of puerto ricans. we are being charged some of the highest rates for electrical use and all of the united states. what do we have to show for? it s very little in terms of a service that is stable. very little in terms of coming back online after. adages a lot of desperation on behalf of the public. paying very high rates for very substandard. service i spoke to the executive director of the maria fund. she argued that congress is responsible for what is happening in puerto rico. the justice needs to happen at the governmental level. do you agree? i agree. i think that one of the reasons why we have not been able to move forward with regard to our reconstruction and improve the systems his in part thanks to austerity programs and policies that have seriously eroded the public sector s capacity to provide basic service let alone deploy billions of dollar projects. these measures have been
response phase. i know that the pictures are sad and we are having these issues, and we do want everybody to stay close to a family and communication if they hand can. we re working through this, and the department of transportation public works, we have staffing who all over the island, opening up the roads and are planning on the recovery part, at least for the emergency part. so there is a lot of things we have to work with. it is definitely a sad time for us, because we have been here before, and we were recovering, and now feels like we re starting all over again. alison barbara in pork greco for us. , there is déjà vu across the island right now, eerily similar to five years ago, where the island was torn apart by hurricane maria. ready in the new york times, quote, puerto rico was unraveling economically politically long before hurricane fiona. austerity programs cut deeply into the public service budget. health care pensions, and education to pay off creditors. new liked it
street journal, financial times, about how bad the british economy is. especially compared to the united states. i had not i had not considered it to be in such dire straits. it reminded me of when we were over there a couple years ago, did a week out of london. we were bemoaning the fact we were going through some problems with donald trump. everybody said to us, yeah, you have a problem with one guy. he ll be gone soon. we have a problem with an entire system. we re in deep trouble. there was that feeling several years ago, and it seems to still permeate sort of the british character and the economy right now. brexit has not been easy. on top of that, we ve had the coronavirus, years of austerity programs. we ve also had ukraine and the impact that ukrainian crisis has had on our own energy prices back in the uk. it s kind of been this confluence of things that have made a lot of challenges. we don t know, liz truss says
europe. analysts and historians describe you as the face of good germans, good germany, and they also say, though, that under your nearly fifteen years in power in some cases, those dark old demons have risen again. nationalism, populism anti-semitism, very dark forces that we can see are winning in elections to an extent. they talk about your austerity programs, they talk about your compassionate, krcourageous migration program, what do you answer to the people who say that, you know, it was a great germany under your chancellorship but these dark demons have risen again? translator: germany can and will not uncouple itself from developments we see all over the world. we see this in germany as well, but in germany obviously they always have to be seen in a certain context, and the context
now to a cnn exclusive. german chance lllor angela merk sitting down with christian amar pour for her first in-depth interview with an american television network. merkel is warning of dark forces on the rise in europe. analysts and historians today describe you as the face of good germans, good germany. they also say, though, that under your nearly 15 years in power, in some cases, those dark, old demons have risen again. nationalism, populism, anti-semitism. i mean, very dark forces that we can see are winning in elections, to an extent. they talk about your austerity programs. they talk about your compassi compassiona