it's not just a problem for europe. the rest of the world could go without as rich countries corner the market in a similar way to the vaccines. this year alone, new york natural gas futures are up 106 percent to a high of $5.20 for $1000000.00 british thermal units. it's highest in more than 7 years. but the equivalent gas in europe and asian markets costs $25.00 for $1000000.00 british thermal units. storage sites, a less than 72 percent full. that's the lowest in a decade. or knock on effects. a huge cf industries holdings. one of the was biggest fertilizer groups has been forced to close to plants in the u. k, sparking fears of a looming shortage of ammonium nitrate that could hit food supplies and a shortage of carbon dioxide production could hit the meat to soft drinks. industry will gas is also used a power electricity generation. unsurprisingly, prices of soaring in that market to several energy suppliers have already collapsed in the u. k. governments across europe preparing to hand up money to households the c

i mean, europe and i repeat, europe is the largest owner and investor in africa and around the world. so we're just trying to use and you to a new instrument to gather all the resources that are already being invested by europe, european companies, and european governments, and try to bring in and a one umbrella with a common objective. and these objective is to be when, when we don't want these to be only something that serves european industries and interests or on european companies, we want also to cooperate with the local governments and local business. of course it fixed. it was quite interesting when you said there and said louise santos were aimed at bringing together an existing trade in existing projects. how much of this is going to be new money? the headline figure, of course, is $300000000000.00 euros of investments over the next 6 years or so. but how much of this is actually new? well we have new facilities now and most of what will be new will be money brought by actually the private sector and some of the financial institutions that will be in that will be also associ

just let us in europe are low. we're venue in these period of the year high that the new winter season and lot of concern for annually and traders because people now expect a potential gas crunch in the winter should. temperatures be better. you know, you're also arguing that the way in which the european gas market is structured is, is also a fault here. why is that? well, over the last years, the european got the market at become a more modern, let's say it moved from a traditional structure of oil indexation in gas contract to a spot market. 80 percent of the european got to be traded on the spot market disease. of course, giving great flexibility to the market is a good thing, but in this particular condition, it's for they're adding pressure on the situation because europe is not the longer the work, asia is demanding a lot of n and g and the economic recovery. these also have been in asia and therefore europe as to pay more and more for the gas it was to get. and the 2nd suppliers, like russia, for example, t

all correct, lives for travel in europe. so we'll vaccine kurt and end up dividing rich and full nation. this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the show. i'm sammy, a dan, so covey, 900 vaccines, a vital for controlling the pandemic. as we know, widespread immunization is allowing parts of the world, including the u. s. in europe to reopen for tourism and trade. but it's a different story in developing nations. millions of people across africa still waiting to receive their 1st jobs. the w h o warns the continent is facing an extremely aggressive 3rd wave. the african union cove in 1900 envoy, a strongly criticized europe for failing to deliver the millions of doses. it promised we'll bring in our guests in a moment. but 1st, this report from victoria gate and b marie a 57 year old mother of 5 has come to this clinic and can shaft to get her 2nd job of the asters in vaccine. the democratic republic of congo is suffering from a 3rd surge of corona, virus infections, as many other parts of africa. i think i said this is

incent europe not to intervene and do any kind of where ups that could happen in eastern europe. cornelia, you have winter and you have energy crisis. how are we to blame? is it the post pandemic recovery? is it russia or is it weather related events, particularly last winter? it is the perfect storm you had last winter. you had such a cold winter that star was on plenty shed and i have some sympathy for gas brom again for 1st filling their own storage because they had a cold winter to. so dare storage shoe. it was, was deplete that to, for 1st you know, you 1st look after your own people and then then you go further. so, so that's one thing. then we have obviously the competition as was mentioned between them, asia and europe. for l n g, we're big because china is importing more and more l n g. this year china will become the largest import, the globally of l. n. she, it will, it will supercede japan in that position. and so, so we have, and obviously we have some geopolitical tensions. but, but, but mainly it's the perfect storm of supply and demand. and when it comes to price, yes, obv

this is the 1st time that europe has been so engaged again. here in bella, luce step, you mentioned the desperation of some of the migrant play you. what do you actually saying on the bell, russian side of the board while they are increasingly falling el, nearly everyone around me here is coughing, little children, whole families are here. there's also of course, this risk of cope with that. the w h was also warning about, but also this hopelessness is increasing. people really want to go back home, back to iraq, the fight, everything they have gone through to get here, all the money. they have been paying the money, they have both to get here and they really want to get up and go back to iraq. that shows how desperate the situation is here at the border. as you can see in our report, our german flags painted on their faces film. the declaration of people caught up in this human tragedy. families from iraq and syria were promised easy passage to europe now locked up in a camp, guarded by bella, russian forces giving some kind of shelter. after

this is not only the construction of the united nations of europe. we have make a long wait 3040 years and integrating and strengthening super national competence within the u. i would also look at the mission. it's probably not directly elected, but you could go broad, but you've been part of that and you'll be barber inside of the bottom and it's not highly apartments as we know nationally, but already has to do that. what i hear is that i have some disagreement about what it is that these right wing parties want, in terms of the future of europe. their visions, i want to come to, you call it schmidt, about some of the factors that play here, the context in which this is all happening. what do you think that the migrant crisis has done not just on poland border with en route, but across the e u. what do you think it has done for these sort of nationalist populace parties? you know, while the, you may not agree with when many of these parties are leaders or even nations, it is open to discussing, for example, you financing or physical border infrast

and 36 of europe's 50 most polluted cities are in the country. but in the ones badly polluted city of crack of science is hitching a ride into the evening sky. every time this sight, seeing balloon goes up on both senses. st. apaloosa measurements down in 2019 city authorities been the burning of fossil fuels within city limits. and the effects have been immediate. we see yeah, great, changing the city, the quality of the air is say, improving cra, city out, or if the city is pushing to hurry, much pressure to it would use the amy since the crack of these mirrors demonstrates the possibilities ahead for po, phase out, cold you slash emissions clean out the air at the same time, the getting there is a challenge. salisia the regional, the re front light of that green energy transition. and as that transition gathers pace, of course, all forms of renewable energy needs to be ramped up from solar to winds, even the whole debate of a nuclear power. and we're going to focus now on hydro power. and the problem with that is that as we build more dams, it

this panel mentions that europe. europe is a largest donor, i forgot, which is actually true. i think the thing though, is that, you know, this is why the, the issue of african brightest white important because for a long time, some african leaders and scholars have been saying that were african needs not just donor funding is not just development assistance. that is good and that is needed, particularly in parts of the continent that i owe him serious, severe crisis. what african countries need is actually meaningful economic engagement. so it is a welcome initiative, the european gateway. and if we can try to make that development assistance that provides even better respond to these priorities around jobs creation around the provision of infrastructure. and then i think that is really, really going to work. and then the final thing i'll mention on this point is that you know, this, this issue of trying to crowd in private investments working with a private sector. i think, i think a lot of work will have to go into that. because traditionally we find is that the private sec

also coming up. war and europe's border could become unavoidable ones. the president, batteries, if the you weren't accept the migrants on poland frontier, if you're, if his prime minister says he'll lead from the front line promising to join his army in its battle against to ground forces. and a jury is asked to way up, murder or self defense. closing arguments are made in the latest trial that centers on racism in america. ah. hello people in austria, can't go shopping, eat at restaurants, or get their hair cut for the next 10 days. as the country becomes the 1st in western europe to re impose a national lockdown, a korean of ours wave is surging through the continent. overwhelming hospitals as governments plead for more people to get vaccinated. for these nations, with the highest average daily infection rates, not just in europe, but across the globe. so vacuum tops the list followed by slovenia, austria, and the czech republic. a decimal, kevin 19 or climbing the most in the east. take a look at bulgaria with the highest death rate in the entire wor

and so how the headlines on al jazeera, austria has become the 1st country in western europe to re impose a full cove at 19 lockdown. the new measures will start on monday, in germany. meanwhile, the health, but it still says that the country is facing a national emergency offer infections, hit a new record dominic cane as more on the situation in austria. the reality for many austrians is that it has been a sliding scale. almost that one week there's been one set of restrictions, then the next week, more restrictions and now we're into full lockdown. clearly the reason for this is because of the incidence of cove it in many parts of austria is in 4 digits more than a 1000 per 100000 of population. well, that is a very considerable number. and for many politicians in austria right now, it's too much in the us government has made a dramatic u turn, announcing the withdrawal of 3 controversial farm laws. they triggered nationwide protests that lasted more than a year. the government introduced the measures saying that they'd modernized the agriculture sector, with farmers said the reforms w

but like for people who want to come to europe to work which is much needed. and in the last 20 years saying that an ever increasing reduction in the opportunities, the legal migration into europe. so i think those a ways to deal with this in addition, we would suggest the more collective approach find europe. so that the country for the right, i'm not left alone and changing this paper sharing quality within europe. i would also that we ignore the history and all of these claims to the cause of europe's colonial legacy in africa. i'd much rather longer vote because their enclaves on another continent. so that doesn't justify the actions of the government, but all the front to have to be taken into account rather than a knee jerk reaction, which is simply to build fences to prevent people moving. ruth, so we've been talking a bit about how brian valley and his treatment in spain has really been sort of at the center of this diplomatic dispute between spain and morocco. it's been reported that spain's high court served valley with a june 1st summons for a preli

what brings them together is that have to europe, but they have no alternative meaning. it's very funny. they are, they don't like all of them. europe, and they come together to express this whenever you look at the character of these different parties, they are so different already on this fundamental thing which you said, we just family values. they will have totally different views. for example, all the church on, for example, issues like abortion, which is a big issue or some of the parties, but not for others or, or, for example, on the other side matters where you see that it's extremely difficult to unite them . and they have been fine if you compared to the other political groups in the european parliament, which also have this issue tried to form a common block. they have much more advance like, you know, people's party or the socialist and democrats, or 70 degrees, or the liberals, you know, more much more united in the political, the political id. they stand for than the extreme right, which has totally different invasion. so again, i would take, i do not, i'm

it is an over am and the same in europe, in europe, in region. we've half a 1000000 cases week like this thing has gone away. so i summers of this sense that everyone thinks it's all over and we're just getting on. and to an extent, i understand the sentiment, understand why people want to feel that way. but for a lot of the world, unfortunately this thing is only getting started. we just need to be a little more patient. remember last summer where we had everything got good and then everyone kind of relaxed. and then we kind of arrived in september or october and ended up in huge trouble. what i think that's where we're going again with a much more transmissible variant. this time around lebanon's caretaker, prime minister is warning his country is days away from what he calls a social exclusion hasn't been appealing for international help to resolve the economic crisis. inflation of soaring lebanese currency. it's you lose pushing thousands more people and officer poverty. st holder has more from beirut. the country is in crisis, it has been in

busy with europe in union, to abolish sanctions altogether. and kind of the you keeps talking about hybrid warfare that bella bruce is waging some type of hybrid attacks and hybrid warfare. what exactly can you break that down for us? what exactly hybrid warfare mean when, when it's applied to bell roofs right now hydro and this gauge is kind of a sugar water for it's not the real are, i mean i mean, but alicia is not saying that they are doing these things. they are doing st just as a threat. i mean to the european union, and they said, this is margaret calling to better russia to go to the you. but they are not saying that the printer's, that's the form of hybrid barbara risk. but i think i said these are the things that you can count on and all of that, we know that we have some other problems with them to you. but they tried to cross the border into holland, all of which is not one of the most key members of europe in europe in you can use as also as an element towards forums who say, look, you see what your opinion is good or we can act t

and the threat was that they would cleave europe in the united states and allow food to defeat europe in detail, which is, you know, kind of what he's doing. so the problem is, you know, the military capacity, you know, nato cannot muster 100 battalions to match the 100, the times that boots mass on ukraine. so i don't think the west is looking at carrying this military. and as i said earlier, you know, we're going to reconstitute something like pershing, that's going to take 15 years. you know, we shut down those assembly lines. so there's a really imbalance. you're on the military side in the paper, russia, and i think that leads the west to look towards the political and economic solutions. thanks. are already inclined to unfortunately we're running out of time and let's hope that diplomacy will finally prevail. pavel 2nd, holla, austin bennett. and david ross, i really appreciate you and i thank you and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website as a dot com for further discussion. because our facebook page that's facebook dot com forwar

so europe is tied to russia, russia, 5 europe, basically before moscow. that's also not that bad because there's this. so the idea that russia should build bridges with europe try and push the americans out. do something that trump was wanted to do and establish time with germany primarily, but without the other european countries. that's kind of very close partnership. that's not very working out, but the commercial part of it. and then of course, the problem of ukraine, which right now finds itself in a position where moscow at the will, if it wishes to, can continue to supplied gas to europe with contract obligations, but not sending much or at all to ukraine. that's for sure. let's, let's talk a little bit more about ukraine's options here, michael. but if you crank continues to feel that europe in the united states are not looking out for them on this issue, does that risk join them closer to china's or bit as has been suggested by some? yeah, absolutely. i think the feeling in ukraine is i'd recently return from there is that it's been thrown under

for germany and for europe. well, it's interesting that every member of the upcoming new government announces that we need to radical changes when it comes to climate change. and they are all pushing for renewables that more needs to be done more than what the previous government has done. and given that we've seen the rising gas prices that could potentially be leveraged on the stand, that it's now high time. and we shouldn't discuss the nitty gritty is of how it is turned is when mail next to a building or all the reasons why it didn't meet the targets that have been defined before. so there are certainly a push coming from the current what was described as a perfect storm that we'll see more efforts and more investment in renewables and decreases the cio strategic dependency from russia. pulses. this is a crisis moment. everybody's looking for leverage. oh, it comes to ukrainian the seem to be pretty much excited about the potential. what might happens next, particularly because they are now going to be part

and the enormous pressure that's going to put on to the health systems across europe. so i think i think the winter is going to be very challenging. my view is if we can make it to spring next year, we've been a much stronger position but, but what, what told is that going to take in the meantime? lawrence, thank you very much. indeed, not thanks to all of these weather smith, florence young and maria gone, shook and thank you to you too. for watching you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website, odyssey dot com and for further discussion, go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash a j inside story. and you can also join the conversation on twitter. handle is a inside story for me, rob madison. i'm the char, see here. bye for now. the me ah. a fluent to stretch some neighborhoods, a run by social and economic despair. one 0, what a fake the bad of local heroes. every one of us ever got a responsibility to change our personal life for their suburban drake on out to 0. i prefer to see things for myself to look at things, not through

what, you know, they were like, well, headquarters here in the, coming up in the next 30 minutes. europe is again the api center of the pandemic because countries report record numbers of infection. poland and bella ruther accused all seriously abusing refugees and migrants on the border. plus the south denied, and they had mentioned that good one. they said the planet, the face cross will crash into an asteroid. find out how to stop one plummeting into uh ah, welcome to the program. we begin in ethiopia, where the conflict between the government and the guy rebels is escalating. prime minister aman has now left the capital and his heading to the front line to lead his troops in the battle. the t p rebels pushing south room to grow into the neighboring regions of a honda and a far down a major road running into the capital, addis ababa to grow. and rebels said earlier this month that they take control of these towns convolute check since only supply line linking the landlocked nation, the port city of chip booty. that last week, the rebels claim to have captured the northern town of sail

. europe is only receiving cab yet very small share of, of this refugee. so that's may be a 1st point. as for whether we can find a political solution to the situation. i mean i, i think this is yet to be seen. the issue of migration and asleep has become so sensitive. and since you have $1516.00, i would say the situation is getting worse. after every crises of perceived crisis like that, really, there is this perception that we can not managed your rivals. and this is making really difficult to find a solution at you level for, you know, a common armnaya manage solution to and hosting this people. i mean, we've had that old discussion on silicon already and we're seeing like every time there is this list deadlocks at between, between you member states. and so either i'm not sure if they, there's a solution in sites. i. susie's problem, what is your, is like at operational levels. this is where things can change. this is where, you know, independent human right monitoring mechanism can be set up. and also this is where, you know, as i mentioned, see, can

the 2nd thing is, i don't think you what they want is to be for europe. we all of the european union, and we all have to somehow think about what kind of union we want. now we have said, well, this was we'll say, and then we had the meeting today and also who was your nation, which was actually the initial idea that it was supposed to be a nation. and it has developed and more and more designed to ration. not everybody was that and i think those right to discuss then vision if you me and they hate you, they want to change it. they don't want to abolish that is a totally different thing and i think it is really that many assumptions are made about like on the lawn just in the us. not us 70. and all we do not really have us is a range party that don't really matter on the political. ok, carol, i know i want to put that to you but advance that a little bit in that often. one thing is born of the other right, right wing populism. that perhaps a reaction to its opposite. what is it that you think these parties are rebelling against? and even if you don't agree

and we also need to get a little bit west in europe centric, less western europe century. because when you don't go to, you know, athlete time, other places where people need mobility, they may not have the money to invest in all that an electric vehicle infrastructure. so we need to make sure we keep the we still electrified and power. * whilst we move on that fast speed towards energy transition and risk, let's just move the debate on quick and talk about emissions. i mean, what impact do you think the energy crisis then? we'll have on you admission commitments? i mean, if renewables on foss enough and colon gas as you say, a plug in the gap, how is that like it? and to play out next month, clock $26.00 in glasgow. well 1st of all, i say, you know, the current crunch that we're talking about is, i mean, it is not great and it's difficult and it will affect the most vulnerable people across europe and elsewhere. but i would still say it's temporary, it is something that will go away after you know, a couple of months when the markets will change again. well, when we're go

c, eyes, wildfire ripped across southern europe. the land was parched and the fires quickly spread, nor the levia in greece was a hottest hit. inferno lost for 2 weeks, thousands were evacuated. today you can see what's left in the devastation in this area was total. people are well used to annual wildfires here, but not on this scale. not with this much last thousands of hector's of forest and livelihoods just incinerated. and because of the fires, the new threat as the rain comes so do floods and mudslides defies him, destroy the land, natural ability to withhold water, to act as a flood defense system. now in periods of intense rain, the water just cascades offerings, hillsides so that using the dead trees, the shore of the soil and the land in these hard exhausting work, but vital to preserve what's left and encourage regeneration of the forest. innate, that the devil to the guy again about a there you were trying to keep the soil in place as we don't want it to be carried away by heavy rainfall because their natural regeneratio

and in europe case, you can, you can see that at europe, andrew european union specifically is falling short on that nando. i want a quote from a piece that you wrote recently about what's going on at the poland, belarus border. you said while understanding the geo politics behind the current border crisis is useful and relevant. the protection of vulnerable people stranded at the border and their humanitarian needs should remain paramount as well as their right to claim asylum. this. this idea of people being stuck there in the middle of this geopolitical route that's going on. has that all gotten lost in this it so i mean too many ways is know if you knew what's happening. i mean we have seen it is escalating is a tete tactics that we've seen apply those. so swearing or the weapon is ition or refugees them for displacement. the use of civilian says a human shield. so this is why we need a un convention. we need the protection of your rides of civilian so people that are suffering from persecutions and violence, etc. the point, so my reading of what's going on now at the border betwee

and this divisions in europe, dividing lines is also making europe as a continent less and less relevant. now, if nato would go back to its original mission to be a status coal power and it's military interventionism and this expansion is mixed with again, the source of stability in europe. however, this is kind of what they're trying to negotiate now between moscow in washington. but that's very different from saying that natal dismantles, theresa. and always, if they don't like, why just if nato were the, the only problem. why did president put in choose to invade the crimea after ukraine signed the corporation deal with the european union? was not natal? that was the problem. in that case, there was a deal with the european union's well, it's a large extent because of the tactics that it can see what's coming down the road. i mean, the natal started with expanding to a couple of countries now it just keeps expanding. and obviously the u. s. s. s. s state that it's intention of dragging ukraine into nato, even when only a small minority wanted to be a part of nato. and furthermore, the

again, sorry, fuji's or asylum seekers coming into europe. and on the other hand, neighboring countries such as turkey, where they won their 2. bo passmore migration flows towards europe. and because number one, they want to elevate their own problem button number 2, they can use, it is migration flows as a negotiating directed against some more financial compensation from europe. and so basically we end up having a big number of people caught in the middle between iraq and a hard place where they're trying to cross the border. and they're being deborah encouraged or helped to cross the border. so what i'm song was on the little chap is at some concern, but i also a lot of anti migrant thoughts right now. maybe mirroring what is happening in europe and he put some ideas and thoughts team. can me help me out with this one? how miss us, what right or legal case the country is invoke when accused of pushing back my rights. i think so far and number of them i've been a been denying them. i think i've been denying it and, and i think this is why t

well, what's going on now in europe? dozens of people are being criminalizing criminalize for do that. i think what is helping people need, helping records in my guns. you need immediately to adopt jarvis and let these 2 young people come on with their lives. we'll begin our discussion in a moment, but 1st let's go to john sutton. us in offense. john, how do the greek people react into this particular trial? well, at the moment, this isn't very well publicized. the news of this is not very widespread. there are other things like current virus claiming the limelight. this is a story that's been ongoing since september 2018 when the indictments took place. there is awareness, very high awareness among the humanitarian community in the 8 community. and there the reactions that people are pulled because the emergency response and trans national was an age group that was working very closely with authorities including the atlantic coast because the local authorities, unless was the government they had cleared all the hurdles

why is it across europe? there is still so much, i guess the word i'm looking for here is a nurture surrounding this debate because the, the narrative to me still seems to be borne out of a mindset that says white people will lose out if we discuss racial equality, but race racial based writes, race writes, every one's right. so if people have color, have the rights they are entitled to every one else benefit. surely. yeah, absolutely. and i want to follow up on that an appointment patricia was making. i think her, her skepticism or concern is as well place because that is the phenomenon we've seen that you've described. but at the same time, i think there is so much evidence that anytime you discriminate against or exclude people from society, the society as a whole, loses out in all sorts of ways. think of the opportunity of, of the people who could have made a contribution, who aren't now because they didn't get the education that they deserve, or because they are suffering disproportionate health impacts

this is very, very like the breeze breaking news coming out of europe. now these 45 people, including children, have been killed after a bus caught fire in western bulgaria. the bus had been traveling from turkey to north macedonia. the accident happened about 40 kilometers south of the bulgarian capital. sophia 7 passengers have been taken to hospital with burns, bringing more on that as we get it. now china has maintained a 0 tolerance approach to the pandemic since last year, defending its severe and southern locked downs. but experts are warning. the approach is unsustainable. economic growth is flooding and several banks have cut their growth forecast for next year. katrina, you has moved from beijing. chinese authorities appear to have the country's latest corona, virus outbreak under control. daily reported cases have dropped to single digits after the delta variance spread to at least $1300.00 people since mid october. but reducing infections has come at a cost, severe locked downs and trouble restrictions are weighing on the country's economic g

there's a lot of pressure on europe to take these 2000 to migrant and asylum seekers. will this happen? well, as i was mentioning, just know w to was part of a larger united nation is family. we're going to meet with you and country team. each of them has it mandate you and h, u i o m. my mission is the reason that of the ritual is hell for all is really ensuring that health as a human right, is respected at health conditions are rapidly deteriorating and increasingly people are asking to be returned home by the russian security personnel are escorting them through the back door, something we are not allowed to film with more people returning, hey, here's result of the crisis of this rated by look at shanker, thousands of data lucian, people have sold everything to go in this hopeless journey based on false promises . b, e u has shown if and immigration phase lucas shanker, we didn't manage to force europe to open its border for many, it will be back to where they started. after spending weeks been pushed back and forth between one country to try to send them across th