does favor republicans according to history. presidential approval is the north star of mid-term elections, and president biden begins the year under water. you see it right there, the latest cnn polling average. 45% of americans approve of the president s job performance. 51% disapprove. the panel is back with us to discuss. arabia, if you re at the biden white house you can look at how this played out and you can see it on the screen over time. the president was above 50% when he took office and 56% and now down 13 points when it comes to approval and up 11 points when it comes to disapproval. in the summer americans realized covid wasn t going away. maybe the president on july 4th overpromised a little bit or oversuggested that covid would disappear. how does the white house, they have ten months to do it, try to change those numbers? well, i think a lot of what they tried to do is they tried to make sure that they can that they can do something to make sure that i m having so
frank, squeezing out a lot. china, lyse, had obviously difficulties throughout 2021 as so many countries did, but it saw big benefits. the demand for chinese goods, in particular, from the rest of the world, not least from people in lockdown in the us in the early part of the year on their computers ordering away big boost to demand. are there certain economic advantages that china will continue to enjoy in the coming year? well, as marc said, - is there any savings left to keep pushing this demand? i think it sjust the kind of pain you re seeing . streets and village shops people, i consumers had hoped to recoup the losses of the last year - by bumper sales and time - for people to go out and shop, etc. instead they re being hit by another wave, | this time omicron, not sure exactly how long it will go on, will there be a lockdown. - all this creates - a lot of uncertainty. and of course, if you mention china, china unlike many-
standpoint and ultimately as you mentioned in the videogame world when he created the biggest trend that we have seen in the videogame world since probably super mario brothers, when you look at what has impact has been, just on the field and even away from the field but he never left the game off all and its impact as we know even right now continues to live on. and that is a real thing of genius, isn t it, let s be honest, an older guy to be setting a trend in videogames is quite something. absolutely. when you look at what john madden created, this is a guy that truly reinvented himself there s as whole generation that didn t even realise that he was the coach of the oakland raiders back in the 70s because a lot of us weren t even born at that time but we knewjohn madden from not only being on television but from being in a videogame in creating this craze in this legacy as each videogame becomes better. there is a debate on which year of the game was better,
in fact, quite the opposite. they may actually raise their head. i but since you talked about it, i do want to say that we re i talking about the coronavirus which has been knocking - all of us sideways - don t forget climate change, which has shown us to have the power. | in my country, canada, - fires have burned entire towns to the ground. we saw the tornado sweeping through six states in the us. i a whole town centre - in kentucky was wiped away by the force of nature. climate change as well as - the coronavirus are going to be these global problems - which need global solutions and yet again, we ll be asking are world leaders up - to the task of working together in making the sacrifices- in order to find the solutions that not only their own - countries and people needl but the entire world needs. and don t forget the iran nuclear deal that s - going to back on the agenda next year. . it already is creeping back. it s going to be on the agenda. let me bring bronwen back
of proper global engagement on this public health issue, if nothing else? there has been more movement on global treaties than you might think. in some corners on fish, on, to some extent, on climate change. i think this one will be more done in bits and pieces, but i do think there is a lot of impetus there for it to be done, whether out of naked self interest as countries realise that they are vulnerable until the whole world is safer, or out of philanthropy and generosity. but i think if not as grandly formed as a great global treaty, there will be a lot more international effort on this than there has been. marc, what about europe in 2022? it s a vast continent 50 odd 50 plus countries, at least as far as the world health organization defines it i think nearly 58 countries it counts as european beyond just the european union but a very kind of mixed picture in europe, isn t it, in terms of notjust dealing with covid, but the challenges the continent faces? well, the big cha