ah, hi, this alice hop headline here with our t crisis talks between joe biden and vladimir putin are under way ultimately triggered by the tensions over ukraine. and here at our t, we speak exclusively to the russian president's spokes person. just to make it clear with rhetoric and coming from the u. s. and e u leaders sounds pretty aggressive. we see plenty of fake news about russia allegedly planning an aggressive invasion. breaking news here were naughty international to people at killed and for injured of a shooting at a public services center. in se moscow, the pope condemned the so called inclusive language or the e. you saying it threatens that blocks very existence while comparing it even to that of the nazi regime. whistleblower and the british foreign office says that you

pay fail to help thousands of people desperate to flee the taliban in afghanistan. ah . or 7 o'clock on tuesday night, here in moscow. this is auntie international. a very warm welcome to you. so high stakes talk to right now taking place between the russian and us presidents. the video conference comes and made media speculation of a possible russian invasion of ukraine, despite moscow's repeated assurances that has no such plans. then again, you also have to consider the fact of the increased nato activity along russia, southern border, and that of the black sea, a lot of warships in that region right now. though at the start of the online summit, the 2 liters seem to exchange a nice warm welcome radius greetings, mister president. hello. unfortunately, last time i said we didn't get to see one another to g 20. okay. next time we meet,

we do it in person or crossing lateral, corresponding ortiz or saskia taylor southgate. but we've just seen that the short clip right there and he was talking to appear that they were pretty friendly at the start. what are your expectations? was that me with those very was the much anticipated pretty high stakes video conference call between the russian on u. s. president kicked off brought him a putin somewhere in the kremlin to my left. he saw bite and that in the white house situation room, it is the 1st time that they had been seeing each other face to face will bit virtually since that summit in geneva back in june. but if you believe the u. s. president, he's hoping that he'll be able to shake his washing counsel on hand pretty soon the next g 20 summit. in fact, now how long these talks are going to los animals? the big question, what if anything will come out of them? that will probably only become clear in a couple of hours times in the meantime, we'll after speculating that said, there is quite a lot to speculate on because there are

a lot of topics on the table according to the white house from cyber security to strategic stability to the general state of usaa russia ties, but undoubtedly the main topic of today's call will be ukraine. washington is absolutely convinced that russia is planning some kind of invasion of its neighbor . the media has almost hysterically been reporting about russian troops on russian soil, albeit along the border with ukraine's will got to such an extent that some papers even printing a potential battle pants of the crime. just to give you an idea of the fear that is being drummed up in the lead up. and this is all, despite the fact that i must go and need a couple of ask, okay, miss i, look, we have actually no intention or plan to invade any country, quite frankly, with our military dogs and our own land is really our own business. so i think from the american perspective, as those talks are ongoing right now, biden is probably expressing his solidarity with ukraine. he's also showing his intent to deter the perceived russian threatened and aggression. i'm and i think it

is safe to say that in the lead up to this neither by den, nor his act of faith, antony blinkin of shy away from bellicose language an ant ultimatum which sells a slightly, perhaps undermined washington's claims that they only want a stable ties with moscow because as the kremlin spokesperson noted, hostile language and frenetic, finger pointing on, usually conducive to com dialogue. because which had the rhetoric coming from the u . s. and e u leaders sounds pretty aggressive. we see plenty of fake news about russia allegedly planning an aggressive invasion at the same time, no one toaster kiff, nor warns key of against even thinking of a military intervention in the done yet, scandal, guns, conflict, and given the complicates a background of us, russian relations it will be a difficult discussion for the leaders. the presidents obviously have the need to talk to each other. and even in the most strained of moments when attitudes are not what i will call rational or sober books,

emotionally magnified. so as the escalation gets stronger every day than the president's, you obviously bear the responsibility, feel the need to discuss the issues. now, part of that hostile rhetoric is warning of consequences if an incursion what to take place. mainly economic functions ought to partly what is being drawn up right now from sanctions of individuals to energy produces to the north stream to pipeline. that also does seem to be another mutual option on the table. and that is essentially kicking russia out of the swift international payment system, which is a course used by banks all over the world. now what's interesting is that the e u has a party been consulted on this and it says that it's on board. but while washington and brussels are indeed projecting this image of the united western front, they're all going to take on russia together. that do seem to be a couple of dissident voices, voices of wariness, and also voices urging caution. in a case like this, diplomacy has to lead. we've got to be very careful. you've always got to take

potential adversary's seriously. was have started because of potential miscalculations before, throughout history, us for what moscow wants to achieve from today's call. only a couple of hours go. it said that it is only ever seeking a good ties with the u. s. however, there are course, a couple of major sticking points. and i think we will know by now that one of them is nato. i in recent months be seen tension site, you ratchet off in the black sea region, not as nato spy planes. and warships are really just a stone's throw away from russia's borders. so for the credit, this isn't our right provocations, yet not the example. an aggressive attempt by nature to show that look, guys, we're here, we're going to kind of strangle you with our nato flag. we're knocking at your door . so nato is moscow's red line. this is the bus. well, that's been going around the last couple of days. allison fight and cool said he doesn't accept anyone else's red line, so that some tone of reconciliation of abby you've heard one of. c the moscow has

also stated that it's, it's, it is always sad rather that ukraine becoming a member state of the military alliance is a no go, because it perceives it as a security threat. so i think it's very likely that president putin will be looking for guarantees, black and white, written on paper, not a handshake that someone cannot say, white around doing that, but legally binding agreements that will rule out for the nato expansion towards the east and saki, the deployment of weaponry on russia's borders, not sometimes of expectation what's going on as for the outcome. but of course, everyone's got their views, but one, particularly a familiar face and well known public figure chipped him with his 2 pennies wealth and what the outcome would be. this is not a match that should even be allowed. this is take the new england patriots playing your high school football team. that's what you have right now. sorry, not much shar cesta from tromp widens negotiation skills, thought, i mean, putting aside the job more seriously. there is some water sudden,

some general consensus that there is not going to be any tangible progress here. and i do think that i am having a bit of days y'all, because i was in geneva in june. the summit and the energy was very similar, depress quite monic about that. there was a lot of anticipation, lot of expectations. the language certainly coming out from the white house is very similar, quite belligerent and saying, but we're going to press a peach and we're going to send a very strong message. we're not going to take no for an answer. and in the end that wasn't really a breakthrough. i think it's very similar situation is going to play out here. and so i need to have what a tricky relationship they've got to navigate through a history of mutual suspicion and mistrust. cutting through that will be a very difficult task, and i would probably add that it's probably not made any easier by the fact that already going into this. we've got one side to saying we don't accept anyone's red line. we want things the way that we want them. we're not willing to compromise. and not, of course, all despite the bi ministrations claim that it brought back diplomacy. i, saskia. thank you. it's return to our breaking news for you now here on the program

of a shooting of the se of moscow, we understand 2 people were killed and 4 injured after a man opened fire at a public services center. a nicky, aaron sent this report from the scene one has been seems of absolute chaos and panic on this relatively quiet street to the southeast of moscow this afternoon. after a 45 year old man opened fire in the city service center right behind me. as you said, killing 2 people and injuring for others. now we believe that one of those killed today was an employee at the service center and it has been confirmed that one of those injured was a 10 year old girl. now the conditions of those 4 people who were injured today is said to be very serious. it's unclear at this point. what exactly led this man to open fire on these people here today. although it's been reported that there was perhaps an altercation or an arguments over the wearing of protective face mosques, after which he opened fire and then tried to flee the sea. now pituitary,

there was an off duty police officer, am in the service center at the time he managed to chase off to him and restrain him until the police arrived and arrested the man and, and took him in for questioning. jamara boucher, mr. i was at my workplace and had a far alarm as well as the sound similar to gunshots than i saw, a man running towards the exit of the building. at that moment, i made a decision to detain him, and i ran off to him. he resisted arrest. i saw he was carrying a knife and a forearm. when i was detaining him, i made sure he couldn't use these weapons and neutralized him. then it was found that this man actually had not the knife, a gun, but also a knife on his person. and that man that off duty police officer could be in line for an award for that tremendous active bravery today. now the moscow mer answer gets beyond in he has of course expect expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. they lost their lives here to day and also express the hope for a speedy recovery. for those 4 who were injured in this sad,

this tragic turn of events. today, we did hear from one our most resident who lives close to the scene of today's shooting. huh. the voices shooting. they said that the man came in did not want to put a mask on and says, is shooting. 2 people were killed and a young girl was taken away in an ambulance. i was at home on the internet. i saw sir ben expressed his condolences that the shooting happened at the public services center. i decided to look out the window and the ambulances fire man will raise a here. there will continue covering this breaker new story here on our team, but also online as well. that it auto dot com or pope frances has warned the e u that is in danger of bringing about its own downfall. if it doesn't tone down his efforts to impose one way of thinking for all even compared his methods to that of a nazi regime. he was referring to a european commission drive to make official communications more inclusive. as artists, charlotte, what's, you know, explains pope frances,

essentially condemning the european commission in likening it to the nazi regime. he also offered a warning saying that brussels shouldn't be moving on a path towards this type of woke language. this is what the pontiff had to say in history. many, many dictatorships have tried to do this kind of thing. think of napoleon, think of the nazi dictatorship, the communist one. it is a fashion of a watered down secularism, distilled water. it is something that throughout history hasn't worked well that document was cancels last week after a fires storm of criticism with politicians across the block describing it is lacking common sense. now they also said that the commission was trying to cancel christmas. why? well, one of the guidelines within that document said that people shouldn't say christmas can be stressful. and there was the idea of saying you shouldn't ask people for

their christian name. now this idea of inclusive language is something that the commission president herself on de leon has in the past, backed and said she wants to move towards. but this document which contained many other examples like not greeting people as ladies and gentlemen, because that wasn't inclusive enough and saying you couldn't describe something as being man made because that would be sexist, was just a step too far. and as a result, the commission has had to make an embarrassing you tune and delete this document. now pope frances also talked about the idea of a document like this essentially weakening democracy. he said when national values are being sacrificed and this is something that was meant to unify europe as instead what it's done is shown even deeper divisions. and the pope himself warned that something like this could cause the fall of the

e u itself. brussels must be careful not to take the path of ideological colonial, like zation, which could end up dividing countries and causing the european union to fail. well, was that document was cancelled last week. what it does is it raises questions about the political set up of the commission itself. and i say that because the commission is supposed to dot the eyes cross the t's, make sure that any document that's published is exactly what it wants to be. so the doesn't to track the sort of criticism we've seen over this document, and as it would have verified that before publication, it really begs the question, is this the direction that the commission wants to move in a direction where we have a world without christmas? plenty, most of the company on the program is a recent quarter past the hour here in moscow on the offensive over india's defensive maneuvers and washington reacts with anger. moscow supplies new daily

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dares sinks. we dare to ask oh, did you say program here? one r t. so thousands of people desperate to flee the taliban in afghanistan, which is left behind without much help from the british foreign office. as i understand this is due to a lack of computers, a staff, and an unwillingness of workers to do extra hours. an extraordinary conditions of the claims and these allegations come from one civil servant who is blowing the whistle on what went on during

a dining report. i estimate fewer than 5 per cent of these people have received any assistance. it is clear that some of those left behind have since been murdered by the taliban. her majesty's government therefore transported animals which were not at risk of harm at the direct expense of evacuating british nationals and people at risk of imminent murder. including interpreters who had served with the british army. well, what we have had to day are serious allegations, not just the gangs dominic, rather than foreign secretary, but against the government as a whole. really, this is a whopping 40 page document, a testimony of some really jaw dropping allegations from raphael marshall. he's a 25 year old former foreign office, civil servant. now he's on a rather senior level then. but actually he was on the front line here in westminster. dealing i with numerous things for the foreign office at a particularly dark time when cobble was being seized by the taliban, he has now put down on paper really damming allegations against the government. and

all of these mess ups, multiple mess ups in whitehall, particularly around processing applications and email requests from people and to try and get out of the country. he says that these mistakes cost lives and ultimately left tens of thousands of people behind. i estimate between 75150000 people applied for evacuation. many of these emails were not read. they were usually over 5000 unread emails in the inbox at any given moment, including many unread e mails dating from early in august. these emails were desperate an urgent. well, this whistleblower claims that on one particular afternoon at the heights of the issue when people are trying to leave the country, he was manning a desk, a dealing with all of these emails completely alone. he says it was a shift that he actually volunteered to do, had he not have volunteered, will there be nobody on that desk dealing with the thousands of applications coming

through as to the criteria of the evacuation? well, he says that was so vague an ad hoc, the what we were seeing is cleaners and shafts working for the bbc were being rescued. but those work has interpreters on the front line alongside the british army was simply and not then today we also have additional controversy surrounding pan fall thing, who's an ex marine who had an animal's charity in afghanistan at the time. he, in fact, allegedly, according to this whistle blow was given priority, and therefore it seemed to be that human beings were not being prioritized, but animals were being rescued. now that is something that downing street has now denied, but dominic ra he was speaking earlier today and he said the united kingdom just did its best. at the time, i regularly checked that we were properly resourced. we did everything we could, but i found some form of posters, a journal, the ones you're not going to be lifting those who amongst need of you hope that's

not even the half of it, allegedly, the team in white or how they woeful lack of knowledge of the region of woeful lack of knowledge of afghanistan, but also at this whistle blower looks at the entire work ethos in white tool at the time. we know that dominic rob was completely nowhere to be seen. in fact, it was on holiday sunbathing as cobble was falling, but that's the attitude that somewhat filter that down the department with numerous people working from home and the mentality of all, well, somebody else will deal with that. he says that that was very dominant. that was a predominant feature in white tool at the time. so these are the allegations that are coming out today. it's all unfolding throughout the day here in the united kingdom, dominic rob himself has already been question numerous times that if all of this is found to be true, will he then resign? of course, his position still remains as the deputy prime minister here in the united kingdom questions off for how much longer will he have that position as these allegations

are getting from bad to weiss are crossing live. i've heard rafa hot tacker, a former afghan interpreter joining us now from birmingham in the u. k. very good evening to you. thanks for joining us here in archie. i understand you've been trying to get your former colleagues out of afghanistan kit, can you describe for us your experience with dealing with a home office? i mean is, is it really is chaotic as a whistleblower alleges? hi, good evening. i'm. well, i'm from b a day when cobbled collapsed in the hands of the taliban as the flights wall flying out of a cobble and the rescuing a number of our colleagues in the u. k. partners. although it was a very current situation in afghanistan, it was a chaos. however, it could have been managed much, much better way to, to evacuate as many of those hortner as an interpreters or who have served the british government in frontline, in the past 20 years. in war against terrorism,

however, i know that there was mismanagement, not only in the frontal or in, in cobbled city at the airport gate, but also here in the u. k. all those who are trying to reach people in the government and they were, they did. the response was very slow. and for many, it was too late for one of the soldiers or the the sniper of the triple 3 who got killed in front of his family just before he was killed. he sent me a message that a brother. ah, i'm sure you know me. i'm one of the triple trees. i was worked alongside you in the british forces in afghanistan. i've sent you all my documents. please make sure that i am on the list. however, today he is dead. ah, although he did try to get into the a put which he couldn't, he didn't receive his paperwork on time, which resulted him in, in, in that kind of a situation where women were very sorry for your loss. were very sorry for your

loss. mister ha, type i wanted to ask you exactly about what you just mentioned because the foreign office whistleblower raphael marshall claims that some of those left behind have since been killed by the taliban. and so you're saying that's an accurate statement . are you? yes i am. there are at least 11 of the triple trees been killed, as i'm aware of ah, some of the other african as ex army soldiers, special forces soldiers who have been killed. many people have tried to flee to the other countries. interpreters have fleet to the 3rd country. it ran pakistan where they are currently waiting to hear any response from the government. oh, government is not only taking their time in getting back to them with any kind of responses. many of them have been refused, and instilled, or, you know, in, in, in that kind of situation. so, i mean obviously look is a very complicated situation when you're trying to get people out of a foreign country that has been a,

was own for the past 2 decades. what one criticism from the whistleblower is that all applications to get out had to be in english because the foreign office had no dot a or pashto interpreters. a has a language barrier prevented many afghans from getting helped you think bob, i've provided a to d. r i minister office home office i, minister of defense and foreign office. a list of almost $700.00 of those are very in need of partners of us, which included interpreter workers, cleaners, mechanics, triple trees, triple force, the special forces. so some 700 people whose name were in english, bare job titles while mentioned the units were mentioned, their telephone numbers were bare and their e mails were there. so pretty much i did. the government has do not have any excuse of not, ah, processing beard applications as soon as possible. ah, many of them i will say 90 percent of those are still in afghanistan or in some of

them have moved to the other 3rd country or where they're, they're facing difficulties. where as we understand here at r t you're, you're still trying to help our friends and comrades get out of afghanistan and a raffle attack we, we are, we wish you the best of luck with your continued endeavors. a former african interpreter joining us live your naughty. thank you very much. thank you. fresh deliveries of rushes as 400 serve as to where miss our system are on their way to india or washington had threatened to sanction new del, if it didn't stop shopping for arms and moscow. but despite that, the indian and russian foreign ministers inked a new deal on monday. the deal is being implemented. we have seen the attempts of the us to undermine this co operation and force india to follow washington's orders and its views on the development of the region. but our indian friends have firmly stated and clearly explained that they are a sovereign country, and they will decide for themselves whose weapons to buy, and which partners to choose. the diversity of agreements and memorandums of

understanding signed shows the multifaceted nature of all by natural partnership supplies have begun this month and will continue to happen. the arms deal was part of a major india russia summit, which also saw the to his eyes prolong a joint defense program for the next 10 years. and sign a record number of a group agreement and trade and energy is a quick recap of how it went. ah, friend, b hugs. strategic partnership. fine to place you around. now, 2 important negotiations. a lot of options with

issues on the table. energy. vaccines. ah, and military cooperation including his full 100 missile contracts, major, irritant, in india, nate relation with figures please. earlier we spoke to the director of the monopole university. i'm putting job who told us the west should not be a feel threatened. i should say, by the close friendship between russia and india, it is so completely of destructive for the united states and its western allies. to post you are to front strategy of been dead in the midst of, let's face it,

a new gold war. the u. s. is a valued security partner, but it makes absolutely no sense to have a 2nd run. the prime minister on boarding is very clear that the russians have enough friends for about 60 years. russia has always helped india dick the question of nuclear submarines. the americans were refusing to give nuclear summaries. well, russia stepped in, russia is not an enemy of the western world. it is really never b and to consider me is wrong. and i'm very glad that my prime minister, not in the movie, does not big that similar mistake is not heading down. that he's continuing on a path of about 70 years, which is a dose defense cooperation with russia. that's a nice cost because our here lie from moscow and arty international. thanks very much for spending a time with us here. a unit o'neill, my colleague,

is here at the desk and half an hour's time. i do hope you can join him soon. ah, how that money printing is driving up the energy costs and it's gonna force russia into the u. n. for that to happen. nato and american military's got it. germany, i call it here 1st. you say, i'm crazy, but that's what i'm calling ah, is it, are you being, are you?

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