the in the moon the hours headlines stories a us marine is sent to a military prison after lunch bus thing is concrete leadership for the afghanistan polis tobacco in the series of increasingly popular online video. coming up and hungry accuses ukraine of meddling in its internal affairs by trying to scalp for an energy deal with russia's gals problem, which we'll see lose it so lucrative transit fees with angular merkel soon to vacate her role as defacto leader of the e. u. speculations world over whether the french president could fill her shoes and

shift the course of the blog. dmitri med viet speaks exclusively to r t c. in the wake of russia's parliamentary elections in a wide ranging interview, the former president prime minister talks about the challenges of holding this month's vote. i made cyber meddling from overseas during the 3 day vote, central election commission servers were under constant attack. around half came from the united states. that's reason enough for a fight right? ah . around the clock across the world, this is arthur from the team on my cell, if you no, no need. hello, and welcome to the news our a us marine officer who recently became known by the public for his criticisms,

of washington's handling of the afghanistan, polite has been sent to a military prison. left tenant colonel stewart shall a junior is currently in pre trial confinement. the time, date and location of the proceedings have not been determined less tenant, colonel shallow will be afforded oh, due process for more on this less cross to our correspond over our gals d of who is currently in of ghana stun. murat scott schiller, supporters say he's been jail for telling the truth. tell us more about the story. mo, missed a shallow, has proved to be very divisive. people are people are polarized. there are those who agree with him, with everything that he said, but at the same time, don't believe that he should have said them in the capacity that he was in,

and that he's a senior officer in the united states marine corps. but what he said, that's actually is, is what many americans believe that the end of the afghan war that the evacuation we saw in august was both humiliating. they believe, to the american military and absolute chaos that it could have been avoided. if the right decisions have be made and what you, what mr. shell did is he came out and he violated matter of protocols and codes of the united states military to criticize his superior offices, which is something that is looked down upon. people are upset because they're senior leaders, let them down and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability are saying we mess this up. i'm not saying we've got to be in the in afghanistan forever, but i am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, hey,

it's a bad idea to evacuate bob graham airfield, the strategic air berries before we evacuate everyone. i am submitting charges a guest general mackenzie for his bad assumptions. not because i've been dated, but because the senior leaders need to be help counsel the same standard as us. the thing with the united states military is it is forbidden for servicemen to come out and publicly criticize their superior offices. if they have a grievance, they have to follow the proper channels. so they have to approach a superior office and tell them what their problem is. he violated that law of that rule in the united states military by going by going public and criticizing. not only is beaten for us servicemen to speak of civilian leaders with contempt, which is what he did. essentially his point was after the fiasco we saw at the airport had cable airport just had kilometers away from, from here. nobody in the bud administration or any of the senior leadership at the

pentagon came out and said, look, least was our fault. where reside? so no one was held accountable, no one was fired and they basically said, we couldn't have seen this coming despite apple evidence that indeed there were warnings that the taliban would quickly. she's the entire country and that the evacuation would have to be carried out in dire circumstances and his family have also come forward and they have said that they support their courageous sub all our sunday is asked the questions that everybody was asking themselves below to sketch to speak out loud, he was asking for accountability. in fact, i think he even asked for an apology that we made mistakes, but they couldn't do that, which is mind blowing. more than that, mister shelley says that he will file charges against general mackenzie, the united states marine corps, as well as the head of us central command. he says he will fall 13 charges,

and one vote for negligence and for gross incompetence, for each of the american troops who were killed. 13 of them who were killed in the 26th of august during that terror attack. ad campbell airport carried out by isis for now though he has been arrested, he is in a, in a military jail awaiting a trial trial that may drag god for a while he was relieved of duty did had in his resignation. but due to the bureaucratic process, those resignations don't take effect immediately, so he will most likely be to be facing military charges. taken us through history live in afghanistan and iraq goes to have another story. we're closely following today. hungry slammed ukraine like using key of, of trying to sink

a natural gas deal between budapest and russia. gas problem. the hungarian foreign minister say that no amount of political pickering is more important than keeping people's homes wor. it's more your side, one for hungary energy safety is a matter of security, sovereignty and economy rather than a political matter. you cannot heed homes with political statements today. the reality is that energy supplies in hungary can be guaranteed most securely through a long term agreement with gas from god. welcome, martinez lee, but franco live in to distribute with us to talk more alia the hungarian foreign minister there. leon, it's his concerns tell us more about developments here that you know, well, look, beautiful test has just ensured that the homes in hungry will get enough heat to stay warm during the winter's. beautiful has made sure that the industries will get enough natural gas to be properly running during the next 15 years. how?

by signing a contract with washes gas problem for 15 years. but ukraine is keen to ruin all that because for these supplies, you create a story. hungary and russia will be using the pipelines in ukraine. and kiev isn't hesitating to complain to be you. and they are promising measures what that could be. we don't know possibly even legal action. so let's listen to the gradient side . we consider this to be a purely political economically unreasonable decision taken in favor of the kremlin, unto the detriment of ukraine's national interests and ukrainian hungarian relations. so these are 2 countries doing business. why would a 3rd party metal, let me just explain hungry has been buying rushes natural gas for ages, and pretty much all of the deliveries have been going through the pipelines on

ukrainian territory. what did key of get out of that annual lead? possibly even millions worth of transit payment. but russia for years has been seeking to diversify the routes for the gas to europe to make sure that the deliveries are cheaper. so they've been building under water pipelines like the torque to stream and the black sea, and also the nord stream pipelines and the baltic sea. and under this new contract with budapest, the natural gas from russia will be flowing through these new pipelines, not the ones in korea. and that's why ukraine officials are frustrated or even infuriated. and i should say, has russia assured its views on today's development, while the position of moscow has remained unchanged for years? they're saying that they are doing business with it's european partners. and

everything that's going on is purely for economic reasons. they want to slash costs, and we've already heard from kremlin spokesperson, dimitri past calls, that by signing this contract with hungry. i mean, nobody can criticize gas from or budapest for this deal. russia does not never has and never will use natural gas to punish someone. there is absolutely no place for criticism and there should be no place for such a hysterical reaction from ukraine. although like i said, key of is ready to fide key of is ready to complain. key of is ready to look for enemies of this deal to make sure that they have some, some kind of support in the european union. so they are already asking the european commission to assess the compliance of this new gas deal with use energy

legislation. and we already hearing from the european commission that this kind of assessment will take place. so we will be watching out for further steps by key of in this regard. and also we'll be watching for the further steps of some e countries. and clearly, there will be some enemies of that gas deal there as well. thanks very much for taking us through la strategically. katrinka know the story to bring you today from sel struck. i deal with greece to deliver war ships and fighter jets, and it comes to weeks after losing a lucrative military contract with us truly. for friendship president and money will micron. it's a way to promote and military ties within europe on for france to perhaps regain political leverage. again, in his words, europe must take responsibility for its own military capabilities. lisa, a band,

less of a nice to the europe eons most stopping my when we are under pressure from powers that at times harden we need to react and show that we have the power and capacity to defend ourselves, not escalating things, but protecting ourselves. we, as europeans must do our bid for our own protection will often is cetera by approximately 5000000000 euro worth of french worships. and fighter jets, france is turning its attention to allies in europe as about to rip off a 50000000000 euros submarine deal with extremely more cracks appeared within the western military lines. when the u. s. the you can, is truly a form to new security agreement with from sir ammonia lee left out. while the major defense deal with greece may benefits microns old agenda to build europe's own defense, essentially a european army. and with uncle america heading for the exits, he may have more luck than ever. as many see the position of the fact the leader of

europe up for grabs are to show do been sky. whether that person could be the french president, a manual, my phone like the style himself, a man with a vision for europe, p pushed hard for an you owe me this call for rita integration reform and for sending over the single currency. though we have good back to based on that when at least all the while germany under the still it guy didn't. so merkel has miles and nodded. but whenever push came to shove, she made clear who would call shouldn't benefit from european solidarity. while playing against other member states. solidarity among partners should never lead to adapt unit and it should instead be about helping others to help themselves to have a history. so before macaroni even occupies the a health way as the french economy minister and during talk to help greece avoid

crippling or 30 measures. merkel put her foot down. according to a manual, merkel ordered how to keep macro greek negotiations. brickle spell was every bit as powerful as i had imagined with the merkel era slowly but surely winding down. we all know that she's leaving you to fill it cleanly, keen to set them come, he series. can you believe a former investment banker, russell, more than a few feathers, not just in europe, but also across the globe. what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of nate. so nato only works if the guarantor of last resort functions such frances president, her french president, has found rather drastic words to express his views. i don't think such a sweeping judgement is appropriate. obviously we'll have to take all destiny in our own hands. but the transatlantic partnership for us is absolutely indispensable

in relations with other countries of holsten kids to be rude. we do have a very special relationship. in fact i'll get that little piece and then we have to make them perfect. perfect. thank you. and, and your delicious wife for your one work on the perfect organization of this trip . thanks to you. thank you very much. no problem. thank you very much. thank you. think isn't there. a strong atlantic is movement in trends. the so go liberals that are more on the themes and those are the start, the well, who is being very i pull american and i think he still does so much in between. the whole doesn't have a i didn't know what to do, how to do it. so what i needed was to lead to a few of them and she was not, i mean she was in the sense because generally so powerful, but maybe a success only be the leader or fewer. but i don't know, i mean, because of,

and he's not going to, she's at home. however, i intend to have often surface showing twice all quite as strong as my court would like to make out. let you to does. it says here that you, the united states, has shown towards the submarine deal clearly illustrates the point we've been making for months. namely, the political dialogue with a nato is non existent, even. they have at home. he's had his work that was being suspected bali, the international press. my son himself was irritating the french who have not been afraid to lash out the getting the he just didn't come across this from to me and like he's got

a lot of issues going on. i mean its own country right now. amec with a lot of the union got high unemployment rate with very large minority population. there's a lot of areas that internally which could potentially put pressure into area from a greater european side. i mean, it be does european area that me, it actually may give him a better view of internally with the country as well. but he's got them. you've got several internal issues that he needs to deal with, as well as the course of europe. merkle exit, and say to my home, i think it's time to come by his office shine, however, with a bite of his life to retain the president, the hearing problems, not too far away. he could struggle to keep the dual attention of both the home and european audiences. and right now,

it is often clear where the political college match is. run your vision, charlotte sky off fee harris. and russia also recently held an election with a ruling united russia party winning a majority of seats. the vote on some of the controversy surrounding it was one of the topics that came up in a wide ranging r t interview with russia's former president on prime minister dmitri med viet ahead of the full interview being shown later this hour, in fact, and around 10 minutes from now. here's a preview. what email do you me during the 3 day vote? central election commission servers were under constant attack. according to the ministry of digital development, around half came from the united states. that's reason enough for a fight, right? because everyone's sick and tired of tech, including the united states, the big tech plays by its own corporate rules,

the money they made them up. and now that's how they decide things. they let some of the hook give others the chop. they blocked the former us president everywhere. he had 85 or 90000000 followers. by, by why, why we don't like him. when i check twitter recommendations on who to follow. of course, the 1st person who comes up isn't about me. who is serving a criminal sentence? isn't this interference in the affairs of a foreign country? it's blatant interference. dmitri man, speaking to r t, the news keep rolling here on our tea in about 900 seconds time. lots more. keep with us. ah . the media, a reflection of reality the

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ah, okay, let's start back with a topic. getting a lot of people talking at british medical journal is under fire for its use of supposedly inclusive language. the lumps it referred to women as bodies with vaginas on the front page critic slum the use of language of dehumanizing naming women is bodies which join us is in you low all in the mid call i did. pursuit of woke points. you can be inclusive without being insults and abusive. are we extremist for objecting to women and girls being dehumanized? are we really just bodies with vaginas to medical professionals? just wrote the letter said to tell them to take me off the list of statistical reviewers and cancel my subscription and never contact me about anything ever again . absolutely inexcusable language to refer to women and girls. bodies. we have

vaginas. oh, dear god, you can't write that and then talk about menstrual shame in the same sentence. i'm intrigued, would do called the sex formerly known as men. always, it's only women that you are raising. we are all set to comment on the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the piece. they were apologetic thing. it was not their intention to offend anyone, but they also claim transgender health is a neglected issue. we have conveyed the impression that we have dehumanized and marginalized women. those you read, the lancet regularly, will understand that this would never have been our intention. i apologize to our readers who are offended by the cover quotes and the use of those same words in the review. at the same time, i want to emphasize that trends gender health is an important dimension of modern health care. but one that remains neglected. and

a few more examples from the western world perplexing men either further afield earlier this year as several u. k. hospitals told stuff to use terms such as bursting parents and human milk rather than refer to mothers or breast milk while in the united states. how speaker nancy pelosi said earlier this year, a words such as mother, father, daughter and brother, should be avoided in congress and replaced with gender neutral alternatives. we discussed the issue with podcast her and writer, lauren sion i here we can see being swayed by audi ideology. rather than biology the, even the notion that gender identification is something that is brought up when referred to the word woman versus biological sex. that actually is a political statement. so even though they may have been trying to be inclusive by referring to women as bodies with vaginas, i think what they are sibling to many people sadly, is that even though they claim to be a bastion of science and medicine and objectivity, they are being swayed by the increasing woke ideology,

we see perpetrating penetrating almost every single industry. it seems like this small vocal minority who insists on this extreme exc, inclusivity. they are essentially trying to bully entire professions and we see now that includes the medical profession, even though this is supposed to be about gender. i any in general, i do find it interesting. how often times the, the words are the groups that are being a race are actually women for every attempt we see to erase the word man or manhood . her father, she would, there are 5 or 10 examples of trying to erase the word mother. woman or the like. the state of new york is considering whether to deploy the national guard at medical facilities to replace unvaccinated doctors and nurses. i will be signing an executive order that's going to allow me to deploy the national guard were medically trained, deploy people who've been retired, who may have had a license labs bring in people from elsewhere. when new york medical crisis comes

amid a statewide mandate for all health workers to be in ocoee, elated against corona virus, around 16 percent of lennox not receive shots as of last week. and according to the governor's office means they're borrowed from hospitals and other medical facilities. we spoke to a local part of medic and also the head of the washington pain center about them is national guards are usually brought out for crises, hurricanes, tornadoes, things like that. this the 1st time i've ever known of it to be for a health care reason. hospitals do require vaccines for the flu and we had the flu for many, many, many years. and you would get a fax to me. there are some individuals at doctors, nurses who opt out of getting the flu shot, and then if so, then they have to they meaning those individuals who opt out have to wear mask. we've done this now at least for 25 years that i can remember. i'm not sure why this is different and they don't allow that. those changes. i can definitely see

that, you know, health care is either going to suffer or become a little slower. and in this state in new york state as well, it would be a cascading effect. if you're taking from one area to a staff, another area that leaves the other areas that may need that extra staffing, short people that may get terminated. we're health care workers it's. it's a tough thing because this is such a specialized skill. you know, when you're a nurse or a paramedic or a doctor, you put so many years of training into it and be seen if they can never work again . i think they should offer, testing as an option into our president biden is encouraging americans again, bucks a native. he received a booster shot to attempt and lead by example. he also expressed his disappointment at the number of people who haven't been job about 20 percent, haven't gotten any shots and that that distinct minority is causing an awful lot of

us loss of damage for the rest of the country. that's why i'm moving forward with the vaccination requirements, wherever i can. well, i guess gave us their views on the controversial question of whether covert shots should be monitoring to me the right thing is getting the vaccine. but if you don't, the other right thing is to make sure you test the weekly and you don't get anybody else sick. i just don't want to see any more people die. you know, from this disease. i'm over it, you know, we in the emergency medical service community empties of our medics. we saw so many people suffer this year. and if you look at what's happening in the country at the moment, this does seem to be a pandemic of the unbox needed. many of the unvaccinated tend to be minorities. why? because they always had a mistress of the government. the government, back in the forty's had a to ski experiment and where blacks were been year old diseases and were not

treated. so there's always been some skepticism and certainly religious exemptions are always that people do that all the time in medicine, jehovah, witnesses for blood transfusion. or other types of treatments we've always respected an individual's rights to then opt out of certain medical care. next we bring you an exclusive interview with dmitri med viet of rushes, former president prime minister, current leader of the united russia party, which came in victorious of this month's elections. a broad range of topics are coverage and i promise he doesn't hold back on his opinions, the full sit down right ahead. the rather driven by dreams shape than those with me in

me. i think we dare to ask me ah, what we got to do is identify the threads that we have. it's crazy plantation. let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk simply and come to rti for an exclusive interview. today we're joined by a new dream. inventive chairman of united russia and deputy chairman of russia, security council. and mr. bennett, thank you very much for sitting down with our team. hello. my 1st question is about

the party you live. united. russia has retained the majority in the russian parliament since 2003. however, unlike the 2016 election with the 54 percent of the vote, this time popular support was just 50 percent. could you comment on the outcome and why the ruling party losing ground? someone in the party cookie my good thing, or the good who that, what should i say? it's a big win for the party. we must not grow complacently and rest on our laurels just because the ruling party enjoys great popularity among russian voters. still, it is a very impressive outcome. most political parties and the majority of countries around the world would be quite happy with such results. we certainly very much are . we've discussed this with my colleagues with presidents who helped our party during the campaign with as head of state. he was really key to our success in.