russia, as things stand today, relations are values for it is replete with hard liners. the new it comes with the relations to get worse and forgivable atrocities and utterly disgusting. how people are describing alleged ritual killings of afghan civilians by elite australian troops with calls to fully bring the perpetrators to justice. also really the big problem that we are not ready for american nurses vent anger at a total lack of preparation by the health system made record covert cases and warnings even worse is coming. but french catholics hit the streets against a ban on all religious gatherings during the lockdown. one worshiper told us the

move raises disturbing historical parallels in french history. this isn't the 1st time that going to mass has been considered illegal, or the churches have been locked, or that going to mass could be considered a crime. donald trump invites michigan lawmakers to the white house after officials in the state say they were tricked into certifying election results. a very good morning to you, it's 8 am here in moscow, and you're watching r.t. international with me. we expected better from australia. afghanistan's reacted to an inquiry alleging bloodlust triggered an elite australian troops to unlawfully shoot dozens of afghans. if you are trying to looks at how those coming to fight terror in the country became

a source of terror themselves. 2 eggs, australia and afghanistan, thousands of kilometers apart. one a very keen to help the other. we remind committed to assisting afghanistan in resisting it. terrorism. resisting the taliban forces providing in cooperation with other countries. i label of stability and to live a lives curity. as that you will, country can build for itself a strong and prosperous and secure future. it took the australian prime minister a bit more than 13 hours to fly over to kabul, to say all that a bit more than 13 years ago. by then, australian troops had already been engaged in the war torn country for several years, almost 20 years ago since the aussies got involved. their number one military man

has no other choice, but to say, sorry, i sincerely and unreservedly apologise for any wrongdoing by a stray in soldiers. i say no choice because allegations of 39 civilian deaths at the hands of his defense force as a result of blood lust and competition. killing deserve an apology or actually much more than that large parts of the military report. we can't even read their blacked out, but even what's available, sounds horrendous and disgusting. this shameful record includes alleged instances in which new patrol in the members were coerced, to shoot a prisoner in order to achieve that soldier's 1st kewl in an appalling practice known as bloody atrocities. ranged from reports of troops

killing a 6 year old child and a house raid to a prisoner being shot dead to save space and a helicopter apology given measures to be taken. culprits to be punished. compensation to be paid to do you call it what you were just for the course of the hospital. so if you remember, president obama spoke by telephone to apologize and express his condolences for the m.s.f. staff and patients who were killed and injured. sincere apologies for any offense. this may have caused my apologies to the president of afghanistan, and we will make sure that anybody who was involved is held fully accountable with the full force of the law. these are the cases that they thought deserved an apology. unlike some unfortunate, i mean quite a few of the fortunate civilian deaths from drone strikes that were often referred to as, remember the phrase collateral damage. but in any case,

there is no winning the war on terror without drones, right? they were dangerous to these young men, often deliberately and casually, cruel. i wanted somehow to save them, sin them to school, give them a trade to drain them, of the hate that had been filling their heads. and yet the world that they were a part of and the machinery i commanded more often had me killing them. instead, it all makes you wonder, just how many more thousands of deaths or command full pause. we're still unaware of, especially when it's revealed how much the people in charge were in denial about what they were doing. the problem is there is a disincentive, really, to tell the truth. we have created an incentive to almost require or for people to law. there is an older of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue, and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity

and who bruce so well, the latest report that left the aussies, red faced, strategic consequences and military mindset u. turns. well, judging by how badly trumps plans to cut the troop presence in afghanistan have been received. is just wishful thinking for now. we have been in afghanistan for almost 20 years, and no nato ally wants to stay any longer than necessary. but at the same time, the price for leaving too soon, or in an uncoordinated way, could be very high afghanistan risks becoming once again, a platform for international terrorists to plan and organize attacks on our homelands. so i guess it means more apologies could only be on the way she called a former governor of afghanistan's gaffney province notes. australia is not the only member of the u.s. led coalition to have carried out such horrific actions. these are something that

is very serious and we feel that that is beyond our comprehension. and i'm really appalled that that how could anybody in the name of humanity with what he have and do that specially with this poor afghan people. and we hope that manifest to something real and not only for the australian, but also the nato countries. and also united states who have committed similar acts in afghanistan, also needs to pay heed to this issue and reconcile their own differences that i have done in afghanistan. the world health organization has warned medical workers are on the brink as the covert toll across europe and america has passed both the peaks of september and the spring. it comes as new york now says protests. what they call inadequate preparation by hospitals ahead of an

egg. and an expected foe the surge of coronavirus cases, medical workers know the city, how to provide enough protective equipment or new stuff to cope with a spike in victims. we are here today because we are finding no more. i am called a crisis in the bronx and we are not ready, although not to my mind me, what i mean is they want people to eat the record of what happened. and as a grown up, ira's pandemic continues to hold a tight grip on the nation. nursing homes continue to be one of the most vulnerable populations to bear the brunt of the surge, in cases among the nation's most vulnerable residents comes as inductions, hospitalizations, search nationwide industry experts say that when cases spread in the community, it's difficult to shield nursing home residents despite rules that restrict visitors, i think it's clearly, as we've talked about, it's

a challenge to take care of individuals during this covert outrage. and there against the really sad, disturbing stories that have come out, which was the case for don best and her family prior to them locking us out on march 13th. my mother was doing great after fighting hard to get her mother into a nursing home in new york because of the facilities great reputation, things took a turn for the worst. and within 3 weeks of the covert patients being forced into our nursing home, she was that nursing home watched getting flooded with reports of residents being kept in soiled diapers so long. their skin peeled off, many left with bed, sores that cut to the bone and are withering away because of starvation or thirst. he said look like your date is going into kidney failure because of dehydration and laying on the floor. he looks like he's there for hours. and as more than 97000 of

the nation's long term care residents have died amid the pandemic. they are not only succumbing to the virus, but to slow declines from isolation. and it's causing a lot of them to talk about losing the will to live, not wanting to go on anymore or being separated from their families. so that's taken just as much of a toll as cove it has on residents. experts say short staffing has made the pandemic worse and the inability to allow relatives to check on their loved ones has led to a 2nd wave of death. additionally,, according to the covert tracking project, although fewer than one percent of u.s., residents live in nursing homes. these facilities account for 40 percent of the nation's kovan 1000 deaths reporting any york trinity chavez r.t. . and across the atlantic in france, intensive care ward on more than 95 percent full and struggling to cope with more than 2000000 coated cases. europe's worst tally medical staff, a warning they can no longer cope will complain about

is that we need some rest. we have limited places, the worst serious patients are in the hospital ward and we only get the patients in the most serious state. yes, it's difficult now. he said over the government's promises sort of carmex and over hospital. i've never seen that either for the patients but france is ban on all religious gatherings, including mass is part of the lock down, sent angry believers onto the streets in protest, worshippers, mauler, some things are important, more important than covert restrictions. i saw it depends reports, churches may be closed for services, but carefully are still meeting and they are protesting. lockdown measures that seem religious service is essential

under france's measures to fight the virus. only funerals and weddings are currently allowed in religious buildings or services, but the limits on the numbers that can attend religious leaders say the restrictions of one tree to a sacred part of the catholic faith. catholics in france suffer from not being able to come together for the sunshine moment. the sunday mass. many do not understand how disposable to shop in the supermarket filled with bias and how to split the same time to meet in our churches in strict compliance with health precautions. despite taking their pleas to france's highest administrative court, the catholic church has failed to persuade the current sleep state that religious services such as mers are essential, and should be permitted during the lockdown. but some while others have

decided to take matters into their own hands. well, if i might go to confession with you a bit, charlotte, i did not start going to master in the 1st lockdown, and i don't intend to start doing that this time. keeping not to draw focus from the authorities for attending these prohibited masses. we have agreed to hide his identity. do you feel that it is the responsible thing to do to continue going to mass responsible thing to do for us as catholics, we are mostly responsible to god before we are responsible to our government. and obviously it's always best when those 2 are together. but in french history, this isn't the 1st time that going to mass has been considered illegal, or the churches have been locked, or that going to mass could be considered crimes by making this decision. do you

not think that you are putting the general population in? do you think that as a catholic is the right thing to do? you know, because i'm not asking anybody to do anything that they don't want to do. if someone doesn't want to go to mass, they're not being forced to go. and as they say, oh, be all of the laws. as my religion asks me to on public transportation, etc. so i will not paying the front. so i know it because the laws of france do not extend above god. so there are limits to france's power. and i simply recognize that in the practical order, max is not repentant for his desire to continue attending mass, nor would he feel morally responsible, if someone in his congregation and delegate no where in my life up to 2020 have been held morally responsible for being a vector of a disease, i could very well have passed a cold on to someone in the past or the flu,

unknowingly. and the way that code has operated with many, many asymptomatic carriers. it's very unlikely that anyone would ever know. so given that i had no intention to distribute the virus or any desire to do so, i couldn't feel bad in that sense. that attitude is likely to in theory your forty's, which one services such as this all banned well for the protests by catholics will not be tolerated. life is more important than anything else. and life is about battling the coronavirus. it's not just catholics who have been impacted by this. the blanket ban hates any religious service. that means that muslims, jews, hindus and others are all in the same boat. but given that france is still a majority catholic country, there are voices and voices of a roy being above the crowds. shawty brewski, auti donald trump has reportedly invited michigan lawmakers to the

white house after claiming massive election fraud in the state election officials. there are alleged to also allege they were tricked into certifying votes results, but president elect joe biden says he cannot understand strength claims of widespread ballots in regularities. it's going to be inches the who shows up. i'm confident he knows he has won. it's not going to be able to release $120.00, he will go down in history as the most irresponsible presidents in american history . this is not a single voter fraud in one state. this pattern repeats itself in a number of states. clearly illegal, clearly, voter fraud, easily provable. hundreds of witnesses, maybe thousands, republican election officials in michigan have already signed affidavits rescinding that decision to approve the votes count more can look back at the timeline of

events and what will happen next. i knew sleeve voted not to certify the election, and i still believe this vote should not be certified. and the state board of canvassers should canvass for an additional period republican canvassers. william hartmann and monica palmer initially voted against certifying the election results in wayne county, michigan, where detroit is located. they said there were irregularities. they said that the poll book, which is the official list of all registered voters, did not actually match the election results. they had questions, they were not comfortable voting to certify the election results. the state of michigan had already been called for joe biden. the we had been ahead at that point . 150000 votes, there was kind of a 3 hour deadlock and then there was a zoom call where activists and poll workers spoke to the board on a zoom conference and raised the issue of racism. we are going to you guys are not right. and i'm sorry for your descendants will be so esteemed of you. i am ashamed

of you. i'm not going to read it to you. shame on you. you're a racist ignorance was showing your racism is very up parish and i don't know how you sleep at night. because this is on the record, monica, your daughter is going to look at you in disgust because she's going to know, and this is going to affect her because people will ask her, why is sure mother race is so after about 2 hours of public a humiliation the republican officials reached a compromise with their democratic counterparts. now, according to them, they agreed to vote to certify these results. despite their concerns in exchange for the democrats conducting an audit afterwards to see what was going on with these irregularities. now the democrats decided not to conduct an audit. they say essentially that, that their, their agreement was not have held. and they regret certifying the votes. we now have palmer and hartmann saying that they were misled. they have now signed affidavits saying that they rescinded their decision to certify the votes in wayne

county, michigan, vice chairman, gave me sure and says that voting for the certification of the november election would result in a full, independent out at of detroit's unbalanced precincts. i relied on that assurance and voted to certify the election based on that assurance. later that evening i was sent statements that secretary jewson benson meet saying that she did not view our audit resolution to be binding. as a result of this fact, i rescind my prior vote to certify wayne county elections. now the legal mechanism by which the votes of wayne county michigan could still be overturned is rather unclear. now the county is considered by the state of michigan to be certified and the decision to certify the entire state of michigan will be carried out on monday by a different committee that would be the board of state canvassers. that committee is split evenly along party lines of republicans and democrats, and it's not clear whether or not these affidavits from the 2 republican poll canvassers in wayne county,

michigan will have any effect on that upcoming vote. the lawsuit that was filed by the trump administration in the state of michigan has been dropped. they are no longer in a legal battle with the state of michigan. but michigan is not the only place where there were concerns about irregularities raised by the camp. they claim there is a pattern of voter fraud that favored joe biden and secured his victory in the election. and now, according to a recent poll, 40 percent of americans believe that the recent of the last election on november 3rd was tainted by fraud. and donald trump still maintains that he is the legitimate winner of the election. however, there seems to be a pretty big consensus in u.s. media that joe biden is the winner. the election took place on november 3rd, but yet the controversy surrounding the u.s. presidential election has not ended. we spoke to commentator new science this country happening, dave lindorff, who says the whole process has become somewhat of a fox. this is all about not winning the election. it's about

steering up the base for the election in georgia. run up for 2 senators. the whole thing is become a big joke. it's just that trump's hard core supporters believe it. and the reason used doing it is because he thinks that's going to boost his votes for the senate race in georgia. this is all a lot of noise that's going to result fairly soon. detroit is 85 percent black and they were willing to say ok, well, we'll just recheck the the detroit city limits, but the rest of the county will approve the rest of the county straight. i mean, it was such a blatant racist decision they made. they can't take their votes because once it's like, you know, the decision was made they are very military accompanied by russian peacekeepers is entering parts of the disputed region of a nickel. and i care about stipulated under the pay still name all refugees are

returning to the areas biggest city step which is held by on mania. but saudis want downstair finds they often have nothing to return to the war may be over, but the humanitarian situation here, instapundit here, is still dire. scenes like this are repeated hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times across the city and left to their own devices. look at emergency workers would be overwhelmed. this is why russia has sent help aside from peacekeepers who patrol the routes and heights rusher also said civilian rescuers. engineers farman builders to gauge the devastation and they're still made how much aid will be required. it's neither easy nor quick. let's go for the next one. how many do you have on your list? oh, there are too many. how many have we visited today?

about 50. neither is it pleasant. every creator has a story. every destroyed home has its goofs and with almost every visit, we hear again and again about how a he or a she were. all of them died. they were in this room 2 cousins. and my grandmother. i was in the room over there, which wasn't destroyed and i fell of my bed, opened my eyes and only saw dust. it took me 5 minutes to crawl out the window. help has come from all over the world, humanitarian organizations, lukoil and russian. rescuers catalog ruin after wreckage. our 1st task is to cover all the broken windows and glass, so people can survive the winter. it's some pleasant even scary. i had some role in the construction of many of these buildings is painful

for the priority now is making catabolic, livable again, wreckage will be cleared later, but light damage has to be repaired. now people are doing what they can, plastering, move the smaller holes and covering empty window frames with plastic sheets. but there are a large ends even for that. my house wasn't huge, so the last way for lulu the windows solid for their homes, which suffered much worse. really can't complain. the city is slowly coming back to life. the shock of the war is wearing off and with every returning refugees. there is a sense that the city of state by the character has come back from the dead. but in every street there is a somber reminder that life will never be the same. and some people just can't come back. every day we drive by this house and it's a sad sight,

every time a dog guarding a house that's been destroyed and the family that isn't there more, i guess dia of tea from the garden on a visit to the go along,, hide. so u.s., secretary of state mark pump, aoe, has doubled down on the trumpet. ministrations claim that the area is part of israel. his visit angered the syrian government, which called it an act of provocation. israel captured the golan heights from syria during the $967.00 war. and later on next the territory. and last year the trump administration recognized it as part of israel making the u.s. the only country to do so that move along with the recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital was all part of the trunk peace plan for the region nicknamed the deal of the century prime minister benjamin netanyahu had some warm words for the u.s. later. thank you president from the us working those dreams with his roof top

2 presidents. to notice it's crucial to listen to the truth as to present. this is recognize there's room for both sides. thanks to president hu's route to 40 3 presidents going to visit, who's really grateful for all the president from the secretary pompei also infuriated palestinians by paying a visit to jewish settlements in the disputed west bank and announcing a u.s. initiative to counter the pro palestinian boycott. divestment sanctions movement accusing it of anti semitism. protests quickly turned violent as rioters hold rocks at israeli soldiers. we spoke with foreign policy experts on pompei as visit and

how the trumpet ministrations, policies have reshaped the israeli palestinian conflict. some talk about diplomacy and peace. what is it me for an entire nation of palestinian people who have been dislocated now for a century. plus this is horrible for so many millions of families. and what pompei it was doing is giving the green light in the next few weeks for. 'd the hard right in israel to continue to trample over palestinian self-determination its extension. you to gobble look historical palestinian land in gaza in the west bank. and now these incursions into syria into the golan heights. i mean, israel's functions as a massive u.s. war base in the middle east, seemingly do whatever they want without any consequences. it's an unprecedented move for any, you know, high ranking american official on the left of secretary and certainly secretary of

state which is the highest in america to come and visit, you know, a community, a settlement in the golan heights. so you know, it is, it is amazing. it is an amazing achievement for, for israel, the campaign for 2024 is already starting because what they're doing here 1st of all trump shows that he's not giving up the fight. he may, you know, have to concede the election or realize that on january 20th he's going to leave the presidency. but he's not giving up the fight and he keeps working for israel in the middle east, even in this lame duck period where he's not where he's on his way out. and what he does is he sets the stage. so once president biden comes in in january, he either has to reverse these things or he keeps up. thanks for joining us here on our c.n.n. national. we're back with the latest in face to many new

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