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10 u.s. diplomats and the possible reduction of washington's diplomatic mission here in the capital. or join me to assess russia's response here start statement 1st of all. the latest attack country by divided ministration cannot. it seems that washington does not want to accept the fact that in the new geo political realities there is no place for unilateral dictatorship and have broken scenarios of containing moscow which the us short sightedly continues to deploy when you risk further degrading russia u.s. relations we knew that this was coming in one form or another it was just a matter of time and on friday russia very demonstrative retaliated against those punitive measures that washington once against moscow earlier this week perhaps the most interesting part is that 8 top level washington officials have been banned from entering russian territory and when i say top level i mean highlight reel you

know we're talking the head of the f.b.i. the director of national intelligence the secretary of homeland security to i people who are powerful decision makers in washington also a lot less to susan rice and john bolton historically to politicians who are you know. russian rhetoric alongside the names moscow explained that these individuals had been chosen precisely because they all responsibility for promoting america's anti russian policy direction i have to say this is a really strong move because usually such bans are done on the low down in the quiet that are not announced publicly so clearly the kremlin here is so frustrated by what's going on that it wants to make a really bold korea statement of not 10 american diplomats have been expelled a number of american organizations suspected of interfering in russia's internal affairs have been told that they need to stop their activity and it was also made

clear that if the u.s. continues to behave this way the more can and will be done including reducing the diplomatic mission here to just $300.00 and taking action that would be harmful to u.s. business interests so very loud very. sense of announcement leaving the door open for an improvement of relations but at the same time being practical and preparing for the worst and as you see it it comes not long after what's america said they were going to do as regards sions what was said on thursday well you have to look at the fact up to this hostile undiplomatic rhetoric coming from the white house of course now the infamous interview joe biden calling president putin the killer on international television and then this final blow out by joe biden signing what can only be called a sanction spree so that package includes a $32.00 russian and an individual sanction for allegedly interference in last year's presidential election stateside a range of financial and technology firms targeted for apparent cyber attacks on

federal agencies 10 russian diplomats expelled borrowing money international made more difficult for russia to and why anyone reasonable would look at this and say well this is pretty extensive apparently joe biden claims that this was his take it easy on russia set of sanctions and that ultimately all he really wants is to be friendly and the pressure dial down united states is not looking to. school is she in conflict with russia we want a stable predictable relationship is the time to deescalate well saying that after announcing a slew of sanctions is mixed messages it's illogical it's very confusing i mean generally punishment and deescalation don't go hand in hand so you can see why the russian side pointed out that the moment there's a huge disconnect between what russia says or rather what washington says and what washington does. to refrain from escalation sound hypocritical in essence to trying

to talk to us from a position of strength we have repeatedly warned and proved in practice that sanctions and other pressures are not only futile but will also result in disastrous consequences for the. to decide in such provocations so clearly normalized relations between the u.s. and russia are going to require a serious shift in care but at the moment it does definitely sound that while small scope of course doesn't want it to terrorists and relations and it's tried everything it can to avoid that at the moment it feels that that might be the only option left well despite the us president's words journalist and author done english are believes the biden ministration is behaving without restraint in its moves against russia america's behavior is out of control i mean the by the by demonstration is well spent the last 4 years accusing trump of being soft on russia and now is what has got into office it is trying to show that it is going

to be as confrontational and hostile as a possible. there is no charge there but i didn't this russian would level against moscow biden has been absolutely unrestrained he's determined to show that he's a tough guy tougher than than donald trump and so therefore he's being very aggressive with regard to both russia and and china and and there are no restraints that's that that's the amazing thing and the u.s. is just it's rampaging or around with these charges well something else her guest talked about in that conversation was the unveiling of the latest raft of russians the u.s. also said claims made last year no that was about rochelle fring bunty s. to the taliban to kill american troops in afghanistan the white house admits it has very little to back up those claims but is never the less demanding 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 sought to encourage taliban attacks against u.s. and coalition personnel and afghanistan so while there's a lot of moderate assessment of these reports we felt it was important for our intelligence committee to look into it this information really puts the burden on russia and the russian government to explain their engagement here. just in this last june it was reported that russian intelligence offered linked militants bunty is to kill american troops in afghanistan in 20 dean the allegations were never proven the pentagon itself said it could not corroborate the reports but that didn't stop the media from embracing the story vladimir putin is offering bounties for the scalps of american soldiers in afghanistan the european intelligence official called this callous 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. russia has rejected those allegations with the foreign ministry branding them the quote speculations and phobias of the u.s. intelligence community we got to take a former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter. the mere fact that you have politicians action on intelligence that has appeared on the front pages of the new york times bill is you right off the bat that it's not intelligence it's been it's clear sized information as opposed to hard intelligence that the united states and russia are adults they they they they sit at the big table they were big boys pants and their intelligence services do things against one another because that information normally we understand this is the reality of the world but the united states right now is very defensive it's dealing with the changing world changing reality and the fact that russia refuses to play the game of being subservient to

you know a dominant america and so this is a domestic political problem where intelligence is 0 and political objective as opposed to doing what it's supposed to do providing insight american decision makers about what ground truth in russia is. another story we're following today the german chancellor has been accused of undermining the country's democracy after uncle americal pleaded with lawmakers to grant the federal government powers to impose regional curfews and lock ins without the consent of local authorities merkel's hackle touring a heated debate in parliament. we're slamming on the brakes nationwide i'm convinced a nationwide imagine see stop is overdue and urgently needed a lauren measures have a single goal to lead our country ad of this terrible phase of managing infections care he said not a new engine but they are part of the infection protection or that is currently in

place. i ask you jay colleagues whatever a personal opinions may be don't you think that we should take them into account in the way we're debating this here ultimately what i'm going to merkel wants is changes to the infection protection act that would allow her to not just to say this is what you should be doing but to be able to say this is what is going to happen the way it works here in germany with their federal system is all those things can be decided from the federal government in berlin how they're implemented on the ground particularly when it comes to covert 19 restrictions are left up to the interpretations of the governments of the 16 states that make up germany now what angle america wants to do is take some of those powers from the states and have them for herself well as you can imagine not everybody is happy with that outside of the bundestag there was a small but vocal demonstration against what the chancellor is trying to do in the opposition from the alternative to germany partly though as making the argument

that these powers already exist that they don't need to be given to the to the federal government and that the chancellor should let the states decide what's best for the states this effect to introduce the infection protection act is an alarm and document of authoritarian thinking never before has a federal government dared to include so many attacks on the basic freedoms of citizens and the rule of law and on democratic principles and so few sentences as in this draft more we've been here before though with anglo merkel's saying she wanted to implement national 'd measures national lockdowns and things like curfews when it comes to the fight against covert 19 just before. easter we heard the chancellor announce this was going to happen over the easter break only for her to have to make one of the biggest u. turns of her political career when just over 24 hours later she said actually that's not going to happen because technically i don't have the powers to be able to tell you to do that. says day to fast of april as well as the surge of april

should be defined as calm days with extensive contact restrictions and a ban on gatherings from the fast to the 5th of april. it isn't going on the idea was a mistake this mistake is my mistake alone a mistake must be called a mistake and above all it must be corrected at the same time of course i know that this whole matter trygaeus more uncertainty i regret that deeply and apologized to all citizens and this brings us today and the facts of the matter on the ground when it comes to covert 19 is that germany is being gripped particularly hard by this wave the robert cock institute which handles germany's public health affairs is warning that unless something is done that april could well be a record breaking month for germany when it comes to covert 19 infections what angle are merkel is seeking the power to be able to do is that when cases reach a number of 100 new infections per 100000 over population that an

emergency brake can be pulled nationally the thing is is there's a lot of pushback against this despite that pushback it does seem likely that these changes to the infection protection act will be made by some point next week we expect them to be signed into law by german president frank fault. or journalist and author thomas fassbender believes angle america's move makes sense the spite of criticism from the opposition. she believes in the necessity of increased risk rick chance and a strict a lockdown curfew measures etc and she decided wholeheartedly i should say take this way of centralizing her powers against existing opposition i do not assume angle america has any idea of attacking the democratic order in germany but it is a test of the democratic order in germany no question and

a crisis situation which we have for the 1st time in this country and some people are very much a fundamental izing what is going on and driving it up to philosophical heights i'd say the majority in germany sees this as an end to a faction may measure and nothing nothing more. well there's a pretty seismic event coming out of cuba today where the head of the communist party raul castro is officially to step down it brings to an end more than 6 decades of the castro family's political dominance over the carnaby an island nation the night spent came the opening of the party congress 3 years ago when he stepped down from the position of president castro said he quit the us communist party leader in 2021 his successor by mikael dia's canel is also

expected to succeed him in his government role wrote castro has been in power since 2011 when he took over from his iconic older brother fidel both men were the leaders of the 1959 cuban revolution which resulted in the creation of a socialist government fidel then led the nation through the cold war the cuban missile crisis and was still leader into the 21st century that's by decades of pressure from the u.s. he stepped down as president in 2008 as party leader and 2011 power to his brother he died 5 years later let's get some reaction to this now and speak to professor of latin american and caribbean studies at the city university of new york down the shore done it good to have you 6 decades of castro rule and end of an era good afternoon. but there's continuity in the leadership that was the legacy of

all who the hell in the role they created in trained several generations 'd of leadership in the human communist party. this was something that was planned by the humane leadership role role to be able to retire it is private lives spend more time with his family in cringe children so i think the cubans are confident they can still continue to build socialism in so imperialism despite all of the challenges that they've confronted since the 1959 revolution specifically of course the aggression from their neighbor to the north the u.s. imperialism yet despite a decade as the island's leader that is just really a fraction of his brother's time what place will raul have been the history of cuba down. uncompromising revolutionary 'd who never cower genuflected before us threats and invasion and occupation it's also the

60th anniversary of the bay of pigs and the us government whether it's led by a democrat or republican if stopped it nothing trying to suffocate in star human revolution and this is the legacy of steadfastness and ideological steadfastness cuba basically stood alone in 1991 with the collapse of the soviet union and the socialist bloc around the world. the cubans have been fearless even though they face the worst types of us terrorism and criminal blockade that cripples the lives of millions and millions of humans every day their leadership has been unflinching in defense of socialism an internationalist when roe came to power it was talked about by some as a new beginning for cuba did that happen because i think as you alluded to the

country is dealing with a raft of challenges exacerbated of course by covert 900 we saw images of lines outside stores for food to the economy shrinking by double digits etc in the last number of months. yeah no question and when we read c.n.n. in the u.s. mainstream media they always show the pictures of these cues but they never can textual eyes it and talk about this 6 decade long blockade in the damage that this blockade is intended to do by creating and stoking the flames of hopelessness despair migration and hunger so the cubans have stood strong all of cuba has been converted into a school of socialism pushing forth these different 959 and values of unity of equality of internationalism of course the cuban international medical missions are amazing i just returned from haiti where there were hundreds and

hundreds of cuban doctors selflessly doing this work so even though roe castro is no longer going to be the leader of cuba miguel diaz can end in an entire generation if not 2 generations of leaders will now step up and as the cubans have said this is about continuity the continuity of a political you know how you like you can see many changes then what with with the president becoming the head of the communist party as well now. i 9 know in general has been continuity certainly roll castro oversaw some economic reforms but that was perhaps one step backwards in order to take 2 steps forward there was certainly flexibility in terms of small private ownership in cuba so that individuals could have their own small businesses but the human side is in 2011 as a way to survive this cruel blockade in a world where i've been as well or in the closest trading partners like iran and

venezuela had also been super affected by a blockade you know i think the cure is are stronger than ever ideologically despite. how difficult this economic blockade is that i thank you give me a share take on the big news of the day from cuba has done a shellfish of latin american carbon studies at the city university of new york and he telling people he's rolling in 90 seconds. 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. next week it could be islands somewhere in the pacific the week after that those

are bubbles of the secular collapse and. when the everything collapses then we have the realisation that the economy die in 2008 we just have a very to get. seemed wrong. just don't. let me. get to shape out these days because that's ok and engagement equals betrayal. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . hello again google misled users industry leo by collecting their personal location

data his ruling of the country's federal courts could lend the tech giant with an enormous fine as truly as fair trade watchdog which had filed a lawsuit declared the ruling a world 1st and said it sends a very clear message to all digital platforms what the court found was that google misled consumers into thinking that if they turned off location history then that would stop google story and keeping collecting and keeping their personally identifiable location data when in fact that was not the case. the judge in the case ruled some new users were misled during the initial setup process of devices users were not informed even if they had the location history button disabled activating another top called web up activity would mean google could still collect their location data no it is not the 1st time the australian

competition regulator on the tech behemoths have clashed last year google along with facebook were obliged to pay news organizations if their content was posted on their platforms google has said it rejects this latest ruling on location data stating the claims by the watchdog were too broad they judge's findings only concerned a noro class of users the company said it's also considering an appeal internet law expert on social media solicitor yeah you're cool and assess the impact of the country shrewdly. google doesn't care the company's filed to be compiled to move a police state google doesn't care about reputation because there is no real competition out there google also doesn't care about a small a relatively small financial penalty because it's got plenty of money so the only way we can have google starting to care about this sort of the is by.

forcing the company to break up and start creating some real competition or oh and imposing a huge penalties the realities that now they got caught again the australian court found them guilty of effectively cheating on their own customers. the question now is what's going to happen next the question is whether google is likely to be detailed by these finding. a new wide ranging study by oxford university has fund the risk of developing blood clots from having the pfizer the durn a covert vaccines is about the same as the under-fire job the study involved more than 1000000 people according to the oxford findings 4 in those 1000000 tested experienced the clotting with the pfizer or maternal vaccines while it was 5 in

1000000 for the astra zeneca that compares to a 39 in a 1000000 rest of clotting for those suffering from covert itself we've got reaction to the story from number of guest. on the record how many people are derived within a month. happening with. these sunni. course and recent since very cool because who. wants to roll. suit assess. there for to us of the roll out because remotes remember all these parts. aren't especially disparagement about 2023 and the public needs to be in school we're not building schools are so sure but our experiment what's happening is all these are reports are coming in so long . it's quite troubling for people to know that this is a cat is

a program to roll out a vaccination but at the same time there's also research that showing that the potential dangers it's very difficult for people to know you know what to do it causes confusion hoping that lots of lessons will be learned and some actions will be put in place to ensure the safety of people and not dealing with sort of experiments on consent in people who've decided to be part of trials for example this is members of the public that coming to have a vaccination with the understanding that they can be protected and not to be risk . you'll have heard of the work brigade while in the u.k. it's speed come a reality soldiers in the british army's royal engineers regiment being told to

mind their language case of offend someone r.t. simon right throws a few grenades on the frontline of the culture war. 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 a regiment sergeant major reportedly told his men. people that they need to try harder to hold regiments v. and s. v. 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 that gentz men lads

other phrases like there are not to be used and this is my favorite he said it should be made sure that people are getting paid the correct compliments 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 daschle 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 heterosexual 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 a voice was originally given soldiers are still not quite ready to have their language policed probably because if you're in the army you've got a few other things to worry about let's not forget that the army has been at the forefront of the quality they've been teaching men to on their own trousers for centuries washed on one saw if they would turn over. to do the book about dropping bombs on middle eastern villages is the absolute definition of inclusive ety they'll kill everyone without prejudice. probably a long time for we see scenes like this on the frontline. sort. oh my god did i say that it's. the stories we're bringing to us are we love to hear your thoughts on our cross

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