a whole lot more if you don't take that advice. yourself. an investigative news website claims to have been blacklisted by british intelligence after exposing government surveillance practices declassified u.k. says it's being targeted by g.c. h.q. . lawmaker resigned his seat in the european parliament after being caught at a party in brussels that media are describing as a mostly male orgy. diplomats were among the guests. and iran. over the murder of its top nuclear scientist to hunt down criminals and seek revenge.

broadcasting live coverage from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories we do that yesterday this is hard to international having with us. an investigative news website is claiming to have been blacklisted by british intelligence declassified u.k. is known for exposing military activities and government surveillance. as more. the classifier the u.k. and the head of investigations matt ken are these a form of financial times journalists they've been blacklisted by g c h q and a number of internal e-mail showing that staff are being told not to engage with that doubt that declassified u.k. blacklisted by g.c. age killed britain's largest intelligence agency internal e-mails from. shell which will not been gauging further with math canada declassified head of investigations the day he published what the agency privately disparaged as a negative long read about its secretive schools program according to declassified u.k. one particular line of investigative journalism is what got the backs off of

a program run by the intelligence agency looking into going into schools and teaching children how to conspire and brute force cyber attack the website have also got quite a long history of looking at other aspects of the things that britain's military and government in general are getting up to. the older members question is assumed to refer to lifton and colonel mourner out by ease who completed typhoon conversion training in the u.k. delivered by royal air force r e of personnel in 2011 to 2012 we've been hearing from joe that is groups like

reporters without borders who have described this mode of operating by g c h q m by the government as being trumpy and this is yet another worrying example of the u.k. government imposing arbitrary restrictions on media deemed to be critical to trampy unmoved as her. no place in british democracy for a few years now the criticisms that press freedoms are being clamped down on the side of the british government so far as this latest incident is concerned doesn't bode well for those who are concerned about press freedoms we spoke with british journalist yvonne ridley she thinks the targeting of declassified u.k. follows an alarming pattern of governments cracking down on any form of reporting they disagree with. britain is a country which likes to pride it sounds in treatment of speech and this goes completely against the grain quite why the c.h.p.

was made this decision and is silly it is a journalist's job to ask all could questions to be critical of the information beatrice seems so you know journalists don't do that jobs to be popular quite the reverse and. you know this this move has already been likened to a trophy and styled. decision and of course this is what we've seen in the white house that when journalists upset. president donald trump they get blacklisted or are asked to leave the the white house press corps and for g c h q to do this to a journalistic organization is astonishing. hungary and member of the veer opinion parliament has resigned after admitting to

attending a private party in brussels that local media are describing as an orgy the get together happened last week in defiance of a lockdown and was broken up by police about 20 other people all or mostly naked the men were present at the party above a gay bar 2 european diplomats were among the guests the hunger lawmaker allegedly tried to flee by climbing down a drain pipe and police say that he was carrying drugs as well. at passer by reported to the police if he had seen a man fleeing along the gutter she was able to identify the man the man hands were bloody it is possible that she may have been injured while philine now critics were found in his backpack in his resignation letter your share who was a member of hungary's whirling fish party admitted that his behavior was irresponsible he apologised for breaching a lockdown rules and commenting on the ecstasy pill found in his backpack he said

it's not mine david coburn a former member of the european parliament for scotland says politicians who break the law down rules are undermining public health efforts but it's not setting a good example to the people in a time of america's general going to have a good law you know the congress even though it is serious and as much is that people don't want to be set an example like that it is a goal if they're out there politicians are having a tremendous party while the rest of us i mean i actually don't mean it look at my hear a lot. i never had hail as long as i was a student i was you know bob i'm in months so you know i try to be the rules and set an example as it goes a little bit o. way and by you know i think it's better people obey the rules overseas but it's not to do the opposite to what you're you're selling to the public. the president of the red cross is urging governments to combat the spread of false

information on covered vaccines which he calls a 2nd pandemic francesco rollkur says that public reluctance to take the job could stall efforts to counter the virus we believe that the massive coordinated efforts that will be needed to roll out the vaccine in an equivocal manner need to be paralleled by equally massive efforts to proactively build and maintain trust. the red cross chief went on to cite surveys showing that in a quarter of countries less than half of people are willing to take a covert vaccine and as examples of fake news he highlighted a popular belief that the virus doesn't affect young people or africans and also claims that the virus disappeared and the pandemic is over the director of health and care at the red cross told us he believes public acceptance of covert vaccines will emerge over time well the reason one element these a new prime demi can you virus that behaves in ways that we didn't know until

a year ago and we have been discovering it slowly slowly by slowly and so science is adopted and it will be and communicating able being science is difficult and that's why i think media scientists to critique are role to play to try to explain in very simple terms that what is up and again why changes may be happening people at the moment of a very high level of vaccine hesitancy and so right now we see that the only 30 percent of population in many countries would actually be ready to take the vaccine we know that these these will increase time passes by and people get more confident and i think we have a role to play to ensure that people feel comfortable confortable that people feel trust towards the authorities towards the 'd scientists and towards the means that be putting in place to keep everybody safe for all around the world. iran is vowing to hunt down those behind the assassination of its a leading

a nuclear physicist top officials issued a stern warning after the scientists funeral. you know on. the run as stated before definite cosi independently give a reciprocal response to those who ordered and committed this crime with maximum pain for the culprits god willing no crime no especially in the foolish. nation we will certainly hunt down criminals until the end they must know that they will be punished for their actions had not the assault took place on friday when the scientist was travelling in his car near tehran he was shot in an ambush and died of injuries in the hospital iran has branded the assassination an act of state terror and blamed israel and the united states are trees down hawkins that reports on the shock waves it has said through the region. dr morsi in factories ardea was different things to different people to his family a husband and a father to his country a patriot

a prized and respected scientists to others though he was a threat affectively in charge of iran's alleged nuclear weapons program we don't exactly know what motivated the killing but if it had anything to do with removing a supposed threat in the interests of peace and stability the result so far seems to be the reverse. it happened. in the. streets of boiling over with anger well fuck result it was given a state funeral and granted martyr status iran is out for revenge some hardliners are calling for the direct massive retaliation against those who they think are responsible even the strikes on israeli cities are on the table life for an eye says god's law and to ron is in no mood to let this crime go unpunished an image of around you know that the rainy nation and the country's officials are brave enough to respond to this criminal action when the term is raid the relevant officials in

which part of this crime but this is now bigger than just tit for tat violence it was in iran's alleged nuclear program was the goal that's failed iran's government has vowed to continue this scientists work with redoubled efforts. it will be more united will be more determined even for the continuation of your post and will carry on with the power and the nuclear deal already in tatters after the us withdrawal is quickly fading as the country's parliament looks to stop inspections at its nuclear sites with the consent of m.p.'s to urgent action plans were adopted to lift sanctions in order to return to the era of the nuclear energy boom and to stop surveillance by i.a.e.a. spies with biden's incoming administration aiming for a new deal with a rod in. looking like they could get no deal at all by them. to.

simple terms apologize in some ways. he will have to come up for have was even more . of a diplomatic concession than simply restoring the j c p. agreement i think iran would need far more guarantees after all even when president obama signed the deal not all sanctions were removed and iran never applied benefited economically. hoped and why would the iranians choose compromise in a rare moment of unity they now have the support of everyone from turkey and iraq to the u.a.e. and even europe were condemned this heinous murder and extend our condolences to the government of iran and the family of the deceased the emirates condemns the crime of the assassination culture nor science to practice the greatest possible restraint so as to avoid dragging the region to new levels of instability and

threats to peace this is a criminal act and runs counter to the principle of respect for human rights the e.u. stands for for every action equal and opposite reaction it was clear assassinating a scientist on a rainy and soil would start up a hornet's nest and will now lead to a reaction across the region and beyond. russia's delegation to the global chemical weapons watchdog has urged germany and other members to stop using the o.p.c. w for political purposes the un brutal campaign of the so-called poisoning of a russian blogger and in suing actions by germany and its your atlantic allies in the o.p.c. w. is a way to use this international organization to exert its political and sanctions pressure on the russian federation. on monday 56 of the 193 member states condemned the alleged poisoning of russian opposition figure election avali they released

a joint statement urging moscow to disclose 'd the circumstances of what they call a chemical attack involving fell ill in august on a domestic flight in russia and was taken to berlin for treatment germany claims it found traces of noble nerve agent in his body and allegation later repeated by v o p c w however moscow says its own tests found no such substance and that berlin has rejected requests for lab data we spoke with alexander russia's permanent representative to the o.p.c. w he thinks the claims against russia have a clear political motive. so you. are partners in the a p c w gainst for the politicizing the organization which would create deep divisions and interrupt a normal work in the search for compromises different countries interpret provisions of the chemical weapons convention in their own way. we should prevent any attempts to spread one's own rules in place of the established conventions of

international law or our western partners and their technical secretariat's when it's convenient for them refer to confidentiality clause under this pretext russia has refused access to key aspects of the technical secretary its report on providing assistance to germany in the case but when western countries are not satisfied they forget all about confidentiality clauses the chemical weapons convention and international law must be strictly complied with and only after that will we have the confidence that we can overcome our problems and work together. there's major embarrassment for a sexual harassment charity set up by hollywood celebrities with massive publicity that's after it was revealed that the time's up foundation spent just 10 percent of donations on actually helping women in its 1st year of operation tax filings show the group raised more than $3500000.00 in 2018 but almost half went on salaries alone with huge sums also spent on luxury resort conferences in fact just 3

$112000.00 went to the victims of sexual harassment r t received this response from the organization. our $28.00 in expenses were mostly related to our startup costs such as legal costs and recruiting of that would establish initiatives that would be launched in 2019 times up was formed in the wake of the scandal over harvey weinstein a former top hollywood producer found guilty of sexual assault the foundation itself claims it has gone on to help thousands of victims including committing millions of dollars in legal and p.r. support but lawyer thinks new rules are needed for such nonprofit organizations. i would say this really is not a good battle for a nonprofit organization. this is what i would call in a disciplined nonprofit and basically lost their way i don't really want there to mission was and it seemed like the nonprofit was sort of using the organization

as a slush fund and the golden rule for not profits is that 75 percent of its funding really should go to its mission ma 25 percent go to goes toward the administration of it right here 38 percent went to salaries and let the c.e.o. should have done was to see this imbalance and actually take a pay cut here's what happens is not profit organizations as there are there are very sort of like self regulate i think the best thing that a nonprofit actually can do is put their taxes like right on their web site for the public to see and also i mean i think for these sort of large nonprofit organizations that you know get a lot of media attention. you know what they really should do is put sort of mechanisms in place where you know you have like an independent board you have an independent auditor you put controls internal controls in place.

space is cool and russia is planning to launch its own space station after 2024 that's the year funding will run out for the i assess which is nearing the end of it's of service life or is it what is done off reports on the shifting priorities and computing powers in space. the most expensive object humanity has ever built and it's approaching its inevitable retirement and as it ages it. humanity's home away from home the i assess is not feeling as good as it used to so will there be life in space that we know of after the station finally goes off duty how soon might it happen and how likely is that the technical troubles piling up could bring about its demise. lived on board of the i assess for 17 months here's what he told me. there always were and will be some problems the more complex technology is the higher the risk of failure during my 2 expeditions breakdowns

happened as frequently as sunset and doom we consider it something close to normal if there's a breakdown you go fix it but we can't ignore the fact that the station has been in orbit for more than 20 years and the recounts occurrences to that russia is obligated to take part in the program until 2025 so to keep its presence in orbit past that it needs to devise a mission of its own or stick to funding the i assess indefinitely and while moscow has confirmed it has a project of a new station in the works the head of russia's federal space agency has said it's too early to write off the i assess just yet cosmonaut cutting young says that russia should think bigger on the scale of the solar system. there's no point in maintaining the station any longer 1st of all the americans are going their own way they've got different plans and sooner or later they'll have no use for the i.s.a.'s it'll be much worse if they move it earlier than we do that'll be

a punch to the girl cause most of the energy a rocket in space corporation a right to consider their own project but i think having another orbital station is out of date we need to go further to keep from the space race of the cold war 2 international partnership. and now the pendulum is swinging back towards an all but still free for all chinese concocting a space program of its own the u.s. has announced plans to return to the moon and venture out to mars while nasa has been joining forces with private contractors. cooperation in space exploration is beneficial to the i says experience has proven that the remote of countries participating in the i.s.a.'s project and it's also facilitated some political challenges here on earth but that's a concern for the politicians with more than 20 years of operations behind it of the all the enough to be called a senior citizen in space station years so it will have to be maintained until the

tech of a new era is ready and ultimately left behind as a stepping stone to the next frontier. unprecedented pressure facing the e.u. is internal open borders known as the schengen zone has seen members meet on line for a unique form to thrash out if the free movement area can be reformed and saved europeans in 26 nations have been able to cross into each other's countries with ease for years but crisis ranging from migration to terrorism to even come of it have seen nations increasingly bring back border controls between 20062014 over 9 years internal border checks were introduced $35.00 times but since 2015 in less than 5 years internal border checks were introduced $205.00 times this is a significant increase we need to understand the reasons behind it and address them urgently. border guards in the e.u.

focus on the blocks xstrata frontiers while people and traffic within the schengen zone are free to move between other member nations but security concerns have steadily mounted and seen some countries take it upon themselves to unilaterally bring down the barriers again pitting them against leaders in brussels for some countries patience has run out and there's increasing feeling that it is time for a major change in shake up we need to reform shingle and to make it a zone of security no just free movement geo political analyst arena writes 1st things europe's politicians have failed to achieve basic goal in the past 5 years since the migration crisis and 2015. yeah the politicians failed to show it to their citizens really a reliable system which protects the external borders and therefore we have that

charge increase in internal controls so the problems are already dispersed inside pushing an area. security challenges can be found in all the different nations so controlling the borders. a little bit later as an idea of the politicians should have been applied from the start because that was the basic idea of the schengen area of really having a solid. reliable protection of the external borders and this has not been achieved so far and it's not a site for the near future. a bar in the heart of new york's taken a defiant approach against the lockdown declaring itself an autonomous zone exempt from authorities restrictions on public dining.

ready. give me something i can generate i can have where i can just pay my rent and my utilities so i don't have to shut down so i'm not totally in the red where i have to walk to make up or say ok you know i'm sure they can find money to do that. people that live you want to live how are you supposed to you know run a business and everything like you know we've got to fight that it was normal that these people expect people to do it on me if you're going to the holidays you know you're going to see that stands autonomous zone. here how you feel about it how i feel no no i don't think it's going to work. we're going to find 15000 'd.

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every day. meet your needs and the needs of your. greetings and salutations this week the corporate media outlets like m.s.n. b.c. in the new york times were gushing over the every day american appeal of united states president elect joe biden's announcement of his supposedly crack team of economic advisors which features such working class luminaries as exparel reserve

chair millionaire janet yellen and internet troll and c.e.o. of the center for american progress once again millionaire neera tanden meanwhile the other biggest story of the week was the continued mockery of donald trump and brooklyn bridge troll rudy giuliani's continued toys r us flop sweat temper tantrums over their last election and dash dreams of 4 more years of being the center of everyone's attention yes these are the headlines of our day. these are not the news that roughly 52000000 americans this year are facing food insecurity thanks to the cove with 19 crisis or that 87000000 public and private sector workers could potentially lose their federally mandated paid sick and family leave by the end of the year. that's not news or or that despite all of the rest of us getting financially crushed by cope with this year america's 614 billionaires like washington post owner jeff bezos are you one musk saw their

collective wealth grow by $931000000000.00 almost a trillion instead over and over and over and over again we are inundated with a steady stream of left versus right democrat versus republican proud boy vs and and while americans do love their simple straightforward good versus evil headlines journalist matt taibbi recently positive a much more insidious motive to the partisan madness beyond making headlines in a recent article he wrote though they offered it to break out of yugoslavia style sectarian violence hasn't happened yet it's not for want of trying on the part of both politicians and the bigger media organizations he goes on to say essentially in the wake of trump the political class is accepting the inevitability of culture war and urging it on as something prefer a bowl.