america on archie ah, let him have hooton's pledge to boost the gas flow to europe finally take some of the heat out of the market. it becomes a record breaking price surgeon this week. just seen some your members question, brussels energy policies. and also ahead for try to feed parents as domestics. harry just reflects just how home school boys in school in the 3 become or can parents face and f b. i crack down the speaking out against pupils being forced to wear masks and the teaching of the controversial critical race theory concept. so it's exactly 20 years since the u. s. coalition invaded afghanistan,

while the country now is in meltdown. families having to resort to run thinkable measures when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark. sorry. i'm forced to sell a few of my kids to feed others. there's no option lap. ah. why they're very good evening. thanks for joining me or not. who start with a developing story coming out of belgium, where an armed man has been arrested by police following a search lasting several hours in a small city close to the french border. prior to that, all schools and universities in the area had been placed in lockdown. here is an unverified video where you can see special forces, apparently, on rooftops with sniper rifles. thousands of people reportedly asked, say indoors all alerts have since been left. yes,

that was boiling gas prices have been reduced to more of a simmer after intervention from vladimir putin who said that russia will ramp up exports to europe addressing the continents energy crisis. on wednesday, the president added moscow would continue its commitment to ukraine in regards to gas transit. as broom, ashatash gas prom believes that it would be more profitable for it to pay a fine to ukraine and increase the gas volume pumping through the new systems. but there's no need for that. there's more pressure in the pipe, less c o 2 emissions into the atmosphere. everything turns out cheaper and at $3000000000.00 a year, it is necessary to fully comply with the contractual obligations for the transitive gas through ukraine. although it is more profitable to sell it on the exchange, but there is no need to buy anyone in a difficult position including ukraine despite the difficulties in relations. second, there's no need to undermine gas prompts confidence is an absolute reliable partner

in all respects. they may opinion statements and the subsequent that up in the gas price search have seen some in the mainstream media changing their tone towards the non stream to gas pipeline. and more generally on russia's role, the 0 key energy supplier concerns of moscow's at least, attempts these oil and gas is leverage of less insignificant me at russia wants it to be approved. but i don't think russia really doing anything wrong here. you know, europe has a supply crunch. russia has the gas to supply it. russia does instantly benefit from care for the market. they want high stable prices and they want to be seen as the reliable partner, some words soothing words, i guess which we rarely get from mr. potent actually helped reverse that. 3540 percent jump over night in natural gas over in europe. an element of, of russia playing politics, but there's also an element of

a lot of money having been invested in noise being do not from the russian side from the european side as well. the russian leader also put the current crisis in european gas market down to the ease rushed push for a green transition, coupled with brussels decision to switch from long term gas contracts to immediate spot trading. the current volatility can be traced back to april of this year, but it all came to had this week. maybe european citizens today had deeper into already under strain pockets. ah.

maintaining a trusted energy partnership between russia in europe is a key focus of an international gas forum taking place in st. petersburg. stay 3, that gathering on correspondence between carissa on the sidelines of the vantage caught up with the seo, the association of european businesses. that's tunzia shilling. in the end, a pragmatism prevailed. it also showed that the interests of different stakeholders need to be taken into account. there is no sense in insisting on a, on one perspective and denying the to the fact that others view a project differently. you need to sit together, so we'd also showed the need for international cooperation the, the fact that now the stalemate has been overcome. and that we have avoided for

a complete blockage of the project is actually very good news. as europe, as a suit association of european businesses, we've also always been very clear that we are against the application of sanctions, especially in an extra territorial perspective that we think this is a purely commercial project. and we also think that the european energy security, something that should be decided in europe natural gas has an actually tremendous role to play as a transition shoe. we are here talking now about the traditional fuel makes that we need to move away from and move to greener or energy sources. but there is also a way how we need to bridge this process between the status, that is the current status and, and out of future desires. status. educational authorities in america

are asking the government to use anti toe, resembles and involves the f. b, i against parents complained about what their children are being told and ordered to wear in the classroom, namely, face masks, the national school boards association to sent an open letter to the by the administration, claiming the abuse it's members have received is tantamount to domestic terrorism. and claim, as close outrage among parents. these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased. the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to afford domestic terrorism and hate crimes for you to dare to try to sneer parents as domestics. harris just reflects just how tone death, school boards and school administrators have become about the please of parents on behalf of their children. it comes up to the us attorney general wrote to the f. b,

i and criminal attorneys to announce plans to combat what he called a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school personnel. i spoke with anti contributed lauren chin, who says the accusations have been blown out of proportion. the board's letter does site some specific incidents, but if you actually look at the video footage from those incidents, most of the quote violence that they cite is actually things like parents refusing to wear masks. oh, he's a com no, no, no. do you need to pay for the approval rate vary, which is pretty much we'll be picking who, how to hate each other. how did this was at these meetings? a lot of what they side as actually being domestic terrorism or violence actually is just tantamount to some harsh words being said in terms of actual violence. though i believe there's only one or 2 specific incidents that were actually led to

an arrest that were mentioned in that letter. i think trying to get the f b i involved at all, frankly, just reeks of political activism. instead of actually trying to put students 1st and i think parents are completely justified in seeing this as an attack on their rights as parents, the per adult shutting up for now, although the same, the attorney general is going to conflict of interest in this case. what do they mean by the, the reason why the age is taking this letter from the school board association. so seriously is specifically because his daughter through marriage has ties to a firm that actually specializes in critical race theory, training or something akin to that. his family potentially might benefit financially from c r t actually being implemented in more and more schools throughout the country. how politicized a school life become these days seems like it's increasingly political. and there have been viral videos that have been leaked of students filming their teacher is going on tirades against trump systemic racism, america in general. we've even had teachers themselves posting to their social media accounts. i think a lot of parents have started to wake up that no,

you cannot simply take for granted that in education, the public school system is the same as what was happening when we were younger. recently, dozens of parents lose campaigns against coven restrictions in the teaching of critical race theory, which places racism at the center of public life. just as of the key school board officials of violating the children's rights possibly can to fight. april chapman is a mother for children in the state of georgia says the many parents of just had enough in today's culture. it's the government think they they, they believe what is proper and right and what should your children should be taught. and so parents are experiencing a very difficult time trying to, in that change and their local communities as it relates to what's being caught in the government. school people are starting to wake up and they're starting to recognize that wait a minute. this is not the public education system that i am familiar with,

or that i grew up in. and it's time for me to take my head of the fan and kinda pay attention to what's going on because they don't like what's being propagated and pushed and down. frankly, it's downright indoctrination to what their children are experiencing when they go to school and they're supposed to be learning. violence is never acceptable. so there are instances where parents are crossing the line and threat to turn into physical violence, then absolutely those incidences should be handled on the basis of their own individual merit. but that's not what we see happening here. they're taking one or 2 isolated in some instances and trying to make it seem as if parents who are be humanly opposed to what's being caught to their children in a government school. later slums is doors shuts to nearly half the russian delegation to the alliance, citing horizon, malign activity, will have all the reaction from a somewhat angry moscow after this blank ah

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i'll be speaking the guess will the world of politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah ah, look back her facebook whistleblowers being accused of bias after it was discovered that she has ties to the democrats comes just after. she accused the company of harming children and stoking divisions in an impassioned plea to congress for a crackdown on the social media giant. but i am here to day because i believe facebook's products harm children, stoke division and week in our democracy. the companies leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram saver

a won't make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical prophets afore people. congressional action is needed. they want salt this crisis without your help. or francis horgan there is being represented by a co founder of whistle blower. age john tie, who himself is a former official in the a bomb administration. the co founder of the organization which helps whistle blows with legal aid is mark zaid. he was a legal executive, alexander vin, when the white house staffer who sparked trumps 1st impeachment, what sport turns out that horgan has been regularly donating to democrat affiliated organizations all working to get more democratic candidates elected across the united states. as get more in this now some analysis from line of legal and media analysts, great to have your line and all this information is coming out. if i'm pronouncing the names correctly, francis hogan had ties to the democrats. and i mean it's,

it's nothing that immediately means he has to be condemned and that there's some political motive, but it's certainly raises a lot of questions. what's your take on it? the whole thing way raises questions. me 1st of all, where did she come from? and isn't it fascinating that when she came about and was going to appear on 60 minutes, lo and behold, out of the blue, that was that facebook blackout. facebook down people were going crazy. i won't have any place to post pictures or my food or my feet are way kids. and for 7 hours the world went crazy. and they kind of looked at her like a look at you trying to break this up, right. break up our fun. i maybe we don't need and that whistled or you know what? maybe facebook isn't that bad because people were going crazy. well anyway, that was cleared up and lo and behold we said, oh yeah, yeah, francis hawker. oh. so um, something about kinda,

nobody cares in its over with its done, it's done, nothing will happen from this. but here's what really drives me nuts. she said, what got her id as initially was that friends of hers friends fell down her, i guess the rabbit hoyle whole of conspiracy theories look and, and, and hate a big it. oh, come on. this is classic bathing for what is considered to be, you know, right, wing conservative, i'm surprised, she didn't say white nationalism or white adrian or where i mean, seriously, she, i think the about of coverage or she actually made or the attention you paid to children being victim eyes that was rather de minimis compared to the overall kind of obscured message. but as we speak right now, it's over with people have forgotten it. what's gonna happen? nothing like, what do you think congress are going to do about this on 1st of all,

other united on this is not many things they do agree on, but is it, is this a bipartisan position against facebook when, when they're being paid by these people, what are you getting me that these are the greatest actors in the world. what they need to do was very simply this. you have to view these, these platforms as a utility. what if you're on your phone and all of us that because really the issue was about censorship? that's really the biggest issue. yes, there are ways to get around it to protect children with, with, with different, a screening devices in the light. but the real issue, the gravamen, the, the $64000.00 question is, what about people encoding a former president of the united states who are excluded? an expert gated bowdlerized from any kind of public conversation. because of who he is. that's the issue. i may ask you some, one of you were on your phone on your mo bile and you said something politically

piquant and all of a sudden your phone went dead because your carrier says car. we don't like that. that's a hate speech. and you say you're the phone company, you don't, you don't monitor what i say. well, that's what we have to look at these companies as utilities. or we strip section 230 of the c d a. that's the bottom line. you can have it both ways. they have, they enjoy immunity from prosecution, immunity from liability for defamation and the like, provided they don't act as an editor. so what are they doing? they're editing their limiting speech. you can't have it both ways and the congress worthless. oh, they have hearings after hearings they go on twitter, they go on fox, those and it's forgotten. the bottom line is we have to make these platforms, public utilities and apply civil rights laws and legislation,

like we did for public accommodations, people years ago, asked or removed, a black folks from public a restaurant because they said, is a private enterprise. well, that's what facebook day and facebook who said we're just a mom and pop organization here. if you want to compete with us, form your own facebook. i'll come on that. that dog don't hunt as we say in the south. they know what they have to do. congress knows what they have to do, but they won't know what most probably because they're bought off. 7 by silicon valley, big tech and all these other people isn't always the other option rather than congress taking some action if the message is out there, i've still got still entirely sure what it is, something about children that facebook is doing something wrong on toward calm people just for vote with their feet as they say, and they stop using it. well, yes, you could always do that, but when you look at what's happening, see, let me go back. the reason why facebook and instagram are so worried that they're

losing the older market. they're losing us. so what they're doing is they're now focusing on kids, but they're not going after. ah, it an interesting platforms and messages that kids were like, they want to actually go after addiction. do you know the garbage, the dark, horrible, are pornography and see sam, child sexual abuse material that is on these various platforms. it would boggle your mind and they pretend like they don't know anything about it. so yes, you could say to yourself, okay, we're going to go elsewhere or you can tell your child not to engage in that, that's the problem. but that's not the way we do things. look, all they have to do is just just come for it. they're gonna make as much money if not more. let me ask you a question. do you think mark zuckerberg really wants to go into this? do you really think he wants to be some social justice warrior? some social engineer about left to right now. look at him, his even comprehend what he's talking about. in fact,

there are more people right now in silicon valley. all type the, the original folks who were the gamers and the coders who are looking at these platform to say, what are you doing? critical race theory, white naxos, or anti trump. this is political. this was supposed to help people. this was the, this was the marketplace a free idea. so there's a, there's a lot, something's happening. i don't know what it, it might be short life, but something is going to have to give. they can't keep this up. you have appreciate that sir. assessment lydel and please forgive my for my ignorance on facebook. never used. it. never will. sounds awful by the sound of it, but best to look to all those using it. appreciate on to name out 70 years since america and his allies invaded afghanistan, toppling the taliban regime 9 the wake of the west and pull out many questions. still being asked, not least why the taliban offered a hand over some of and nodded. was rejected by the mush at bush administration. it

led to decades of war. candice lives lost and at the end of it all, the militants are back in charge. i correspond them or i guess they have reports from cobble and what the conflict cheat. the afghan war. and it's just shy of it's it's 20th anniversary, the, the war a vengeance that was launched by the united states. as revenge for 911 and quickly morphed into something else, one of the most protracted conflicts in modern history, an exercise in a nation building before losing all lame and tylenol towards the end. neither the united states nor any of its allies still knew what it is that they hoped to achieve. here. the end result that is, that is that it was unanimously considered an abject failure. but taliban is, is back in control and more absolutely than it was before the united states invaded afghanistan. and the question that we're hearing now in the halls of congress,

in parliament, in europe, and the press in there on television internationally is, is who the we blame. we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership and nursing ranks. that we do not grass the damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp what there was only so much for which and for home. many of the afghan forces would fight. this has been a 10 year malt, i, administration, drawdown. not a 19 month or 19 day neo, these scandal is nowhere near over. the americans are calling it been ghazi on steroids, the republicans as well as ordinary americans that she, the end of the war is humiliating. for america, they want someone held responsible and the biden and miss administration as well as

the pentagon. so far they have done their best to absolve themselves of all accountability for what many americans again see as the catastrophe. they argue that the fault is with many american administrations that that preceded them. and that is ignoring the tremendous financial cost of the war. 7 some that could have made the lives of americans and many of their allies at the taxpayers so much better and so much easier. ah ah ah ah ah.

you're the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the highest child poverty rates, almost any country on earth from the perspective of a civilian. there is scott evidence here on the ground in afghanistan of any of that money, other making its way here. aside from half finished clinics in and broken roots testament to record breaking levels of corruption that, that so brilliant siphoned off into the bank accounts of corrupt officials into the pockets of private contractors. though the evidence of these billions being here is in the hands of the taliban, the guns that they wield, stamped with made in america, the vehicles military vehicles left behind it,

industrial quantities. the taliban are of course jubilant. they have dismantled everything that the united states built here with human rights, the tolerance, the democratic institutions, and the matter of weeks and their jubilant they have off to 20 years of and so wretched and rebellion believe they want. ah ah i virtually any measure this war was a failure and some respects it even made things worse. from a humanitarian perspective or a 3rd of afghans near an offer on the verge of starvation,

with no hope inside the drugs manufactured and export to that of, of gustavo, kill countless youth world wide. from a geopolitical perspective, the taliban considered an international pariah since its inception. is now having to be negotiated with it. i counted with even a, the un bob from a security perspective. yes, al qaeda either gather star may have been degraded but, but something worse has taken its place. that is isis which has bound to the challenge to afghanistan. dominance by the taliban. afghanistan's bank serv almost one out of cash and people are running out of food. less than 2 months after the taliban takeover add to that foreign aid is in short supply. worse than don't is reluctant to do with the new government charities a warning of a major humanitarian crisis. and i know this is not easy. i needs to be some

solution to the financial flows into afghanistan to ensure that at least salaries can be paid and that essential supplies, power, and water being 2 of them can be procured. the absence of that will seriously exacerbate vulnerability for ordinary outcomes. we a chance to speak to one, ask our man, he's now living in dire poverty. and he admitted to the unimaginable, some would say indefensible. act of selling his own kids. he claims that it was done to feed his other children. they go up to cambridge, actually though you had a good business and a happy life and could do so. but then the war began, we migrated here and my savings were exhausted formula. some people got some aid here, but the others did not. my pockets are empty now and i have no option left but to sell some of my kids and to fight for the survival of my other kids with the money i get that way. we get him to make him official. when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark side sellers. i am forced to sell

a few of my kids to feed others. there is no option left for the previous government did not help me, but i hope this new one will support me. i'm not asking for support for myself alone, but for all these people living here, like they are all from my tribe, they measure all of us refugees. here are one family. i asked for financial help for everyone. i couldn't hear colacho. rob said this news. ok. i'll be back with updates in 30 minutes. ah, imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century. what other chapters called gun violence school shootings, homelessness. first, it was my job and then it was my family. didn't was my savings. i have nothing, i have nothing and it's not like i don't try. i look for resources, i look for jobs, i look for everything i can to make this pass. and i end up doing is passing time.

the road to the american dream paved with dead refugees. it's this very idealized image. all those older america makes americans look past the deaths that happen every single day. this is a modem history of the usa. my america. oh, naughty. ah . ah. well come to the alec salmon you were. we examined the long term economic consequences of corporate much economic study has been focused on.