autobiography to orphans. who paying my student loans. i was recently looking at that famous jfk inauguration speech. ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. i great line, right? [ applause ] really, a gutsy line for a politician. think about it. it s his first day in the office. he says my fellow americans, don t look at me. you want something done, do it yourself. that is refreshing isn t it? that s what i want to hear more of. from now on, when i m looking at candidates, i only have one thing on my wish list. give me this one thing and all the other things fall in place. give me freedom. it s sad that we have to say that. it supposed to be a given. remember the constitution? the first amendment is all about freedom. there s a reason the founding fathers put it first. thanks all the while of white guys. [ applause ] the bureaucrats in charge said freedom is great. it would have to wait. we re in a climate crisis. we re in a health
here in the uk, 2022 saw the highest number of excess deaths outside the covid pandemic in half a century. and france tries again to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. it s an unpopular reform that didn t go well last time it tried. we ll be live in paris. we start in ukraine. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine s army is facing an extremely difficult situation as fighting continues in the eastern donbas region. the focus is the salt mining town of soledar. the uk defence ministry says it s likely that russian forces including wagner group mercenaries now control most of the town. we ll be taking a look at why it s become central to this conflict. but first, here s president zelensky. translation: and what did russia want to win there? i everything is completely destroyed. there was almost no life left. thousands of their people are gone, the whole land in soledar is covered with the corpses of the invaders and scarred from the strikes. this is what madness loo
concerns about safety. paramedics and support staff are taking further action in their dispute over pay and conditions. they say the current situation is not sustainable. we don t meet minimum levels now on a day to day basis. i cannot stress enough how difficult it is for us to be able to deliver that care to patients. here at westminster, the government not was planning ahead. it wants to change the law to force unions to offer emergency cover during strikes. labour say that is insulting to workers. we ll have the latest on the series of disputes in different public sectors and the likelihood of resolution any time soon. also tonight. 2022 was a year of climate extremes, weather experts say. europe and the polar regions were hardest hit by global warming. the latest on the fighting in eastern ukraine, where the mining town of soledar is reported to be under russian control. and the popularity of gaming helps boost the uk s home entertainment industry to record levels. and s