apollo's someone to believe me because of gulf of mexico if you believe that e.g. . now is the time to deescalate. washington sends a mixed message to russia as joe biden calls for a stable relationship while imposing more sanctions. washington has to understand that there will be a price for the degradation of bilateral relations and it is the us that is entirely responsible for what is happening also in r.t. it's anger merkel is accused of attacking german democracy she pleads with parliament to grant her more powers to fight the country's worsening pandemic and

twitter founder the investigative journalist group project director that after its latest expose a in which a c.n.n. executive let slip the channel's coverage is biased in favor of the black lives matter movement and words can kill the boys were gay it is now officially part of british army but one regiment has been told so using the use of language to avoid courses and. hello there you're watching r t international this friday afternoon just gone 2 o'clock here in the russian capital now the russian foreign ministry says the u.s. does bear full responsibility for the deterioration in relations but after washington impose new sanctions against moscow russia says it has no choice but to retaliate. but they're against you there but such aggressive behavior will

undoubtedly meet fam resistance a response to the sanctions will be inevitable washington has to understand that there will be a price for the degradation of bilateral relations and it is the us that is entirely responsible for what is happening what president joe biden signed an executive order on punitive measures targeting moscow right after calling for a deescalation in tensions between the 2 states now is the time to deescalate. worry for. the us. 10 personnel from the russian diplomatic mission are being expelled while $32.00 entities and individuals have been sanctioned for quote government directed attempts to influence the 2020 us presidential election the document also targets a range of financial institutions as well as 6 technology companies for cyber attacks are down of looks at what the impact might bring. big

politics is all about big p.r. political marketing of the trump era america transitioned from saucy nicknames for his opponents into the biden age which spearheads now shameless self promotion america is back america is back diplomacy is back biden diplomacy sounds like a classic personal brand of so what is it well for russia it apparently means a sanctions a sledgehammer you know i've been through several steps including the expulsion of several russian officials as a consequence of their actions i've also signed an executive order authorizing new measures including sanctions to address specific harmful actions that russia has taken against u.s. interests well the man seems to be abundantly clear at least for ones right well he would have been had he not led into these sanctions announcement with this. united

states is not looking to kick off a cycle of skule she in conflict with russia we want a stable predictable relationship these signals are not just mixed in terms of consistency they're on par with noises from space joe biden was able joe biden said he's interested in normalization of russian u.s. relations but the actions of his administration show us the opposite the u.s. is not ready to deal with the reality of the multipolar world which shuts at the possibility of american has humani instead they can sanctions and interference in our internal affairs just this week biden and putin talked over the phone to join the conversation the us president and a new batch of sanctions in putin's face only to express hope later for a stable and predictable way forward and the white house sees no problem here no discrepancy forget proof for good reason forget who's president even biden strategy

is to bully a country out of geopolitical relevance and it seems that's the only predictable thing about america left after all trumps anti russia sanctions galore that appears to his whole term didn't save the ex-president from being shamed for being soft on russia so maybe biden is resorting to nuclear options right away desperately trying to keep one foot in the door though the door leading to that positive trajectory you go should on of there will be have discussed the issue with the chairman of the russian public council for international cooperation and public policy he also was serving as the director general to the united nations office in geneva from 2002 into 2011 and he calls the american sanctions illegal. it's a very unhealthy understanding or what the foreign policy is this

sending a completely completely completely signals to anyone in the world and of course most of the warm russia this is not because europe's foreign policy on the part of the supercross sentence they are completely legal if they are not adopted by the security council otherwise it's their use of economic political or would they were the force it is really difficult to. tolerate such such as. i do think that you have to build bridges with the you know list please because we have a lot of common interest in the digits the bill. nye while unveiling the latest raft of sanctions the u.s. also cited sensational claims made last year of russia are offering banty's to the

taliban on american troops in afghanistan the white house admits it has very little to back up those claims and yet still it demands answers from the kremlin. we felt the reports were enough of a cause of concern they assessed with low to moderate confidence as you alluded to that russian intelligence officers start to encourage taliban attacks against u.s. and coalition personnel in afghanistan so while there's a lot of moderate assessment of these reports we felt it was important for our intelligence community to look into it this information really puts the burden on russia and the russian government to explain their engagement here well in june last year it was reported that russia intelligence offered taliban linked militants bounties to kill american troops in afghanistan in 2019 the allegations they were never proven and the pentagon itself said that it could not corroborate the reports but that didn't stop the mainstream media from going to town with the story zlata

mir putin is offering for the scalps of american soldiers in afghanistan the european intelligence official called this cowards shocking and reprehensible overnight president trump dismissed the intelligence denied being briefed on it as new reports emerged saying those payments did in fact lead to the death of americans meanwhile the u.s. president has decided to end america's double decade military presence in afghanistan by mid september i will have a closer look at the details on that in a few minutes time. now the german chancellor has been accused of attacking the country's democracy that are frankly merkel pleaded with lawmakers to pass a bill that would allow the federal government to impose regional curfews and lock downs with that the consent of local authorities it does come as the country grapples with a spiraling situation so let's get more details now and head to berlin to speak with our your own peter oliver good afternoon peter just run through them exactly what merkel wants and why she's facing such criticism.

well what chancellor merkel wants is the power to be able to not just say this is what you should be doing across germany but the power to be able to say this is what you will be doing across germany when it comes to covert restrictions because of the way the federal system works here the implementation of what was decided at the national level really falls to the leaders of the 16 states to decide how they're going to put it into practice what i'm going merkel wants to see is changes to the infection protection act that would allow her in the federal government in berlin to say this is what we're doing and we're doing it right across the country angela merkel described it as there being no way around it when it comes to implementing these changes what they would allow to happen would be national curfews put in place in areas where there had been high rates of infection also the closure of non-essential retail as well as many other different options now during

announcing this and putting this forward in the bundestag the chancellor was heckled by some opposition politicians this got to the stage whereby the president of the bundestag going shoeblack had to intervene and tell everybody to calm down before the chancellor content mute or merkel says these changes are needed for germany's fight against covert 19. were slamming on the brakes nationwide i'm convinced a nationwide emergency stop is overdue you and urgently need it all imagist have a single girl to lead our country out of this terrible face of mounting infections but there are those that disagree there was a small but vocal demonstration outside of the bundestag on friday as the meeting was taking place inside also opposition politicians have said that they feel the changes that the chancellor is asking for go too far that the powers already exist

in should be wielded by those who currently have them. so fixing the infection protection act is an alarming document all sorts here in thinking never before has a federal government dare to include so many attacks on the basic freedoms of citizens and the rule of law and a democratic principles in so few sentences as industry does it well if you're thinking haven't we been here before when it comes to germany wanting to impose national lockdowns and more restrictions well you'd be right just before it was announced by chancellor merkel that the country would be going into a short term lockdown that was eventually you turned on by the chancellor big public step down because she didn't have the powers of a lable to her in order to impose this upon the states that's why she's asking for this change to the particular act it is needed according to health professionals if you look at the figures when it comes to covert infections in germany in the last

24 hours there was $26000.00 new cases the robert cock institute to handles germany's public health are warning that unless something is done then april could see record numbers of infections it's also being seen in hospital beds particularly here in the german capital berlin where one quarter of intensive care beds are currently taken up with covert patients what angular merkel wants to be able to do is that when the rate of infection rates reaches 100 new infections per 100000 of the population a so-called emergency brake can be pulled and new measures be put into place we are expecting this to go through this change to the act but it isn't going to be done overnight it will be some time next week before this change to the infection protection act lands on the desk of the german president frank volta and he can

sign it into law. ok thanks for the update there peter was our peter all of a life from berlin. social media giant twitter has banned the founder of the investigative journalist group project veritas for alleged violations of its policies it does come though after the group published another undercover sting video involving c.n.n. stec nickel director. the strain of using these eternally teaching he really good. people are getting exactly as you just a picture that you made sure to protect the asian. student body. which it was trying to like felt like it could be a lever like you know it like i mean it's individuals it's not a you know. that's like going to the optics of i don't know get it without video there with the c.n.n. executives that meeting b.l.m. coverage bias is the 3rd on the cover screen published by project for

a task this week and if you want to find out about the other it's the one high c.n.n. misled his view is to get ratings and it's not nice to bring down donald trump to you head to our web site to go home now we discussed the revelation for a project for a task is newsroom executive a vast he says it's time people started to ask questions. we can speak to the fact that this technical director charlie chester he was certainly part of the culture he was speaking as if they were an advocacy group and this is a network that uses the tagline the most trusted name in news does the most trusted name in news you know colluded directly or indirectly with black lives matter that's a question for the american public to ask it seems that the rules that as a society that we all thought were in place are no longer in place there is no more roebuck this is you know this is concerning this is something that the american people should be looking into this is something they should be studying and this is something that they should know about because anything this big that i mean people

make the you decisions that affect their lives every day based on the news and if you're telling them you're real and in you know we're off hours you're saying that you're completely fake your propaganda that needs to be investigated that needs to be looked at further you're watching out a still to come see this out of the b.b.c.'s divestiture of this land the main character in the broadcast is huge luther not. being black enough despite being played by a famous black actor or dive into that just off the. show seemed wrong but all roles just don't hold. any. get to shape out these days become educated and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and the speculators and those are now the ruling elites of the world are the speculators. they can create bubbles it could be used cars this week it could be. actually they could be islands somewhere in the pacific the week after that those are bubbles of the secular collapse and ultimately when the everything bubble collapses then we have the realisation that the economy died in 2008 we just have a very to get.

again one you've heard of the light brigade and in the u.k. it's become something of a reality because soldiers in the british army's royal engineers regiment have been told to mind their language to defend somebody well r.t. simon rice been throwing a few grenades in his own home front line of the cultural. so the main dangers of being in the military is you can be shot at blown up. or fall victim to non gender neutral language well $22.00 engineer regiment of the british army is doing something about it the language not the horrible bad stuff don't call each other lads soldiers are told to be more inclusive and avoid using words such as mankind and sportsmanship over fears that they could cause offense to regiment sergeant major reportedly told his men. people that they need to try harder to up hold the regiments v. and s. b. and s. 1000 values and standards do not mix it up with b. and s.

he also said that everyone has to remember d. and on that diversity and inclusion and gents men lads other phrases like there are not to be use and this is my favorite he said it should be made sure that people are getting paid in the correct complements we don't always says no. you're. right you know what this story has caused some our rage among friends or gobs like these more with of course actually there's nothing new about these directions they came out in 2017 released by the british army's joint equality diversity and inclusion unit or jeddah as it. were inclusive most important so some poles from the guidance from the u.k. military's jet i war is include suggesting sportsmanship be replaced with fairness or good humor and the word mankind be replaced with humanity whew mankind human

race people as head researcher some of those are man in as well were british war heroes to tim collins back in 2017 describe to listeners the ludicrous and dangerous morass into which obsequious and p.c. senior officers have led the british army which means he doesn't like it. so we can conclude from this is. 4 years on after about the voice was originally given soldiers are still not quite ready to have their language policed probably because if you knew your me you've got a few other things to worry about let's not forget but the army has been at the forefront of the quality they've been teaching mentor on their own trousers for centuries washed on one side return over. to the book about dropping bombs on middle eastern villages is the absolute definition of inclusive ety they're killing everyone without prejudice. probably a long time for we see scenes like this on the front line.

sort. oh my god did i say that it's. president joe biden has announced the patrol of all u.s. and nato troops from afghanistan by mid september saying that it's time to end the forever war however the taliban has reacted angrily saying it had agreed and earlier exit with donald trump after 2 decades of war with the terror group still active our senior correspondent major garrett the ever looks now what the pullout will mean for the country. joe biden says this is it the end of the afghan war no more extentions apart from well these last one until september we cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions for the drawn and expecting a different result according to the deal struck between trump and the taliban

america was supposed to be gone in a couple of weeks time by may 1st but the president the new president claimed that didn't give him enough time the new date is symbolically september 11th and the thousands of u.s. and nato troops on that date will have left in light of this and recognizing that there is no military solution to the challenges of ganesan faces and lies have determined that we will start their withdrawal of the residents are told mission full says by may fast new d.n.a. 2 wants to be in afghanistan knew it would be but they went to do a job to make sure that al qaida and its ilk never make it home again and the only thing worse than staying in afghanistan is leaving before that job is done which has the potential to cost 20 years of war and bloodshed and effort to the when our common goal is clear afghanistan should never again service

a haven for terrorists to attack our whole nouns so our presence is conditions based. while no our ally wants to stay in afghanistan longer than necessary we will not leave before the ton is right it's the us government itself is divided and i'm on a to germany for example which previously opposed the withdrawal czech republic came out and said that this is the wrong decision but that they'll pull out in solidarity leaving behind a vast dangerous and uncertain ballot vacuum the war isn't over almost 2000 people have been killed that have got a start in the 1st 3 months of this year but now that's a problem for others it will ask other countries of the countries in the region to do more to support of kynaston especially pakistan as well as russia china india in

turkey. they all have a significant stake in the stable future for afghanistan under stab at the taliban and now is believed to be more powerful than any point in 20 years they control a contest more than half the country and that's with thousands of nato troops keeping them at bay with those foreign troops gone what's to stop them taking law but siege in kabul and doing decades of humanitarian and human rights progress would they still feel obligated to root out hardline terrorists i mean. the us never came here for the benefit of afghanistan no one was happy with the us coming here and i don't think many people will be sad to see them leave the us came to afghanistan for its own interests and that includes nato and all other foreign troops which are under the orders of washington when the us came in 2001 they vowed to deliver peace in afghanistan but they failed we could never trust american

promises i guess if the us soldiers leave afghanistan i think the situation would become worse because our country's security forces are not equipped well enough to fight against the taliban who have had the weaponry the us promised many times in recent years about withdrawing its troops but nothing happened and help for peace let's see what will happen when i was there even as you know the us came to ensure security in afghanistan and as you know the situation has become worse day by day conflicts increased and now the americans are leaving i don't think the americans want afghanistan to prosper they're just seeking a way to flee from the mess they made and they are thinking about the afghan people planners and i think it could be good if we get peace the afghan people want peace it's a good idea that america leaves of ghana stand with the afghan people are tired of war the taliban also angry they feel cheated again by this withdrawal deal they already field commanders are promising nightmare for foreign troops until they pull

out. and on that note the american and european pax pairs who lost trillions of dollars on this war a left to hope for the best at it no guarantees no clear progress the result of the afghan war is that everyone's been left to hope for the best. that is a role that scene the actor playing it is the next james bond character in the b.b.c. hugely popular crime drama luthor has left the network's head of creative diversity both shaken and stirred she claims that he isn't quote orthodontic enough to be real when it 1st came out everybody loves the fact the interest there is in there really strong black characters actually he doesn't have any black friends he doesn't eat anywhere carabiner. this doesn't feel authentic when you see groups through the prism of stereotypes this is the insulting outcome which he preferred

to see luthor dunk basketball hoops at the end of every scene luther isn't black enough and i see so this is a new wave of racism where black people are not black enough it was implied i'm not black enough because i didn't have any black friends in my photo these lazy syria types are racist but the b.b.c. is pledged to spend 100000000 pounds on making more quote diverse and inclusive television programs will have to pass 3 tests to qualify our guest debated the issues raised. when well culture goes too far it presents something that i call to will to to win you know that the bottom line is if we are going to have diversity chiefs you know let's make sure we're talking about making sure that there is a good representation of actors and women and men. you know what our society looks like right now you know where a phrase i came up with recently is when you live by that quote unquote woakes or

you're going to the bookstore because when you go out there try to have diversity and try to have inclusion sometimes you just go way over to tab i think that the diversity. counselor does need to answer some more questions to the public because i'm a lot of people were unfortunately insulted by this very langar is comments this idea that blackness is monolithic is very very dangerous and it could lead to more stereotypes as you were saying it's it was very very very backless and i really hope that that the b.b.c. looks into this more actually a lot of times in a way over the top and you try to 5 things like this ok i'm going to a city chief buy things aren't really quite right ok he's not in caribbean food that's not right oh he doesn't have any black friends he's not quote unquote black and no you go so far and your search for diversity you try to create problems when a problem is even exist so that's kind of so the thing b.b.c. was to be woken when to be more inclusive in all this in

a they going to have these kind of problems come up because at a certain point you have to create problems in order to solve them to justify your job even existing if there is a character that is written that's supposed to be a certain character just changing that the skin color isn't necessarily a solution this is a fictional character who it never said in this and his character description that he was supposed to be so so called black so i think that we should continue thinking about luther as the celebration of an x. exceptional you know acting career. it has been heralded and as mr i think we've become a little bit to solve there's always a caricature day this race or that race or that voice or this ways we're going to stop being a little bit a little bit too soft it because there's softness is what brings up the luther thing ok we were talked about these mascots saying things don't really matter they be go way way over the top and say ok if we have a black character and

a guy to be authentically black whatever some random person who says he's being authentically black because of his soft nature of modern social justice warrior culture you house international thanks watching at the softening just coming to a mosque i went back again at the top of the. folks next up on that a similar question we got a great comedian he's got a 2nd netflix special called the greatest average american that i know he perceives themself as that except the greatest average american doesn't usually get a 2nd that pluck special the reason he did is because he has i find it really area

day perceptive takes on contemporary american life nate barnett see and he's right after this dennis miller plus what. hey folks welcome to dennis miller plus one and it's a because i admire this guy's chops and i saw a special how to flush out the name for me was tennessee kid i think maybe in the last year or 2 and has sort of a halting manner that i dug but there you know it was almost hedberg and because of his stump listen the line did say wow what a sharp observation but i always like it when you get a smart southern kid because they always paints other people like they just drag from the primordial ooze so it's good to bump into somebody.