allysia, what happened here that caused the meltdown? so it was a con newspapers of bad typing confluence of bad time, bad weather and bad government policies. this is an historic freeze for texas with temperatures dipping down, plunging, for that matter, into the single digits. but the bigger problem is there just wasn t enough power to keep the grid running, and that s largely because the state has been forging more and more into wind over the last decade. the power that it derives from wind has more than doubled while the amount of power that it gets from coal has fallen by half. and coal and nuclear with the most steady sources of generation. and when you didn t have that to back up the grid amid surging demand for heating and other things, they had to resort to blackouts. paul: okay. so when you say baseload power, you mean reliable power that isn t intermittent like solar or to wind that you can count on when the chips are down, and that s predominantly coal and nuc
continues russia would retail united states are any sort of aggression. brian: brave enough to stand up to china is enes kanter have you felt the backlash. of course. this is my freedom of speech. you go tell your boss about that. throws he has it. touchdown! are you listening in the lane snow is glistening a beautiful night brian: tuesday night football, what else is new in america? everything that is unusual is usual now in this country. but one thing is for sure, christmas is trait straight ahead. we have got to do the best we can everyone, to have the best christmas possible after the oddest one last year there will be uniquely challenging. we are in three different locations because of some of these rules in new york. we are going to do a comprehensive show because judging by our package steve and carley, we still have a lot of news to cover. steve: lots. carley: we have been talking about it all week that usually the week of christmas is a dead news week
all good news as it could force interest rates to rise again. and two years since the taliban returned to power in aghanistan there s severe hunger and a near collapse of the health system we have a special report. former president donald trump says he will release his own report on what he calls election fraud in georgia. that comes after prosecutors in the us state charged donald trump and 18 others with attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat there. the former president is facing 13 new charges, including racketeering and conspiracy. racketeering is a type of organised crime where a person profits through dishonest or illegal activities.this is his fourth criminal indictment. he now faces in total 91 charges with allegations of election interference, hush money paid to a pawn star, and mishandling classified documents. mr trump has denied any wrongdoing in all of his criminal cases. he s called the latest charges a witch hunt . he charges a witch hunt . h
you know, an iphone sold in the us or europe might be designed in california and built in india using semiconductors made in taiwan from raw materials provided by china. so if any link in that supply chain breaks, it sets up big problems for the rest of the chain. and that s true for smartphones, as it is for pcs, and especially in battery production for those electric vehicles we re buying more and more of. so what if one country decides to make it harderfor others to get hold of some of those critical raw materials? well, that s what china announced just last month. translation: the chinese government implements i export controls on gallium and germanium related items in accordance with the law to ensure that they are used for legitimate purposes in order to safeguard national security and better fulfil our international obligations. for quite some time now, the us side has been abusing export control measures to continuously strengthen its crackdown on china s semiconducto
limiting investment by american companies in the chinese tech sector because of serious national security risks. it would require us firms to disclose investments in sensitive areas such as artificial intelligence and ban some investment altogether. beijing has reacted angrily saying it is gravely concerned about the order. a spokesperson for the chinese embassy in washington says the curbs seriously undermine the interests of chinese and american companies and investors. republicans have said they do not go far enough. this is a new front in the tech war between two global superpowers, the restrictions prevent american private equity and venture capital firms from investing in high tech sectors investing in high tech sectors in china, such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence and advanced semiconductors. the goal is to stop us capital in know how speeding up the development of technologies that could help china develop weapons for use against america in a military c