ah so pet lines for this our live one, our teeth, the polish prime minister ups, the ante in a feud with brussels, accusing you, you institutions, of you soaping power and hurting democracy. british families sue with the government over the deaths of their elderly relatives. and last year's covey waive on the program, we hear from a nursing home clinician who says the authorities broke their promises into goldman . that being completely honest at the time, a set of people in nursing homes and town homes been almost a forgotten loss, which we still are. this is about what the government promised was happening. what it really wasn't. former british spy, christopher steel brakes cover 5 years off to his ball, michelle dossier on

a ledge, trump, russia collusion which he now admits was not 100 percent accurate. ah, it is tuesday, october, the 19th and just after 9 o'clock in the morning here in moscow. this is auntie international. welcome to your news posing a threat to the unions future. that's the accusation. the polish prime minister has leveled against e. you institutions. mateusz might have yet ski issue that angry warning ahead of his speech to the european parliament. unfortunately, to day, we are dealing with a very dangerous phenomenon where by various european union institutions, usa powers, they do not have under the treaties and impose their will on member states. poland set for this huge show down with the u. this is tensions that have been building up

for years now between the country and the e u institutions, but they really had a fire litany under them. recently this is after poland, top court issued a ruling saying that the country's own constitution had primacy over some you laws . as infuriated the top brass at brussels and emmy peas themselves, were we debating this subject later today? now they're so angry what they've demanded the european commission to is hit the button on new powers that would allow the commission to withhold funding to poland funding with billions and billions upon billions of euro's and they're saying that those powers shouldn't just be used against poland. they should be used against countries like hungry too, because any piece accused these 2 countries of undermining their own democracies. but the polish prime minister, who's also due to speak on tuesday as hit back out saying that it's the new itself . that is an democratic wheel to be anxious about the gradual transformation of the

union into an entity that would cease to be an alliance of free, equal and sovereign states. and instead become a single, centrally managed organism when by institutions deprived a democratic control by the citizens of european countries. the polish prime ministers also warned the you needs to change. it weighs because it faces so many potential crises. he talked about a possible financial crisis, which he suggested because i the weakened or undermine the euro to the point that it could collapse. and of course, there is this ongoing energy crisis in europe. now those new powers that the u commission has which any piece of demanding that he use a currently been challenged in the courts in the european union. the moment and one legal and you has suggested that if a poland doesn't win its case, it's challenging. hungry is also challenging that, that the consequences of the use of this new power could be severe, not just for poland, but actually for the whole of the, you know,

poland getting support from other quarters to including the outgoing german chancellor. this is anglo merkel. she said those demands by any piece to withhold those funds are actually quite saddening. and what she said needs to happen here is more high level discussion this year. i think it is now time to talk in that with the polish government about how we can overcome these difficulties. we have big problems, but my advice is to solve them and talks to find compromises. now this fall out between poland and the e. u. i, it has led to many people, fearing that the country could be perhaps a step closer to its own briggs. it a poll exit as it's being doubled in the media around the world. now that has led to whites or protests in poland with people calling for its government to sort of tie up ab to make up with the you. and while a poll legs, it may not be immediately on the cards. what this really is showing is that the use

back is against the wall at the moment, and unless it takes clear and decisive action pretty quickly, there are fears that the whole order could crumble. british families who lost loved ones to cove 19 and last year's care of him crisis and al, taking legal action against the government at ease at shot. here edward darcy breaks down the case 2 daughters. he lost their fathers in cove at head cow homes at the start of the pandemic, are now suing the government. it's a landmark action, not just in terms of a failure to protect the vulnerable responsibility for aggravating the risk while victory won't undo their loss. they hope it may help to protect others. i do not want anyone else to go through what we have been through as a family. i feel terrible guilt. i feel as though she was locked in to die. met hancock's protective freeing statement was a lie. the defendant have provided no evidence of measures to put

a protective frank around care homes in just 3 months from march to june. last year . some samples here for living and care homes died from the virus and england and wales with some official reports blaming. so. 2 inconsistent, reckless and appalling government policies for the huge data, all this weeks case against the department for health and social care, once it held to account this case will give thousands of families a sense that justice has been done. if we're, when, what happened to the residents of care homes in the pandemic was a national scandal. the government's approach to protect and vulnerable care home residents during the 1st wave of the pandemic is one of the most devastating failures in the morton era. rather than their home been a safe place, it became a breeding ground for a deadly disease. is the government that being completely honest at the time,

instead of people in nursing homes and town homes, been almost a forgotten lot, which we still are. but it's not about that this is about people's lives. this is about what the government promised was happening when it really wasn't. everybody was involved, it was treating this virus which is right, you say is on known virus and an unknown entity. who knows what we had to do or what we could have done differently. and these are things we need to learn from. and the goldman should have learned allies ain't going to get you anything. the sailors surrounding her homes are one of the thickest scandals of the pandemic. for mass discharge of out of the patients from hospitals to cow homes without testing or isolation. and who can forget when the government says it happens, wouldn't be affected at the beginning of the time domain. of course, we now know that they were the worst affected earlier this year and into 12 of march, the government's own official advice worse. and i'm quoting from it, it remains very unlikely that people receiving care in

a care home will become infected. it wasn't true that the advice said that or government guidance published on the 25th of february of 2020 said twice. it was very unlikely people receiving care and care homes will be infected. this advice was withdrawn on the 13th of march. a few months later, boris johnson tried to shift the plane, saying it was cat holmes that didn't follow the rules. many didn't really follow the procedures in the way that they could have so well, this week's cases, ultimately about 2 families search for justice. it runs far deeper, alleging a string of government blunders, but it may also end up serving as some small solace for all those who lost loved ones as a result of those very mistakes our, the 10 people that we have died. i could say that i was 99.9 percent. sure. sure. 3rd, and all of them died as a result of cove it. but i think we only had

a 3 positive tests because that's all it was available at that time. and 2 of those were testing hospital and one was the one that i fall off. we did not have seen care homes. my hancock stood on television and quite often at 5 o'clock when he was doing the briefing with the prime minister. we as a nursing home were stunned and watched this briefing with interest obviously to see what the changes were, what was happening on a daily basis. to wait to see my hon. cost stood in front of the camera saying, all cat homes are now being tested. we were told absolutely not. the author of a bombshell. dossier on alleged trump, russia collusion is standing by his claims while also admitting they may not be a 100 percent true from a british spy. christopher steele has spoken out in public for the 1st time, and the document was compiled in 2016 and contained detailed allegations of a conspiracy between trumps associates and the kremlin. and also some salacious

details about trump supposedly escapades in moscow hotel room. now, none of those allegations have ever been proven. the f b, i later published heavily redacted pages showing the agency had paid steel for his work. however, cut him off as a source offer, disclose his us intelligence links to that of a 3rd party. but he is on there are still plenty of answered questions over the steel report. for example, how it came into being is a very good question. but i guess be a, takes a very close look. the steel dossier has been one of the most mocked derided but, but also talked about reports in modern political history. the spot being mostly dismissed as, as a work of fiction. it has just refused to die. and christopher steel is back again . hyping and defending. he's much maligned dossier. christopher still isn't. it

isn't hero, is he traitor. crisper steals a guy who picked to fight with 2 presidents. donald trump and vladimir, and he's live to tell the tale. mind the spoilers. there aren't any new revelations or poverty details. as with the 1st dossier in a vis tom, chris tries to defend the dossier. the multiple falsehoods and inaccurate season make believe. my li tries. i'm prepared to accept that not everything in the dosier is 100 percent accurate. i've yet to be convinced that that is one of them. yes, he says there are some things that my daughter that are literally made up, but he sticks it seems by the p tape. his allegation that the russians film donald trump with urinating prostitutes, and he has a stella argument to back it up, prove me wrong. he says, you tell him that no one's ever seen the staple heard of it and that he's the only

source ad. well, that doesn't convince chris, it hasn't needed to be released because i think that russians felt they'd got pretty good value out of donald trump. when he was president of the us, the most remarkable thing in my opinion, is what still dossier supporters. a saying they can't defend the dos hair itself. it's at so full of holes and lies. so they've come up with a different method. it was the russians who painted the dossier by purposefully feeding christopher steele disinformation. it's very likely that the russians planted dis, information in and demand other information that may have been truthful. because that's exactly again the way that they operate. the victims of christopher steals reporting have also reacted michael cohen, who the dossier accused of secret meetings with a russians in europe. he had the f. b, i get involved. of course,

they found no evidence of any such meetings ever taking place, but regardless mister co indeed react. he said that he was pleased that christopher steele had crawled out of the pop just long enough to make up a few more stories. i'm not too sure that everyone is as please abs crease. the once was quite enough. there's nothing groundbreaking in of course he's being, he's being interviewed by a very sympathetic, quote unquote journalist 3rd stephanopoulos has been operative for bill clinton in the democratic party for a long time. although looking at the mainstream coverage, this sort of rehabilitation of christopher steel seems to be seems to be coming around. you have to scratch our heads even the f b. i stopped using him as a confidential human in form of because i found that he was too unreliable. i think one very important aspect is the collusion of the u. s. mainstream media in this they absolutely fell down their jobs were expected. someone like steal to be a liar. we expected the people that hired him to be pretty dodgy people. of course,

that's the case. but we did, we, at least once, would expect. i would have expected the u. s. mainstream media, u. s. media to have looked into some of these stories before recording them as if they were fact. the editor of germany's best selling tabloid build has been fired of allegations of sexual misconduct. the papers owners explain the move right after a story on june or i held, appeared in the new york times. as the executive board has learned, julian reich held still fails to maintain a clear boundary between private and professional matters and has also been untruthful to the executive board in this regard. the executive board therefore considers the termination of his office to be unavoidable yearly and as i helped woke up on monday morning is probably the most powerful newspaper in all of europe . by tuesday morning he had been dismissed from his role as the editor in chief of

germany's most read tabloid newspaper build. now it came about following claims that he had exploited his position of power in order to come the sexual relationships with junior employees. this all came to light in an investigation and a publication by the new york times. perhaps one of the reasons why this happened in the united states is that the spring, a group, a parent company for bills that runs build as well as all the media outlets across germany in europe. well, they branching out into the united states and just the summer spend $1000000000.00 buying politico, so they put themselves more on the, the radar of us publications. it's interesting bit, despite some of the allegations that have come out claims that there was a hostile environment for women in the build news room. one of the quotes that's used is from a woman who said that she had a sexual relationship with mr. i held and says that that's how it goes. bill, both that sleep with the boss, get the best that jobs are despite all of that,

coming out the 1st reaction from spring a group, the media joined that runs build is to say we're going to find out who leak done and we're going to see them the company as taking legal action against 3rd parties who attempted to influence and instrumental eyes, the spring compliance investigation by unlawful means, evidently with the aim of removing julian wright helped from office, as well as damaging billed and axel spring up. now that had been an internal investigation into the conduct of mr. i had earlier this year, and it's from that internal investigation. and a lot of these documents have been leaked to the press. the allegations made against mr. i helped with that he carried out sexual relationships, the abused his power in order to conduct those sexual relationships. and that he'd use drugs on company property. they decided following not internal investigation, not to dismiss. they still held from his job and they changed their mind. now,

in terms of response from the former editor of bill t has issued a short statement in which he said, what i blame myself for, is that i have heard people. i was in charge of. however, perhaps what is the most interesting thing to come out of this and it doesn't paint the german media in a particularly good light is that the soul could come to light a long time ago. in fact, there were 2 previous investigations that were quashed to previous reports, and one of them going back as far as 2018 into the conduct of mister like has. and then the inferences that at that point pressure being placed on the, the publishes, that were in charge of those carrying out the investigation and got the journalist to kill the story that doesn't pay the german media particularly well. the fact that it took a foreign publication to make this, all public hasn't gone down particularly well here in germany book. the genie is out of the battle now as it were, when it comes to the practices in the build newsroom. i'm the business practices of

access spring as one of the world's largest and most powerful media organizations. all right, we're approaching the half way. point of this tuesday program here were naughty and still to come. russia and as opposed to soviet allies of launched larger scale military exercises include g cust on the question is, why now that story animal with back in just a moment. mm hm. with join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess when the world politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then gives rise to the i question about these crises and who's behind them.

we had the subprime crisis that resulted in mind, the printing that made the top get richer. we have the cold with crisis, which has resulted in the top getting richer because of all the money printer. and we had a war in afghanistan go on for decades, which resulted in money printing in the top get richer, you know, and, and, and then you can get into the other, you know, into some other areas as well, really making some hard, making hard questions. ah, for this moment, 2020 part of the hour here in moscow, russia plus 5 of his post soviet allies have now launched some of the largest

military drills in years in central asia tanks and thousands of soldiers have amassed in tajikistan right along the border with afghanistan, they are bracing for any potential spillover from the chaos now gripping the taliban held nation in the wake of the us pull out. reporting from the scene as ortiz ego to stand off. some 4000 troops, 500 military vehicles, and 6 nations all participating in day one of what expected to become one of the most impressive and large scale military drills taking place here in the steps of a country that is sharing a more than a 1000 kilometer long border with of garrison tajikistan is a former soviet republic, now operating under the umbrella of the collective security treaty organization, a russia lead military alliance. the war games there will span out over the course of the week ahead. and while the 1st day has been quiet, there's plenty of action to come. certainly, judging by previous drills,

the location for the games. just 8 kilometers away from the border with a canister is not a coincidence. when the taliban grabbed power in cobble things got tense on this side of the border. when islamic states started to take advantage of the power vacuum, it got even more serious generals do not shy away from openly saying who the show is for. which in your midst this location for the drills has been chosen according to the practical tasks, the armies have to do. we choose with several rules in mind. firstly, we go by the logic, the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in was creating realistic conditions on drills,

health armies to prepare for the real action, the real sites under the real conditions. it's a situation that's going to need some heavy duty. whoo gaming, and sure enough, over the next few days, pretty much all you'll hear here is the sound of every kind of gunfire imaginable. i'm again of reports informed duke, his son archie. the top u. s. envoy to afghanistan is stepping down less than 2 months after the chaotic military withdrawal and subsequent taliban take over. this comes as the u. s. inspector general launch is a multiple probes into those events as unties. caleb martin reports the zalman calla zod. the top us representative for afghanistan has been announced to be soon resigning, and he will be replaced with thomas west who was right now serving as a deputy envoy for afghanistan. now. now make callous. od has been very key in the

events that took place of last couple years. he oversaw the negotiations between the united states and the taliban and cutter. that took place under the trump administration, leading up to the doe ha agreement between the united states and the taliban. this announcement comes as we find out that the inspector general for the state department will be opening an investigation into what went wrong in the pull out of the united states from afghanistan. we understand that diana shaw informed the u. s . congress that she'll be looking into 4 key areas of the chaos withdrawal of the states from afghanistan, 1st to the special immigrant visa program. also, the afghans process for refugee admission into the united states, resettlement of those refugees and visa recipients, as well as the emergency evacuation of the u. s. embassy and cobble this is part of the continuing fall out of the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan. the world watched, as afghans were dangling from playing billions of dollars and military whitman was

left behind, all leading up to that bombing that took place at the airport. a lot of americans want answers about what went wrong, quite a bit of anger across the united states and how the mind ministration handled things. lot of big questions being asked from both democrats and republicans. we will be anxious to hear what the inspector general has to say, and we'll be also anxious to hear what mr. callas odd has to say, as he will soon be stepping down from his positions. anti war activist medea benjamin doesn't think the scope of the investigation will be wide enough. unfortunately, i think the investigations will focus mary, very narrowly on the exit itself, which was absolutely chaotic. will focus on things that need to be looked at, like the drones strike that killed as 10 people in a family, including 7 children. when are we going to look at and, and, and try to learn the lessons about invading and occupying other countries. and then

i think there is the lesson of how do you leave when a country is dependent for the vast majority of its entire budget on foreign aid, how do you just pull the plug and not expect that there will be either a civil war or and there will be a breeding ground for extremist groups like al qaeda and i says, so i would hope that it would not only be backward looking but forward looking. but i, i don't have great confidence in that. i think one of the most frustrating things for colleagues had was that the corrupt government in afghanistan that the u. s. had supported for all these years was unable to really come to the negotiating table and deal with the taliban was unable to form a strong government that had popular support. and now there will be another relationship, but it's unclear. i how this relationship would precede, vienna's new to artwork is proven to be

a bit too risque for social media platforms, galleries and the austrian capital of being hit by a string of bands on facebook, instagram on tick tock. so they've now opened an account on only france, which is typically known for its adult content. and these are just some of the works themes to be too revealing for the major platforms. so now for institutions, the alba tina museum, the leopold museum, the art history museum, and the natural history museum have signed up to only funds the albertine of museums press officer daniel bennett, explained the move was not a good project because we had an experience that was not always easy, a community in the social media, and that was our experience since a few years as well. i don't know really why there is the censorship. i know it are maybe some algorithm or something on the engines that is not allowing it. i think

it's not about alga ready to define or to sensor or should be seen or not. and then we saw that it would work on only fence and if it's working there, why don't try it? one of the starkest cases of our censorship happen in 2018 when facebook deleted images posted by the austrian natural history museum, branding them as pornography they showed a 25000 year old paleolithic figurine, and noticed a venus all villain dwarf. and daniel benya is again, the things the dispute rate is broader questions of a who decides what is odd? it was also the aim saying it's not about the social media platform. so the side, or the artist, what would be considered as nudity has been part of this some culture since

the roman empire since the greek and everywhere where there is a mankind out. there is also a, some of mazda pieces of odds that shows mudy t. we just question who is going to the site? what is about to be shown or not. and we think it should not be an algorithm. and you can read more about the story, take it a bit further. the op ed section of r t dot com has an article right there waiting for you now or in any ha, past 9 on tuesday morning here at moscow way back at the top of the hour. hope you can join us with a look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we

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