a dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country. do we start asking ourselves, why did they die? why do what were they fighting for? nobody bothers down to about that contractors in a couple stories fleeing from anger. the canadian prime minister is reportedly rushed to an evacuation site as more than $10000.00 truckers protest against vaccine mandates. outside parliament. we hear from one of the activists who's been in the half of the demonstration and also what we've never seen anything like this before. the their ordinary canadian birthday, we hired a government telling us how we are cult member live. i can't, we are a passenger acute as an airline for violating his freedom of speech after he's asked to remove his face mask because of the anti biden. let's go,

brandon. slogan written on it with the british prime minister, consider sending more troops to nato on the same time looking for talks with the russian leda critics claim he's just trying to divert attention from the deepening party kate scandal it home with. that's just to him one of the afternoon this monday, moscow will miss the last day of january. i'm calling bright with the wealth hughes from outside international 1st and to canada, where the prime minister just introduced has reportedly been brought to a secret secure location. as more than 10000 truckers along with supporters, the best so called freedom convoy descended on parliament hill in the capital renewed no jap, no job role that's being brought in. crowds and vehicles have been blocking key roads around the parliament building and also it protest is brave warnings of extreme cold to vent their opposition to vaccine mandates. and also some other pandemic restrictions that are in place. how many that they're not against the jobs,

just the government, forcing people to take them. canadian activists, chris house and talk to us from the protest. as you can see, i'm surrounded by some trucks right now. i'm standing right in front of parliament . i've been here for a couple days. there been no problem whatsoever. but there is an absolute unyielding determination on the part of the truckers not leave until all the mandates about bandanna are gone because we've been putting up for 2 years and we've had enough. they're not following scion when they're playing all these different mandate. it just the political maneuver, try to control it. and the doctor is simply going to take, they're not going to tolerate it anymore. so it's on boy, from british columbia and from the maritime, the mall, the other province of all can birds done ottawa, they fill it up to $53.00. it's the biggest protest, i think the canadian history geographically it's a bit difficult for canadian, productive, or it's not the big country. but we've never seen anything like this before. and i

think it just lit a fire in canadian because this is partly an opportunity for all of us to get together to show that there is a widespread movement. i guess what our government's doing through don't pride to say that this is just a friend. minority of canadian with unacceptable views. and nothing could be further from the truth, either ordinary canadian or simply tired of this death bought a government telling us how we live our lives. and even telling us our look, the thing i want to police say, it's costing $600000.00 a day to maintain security in the capital during the rallies. the protests erupt. it after the government extended jap mandates, the truck drivers crossing the border with the united states. and the truck is say, that threatens vital supply chains, but the canadian health agency justified the move, citing rising cobit cases and also hospitalizations. let's just take a quick look at how the protests of unfolded over the past few weeks.

it's not about the vaccine itself, it's about the man and the freedom to choose. that is what these ordinary hardworking canadians are here for. they want to, they want their freedoms store ah, the small fringe minority of people who are on their way to ottawa are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing do not represent the views of canadians who have been there for each other. ah, society itself is overtaken by fear. this voice is all of the freedom. it's not only with a truck driver, it's actually for every single person, you mean money down the road, it doesn't matter. it's all about your choice. me

what the issue causing clear divisions in the country canada's made national broadcast, has been quick to point to supposedly to blame for the unrest concerns that russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this as this protest grows. but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset. but political commentator and art contributor, lauren chad believes that needs to be more focus on the real problems plaguing canada. right now. i feel like this whole russian scare is, is merely something to try to detract from the protest to make it seem like these are not canadians who are part of this movement. which, when you, i mean, you look at the ground and ottawa, i don't think russia managed to sneak 10000 protesters across the border. i, it is frankly insulting as well to the canadians. i think this protest is a long time coming. this is not about the vaccine itself. this is about the mandate

. the canadian government has tried to implement some of the strictest in the world are right now if you are not vaccinated, cannot travel by plane train or ferry and that includes just even domestically. there is a federal mandate for a federal employees as well as health care workers. there have just been many times that the canadian government has told its people that they do not respect their freedom of choice. the government is coercing you to do something that you may or may not want to do and to be clear. canada is one of the most vaccinated countries on the planet. the vast majority of canadians who are eligible have received both doses. so this is not a question of canadians denying science or wanting to put each other's hell their wrists, or however opponents might want to spin it. it's a very different story when you tell someone that regardless of their medical status, what, what if afflictions they might personally be experiencing unless they submit, they will not be able to go to a restaurant. you know, they will not be able to travel, they will not be able to visit their loved ones and hospitals, all of which are restrictions that we have seen in canada. it's very dystopian. i

think this is about control. this is about trying to get people to submit to the governments, women, and frankly, this is, this is past due for canadians. we are generally not people to protests or be louder, make our voices heard. we are very polite as the stereotype goes. but i think you can only push people so far, and that is exactly what you're seeing on the streets of auto right now. this is not america any mold. that's how a passenger on spirit airlines reacted when staff told him to remove his face mask because it had the anti biden. let's go, brandon. slow good on it. a video of the incidence exploded on social media. it's been racking up around 400000 views on tick tock alone. not america anymore. the america anymore. the company here. if i had a b, l, a mass guy, what is it been? okay. what does that mean? like lives out or? no. what does that grand in? what does that mean? it's my name. but isn't it freedom of speech to have the mascot? is it?

is it a freedom to feed massive home? i just, i can't wear a massive says, let's go brandon. like this. anybody, i don't understand the incident happened on the flight from cleveland to tampa. one of the crew said it was unacceptable for the passenger, adam or don yet to display a political statement, citing the airlines policy. but mister riddle, near claims, it's a violation of his freedom of speech. now we've contacted spirit lights, the comment. if we hear anything back, we'll let you know what they say for that slogan. let's go brandon. it's become a code for insulting president biden. it started when not com, dr. brandon brown was being interviewed a few months back after winning the race. the crowd behind him in that stadium, you can see began challenging an expletive president. the reporter thought they were saying, let's go. brandon. political commentator chadwick mobily, freedom of speech in the united states is increasingly under attack. if the contract says you can't wear offensive clothing, then what is offensive?

that's all subjective, that's of the beholder. he makes the point that if someone wearing black lives matter math, when people buy medicine, they think it's the dog whistle for communism, for violence, things of this nature. where is that, where it can be asked to remove the mask? obviously there's also the other thing that this man was also wearing a let's go brandon sweatshirt. us. that because that might be a little more complicated, but he was asked to replace the mass. so it's not, it's not directly probate or, or maybe what offends one person makes it other person laugh. and we decide censorship is a huge problem and this is the land that, you know, the 1st amendment is supposed to be of the world throughout the west. and it's certainly under attack. we don't have congress doing much to protect free speech, and the 1st amendment to rate in corporations might be targeting. people are harassing people because of their political views because their political messaging happened. in this case, it's a very good situation and it doesn't seem to be getting better anytime soon. ah,

no, it's not just slogans on masks raising free speech issues. spotify announced the podcasts that contain co covert related content will now get flagged up. it's off for a number of musicians demanded the streaming giant council popular canadian, a bulk cast, and joe rogan, who they accused of spreading this information about vaccines. are the saskia taylor looks at how the simplest aspects of life becoming political. it was the best to put costs. it was the was to put costs. yes, again, joe rogan has landed himself bang in the middle of the culture. all this information and making money off of it. this information i should say, joe rogan has been at the center of controversy. i mean, i agree that joe rogan is a hora. they can have rogan or young, not both. but maybe it's me, but that's an easy choice. yes. neil young, maybe just really into vaccines or maybe bad critic say, just looking for the relevance. he lost way back in the 19 seventy's told spot to

fight. it's me or joe, i'm doing this because spotify spreading fake information about vaccines, potentially causing death to those who believe this information being spread by them. and the young spotify exec, soft, googling who neil young is. and then remembering how they spend 100000000 dollars on exclusive right to the most popular podcast in the world, pretended to think long and hard about it before saying, sorry, neil, but we'll take the unbox guy who makes us super rich and trends on twitter. it was nice knowing you though, we have detailed content policies in place and we've removed over $20000.00 podcast episodes related to coven 19th since the start of the pandemic. we regret meals decision to remove his music from spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon. so young set out to cancel some one man ended up being cancelled himself a true 21st century tragedy. following in young footsteps thought a seventy's folk legend jody mitchell doctors and even the wild health organization

cheap, who all took a swing, a spot to fight. so what he said, that's wound people up. well, it's rather whom he's been speaking to, shall we be polite and call them vaccine skeptics. but then he went too far and invited jordan, peter said the professor on every liberals most wanted list since were being polite . let's just say that some of the views expressed one controversial. i am white act that's a lie to. i'm kind of tan and he was actually not there's no such thing as climate, right? climate and everything or the same word, an episode that some people into a frenzy, but not rosa. no, he's chilled approach. he brings in a 1000000 listeners every single day. and apparently they like carol tanika views. so he's given the proud boy's conspiracy theorists. fetal musket black conservatives whistleblowers anyway, broken not worried, and he might not be a legitimate source of medical information, but he is the most popular pub, costa,

in the world, untouchable. he knows that even the people he's clashed with on his own show can help. but love him be, and i disagree about a lot, but i would rather engage with deeply enthusiastic, deeply curious people who i think are mistaken about many things. then only ever hear from people whose opinions i already understand. so what do we learn from the latest episode of the joe rogan experience? well, he might be a persona non grata, but everyone still wants to be rogan's bessie. the 1st amendment, just clinging on to rogan way too big to cancel and spotify. barry, very greedy. well, as for joe rogan, he says, the perception that people have of him is simply based on disparaging headlines that we spoke to the daughter of one of rogan's latest guests who you just had. southgate talk about that the prominent clinical psychologist, jordan peterson. she questions the outrage over the podcast, stifling people's freedom of speech is more dangerous than allowing people to speak

. and i mean, joe rogan as a comedian, right? so people watching his podcast should be aware that he comes out all these ideas about covert and climate, whatever that's being discussed as a curious comedian is not an expert. i think he poses an actual danger to the mainstream narrative. so most of the new stations people see all say the same thing . they all have one way of thinking. and joe rogan, not that he's an expert in any of these areas, but he talks to whoever he wants and he puts forth a narrative that isn't mainstream. you can't stop people from talking about the as i these ideas anyway, because it increases curiosity, right? so just the i, the whole thing about stifling free speech doesn't work. so it's silly to dale. it's dangerous to do, and i don't think it's effective. now he may have a male from a problem swirling around him at home. but the british prime minister boris johnson is looking to solve issues further afield. he said that he could send more troops

to nato forces in eastern europe, but at the same time as seeking talks with leukemia potent to improve relations. as the 10th situation of ukraine continues, as altima, daniel hawkins explained to me earlier. well, it was just last week down the street said the prime minister at time into both accelerate diplomatic efforts and ramp up the terrance against russia. and it seems the latter is coming 1st. you guys and i'll plan to double it. fruit presents a stoney work, has around a 1000 soldiers increasing that at 22000 most so part of a nato task force of thousands of phone just based across eastern europe from the baltic states to poland and romania as well. and that follows similar enough, of course, by joe biden. just last week you said he would be bumping up at troop presence us troop presence in eastern europe, including $8000.00 soldiers on stand by full rapid deployment. and that's not all this week. the u. k. parliament will hear legislation will allow the government to target russian banks as companies and also oligarchs close to the kremlin in order

to do what they describe as a russian hostility. this package would send a clear message to the kremlin. we will not tolerate their destabilizing activity, and we will always stand with our nato allies in the face of russian hostility will diplomatic efforts, aster ongoing and depos johnson. we'll have a phone call with that person. in the coming days, he will travel alongside foreign secretary list trust to the reason including to the ukraine and capital key in an apparent effort to give to play. we say a final shots, the prime minister directed the foreign and defense secretaries to prepare to go to moscow for talks with their can't parts. in the coming days. they will be asked to improve relationships with president putin's government and encourage de escalation or quite contradictory messages. they're improving relations de escalation, while the pulling troops perhaps would confuse money, including seen the president of ukraine. vladimir zalinski. he said in recent days that he wanted a western lead is not moscow. russia, but what's the latest to tone down that rhetoric of an even

a russian threat and even at russian invasion, stating that this sort of language simply was panic piece. what was ation and damages the new economy? what about johnson's critics? plenty of them around at the moment, they'll point to what johnson is doing to try and play hard with russia as just a tool to try and deflect from the party. gates scanned lives. anybody buying what he's selling or boy jonathan, it's very watson far and not just from the opposition, but from his own party. he's had defections. he's had m p 's questioning just how terrible his position really is. he's had senior figures calling for information. he also, of course, faces the official inquiry, the outcome of that inquiry from sir grey, the police criminal investigation into policy gate, those elect breaches of covered regulations. and this is very much dominated media headlines, prominence, questions. even in the polls the labor party has taken for the 1st time in years a significant lead over the tories shown just how much of the public has been effected by the scandal. and critics are saying,

increasingly this talk of our russian threats of russian invasion is a bit of a diversion, gives the promise of some weaving spice from these domestic problems. boris johnson says he's helping with the diplomatic situation in russia and ukraine. he has no credibility, no one trusts him. the best thing he could do to help would be to resign. he will travel to moscow or wherever he is going in europe this week. but everyone will know that he's a man with a time bomb sitting under him. i was glad to see no sign wants to see diplomacy failure. nobody would benefit from rising energy prices. an unstable market. currency fluctuations know the moscow europeans or ukrainians. what is clear though, is that by sending the sorts of mixed messages, bros johnson, according to some, certainly decreasing the chances of a different magic solution of compromise. rather than increasing the chances of seeing all to why and finding a compromise with moscow. international affairs commentator, marco gas is also suspects paris johnson is trying to use the situation to his own

advantage. boris johnson seems to me to be trying to appeal to 2 audiences, say he wants to talk about improving relations with moscow in order to satisfy those who don't want us to be sleep. walking into a major complex, at the same time for the hawks in the audience, he wants to make the point a sending more troops into a potential conflict region on the domestic front. boris is a series of walls and conflicts which are extremely unpleasant to him. what better way to, to remove the focus from those into appear to be somewhat of a strong potential leader in a foreign conflict, not one that has ever occurred, but one that is being suggested to be likely or possible. so cur boris johnson. the aim is to use a potential, a story of a potential forum, conflicts to distract attention from the real conflict. and the real internal was being waged against his reputation in the united kingdom. so he will use his

external cloud to annisa ties, domestic opposition to his apprenticeship. that's the plan anyway. and we'll see how it works. while there's britain in the us about a closely coordinate, the devastating sanctions against russia. washington says it will make its plans clear. so that moscow doesn't have a chance to limit the damage and with calls to punish russia for the situation in ukraine rising across europe as well. but i guess the next has been taking a closer look at who's likely to lose the most in the sanctions game. the united states, the european union, not putting the final touches on our sanctions, least so our renders, they promise no one seen the like. in decades. they expect an eye for an eye that moscow will follow suit and turn off the gas stops. for example, exacerbating what is already a global energy crisis, no matter how many times russia has said that it won't restrict gas applause. and

so bureaucrats are off scurrying about trying to figure out how will survive if they implement their own sanctions. we're collaborating with governments in market operators on supply of additional volumes of natural gas to europe, from diverse sources across the globe. liquefied natural gas in the short term can enhance security of supply. while the continued to enable the transition of met 0 emissions, the european commission will work for improve transparency and utilization of liquefied natural gas terminals in the ease. this is impossible, in the short term, if russia natural gas, which, which makes up a 3rd of what europe needs, is cut off entirely. you can make up for it. every day. russia supplies europe with 17000000000 cubic feet of natural gas for reference. the united states exports in total to everyone about 10000000000 cubic feet of natural gas per day. so if the

united states and all of its natural gas to europe, it still wouldn't be enough to fill the void, the europeans on schubert, ne, understand the simple fact. germany needs a reliable energy supply that does not depend on a single pipeline such as nor stream to the consequences of an escalation of the conflict would be grim for every one. so it's right to talk to each other through any suitable charles to prevent an escalation. and we haven't even begun to talk about price. some european nations, such as germany pay a quarter of the market price for russian natural gas. american gas would cost them $4.00 times as much for the same quantity, market price. this is in the middle of winter that a tom, when energy prices in europe have, have doubled, have tripled, have quadrupled over the past year. and at a time when you see headlines about europeans, europeans having to choose between heating and food. the european union,

like many other regions in the world, is currently facing a sharp spike in energy prices. this is a high concern for citizens, businesses, the european institutions and governments over the u. the european commission wants to help and support addressing the negative impact and households and businesses as a priority. and that was before they put together sanctions, least so horrendous that they honestly expect russia to cut off the gas and perhaps even the oil a sanctions list. so horrendous, they themselves don't even know what will come of it. we can't preview every action, but the intent there really is to have measures that we think will degrade russia's industrial capabilities and industrial production capacity over time. not to go after individual every day russian consumers, united states, the europeans, have said, time and time again that they want to avoid sanctioning russian energy so that the supplies keep feeding europe. chances are, of course,

that nothing will come of this. russia remains adamant that a war, whether it triggers those sanctions or not, would be senseless. and that has no plans to invade ukraine. this nonsense, you know, why should the russia stop the delivery of gas nonsense, from economical point of view? and then also didn't happen. and the history of this is only an interest of the united states because the united states wants to sell their island g gas, which is good to buy fracking. and this production is much more expensive if this really i will. and cheap gas from russia would be cut off. for 1st we would have a demand, which you wouldn't be covered, we would get problems to get. and then she cries this, the previous sanctions,

the european, especially german industry. they are hurting, while europe and russia, in this case, it would be the same. russia is putting the v vaccine effective against the rapidly spreading omicron covered very and according to a french medical institute director who's been looking into recent joint research conducted in italy and russia. it shows something interesting and promising that it's capable to and that is in community not only to the very constrained but also the new microwave. so this is this idea. next is just the easiest to deploy for logistical reasons. so you can use it. so it's been a vaccine instrument, you can use it as a stand alone reaction. it can also use it as

a boost in combination. this is called mixed match with although and i'm saying that needs more evidence doesn't think i'm trying to be blowing maturity to doesn't that mean as a new one? so we know in our forms, in the general population, what enjoy your listing needs all the me is a so i don't know what stage are advanced is the and the and then it is by the way of the i didn't need to be extra vaccination is very important,

that is in combination with setting diameters distancing. i g 3, those is the sudden those is often the magic that if you really get a maximum of the free though, is it's, so let's see what happens. we don't have enough backed up disease, but i'm reasonably confident that this is so in other words, the 2nd booster will be sufficient to use neutral, at least for some duration back would be pretty. going to get in. and then hey, that's it for me. were you joining us this monday? hope you having a great start to the week in the next few hours, nick aarons gonna be here to keep you updated? follow by kevin a to round off this january. the 31st. when other for me ah

ah ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race move is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk when i would show seemed wrong when i just don't hold any world. yes. to shape out disdain becomes the advocate. an engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds

apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah, ah, i'm absent attention. you're watching a special edition of going underground 54 years since the tet offensive. a turning point against us was in the vietnam region that killed 6000000 as american forces fought that toward to make the world safer capitalism. in america, the youngest mayor of a major u. s. city was waging his own war against unrestrained corporate power targeting

his city of cleveland, his standing h, the privatization of the publicly owned mooney light company echoes fights all around the world against neoliberalism. joining me now from cleveland is that mad dennis goosenich, former democratic nominee for the u. s. presidency and author of the division of light and power. dennis, thanks so much for finally being on going underground dom i should just start to by the fact that we're being warned here in london, the gliding me a put in my turn the light and power off in that your view, your thoughts on the fact that the nato, a briefing we are on the brink of war in europe, and the biden is preparing thousands of troops to fight awards. russia. i can show you here from our american shide. i'm talking you from a neighborhood including ohio and no one around here. it's thinking or talking about war, people are just trying to leave their own lives. she gets her in a pan, derek, by nowhere should arrive in chicago to me. and i think that people are pretty typical

of most americans. i think are.