[000:00:00;00] a thought i would prefer to be a law. the law will he now with british prime minister boris johnson's political life is hanging by a thread. the government inquiry into downing street lock down violations expected to be released later today, while the police prob is on the way. also in the program we speak to a british mother whose son died offer you went to a any with chest pains who was told to wait for 4 hours in order to see a doctor and country across europe, east coast restrictions, despite ne record infection rates for health officials get mixed,

taken off on the record, the all microns drink last january, the price of gasoline and manhattan was roughly $2.37. but now here it and b, p in midtown manhattan. they want $4.79. most americans say that top concern right now is that of rising prices, while the overwhelming majority of small businesses, se spiraling us inflation is damaging them badly. you have to make concessions to you to fit your budget by drive the car almost every day. the cost, the gas is going up for food. bickley, thumb is really going up really quickly, really high with now just off to 5 pm on wednesday here on moscow. this is our t international. a pleasure to have you with us today. a busy program indeed, or the british prime minister, is on the ropes with an inquiry into so called party gate lockdown violation soon

to be released. a boris johnson faced the fury of m p's and a common showdown with calls for his immediate resignation. i would prefer to be led by law than ally, or will he now has i legally proving parliament, misleading the homes, dick at eating with dodgy cache party and while the public suffer every moment he stays, he's dragging over the agony for families who is reminded of the sacrifice is the mean. when will the prime minister talk horn and go every day, the prime minister that came from scandal to scandal. and meanwhile, his government has written a full point, 3000000000 pounds to fraudsters, instead of writing of loans to food says why, why the prime minister write his resignation to the queen or caustic logged out to our correspondence shod. yeah, it was dusty standing by for us there in london. it certainly looked like johnston

took a bit of a grilling. what else do you know? well, it was indeed a very heated prime ministers questions this afternoon. as the primary subarus johnson clings on, refusing to resign, it comes as we still are awaiting the very much long awaited su, gray investigation report. it's still yet to be published as the weight gets longer and longer than many people have taken to social media saying the anticipation is more exciting than waiting for christmas. even though many of these threats a uses are saying to, we really need a report to confound the parents. johnson and his colleagues were breaking the laura at the heights of the pandemic. meanwhile, the leader of the opposition, he's calling on barnes johnson to go saying that the prime minister life twice misleading parliament about these parties. on the 1st of december, the promised to told this house in relation to parties during locked down 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 . so since acknowledges the minister of quote replies to him, william ours on. oh, to see well, at least 16 alleged gatherings in downing street parties have emerge and come to light. the report is expected to make conclusions on at least some of them. now what we do know is that includes the 20th of may 2020, where by allegedly a 100 people were invited to the downing street party to make the most out of the wonderful lovely weather and also bring your own booze. in april of 2021 apparently, to parties warehouse on the very same night where one attendee was even sent to the nearby shops at top up on the staff, she returned with it in a suit case. now, quite crucially, that party i was on the night before prince phillips funeral, and since then,

downing street has apologized directly to the queen. now more recently, an allegation comes with burst johnson on his birthday party on june the 19th, apparently there were 30 people endorsed where the prime minister was presented with some cake and soft sigh. happy birthday. now many people say the prime minister has indeed been caught red handed with all of this, but forest johnson has repeatedly said that he didn't know he was breaking any of the rules while some of bars johnson support to says some of these parties. and indeed, the birthday party was not premeditated people came and presented him to the cake on his birthday. the saying happy birthday was there for about 10 minutes. it was not a pre meditated organized party in the sense he was innocent, ambushed with k. well, as we still await the suit gray investigation on her find in some people do say that it will confirm at least some breaches. in fact,

some are saying there must be enough evidence. this is just at least an element of criminology, considering the metropolitan police have now launched an investigation. interestingly though, when it comes to the su gray findings, they will be sent directly to the prime minister. and then it will be up to him to make a statement to the house of commons. so some people are saying, will we see the full findings? will that be made public or will the prime minister choose to redact some of that information? what we do know though, is once that report lands on boris johnson's table he'll have just a few hours before he has to make it publicly known and release it. and as every minute goes by now, the calls for him to resign and for him to go, i'm guessing louder and louder shadow. thank you. well, the british government also wanted to fire over the ever growing and a trans waiting times which can sometimes have fatal results. in september. last year 27 year old norman box was taken to a ne,

in lincoln with chest pains that we died outside the emergency unit. after being told you'd have to wait for 4 hours. we spoke to his mother. now tommy, and i can't just find, they said a time for a number line, but they got told it was going to be a chill out. why actually tell this to sit down, but there was no way to say that people were standing outside normally. hot. you know, given a week, right, leave wow. well, i was still got my given my whole symptoms and i'm only wasn't able to tell now the, to the tell. we have to wait for was a come across to me in the hallway teach down in your house to stay in or not, but it's just come to you. that is, you know, i'm not the one that 1st of all, you know, the, from a lot of because of now, according to the study, more than 40 percent of u. k. hospitals fail to meet before our waiting time target a so far this year. as we understand 6000 patients have had to wait more than 12

hours in a patients waiting for more than 5 hours are considered to be a far greater risk of death. our case is similar to norman bar because of a portal, been on the rise, as a coven put ordinary services on hold. in this 1st year, more than $53000.00 and had their cancer treatment delayed. and over the same period more than 4000 to access that were recorded but not related to covert. and we spoke to joint grover and emergency medicine consultant. the last 6 to 8 months within the united kingdom. in many other countries, i'm sure there hadn't been around 10 to 20 percent of really did only 2 patients which has meant is slow processing of patients for people who come in with a problem with which people are spending much longer in the emergency department

before they can go to the hospital. so if you look at the interesting data last to last year they were about 90 percent of patients who came to the department. the last 6 to 8 months dropped to be from 90 percent to 65 to 70 percent. so that's a significant problem to all interested ottomans in the united kingdom of these are just starting 10 pallets here at moscow. countries across europe are lifting covey restrictions, despite some reported and reco case numbers. there's plenty of confusion over the plans with the w h o europe chief saying the mark on strike could spell the end game for the whole crisis, while some other officials are pointing to even more risk. well, let's try and shed some light on this live. not a power, as all shot to do was get lucky. good to see you today. mixed signal is coming in

as some european countries are poised to drop code restrictions. what's the latest? yes, that's why. if you think back to a year ago, so many people were scared really about the possibility of getting coded, what would mean for their health, whether they would be able to survive this disease. it was ravaging the world. and now a year later, despite the fact that we are seeing these record new levels of coping process cases, it seems that the concerns of many european government saw just helping away take prompts for an example. january 2021 and the cases of koby were around 20000 new positive cases on a daily basis, and that was enough to precipitate just a few weeks later, a food national look down here we are today and the daily average cases are now reaching around half a 1000000 a day. that's right. half a 1000000000 the day. and what is the government doing to react to that? well, it is easing the restrictions on cooper 19 from the next week. that comes at

a time when intensive care capacity in france is at 74 percent. when we are seeing a new rise creeping up in the numbers of people who are diving from 19 on the causes medical stuff, just say they're exhausted and they simply can't cope with this continued situation . this continued pressure, it really does make the brain bogle. when france is not the only countries, it's easing its restrictions. we've just heard on wednesday, the austria has said from next week, the look down that's been imposed specifically on unvaccinated citizens will be listed, meaning that they will be able to go out on to the streets again, but not to policy. of course, because of being on vaccination means they won't be able to access leisure facilities, but the government says that eating is coming because there is an ease of pressure on the hospital cases, but they're all those. what question is this more about the will to continue these

types of restrictions, which many has to be jacoby. and particularly with austria, has been weekly protests against code 900 restriction. and now we're getting more more calls from politicians for these types restrictions must be lifted rumbles from the police that they put too much, couldn't monitor those restrictions as well. and what's interesting about the cation street is, while it has a vaccination where you could run 72 to at the moment, that is far lower than say, here in france, where it currently stands at around 78 percent. and other countries are following seat tooth. denmark and england, all, i don't think, restrictions ease, despite the fact that there are all these record cases coming across europe. and of course, there are a warning still for the will tell us that the pandemic is far from over just a few days ago. the head of the room helped me get a. she said, you knew this narrative that could be 19, and these new variance,

which is only called, become essentially a mild disease, is simply not the case. and you rip remains the epi sent over this pandemic on health services still being in and take it with cases, and therefore not able to care for other patients who also urgently require attention to all of the spec, to the question is this pandemic about and all of these restrictions, the sites that this is the end of this pandemic we've been here before. and then we've seen back at square one. but the reality is it does seem as if we are now in a situation where many government think, you know, we just have to live because it's like a bad smell is lingering, but we just have to deal with it and put too much of it. yeah, lucky as you, as you say, there are certain european countries that are trying to, to drop all the restrictions out them. i'm regarding cove it but in austria, for example,

that still threatening to find the unvaccinated over $3000.00 euros every single month. we're just going to see how all this plays out. charlotte do thing. thank you. of croatia, as president says he will withdraw his country's nato troops from eastern europe in the event of a russia ukraine conflict. it prompted kiev. label him as an anti ukrainian propagandist. meanwhile, joe biden has reiterated that thousands of us troops are now on high alert for deployment in the region. should russia invade its neighbor? artie's peter oliver now takes a closer look at the apparent descent within that military 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 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 presence, little presence in an easter front of sources and i learned are 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 and also emphasizing the importance of it. 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 a brute force to terrify reasonable people into giving way to 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 sorry, my business partner. we don't want to make no great those links. and if the germans

don't come on board, what the situation is going to be is going out. i feel like classic situation of the american stake, annoyed for by the puddles in france and britain and with other various are eastern european states, russia to help. and we are seeing no america and britain pumping arms pumping its visors into ukraine and making threats to make sure sanctions and so on. there's also major military major navy wargames underway in the mediterranean. those nato ad drills surrounding me and revolving around the bear, 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 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, the most liberal wouldn't send out to the shops for a low for bread,

but may well lead his european allies into war with hypersonic, or 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 have put ins. russia, because putin has dragged russia up from the floor where it was lying, having its pocket picked, and restored prestige and respect, self respect to russia. that's not the kind of russia they want. well, as the attention with the professional partners of the west continue to rise, russia has announced huge colossal drills in the atlantic, the arctic, the pacific mediterranean, as well. in fact, russia's northern fleet has already launched war games in the barren see the soldiers there holding their arctic combat skills. and that exercise in that region will involve some 30 washers or just

a few clicks away for you right now on line with ukraine crisis gripping the media . some outlets are getting a little bit ahead of themselves with cnn labeling ukrainian territory as russian korea more about that right now online. if a website onto dot com or like 21 minutes past the hour right now, here at moscow and use of a shows that small businesses in america are being crushed under the weight of inflation. despite beat messages from president joe biden on the issue and overwhelming majority of entrepreneurs say that financial health is severely deteriorated in the last 6 months with households as well. of course, having to tighten their belts. a kind of muffin fall, this report new you. as the saying goes on, 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 and 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 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 a phone going up within the lawn, 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 to

a feeder. families 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. i agree with 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 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 . hi, 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 promises to tackle the problem of inflation or just words. prices are still rising. caleb mop and r t new york. the dutch government is calling for the european court of human rights to ignore russia's objections in the trial of the n h. 17 plane crash tragedy. the court has currently hearing complaints against moscow launched by ukraine and the netherlands. the 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 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 qualon 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. all right, i may, 17 wrapping up this new cost for this hour here live from moscow. an international thank you for joining us. many more stories to come when we return to the top of the out

with ah, ah, i'm option retention. we're back for another lockdown edition of going underground . after i tested positive the grown of iris in the country with the highest coven deaf toll in western europe. and as today you, k, p. m. boards. johnson drops, almost all. pandemic restrictions coming up in the show. as boss johnson threatens the blood of russian soldiers and joe biden, readies, thousands of u. s. troops to fight over ukraine. britain's former energy secretary tells us what it means. we're powering european homes and where the johnson's party political career here at home is actually over. and today,

the so called world's largest democracy, india celebrates the 75th anniversary of the end of a british imperialism. the reputedly killed 35000000. we ask, outspoken, routing, b, j, p party m, p super money. and swami india is increasing. animosity with china is now making india a colonial subject of native autism or coming up in today's going underground. but 1st, today the scandal hit government to the u. k. government describing the majority of current of ours related restrictions in the country with the highest co death joel in western europe. now as wars, johnson joins nato members and attempting to warn off russia's vladimir putin from ukraine. a question mark over them of the issue of europe, gas crisis as moscow arguably holds all the cards. joining me now from here in london is the you case, former secretary of state for energy and climate change, chris hewn. chris, thanks so much for coming back on the show, even if i remotely, i better start, i suppose obviously with the fact that the police is involved in