ah ah, breaking news on our t v f. b. i raids homes in washington and new york owned by relatives of the russian billionaire. unlike durham pasco, the businessman's representative say there moves linked to us sanctions. colin's prime minister, luscious always at brussels, accusing it of blackmail after the commission chief threatens action against warsaw for rejecting european war we cannot tend to, we will not allow our common values to be put. at least the commission will package and the options are all known. and also coming up on the program 5 years after the bomb shell dossier on the ledge, trump russia collusion,

the former british spy who compiled it. finally admits it's not 100 percent. ah, just after 9 in the evening in jerusalem in athens, i'm right here in moscow this tuesday, october, the 19th welcome to the news r and r t. i'm, you know, we start with some breaking news that we've been following over the past hour or so . and that's a raid by the f. b i on homes in washington and new york owned by relatives of the russian businessman and bellinger, alexandra pascall. but tycoon currently finds himself on a us sanctions list. let's go live now to our u. s. correspondent, killer my pin at for more caleb detail, still a little sketchy. it seems over what's been going on. take us through what's known well, f, b, i. agents are swarming around houses in new york and in the washington

d. c. area. and we have confirmation from a representative of all league of alexandra pasco. we have a representative with him confirming to us that the f b i is indeed on the scene. however, what his representative has pointed out is that these homes which are being described in us media as the homes of all the dera pasco, are not actually his homes. they are the homes of relatives, but they are not his homes. here's what we heard directly from a representative of europe, pasco, here's what she told us. it's true the f, b i's rating. the house is owned by a like, dear past relatives. the rates are taking place under 2 court orders related to the u. s. sanctions. now ali derek pasco, is a billionaire and a prominent business man. his companies were put on us sanctions list in 2018 along with 10 other companies. now he filed

a lawsuit in march of 2019 saying that he was wrongly placed on those sanctions list. he filed against the office of foreign asset control of the united states, pointing out that as a result of being put on those lists, he lost roughly $7500000000.00. now, us media has played up allegations linking, linking ali, derek, pos good to paul. nan afford. he did do business with paul mana for a while back, and they've fit that into the wider trump, russia collusion, narrative and us media is taking the opportunity of these f. b. i raids to play up once again. the trump russia collusion narrative, however, all the europe oscar has been very clear that he was not engaged in peddling russian influence. he was not involved with donald trump or anything to that effect . now u. s. media has also accused alexandra pasco, of money laundering, something he is also stepped up and said,

is not accurate. and these allegations are politically motivated. so from what we understand the f b i is engaged in searches of these properties. these properties are places where relatives of ali derek pasco, are currently living. and at this point, at this point, we are waiting to hear what the f b. i has to say if anything comes with this. we know the searches are happening and us media is certainly not accurate though. when they call these the homes of alex dera, pasta. they are not get home. keeping us right up to speed or what's going on there . ortiz, caleb and thanksgiving. there's been a fiery exchange in the european parliament after the polish prime minister launched a tirade against you. institutions accusing them of overstepping their powers and even blackmailing his country ortiz, charlotte, stupid ski can tell us more fiery doesn't go off the way of describing some of the

accusations that have been thrown there was mud slinging throughout the session at the european paul, and by the polish prime minister, also by a piece right back at him. this was meant to be the opportunity for the polish prime minister to come to the parliament to try and he'll be divide the divisions between his country and the european union. his speech seemed to have done the exact opposite with m. e. p is accusing him of leading towards a government of totalitarianism and undermining b. u. its foundations itself. now modify epsky talked about some of the issues that you rip was facing. he refused to acceptance and it was not right for any piece to essentially block a male of the countries within the european union by threatening to withdraw to hold back the funds. and he said that the constitutional law in poland would remain supreme to that of law. and he said that the idea of changing that would move

the you towards a fully fledged governor, both state, which is not what members signed up for. now during his speech, she was clearly over the thing is welcome when he was interrupted and told to wrap up last night in the bush for the move, i'm anxious prime, you know, that's the problem you have to come on if i know so chairman, i was told by the office of david sausalito that i was a located at 3035 minutes, so i will use my time. i cannot confirm their success. and i think that certificate i see autopay have to go nothing completely i'm. i'm coming to my as i've done the service they me piece had plenty to say. they said that the polish mp was slightly leading his country to leave the european union.

one said they thought it was nigel for raj who was talking at that session. while other emmy peas took the opportunity to congratulate the anti government protests that had been taking place in poland and suggesting perhaps it, they should continue mac. i want to thank those polls he took to the streets who showed their faces to other poles, hundreds of thousands of them. real patriots took to the streets with national flags were proud polish flag. and european flags in the hands of a patriot should not be a nationalist. we have all this to you denials. but the truth is, your actions are a sly way to lead poland out of the union. unilateral eagle actions cannot be accepted and will have consequences, the sinister gain that your playing is very clear. the sinister game is that you're putting upon the size, the constitutional court inside the polar and better politicized. not additional

court is criticized by who, by the european court of justice during your speech, i was not sure if or worse, listening to your to nigel, fresh to what you have done is in fact putting an existential tract for your country. this is our road to exit. there is no room for alternative solutions. in other words, what you are proposing here and to day it's a constitutional breakfast. the commission resident ursula vaughan delane, which was demanded that she in the commission act immediately. emmy peace called on her to reject the recovery funds for poland. they called on her and the commission to trigger the rule of law conditionality, mechanism v d l herself vaughan, de leon said that the commission would do everything to ensure that it protect european citizens from threats. we cannot, and we will not allow our common values to be put at risk. the commission will act

and the options are all known. first, option on fingerprints, where we legally challenged the judgement of the polish constitutional court. another option is the conditionality, mechanism, and other financial tools. the polish government has to explain to us how it intends to protect your pin money given this ruling of their constitutional court. this was supposed to be an opportunity to make amends. the eula rift to bring poland back into the fold, the bosom of the e. u. what transpired was any thing, but that with the amy piece, basically realizing and saying out loud that they don't accept the pass that poland is on. judging by the session on tuesday, it seems that those divisions between poland and the rest of the you are even deeper and wider. rushes foreign minister has accused

nito of burying corporation with moscow. it's after the expulsion of several envoys by the alliance prompt thing. moscow to sever diplomatic ties with the alliance from the start of next month. artillio. katrinka can tell us more. now moscow has a mission in brussels, which is where the natal h q is. and the purpose of that mission is to deal directly with the nato officials, of course, but just in 10 days on nun november the 1st the mission will shut its doors completely. why? because as surg elaborate has just put it in solitary nato has pretty much done everything to room dialogue. opportunities with moscow altogether of nato buried the idea of consultation with russia. we believe nato should take the 1st step in improving relations with the way the west is reacting to. russia's response

to nato is an attempt to shift blame. it demonstrates a lack of diplomatic culture. however, as the russian side is putting it, it's not that the russian government is keen to get rid of this channel of communication. i. e, maintaining its mission in the belgian capital. it's just that. earlier this month, a group of russian diplomats were kicked out of brussels altogether at meaning that only 10 mission employees could stay there. and the russian foreign ministry is saying that with these 10 diplomats, it's simply impossible for the mission to function and that's why they have made this decision. so the result is these critical remarks bite surg, elaborate, and it looks like relations between at moscow and nato. are only continuing to deteriorate, no matter what. however, when it comes to some of the bilateral contacts between the, perhaps the number one country nato,

that is the u. s. of course and moscow when it comes to specific stories like afghanistan, there could be progress, for example, because there is a new envoy that was appointed by washington in afghanistan. and he, according to surgery lab, rob has already been in touch with russian diplomats and through elaborate said that he'll be welcome in moscow when it comes to consultations, specifically about the things that are happening in kabul and elsewhere. and i've got a stand story to bring you this tuesday. there's been a miraculous escape for all 21. people on board, private jets after it crushed and burst into flames. moments after take off in the u. s. state of texas. just one person needed hospital treatment for back injuries. the accident happened close to houston, executive reports the plane had reportedly just taken off, but struggled against altitude before coming down in a nearby field. and everybody was safe. incredible, really?

the author of a bombshell dossier on alleged from russia collusion is standing by his claims while also admitting they're not 100 percent true. former bitter spy, christopher steel has spoken publicly on his findings. for the 1st time, the document was compiled in 2016 and contained detailed allegations of a conspiracy between trumps associates and the kremlin. they are aware also some salty details about donald trump supposedly escapades in moscow hotel room. none of those allegations have been proven. the f b, i later published heavily redacted pages showing the agency had paid steel for his work, but cut him off as a source after he disposed his us intelligence links to a 3rd party. years later, there are still many on answered questions regarding the steel. darcy,

including how it came into being, as our senior correspondent, not guilty of texas through 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 perverted details as with the 1st dossier in a vis tom, chris tries to defend the doughty, the multiple falsehoods and inaccuracies, and 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 in 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 the 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. it's 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 disinformation in mind. other information that may have been truthful because that's exactly again the way that they operate. the victims of christopher steel's reporting have also reacted michael cohen, who the dossier accused of secret meetings with the 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 hood cruel, that of the pop, just long enough to make up a few more stories. i'm not too sure that everyone is as pleased. 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, a quote unquote journalist. 3rd,

stephanopoulos has been an 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 reporting them as if they were fact. with cove, it tightening its grip on the russian capital moscow's mirror has announced the number of new restrictions. they include a strict stay at home order for the most vulnerable and are being brought in as

record cases. unfair policies are recorded on an almost daily basis. here, sar, teased dmitri polk. this comes as cases in russia, unfortunately continued to grow. and in moscow, it's especially noticeable a moscow's mayor, sergei abandon has now introduced several new covered measures which will come into effect on monday and her set to last. so leave end of february. now these measures her 1st one is that unvaccinated people over the age of 60, as well as though suffering from chronic illnesses, are now required to work from home. companies must also now follow a worker work at home quota, having at least 30 percent of their workers sent home. and our company is working in the service industry must now have at least 80 percent of their workers vaccinated used to be 60 percent. so now it's up on now, these measures were laid out in the mayor's open letter, where he highlighted an outline, the crisis currently going on in the city and pleaded, the elderly said finally get vaccinated because of the 5000000 people in moscow who

have at least received one job, it seems that the people at the highest risk of complications from the disease have still decided to omit the inoculation. thanks to must vaccination, we have created a significant lay of people protected from cove it this autumn, the epidemiological situation is seriously complicated. due to the increase in the incidence of saws and other respiratory diseases which was not the case last year. and the most alarming thing is the high incidence of covered among the older generation. in this situation, we must take urgent measures to protect the older generation and of the vulnerable populations. now, in the letter of the mayor also provided some statistics, for example, that right now in moscow, the infection rate is about 4 times that of which we saw just a couple of months ago. back in august, at around 42000 new cases being reported every week and hospitalizations are also up 212021500 hospitalizations every single day. how are the most alarming statistic

is that 60 percent of the people who have required hospitalization? are people over the age of 60, who also comprised about 86 percent of those who have died from cove it. and in most cases these people were not vaccinated? of course, it remains to be seen if these new measures will have a drastic impact on these cases on these hospitalizations and vaccinations. but right now, unfortunately, the cases continue to grow and alarmingly, deaths are at an all time high with over a 1000 as being reported every day for the last couple of days. it's the highest, it's ever been. and authorities are basically sounding the alarm and pleading for citizens to go out and get vaccinated to put an end to this spike and this pandemic on a related theme, the u. k. governments emergency corona virus powers, they have been extended for another 6 months. it comes as the country recorded its highest daily cobra debt toll since march, but also as protests,

are being seen increasingly against the vaccine passports or t corresponding chevy edwards. now, she told me more the house of commons has just waived through the government's flagship corona virus. act of 2020 dots. the 350 page acts, the emergency powers, as it swept through the government some time ago. introduce at the start of the pandemic. i'm will now continue for an additional 6 months, so it went through without even a vote. today it was expected that the parliamentary body would be holding a vote on all of this, but literally there was no opposition to it. so it was just swept through opposition, though was on the streets of central london today. numerous protests is gathering all across central london fighting for their freedoms and their liberties, which they say this act actually denies them off. now i was that myself and for some hours there were numerous clashes with the police throughout the day. however,

the most alarming incident on the street has to be when the cabinet minister michael. gov was accosted by these protest as they coordinate him, pounced on the him, essentially accusing him of all sorts of things throughout at the pandemic. it was then that please, i'll shoot him into a nearby building the department for transport right here in westminster, offering him that much needed protection. ah, ah, ah, ah, essentially these activists today say there is no need for these emergency powers that basically allow the government to keep his unprecedented powers in place. interestingly though, that there wasn't any opposition to it in the house of commons, especially from the labor party whose job is to oppose the government. in fact, we saw a total u. 10 from labor's shot. our house secretary said john ashworth, who said to day, we do not oppose the renewal of this act. but just at the thought of the pandemic.

some 20 months ago, he described this act as the coney an ever seen and peace time breton that has never been subject to any robust scrutiny in parliament. of course being swept through to day again, i really dodging any scrutiny whatsoever. so what really are we talking about then while they were having to do some 20 months ago, as i say last spring, originally, i'd say give powers to the government to enforce the locked down rules. but now it's somewhat adapted into many other facets of life. as of course, lockdown is now many a thing of the past. today. it's more about things like piece powers, of course, the issue of moss, and also things like the mass vaccination roll out. that is still very much underway, although it's now moved to the on to 18 year olds plus things like vaccination possible. it could very much become a reality. however, all of this comes in the context of the united kingdom. it has reported its highest

number of kind of a death, the 7 months and cases are really going back to at the level they were some months ago. of course. winter is only round the corner, meaning the pandemic could again return to things that we've seen in the past. so all of that in context is potentially why extending these emergency powers is justified for the government in a major shoe of strength. hundreds of tanks on thousands of soldiers have amassed into gk. stung along the border with afghanistan. while it's all part of military drills between russia, i'm falling off of its post soviet allies. it's also designed to send out a clear message in what's currently a turbulent region ortiz eager shutdown off saw the boots on the calendar from so 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 miss 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 bleeding was creating realistic conditions on drills helps armies to prepare for the real action. the real sites under the real conditions. it's a situation that is going to need some heavy duty war 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 a gosh darn over. quoting from the duke, his son, archie vian is famously nude. artworks are proven to be a bit too revealing. for social media platforms. galleries in the austrian capital

have been hit by a string of bombs on facebook, instagram on tick tock. so now they've opened an account on only funds, mainly known for its adult content. and these are just some of the work steam to risque for the major platform so far at 4 institutions. now the al bertina leopold at the art history museum on the natural history museum. i've signed off to only funds the albertine museum press officer. explain them. it was not a good project because we hadn't experienced that. it was not always easy annuity austin, community in the social media. and it 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's i think it's not about an alga ready to define or to sensor oil shouldn't

be seen or not. and then we saw that it worked on only fence and if it's working there, why don't try it? well, one of the starkest cases of art censorship happened in 2018. that was when facebook deleted images posted by the austrian natural history museum, running them pornography. as they showed a 25000 year old pillow, the thick figurine, known as the venus of villain, dwarf nor daniel bane is again, thanks to dispute raises, brought a question to wear. who decides what art is? it was also the em all saying. it's not about the social media platform to decide what the ours, what would be considered as nudity has been part of based on culture since the roman empire since the greek and everywhere where there is a mankind art. there is also some

a master pieces of art that shows nudity. we just question who is going to the science? what is about to be shown or not? and we think it should not be an algorithm. a deeper dive into any of those stories as always, just a click away and r t dot com. world of news use on a whole lot more. besides waiting for you there to look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such order does that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about personal intelligence, and the point obviously, is to create trust, rather than fear. i would like to take on various job with artificial intelligence,

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