ah, patients in the u. k. are reportedly having to wait up to 50 hours for a bed in accident and emergency wards that says the pandemic puts fresh pressure on hospitals. every step of the way that mismanaged the crisis. aside from the vaccine rodeo or the re personnel, any faith in the current government us social media giant facebook has to shell out millions of dollars in a discrimination takes after giving preference to hiring foreigners over americans . u. k. schools are installing facial recognition cameras in canteens to make it easier for pupils to pay for their dinners. but some parents think it's a violation of privacy. and crisis talks on afghanistan are underway in moscow with taliban leaders among the participants.

ah, it's 2 pm and a beautiful autumn day in the russian capital. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to our team, international staff shortages, soaring coven cases, and pressure on the n h. s. have all led to another health crisis in the u. k. it's being reported that in parts of the country, patients are waiting for almost 50 hours to get a bed in accident and emergency units. in one case, a patient reportedly spent 47 hours in line at the royal preston hospital in lancashire. while in suffolk, teenager, with serious mental health problems waited for almost 48 hours in the emergency room, according to local media, the chest foundation trust for the area said the wait was due to a lack of specialist facilities. luc winchester, who had a relative, affected by the crisis, told us what happened to their case. he woke up at 11 o'clock and his legs

just wouldn't work and he fell out bed. we didn't find him until 3 o'clock where my dad's going to go. cool. where he shouldn't heard from him when we called for the ambulance initially they said not to leave him. oh, in case the best spinal injury off white, you saw a couple of hours my my dad saw so i'll try to hurry them up a little bit. try to finding 9 again to ask when i sent you an estimate arrival that direct him to 111, he would then direct him back to 9992. and i'm running that eventually we speak to a chap, he suggested how to move him back into his c and how to get him up and we did that is improving. but he probably still required medical assistance, but insinuated to us that we're not even a senior. they said, would you, would you like to cancel the ambulance on everything, but the ambulance would day and at that point we took them at their value and said,

yeah, okay, we'll cancel that and then we'll give him his dinner and get him into bed, et cetera. but of course, over the night i stay the night make sure that you know the night these conditions wesson's and in the morning i'd call for another ambulance report say 91 percent of hospital beds were occupied in england as of last friday that says the number of people waiting for hospital treatment, their hit record height according to the n a chest, almost 6000000 people are on waiting lists and the coming winter will only intensify the pressure. at the same time, the case health minister has admitted there aren't enough staff to man the countries emergency telephone lines 999111. the health minister added that a detailed plan of action is being put together and would be unveiled soon. but luke winchester is not convinced every step the way that mismanaged the crisis aside from the vaccine roll. now, i 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 fully believe that when the person from 111 told us to talk to 999. i'm under the person from 9 i. 9 chose 2 to 111. i'm sure that they believe that's what. yeah, that's what i'm told to do. there's no real simple answer as to where i think they're gonna fix it, as with their actions sofa appear to be pretty annette. on tuesday, the u. k. registered the highest number of daily cove deaths since march and the government extended its emergency powers related to the pandemic. for another 6 months, demonstrators including anti baxters took to the streets to protest this and other anti cove admit. now, in other news, u. s. social media giant facebook is having to pay out $14000000.00 in a civil case over discrimination. it was accused of giving preference to hiring

foreign workers over americans. facebook. he is not above the law and must comply with all nations federal civil rights laws, which prohibit discriminatory recruitment in hiring practices. the tech giant gave certain positions mainly to temporary visa holders. prosecutors claim up to $2600.00 us workers, lost out as a result, facebook was find almost $5000000.00 for it and is paying out over $9000000.00 in compensation to the victims. the lawsuit against the tech giant was filed last year by the u. s. justice department. back then, the trump administration pushed the biggest tech companies to hire more americans for permanent positions, instead of temporary foreign workers. legal analysts, jennifer breeden explained to us why facebook in particular adopted that policy a stuck and some of these other companies will watch these immigrants. it's a way for a stuck 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 at the company like facebook, with a lot of money would be able, their, their high priced attorneys, or be able to find a case that had merit less claims, but again, this being brought by the department of justice itself, i think, is 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 see where we are different, you know, we, we, we, we can be held accountable or not about law. when in reality they've been working

hand in hand for a long time. and facebook has been acting as an art of most of many political federal agencies in order to silence political opponents. the introduction of facial recognition payment systems at a number of schools at canteens in scotland has provoked the anger of privacy. campaigners. critics say pupils haven't been properly informed about the potential dangers of the technology and fear that it's overly intrusive. 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 guess who bought estelle. i don't see tax just to get a school meal. we're supposed to live in a democracy. no. a security state face scanning can now be used in 9 north air sher

schools to pay for school lunches. the company behind the technology says it's cov, it's secure, and can speed up queues as transactions take. just 5 seconds. the system could soon be rolled out in more schools. the local authorities have backed the move saying it makes canteens more efficient and provides opportunities for students to use innovative technology. they also added that 97 percent of children or their parents consented to the use of facial recognition unit. o'neil discussed the new technology with former independent police advisor, sandra glenn, and with radio host and journalist john god, it makes life easier. and clearly in this code era in scotland, that's why they want to do it to cut down the risk of transmission. and then we sometimes get ourselves in all areas about things. we don't need to get area about if this is more efficient. if you've got a card anyway, you know, when you gone to, 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 cannon. jordan spaces for the

payment for their lunches or whatever. it doesn't really helps credit 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. why? again, across our population, the test on school children is a little bit of a farm each. i'm surprised at the 90 percent class parents assigned their content, but 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 to just for a progressive because it's probably going to happen down the line anyway, so may as well get on board. now sandra, everybody that you should jump in and be on it on on it as it happens. but when that technology is 8781 percent unpaid mobile lot was black and brown gay. then i think there's some good morning, we've done it 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 be but everybody do except sandra is right that we need to have my make sure this 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. let's 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 this is a good place to test, to actually a, and in something as innocuous as our children get in their school meals. but i always think we need to know where that date has been, how, how it's being held on what is being used full. i accept the educational so she has 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 base recognition that's used out there for this type of service can sometimes cause of benz. i would hate to have an as yeah, child of color late in the queue and be denied access to that. not just because if the machine did not recognize them. while the security situation in afghanistan is deteriorating, taliban leaders are in moscow for talks focusing on the humanitarian crisis that has gripped the war torn country. 11 countries are participating in the conference . now to get more on that, we're going across live to our senior correspondent, more gasdio for more or i'd what's exactly being thrashed out at this meeting of the a closed door session is now over. they have come out and said representatives of the russian federation that there will be a joint statement. all countries present that is of got to start all of its

neighbors as well as many countries in the region. one of them have said that it is incredibly important to prevent this humanitarian catastrophe. that we're witnessing unfolded of gustavo, to prevent that from escalated, getting even worse. millions of people, more than 10000000 people. a 3rd of, of gustavo population and now and on the verge of starvation, there is also the problem of medicines because aid the humanitarian aid as well as funds have been restricted and frozen as a result of the taliban. i tell about said to pallet, and there has been as of now, no indication that those assets will be unfrozen or more humanitarian aid will be delivered. we also had represented as a representatives of the russian federation as well as or of the countries present . they will sign the student state who at say that while there is the understanding that the taliban cannot be encouraged, there is also an understanding that by punishing the taliban by restricting it from

foreign markets or all their money. that in that case, the population of of got hist on the people, the ordinary folk ah, are punished that they suffer at. nevertheless, the taliban has said that they are open to receiving foreign aid. the. busy they want friendly relations with the international community, but so long as their religious principles and their sovereignty are respected. one peaceful afghanistan is in the interest of all parties involved, just as we want positive relations with others. we also seek positive relations from the outside. we are committed to the principles of islamic sharia law, any aid or assistance that has been given. if it's in line with ours law principles, we don't have a problem with it. we are already receiving some humanitarian aid venue. a lot of attention has also been paid to the makeup of the new taliban government in which russian,

the and many other countries around the world. this he knew inclusive, is he, they, she no diversity to him. she passed students, which is the predominant of his ethnicity of the taliban. the ministerial posts of all gone to the hog, live taliban officials at people on tara, one to the list. and this is something that will have to change says russian, other countries are present here. they all want a more inclusive african government that represents the diversity of, of, got hist on both politically and socially and ethnically. so there is also that according to the russian foreign minister, where you are, shoot, moved is duly. we are convinced that it's time to mobilize the efforts of the world community to provide cobble with effective financial, economic, and she monetary assistance. in order to prevent a crisis and to curb migration flows, we expect responsible behaviors towards afghan citizens over 1st and foremost from

western countries. 20 year presence brought about occurrence deplorable situation grew and didn't in any way contribute in strengthening industrial or economic spheres. and afghanistan, critical as i say, the emphasis now is to prevent the degradation of the security situation. the humanitarian disaster unfolded and have got to stop that is to deliver a than to enable the taliban to tackle the myriad terrorist threats that it faces. we heard earlier the attacks against the taliban a on the up and we witness them. and during the last weeks of our state of got to stop, we witnessed them arising in the number and, and quantity. there is the sense that if the situation is allowed to degrade even further, the fix will be felt all around of got a song throughout the region, be a tubs of terrorism, terrorist crossing buddhism, perhaps waging rule,

waging attacks against 3rd night 3rd party nations. but also the, the degradation of living conditions and of got a sandwich out. we'll ready on the verge of catastrophe. parties more gasdio, thanks a lot for those updates. and meanwhile, along the afghan border, russia and its post. soviet allies are staging major military drills. hundreds of tanks and thousands of soldiers have amassed and a major show of strength, and rising tensions in the turbulent region reporting back their ortiz eggers dawn of 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 the action is intense. sometimes it's simply impossible to see what's going on. so much sand and dust as 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, 3 of these bills are going to be used up in the course of the next few hours. these are the grad multiple rocket launchers 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 infancy. you name as it seems, only the nuclear branch seems to be left out, but that's well for everybody's good. really. all this fools here is obliterating the jews and mountain slopes, which are a mere 8 kilometers away from the african border. a rule demonstration of power intended to behead much further afield than where the artillery is fooling. hamish

dawn of reporting from tajikistan r t. the syrian army has confirmed 14 soldiers have been killed in a terrorist attack on a military bus in damascus. here you can see the charred remains of the vehicle. the military says the blast was caused by 2 explosive devices planted on the bus. a bomb disposal team recovered and diffused a 3rd on detonated device, damascus. police chief has called the attack, an act of cowardice, and the area was immediately corded off after the incident. now to get more on this, we go live to our guests amar walk off director of genesis a british think tank that focuses on crises in the middle east. thanks lot for joining us. first, i want to just focus on this terrorist attack and central damascus. i mean, this is the 1st and several years. what's your view on it? weather and thanks for having me. yes, this has been, you know, it's been a long time since an act as such, has happened in damascus. it, you know,

illustrates the progress of, you know, securing the area of the mascot and securing much of the syria under government control because there hasn't been, or haven't been in there, such incident to many incidents or such around syria, i. e, under government control. so, or this is a breach, but you know, it's, it's not unheard of. you could argue that a group of, let's call them terrorists for the time being, at least if they could organize themselves, they could have certain munitions and they could control where and when they could be detonated. and this is a sort of message to the syrian people of the muscles of the people of damascus that there and they shouldn't be feeling so much secure. and is this connected somehow to an operation or a military operation against a rebel forces or terrorist forces in areas of it live or not?

we don't know, it could be you know, aid because there are conflicting interests between such groups as well. so we're not so sure yet, but definitely this is a measure, a message that there are certain groups that are ready and can strike at the heart of damascus. while there have been some reports that the government has responded with her with shelling in the id lab region, but those are just reports. how do you, how do you think president assad should respond to this attack? her? well, 1st of all, i don't think that a strike in it live is a response for a detonation of a bus in damascus. i don't personally believe so. the reason being is that there are continuous operations and, and around it live, there are m is airplanes taken to the sky, either monitoring or bombing specific target. so this is happening on a daily basis. it's not like a full scale operation that is taking place over there. but you could argue that

something is happening and probably in preparation for a full scale operation. so i wouldn't connect the 2 or the way to response or to respond. sorry, by the searing and government would be too rude to the country of every single terrorist enclave. basically as long as there are terrorists who find safe harbor inside syria and who could connect and go through the gaps, slipped through the gaps. no, they could still be may him and bloodshed for a long time to come. so what the people of syria would expect from their government is to end that are sort of threat. and this is how the syrian government, the way we see it, is going to respond. i. e. n a step up a, you know, a step up their efforts in order to rid the country of those groups who are mainly

at the moment, operating from the in lip area from out, you know, inside the italy barrier. why would you say this attack reflects on the security forces in central damascus on their ability to respond to terrorist attacks. in general it's definitely a test. but as we see in many attacks or terrorist attacks over the world in it only takes one failure to, ah, you know, earth stop throwing fingers of you know, being inadequate or not doing enough or so. but actually, what we can also think about is how many other suicide bombs and such terrorist attacks that are being foiled by such and security forces. i don't think this one breach or a similar breaches would call into and the ability of the security forces. you know, if it goes into a big trend, perhaps you could see some changes in the security forces,

the leaderships and so on. but, you know, people arby in a stick to the, for the view from so inside syria, in general, and perhaps damascus and specific is that this war isn't ending. and they wouldn't distinguish, for example, between a suicide bomb and inside damascus. that happened this morning. and an attack on a gas pipeline a few weeks ago. and that plunged the whole country in the entire country into darkness because it affected the ability of generating power and electricity. so they see this along with the sanctions by the way, as a full package of a war against them. so if they're not going to be going specific, obviously they will, you know, try to be a little bit more careful. but the situation in damascus has improved greatly. i could report to you over the past few years, especially since the adjacent areas of eastern damascus and southern damascus of a hoot law have been liberated from the terrorist in 2019,

2018 am our work off. thanks a lot for joining us on the program and giving us that input now to guatemala, where former soldiers have rioted at the national congress building, claiming they haven't been duly compensated for war time service. hundreds of protesters stormed through dates into a parking lot at the building, some armed with machetes as they demanded compensation for military service during the countries decades long civil war. they set fire to several vehicles as well as some offices bordering the area. police use tear gas to disperse the demonstrators . a last story for this news, our germany's green party widely touted to foreign part of the next ruling coalition has accused russia in poker with gas. its leader says moscow might try to blackmail the e u by turning off the tap, so to say as to pressure the block into approving nord string to russia is hit back

with a spate of similar allegations saying it's ready to deliver more gas, but it's simply received no new orders. 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 in 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, but they were absolutely ready to supply more of book 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? yes, i repeat, we've already increased supplies at some point that 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, let me explain. this man has long been accused of using the gas monopoly in his country called gas rum 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 boeing them with gas, or maybe at least try a few requests for extra gas supplies. a few days later, an important man whose meant to act as a unified voice of these worried governments that i mentioned says this,

an increase in prices for energy has deep geopolitical brutes. it's part of a geopolitical battle. russia has on it all, 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 that the will russia never used? this is a weapon letter. we're happy to do ack strategy. 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 always easy to blame someone else for the problems you are having. and i

see this her move in the a to rings off, which was it, bo, 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 her. 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? that's the news for this. our stay tuned for more in just about half an hour. ah, ah,

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