we, in short guaranteed uninterrupted gas deliveries to europe. we have every reason to believe that this year we will reach record levels of gas deliveries on the global market. when prices are volatile, when they're going through the roof, what can help with that extra supplies? president prudent said that there was not a single occasion when rushes energy joined gas from refused a request from europe for additional natural gas exports. and what mr. brewton was asked a straightforward question whether moscow has ever used the energy sector as a political weapon. his answer was straightforward. no, want to ask you about it directly. has russia been using energy as a weapon? russia's not using any weapons. if you've been paying attention as for the economy, where are we using weapons and what conflicts are we taking part and for the economy? this is not something we tend to use. this is what i call a politically motivated talk. there's nothing to support it when it comes to saying that we use energy as some kind of weapon at the end of the day. i

now the, the prices for natural gas futures in europe have absolutely skyrocketed. they went down a bit. but in the meantime, russia was being accused of politicizing the matter. and for years this country has been under fire for its infrastructure project in the field, like the nord stream to however, this crisis led to reassessment i. this is while the russian leader has been talking about for a while. and he also brought up what he called mistakes in the european energy policies that lead to the crisis austin nuggets. myer prices on gas in europe are a consequence of a deficit of energy and not vice versa. and that's why you should not shift the blind newsline over the last 10 years. step by step, systematic flaws were introduced into the european energy system, russia and they led to a of energy, chrysler the way ceased for any marketing stability. unpredictability are important . when russia flawlessly fulfills its contractual obligations to our partners, including our partners in europe, but we, in short guaranteed uninterrupted gas deliveries to your and we h

our gas supply to europe is again, the number one ingredient in mr. perkins recipe for the volatility in prices. not to come back any time soon. that is a long term contracts when gas prices aren't fixed, but they depend on the current market situation and the oil prices. by the way, what's a major cause for concern for some very important european politicians? is the transit of russian natural gas through ukraine beyond 2024. well, lot of putin sent that russia is ready to keep that in place, as long as it knows how much gas europe is willing to buy in the future. i. e, he wants these a long term contract. again. what russia ones is stability and predictability. the united states, 2nd biggest airlines attempts to fool sol, staff to vaccinate against coven. is it turbulence in texas? where united airlines stuff have convinced a judge to suspend putting people on leave if they don't get jobs. more on this next, from ortiz kellum open. i kind of what's the complaint in the, how much affects it having while a judge in texas has put a stop temporarily to

kristen: so president biden had to leave for europe for the g20 and the u.n. climate summit without a victory in hand, without being able to say the u.s. is back in terms of leadership on climate issues because they're apportioned in the bill. so i'm asking you, how much does this hurt the u.s. and hurt his ability to say the u.s. is back on the world stage as a leader? >> it's a disappointment, there's no question. the white house wanted president biden to come with a big victory to say the u.s. is leading. and also, showing that democracy can work. that has not been demonstrated so far. it's been a very ugly sausage making process of this bill. it doesn't mean they're not able to show leadership, but it does mean one big talking point the president hoped to bring is not there. and it's his own party not giving it to him. it's been the democrats fighting against themselves that have been defining this legislative fight. kristen: partly the problem is the democrats is a super wide tent, certainly whiter than the republican tent. that was abc news recline. comi

they wanted american support for french independent defense efforts in europe. independent additional to nato. that is being done. and they wanted signals that france would genuinely be a partner in america, efforts to deal with china, competition in the indopacific and also that is being done, as officials talk in detail how to draw france into their efforts. i think they've worked hard on this. we'll just have to see over the next days whether biden is really back. whether he's seen as representing a strong and united america or whether european doubts continue. >> what are you going to be watching for to give you that answer? >> i'll be watching, as always, at these gatherings, the body language. i'm going to be watching the communique. i think biden will go to the glasgow summit conference, which begins on sunday, with a very strong hand, assuming that he can get the progress he's seeking and finalizing his budget deal. to go with a commitment of $555 billion in climate change spending to a conference where nobody has got anywhere close to that in terms of c

the white house really wanted the president to come here to europe with a victory. they did say, though, he can still stay engaged with members of congress while he's traveling. there are phones here, they say. but, of course, he has a very busy schedule over the next three days here in rome, and then it's on to a climate summit in scotland, andrew. >> karen, let's talk about this trip for a minute. what's the significance of the president meeting with the pope? >> reporter: this is a very big meeting for president biden and for millions of american catholics. the president, of course, is just the second catholic president. he is very devout and attends mass every week. this is a very big thing for him and this is actually, andrew, the fourth time that he'll be sitting down with pope francis. they developed quite a friendship, a relationship. he has a picture of him and pope francis on the desk in the oval office and he's talked about how much pope francis meant to his family in the wak of the death of his son beau biden. this is not just personal, though, andrew. t

happened in europe, happened in australia. as soon as you dismantle your border protection, people from all over the world are going to copy it they will come because a criminal people smuggle networks, the cartels, the coyotes, they know they are back in business and they prey upon the most vulnerable in the poorest people in the world who are just doing what we all would do. look for a better life. when you now dismantle the border, all you are doing is you are now complacent and that people smuggling rings and the exploitations of the most vulnerable people. it is not compassionate. it is the opposite of compassion. it is terrible for the people in america. terrible for these people that are lured from, you know, a life, at least they life somewhere, they are not destitute, they have jobs. a lot of these people are haitian. they had jobs, they had work rights, they had homes. they left that existed for the hope of something better. you cannot have a country without a border. >> it is just incredible. so sad this trek that t

we have outpaced europe. europe has done away, scandinavian countries done away vaccine for people under age of 30. europe has not embraced masking mandates for children in school. europe came back to school before under the circumstances. important to know we are more punishing on the young ones in our country than even europe. i will give you a great example. rachel: will, long before we were, long before, 94 million of them were in school. will: even in wuhan. great example why we have really, while we might not be yet australia or new zealand we have jumped the shark, given into fear because of things like this. this is our high priest of covid fear. here is the nih's dr. anthony fauci saying this, you're going to start seeing deaths go down, acknowledging the obvious, covid is seasonal. they will go down similar to hospitalizations, how quickly they go down, how thoroughly go down will be influenced by things like colder weather, people doing things indoor even though you're vaccinated. listen to this, w

didn't apologize but that's the first part of his europe trip. start there with our panel ben domenech publisher of the federalist. harold ford jr. ceo of empowerment and inclusion capitol. trey gowdy former congressman from south carolina. trey, clumsy and he didn't even know about it is what he told the french president macron. >> yeah, i'm not sure i would have admitted that even if it were true. i can tell you imagine how bad your life is when you are happier meeting with the president of france how stiff in a submarine deal. you would rather do that than go meet with the progressive caucus in the house. how bad is your life if you prefer that. [laughter] >> bret: let's turn there, harold, we saw what happened last night on capitol hill, the punt to next week there is still some thought that it might be two weeks. some people are saying some time before thanksgiving where this all gets ironed out. i mean, it's pretty ugly. it may still happen but it's ugly. >> thanks for having me on and i would agree with you. it's not the way, i'm sure, he

time is running short before the president heads to europe. progressives say they need to see legislation, it's not good enough. that seems big at mind to manage here. what will the president's involvement in the next couple of days. we know he has senator manchin in delaware. should we expect something similar with senator sinema this week. >> sure, he was really encouraged by the agreement of moving forward and want to get things done. it does feel i know for people watching that this is messy and we'll never get there. this is what it looks like when you are near the finish line. this is going to be the largest investment addressing the climate crisis ever in history. to give everybody a sense, a recovery act when it was passed when the president was vice president, six times incise. this is the largest investment in child care. it's also going to expand access to healthcare. what we are talking about now is how you do that? how do you expand medical care? there is a lot of ideas out there. we are at the stage where we have to make a decisi

store, they see hunter biden's gallery, they see the pitiful foreign policy blunders in afghanistan and europe ended is taken a toll on president biden. a new quinnipiac poll reveals 53% of americans disapprove of his job performance, 60% of independents now disapprove. if biden continues on its ruinous path he won't need a pole, he will lead a net. joining me now is steve moore, economist and freedom works vice president and small business owner who owns the new york bagel cafÉ in los angeles and is struggling to hire workers. what is driving these job numbers so low, biden claims it is the unvaccinated. >> the biggest problem with respect to the economy and small business folks will confirm this is they cannot get workers back on the job. the economy is doing pretty well, the biggest problem is our small businesses can't get workers on the job and you wonder why are workers not coming back during the recovery, usually you see a big increase, we lost almost 200,000 workers than last month. that is unprecedented and i think the answer to that is we are paying people so much money to get all t

his trip to europe. the president delayed his departure to sit down this morning with all house democrats who have now dropped key aspects of the package. chief white house correspondent kristen welker has the latest on this. good morning. >> reporter: hi, savannah. good morning to you. just moments ago, two sources familiar with the negotiations tell nbc news, the president today is expected to announce a new framework for his policies. the white house is signaling they expect all democrats to back it. but in an urgent effort to rally support, the president's first stop today, a trip to capitol hill. then he will speak to the nation before departing for europe. >> reporter: in a dramatic last-ditch effort to save significant policies of his president, president biden delaying his departure by hours for an all-important european trip to sell his plan. traveling to capitol hill this morning and later addressing the nation. the white house and lawmakers working overnight to reach an agreement on the presid

the weather events that we saw in europe this summer could happen here in england, and we need to be ready to save lives. we need to recognise that it's adapt or die. the environment agency is being deliberately blunt so that its recommendations are heard. for homeowners and businesses to take basic steps to make their properties safe. to restore landscapes like forests so that they hold rain water before it causes floods. and for bigger investments by governments in defences that can handle projected rises in sea levels. already the thames barrier, defending london, is being closed far more often than planned — a trend that will continue as the polar ice keeps melting, raising the height of the oceans. with its network of tunnels under the river, the barrier was designed decades ago and may not be big enough in future. the great steel gates are holding back a phenomenal volume of sea water that would otherwise enter the city and potentially cause disaster, which is why climate change matters so much here. they're constantly watching the projections for how much the sea is going to

what do you have to say on the macro energy policy of europe right now? >> good morning, brian i think it's fundamentally important to speed up the investments into renewable energy and the storage to compliment it, as to your point. the world is going electric, has to go electric, it has to be renewable, with that being renewable we need large volumes of batteries or storage to compliment it as per previous comments this translates, of course, into massive investment requirements into battery storage and the report out by iea yesterday shows a large fraction of the investments going into renewable energy will have to go to storage and batteries. to your point have we underestimated the need to sort of speed up this, i think so meeting the climate agreement in paris will require that change and how we invest in renewables and a step change in how we invest in batteries. and today it aims to be at the forefront of that development. we aim to develop the world's most sustained batteries, decarbonized at its core and targeting all systems that require storag

>> reporter: well, he's scheduled to leave thursday morning for europe, norah, and then meet with pope francis on friday before attending the g-20 summit over the weekend in rome. but aides don't rule out him delaying his departure, especially if there's a chance of a handshake agreement before he goes. norah. >> o'donnell: down to the deadline. ed o'keefe, thank you. we want to turn now to a nationwide increase in violent crime. the f.b.i. has reported that homicides rose at their fastest rate in at least six decades last year. the vast majority committed with a gun. president biden promised new gun safety measures, but that promise suffered a major setback last month after his top choice to lead the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms was blocked in the u.s. senate. tonight, that nominee, david chipman is speaking out in a cbs news exclusive. >> i have, from 25 years as an a.t.f. agent, and largely 10 years after that, committed myself to one thing-- preventing gun violence in this country. to oppose me must mean that you're not for preventing gun violence. >> o'donnell: i mean,

we will have the latest on the g20 summit right now in europe. "velshi" starts right now. >>> good morning. today, democrats may finally have a deal, but at a cost. heather from the white house council of economic advisers joins me next to talk about the latest and what we get and lose and what comes next. >>> the deadline for the new york city first responders to get the first vaccine dose has come and gone. that is setting up closures happening. i'll talk to the head of the new york firefighters union for the support for those protesting the mandate. >>> a preview of the post-roe landscape from someone who had been studying the laws for over a decade and a certain twice impeached president is trying to keep hidden from the january 6th investigation. "velshi" starts now. good morning. saturday, october 30th. i'm ali velshi. we are find ourselves in the middle of the breakthrough of the plan to shore up america's social safety net. there is a lot to gain from what the president announced this week, but much we are about to lose. the plan was cut

natural gas prices in europe are wild. earlier this month trading at the equivalent of $230 per barrel in oil terms. that is up more than 130% since the beginning of september. and more than eight times higher than the same point last year. according to data from independent commodity intelligence services. those natural gas shortages have also prompted europe to return to coal production. >> a lot of countries across europe are quietly switching on coal stations again that have been moth balled in the last few years because rather than run something dirty and run out of electricity. >> reporter: also increasing demand economic activity has bounced back from the pandemic shutdown last year, and before the pandemic the world was consuming an average of 101 billion barrels of oil every day. during the pandemic slowdown it plummeted to 84.9 million at one point. now this year it is predicted to average more than 97 million barrels a day. that will continue to climb which has forced a surge in pricing with no end in sight. >>

world war i, all of the combatants in europe are all kin. they're all cousins and they're all family in a sense that they are all shape-shifting lizards and there are some that believe in the kennedy assassination. there are kennedy assassination conspiracy believers of all stripes from all different places and we'll talk about that a little bit. others are widespread and keyed into the birther controversy and it was big news in the late 20 teens and will probably not be huge news. it will not be the kennedy assassination. there was an argument that obama san tablged the water horizon in the gulf of mexico for -- to have new policies against oil use and to push solar power, but this one came up and was sampled and it happens in this life cycle of conspiracy theories, so the reality and one of the things we have to think about and the second part is what we do with our students about how we talk to our students about conspiracies. one of the things we have to acknowledge as part of this conversation is that conspiracies exist. >> if you say t

it could be next year, perhaps somewhere else in europe. that's going to be an important moment akin to what we saw when president biden met this past summer. there is an opportunity for biden who is mostly popular with his foreign con temp contemperaries. is biden the aberration or was trump the aberration. we won't know that until 2024 at least. on climate change hope even if the president comes there without meaningful legislation in hand that he will strike a tone that other nations can follow and hopefully then white house aides say in short order after he returns to the united states they can get this legislation done. >> let's turn to the latest with covid-19 where new coronavirus cases plummet nationwide. the united states is now averaging roughly 70,000 new cases per day. that's a 20% drop the past two weeks. >> great news. >> the number of people dying from the virus is still high. about 1,400 each day. but represents a 15% drop over the same period. that number has steadily decreased throughout the fall. that is good news. >> and

vaccinated travelers for most of europe will be able to enter thailand without quarantine. they are among 46 countries to be added to the quarantine free travel list and that's starting next month. china is expanding its booster shot program to people who will participate in the upcoming winter olympic games in beijing and surrounding regions. at risk groups include those participating, organizing or working at facilities involved with the games which are set to start on february 4. bts is ending its distribution deal with sony and will go to universal music. it had been pursuing them for years and universal interscope has had a deal for three years with a girl group which is -- which is winning over western audiences. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> it's everyone's individual right to choose but it's also every oilers individual right -- every employers to best check aaron way so if an versus the best way for us to protect our wheeze is to mandate the vaccine, then employees have a

. >> reporter: delaying his departure for key summits in europe, the president first traveled to capitol hill a source familiar with the meeting said he warned democrats behind closed doors, i don't think it's hyperbole to say that the house and senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week back at the white house, the president made his case. >> no one got everything they wanted, including me but that's what compromise is. that's consensus and that's what i ran on. >> reporter: the price tag of the social policy and climate plan, $1.75 trillion it includes funding for universal pre-k, elder care and a one-year extension of the enhanced child tax credit but to cut the price tag down, many items were dropped, including free community college, prescription drug reform and paid family and medical leave, a key proposal the president had been touting just last week >> we're one of the few industrial countries in the world that does not have paid leave. >> reporter: progressives had demanded a framework on the social spending and climate plan before th

ancient original forests sweeping across the carpathian mountains in eastern europe. if the amazon rain forest is the lungs of the world, then the force of the carpathian mouth -- mountains are the lungs of europe. they suck the co2 out of the atmosphere and put oxygen back into it. they regulate the water system. there is a vast, vast array of life here. the forests of the world are the most of biodiversity systems on the planet. the once pristine environment, life has been squeezed out by the so-called timber mafia. trees are being extracted illegally on an unprecedented scale by criminal gangs. and the locals who fight against it paid the price. meetings are frequent. the people are murdered too. six forest rangers have been killed in the last few years, leading to recent protests in the capital. the forest mimics the call of a red stag. he tells me there used to be 50 or 60 in this area alone. now it seems that there are none. and this is why. this area was illegally logged 10 years ago and it ripped apart the ecosystem. >> you can see this kind of devastation fro

. >> richard: california and europe have high speed rail. >> jesse: those are tiny countries we would rather fly it's cheaper. >> dan: airplanes do it better. >> richard: crumbling bridges airports outdated and falling apart. we can go on. >> jesse: we can fix the bridge for less than 3.5 trillion. >> richard: there is multiple bridges. >> jesse: do it for far less than 3.5. >> richard: transportation is 1.5 trillion. trump supported that as well but i digress. >> jesse: 1.5. >> dagen: if the roads and bridges need fixing then why can't far left regressives get on board and vote infrastructure package then if this is such a need. this is as you pointed out a bipartisan package. so they should get. >> richard: i agree with that. >> dagen: i love watching a good catfight. kennedy knows that but this is like watching some chicks pulling each other's hair out in the parking lot while the was sips getting robbed behind you and the entire neighborhood is getting robbed. really the entire country. that's what this looks like. nancy pelosi is most concerned with how this is going to look a fe

like the president is going to leave for europe regardless. it doesn't matter if he has something in hand as much politically he wants to have a deal to go over there to italy and then scotland. same with the governors race next week. the two things are not inherently linked even though people want them to be. are democrats facing debate giving up things? >> probably not. as you stated, these are not hard deadlines, but they do affect morale and confidence and belief and faith and what's going to happen moving forward, and i think we saw this, you know, when it came to the coronavirus pandemic and the july 4th deadline. these are not things that, you know, have to be accomplished by these specific dates, but it certainly does take some of the wind, you know, out of the and to say that mission was accomplished by the time that we, you know, set for it to be done. and that can really make it very difficult to remind or should i say convince the voters that the party has done what they said they would do when they said they would do it. >> "the w

i look about where you talk about europe and japan outstripping american earnings. let's go back to the s&p 500 whiz -- which is multinational. can you give us a new s&p number and of 2022? as an investor on the sell side, i don't have to give point estimates but i try not to look so far ahead to the end of next year. i'm trying to figure out the next month or so. we will see how the economy and earnings layout and the second half of next year. i think it might get trickier as we returned back to trend growth. over the next few quarters, we are still going to see a really nice pickup in the u.s. economy but the global economy. vaccinations will go to emerging markets and there is a strong fiscal impulse in europe and japan. the near term trend i think is still quite right. tom: i'm looking up coca-cola. coca-cola is like north america is half their sales. the spx is a multinational index that benefits from this optimism. >> i completely agree. u.s. stocks will do very well in this environment. the sensitivity of the european index or japan's index to global growth i

>> french leaders and particularly others in europe were telling me a year ago right after the election that they feared biden would be a little more than just basically a change -- a very slight change in direction before we go back to a trumplike position in america. there were plenty of carrots but no sticks here. that was the principle problem i see about this. biden needed to come with something that he could actually tell what he was going to do, not simply, basically, platitude. show, not tell, is what i always say. don't tell me what you want to do. that is what i think basically happened in the entire period. it was interesting, the french magazine, newspaper figueroa said climate vaccines, timid advanced. we don't need timid add advances, we need strong advances for literally kwai problem. when will you think of the top 10 in the world, the number oneie mirt r, china. number 3 is biden for the u.s. he's coming but he's coming with bad news, that he wants to lower the goal for india. the fourth is russia. here we have putnam is the encouraging sense of urgency. these people are

ainsley: our president is going to europe for climate summit and before that he's heading to the hill and trying to convince the progressives to vote for infrastructure even if he doesn't have the votes for the reconciliation because the squad is trying to -- the squad said no, we have to vote for beth of they will together. do you think there's a chance they vote before he heads out? >> it's not looking good for him. the progressives are consistent that they want to attack the reconciliation package, the human infrastructure which includes illegal immigrant amnesty as well, just mind you, but i don't think they have the votes here. they still want to connect those things and moderates like manchin and sinema who will not vote for that and even if they got the bipartisan infrastructure package through right now it wouldn't mean much from what biden wants to message. it's for the most part infrastructure. it's not their green new deal stuff. so it's worth noting that biden will s going to go there empty handed with a lot of rhetoric, with a lot of empty promises and by the way i'm goin

aishah: about to get to but first this, civil unrest sweeping across europe right now over covid restrictions, thousands are packing the street in rome and some clashing with police as a protest of a government role requiring covid vaccination or a negative test to go to work and access workplaces starting next week. but here in america dr. fauci believes restrictions are the best way to slow down the spread of coronavirus income this winter he says the vaccinated should be wearing a mask outdoors. >> you will start seeing the desk go down similar to the hospitalization how quickly they go down and how thoroughly they go down will be influenced by things like the colder weather, people doing things indoors even though your vaccinated when you are not home but outside congregants heading to the public wearing masks would be very true. aishah: in australia repeated clashes between people and police with the resignation of one officer who believes law enforcement is grossly overstepping their boundaries. >> the way in which we police now is completely changed. a vast majority of the focus of pol

i'll have more to say after i return from the critical meetings in europe this week. but for now let me lay out a few points. first, we face -- i apologize for saying this again. we face an inflection point as a nation. for most of the 20th century we led the world by a significant margin because we invested in our people. not only our roads and our highways and our bridges, but in our people, in our families. we didn't just build an interstate highway system. we built a highway to the sky. reinvetioned the win the space race and we won. we were also among the first to provide access to free education for all americans beginning back in the late 1800s, that decision alone to invest in our children and families was a major part of why we were able to lead the world for much of the 20th century. but somewhere along the way we stopped investing in ourselves, investing in our people. america is still the largest economy in the world. we still have the most productive workers and innovative mind in the world. but we risk losing our edge as a nation. our infrastructure used

for europe, these prices are a big deal. tom: $200 a barrel, i enter blake that to $8.42 -- i interrelate that to $8.48 a gallon. what is the political ramification you read about in the zeitgeist of higher oil prices? lisa: it only makes negotiations in washington that much more tenuous when they are trying to figure out how to position for the midterm elections. the democrats are going to be in the hot seat if you have oil prices climbing above $100 a barrel heading into the midterm elections. you have to wonder what they are going to get done, even now. i wonder how much stems from the policy uncertainty and the feeling that nothing will get done, and we are going to bump up against the debt ceiling debate and the limit there. tom: anthony emails and. he says he loves how my bowtie looks on radio. this is the red sox baseball diamond tie. jonathan: that's where you want to go? you want to annoy everyone in new york? at least most people in new york. we have a mets fan with us this morning. lisa: thank you. jonathan: treas

this is bloomberg. ♪ >> the countdown is on in europe. this is bloomberg markets: european close with guy johnson and alix steel. ♪ guy: friday the 22nd. bank of england's new chief economist warns that inflation could reach 5%. germany's case count climbs sharply. it today was the largest one-day jump in months. russia's surprise 75 base point height, sending the ruble higher. on the day though the stoxx 600 is up by 6/10 of 1%. we are watching what is happening in russia, an indication of

do you worry that europe will not have somebody like that at the helm? >> well, here's a leader who never identified herself with her office, and she will leave the chancellory and return to her rent-controlled apartment, which she never left for the past few decades, and never lost her talent to be normal. she will assume the life of a normal citizen and make herself scarce in berlin. >> she did her own grocery shopping all through the time she was chancellor. >> always. yes, she loves to cook. she's not a great cook but she loves to cook. and she will, i think, leave both germany and europe in a very strong place. >> kati marton, pleasure to have you on. >> thank you, fareed. wonderful to be with you. >>> next on "gps" the taliban is back to a lot of its old ways. afghanistan faces economic collapse and a series of terror attacks have shocked citizens there. i will talk to the afghan activist mahbouba seraj, who we had on before, about the sorry state of that war-torn nation when we come back. >> tech: when you get a chip in your windshield... trust sa

i find it ironic that they are holding this climate conference in europe when fossil fuels are in short supply, prices going up and they face a freezing winter. there is irony there. >> a shadow over the conference particularly in the us, in the new map of the revised issue we are headed for disruption and in europe and china you have big disruptions in energy supply because insufficient investment and conventional resources so it does cast a shadow on what is coming up although they say have more renewables. certainly a problem, seeing higher prices but we are not a kind of crisis where they run out of gasoline. in china they are rationing electricity. stuart: this is because there is a shortage of fossil fuels, shortage of oil. why the shortage in the first place? >> the shortage of oil and natural gas making up a shortage of coal and the offshore wind on which europe deepens the wind hasn't been blowing. those are the factors that have done it and oil is following along because people in asia and other places we use oil to make up for natural gas since natural gas costs a lot more. s

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natural gas prices in europe have risen a staggering amount, nearly 500%. in asia, bloomberg reports that power companies are buying liquefied natural gas at record prices to try to lock in supply. in europe a mass producer of fertilizer was already forced to temporarily shut down two uk plants due to high energy costs, and there are fears other industries will follow. the u.s. energy information administration has put out a report warning americans that they are likely to pay significantly more to stay warm this winter, especially if temperatures drop substantially. why is this happening? the simplest explanation is the demand for energy is currently exceeding supply, which makes prices rise. the reasons for this miss match are many, including extreme and unpredictable weather, as well as bad government decisions about storage, reserves or transmission lines. but there is one common cause -- much of the world has stopped investing in fossil fuels for good reasons. which has led to less supply of them. but we do not have sufficient green energy today to rep

as soon as he lands in europe. that's not going to happen. it's not going to happen tomorrow, it sounds like, maybe it will happen next week. ening all democrats show they run washington right now. the one thing that might help nancy pelosi in the coming days, a handful of republicans in the house who want to vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, i think conservatives across the country would urge those republicans even if on the merits you support the infrastructure bill it has been linked inextricably by the democratic leadership to this monstrosity build back better plan and to throw a lifeline to the democrats when they clearly still don't have the votes within their own caucus there was another rough ugly day for the democrats in washington. >> yeah. the house just voted to pass that interim until december 3rd for the highway programs as expected. but, obviously no big vote leslie. what about what guy just said there the linkage of those two bills. the progressives who said we are not voting until we see the text. until we know th

breaking tonight, president biden arriving in europe leaving his multitrillion dollar social spending plan back home hanging in the ballots. democrats delaying a key vote as progressive support looks like it's crumbling and just hours from now, new york city's vaccine mandate goes into effect with critical worker shortages expected to get worse as trash is now piling up on the streets of the big apple. >> are they coming to ever pick the garbage up again? i don't know but i'm told there are rats in everybody's house. >> shannon: alec baldwin spotted shopping in vermont following that deadly accidental shooting. we begin tonight with the democrats divide on full display once again as the left-wing of the president's party sidelined his agenda items after he leaves the country. white house correspondent kevin corke is tracking the very latest developments for us tonight. >> usually we think of republicans as being splintered when it comes to making big deals in washington actually happen, names like romney, collins, and murkowski come to mind but now it is actually democrats who are dea

the country's official death toll has topped 235,000, the highest in europe. in myanmar, there's word that the military has systematically tortured and murdered people since seizing power in a coup in february. the associated press reports the army and police have killed at least 1,200 people. human rights groups say no one seems immune. >> it's targeting a wide variety of myanmar citizens, young and old, various ethnic groups. all of these facts indicate to us the widespread and in some ways, systematic nature of the torture that's occurring in the country right now. >> woodruff: the a.p. investigation finds that more than 9,000 people have been taken into custody since the military takeover. taiwan's president voiced confidence today that the u.s. would defend the island, if china attacks. sy ing-wen also confirmed that a small number of u.s. troops are in taiwan, training troops. china quickly denounced any military exchanges. it regards taiwan as part of its territory, and has stepped up military harassment of the island. back in this country, the u.s. jus

. >>> now turning to political turmoil in central europe. efforts are underway to designate a successor to austria's high profile antiimmigration chancellor. he stepped town after his office was raided by investigators. opposition parties have threatened to bring a vote of no confidence against him next week. we have the story from london. take us through the events that led to this. >> absolutely. prosecutors raided the office of mr. kurtz. he and nine other officials linked to him are under investigation for allegations of bribery, corruption. essentially the allegations are that public funds were used to obtain a favorable poll for kurtz and to publish that poll in the media. it's the second time kurtz has been forced to end his tenure before it was completed and the second time that it has led to corruption. very serious concerns about the ability to lead, about his legitimacy to lead. mr. kurtz denying these allegations but stepping down, he says, to give his country a sense of stability at this time. but this has larger implications, k

in europe are all kin. they are all cousins. so they are all a family in a sense. this they are all actually shape shifting lizards. not believed by very many. but spectacular. some believe in evergreen. the kennedy assassination. there are kennedy assassination conspiracy believers of all stripes from owl places and we'll talk about that. others are widespread keed into cultural moment likes to birther controversy. it was very big news in the late 20 teens. will probably not be huge news 15, 20 years from now. there are some that never take. some that obama sabotaged the deep water horizon in the gulf of mexico to have new policies against oil use to. push solar power. but this one came up with sampled. everyone was like no. and then it kind of went away again. so this happens in this kind of life cycle of conspiracy theories. so the reality, and one of the things we have to think about and the second part will be talking about what we do with our students and how we talk to our students about conspiracies

declining across eve >>> covid cases are now declining across every region of the entire world, except europe. the world health organization reports the united kingdom and russia are the hardest hit today the russian president vladimir putin ordered workers across the country to stay home for a solid week to try to slow the spread officials in moscow also told unvaccinated people older than 60 to stay home for four months. starting next week covid cases and deaths in russia hit all-time highs in the past week then there's the united kingdom. health experts there are desperately urging local officials, nationwide officials, to put some covid restrictions back in place immediately, as they put it. infections have been rising there for the past month, but the health minister is pushing back on the experts. he says the government will not issue new measures in the uk, at least not yet, but he admits now that daily cases could hit 100,000 this winter. that would be the highest number of daily cases ever recorded in the uk and more than double what they're reporting right now. >>> protesters taking

it is exports above that 15 percent to europe, which will definitely com. the european markets, and i do hope that day will do so. and did they are, they can underscore that they are partner when it comes to cut. cut is different in a reliable export to our next, but i expect cut out to continue. and if possible increase it is supplies, but in general, the for the got the industrial i would like to give a message. gus, in his b natural gas has been presented as reliable and affordable as a cleaner companion to clean energy during transitions. but the current is sky high, very high nature, the gas prices, and the current station. is that a good one? and i think the nature of the guys industry doesn't get good marks from millions of consumers around divert. which in turn is that the good news for the repetition of natural gas. therefore, i would urge the natural gas producers to step up their efforts and to provide additional volumes to their customers around direct. that's how this energy crisis effects the agenda of the upcoming climate summit, which is hap

prestige in europe because in most of europe, you do now have a political consensus across the conservative political spectrum, as well as the liberals on the left, on the existence of climate change and the need to do something about it. i myself am going up to glasgow to talk to the conservative environment network. i am a small speaker to that. boris johnson is a big speaker to it. so this does damage the united states leadership of the democracy and more widely. as i say, the u.s. is seeking close partnership with india. so the united states to withdraw from climate change agreements, then you have democrats coming back and demanding that india fulfill them, well that does not go down well in a very -- what remains on a per capita basis. host: you mention the conservative climate group. is the difference between views -- the political difference between the conservative group there, you mentioned the prime minister speaking, he is the leader of the conservative party. is the difference as wide as it is here in the united states on the views -- in terms of the view on climate change? gue

bernie sanders often said his model is europe but europe is falling behind for decades. in america more people get out of bed and go to work than anywhere in europe because workers over there have plenty of incentive to stay home. unemployment much higher in europe because with heavy taxes it is expensive to hire people and in a worker's paradise it is difficult to fire people. this is why america has been growing faster than sluggish europe for years. has europe produced amazon, that is what happens when you discourage work and demonize wealth. it is full of europeans eager to join dynamic innovative america. we are still powering ahead but we will fall behind if the president, bernie, aoc and senator warren get their $5 trillion. third hour of varney about to begin. kayleigh mcenany joined me now. how come this president gets things so wrong because we are not falling behind? >> we are not falling behind, we will be falling behind the devastating biden policies, you know as well as i do donald trump handed him a economy hitting record numbers especially underserved com

the natural gas price in europe has sword to in all time record $6.00 times higher than it was in the spring . it's put the continent on a course for a major energy crunch, revealing internal divisions within the block over brussels as green policies are teased. peter oliver reports from berlin, while prices are as high as they are on the commodities markets. this isn't so much going to trickle down to consumers as perhaps the price is gonna fall upon homeowner's promo, board domestic home uses form a great height to what we've heard from the european commission president. ursula for the line is that she recognizes that there are major problems that we're facing right now on problems that are coming down the pipe further along. but says that in the long term, it's renewable energy that are going to keep energy prices low across europe. i think we have to be very clear that the gas prices are skyrocketing and the but the renewables, the prices have decreased over the last 2 years and a stable. so for us is very clear that with energy in the long term, it is important to invest in renew

extreme poverty, violence and the effects of the climate crisis continue to take on the dangerous trek to europe. some 230 people were recently rescued off spain's balearic islands. meanwhile the german humanitarian vessel sea watch 3 led seven rescue missions on sunday and monday, saving dozens of refugees from drowning off the coast of libya. in chile, at least 450 protesters were arrested and two were reported dead as police clashed with thousands of people who took to the streets of santiago, and across the country, monday. protesters were marking the second anniversary of a massive uprising against the right-wing government of president sebastian piner a. the mobilizations in 2019 also triggered efforts to rewrite the chilean constitution, which was created under the u.s.-backed dictator augusto pinochet. recent protests come just one month before chileans head to the polls to elect a new president. a group of central american mothers searching for their children traveled to the u.s. this week for the first time ever as they continue to demand action to find their missing loved ones, and de