blood lust may have triggered the torture and murder of unarmed to afghan civilians by australian elite troops. the shock came inquiry finds as the u.s. death toll from the pandemic passes a quarter of a 1000000 people and emotional health care workers complained. they're devastated by it all. and not least the risks they're having to take. we have noticed that if it's ok for us to be exposed, you can get exposed, but we can, you make no other countries discussed mandatory vaccination as the solution to

rising numbers of covert victims. we debate the issue with our guests. what should we do that direction? nation should be obliged people to have the vaccination for the necessary for most people back to the liberating dimension. one of the things compounding the humanitarian disaster here you care about is the sheer ruggedness of the mountainous country. refugees return home to go in or care about because russian peacekeepers secure the only route linking the region to armenia. r.t. takes the trip and test to safety a very good morning to you, it's 11 am here in moscow, and you're watching r.t. international with mina carrying blood lust and a competition. killing may have provoked australian special forces to murder dozens

of afghans. an inquiry has found there is credible information. the junior soldiers are required by their patrol commanders to shoot a prisoner in order to achieve the soldier's 1st kill in a practice that was known as bloody. well, i'm joined in the studio now where there by evil is darren off his to discuss more about this disturbing report eco. what's more in that what, what more is in this, of course, will essentially make a there's a lot to read into because the report itself is more than $400.00 pages long. and the details in it goes into meticulous detail to go through each and every of the total of $23.00 incidents that the investigators have managed to uncover which relate to everything that you've just talked about to what could potentially be classified as war crimes. and essentially, the general idea behind what happened there is that a group of rogue soldiers of the members of some of the most elite units,

the s.a.'s or stray. they have been targeting compliant prisoners for instance, and that they have been killing civilians just still for the sake of killing. in fact, according to the report their youth used to excellence in military with the ego and with stuff like that. so here is how the top, how a top defense official of australia described the atmosphere that was dominant in that unit. the report finds that some specialist service ridgemont commanders in australia fostered within the s.a.'s. what justice burton terms, a self centered warrior culture? a misplaced focus on prestige status and power turning away from or from the regiments heritage of military excellence fused with the quiet humility

of service. so to put it in simpler words, it was prestigious to kill just to kill, for the sake of killing. in fact, the report describes a sort of an initiation ritual that would, was called bludging when recruits new recruits were forced by their patrol officers to shoot to prisoners who were prisoners, which were no longer. so essentially they were no longer fighting. they had been captured and the so they were eligible to everything, you know, to be every paragraph that is in the geneva convention, for instance, that describes our prisoners of war should be treated many of those prisoners. they did not get that privilege because of new recruits were supposed to kill at least one prisoner to get their 1st killed like to spill 1st blood. this is one of the rituals that is described in this report. it also goes further to say that many of these killings they weren't made in the heat of battle because, well, you know,

it's understandable when there's, when there's a battle going on when there's a shoot out. and so then some decisions made by soldiers, they could be explained that they are fearing for their lives, that it's, you or me, it's kill or be killed. now, that was not the situation in the cases described in this movement, 400 page report. in fact, talking about these killings of, you know, complying prisoners, sometimes according to the investigation weapons had been planted later. so they planted weapons later after the killing to make it look as if the prisoner was still a convert. and in fact, the author of the 2016 report who came on camera, she described it, she called it a sport that it was almost like a sport discipline, discipline, excuse me, have a listen. say it was happening again and again, what was happening, what sort of actions are we talking about? it was killing as

a sport. so there you have it. and like any sporting discipline that takes itself seriously. what does it have to have a leader board? apparently they had to sos the so they had literally like a killing board where some members would put their names and then write to the number of people that they had killed. but also interesting, lee, this report, this particular 400 page report, it absolves the higher up command of any responsibility saying that they were, they weren't aware that all these atrocities of the world covered up by the patrolling officers. so it is, it is a tough pill to swallow for 3. has or has already been known. some of the details have been known before the release of this report. for instance, like the alleged killing of children. some, as some have described something like a journalist journalists embedded with the australian army. i think they described

one instance when one prisoner of war had been killed simply because there was too little space left in a helicopter. so we killed a prisoner, allegedly, to just in, for some extra leg room in a healthy. so it is a tough pill to swallow through the ends and for everyone who condoned history is participation in afghanistan, especially given that they went into afghanistan to the tune of these words or ism, is based on the rule, intolerance and bigotry, and new free societies such as australia, dinner to streets, little book around to bigotry and intolerance. so right now, up to 19, people face charges following this report. so we'll have to see how about unfolds. and if any legal action is indeed taken, but the report does recover and penalties and punishment for the people of the that

they were that the report has accused of these atrocities. and also the report has suggested that is truly and government should pay out the compensation to the families of those afghan of those afghan people who were fake, who had to face these atrocities. because on our thank you for coming in international affairs professor sophia mcclellan says it's clear foreign trip simply don't care about afghan lives. the word afghanistan, result brained, and a 2 pronged way, one on the one hand accountability for the attacks of 911 arguments that afghanistan has been used as a breeding ground for terrorists. and on the other hand, in attack, against a humanitarian intervention, to save the afghan people from a brutal regime. the reality is that neither of the behavior that we have witnessed

in these reports shows any serious care for the afghan people. at no time do we get the sense that there's any concern for the future of the nation. and for the complexities of rebuilding a country that's been ripped apart by war since $979.00. and in fact, in the, the afghanistan papers that were released are only just about a year ago. we found out that the u.s. government wasn't even really taking seriously counting civilian casualties. they didn't count the bodies of dead afghans because the afghan lives did not count in the war. and so i, again, we see, you know, a consistent pattern here where there's no accountability and no concern at all for the people. one death due to cove it to every minute the us is setting ever more appalling records with a new 6 month peak of corona,

virus victims reach this week that makes even tougher lockdown restrictions. increasingly likely, new york city is closing all public schools from thursday. more than a 1000000 students will move to distance learning, but not all parents agree. it causes a lot of strength and the 3rd year as we really don't have to close down just yet. it kind of stuck. please don't do this to us. please keep the schools open for a little sad. it's close to fats. what passes for the carrots? it's super unfortunate that these kids are going to be denied an education, but we can go eat dinner inside a restaurant. and yes, it makes no sense to me out. absolutely. in face of strict to lock downs of people scrambling to stock up supermarket chains struggling to keep up with demand have put limits on the number of items shoppers can buy. more pain reports on a growing u.s. crisis over the pandemic. the number of covert cases across america now stands at

roughly 11000000. in addition to that, 250000 people have died. we now have bloomy predictions coming from scientists, saying that that number could double in the coming months with the virus giving no sign of abetting. many hospitals around the country have been pushed to the brink. one nurse in texas told the horrors of overcrowded mort's. 'd we never says it's ok for us to be exposed, but you have doctors, you do not even come in. you can't get exposed, but we can make them on a monday. in fact, it has gotten so bad that in el paso, texas, it's as an inmate, sue, been given the job of transporting bodies in north dakota. the governor has signed an order saying that medical workers who test positive for coded 19 should still show up for work as long as they're not showing symptoms and nurses are furious. union leaders say this is putting workers in mortal danger. we really feel like it

has a mission that patients be interesting as well, who really worry about a nurse right now. nurses are exhausted across the street and everybody in fact has and having it started, we have asked people to really answer granting of their contract and i'm positive and we're going to turn around. i'm going to work with that. we are totally counting any of our respects and the credibility that we have delivered community, you know, for politicians though the public health crisis is an opportunity to point fingers and blame each other. joe biden blames the coronavirus deaths that have been forecasted for the next few months on donald trump and his refusal to concede the election. furthermore, joe biden is saying that donald trump is the reason that many americans are suspicious of the vaccine. what do you see as the biggest threat to your transition right now, given president trump's unprecedented attempt to obstruct and delay a smooth transfer of power. more people may die. the only reason people question

now is because of the. now polls are showing that only about 58 percent of the american public is willing to get vaccinated, and that is not going to change depending on whether or not donald trump is willing to concede the election results. if i took it, if some people might die again with the mud down, no vaccine and some people might die in the future, like in 10 years. so even if it got tested that it was positive and it had no ill effect, i still wouldn't want to take it. i want to see what the actual effect of the doses are going to be administered. is that a single dose of the dose? like what the gap between doses, so just more information in terms of what the actual role of the covert 19 pandemic has devastated the country both in terms of public health and the economy. there is not much optimism right now, and there's not much hope that, a new administration in the white house is going to turn things around. r.t., new york,

with the number of covert cases also growing across the atlantic. europe's caging public opinion on making vaccinations. mandatory, a british government survey found almost half the population supports that, but despite significant opposition to an obligatory job, see, the m.p.c. says those who refuse that should be banned from public places. if vaccination works, and if we're confident it's safe and all indications so far are good, then i can certainly see the day when businesses say, look, you've got to return to the office and if you're not vaccinated, you're not coming in. according to the ruling party, little make only vaccinated, passengers should be allowed to use public transport, but that sparks a massive online backlash. many still question the safety of an anti kofi vaccine. while others know to mandatory job could only make things worse. i mean one in denmark, a draft epidemic little could let police force the vaccine on parts of the population

. but it may backtrack on the plans following mass protests which took the idea of mandatory vaccinations to a panel of experts. on sunday, most against vaccinations would have come of city. my son was partly the situation since we should hold these parts. nations were necessary. boxing's cheney is still human heart should be improved yet. so this law is being fast. facts are also great. bizzare are the governments are insuring the people channel sued them and we've actually gotten to school anything which happens more. he's as a result of this foxy. i think that we're in a real situation and you know, 56 years ago when you make a choice of whether or not you have actually in rio raised a major threat. rick, you probably know the and they're tracking the government. exactly right. in

speeding things up, people are worried that this essentially is kind of straying into the area of proposing and nor a bit of final fara terry intends to at. i want to respond to people who add to that. and let's assume for one moment we have the facts, a nation which is safe. what should we do with that vaccination? should be obliged people to have the vaccination. well, there is no law in the u.k. that the government could use at the moment to make you know, bigotry. in fact, the 984 act which comes closest to it actually prevents the government requiring people to undergo medical treatment or vaccination. so there isn't a more, a lot of people are mistrust who are going back in because, you know, people are saying, well, there's all these big crowds through companies coming in. they're making loads of money on it. who knows what's really behind them. so now actually there is, there is the bishop and i would be right if they were christians, don't believe my view or think that and, and he's waiting there and creating

a theater where those that were like myself, really wanted to go ahead with the rocks in order to get indexed bigger and bigger markets. right, in the meantime, you could convince the rest of the operation of the worst thing that you can do is use chords that were simply confirm. people who struggle actually create, call them or call them in the long run. and then you can read a little bit basic thesis, a discourse. so they should because if you can't get over her title, public transport going to rush or towards if you thought about actually wish most people going she'd meet we or with a total. so really in the states, if we got a hold on treatment rather than vaccination and we kept doing what we're all trying to do, wear masks why. 8 gloves, social distance is not, not enough or 2, we really need to stray into as people are saying this realm of to konya north

stepping and a stepping on the toes of people's liberties. well, i think that if we could, do you know where we are? we already know people who are literally, i would rather not wear a mask and i would rather not and clearest in my life, i would write a vaccine. and so with millions of people that i go for background, you know, are actually very happy to get their rocks the in the world are about to go back to a normal real life. instead of the present circumstance which they go free to explore freedom or liberty the way. so most people reacting is a liberating intervention. and i think it's great to say that we don't need the rocks still to come this hour. the u.n. warns of a humanitarian catastrophe. in ethiopia as tens of thousands flee civil war in the no myself, i should renounce all sense. pregnant women being charlatan, thrown into the streets and beaten with sticks. and i don't want to play down the

conflict in the country after this short break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy to for him to let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical, daryn time to sit down and talk. welcome back. a new group of refugees has returned home to the just tooted region of the gorno carabao, a kind of a truce reached between armenia and azerbaijan. last week, russian peacekeepers have secured the key road connecting the area with armenia, allowing dozens of buses and cars to pass. 3, artie's more and gouty have tested the route himself and brings us this report. one

of the things compounding the humanitarian disaster here is the shia ruggedness of these mountainous country for the 10s of thousands of people who fled the fighting for them to return home. they need a safe road, but because of the fighting various segments of the routes to get about under the control of different sides. what the russian peacekeeping mission has been able to do is to make the achaeans key, corridor safe for all these refugees to return. so we went for a very literal test drive to see if it's true. it freshened peacekeepers really had convinced that said by john to let me and refugees written it turned out to be a very cautious dr. the of the problem, of course, is the weather. these late in the year in november, december, it gets increasingly cold, increasingly wet, and the visibility is down to what? 20 reasons. at this point, the roads are treacherous. if you are a refugee,

though it isn't the fault, you are afraid of. neither is it the bad routes, the end exploded munitions or the bodies of the dead. it's the leaving, the scale you just over a week ago. this was a fiercely contested front glide. it still is a frontline in the room no longer contest that the next 19 kilometers off to the sun. held by is headed by a judge through russian mediation. the sides have agreed to let all traffic through unmolested, meenie and it's headed by john the military vehicles, civilians or refugees, but 1st few willing to trust the other side. we heard that there were azerbaijanis about ambushes here, but i didn't know if it was true or not, but now i know everything is fine here when i'm i afraid, of course i'm not about rest is what is there to fear when you're driving under a russian flag the situation is that booth son, it's who were at war just over

a week ago, have to share the same stretch of road. and it's up to russian peacekeepers who patrol the road and who is stationed at various points to prevent the 2 sides from taking revenge on civilians or harassing them. it took a lot of work, but russian peacekeepers were successful. new weapons are allowed, not even for as that of my journey was. i mean me and troops. everyone searched every vehicle, inspected every weapon, confiscated. here we filmed a small is it about johnny military convoy pass immediately after cars carrying armenian refugees, which by itself was unimaginable 2 weeks ago. it's not that i haven't been home in 15 days. we're going back. no, thank you. everything is going fine. think you but everything changes,

if you would have believed russian peacekeepers and by johnny outposts would be situated metres apart. or that by johnny troops would be barbecuing food and setting the table, as armenian refugees returned to carry the signal on the grid. we have had no difficulty with the neighboring outpost. we have very good relations if they need something, we help them. and if we need something, they help us. everyone's playing by the rules. the ceasefire stands and thousands of people are returning to their homes, their previous lives. why gags, the of our team from the god like under the peace deal, armenia and azerbaijan will hold on to their current military positions, gives armenia control of the disputed regions, largest city, azerbaijan gets the 2nd biggest city which it took before fighting ended. armenia

will also have to handover 3 other districts in the region. the un refugee agency is warning of a full scale humanitarian catastrophe in ethiopia. more than 27000, people have fled to neighboring countries from civil war in the north. ethiopia's government is battling people's liberation front, after accusing it of attacking a military base or thirty's, then launched a military offensive calling the alleged assault, an act of treason. we worked for so many years and left everything contrat, working with just our clothes and bags.

and i was severely beaten and tortured, and we were detained for 3 days. we near death from hunger and thirst before they released us. children, adults, and pregnant women had been shot and thrown into the streets and be to a sticks after they took control of they stole all homes. the humanitarian situation on the border between ethiopia and sudan is quickly evolving and it's extremely urgent. in the matter of a week, the u.n. h.c.r. has already recorded more than 30000 refugees who have crossed from ethiopia into sudan. we lost everything our belongings, our livestock,

everything. i do not know anything about my children. what does the world not see us now? where will we go? when we just die? we barely escaped with our lives and away. whoever did not flee will die. political science professor colin cavell face the situation could deteriorate further. it does not appear that an into the conflict is imminent. it appears the prime minister video goes on for 20 good thing is determined to root out the 2. agree in

opposition? the root cause of this particular conflict is a different vision for the development of the v.o.p. . could exacerbate that refugee crisis, especially if the european union, the united nations, the united states, and other major powers, russia, china, etc, did not act to seek to quell this fear of those disruption that is going on in ethiopia. however, we have not seen much assistance as yet most politicians on the public are up in arms against germany's new loke, down low or with riot police. injured and hundreds of arrests since rallies turned violent. i was, was, i guess i

was a bill provides the legal framework for restrictions that just stay home orders at social distancing on mosques. the amendment passed parliament, but sparks heated debate in the building as opponents also rallied outside. merkel's, groff, it includes the, the right, no alternatives, typical markowitz. but the reason alternative for germany, what we just saw was a drowning political force clutching at straws. they are drowning as a party because they have no topics. you are not capable of creating, all you can do is be against your radical friends outside have been calling to block the entrance to the parliaments. and you just like them. want to block the way of law making. you want to hold the whole institution of parliament through the

mud because you hate it. you've got my will, tentative. all you want is turmoil here and we did hear from politicians of different parties who warn opposition to the law is far reaching. it's not only our prophet, it's not only the members of the parliament. there are also many, many people on the streets and of course, all experts, law experts and going to visit to teach us. if you cannot suspend to basic your rights, such as freedom of assembly or the right to privacy. does this very serious violation of the chairman constitution? the way this law's ratch through the journalist community in exactly what's normally you would have. it is gushing all this. he would happen how many parts of the society is nothing wish matches are quoted and scientists and bullets.