[000:00:00;00] with ah, this warning that is a pandemic puts fresh pressure on u. k. hospitals waiting times and accidents of emergency wards, sol with patients having to wake up to 50 hours for a bed sub a point to the finger at the government over it. every step of the way that mismanaged the crisis, aside from the vaccine rolled out by the re personnel. any faith in the car is done and we can't sell it. if you don't buy it. russia hits back been an e u allegations and it's using gas as a geo political weapon. us social media, john facebook has to show a millions in a discrimination case of giving preference to hiring foreigners over americans. and

right now we're on away through some very rocky terrain. to witness the work of some multiple rocket mail systems. ah ah, t joins russia. led military drills along with touching afghan, pulled their attention sword of the taliban seizure of power. ah. oh. hey there, wednesday morning, the 20th of october. welcome to the program, kevin o' adhered our th q with our latest for you. and 1st, as you heard a lack of staff soaring kobe cases and pressure on the, in a chess of lead to another health crisis. in the u. k, it's been reported that in parts of the country, patience awaiting for almost 50 hours to get a bed, an accident at emergency units. in one case,

a patient reportedly spent 47 hours in a queue that was at the role preston hospital in lancashire. while down in suffolk, her teenager with serious mental health problems waited for almost 48 hours in a and e. according to local media, the night shes foundation, trustful, the area said the wait was because of a lack of specialist facilities. la winchester, who had a relative, affected by the crisis, told us what happened in their case. he will, 11 o'clock and his legs just wouldn't work and he fell out of bed. we didn't find him until 3 o'clock where my dad's going to get cooler, where he had for him. when we call for the ambulance, initially they said not to leave him at all in case the best spinal injury offered . wait a couple of hours my, my dad sort of still trying to hurry them up a little bit. tried to finding no, no, no. and again, to ask when you sent us an estimate arrival, the direct him so 111 within 9 know 92,

and i'm running there. eventually we speak to a chap, he suggested how to move him back into his seat and how to get him up and we did that is improving, but he probably still required some medical assistance, but insinuated to us that well, not even a senior i said would you would you like to cancel the ambulance on everything but the ambulance a day. and at that point we took him at that value and said, yeah, okay, we'll cancel that. and then soon we'll give him his dinner and get him into bed, et cetera. was over the night i stayed the night make sure that overnight these conditions lessons in the morning. i had called for another ambulance while it's been reported that 91 percent of hospital beds were occupied in england as of last friday thought is the number of people waiting for hospital treatment base. hit record highs. the chest saying almost 6000000 people on waiting lists,

and it's holding that the coming winter will only intensify the pressure. at the same time. you can hausman, this is admitted that there aren't enough stuff to man. the countries emergency any telephone lines, 9 or 9, and 111. how do you know that a detailed plan of action is being put together and would be unveiled soon? but look, which is to isn't convinced every step of the way the miss managed to the crisis. aside from the vaccine rollout, i don't re personnel any faith in the current government, and the people on the ground who are working really hard, like the paramedics, like the people answering the cause. they're not necessarily always getting, given the clearest information. you know, i, i really believe that when i think from 111229999992 talk to 111. i'm sure that they believe that's what you know, that's what we come to do. there's no real simple answer as to where i think they're going to fix it, because their actions so far appeared to be for me while the u. k. government's

emergency powers relating to the pandemic had been extended for another 6 months. the company just registered the highest number of daily cove deaths since march, but that hasn't stopped people being unhappy with measures being taken to try to come to the virus. correspondence london reports that actually there was no opposition to it. so i was just sweat through opposition though, was on the streets of central london. numerous protests is gathering all across central london fighting for their freedoms and the liberties which they say this act actually denies them off. now i was there myself and for some hours there were numerous clashes with the police throughout the day. however, the most alarming incident on the streets has to be when the cabinet, minnesota michael. gov was accosted by these protest as they cornered 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 transports right here in westminster, offering him that much needed protection. oh, oh, oh, oh, centrally these activists today, there is no need for these emergency powers that basically allow the government to keep his unprecedented powers in place. interestingly though. 6 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 shadow. how secretary said john ashworth, who said 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 most draconian ever seen. in peacetime, britain that has never been subject to any robust scrutiny in parliament. 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 power, of course, the issue of mass, and also things like the mass vaccination roll out. that is still very much underway, although it's now moved to the under 18 year old class. things like vaccination, passports 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 for 7 months and cases of really going back to the level they were some months ago. of course, winter is only round the corner, meaning the pandemic could again return to the 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 shot it as it was dusty, they were going to have more news from the u. k. a little bit later in the program,

schools are still in facial recognition. cameras and campaigns to make it easier, in theory for people to pay for the dentist some favorites, think it's a violation of privacy. we put the whole thing up for debate. interesting watch come up at a bit. next. russia and says it's not to blame for the use current energy crisis of the blocks. foreign policy chief accused moscow of driving up gas prices. so further, it's due political ends. but while joseph borrowed complains that russian deliveries are being stepped up at this critical time, moscow retorts that no new orders that be in place. russia is not opposed to given more, but suppliers ligastrum need to be asked and not by parliament, not by newspapers, but by buyers who apply at the appropriate prices. but they have been no implications. here's a somewhat confusing story for you. governments and dozens of countries are worried that their people won't be able to properly heat their homes as winter as just

around the corner. natural gas has become absurdly expensive. it's an energy crisis . there's no doubt about it. and the leader of the country that extracts and sells more natural gas to the rest of the world than anyone else speaks at an event themed around energy. whatever is desperate for extra gas supplies must be all ears under them were absolutely ready to supply more. for some reason he keeps being asked the same question, extra supplies, are you okay with that? is it possible? hey, what about extra supplies? there's i repeat, we've already increased supplies. at some point it really gets confusing for the speaker, didn't he just make things clear? several times in a row, we got, we're ready to supply even more gas. we need applications. we're increasing by as much as they ask boy, that makes plain. this man has long been accused of using the gas monopoly in his

country called gas from to teach european countries lessons. so after hearing from latimer, potent governments in the countries that are worried about the winter have 2 options. they couldn't keep repeating, he's buoying them with gas, or maybe at least try a few requests for extra gas supplies. a few days later, an important man who's meant to act as a unified voice of these worried governments that i mentioned says this, an increase in prices for energy has deep to political brutes. it's part of the geopolitical battle. russia has on it, on its contract, cannot be said that they're not delivering when they said they would, but it has not increased the quantities contracted for that's after a get together of europe's most senior diplomats who were meant to discuss the energy crisis. among other things are, again, are they living in completely alien realities? back to prudent for a 2nd?

at the we, russia never used this as a weapon. we're happy to do extra. so what is it then that they choose not to try at least a couple of requests. it is a fine of, i would say to political illiteracy if the european union just blamed. so the problem on russia, it's not always easy to blame someone else for the problems you are having. and i see this a move in the utterings off, which was hippo, hell, the you foreign policy chief. it wouldn't be wise to solve the problems right away to do, and you analysis of the supply situation for natural gas, unless there have been some phantom applications that the russian side is unaware of confusing. well, in the meantime, american liquefied natural gas producers on mass have been choosing to sell to

asian buyers instead of european. right. simply because in asia, they're ready to buy at a higher price. will anyone accuse them of waging a geopolitical battle? report in actual social media, jim facebook's having to pay out $14000000.00 in the civil case of discrimination. it was accused of giving preference to hiring foreign workers over americans. facebook is not about the law. it must comply with nations. federal civil rights laws which prohibit discriminator recruitment in hiring practices. while the tech john gave thoroughly certain positions mainly to temporary visa holders, prosecutors claim up to $2600.00 u. s. work is lost out. as a result, facebook was find almost $5000000.00 for it and is paying out over $9000000.00 compensation to victims. the lawsuit against the tech child was followed last year by the us justice department. back then, the trump administration pushed the biggest tech companies to hire more americans

for permanent positions. instead of these temporary foreign workers, legal analysts, jennifer braden, explain to us a bit more why facebook in particular, as adopted that policy. facebook and some of these other companies will watch these immigrants. it's a way for facebook to save money, while also preventing maybe lawsuits for unfair or discriminatory work practices. which in and of itself is discriminatory against actual united states citizens that we're applying for work and unable to get a company like facebook, with a lot of money would be able their high price attorneys, or be able to find a case that had merit less claims but again, it's been brought by the department of justice itself. i think it's very surprising to people. many people who see facebook or some of the social media platforms is an arm of a political party. so it's kind of being this distinction drawn between this,

what we consider politicize, or a bite and era department of justice, which should be friends with facebook. actually bringing a discrimination claim against, you know, this, this partner. so this story might be used by either the federal government, by the new situation, or by facebook, to argue that the way we are different, you know, we, we, we, we can be held accountable right above the law. when in reality, they've been working hand in hand for a long time, and facebook has been acting as an arm of most a political federal agencies in order to st. silence political opponents. 14 and i'm ex, military drills by russia is post soviet allies, a well underway on the board with. i've got a stun, hundreds of tanks and thousands of soldiers of a mustard, a major show a strength amid rising tension to the turbulent region. reporting back from there, tuesday goes on often. it didn't take long for the drills to ramp up to the max

here in se intergist on 6 nations have brought together some of their most battle ready units for target practice and opportunity. we could not miss. so we've been promised that today's going to be jam back with action. so right now, we're on away through some very rocky terrain, to witness the work of some multiple rocket missile systems. as we enjoy a bumpy ride to the artillery positions, helicopters opened the act. then the ground troops joined the fun hitting their imaginary targets with all they've got ah ah, the action is intense,

sometimes it's simply impossible to see what's going on. so much sand and dust is in the air. what we can see clearly from our position, the approach of the truck mounted rocket launchers. they stop, take aim and await the command. and then they receive it. ah, these are the grad, multiple rocket launches, used in conflicts all over the world, libya, yemen, the nickel and a cab conflict last year, all the way back in viet nam, you name it. they've most likely been there. it seems to be. there's no branch of military that is left out and these drills from special forces to heavy artillery, 2 tanks to infantry. you name it. it seems only the nuclear branch seems to be left out, but that's well for everybody's good. really. all this food here is obliterating the jews and mountain slopes, which are

a mere 8 kilometers away from the african border. a roar demonstration of power intended to behead much further afield than where the artillery is falling. my gosh darn of reporting from tajikistan r t. exactly 17 past the hour. good morning from moscow review tuned in round the world. coming up this wednesday, the f. b. i rates homes in washington and new york owned by relatives of the russian billionaire, alec dary pasco, the businessman's representative site. the move is linked to us sanctions were on it, and some breaking news coming up to stay with us after the break. blue ah is driven by drink shaped bankers and those

with airs. sinks. we dare to ask this are now a dual system of justice. many think so, for example, a former senior f b i of issue lied repeatedly to his bosses, but now is exonerated. but a former head of the national security council did not lie to be f, b i, and his life was destroyed. where is the justice in that ah

ah, i get mornings break news to tell you about just him from the assyrian capital, damascus local state tv reporting, a number of people have been killed, pearly in explosion on the syrian army bus conflicting reports suggesting to explosive devices when off, another bomb was diffused by engineering in it's got more on that in the coming minutes. i'll tell you more. as more details coming to us that's happened very recently. the introduction of a facial recognition payment system or the number of school canteens in scotland is revoked. the wrath of privacy campaign. as the critics say, pupils haven't been properly informed about the potential dangers of the technology and fear over or overt intrusiveness because of it. organizations need to carefully consider the necessity and proportionality of collecting biometric data before they do so. organizations should consider using a different approach of the same goal can be achieved and

a less intrusive manner. no child should have to go through board estelle, i don't see caps just to get a school meal. we're supposed to live in a democracy, not a security state. so then face scanning can now be used in ny north asia schools to pay for our school dinners. the company behind the technology says it's covered secure and can speed up queues as transactions take. just 5 seconds is thought the system could be rolled out in more schools to if it goes well local for his back. the move saying it makes counties more efficient end of the day and provides opportunities for students to use innovative technology. they added that 97 percent of children or their parents had consented to the use of facial recognition. early unit neil discussed this new text than with radio host and journalist john god and former independent police advisor saundra glen. it makes life easier and clearly in this coded era in scotland, that's why they want to do it, cut down the risk of transmission. i think we sometimes get ourselves on area about

things we don't need to get area about is this is more efficient. if you've got a car anyway, you know, when you gone the cheese, which will go on to the moment. people know where you've been and where you know where you're going. i can't see any problem with their scanning jordan spaces for the payment for their lunches or whatever it doesn't really helps create a virus. it doesn't help to increase the impacts of me. apart from that time, not touching cards, you have to make ignition because it's still really going to an experimental stage . and it hasn't been tested widely enough across our population that the test on school children is a little bit of a far reach. i'm surprised at the 90 percent class parents assigned their consent to this. i think the children do know what's going on. 90 percent or sandra herself says, is an over whelming figure a huge figure moving there just for a progressive because it's probably going to happen during the line anyway,

so may as well get on board. now sandra, everybody should jump in and be on the, on, on it as it happens. but when that technology is 8781 percent unpaid mobile lot was lack and bounce gay. then i think there's some good morning to be done at the kodak here. why are we going to wait 30 years? kodak to be good for bracken brown skin. some it is smooth out. should we fit for everybody? do? except sandra is right that we need to have my make sure there's provision there as well, and it has to work for every child. i'm a 100 percent in favor of that, but it's coming launch welcome, the new technology that stopped being so blooming, paranoid, you've got personal data very much at the forefront of this. and as we well know, it's big business. you know, it sells for a lot of money. facebook and tell you that. shouldn't we concerned about how the tech company running the tells plans to use the data? we don't know how they are regulating it. i think it is a good place to test, to actually a, in something as innocuous as their children get in their school meals. but

obviously we need to know where that date has been, how, how it's being held on what is being used for. i accept the educational authorities looked into this. i think he can work. what's wrong with it? what's wrong with the other student understand? we've seen that some dental a day can be, can make mistakes. it's cause offense. and in particular, the face recognition that's used out there for this type of service can sometimes cause of benz. i would hate to have an as yet child of color waste in the queue and be denied access to their last because their, the machine did not recognize them. more to tell you by the smaller we are fi rated homes in washington and new york linked to the russian, businessman and billionaire, all of their a pasco tied cones on a us sanctions list. the bureau later confirmed the search was authorized by a court. a representative of dera, pasco has dismissed claims. the rates were connected to a criminal investigation at his foreign project went to one of those rated homes. them. well,

it was an eventful tuesday morning here outside the home of old dairy pasco, right? i could see f b, i agents are still coming through his 15000000 dollar mansion here on the north, west side of d. c. a for money. they don't know this name, but for some they are member who is tied with paul man of fort a former campaign chairman of donald trump, who was convicted on fraud charges, and then eventually pardoned by donald trump in his final month and office according to an f b, i spokeswoman agents were conducting a quote, court authorized law enforcement activity, but didn't provide any more details as to why the f b. i was there. the property was surrounded by yellow tape, giving restricted access only to the f b i. except when towing away is car in the front driveway, 53 year old dairy pasco was sanctioned back in 2018 by the trumpet, ministration, along with about 2 dozen other kremlin officials with close ties to president vladimir putin following alleged russian meddling and the 2016 presidential

election, the latest rate is just another setback for dary pasco, who recently suit over the sanctions and a judge dismissed his lawsuit back in june. and a 2016 court filing dairy pasco said he had difficulty getting a visa to travel to the us, but was able to use his diplomatic passport to visit new york 10 different times since 2009. many in the dc neighbourhood, however, say on some of those trips, he did visit the home and stay at the house, reviewing renovations. however, no word on the last time he actually visited the property no moments ago as of this broadcast, we actually saw the f b. i tell away one of jerry pasco vehicles as to why the f b. i has not said they're not giving a news conference this afternoon whatsoever at this point, but we also do know that the u. s. has sanctioned dairy, pascoe's companies including his, the aluminum giant united company, russo and basic elements now, di pasco, vehemently denies any wrong. willing says that this is kind of

a tactic for the united states to slander him, to arm ruin his wealth, his reputation, and his hard earned global assets. however, according to forbes, he is worth $4900000000.00 for r t and fair in france, act. but keep on that one, this next professors from top universities in the u. k. say they're being harassed by trans activists for simply expressing their views over 200 academics and have signed an open letter now calling out the alleged abuse. this is not just an issue of freedom of expression. it's also an issue of harassment and discrimination. universities are creating and intimidating and hostile environment for stuff and students who recognize that sex matters. transact of his argue, they're simply defending the rights their community, they say, but non profit organization sex. martin says they've been 80 cases in the last 5 years of harassment and no platforming of academics expressing traditional views

about gender affected universities include oxford and cambridge. we heard in fact, from an oxford associate professor who says, faculty and students alike and no afraid of expressing their views about gender. there are a lot of universities which are not protecting academic frame freedom and allowing particularly female academics to be harassed and also younger. younger faculty and students who are too fearful to, to say what they really think about issues around 6 agenda as well as other issues . universities don't care about academic freedom, university vice chancellors. and you know, the administrators in university don't care. i think the problem is, is that some particular arguments, some particular perspectives, that trend, some trans people he hold, not all of them have become institutionalized, almost like a kind of religious dogma within the university. so that become almost like an official doctrine and official orthodoxy within universities. and i think that's not right now. what we're calling them on is that the equal rights are commission i

. e v e c e h i c to and launch an investigation into this area. because it involves are at this point to involve more than just academic freedom, involves this of discrimination against our people, with particular beliefs and at discrimination on grounds of sex. she's joining us. i'm just bringing up with a breaking news. a talked about 5 minutes or so ago, a recap of what's coming in from the syrian capital damascus. their local state tv reporting 13 people have been killed in an explosion on the syrian army bus reports just to explosive devices, went off another bomb was diffused, apparently by engineering units. as we get more on that throughout the day, we will keep you posted. i'm back in half an hour, but that is a wrap of what we're talking about so far. keep abreast of on you sent a r t dot com, already have a social media including a break in story on x programs and you will part of the world are on a 30 shortly for you, but for not reporting from moscow. kevin, i went on the rest of the team. wish you a great day?

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