but not does anybody in the u. k. in the u. k. they will, he's also to good friday agreement has to be maintained in terms of peace. and now there's another issue that's obviously been a big news over the last several days. and that is the pact for building nuclear powered submarines between australia, united kingdom and the united states. and france is none too happy about the how is that going to affect the economic relationship between france in the u. k? well, couple of things. number one, the french have to pull their french out of the u. s. and actually the french, if you remember that the oldest ally of the u. s. because they actually ganged up on us brits to our new orb independence. but i think it's very sad move, and she, particularly when they micro declared about now it's great that the adults are back in town when biden was elected. because this is being very childish to withdraw your ambassador. but now to your question brand with regard to the trade with the u . k, i mean, this isn't good for any kind of relations.

and the u. k. form this pack with the australians, it is that the diesel submarines are not viewed as being as competitive and what is necessary to for the chinese in the pacific because these are submarines have to surface and the nuclear submarines can stay under the water for fall greater amount of time, so the diesel submarines were viewed as obsolete. so this agreement was more about what is best for the protection of australia. not a some thumb against the french from the brits, but it doesn't help in terms of your exact question, which was with regard to trade. it doesn't help because of course that's still that the fish was, have not ended. and there was still a lot of friction between the british and the french, and i have just about 30 seconds for hillary. but another thing that prime minister johnson is going to do well here is meet with jeff bezos. yeah. of amazon, about their tax basically requirement they didn't pay very much as they saw a 50 percent increase in business in the u. k.

the u. k. government is threatening to withhold millions of pounds promised her friends in order to help confront the migrant crisis. united kingdom accuses paris not pulling its weight as a record number of people continued to arrive on u. k. beaches after leaving from northern france. paris and return call the accusation. a serious loss of trust. shot adverse gosti has the story from london patel. i have friends, counterpart or yes. again in the middle of a war of words and it's all about the escalating crisis on the english channel. it comes as just yesterday alone, 800 people crossed the english channel, one of the world's busiest shipping line. so today, pre capital hosted a meeting with the french interior minister off the preacher battelle threatened to cut the 54000000 pounds pledge, a funding pledge to assist in the french operations over across the channel, unless small boats intercepted now that didn't go down too well with the french or socrates, many people in fact quite furious a

and the u. k has extended post a post brack, that grace period on goods imported to northern ireland at the end of september, chilled meat and sausages were set to face a band going into northern ireland from the rest of the u. k. while other food products would face extra customs ex, inspection you trade with northern ireland has been one of the most talked about issues and negotiations over breakfast. and the grace period had already been extended twice on monday. david frost. britton's chief negotiator in the talk said there would be a fresh extension with no new deadline in place. the you for its part that it has no plans to respond with legal action against london for this latest move. so for more on the so called sausage wars and other news around europe, let's bring in hillary forbush board member of the british american business association. you know, hillary, we get to bring in to talk about the sausage and what is the latest extensions? tell us about the situation. why are they extended

and actually, every night, at 7 o'clock in the u. k, people were going outside of the houses and they were banging their pots and pans in recognition of people that were serving. and they, i know people in the u. s. i just tried to start something like that here because people were actually very impressed with how the n h s. obviously went to work with serving the nation during this time. but i would say this, the, you got it very accurate. the people are very supportive. it's the tax also, even though it is a tax scottie and i know you both. you and i are not like pro tax is only it is 1.25 percent, which is not in order. i wouldn't say that. so that's a huge tax. it is going to raise well over 12000000000, and that is what is needed to fund. so i think that it's a small tax relatively also there's been no doubt this has gone through with forest johnson's government. he's not a government that has stood for taxes, he's not a government, the conservative government that has been pro this but his back benches even that was sort of somew

and as we heard the u. k. government in response to it on saturday they announced that they will issue $5000.00 emergency 3 month visa to foreign truck drivers starting in october and more for poultry workers as well. so how will this affect the fuel issues and the worries about the upcoming holidays? i know there's a lot of worries about everything from turkey to gifts there, there's many, many ways. okay, so a couple of factors here on poetry packet you to with regard to the, the shipping and the, all the, all the truck drivers. couple of things here. number 195 percent of everything in the u. k. has to be bought in on the back of a laurie a truck from somewhere. and during the pandemic, you mentioned about the aging workforce a lot. those aging retiring workers who are driving those laurie's, they actually didn't want to be exposed to carpet. so they stayed home number one, number 2, the vocational schools that train those to give them licenses to drive the heavy goods vehicles, the h g. these only qualifi

u. k. also help the funding crisis and the health care sector due to the pandemic. we will give you the reaction and if other countries are expected to follow and its crime is rising in major cities around america, mayers are getting creative and how to curtail, especially in the cities who are choosing to reduce law enforcement budgets as well . we will tell you about one city who has decided that while crime can pay their, hoping the city can pay more over you this unorthodox approach and the chances of it actually working. i'm going to use these stories and more on today's news right here on our t america, let's get started. ah, well, the taliban is announcing a top leadership positions filling in post with veterans of the group who oversaw the 20 year fight against the united states. and many of the names involved are very familiar to the u. s. government ortiz, john had a, takes a closer look lead the new taliban government. pretty much same as the old taliban government. hardliners a

even though the u. k. prosecutors actually claimed that the investigators found out that he remained in london during his entire stay in the u . k. london has authorized the charges against the man, but he cannot be formally charged before he's arrested. and they believe that he is currently in russia, so that cannot happen for now. recap, brings on this one is well known case in britain, maybe not so much for the rest of the world, just recap it briefly because it's a complicated case. let's go back to march 2018 when survey script ball, who had served as a russian spy for years, but then eventually turned into a double agent back that he felt severely ill along with his daughter, and soon after that the u. k. and its western allies began accusing russia of poisoning mister scribble, and they began to knowing that a murder attempt. this was when you case, former prime minister. theresa may famous famously said that russia was, quote, unquote, highly likely guilty without providing the public with any evi

s and the u. k. an expert panel in the u. s. has rejected government plans to roll out corporate 1900 booster shots to all americans, age 16 and older. bought it in doors, extra 5 biotech shots for people over the age of 65. thousands of taken to the strengths of its capital in the 1st major demonstration after the 1st case i had received power isn't dismissed parliament in july that opposed to the president's time to amend the constitution club of louis as a journalist based into this. and she says she is in.

you know, the average u. k. person doesn't drive anything more than about a 140 miles less and then driving less than 20 miles a day. but they knew me feel at once a month and now they all filled up over the weekend. not. and people were trying to those, it didn't or trying to because obviously the media, we saw the bbc sent out film. i can. so can 2 reports on this and it's called some panic buying and it's caused hoarding. whereas the average u. k. driver does not need to fill up over the weekend. so the average american is automatically getting flashbacks to the great toilet paper shortage of 20. yes. okay, now i know we've been talking a lot about the labor shortages that have been ongoing. and as we heard the u. k. government in response to it. on saturday, they announced that they will issue $5000.00 emergency 3 month visas to foreign truck drivers, starting in october and more for poultry workers as well. so how will this affect the fuel issues and the worries about the upcoming holidays? i know there's

if you was to make it easy for the u. k, and we've mentioned this before, there are many other countries that would want to leave. so the e u fundamentally wants to make it difficult for the british, but doesn't eventually one side have to back down and say, you know, you say when you lay this out, you go the u. k. doesn't want to do this, right? you don't want to do that, totally understandable. that's why we negotiate. that's why we come to an agreement . does one of the side of the benchley have to back down? you would think so eventually one side is going to have to an eyeball. i've always maintain this, i've always maintained that when you look at the manufacturers and you look at the tradespeople throughout europe. and i've always said this about the german con manufacturers. if you look at se mercedes, and you look at the german call manufacturers and the white goods coming out of germany, the u. k is a huge market for them. there's a lot, a lot of pressure all ankle america on all the german politicians to just say

u. k. as a straight, he draws a strong reaction from around the world. french special forces say they've killed isolate leader in west africa, to hel, region, 20 tanker trucks, cross 11 and from syria bringing desperately needed fuel. so a country that's nearly run drive the west african regional block echo was holes an emergency summit to discuss the political situation in guinea. on his foot little messy. first off of our son, jamal doesn't go to plan that your team health, a 11 job by club brouge in the european champions league. ah, a new security alliance that was planned in secret between the united states the you can't astray the a, a sent shock waves through the international community. under the real, the us of the u. k. of agreed to help us trailer develop nuclear power submarines that calling the initiative orcus, the french government is angry because it already had a multi 1000000000 dollar deal to build submarines for australia. but now that's going away. since i'm all those s

an australia failures in u. k. energy security at home have even mainstream media suggesting christmas could be cancelled. i probably, or the results of casino capitalism. and we asked the economists to help set the interest rates for the bank of england during the 28th crash about china as possible. lehman moment. and if you cation serve as a warning for other unregulated and privatized energy industries across the new world, all of them all coming up and today's going underground. but 1st is morris johnson flew to new york for today's un general assembly meetings, questions were being raised even in washington about the energy crisis back in britain, arguably even more than the ever grant the property crash that hit the dow jones. so will that really be no turkey for christmas? joining me now from newcastle is steven redman, the ceo of the u. k. energy supply green. thank you so much. steve stevens, coming on the show quasi quad thing used to come on this job or johns, who's government minister. we know it's a b

in london, it took the u. k. investigators 10 years to conclude that the kremlin was probably behind the murder of alexander live and go in london. the investigation also found that 2 russian nationals, one of them, a former k g b body guard, deliberately poisoned mister, let ben ankle by adding polonium to his drink. so now the european court of human rights has ruled that there was initial evidence that these 2 washing nationals acted as agents of the russian state. besides this, they're saying that the fact as they're putting it that russia failed to refute these claims. it only puts an extra gate limit in this case the so i'm sorry will pressure on in. and i can tell you that the russian foreign ministry spokes, when marie, as a harbor at this point, is saying that the european court of human rights is turning into a russo fallback organization. but here's what dmitri past gulf was also saying, it's doubtful that the european court of human rights has the authority or technological capabilities to possess su

it has highlighted the u. k as a one country, which is going to see more of the push in terms of inflation because of the supply chain constraints that he would just discussing earlier. which are going to be much tougher in the u. k than perhaps in other places which are also having some of those issues. but not to the extent we're explain to them here the rank in the british tabloids having a field day with this. i keep reading headlines that suggest that truck drivers now being offered signing on bonuses of like 2000 pounds. there's wages of like 70066270000 pounds a year for a truck driver. how much of that is true and how much of that is actually gonna work like, can you bribe the people into becoming truck drivers quickly? i think a lot of those huge wage forgot her absolute nonsense. that's not. busy why i'm hearing from drivers, i speak on the ground level. there's a lot of suspicious sort of figures that got bonded up by very large companies and doing some one phase and 2 phase and pain. golden handshake

however, when the u. k blatantly refused to cooperate or provide publicly any proof of russian involvement. the officials in moscow began blaming the u. k. authorities for using this case simply as a tool to demonize russia. and here's what exactly the problem said at that time. from the very beginning, the russian side has always been ready for cooperation. but it's received either refusal or silence in response. coincidentally, with the u. k. police announcement the european court of human rights on tuesday has ruled that the kremlin is responsible for the murder of alexander live in a code that dates back to 15 years ago. dates back to 2006. what's new in that case said, well, when it comes to the ruling by a top you are being human rights court. i can tell you that this pretty much nothing new. it's all repetition of the claims that were made by the u. k. somewhat 5 years ago. but let me just go through that story quickly. the death of alexander, let me go, a former russian spy who turned a british citi

the u. k. in australia europe's worth shortage in decades. rattle the you politicians with consumers facing a chilly winds that may be without fuel. but the familiar escape go to as more mike is demanded. moscow becomes more gas plus but the way the story has captivated the nation has many.

so the u. k. and the united states, when they're talking to australia and china and the sub deal and friends are saying, forget diplomacy. let's look at the economics. right? that's the standard they use. i guess, you know, let's just look at the economics of breaks in which we sat on the show now leading up to brags it that economically it was the stupidest thing a country could possibly do to cut themselves off from the world's largest trading partner. and a lot of people said, well, it's not about economics, it's about waving the british wagon eating marmite all day. and i said okay, that's great, but wait until the economic set in here is a good example. this gas crisis and the u. k is a direct result of breaks that add on top of that. the idea that britain's interfering politically with france and australia as to smite france because france of course was against britain during brags it. so you have all these politicians who are holding grudges with each other and are just playing petty politi

i was this playing out in the u. k. well, the u. k is not having its french ambassador recalled in the same way that the united states and the australians have done. but that doesn't mean that the french are happy with the role the united kingdom has played. and in this deal, they have essentially fed through the foreign ministry, the 3 for a minister that the u. k. is nothing more than i kind of vassal state of the united states as to how this is playing out in the u. k. i think this is being seen as perhaps the french being a little bit hysterical about things as throwing their toys out of the prime to a certain extent. but you have to acknowledge that france has been really, really thrown under the bus and this, and i think in the u. k, that view is not being ignored. they can see that this was a big deal for france. they can see that this is a humiliation for macro and, and they can see that this throws french strategy in the indo pacific region into disarray. so the rivalry between france, the united kingdom is long, it goes bac

well, i honestly don't think the u. k is very different from pretty well any other country, which is that they want to maximize the economic benefits from f also fuel resources answer only the u. k. i am very critical and i have been very critical both plans to open a new coal mine and the u. k. and plans to extend the instructional north sea oil and gas for precisely the reasons that we were discussing earlier. that a very high proportion of these results is need to stay in the ground. you gave evidence at this, and i'm sure you're aware of what your opponent say, because you said we shouldn't be opening minds something i'm sure shared by a lot of people around the world. what did you make of wood mckenzie? some consultancy firm claiming the mind can make a contribution to future global metallurgical coal supply within the context of u. k. u meeting, legally binding carbon emissions and targets. well, i mean, i would say that wouldn't be where we're hearing increasing bizarre frames from the fossil fuel industry that it

ah, the united states and the u. k, you have agreed to help australia develop nuclear power submarines under a new partnership. they're calling because it is seen as a way to counter china, which has condemned the lines as an extremely irresponsible in their words, threat to regional peace and security. france has also hit out at australia for scrapping a submarine deal in favor of nuclear power subs from the u. s. calling it a stab in the back. why? under simmons will bring us more reaction from this more reaction on this from us. and we've also got kimberly, how can standing by in washington dc 1st. mike hannah takes us through what's in this new deal, 3 nation to me. it was an unusual prelude to a bite in white house briefing video extolling the depth and length of the relationship between the 3 countries. the only time the u. s. a shared it's nuclear propulsion technology was with the u. k. back in 1958. now a trailer will become part of the exclusive club. in an alliance labeled, the us president joined remotely b

so the u. k. and the united states, when they're talking to australia and china, and the sub deal and france are saying, forget diplomacy. let's look at the economics. right? that's the standard they use. i guess, you know, let's just look at the economics of breaks in which we sat on the show now leading up to brags it that economically it was the stupidest thing a country could possibly do to cut themselves off from the world's largest trading partner. and a lot of people said, well, it's not about economics, it's about waving the british flag and eating marmite all day. and i said okay, that's great, but wait until the economic set in here is a good example. this gas crisis and the u. k is a direct result of breaks that add on top of that. the idea that britain's interfering politically with france and australia as to smite france because france of course was against britain during brags it. so you have all these politicians who are holding grudges with each other and are just playing petty pol

and when we spoke to a small u. k. energy supplier about the possibility of wholesale re nationalization of britain's energy security. but now to the economic fall as of the crisis and what it means rather privatized and unregulated sectors across the liberal nations. i've joined now by david blanch flower economist and form. remember the bank of england interest rate setting monetary policy committee from $26.00 to $29.00. thanks so much for coming back on a course that year. those years, including the 28th crisis. i mean, before we get to your favorite prime minister of recent times where it's johnson, who's in new york, addressing the un, is the whole world about to collapse because of ever granted. or do we even know whether a property firm into connected and into linked to so much of global capitalism poses that risk? well, i think it probably poses the risk. i mean that you're quite right. we don't exactly know. i mean, what, what, what exactly is going on and whether the chinese government is going to let this

in the u. k, they don't have the freedom to move around to pick things and move them somewhere else . which means that you've had that shortage there to the unwillingness for people to take on a load and bring you over to the u. k. which said, deprive you, of course, all workers who might be able to drive other tracks or even their own truck and take things around because of the change in the cab, what does room she can do that very easily any longer because we are outside the you have it, i am just going to come to you in just a moment. i want to bring in doug you rankin hit one of the interesting things about this is this temporary visa situation. meghan issue 5000 temporary truck driver licenses. they get a last 3 months, but i was on a couple of romanian chat platforms where they were reacting to this, this particular in romania where they were like, why would we build that? why would we go for just 3 months? i've got a good job here. not going to give it up just to go and help the bread. so

while in the u. k. a series of bizarre policy decisions has included delaying the vaccination of teenage school children till after the school year had turned. the results across all ford administrations is that the u. k. one of the highest vaccination rates in the world also now has one of the highest streets of infinity . those who talked for early signs of no kite blue for science over divide us looked at didn't to disappointment. but it's yet look, it's bleak. i think at 1st sight appear. well, today we've been well expert, perfect. so the neil of trinity college dublin has emerged as one of the key commentators on the ability of vaccines to triumph recruiting virus. but fight your troops messages and emails in response to i sure elastic. i mean you keep part is constant season partition says no one standing up to the today's in this says the program is very informative. i was never important enough to be authority. thanks. vena john carnegie says labor i too much to the right now of course crystal

u. k. and australia. that left from frozen out also ahead of the spot record e u energy prices, and a huge shortfall in the supply loc, his slavic fines on poland for using coal and is also blaming russia for the crisis . the rubber bullets and hundreds of.

i think although the u. k is not absolutely at the heart of it, it certainly is not going to help this difficult relationship between france and the u. k. and it's not going to be good for either side. it's not good for the, for the brush aside is not gonna be good for the french odd. they will try, i think, to find a way of getting past this box. because the french are not pointing the finger of blame at the u. k. as much as they are against the united states and australia, they're essentially saying that the u. k was not much more than an intermediary and this kind of matchmaker between australia and the united states. and perhaps it will be easier for the front to get over this hump than it will be for the united states and australia. china's state, back to newspaper the global times, has described hysteria as a porn of the us and gullible for buying into us cold war strategy. the chinese president has warned against what he calls interference from turner forces during his address to the shanghai co operati

and the u. k. a. today they work within their own proper alliance with 5 eyes project with canada as well. and then the u. s. included, they work more closely. it's like within the anglo saxon world, these are the real, this is the real alliance. and they were much closer together than they do when there are other allies. and this is why france has been excluded. i think because the u. k. australia and the, and the u. s. trust themselves more than the new trust countries like france or other ones, community or even germany. when you bring up the issue of trust. as you were saying, europe in america was supposed to be working together on defense such as nathan with you said together. is it possible that a, a new security packed with australia, the u. k. in america, could this undermine nato, in any way? do you think? i don't forget the manual macro said a couple years ago that data was brain dead. even donald trump said that nato had to be reviewed. nato isn't working as it's supposed to be. it was init

because to watch it, many your workers who work inside the u. k. left the u. k already far, because it was in the stable but the fuel cases, the problem at the moment. but it's to do with the general public, they are the ones who are causing that issue a shortage of fuel, but it's a shortage of drive. most people simply buying too much fuel and the same goes on. sure. but even the worst sort of jumping. now this person has got to realize that they can get sure no problem as a genuine concern for ki, walk us through, can all get better stations genuine. we need to get fuel to get to the what the government well talking about. and it was almost like the government. and then while the case mobilizes the army to candidates fuel crisis across in mainland europe, the u has decided to keep funding fossil fuel projects until 2027 parent li, going against the box policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. we'll have the details just after the break. ah, i join me every thursday on the alex salmon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport busines

and u. k. making decisions without consulting their friends with nato's ongoing friendship. crisis airing it's member states dirty laundry. many are finding it hard to see a strong united future for the west over 7 decade long military alliance. nato was considered by france and months ago began to go by president my whole brain dead. a brain dead alliance, fast strong words within nato. they want to revise the concept, he's teaching concepts and bring it back actually to the north atlantic. because if you follow america, nato will soon be in the pacific, cruising around china with us. this is not the way nature was conceived and it shouldn't be there. europeans should not be in that region of the world markets that repeatedly, that we should enlarge our vision any desperately look to something to do. that's the reality. you know, we are in the, i mean, maintain what's in the scanner stuff is in iraq. to train the forces. that's the limits of the extension. this is not the north atlantic anymo

remember the u. k, the neutered spent country? well indeed france has the history of the close shock, which is more elegant bomb right. that lives under the bridge with fine wine and champagne. and, you know, hanging out there likes the stairs games born again that, you know, it's a little bit more romantic here than what you see. starkly frances, in the winning as country in history when it comes to war. they one more wars than any country on earth shortly. so i think they're going to be back to form. i think it's a cross channel. fisticuffs are back and play and i'm like macaroni and this i'm taking my crown in 6. well of course, i guess the french one thing you see here if you've ever lived here like we have for a long time is. busy you know, there is more of a fisticuffs sort of thing. it's a normal, like, you know, you see, member of my chrome got punched here. cozy was often very like right in the face of his voters and the constituents, the people, the citizens of france. there's often a hand to hand combat because the coun

and u. k. at an expert panel in the us has rejected government plans to roll out 19 a booster shot to all americans age 16 and older by the 8th, endorsed extra 5 by and pick shots. the people over the age of 65, hundreds of police officers have been deployed around the u. s. capital for rally planned by far right groups. please say they've detected some threats of violence ahead of the march in washington. they say organizes of the justice, the j 6 rally, say they want to show support to those arrested for taking part in the capital riots. in january, hundreds of people breached the building in a bid to overturn former president donald trump's election to face. for more on this story, let's bring a feel of al, who's live for us at the rally in washington. hello, they've failed. how many protesters have turned out and what what i actually just be getting this, this right now. it's about 15 minutes late, but behind me on that stage and if you can see the distance that i call my right now, he is t

the u. k. bass bureau of investigative journalism says, more than 10000 people have been killed in an estimated 13000. don't strike in a gun, it's done. and so far, no one has been held accountable. the family lawyer calls it a war crime. this was the last strike carried out by us forces in abundance on a reminder, for many off guns of the initial days where my address students were being killed and drawn strikes. and for many here a legacy of us presence for 20 years in this country. so i'm a bon jovi out there a couple to externally now, and please have arrested more than 200 people at an anti lockdown protest. they also fine pepper spray at the rally and melvin several 100 people disobeyed. stay at home rules to demonstrate the cd is in its 6 lockdown since the pandemic began. an expert panel in the us has rejected a proposal to roll out cove 19 booster shots to all americans, age 16 in odom. it started a lack of safety data on extra doses and dance about the value of math boosters, but eac