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we have peter newman, senior fellow at the institute, and joining us from taiwan capital of ty, pay is asia political risk, unless ross find gold, a well warm welcome to each of you. so if i could talk these got like i said, the world similarly in the throes of a democratic back track, a rise of populism rise will thorough terrorism. democracy is perhaps on the way and this is a good conversation to have, isn't it? i'm a big fan of democracy. i am a big critic of countries that restrict political rights that put people in prison that provide the basics for some people, but not for all. but this is not the way in my opinion, to promote democracy. the way you promote democracy is by building up institutions . it's by insuring space for political participation, for all in the country. and it's by discussing with people in other countries, how you can work with them, civil society groups, journalists, activists, students. in other words, it's in the spirit of cooperation. democracy cannot just simply be shouted from the rooftops. it has to basically be developed on the ground. so my proble

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so we know this is all the tricks and you're absolutely right peter. they refused to recognise nicaragua, they continue to sanction their the entire country. people are living in dire need right now i just got back from there. i also got back from under as, and we were really covering that as well in elections as well. the united states is refusing to recognize any of these countries and the job by the job, by them is in charge. really. that's the point i want to make. this is the continuation of the u. s. department, and of course their foreign policy. this is really nothing to do with the mocker. see, it's more of an, it's more of the tricks. and by the way, the united states government, the united states military, is very rich in talking about democracy when they're jailing journalists like julian assigned. and i mean, it's just, it's just to larry a for them to talk about a summit on democracy when in reality the united states is the number one persecutor of journalists and any sort of descent. and they're basically trying to frame this as an attem

peter oliver looks at how some consumers in europe being duped by so called green washing as we learn more about our impact upon the climate as increasing impetus, almost all to keep that in mind when it comes to purchases. and that's also being seized upon by advertisers who are very keen to push their product as the best one for the environment. jim and consumer rights group food watch handout, a yearly award. the golden cream puff which shames those products that pitch themselves as green. but in reality, they're using climate concern to just shift more units. our diet has its share in the huge problems we face to day. the food industry now wants to cash in on consumers, need for more sustainability and is marketing their products as a way of saving the environment and the climate. these are the products on german shells that made up the top 3 this year when it comes to green washing or promoting yourself is good for the climate when really, you're not in the bronze medal position on these coffee capsules from hamburg faced coffee roasted j. j, damp oven and partnership with the sw

ah, hello welcome, i'm peter w, watching out to the are alive from headquarters here and also coming up the she socialite gillian maxwell is found guilty of grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by the american financing. jeffrey epstein. fighting intensifies between me and mars military and ethnic rebels forcing thousands of people from their hopes and a decade after kim john came to power. we looked at his rule over north korea and where the country may be heading next. ah, delta and army chrome, variance of koby 19 fueling. what the world health organization is calling a sou nami, of cases sweeping across the globe. on average $900000.00 new infections being reported each day. no continent has been left untouched. many countries including the u. s. australia, bolivia, and several european nations are hitting new records. france has, for example, reported 200 a 1000 new infections, the highest ever recorded in your that to you infections every 2nd. the government has made masks mandatory outdoors in paris. worried about the economic impact of forcing millions of people to wo

i'm peter labelle . u. s. president joe biden is hosting a virtual global summit on democracy. apparently, washington intends a new crusade to save the world for democracy, at least as the foreign policy blob understands this political term. critics of this study claim, it's all about strategic polarization and an attempt at values based diplomacy. ah, ah, cross sucking democracy summit, i'm joined by my guest, scott ritter and dollar. he is a former intelligence officer and the united nations weapons inspector in orlando. we have berella, isabel, she is an independent journalist and co host of the convo couch. and here in moscow we have alexis, now i'm of, he is an expert at the russian international affairs council across like rules and effect. that means you can jump any time you want. now is appreciate, scott, let me go to you 1st here. what's the point of best some that, i mean, i'm really at a loss. i mean, this is, it's not, it's if it's like 950 or 1980 and the cold war is still going on. and can you actually in a, have a, a principal, a union uniting principal around d

taylor: peter, do you agree? peter: i do agree. the market is looking to 2022. it will be pretty quiet for the next couple of weeks, so we are not expecting all that much, even though the data is important. taylor: collin, rapidfire, two or three rate hikes next year? collin: i will go with two. peter: one. taylor: marilyn? marilyn: two. taylor: ok. i guess we are going to have to leave it there. i always wish we had more time. really appreciate it as always. peter yi, marilyn watson, collin martin. divergence of rate hikes next year as we await more guidance from the dot plots. this was "bloomberg real yield," and you are watching bloomberg. ♪ every day in business brings something new. so get the flexibility of the new mobile service designed for your small business. introducing comcast business mobile. you get the most reliable network with nationwide 5g included. and you can get unlimited data for just $30 per line per month when you get four lines or mix and match data options. available now for comcast business internet customers with no line-activation

and it's indeed, strictly for peter in olympic charter. lost her lot for now, but don't miss any mid week updates this wednesday by giving her a twitter page a follow developments by the minute quite literally either goodbye. ah i ah, what is the national mood? i suppose it depends on what kind of media you consume to say the nation is divided in highly partisan is an understatement. this is certainly what the national media wants us to think. what are we really so divided on what really matters a video almost pretty much be with can sure to coordinate a video like you to form a . but what i want to talk to my media isn't that jim, you to waste figured out those very much. not a lot of them with .

guest: peter defazio is such a remarkable legislator and friend. he will be greatly missed. he served more than 35 years here in the u.s. house of representatives. he is beloved at home by his constituents. he will be sorely missed. i do thank him for his decades of service for being a friend and mentor and a fierce advocate for the people of southwest oregon. i wish him the very best in his retirement. he will definitely be missed, this specially with issues like chance rotation and infrastructure, which he had the honor of leading the effort for that very important committee. also i worked with him on natural resilience issues. he has been a wonderful colleague. i wish him well. host: 19th democrat to do so. what is your confidence after the midterms the democrats will remain in power in the house of representatives? guest: we will do everything we can to remain in the majority. we will see what happens. when you look at the policies and the values we stand for, a better future, really looking out for the rights of people, the rights of people to make reproductive health c

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we've got the sports students with peter. thanks rob. yes, we're alive from our special arab cup studio, hearing doha, we'll look ahead to the final day of action in the group stage and bring you all the goals as catherine make it 3, when so 3 in the competition so far. ah mm mm hm. mm pool blue a welcome to l 0. spatial coverage of the fee for arab cup. the tournament doubling up as a major warm up event where the cutter will come next. yeah. hello, i'm here to say with plenty of sports nice for you, including a look ahead to tuesdays champions, league fixtures. also on the way we'll have reaction to the us announcing the diplomatic boycott of next year's beijing winter olympics. big cricket news to as england leave out jimmy anderson for the 1st actions test against australia. we call it action from the n b a as stiff curry stalls again for the golden state warriors arab cup hosts cutter made it a perfect 3 winds out of 3 in the group stage. i'm heading for goal is true against the rock, but scored 3 in the last 10 minutes. it was subs

that brings economists, peter is telling me that higher inflation drives people to take more debt. there is a view, the low low level inflation is, is good to be economy. i'm not sure i subscribe to that, but certainly the kind of inflation we're seeing now is very pernicious and visual . i doubt it is many aspects of the economy in many ways the pandemic, or rather the central bank in response to the panoramic is the main factor that's creating the place right now. last year, the federal reserve increased the years. one is our supply by between 30 and 40 percent, and the root cause inflation is lots of money. jason, as they were fewer goods and services. so that's the main one that is going to try to lift interest rates to, to tap down on this question. but they can't do they stop to open market bond purchases? nape said they won't stop that until april or may of next year. so give me a while. this in place may get a bit higher before they're able to do that. they don't even really benefit from high inflation. systematically are creditors because if you take debt and inflation ris

going to begin in the sub continent and we're in india where most of our rain is petering out on friday. but let me show you the scene on saturday. other wave hits tamela do and also 1st for longer bursts of rain toward the southwest and the se, but back to time on the do x 3 days for tonight. the rain and storms will never be too far away, as we head towards south east asia right now, it's been nonstop rain on the island of lombok. that's just east a bali producing these scenes of flash flooding, a torrent of water. tens of thousands of people impacted your and still plentiful storms in the forecast on friday. take you to the philippines. right now. rain coming out of both sides in the east and the west dispatch moves in from borneo. the risk of flash flooding and rain induced landslide x for china, some rain density across western areas of the yangtze river valley and the yellow river valley sham jo has a hive. 7 degrees, thick cloud toward the northeast of china, over the korean peninsula that could generate some showers and could even see some snow at higher elevation. meantime for

the commodity is now around 6 times more expensive than in early summer, or she's peter oliver brings us up to speed rack or breaking day when it comes to the price of gas in europe. that has topped $2000.00 per 1000 cubic meters of gas for the 1st time ever. it's come about after gas braun, the russian energy giant didn't book any gas transit through poland on the moll euro pipeline in its most very basic sense. that meant no extra gas would be arriving in germany. now, gas prong continues to live up to the contracts. it has with european nations like germany and others. but what it's not doing is sending any extra on to the market. what that means is there's an increased demand and well not the supply as i said. so that means that prices have gone right up. in fact, they've gone through the roof this month alone. prices have risen by 40 percent since the summer. they've gone up 300 percent in that they start to take a toll on energy companies and number of them deciding that this is just too rich for their blood. and they've had served while they fold it. they've had to file for ban

sex trafficking trial charges against the former associate of the american financing and convicted peter file jeffrey epstein included sex trafficking of underage girls, his gabriel elizondo. it took the jury 5 full days more than 40 hours of deliberations. he lane maxwell guilty on 5 of the 6 charges she faced convicted of grooming young girls, her sexual abuse by her former boyfriend, jeffrey epstein. and even sometimes joining in the british socialite remained calm and whispered to her lawyer and drank a sip of water. as the verdicts were read out, outside court maxwell's friend, lee, saffron, a regular throughout the trial, and he left with our comment to chance to give a reaction to the verdict for the prosecution. the verdict was a welcome relief. the road to justice has been far too long, but today, justice has been done. i want to commend the bravery of the girls now grown women who stepped out of the shadows into the courtroom. their courage and willingness to face their abuser, made today's result. and this case possible, the trial attracted enormous global attention, wealthy a

peter, all of a r, t, berlin. china has slammed australia. how to cambra decided to follow america's lead by imposing a diplomatic boycott on the beijing winter olympics. the head of the australian olympic committee however, says it's a matter for government and not for athletes. the a diplomatic gap boycott is a matter for government. i'm sure same for the united states government now. got all the governments around the world are considering a diplomatic boycott. medicine that is where the ambassadors will and ministers of the country don't attend the games. it's entirely up to the government and not a matter for us as we are politically neutral and is about the athletes. and the time for the i say, well, previously the e u. parliament of vice president nicola beer had the assisted the parliament to consider called upon the parliament, i should say to consider 2022 limping. boycotting to the stand off comes amid tense relations. washington, the basic political and economic competition affecting ever more spheres. now us an australian athlete

peter. the governor of kentucky says this has not been confirmed by the state, but the owner of the candle factory says that there were 8 bodies pulled out of that wreckage. and now there are 6 missing workers, which was a dramatic revision from what had once been feared. as 40 of those workers still unaccounted for. as an explanation of the owner said it was because of the communication challenges right after the disaster. there's no power, no phone service, and finally, more employees who had gotten out safely on their own have reached down, said that they are safe so that that could be very good news. but the governor still says that the death toll here in kentucky which remains the state with the largest loss of life. best case scenario, he said would be 50 dead worst case still a 100 plus and that includes surrounding towns. here in the town of brendan, we're only some a 100 people live one out of 10 have died because of this tornado, including a 4 month old child. we also know in dawso

it's a coven measures and reopens peters and cinemas. that's after it's highest to court, said the restrictions were too excessive with elsewhere. joe biden. distances himself from previous promises to shut down the virus. he now says it's up to individual face, not the white house to sorted out. we discussed this response to the pandemic. so far plus a special, we get a rare glimpse inside one of russia's most notorious prisons home in it's dave.

when economists, peter earl told us that higher inflation drives people to take on that there's a view that low level inflation is, is good for the economy. i'm not sure i subscribe to that, but certainly the kind of inflation we're seeing now is a very pernicious that makes life down as many aspects of the economy and may wait in the pandemic. or rather, the central bank in response to the band i make is the main factor that's creating the place right now. last year, the federal reserve increase the years money to supply by between 30 and 40 percent . and the root cause inflation is lots of money chasing the same are fewer goods and services. so that's the main one that is going to try to lift interest rates to tap down this in place, but they can't do they stop to open market bond purchase, as they've said they won't stop back until april or may of next year. so it's gonna be a while this employees may get a bit higher before they're able to do that. it will really benefit from high inflation, systematically our, our creditors. because if you take debt and inflation rises, you wind u

have their funds from sponsorship and commercial revenue under the direction of executive director, peter jennings, who is himself clear where the blame for increasing tensions lies militarized themselves pharmacy. posing china's authoritarian control in hong kong, threatening taiwan and japan on a daily basis. china is the strategic problem in the region and back to the point. the thing thank is now partnered with the social media joint, helping to decide and coordinate what information users have access to on what be sentences. so much for independent analysis and serving the public conversation is little wonder that some question whose interests does this really serve? britton's royal college of midwives, it has said, sorry for it's the latest supposedly inclusive guidelines which make no reference to women or mothers, but only to post natal people responding to complaints the college called it in oversight. the organization had taken advice from the controversial pro diversity group, stonewall if former and h s. nurse we spoke to says the lobby group or the r c. m itself has no right

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. >> during us with more is white house correspondent peter ducey. i've got to admit i've been on the road, i've done a number of books and i do three hours of radio and hour of tv, an hour and half speech, three hour boo signing, fly to the next city and do it all again. five or six days in a row and sometimes i take brenda's own, do we know if he took any medicine to lower the inflammation of his vocal chords ? get nothing serious yet, sean, but and we have had the changin of the temperature here in dc starting a couple of days ago i was 55 yesterday, '40s today but it didn't sound like him. it didn't sound like a cold tomato. >> i have listened to every public statement this man has made in the last three years or so and i never heard joe biden so baritone, i couldn't believe it which is why i asked, and of course we know that they take lots of we also know that and less then a week since he was u in nantucket shopping indoors, he had his mask pulled down at place where masts we're required , so it was worth asking and i didn't just ask him, i ask

with the sponsored my cattle airways, most of the rain has petered out across by the dash. hello everyone, let me show you still keeping it toward the northeast of india, but quite a soaking a 4 dock up. but now you have the opportunity to dry off. we're back into the sunshine your temperature locks in to about 27 degrees. so it's pretty well where he should be for this some the year after se, asia right now we've got a weather maker just to the south of java. this is swirling around somewhat weather for west java into southern sections of sumatra. and we can also trace rain being steered rate into 2 ways. so for all of these spots, we've got to be on the lookout for flooding ticket. the philippines right now, and the risk of flooding here is small for eastern portions into a central philippines. as this solid band of rain now arrives into see bu city. in time, it's all about sunshine for a huge swath of china, high pressure and charged. the stellar stretch of weather continues for gray, lynn and hong kong. bit more cloud cover. moving. what's the east though? drifting in t

i think peter doocy on one side versus jene- psaki. why don't you have a one-hour special one night and fill in for me. >> i don't know if i could fill up one hour. >> sean: thank you for joining us anyway. this new photo book by president trump our journey together, is available at 45books.com. i did not know until tonight that yours truly is actually in it, and i was like, oh, no, because i know we wrote the captions i'm like, oh, no, i'm going to get hit hard and it was actually really nice. >> sean, your caption was great. i think you look great in the photo. some of our favorite fox penalties we included. you look great in the book. it was a fun project actually. sort of interesting and you're well aware of so many of these stories that thees mainstream media wouldn't report but a picture says a thousand words and i remember going through over the last few months with my father some of the great pictures of his presidency, the accomplishments, and honestly, we said, we've got to put together something. he started scribbling notes

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. >> sean: peter doocy. i'm telling you, there is a show here. and i will announce it on jen psaki's birthday. i think peter doocy on one side versus jen psaki -- why don't we just -- why don't you get a one-hour special and fill in for me one night? that would be great for me. would you do that? >> it took all morning to come up with 5 minutes worth of questions. i don't know if i could do an hour. [laughs] >> sean: peter, thank you. joining us now, donald trump jr. don't forget, by the way. this new photo book by president trump, our journey together, is available at 45 books.com. i did not know until tonight that yours truly is actually a niche. and i was like oh, no. because i know he wrote the captions i'm like oh, no. i'm going to get hit hard. it was actually really nice. >> sean, your caption was great. i think you look great in the photo. we had to include some of our favorite fox personalities. you look great in the book, sean. it was a really fun project. it was sort of interesting and you are well aware of so many of these stories tha

i'm peter labelle, focus on ukraine. joe biden says, i don't accept any one's red line. russia's foreign minister saturday, margaret says the nightmare scenario of military confrontation is returning on this edition of the program. we examined the significance of both statements. ah, the who discuss these issues and more and joined by him. i guess george m u l. we. in budapest, he is a podcast or the goggle which can be found on youtube and locals and afloat. we have going these and he is a professor at the university of south eastern norway as well as the author of the book, great power politics in the 4th industrial revolution or a gentleman, cross talk, rules and effects. that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i would appreciate it. okay, it's good to go ahead and 1st the in our slow i, i don't think we can underestimate the significance of the 2 sentences that i cited in the introduction. i don't accept anyone's red line and the nightmare scenario of military computation is returning. i don't think anything

so many of peter take his houses are standing empty. come, my dear, i haven't been able to contact the tenant of this place for 3 months in this apartment. the tenant has been out of work for 3 months so far. i can't get anything from him yet. allow this rent or moved out after not paying for 6 months because of the corona pandemic. lego place has been empty since then. enter enter. peter che got might be complaining, but he's doing very well compared to his tenants who faced extreme hardship. he's a man of 2 faces. he might leave the tenants alone for a few months, but then he'll send a gang around to settle, matters by force. meanwhile, the residence of maternity remain at the mercy of him and his fellow slum lords. escaping poverty can seem almost impossible. one way is through a good education and that doesn't necessarily mean a business or medical degree. deafness and imagination, for example, can be very useful. and then very much in demand in one rather magical place on the outskirts of cape town. ah, and to mo, love counselor, c

peter doocy joins us from the white house with more. peter, big meeting today. >> big meeting. and officials around here have been warning putin publicly to back off that border. but as to what president biden is going to tell him privately it's unclear. >> is president biden prepared to warn that there is a possibility of u.s. military involvement if russia invades ukraine? >> again, i'm not going to get ahead of the president's conversation. >> and has there been any discussion about increasing military aid. >> i'm not going to get ahead of decisions one way or another that the administration may or may not make here. >> a review of satellite images has the cia director under the impression putin has put about half of the 175,000 troops he would need for a ground invasion in place already. >> i don't believe that putin -- we don't know that putin has made up his mind to use force what we do know is that he is putting the russian military. the russian security services in a place where they could have in a pretty sweeping way. pete: european partners may not be eagles tore pun

have their funds from sponsorship and commercial revenue under the direction of executive director peter jennings. who is himself clear where the blame for increasing tensions lies. most rising south shawnasee, composing china's authoritarian control in hong kong, threatening taiwan and japan on a daily basis. china is the strategic problem in the region and back to the point. the thing thank is now partnered with the social media giant helping to decide and coordinate what information users have access to. and what is sentences so much for an opponent, analysis and serving the public conversation, is little wonder that some question whose interests does it really serve? well to a distress, is its goal, is to ensure the integrity of public conversation. alessandra bruno independent political analyst says that there's more to it than just that there's a climate of tension of geopolitical tension already surrounding that. so it's not surprising that twitter is very happy to comply to you the, let's put at the u. s. mainstream or the deep state view. i'm not surprised at all that they coope

lewis hamilton and macs for stop and we're going to hear from both of them in sports with peter. ah, but it is fighting a northern camera over access to water has killed at least 22 people, thousands of others of fled to neighboring chad because of the unrest between fishing and hurting communities. so i'll try that reports the sheltering from the sound in china capital in germany hometown because sorry, is just 20 kilometers away in northern cameron. all were forced across the border off the seeing what they say with some of the worst fighting yet between fishing and hurting communities. they've access to water supply at him and the fighting and cush area has been very while and we had to cross the river at night to find refuge here. now that we are safe, faced the cold weather and lack of food and our children have not eaten since yesterday. we ask the champion of 30 to help us. otherwise, our situation here will be worse than the conflict we have at home. on wednesday, you set fire to a cattle market belonging to arrival community. it retaliated, several people were killed and

i was walking down pence imvein yeah avenue, on the house side, big thing from the peter's institute about national debt. now it's $28 trillion. every single american owes 80,000 in debt, every man, woman and child. once you realize that, when you talk about the spending, i mean this is before we spend another $5 trillion, you all owe 90 grand. every person. and when interest rates go back up which they will at some point, we're going to be really screwed, but i think explaining to people what is going on, and just, again, we don't have to persuade in the same way they do, because we actually can just say, do you realize you owe this much pun money and you'll owe another 5 trillion. what are you getting for it? i'm watching town hall with biden last night, no joke, folks, how many times did he say that? i was like stop it with the no joke. my dad used to say joey no joke. so i gathered all the big companies and say we got to start operating 24/7, they won't come to eight hours and you want 24 seven? get first eight hours under control then worry about the other 16 but everyone's like

peter wenger of the ethics and public policy center. nearly a year after making history as a nation's first female black vice president. watch washington journal live at seven eastern morning on c-span or c-span now, our new mobile app. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. >> next, a hearing on police seizing property for alleged crimes. known as civil asset forfeiture, legal experts assess the impact this practice has on citizens and the federal government's role in possible arms -- reforms.

peter live first at the white house. peter, thank you. julie. >> julie: many schools across the country are moving to remote learning as the omicron surge grows. what will this mean for students and their parents? especially after christmas break. alexander hoff's live in washington to kind of give us a picture of what to expect. alex. >> it's kind of a reversal here. many kids feeling its regression. from new york to new mexico. hundreds of thousands of kids will remain home after christmas break. this is after president biden himself sat on to say that classrooms should remain open. not the case in prince george's county maryland where learning has moved to virtual through january 18. the district said this about state open, "the positivity rates have challenged us to do so, causing anxiety amongst many school communities and disruption to the school day." maryland's governors of the covid-19 case numbers and at school district were slight compared to school population. look at his take. >> shutting down an entire school system of kids

conversation with you as presidential biden belgium suddenly backtracks on its coated measures and reopened peters and sentiment that after its highest court said the restrictions were too excessive. elsewhere, joe biden, distances himself from previous promises to shut down the virus now says it's up to individual fate, not the white house to sorted out. we discuss his response to the pandemic so far plus a special, we'd get a rare glimpse inside one of russia as most notorious prisons.

>> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn, peter, thank you. stocks were down today. dow lost 320, the s&p 500 fell 43. the nasdaq was off 217. >> an illustration tonight of just how delicate relations are between china and tijuana. critics say it's the biden's weakness on aggression. it a policy has not changed. state department correspondent benjamin hall tells us about the international incident over the color of a map? >> the summit for democracy began with lofty ambitions. bringing together democracy from around the world as a counter weight to china. but it ended in apparent embarrassment with the administration appearing to bow to the chinese. during a presentation by the taiwanese minister the feed was suddenly cut off. possibly because of presentation showed taiwan a different color to china. independent. it also happened as the minister had been talking of freedom. >> we believe that a completely open environment with free speech unsensorred is perfect for letting digital democracy flourish. >> sources told reuters that the video was cut at the behest of the