saying that at least twice. boys, johnson, the prime minister, misled parliament over these parties. on the 1st of december, the promised to told this house in relation to parties during locked down. all guidance was followed completely in number 10. on the 8th of december, the prime minister told this house, i have been repeatedly assured since these allegations of merge, the walls no party since acknowledges the minister of quote applies to him when he now resign. oh, to speak? well, at least 16 allegations of gatherings in downing street parties have come to lighten

recent months. now, the su gray investigation, this report will be concluding about all of those parties now that include some key allegations, particularly on the 20th of may of 2020 a 100 people were allegedly invited to the downing street god and to make the most out of the lovely weather and of course to bring your own booze. in april of 2021 q parties. a thought to has happened on the very same evening where one to 10 d was sent off to the local shops to top up the booth stash. an even brought all of this bruce back in a suitcase crucially, though this particular night was the night before prince philip's funeral, and since downing street has been forced to apologize directly to the queen. but then the most recent allegation comes for the 1st johnson birthday party on june. the 19th of 2023rd to peoples with thought to be in doors presenting bars. drugs were the but they take on even singing, happy birthday to them. as a reminder,

the rules at the time only allow 2 people to mix and do i myself have a birthday in june. so i particularly knew the rules at the time. now, many people say that boris johnson, the prime minister, has already been caught red handed and burst. johnson has repeatedly said he didn't know he was breaking any of these rules. however, far as johnson's allies, his cue support to say that many of these parties particular the best they want wasn't even planned. people came in presented in the case on his birthday. they saying happy birthday was there for about 10 minutes. it was not a pre meditated organized party, in that sense. he was in offend ambush with a cake. so we are still waiting for su grey's reported expected. she will probably confirm that there was some breaches as fact, as enough evidence to suggest that because now we know the police are officially launching this investigation. interestingly, the, all of these party gate findings will be sent to the prime minister 1st. and then

it's up to him to go to the house of commons and make an official statement. so many people are wondering, will we see the entire report in full, or will boris johnson or doc some of this information. he may end up saying well down the street needs a bit of a cultural change. the way for our ministers questions like just a few minutes ago earlier this afternoon. it seems like the cool for him to go up becoming louder and louder together. i shot. yeah, thank you. well, the british government also wanted to fire over the ever growing and h s waiting time, which can sometimes have fatal results. in september last year 27 year old normal baker was taken to a any and lincoln with chest pains. he died outside the emergency unit after being told he would have to wait for 4 hours. so we spoke to his mother. now tommy, and i can't just find, they said they'd bang for a number line, but they got told that was going to be a chill out. why?

i was actually told this to sit down, but there was no way to say that people was standing outside normally patch, you know, given a week night leave. wow. well, i was still got not given my whole symptoms and i'm only wasn't able to tell. now the to the tell we have to wait for, i was a come across to the call, wait, teach down in your stop, stay in for another. it's just come to you. that is, you know, i'm not the one that trust a lot of loans because of, according to the study, more than 40 percent of u. k. hospitals failed to meet before our waiting time target. so far this year, 6000 patients. if i have to wait more than 12 hours and a any patients waiting more than 5 hours are considered to be a far greater risk of death. now cases similar to norman boxes are on the rise. as the pandemic puts ordinary services on hold. in his 1st year, more than 53000 had

a cancer treatment delayed and over the very same period both and 4000 excess deaths were recorded not related to a covert. we spoke to georgia grove or an emergency medicine consultant. the last 6 to 8 months. so within the united kingdom, as in many other countries, i'm sure there has been around 10 to 20 percent. oh, hospital and sees related only to go with patients which has meant that there is no slow processing of patients. less of visibility of beds for people who come in mid problem other than corporate, which then leads that people are spending much longer in the emergency department before they can go to the hospital. so that is a problem. and if you look at the end, it is in our data last to last year and they were about 80 to 90 percent of patients who came to the emergency department in less than 4

hours. and the last 6 to 8 months that has dropped significantly from 90 percent to 65 to 70 percent. so that's a significant to the problem to all emergency departments in the united kingdom office in croatia as president says, he will withdraw his country's nato troops from eastern europe in the event of a conflict with russia and ukraine. and ultimately prompted key after label him as an anti ukrainian propagandist. meanwhile, dra biden has reiterated that thousands of note. our troops are now on high alert for possible deployment in eastern europe. should russia invade its neighbor? artist peter oliver now takes her plato rather closer look we should say that the apparent descent within the alliance 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 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 coverage, 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 presence,

little present in on easter from the sources. i learned. are there part of a nato operation now, so 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 the 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 of brute force to terrify reasonable people into giving way to otherwise completely unacceptable demands. i think the americans are desperate to try and pressure as 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 into visors into ukraine and making threats of extra sanctions and saw there's also major military made in navy war games 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 moved to paris on wednesday, and norman d 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. we discussed the ukraine crisis and the general perception of russia without the host and former british m p. george galloway does a splintering all the european side of the nato alliance. germany has made it plain that it does not support the build up of war material 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 as seen, american president. not most people wouldn't send out to the shops for

a low for bread, but may well lead his european allies into war with hypersonic, sour, more nuclear superpower, called russia. so it's all beginning to break apart the law. one intended consequence that they don't have russia, you know, i made this point job before they had put in 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 won't let me time as tensions with the west continue to rise. russia has announced a colossal drills in the atlantic in the arctic, in the pacific and also in the mediterranean. in fact, that russia's northern fleet has already launched a war games in a barren sea. the forces there holding their arctic combat skills. as we understand

that exercise in that region will involve some 30 washers and with the grain crisis gripping the media summit, luther getting just a little bit ahead of themselves with cnn labeling ukrainian territory. as russian can read more about that confusion that are on my plan. most of the come here of the program, america's 40 year inflation record is that some families struggling to pay for the very basics in life. we'll be exploring that and the government's response in just a month. a lines have been drawn and positions made clear. after 2 weeks of high level talks, russia and nato, we main kohl's apart on how to define pan european security moving forward. moscow

is presented it's vision in writing while washington falls back on our k cold war cliche. oh, is your media a reflection of reality in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? high selection for community. are you going the right way or are you being led to somewhere? direct? what is true? wharf is great. in the world corrupted, you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the shallows.

ah, good davie with us today. a new survey shows small businesses in the us, so being crushed under the weight of inflation. this is despite up beat messages from president biden on the issue. an overwhelming majority of entrepreneurs say that financial health has severely deteriorated in the last 6 months, with households, of course, also having to type nat belts. i cannot ma penfield this report from new york. as the saying goes, a dollar ain't a dollar anymore, and american families are being squeezed by inflation. there has been a 7 percent increase in 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 low bread in new york state and 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 locked, steeper even in good time. that's a pretty significant increase in cost for the consumer. i've food thickly thumb is really going up really quickly, really high. and the fruit check, we got a fully going to boise that on just a regular trip to the supermarket. as it is becoming a, 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 last january,

the price of gasoline and manhattan was roughly $2.37. but now, here it be p in midtown manhattan. they won $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 is not likely anytime soon, a more inflation 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 ins 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 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 freeze 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,

jill biden's promises to tackle the problem of inflation are just words. prices are still rising. caleb martin r t new york italian restaurants are struggling to make ends meet as record energy bills. compound the impact of cove it many fairing belt just have to close unless you don't see the situation is not sustainable. so raising the law, we compare the bill of about 1500 euro huntington's 90 and you know, the last 2 months i'll close triples in november, i went up fivefold in december. how late to spill is to 5300 euro, which is the price that we just can't afford at the moment when a 5 fold increase is 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 . luke, in particular. so in other words, we're not getting through good time with all these restrictions that we are getting penalize the future for business is also a tryst simply to an increase in electricity and gas coasts. it is given as

a big problem pick on illinois. they want to see quite let's, i get a bit of perspective on this right now. we'll show you some numbers. here are some electricity bill costs to want to restaurant to a shed with us. you can see right there, big jump from november to december last year. although the amount of electricity use was roughly the same and compatible october 2019th, the bills have more than tripled. and for those that feeling the pinch, the italian government has set up a public pot of 5 and a half 1000000000 euros to try and offset some of the burden for households and businesses. though we spoke to italian. so you said the help is really made very little difference 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 unloading. hey, alright. if we continue like this, i don't know where we will end up on the economy is collapsing, that it would be a serious blow for all of us to effort different their own. 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 scaling root could be thought sooner ever. the situation is truly 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. the dutch government is calling for the european court of human rights to ignore russia's objections in the trial of the mh 17 plane crash. tragedy at the court is currently hearing complaints against moscow lodge by ukraine and the netherlands. russia, though, is actually seeking to get the case dismissed. art is donald quarter, explains. 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 and answered 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 qual, i'm poor from amsterdam when it was shot down over done. yes, 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 they'll be interesting to see how the core process plays out. ah, if you've ever been told to mind your language, it's probably because you were swearing, but now it could happen even when you use words that are widely deemed inoffensive . especially if the university of washington's new language style guide gets its way. called anything lame recently?

well, the vote police are on their way to get you. the problematic word was put on the rate up by the university of washington. claim, a bill is 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 buddhist and 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 board is an everyday 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 5 thousands 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. you can read more about that of the america 2nd of all t dot com. or if you want to see people with a template flaring on that subject, don't miss the op head section of our website as well. thanks for joining us. we're back soon with join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure, i'll be speaking the guess of the world politics sport business. i'm show business . i'll see you then. mm hm.