he says the state devising methods to it to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific. this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture. disseminated within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and the victims say they still live with the consequences today. the headlines this hour him for tracing russian language media documents suggest the u.k. government sought to boost negative coverage and weaken russia also to come a texas family says energy companies after their son allegedly froze to death at home during the extreme weather that's hit parts of the united states while some

residents have been forced to turn their heating all faffed or electricity skyrocketed. to the point where some people have totally turned up their power because they can't remember cannot think they just can't afford it. this uproar as a coca-cola work online training course the tell its employees to quote being less white and a renowned italian opera singer gets the sputnik the job while on top here in moscow there's a 3rd russian vaccine is registered in the country. like good afternoon you watch not international just on 5 every mosque britain's government appears to be behind a multi-million pound push to quote we can the russian state documents allege that london hopes to boost negative country negative coverage of the country by seeking

journalists and contractors to covertly infiltrate russian media what it can see it has 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 the foreign and commonwealth office is looking for an implementor or consortium to scope a design deliver an evaluative program of interventions that will enhance 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 there are get involved 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 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 russia was caught devising and directing independent media in britain the scandal would have been deafening naturally moscow wants our answers the foreign office documents leaked to the internet reveal that the british government financial support and directly manage its various informational outlets as worse created and network of influencers and russian social media there are hundreds of documents revealing the london propaganda machine we are regent and waited for london's reaction maybe it is all

life 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 girls how 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 title independent media and independent journalist is going to spawn much more skepticism than trust. we have asked the foreign office to comment on this story although so far they haven't responded. now the family of a boy who allegedly froze to death in texas is suing power companies there for $100000000.00 the 11 year old died on tuesday at his 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 and best sygate is still looking into the cause of death but the family lawsuit does they 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 action that could have averted the crisis and were wholly unprepared to deal with the crisis at hand well even those who do have access to heat and power in texas are directing serious questions at energy companies there after electricity prices soared 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 because ily so much because they're only going that i

absolutely cannot afford it i'm not exactly sure you know here to the point where some people have told me you turned up their power because they can't quite 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 over $4000000.00 power outages have also been reported as the storm pinked there's been an estimated $18000000000.00 of damage throughout the region $15000000.00 people have water reported disruption to their water supply and the early 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 on solutions to help texas families and issues that do not get stuck with skyrocketing energy bills where politicians are also trying to step in and help congresswoman

sheila jackson lee deliver pizza and water to residents in houston likely to score a morse again they said that ordinary people shouldn't be picking up the tab for the failures of government power companies to prepare for such disasters closeness with a natural disaster except this because they don't have the infrastructure and they're not ready and prepared for this type of thing but again why should the working class where the middle class have to pay for that likely to be deregulated because the government needs to step in no way that should be monopolized so that they can charge whatever it is that they want to everyone as far as the employer structure and preparing they've had time they've known. to invest in it and so this is what happened it's the perfect storm. around italian opera singer has been inoculated with the sputnik jab while on tour here in moscow and ahead of her

performance at the bolshoi theater she told us why. you knew it was that which you know since i am in moscow to work at the bolshoi theater i had an opportunity to take this politically short term you took it in europe's putting me is considered one of the most effective 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 so many people even asked me whether they can come to russia and get vaccinated it won well for me i didn't experience any side effects. well the vaccine has helped to bring down the number of daily new cases here in russia and on saturday a 3rd national shot registered and showed jewel for distribution next month anna-maria khejuri compared the situation with the european union and hopes that sputnik 3 will get to the block. when it comes to europe it is a huge problem that it is failing to vaccinate all citizens as quickly as possible

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 as well as other cultural facilities closed i can't understand why there is the slowdown in europe mightily in france are very preoccupied afraid that it will complicate the postcode recovery i am in favor of sending sputniks the supplies to europe and elsewhere if it helps overcome the problem of vaccine shortages and allows everyone to get vaccinated. in other news more than 100 matthew members including top crime bosses have illegally received social security payments in sicily with more than a 1000000 euros police say that 145 more visitors and their relatives some belonging to the most notorious clans now face fraud charges. accused to include the head of the council matthew family antonio chela he's known for his lavish

lifestyle after being released from a 7 year jail term. so you see that 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 that the mafia does not feel any remorse illegally cashed in the financial benefits intended for citizens in need. the locals are outraged by the scandal adding that government watchdogs also failed to do their job. and i would have a go no scott it is a true shame as scandal 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 a rather god an accident but it's a disgrace that there are people who are in great need of financial aid but they fail 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. of this checks have to be carried out before in order to avoid this illegal disbursement 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 ended up in the wrong hands. but there has been a backlash against coca-cola after an employee there revealed his training workers to be less white with more on the story his ego should done. 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 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 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 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 you but i can do in coca-cola products any more emergent cook telling employees to be less black or be less jewish it's all except a bill and unethical to tell anyone to be less of their race religion ethnicity 6 you orientation etc i'm ashamed to have coca-cola on my resume however some users pushed back and hailed coca-cola of 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 are mad at coca-cola for the less whites training they're the only ones who won't even examine what else is there. because they said to themselves in white the pity proving the training's very premise the majority of that content looks to be in 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 woke 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. 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. because you don of then i still to come through this our facebook blogs public information uncovered 900 vaccinations by mistake and brains a faulty algorithm have the details. join

me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. again my facebook has by mistake been blocking messages from public authorities promoting backs a nation against you had 19 calling into question how effective the platform is in

helping awareness campaigns reach their audience the restrictions made it very difficult for the township in our efforts to inform our residents about important information regarding covered 1000 registration and on dates this is very unfair. we're starting from september messages from 110 creeps and institutions in united states in europe were removed from ad rotation and sent to a register of political messages since then facebook has acknowledged the mistake and restore the post from a few of those organizations well we have temporarily paused as about social issues and actions are a politics we continue to allow ads about covered 19 that promote vaccine efficacy and have made our guidance to advertisers on how to run them publicly available but we spoke to a specialist in hinton at law who believes this case is a part of a wider problem. this is certainly highlighting a problem that attempting to police the internet and facebook in particular

because somebody has to exercise judgment somebody has to tell the al greet him how to work and those persons or those individuals are possibly motivated by ideology. and that could be certainly a problem in the future the solution is probably to stop some sort of independent body that has got no filiation to facebook in this body will comprise of. people from different. political affiliations and they will determine the type of information that the algorithm should allow to go through in political advertising journalists on facebook. well technical glitches aren't confined exclusively to facebook because you tube's

artificial intelligence system has temporarily blocked the world's biggest chess channel for what was described as harmful and dangerous content the algorithm apparently decided that common chess words like black and white an attack and threat were racist party boy as more. what would he be without free will fully fledged sheeple well researchers in australia have completed a study that reveals just how easy it is for a i ought to fish the intelligence to hack human decision making for the troops. that you assure you. the commonwealth scientific and industrial research my station data 61 hated participants against and ai system called a recurrent neural network in 3 experiments skipping the rest of the science the

stuff they basically found that 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 was about to study the participants they didn't have a clue that they were being taken for a ride by a computer we're not sure right if you just imagine what this could mean for the future it will be like now. we already know that tech giants all want to tearing our every play and timing them into dollars they can even turn clicks into if they feel like. alexander news told parliamentary inquiry one thing. general linux has never used facebook if you. know football

in the engine for you so you. can stick with the. message about issues that the company itself was founded on music place the fix in next time you order it out delivering because a notification just popped up old by the facebook test. bombarding you with out that whole scene last week ask yourself if we tried the way nobody onset things like monkeys that pay tax people don't want to give you this message that they are capable and able that their choices the desire is their understanding of. what is my most authentic aspiration this detection be the next in the legal site net sunday think is already think that free will is a myth and that homo sapiens are simply safety by it chemical changes happening in meat it's very nothing. then asked when is planning europe's

largest on shore wind farm despite massive and growing opposition it will have more than a 1000 turbines although some activists to believe that the new world energy source simply can't form the basis of the country's power supply wind power can't replace . you have if you look tricity you have. a base of electricity usually ward 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 this sound and you can't do it when they win so you can't base. nation's electricity on something you can't control you have to control their load to city

while support for wind energy is falling nationwide according to a recent poll opposition is particularly high too among people who have to live near these installations. of 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 good to expand renewable electricity production in sweden many do claim that the turbines would ruin the stunning landscape and on a setback again says that would also damage tourism. when it's not blowing we will not have any electricity. and then the 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'm living is the biggest. recreation

area is going in a via you camp to sweden because it's. exacting plays with the forest and. environments and if you put your windmills all over 250 to 3 hallam it is high which is blinking all the time reagan air port. is not interesting anymore to come to these places. and i think ambassador to the democratic republic of congo has been killed while traveling in a u.n. convoy in the east of the african country foreign ministry in rome has confirmed that and i did die initial reports claim the silence were attempting to kidnap diplomatic staff and italian police officer protecting the envoy was also killed in the incident.

these are pictures from haiti where anti-government demonstrators have clashed with police the armrest has been ongoing for weeks now after the country's president refused to step down claiming his term ends in february 2022 demonstrators say their president mo's a has already overstayed his term and they're accusing him of being a dictator they also want the u.s. ambassador out of the country as washington has supported the president's plane to power and in spain's catalonia region riot police faced off with activists overnight there who were protesting against the recent jailing of catalan rapper pablo hasso arrested last tuesday the musician was found guilty of insulting the spanish well family and glorifying terrorism in his lyrics and tweets as well protests have been ongoing in barcelona ever since with people saying the raptors prosecution is adults with freedom of expression. so i bring you

up to date that's how the news is looking so far today here and i say we'll be back with more for you in 30 states. when i was sure seemed wrong why don't we all just all. any new world is yet to shape out this day become educated and gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. world is driven by.

the day or thinks. we dare to ask. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest or you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to end to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific means this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological courtroom. disseminated within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years then tell the victims say they still live with the consequences today.

hello and welcome to cross that we're all things are considered i'm peter a well there are already strong signs the binding ministration is we turning to the foreign policy of the obama years is this once obama's foreign policies were hardly . 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 look at when a new administration comes in and we see a lot of continuity and change particularly on the rhetorical side of things we hear we hear that the biden mr asian 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 are on the 1st day of the 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's going to it's.