iam in i am in stroud, where it is snowing. it may not be real but it is probably as close as many of us will get to a white christmas. a cloudy and damp day, murky in the west, rain crossing the north of the country. tonight and tomorrow the wind becomes a feature. details later. good morning. it s wednesday, the 20th of december. junior doctors in england are about to start a three day strike in a dispute over pay. they ll walk out from seven o clock this morning, after five weeks of negotiations failed to reach an agreement. this time of year is traditionally one of the nhs s most busy periods. our health correspondent sharon barbour has the details. hospitals across england, already struggling with the pressures that winter brings, are bracing themselves, as tens of thousands ofjunior doctors walk out for three days. whose nhs? our nhs! dr greenhaus, a surgical registrar. he s already qualified to undertake major knee and hip surgery. every time that i go and see a patien
green new deal energy policies require us to go beg venezuela and beg iran and beg saudi arabia and if russia weren t invading ukraine we will be begging them too to produce more oil, look at what happened with this embarrassment of saudi arabia and the opec decision, biden thought that a secret deal to increase production of oil. how about we control what we can control and produce more oil and gas here? the supply chain crisis, we still don t have baby formula widely available like it should be in truck drivers can t go out over the southeast there is a warning about what s going on with supply there which will increase overall inflationary pressures everywhere because as you well know so much of what has moved around this country occurs through truck drivers and when their diesel cost goes up guess what? they pass that cost to everyone else further increasing inflationary pressure. ainsley: clay i am reading this, the country has 25 days of diesel supply remaining, pretty scary as
relationships with everybody, especially the u.k. what i found fascinating about this reporting it emphasizes while steele is now being portrayed as a political gun for hire, he was opposite of that. he was a trusted intelligence partner. that s how the fbi saw him. he had helped them in their investigation of corruption in international soccer. he was coming to them of his own volition. glenn simpson who hired him testified he didn t thinks he should be going to the fbi with the stuff. steele said i have an 0 bely gags an obligation to warn the americans. some of the sources in russia weren t aware he was giving information going to a political campaign or fbi. there were sources he developed over many years as being a russia expert. nick, a former top intelligence official said to me, you take the document in question, the document being used to smear the fbi in the russia probe, the mueller probe because i think for trump this always comes back to his own personal exposure, ri
when it comes to north korea s reasons for wanting to go ahead with these talks saying it is not the time to ease pressure toward north korea. now the u.s. secretary of state, rex tillerson, saying something similar. certainly the 20 countries that are involved there are talking about potentially further sanctions, more pressure on north korea, and the need to make sure that the eventual goal of the talks is denuclearization. tillerson, though, did say that it is time to talk potentially, but he wanted to make sure that north korea was going to take steps to show they were serious about talking, as well. china and russia weren t at the talks. china is crucial for any sanctions to work, for anything on north korea to work, being the biggest trading partner. we heard from the foreign ministry that they believe the talks showed a cold war mentality. dave. 22 days until the olympics. thank you. meanwhile, as another winter storm bears down this morning, states of emergency have been de