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you know. as for me i was reasonable with. the headlines this hour on r.t. infiltrating russian language media actually documents suggest that the u.k. government sought to boost negative coverage of russia. extreme hardship in his family says energy companies after their son alleged froze to death at home during the stream where residents tell us they've been forced to turn heating off after prices were hiked nearly $200.00 fold. to the point where some people have totally turned up their power because they can't. they just can't afford it and there's no parole. it's online training course that tells him to quote white. italian. in moscow that is the
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3rd russian vaccine gets registered in the country. hello there you watching r.t. international this monday afternoon just 2 o'clock here in the russian capital now britain's government appears to be behind a multi-million pound push to quote weaken the russian state documents to allege that london hopes to boost negative coverage of the country by seeking journalists and contract to covertly infiltrate russian media. as more. the plan was or it is simple enough the british government and its agencies recruit independent media sometimes even desired and direct their programming manage that in order to and i quote weaken the russian state it's all in the leaked papers
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the foreign and commonwealth office is looking for an implementor or consortium to scope design deliver and evaluate a program of interventions that will enhanced the skills and capacity or for us and journalists this project will support a wider regional her majesty's government program to counter the russian government's narrative and domination of the media and information space so there's even more there since what these papers paint is a picture of the british government perverting independent media twisting their reporting to suit britain's needs and wants they are getting those with we call will or opinions the young and using them to subvert older generations get them to turn on the kremlin or on russian values by capitalizing on close family ties among russian speakers and revoking the spirit of the baltic way we will use young russian speakers as agents of change to influence their parents and
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grandparents generations and amplify distance you are able to identity through family centers direct outreach events propaganda by air land and sea a number of russian language outlets were mentioned specifically some radically adze government and whose claim to credibility has been their independence claim that will be now much harder to make if indeed they pocketed british money that came with strings attached and judging by these papers they weren't so much strings as cables. we are currently delivering audience segmentation and targeted support for 2 of russia's lead in independent media outlets madieu than media zona and the range of independent investigative journalists in conjunction with data analysts and kids college london the british government allegedly adjusting the independent media's editorial and commercial strategies imagine if russia was caught
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a devising and directing independent media in britain scandal would have been deafening naturally moscow wants aren't. the foreign office documents leaked to the internet reveal that the british government financial support and directly manage its various informational outlets as well as created and network of influencers and russian social media there are hundreds of documents revealing the london propaganda machine we are regent and waiting for london's reaction maybe it is all lights the documents detail dozens of potential programs and strategies it is impossible to verify how many were brought to life how many journalists were drafted into this propaganda offensive and how deep this corruption goes out much damage has been done what is clear is that combined with other recent revelations linking russian language media outlets to foreign governments hostile governments.
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independent media and independent journalist is going to spawn much more skepticism than trust. over against the of there we have requested comment from the u.k. foreign office and we'll tell you when we get a response. of the family of a boy who allegedly froze to death in texas assuming power companies for $100000000.00 the 11 year old died on tuesday this family's mobile home he was sharing a bed with his younger brother under several blankets trying to stay warm the home had reportedly been without power for days investigators are still looking into the cause of death but the family lawsuit does say that the boy died of hypothermia. despite having knowledge of the dial weather forecast for at least a week in advance and the knowledge that the system was not prepared for more than a decade electric reliability council of texas and entergy failed to take any
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action that could have averted the crisis and were wholly unprepared to deal with the crisis at hand but even those who do have access to heat and power in the area asking serious questions of the energy companies themselves with electricity prices soaring from less than $50.00 a megawatt hour to more than $9000.00. i am pretty much $9.00 a kilowatt electricity but i would be very conservative with my electricity so i have no idea exactly why but it's really so much that only growing that i absolutely cannot afford it i'm not exactly sure you know who can go to the point where some people have totally turned up their power because they can't remember going up the biggest can't afford it it's a basic necessity for a living but you think utilities should not our spouse. meanwhile more than $4000000.00 power to use have also been reported as the storm in there's been an
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estimated $18000000000.00 worth of damage throughout the region $50000000.00 people have reported disruption to their water supply to nearly 70 have died across the u.s. from the unusually cold conditions meanwhile the governor of texas has pledged to bring the spiraling energy bills under control we're moving quickly to alleviate this problem and we'll continue to work collaboratively throughout this week and solutions to help texas families and do sure they do not get stuck with skyrocketing energy bills. while other politicians are also stepping in to help congresswoman sheila jackson lee delivered pizza and water to residents in houston killer scott amos again though says the ordinary people shouldn't be picking up the tab for the failures of government power companies to prepare for such disasters of course this was a natural disaster except this because they don't have the infrastructure and they're not ready and prepared for this type of thing again why should the world
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inquire what the middle class have to pay for that likely to be deregulated because the government needs to step in build my way there should be monopolized so that they can charge whatever it is they want to everyone else close the employee structure and preparing they have power and they've known. chose not to invest any and so that's what happened is the perfect storm. and italian hopper singer has got the sputnik 3 kovi jab while on tour he moscow and ahead of her performance in the bolshoi theater she told us why. going to school with the brits you know since i am in moscow to work at the bolshoi theater i had an opportunity to take this politically short term he took it in europe separately it's considered one of the most effective and it is amazing that russia made its vaccine available to wherever it wants to get it as a foreigner i had the opportunity to get inoculated for free but many people even
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asked me whether they can come to russia and get vaccinated it one well for me i didn't experience any side effects. on the vaccine has helped to bring down the number of daily new kovi cases here in russia and on saturday a 3rd national shot was registered to you and showed you for distribution next month and the maria community again compared the situation with the european union and hopes that sputnik 3 will get to the blocked. and when i'm there probably in my pocket you know what it is but you know. when it comes to europe it is a huge problem that it is failing to vaccinate all citizens as quickly as possible so it hampers their return to work however here in moscow everything is up and running on quite a regular basis shops theaters everything is open we musicians feel shocks to have all the theatres here as well as other cultural facilities closed i can't understand why there is the slowdown in europe mightily in france are very
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preoccupied we are afraid that it will complicate the post covert recovery i'm in favor of sending sputnik the supplies to europe and elsewhere if it helps overcome the problem of vaccine shortages and allows everyone to get vaccinated. now in other news today more than 100 maffia members including top crime bosses have illegally receive social security payments in sicily with more than a 1000000 euro the palermo financial police said that 145 more prisoners and their relatives some belonging to the most notorious clans now face fraud charges those accused include the head of the council matthew family and tonio mahdi chiller known for his lavish lifestyle after being released from a 7 year jail term. it's been part of a very important investigation that we conducted together with the prosecutor's office of palermo which provided us with a list of 1400 individuals charged with mafia type crimes this operation reaffirms
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that the mafia does not feel any remorse illegally cashed in the financial benefits intended for citizens in need order locals are outraged at the scam adding that the government watchdogs also failed to do their job. you know whatever go no scarlett is a true shame as kendall the people who live in miserable conditions are stripped of what was basically their livelihoods it is a disgrace for the whole nation but i want them to say i meant to rather go and that isn't that it's a disgrace there are people who are in great need of financial aid but they feel to receive it for some reason and then you find out that the math here has managed to obtain this instance of benefits it happens because there are no checks in place. checks have to be carried out before in order to avoid this illegal dispersement this check should have been done when this request for the citizenship benefit or perhaps it would have taken a few months but it would have prevented the payments from developing the wrong.
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that has been a backlash against coca-cola half an employee there with the audience training workers to be less white with more on the story he goes you don. club soda flavors caffeine and ton of sugar it's a well guarded secret for sure but there can't be much more to bring up an iconic coke but how can we make it even better coca-cola thought well how about we make our white employees a less white but put down your stones at least for now this has nothing to do with blackface but rather a training course for workers the video circulating on social media is from a publicly available linton learning series and there's not a focus of a company's curriculum better together global learning curriculum it's possible learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace in the program and almost step
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by step guide on how to get the vice of whiteness out of you be less arrogant be less oppressive be more humble well let me sum this up for you real quick just quit acting like a jerk would jump and generally speaking it's great advice to follow while navigating through life all together but when the public found out some weren't happy that all those negative traits had been dumped on one particular race sadly the irony of confronting racism by telling you to be less of your skin color will be lost on many i don't know about q. but i can do in coca-cola products any more emergent cook telling employees to be less black or be less jewish is the except civil and unethical to tell anyone to be less of their race religion if in the city 6 you orientation it's the i'm ashamed to have coca-cola on my resume however some users push back and hailed coca-cola of
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its efforts they should have changed this to talk specifically about whiteness and not be less white but good in coca-cola for doing this work. only bigots sematic coca-cola for the less whites training that the only ones who won't even examine what else is there because they send to themselves in white the pity proving the training's very premise the majority of that content looks to be on point it's that last slight which is an issue because of the rigidity of corporate america coca-cola is just the latest in a host of companies to help on the world bandwagon from changing profile pictures to show support for the black lives matter movement to rebranding the whole product lines deemed to be well behind the times.
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to eat healthy used to be all about carbs fats and proteins not anymore though racism bigotry and intolerance literally on the menu and you better watch out after all you are what you eat well for one questionable and she races fight to another because she cheats artificial intelligence system as banning the world's biggest chance channel apparently because it got the phrases white against black was discriminatory to have the details of the brain.
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world is driven by shaped by. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. this is really the beginning of the changing of the guard you know we're now handing the baton off to china is the number one economy in the 21st century the numbers are there the statistics are there their relationships and you're here and
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you are there the relationship with russia and iran is there you know there and there was a ship all over africa is awful there. again now a 95 year old u.s. resident has been deported to germany for working at a nazi concentration camp and will forte biggers removal demonstrates the department of justice is on these law enforcement partners commitment to ensuring that the united states is not a safe haven for those who have participated in nazi crimes against humanity and over human rights abuses. frederick held burgo worked as a guard at a camp near the city of hamburg despite having already been prosecuted there when
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united states germany said it will not charge him claiming there's a lack of evidence the u.s. judge's decision was party to the fact that he still receives a wartime service pension berga says he was forced to work though at the camp and described the ruling as ridiculous the campaign worked at were set up in 1938 and operated until 1945 more than 100000 prisoners were held there mainly from the soviet union and also poland almost half of the detainees died showed off director of the simone investment tile center in jerusalem gave us his reaction to this and talked about the case with r.t. jackie. really what all this is that nazi germany says that the forces duration and persecuting people who are categorizes enemies of the rights oh deserve to be approached the city to examine every once it's irrelevant essentially a transient trace those class intrusions the actual guilt to persecute innocent
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people who the server actually decided were enemies of the regime and. as a president it was a lot just a group the crowd at their rocks and germany of course is still paying his pension for wartime service how is that possible 1st of all gets that less than accurate you do get a pension sort through service in the war germany as a special pension to people who want it during world war 2 in 1988. cast a lot anyone who would violate the laws of humanity will have their pension to cancel but there was a lack of cooperation in some in some of the german provinces and there was problems with. it ministration of this project it only a lot of people have actually scarce. that's wayne is planning europe's largest on shore wind farm despite massive and growing opposition it will have more
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than a 1000 pounds although some activists to believe that the renewable source simply can't form the basis of the country's energy mix wind power can't replace. you have if you look at tree city you have. a base of electricity usually water and nuclear power which is you can regulate if you need more or less you can screw their leg tricity up and down and soar but you can't do it with the sun and you can't do it when they win so you can't base their whole nation's electricity on something you can't control you have to control the electricity and support for wind energy is falling nationwide civil court interest in power opposition is particularly high among people who have to live near such projects of
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course people should be able to have their say when it comes to what is built where they live but we must ensure that conditions are geared to expand renewable electricity production in sweden many time that the turbines would ruin the stunning landscape and on a set of back again says it will damage tourism. when it's not blowing. we will not have any electricity. and then to city has to come from somewhere else and then we're back in big pollutions is not a good idea with windmills at all it effects the tourist because. sailin which is the red north of where i am living is the biggest. recreation area in scandinavia you can do sweden with coarsely.
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exacting plays with forest them in. environments and if you put your windmills all over 250 to 3 hallam it is high which is blinking older time like an air port. is not interesting anymore to come to these places. and finally you chinks artificial intelligence system is temporarily pop the world's biggest chess channel for quite harmful and dangerous content algorithm apparently for common chess words like black and white an attack and threat but racist. looks now at just how powerful these automated computer systems have become . what humans be without free will fully fledged sheeple 'd well researchers in australia have completed a study that reveals just how easy it is for ai ought to fishel intelligence to hack human decision making or the truth is.
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that you have a sleeve in the commonwealth scientific and industrial research guys ation data 61 pitted participants against and ai system called a current neural network in 3 experiments skipping the rest of the science the stuff they basically found that this is a i excelled at leading participants towards making specific decisions just influencing their behavior and even tricking them into making a mistake. in. their vast splash loves bit about the study the participants didn't have a clue that they were being taken for a ride by a computer we're not sheep riders just imagine what this could mean for the future it will be like now. we already know that tech giants are monitoring our every
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play and turning them into dollars they can even turn clicks into if they feel like . alexander news told parliamentary inquiry one thing. came a gentleman has never used facebook if you. know football in the engine for you so i. just stick with the population. but the company itself was founded on using facebook to next time you order it out by delivering because a notification just popped up old by the facebook test. somebody new without drugs for 6 months we ask ourselves must we try and you want to know the onset of the basic game like monkeys that pay tax people don't want to give you this mrs . tucker baloney bills that their choice is the design here is their understanding
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of the way mine was mine most of all the things you are just the ration these contempt should be the next completely side note some deep thinkers already think that free will is a myth and that homo sapiens are simply slaves to buy of chemical changes happening in the meat suits or in on the media. party boy where they wash out international just going up to half past 2 in moscow or back again at the top of. elwood forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law show your identification for should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point of view screen is to create trust ever the
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shia. muslims like to take on various charts and with artificial intelligence will summon the demon. the robot must protect its own existence as existence. if you. join me every thursday on the elec so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there. we're more politicized than ever we're more polarized than ever the 21st century when speed is measured in megabytes per 2nd. listed on the views in your. deeds in him at a tronic mail electronic money electronic media infinite possibilities for exchanging
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information i mean me and misquoting ish my misery nationalized freedom of speech and social media bents censorship a double standards who should judge what can be said online. already but i want to. come down to the internet audience now totals almost 4500000000 almost all of them are active social network users but one wrong move from the pages deleted digital annihilation don't exist anymore. not who runs the show on the web how can anyone stand up to the tech giants if even the heads of state face the threat of being banned is there any limits to hold that virtual. yo postal befuddle reasonable for a new lease for evolution will weigh. one
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else seemed wrong. just don't hold. any you won't get to shape out these days to come to advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.
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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter a well there are already strong signs the biking ministration is we turning to the foreign policy of the obama years is this why obama's foreign policies were hardly a success indeed this was the time of endless wars will the biting ministration repeat the mistakes committed under obama. discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest mark allman in oxford he is the director of the crisis research institute and in budapest we have george 7 well he's a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube and gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to markers in an oxford continuity in change that's what we always
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look at when a new administration comes in and we see a lot of continuity and change. only on the rhetorical side of things we hear we hear that the all the biden missed ration is essentially going to back away from saudi arabia's genocidal war against yemen but he says it will continue to support the sovereignty of saudi arabia and we we on the 1st day of the biden ministration we have troop movements from iraq into syria so that tells us what's going on here just a couple days ago nato has made it very clear that it's going to its. troop level training level in iraq of course we have the dealing with iran the administration doesn't seem. i don't know which direction it wants to go but certainly it is anti russia and china and that is just the top bullet points go ahead mark. i think the interesting thing is that during the trump is. former biden officials for obama officials often accused him of spending all his.

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