mayor or police chief wants to show that they are responding to not necessarily a rising crime or some new phenomenon in crime, but simply a news media, a local news media, and in some cases national news media, that has decided to focus on crime in their reports and so in responding to that, it is time to do something. they cannot hire another 1000 cops or another 10,000 cops, in the case of new york city, where the police force is already close to 40,000. and so what they do is say, we are going to create this elite, special unit. and the message they get this is the sense i get from outside of police departments, but reporting on them is that what we need you to do is what all these other cops have not done. and what the subtext of that is always, make your own rules. we are going to have everybody else kind of live by the rules
happy new year to you and our grade oddient great audience. china and russia are or great threats for sure. they want to return as much of the former soviet union, eastern states to their sphere of influence as they can, many of those states are already in nato, but they do undermine those states in particular poland and hungary and the baltics, those not align with nato, they will continue to putin flewence on them putin influence on them. we have seen it with belarus, dramatically in 2021. ukraine.
happy new year to you and our grade oddient great audience. china and russia are or great threats for sure. they want to return as much of the former soviet union, eastern states to their sphere of influence as they can, many of those states are already in nato, but they do undermine those states in particular poland and hungary and the baltics, those not align with nato, they will continue to putin flewence on them putin influence on them. we have seen it with belarus, dramatically in 2021. ukraine.
within 2a hours. injoint talks in beijing, russia and china strongly criticise what they describe as a negative us influence in both europe and asia. cheering. the two leaders met as excitements builds in the chinese capital ahead of the winter olympics opening ceremony which is just hours away. in the uk, mps are warning that a new motoring tax is needed to plug the revenue gap as drivers switch to electric vehicles, which are currently not taxed. the transport select committee says the uk faces a £35 billion hole in its finances, and that money from existing tax sources could end by 2040. the committee suggests charging people based on how much driving they do. all of this has to be tackled with urgency because from 2030 we will be buying electric vehicles that currently do not have any tax levied on them. g’s currently do not have any tax levied on them. , ., ., ., ~ on them. 496 of the entire tax take for the chancellor on them. 496 of the entire tax take for the chancellor
happy new year to you and our grade oddient great audience. china and russia are or great threats for sure. they want to return as much of the former soviet union, eastern states to their sphere of influence as they can, many of those states are already in nato, but they do undermine those states in particular poland and hungary and the baltics, those not align with nato, they will continue to putin flewence on them putin influence on them. we have seen it with belarus, dramatically in 2021. ukraine.