[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, mid day here in moscow, in our headlines today, 5 fight, his volunteers, battle massive wildfires and rushes far east were a state of emergencies. enforce smoke and ash coated huge areas of correspondence. back from the thick of it for the people posted firefighters have now created this mineralized zone. this is basically the whole purpose of this is that the fire, as you can see, it's still burning there. it will not be able to pass beyond the zone lane, police say the use of violence as part of germany's legal system in response to claims of using excessive force against protest as the recent anti locked rally

8 rescued, but 8 still missing for terrorists. helicopter crushed into a really deep lake in rushes. far ethan come chuck to region. the search and rescue operations been hampered by thick fog in that remote area to set back for julie sanchez, the us when the right to challenge key evidence. and if you tradition case, the wilson blows fancy giving an emotional play outside the london court room. sex on julian's life. threats of 175 year sentence threats against me. that's against our children. ah, at the very good sitting here watching out international life and we're new center here in moscow. my name is kevin owen, it is thursday, the 12th of august. and the top story is this. when the new year,

the russian region of utopia still strike very much to do with raging wildfires and the devastation it's brought and left, almost $5000.00 people battling the flames. 700 pieces of equipment deployed to a state of emergencies being declared across the vast region where thick smokes forced a number of air poles to suspend flight snow to me, to pokes and reporting back the latest for us. me who i so we're still traveling for the village where we're expected to meet the firefighters that some of those we actually saw yesterday. but right now on the way, we couldn't help but stop at this. phoenix location is late covered and smoke a red sky above it. and all we're looking all of this is a bunch of cows. some dogs, some people who live here,

this is their life. and now it's all covered in smoke and we know how close the fires have gotten to this place specifically, but firefighters. there's a bunch of equipment. there's a lot of volunteers. so i think these guys are safe and these cows and these dogs definitely to now we're going to head back on the road to the village, which is now under threat of fire in wondering what the raj, all these places looks like. something like this. the last step is when you full of fires the most difficult as it encompasses enlarge area. the mineral eyes area has been created along the perimeter and that area has now

been dug up from the today. so we just arrived at one of the locations where the firefighters have now created this mineralized zone. this is basically a whole purpose of this, is that the fire, if you can see it's still burning there, it will not be able to pass beyond the zone. also this area has obviously been burned off, which is one of the ways they stop the fires. you know that a fire is coming from the direction so they burn everything off. so they make that trench the mineralized zone. then the started burn off. as you can see, the ground hears all ash, all of this is ash ah, the result of his employees from the ministry, the emergency situation, everyone is allowed, plow, manage, extinguish, saw. so while this fire does not prevent any immediate threats,

any people but so it still feels just kind of good to have a part in extinguishing it. so now is just a bunch of smoke but there's no news . so we've traveled back to the village that is currently being threatened by the wildfires. there is one coming from one side and the other. it's chaos right now. we tried to go to the fires, but this place is very big. and so we just didn't have enough time to reach it. it's way too far away, and it's through very dense wilderness. the only thing that can get through there are things like this, but they're all packed with firefighters. but we did see the mineralized blind that

they made. we saw the burn off in the aftermath of that burn off the burns trees, the burned ground. we walked to know for at least an hour through all of the we still couldn't reach the fire. we decided to head back, it was just too much. plus it was taking a hole on our eyes on our breath, on our lungs are very rough out there. the guys are, they're constantly and some of them have been there for 40 days already. and even they are getting tired already. so i think at least now many people have gotten understanding of what it takes to battle. these wildfires to battle nature and how chaotic all of this can be. i have information about our tea. he'll rush is not the only country really under those well sizes, you know, firefighters shanicea and grappling with places across the country. the military is being called in to help us. they come temperatures in north africa, nation hitting $49.00 degrees c in recent days. and then less truck neighboring algeria fires. they have killed $65.00,

including $28.00 soldiers homes. olive grows animals along with it, provide a livelihood in the region of the white tow. i'll jerry's president announcing 3 days of morning starting 1st, a southern europe still under the cautious while with this weather 5 are approaching populated areas of the italian island of sicily. smoke from burning trays ascend the sky red look at that coding to local reports, fire as a broken out in all 9 provinces, temperatures touching 40 degrees, but also in her in this week in one town and of in southern city. the temperature reaching according to reuters 48.8 degrees celsius in the early afternoon. that is the highest temperature ever recorded in europe. wow. next, using direct force is part of germany's legal system that ho berlin police responded to allegations of police brutality. during a recent anti locked protest,

the special repertoire on torture early a castigated german police after this controversial footage appeared on line. the . the re question is violence, violence hurts, violence, injury, violence looks violent, direct coercion, even with all the pictures that go with it, is still part of a legal system. protest as clashed with police sharing recent mass protests in berlin and against coven, 19 restriction authorities announced the demonstrations were legally set and attempted to break up. the crown. germany's ease most of the pan debit restrictions this summer, but some a silly in place such as mandatory ma, squaring on public front door spaces, journalist and also thomas suspend the telling us the german officials seem to care more about police brutality abroad than a home. this is a troubling,

a very troubling phenomenon which i personally have lived in germany for so many decades would not have expected. it is clearly excessive what we saw and it is troubling the reaction by the birth enforce the the refusing to admit that they have been wrong doings, especially if we think that one year ago the german media, the german public, so 100 percent li, condemned the violence against black people in the u. s. a. i fully understand the german media, german official decides of the european countries for the us for the property. but why do they refuse to do the same thing when their own police forces are concerned? that is the, the ordering fact for gillian assange. the united states has one the right to challenge key evidence. and as you can extradition case,

after the decision is fiance stella morris. making an impassioned play outside the high court in london, where she spoke of the threats she and her family received. threats against me. that's against our children's threats, against death threats against you in eldest son, daniel. so it's on julian's life. threats 175 year sentence and the actual ongoing imprisonment of a journalist for doing his job protest is gathered in london, supported julie. this was still washington has now been allowed to challenge key evidence against his expedition. an earlier report by psychiatric expert was definitely misleading. it had claimed that his sons would likely take his life if expedited, but seemed failed fruitfully to mention his children father during his time and the ecuador and embassy giving them an incomplete picture. therefore,

the whistle flows emotional state, the headquarters decisions infuriated human rights activists. the u. s. government, in its case, is grasping at straws. it's clear that the current intention of the us government is to pursue this and tell the bitter end, but it doesn't have to be this way out. point the bided administration could make this stop. now is the time we put a long road, but now is the time when this case has finally reached a serious court, that can either julie to find free or not more than a decade ago. now this spent a long time is that the wiki leads co founder published thousands of classified documents, exposing pentagon war crimes, and i've got to stand and iraq sounds was arrested in 2019 for breaching british bail conditions. he remains in london jail is still wanted on espinoza's charges in the u. s. which states that his actions broke american law and endangered lives. he faces

a possible prison sentence of nearly 200 years. if he's expedited assad support to say the whistleblower, his case is an affront to human rights. the lower the lower, the main stream media won't tell us. i hear that story from russia's far east. a people have been rescued but sadly, a still missing after a helicopter. carrying tourists crushed into a really deep lake on the come chat can peninsula, it rushes for a metix. they all those rescued, at least in

a stable condition. as far as they know, at the moment, 13 tourists for moscow and some petersburg, including a child, were on board of the time, along with 3 crew members. one survivor described the terrifying experience of who most fully for, for, for those to be with you miss and i was dozing a lot of the time because visibility was very poor and also, and i realized something had happened only when i felt water rushing. my face was hard to talk about it because there was a boy sitting next to me, the son of my friend, because i was sleepy. i didn't have time to under false mistake. i removed mine and i was instantly lifted up by the water. there was a small app, so i managed to take a breath up, but it wasn't the, the water was cold, visibility was poor folk was everywhere. i feel the survivors who managed to swim to the south and cried out for help. but i couldn't even help myself. my shoes were dragging me down. i tried to find something to climb up because in minutes we don't be frozen to death with the waterfalls also fucking for what a close call he had a what he's been for. well,

we heard about the cold water. the fighters are 40 gun to really chilly 6 degree. see the thick folk? the lake has still posing a huge obstacles. the emergency services we heard the sound of an approaching helicopter. that was very thick. folk visibility was about 100 meters. we couldn't see it, but we heard the water. we launched boats, and after 3 or 4 minutes, we were at the crash site. we found a people with 2 of them were in a serious condition the deputy director of the company that owns the helicopter, told us they across, had been inspected before departure and as undergoing a major overhaul in the last year. preliminary data suggesting the crush was caused by pilot error, but that is all still under investigation that such early days and considering the weather. there is what we've talked about. the remote mountainous region of the come chart. confidential is popular among tourists and is excessive by air divers at the scene of so far,

being unable to reach that helicopter. and so deep down the helicopter is more than 100 meters below the surface. but the divers only have equipment for working at the depth of up to 20 meters. thanks me with us today. coming up, we go to quarter past mid day. now, by the way, moscow time will this. don't worry about reading, writing mathematics if you need to graduate from high school. and if you're in oregon in the united states seems to say this dropped those basic requirement. is that old or is it a good plan to single? we've got reaction to it after this break driven by

a dreamer shaped by those in me dares think we dare to ask me ah, crap trillions of dollars that they send to chinese workers and chinese factory owners who make the world goods that they shipping containers into amazon warehouses and wal mart stores where millions and millions of americans work at a less than survivor wal minimum wage and are for the 1st time in america, life expectancy is going down

the high again, high school students in the state of oregon will no longer have to prove that they proficient in reading, writing math, in order to be able to graduate. it's according to a new law, signed off by the governor to kind of move and explains a bit more about the theory behind it. according to the bill that was signed into law in the state of oregon, last month, students in order to graduate from high school in the state of oregon will no longer have to prove that they're capable of reading, writing, or performing basic mathematical operations. this is don, according to the bills language, to help students from communities that have quote, historically experienced academic disparity. the testing that we've been doing in the past doesn't tell us what we want to know. we want to have kids getting a chance to do and learn and be curious about everything. and what we've been doing is stopping their curiosity. now the bill from what it's supporters say is about

trying to help students who are from immigrant populations or refugees who have come to the states who the examinations and the tests required for graduation are seen as kind of a barrier to them getting the high school diploma now, reportedly these rules will now be in place for the next 5 years now. the bill was signed into law without much fanfare. there was no signing ceremony. there was no press release announcing the bill, and it was added to the database a few days after it was signed. and now i was last month. now there's been quite as strong and negative reaction. this is the progressive left form of education, dummy down kids. you are taking away the only tool to get to break the poverty cycle. this is the type of legislation that they want to make black people a permanent underclass. these requirements were suspended during the pandemic due to the circumstances,

but now the suspension of those requirements has been fully signed into law and the state of oregon. now it's possible that the federal department of education could step in to overturn these requirements. but many see this as a trend of lowering standards. there needs to be standards at what level you need to have reach in high school in order to get that diploma. it's to represent something. so if we take out and dumb it down, then what does that really, you know, the more organs graduation rates are bad, but the solution to that is not by taking away all the high school standards solution to those but make the schools better and by tending everyone to be accountable for the same like i think if you come from different backgrounds, you should be able to have the same as they really like the requirements should be a little bit more level than what they are. yeah. so best intentions, but guess we heard from believe the new law could drag down the states entire

education system in the process. i think that there's plenty opportunities there are. we have head start systems here in oregon. we have tutoring system. we got everything in place to help a student, the struggling to succeed. that's what education is about not to bring the whole system down. it's somewhat races. i mean, you're putting a class of people down and you're bringing everybody down in time. are you forcing colleges to lower their standards in order to get students to pay their bills? the whole system of education gets damaged by this. this bill will create an evacuation out of public schools in the private schools and home schools, and that in turn will hurt them financially. when you take away the primary ability for persons who are themselves out of poverty, which is education, and then you insert the bigotry who extra cases into basically dumb down all requirements. not only are they going to have a problem getting into congress,

they don't have a problem with procuring employment in more than anything this, this forms every last because of america, because you're just totally dumbing down our future, which are the jordan public incentive, who wants defended the right of private companies to do what they wish to find himself blocked by one youtube round poles, accounts now suspended for a week. then after alleged miss information about covert masks, we remove content from senator polls channel for including claims that masks are ineffective, and preventing the contraction or transmission of cove at 19, in accordance with our coven, 19 medical misinformation policies. we apply our policies consistently across the platform, regardless of speaker or political views. the video we posted contain claims that cloth masks are an effective and can prevent the spread of infection while health officials though insist that must can guarantee

a certain level of protection. ran pull, criticize the decision by the social platform you to maybe a private entity, but they're acting like an arm of the government, censoring those who present an alternative view to the science deniers in washington. what i said in that video is actual science. most of the mask you get over the counter don't work. they don't prevent infection now when it comes to $95.00 basks. i have always said that those do are you choose frequently under scrutiny for binding or suspending content of his uses throughout the pandemic. any violation of its covert policies could get videos, drop rules and other sites such as twitter. facebook are also seen as controversial by some way else. members of the libertarian party, what they thought about the policies of some major social media platforms. these days i will say that government is using big tech as a proxy,

very often in the censoring of specific opinions that they don't agree with. and that's something that's been going on for quite some time. any, roughly 5 or 6 year period, we have gone from where there's been almost no censorship of opinion, except for maybe like hate speech. and even not much censuring of that, to where an increasing number of things are simply verboten. you just cannot see them. and if you do say them, then there's a good chance you're going to be removed, not just from one platform, but if you see it on any of them removed from all of them. and you're effectively silenced on the internet. that is a problem. when you have any kind of a scientific opinion, you're often going to get multiple views. and those views are going to be challenged, both in open political debate and open social debate and in scientific debate. and the way that the truth rises is both through an unbiased scientific evaluation, along with additional oversight from the community, from society as

a whole. remember, while the views inside the united states are fairly diverse, the views and silicon valley or anything but. and you're going to find a lot more preference toward big government status in among the very people that are controlling these big tech networks. so yes, there's no question that conservatives, libertarians are being de platforms much more quickly and much more aggressively. then progressive or liberal democrats that have ideas that are equivalently outside of the mainstream final and for the moment headline grubbing exclusives and those scoop sway public opinion. they also sway political decisions may be perhaps even entire elections. but much of a powerful influence can be based around unnamed or non mas sources. what's more remarkable is how much the office of these headlines often seem to have in common. daniel hawkins as more the link between thing,

thanks the military industrial complex and the media has been around for a while. often is yourself to follow the money on the trail is pretty hard to miss some of america's pop foreign policy and security correspondence hold residencies at the center for new american security. what exactly is the cna? yes, the thing thank takes 2nd place for receiving the most us government and defense contract or funding sponsored for years by the biggest names in the defense banking and oil sector. the organization of course, claims to be impartial, seen as does not take institutional positions and policy issues and the content of cns publications reflects live use of the office alone along publication history of some of the names on the thrust. suddenly for interesting reading, take one example before the iraq war, david sanger and michael gordon's report from iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction made dramatic headlines,

helping shape public opinion before the invasion in 2003. in later years that employs themselves are forced to admit that mistakes, but by then the damage had been done. a devastating conflict with consequences still felt globally to this day. we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. that report concerning the aluminum tubes that the administration advertised insistently as components for the manufacturer of nuclear weapons fuel. it should have been presented more cautiously. the series of times, articles in 20022003 strongly suggested sadam. hussein already had all was acquiring and awful of weapons of mass destruction. many of those articles turned out to be inaccurate. it's not like things stopped after iraq. the focus shifted to russia, one report, speaking of russia, linked masked men in ukraine. again, a retraction, swiftly follows, but the patent is clear to see even to the editors themselves. more recently, some of those grainy photograph have been discredited. it will feels rather. 7

familiar, the rushed publication of something, fighting, often based on an executive branch leak. remember that story on russian is paying the taliban bounties for the heads of american soldiers co authored by erik smith, another c and a resident. it was the bunked will be it's a year later, but it made for a great story. and if c n a s alumni do really well, they can graduate to top positions in the pentagon or state department, more than a dozen i've been selected to serve in the blood and administration. let's give thing, thanks on their resident report as the benefits of the doubts, perhaps they do it here at the jury. listen basic principles. but let's also ask questions. where does need trying to see and objectivity stop and conflict of interest begin? when should we feel uneasy about in the rec size between a stablish moment and journalists, and should we always take information we see at face value or dig a little deeper? with the new york times,

the washington post and foreign policy magazine have done over the last 20 plus years. and the name of journalism is nothing but war propaganda to support all us aggression around the world. we see this going back to george bush's war on iraq, that was based on the iraqi w. m. d 's hoax. and it continues to be that way. nothing has really changed only that 2003 for, you know, many journalists in the mainstream is kind of seen as an aberration when, in fact, the iraqi w and the hoax set a precedent is now the rule that everyone should live in order to justify u. s. aggression against it. rival countries like china, like russia, like ben, it's way like cuba and that's, that's just the way the u. s. considers journalism is practiced. done. hawkins with that report there on the behind the scenes where some think tags, muscles,

making headlines. so father says to keep across everything we're talking about and so much more about dot com or an ever social media, but now it come into 20 minutes past the hour. it's kevin, one of the team signing off for now about with more shortly. and in between now and then if you can stick around, enjoy next program. the ah, the ah

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