a the pentagon says it won't hold any one liable for a botched drone strike in august that killed 10 civilians including 7 children just a day before the u. s. finished, it's pull out from afghanistan. vladimir putin calls for immediate talks to stop further nato expansion towards russia's borders and a telephone conversation with british prime minister boers. johnson that's made ongoing speculation over the situation in ukraine and accusations towards russia and the sudanese who say they've been betrayed and had their dreams destroyed. we've got a special report about a 1000 strong protests gripping the capital since their october's coup ah,

o 4 o'clock in the morning here in moscow, russia and you were watching our to international. my name is donald quarter. welcome to the program. no us personnel will be held liable for a botched drone strike and cool in august the killed 10 civilians including 7 children after the government called it a tragic mistake. the pentagon spokesperson says the decision to refrain from punishment was made after an internal review. do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here st. lou. busy ah

u s. military has apologized for the deadly error, citing a communications breakdown. we discussed the pentagon's position with former u. s. military drone operator. brandon bryant, who was not surprised by the lack of accountability i really think that the united states has lost a knowledge on how to conduct warfare. and it's now a business. they're not going to punish the people that make them money. they're just going to punish the people that are supposed to suppose it enemies and the ones that they test this, munitions on who should be punished, are the officers. they are the one that should be held accountable. they said that there's a breakdown in communication, but that is mostly a lie. m m must have been that there was there, there must been someone miscommunicating something. but they have everything should be in a chat program. like it's not just a radio call instantaneous. you spin up your mess when you shook it takes like 5

minutes to get ready to shoot a messiah so wild. this crew is preparing all the decision making should have already been made. and there should not have been a breakdown of communication. this was not an emergency situation. none was on your fire. no one was under duress. no one was under stress. and so they had all the time in the world to make the decision on whether to shoot or not. archie spoke with the victims, relatives within weeks of the deadly attack as they demanded an objective investigation. our special report on heard voices is presented in full on our website r t dot com. but here's an excerpt i saw thought the sandals belong to malika on the morning of the bombing. she came and kissed me and said, good morning father. it was our last meeting. i will never see her again. my name is amanda maddie. i'm the head of the family that has lost 10 of its members,

and it was around 430 p. m. i left for the market and on the way i met my elder brother who was driving back home. we talked a little bit then he left to go home and i crossed the road to go to the other side . i just crossed the rode on. i heard an explosion. my daughter later told me that she saw a smaller craft, a drone moving around in a circle, which then fired a missile that hit or hold on. i turned to look, but on that of the was dust and smoked louder. yeah, it was a terrible scene. i went into my home on fun, my brother and a nephew. they were critically injured, but still alive and breathing. they later died in hospital. my brother and 9 others were killed in this horrific attack. my brother's daughter, who was soon to get married, also lost her life. another relative was also here, a guest. she was killed. 2

bush maya loves cosmetics. she likes painting her nails. she like dolls very much on the main coals of the instant was the american president planning this attack without any evidence and destroying our family. it was a catastrophe. i say, i says k lived in this house in this house were these children members of ice is a stupid thought without any proof, without any investigation. they attacked us and killed our children, and we will never forgive them. numerous us drone strikes have resulted in unintended deaths, with more than 300 civilians killed in such stripes and afghanistan since 2004, according to the bureau of investigative journalism. brandon bryant again says he reflects on the work of a military drone operator. there is no way that anyone who has ever done this job and sits there watching these people live their daily lives out. cannot look at them and say, these are not people there. people because you go out home when you go out into your own community and you see the same,

keep same types of people doing the same thing. they're going to coffee shops, there, go into bookstores, they're hanging out with their friends and family. there is no disconnect for a drone operator. there's so much connection. like if, if a drone operator were to go over there and to meet the people that they interact with. visually, they would probably have a emotional break down and cry because they would see these people are suffering and no different than themselves. and that we're perpetuating that suffering because of our actions. we're doing it. one of our put in has handled a telephone conversation with british prime minister boris johnson with the situation in ukraine. a main highlight. the president also urged immediate talks to create a global legal framework to stop nato's expansion towards russia's borders. ortiz corresponding, daniel hawkins, has the story. while he talks between the u. k. prominence and russian president follow similar discussions between the presidents of russia and the united states

just a few days ago. and the focus was very much the same ukraine and the tensions on the ukraine, russian border. and after this conversation, it is clear that differences do remain in terms of threat perception, ideas on where exactly the threat is coming from, and where the problems lie. the russian president pointed out ukraine's use of heavy weaponry and combat drones on demarcation line. so i think that as a violation of them is protocols which of course should bid the presence of foreign troops in the break away by region and the use of heavy military weaponry on that location line of lottery. putin pointed out that this use of the weaponry as well as discrimination of russian speakers in ukraine, all of our nations of domains protocols. indeed, the biggest concern for the russian president was the increasing presence of nato military nato troops in ukraine, and indeed nato expansion. eastwards that is something that has been a concern for the russian president for russia for

a number of years and has often been a spinal in the works on improving relations between russia and the west for quite some time. this is the suggestion that blood putin brought to the table in some of the resolving those concerns from both sides. vladimir putin stated the neat, immediately begin negotiations with the aim of working out precise international legal agreements that it would exclude. and if further, nate expansion east and the deployment of weapons threatened in russia, neighboring states, primarily in ukraine. now the crime problem came with things of the thought, a different approach cooler russia, to reduce tensions from their own side. citing the importance of respecting ukraine's sovereignty and integrity. that, of course, comes as a reference to the let's build up. a russian troops on ukraine is border. he did call for all okay, and respectful them, its protocols from both sides though, but it is clear from miss meeting differences do remain between how to resolve this

ongoing crisis in terms of the good news. both lead is the degree that progress had been made on climate change. g suzette, the cult, 26 and glasgow. and did agree that collaboration between moscow and london is crucial to make progress on international issues. so at least some good news box there in the run up to christmas. oscar recently criticized the group of g 7 countries for a statement warning, russia of severe consequences if it pursues it's supposed military aggression against ukraine. russia should be in no doubt that further military aggression against ukraine would have massive consequences and severe costs in response to chris it's i to me as to the of a round of threats towards russia, warnings, all threats. we absolutely understand the position and that is no need to repeat it 10 times. we would like that position to be more balanced. but if we're talking about the need for the escalation, ukraine, we want to see coals for kids to stop the provocative activities on the demarcation

line. western media and high ranking senior officials are alleging that moscow is planning and offensive on its neighbor ukraine, citing russian troop movements near the cute ukrainian border. the kremlin has consistently denied these claims and notes. it can move its troops wherever it wants on its own territory. with the foreign ministry spokeswoman adding that ukraine is being militarized. but going even further, germany's foreign minister stated that russia's newly completed gas pipeline nord stream to might not be given the green light in case of any escalation. earlier we spoke to karen castle, the foreign of foreign, former foreign minister of austria, about many issues, including threats to block the pipeline. there is a text that was written by the american and by the german government in july, in my reading. it's a rather unreadable text because it's very complex. and inter alia,

it's mentioned if there is some sort of military sation of to ukraine conflict, then the china government could to reconsider sanctions. so it's very r ambiguous, the whole thing and had, nobody has a real definition. what is such a situation that the germans will to go back to court till sanctions or that are the u. s. government? what you'll sanctions, there's a lot of our unilateral roberts threats around and the situation is very ambiguous . effect is that contract treaties have to be kept, have to be preserved. and, and if ever, the, what now start tool impedes the consortium of companies or to make this pipeline operate if, which is the expansion of an already existing pipeline than that would yield tremendous problems and, and has have a tremendous impact on german economy in general. because it will mean

a complete loss of credibility in general. this always seems to be here a political will to block it. this political blades blockage has been rising, was for president trump 20172018 because it had less to do with russia and supply of gas to the europeans. that has always been the case. it had more to do with grating market for not american allen. she again, it's more a politic a game and it's a risky game. busy than it really has to do with fundamental laws of market economy, supply and demand demand ultimately comes from the consumer, which would be the voter. i mean, why would they want to spend more money on american gas when they can get it from russia? bought 3 times as cheap. exactly, this is one aspect and the other one is our gas storage is very tight. it's much below where it should be at this time of the year. there's even talk about temporary cap downs of gas provision or even risk off of something like

a black out. would you expect this nord stream to gas pipeline to go ahead sooner rather than later? because it sounds like it's needed, but politically, it's awkward. you're fully right, and if that terminal regulator, that bond is net again, tour would have continued its procedures as calculated still in september. and the deadline was 8th of january 2022 than the regulator said, no, that's a problem. that means that instead of meeting the deadline of eights of 10, or it might be if everything works smoothly than april, may by april, may we don't have to same pressure on, on the gas provision. as we do have right now, it's most probably going to be a cold winter. we see a sequence of unit at ro, statements by different protagonists. whether it's mrs on the line with aids, president biden, whether it's different voices and the chairman of parliament. and all that is,

is not very helpful to say the least because all doors unit that was statements feeding the media. you have some drama media which even publish a question plans and text lands even tell us which day the, the russian army is going to invade. i mean it's, it's really getting sarielle such a language was not present in the cold war days in the seventy's eighty's. maybe because we still had people in office who knew what war meant. unfortunately, we are in times of a decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. if we are in a world of unilateral statements post afford it this arm amount of worse, i mean this terminology is, can cannot be continued as, as it has been the case over the last few weeks. the media should act in a more responsible way of quoting this, this john paper, the bill which, which had this effect planets on. so there is many people are required to act in

a, in, in, in a, in a more responsible way. because the stakes are simply too high, i believe that falls, president put term president biden, are aware of the stakes. but there are many, many otherwise this mandates inside nato, whether it's inside ukraine in process who are making this unhelpful unit, actual statements on the way, a surprise in the us state of florida with the number of republicans registered to vote, overtaking democrats for the 1st time in modern history, we break that story down in just about 90 seconds. ah ah

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oh oh, well come back to the program. you're just in time for world news updates. i protestors gathered outside the u. k. parliament in london to vent their anger against kobe passports and other restrictions as they called for prime minister boris johnson to resign. there's outreach over him and other officials, apparently throwing parties, despite having imposed strict measures against public gatherings. more than 100 people are feared dead after devastating tornadoes ripped through parts of the united states over the weekend. in the city of mayfield, kentucky, over a 100 people were trapped inside a collapsed factory building. 8 of them died and the same numbers are still missing

. destruction was also reported in arkansas, missouri, tennessee, and illinois. and that was special report. the un envoy to sudan says military leaders must rebuild trust with the opposition, especially younger people. many say they feel betrayed by october's coo and are rejecting any negotiations with the military. ortiz, senior correspondent, were ad gazda, of witnessed the 1000 strong protests in the capital of khartoum, and talk to people who say that their dreams of a better life have been destroyed. the full version of an exclusive report is available on our youtube channel. but for now, here is a smaller part of the story. ah, she's cooled mina. like countless others. she's a beggar. she doesn't play with her friends or go to school. she spends her days begging outside the hotel. mina is just one of millions and saddam

forced to beg to help feed herself and her family in these desperate times. and saddam sol, a chic, wounded and disease. by years of strife and disappointment. this wasn't what democracy promised. the fool of the dictator law by sheer in 2019, was supposed to harold, a new age for, for god, a transition to a democracy. but the democratic age of prosperity that millions hopeful has turned into an age of hunger. i'm not mad. i don't know, there's still hope to be honest. my only concern now is finding something to eat and so much sleep as everything that's happening, i just don't know. i don't care anymore. i just try saying something against the

government. they'll label you and islamists are a former regime, sympathizer, or a military supporter. in reality, all we want is to tell the government that we're hungry, that we have huge problems. people can't even go to school, be because of roadblocks or protests. after the revolution, the people put their faith, the demand called abdullah ham dock, korea bureaucrats, who promised as prime minister to lead the country to democracy. he won the hearts of millions only to break the nfl, but the military intervene. and what some have called a to it arrested prime minister ham dock. in his cabinet. the argument was that they were running the country into the ground and the transition to democracy needed a correction. handled cabinet of ministers included many with foreign citizenship. allegations of corruption were rife, ministers were accused of enriching themselves while spouting platitudes about

democracy. the prime minister has since struck a deal with the military, and they now ruled jointly to the displeasure of the revolutionary n. i said, none of those here will go to these protons. we protested then and we were betrayed . why would we protest again for him, for what? what will change? nothing. we will like to once and life only got glass. we will sit and wait for our deaths here. yet, every week, 100, sometimes thousands, gather across to don and champ their demands, fee of freedom, food ultimatums, what traditional thursday, protest. i now underway, ties a burning and central at all. this is how these protest happen. people gather and group several 1000 several 100. in this case, abs, i've written 50 people here. burning ties are the major intersection. their objective is to pause this rupture. they're charging now against the military

government who they see as being responsible for the scoop. ah, the crowd, these in the thousands, we had seen many small columns, swarming in various neighbors before converging here and what they all want. these were power to be handed over by the military toy civilian government, property. they start without any acceptance, they bought the military. the step down many people here field, but trade by prime minister ham dot, you find that agreement with the military, giving up a lot of civilian bower to the military. the resistance committees of all g, a groups across many neighborhoods which nominally help organized protests and run civilian life in practice, they increasingly hassle businesses or denied people. water will cooking gas if they so want asking them about it only got us the on, so they have in their booklets. so we've, we've spoken to people on some support,

the resistance committees, other people say that resistance committees intimidate bullying, scare people. but you would, you have to say about that flavor. how can they scale what's horizon, people that just ordinary civilians. they're not related to the military or intelligence agencies. all they do is how quiz hogan i zation and dialogue. no matter who we ost, of people weren't about to speak about the resistance committees on camera. they were fearful like this hard enough at ease, tragically ironic democracy activists have morphed into what they so hated. ham dogs. army some pulled themselves a twisted version of the secret police, but once enforced. a dictator's rule ah, here on the outskirts of cut to leave some of the most impoverished and the city

people who survive 11 meal every 23 days who drink water that is barely fit for capital. who were on the front lines of the revolution and who the revolution i'm tightly passed by. so said dawn remains in wretched. stacy chained in hunger, frozen by corrupt and self serve in elite and held together by a military bed on preventing collapse. ah, u. k, prosecutors say the wife of a u. s. diplomat charged with killing a teenager will face criminal proceedings after all, and cyclists fled to america. after her car collided with motorcyclist harry dunn outside the pentagon, military base in central england, our correspond. shoddy, edwards dashti has more. well, it's been over 2 years now since harry don lost his life. but now the family are a step closer to justice that says,

and the coolest. the women accused of killing harry down is due to face criminal proceedings. here in the united kingdom, early next year, so the 44 year old wife of a u. s. diplomat fled to the united states claim this diplomatic community shortly after the incident that happened on the 27th of august of 2019. she was late to charge with causing death by dangerous driving, but an extra addition request to face the justice system here in the united kingdom was refused. now that refusal initially was made final by the trumpet, ministration, and later reaffirmed by president joe biden. so it's a monumental moment for the done family who say they're feeling incredibly emotional and overwhelmed. charlotte done, his mother has read relentlessly. campaigning full, such a moment to calm. in fact, she says, all she ever wanted is for and the coolness to face the justice system here in the united kingdom. so that time will now come as the case will be heard at westminster

magistrates court on january the 18th. next year, we believe and synchronous will be appearing via video link. and we also have a statement from the crown prosecution service that says, well, the challenges and complexities of these case is now known. we remain committed to securing justice in this matter. but of course, this is a long time coming now, especially as there's been various twists and turns to this story earlier this year . in fact, of emerged, the and secured as was working for the intelligence at the time. now that would fundamentally change the principles of this diplomatic immunity, which diplomatic community, by the way, has been controversial from the get go less. it was a legal loophole which has now been closed under a revised agreement between the united kingdom and the united states. as the answer, clueless herself latest position, her latest public position is that she is currently apologetic. i'm has accepted responsibility for the accident. as i say, this is

a huge of moment for how redone family all they've ever wanted. is to see this moment when and sickness faces the justice system here in the united kingdom. because what they have always argued that till this justice only, then they will be able to grieve, democratic party alarm bells are ringing in the key state of florida after republicans overtook them for the 1st time in modern history per number of registered voters. and with the next years crunch, mid term elections looming, democrats are now wondering how to reverse their historic slide ortiz kill them up and reports simply a matter of mathematics. for the 1st time in modern history, the republican party has more registered voters in florida than the democratic party does. now, local democratic party leaders are at this point, reacting, realizing that something seems to be very wrong. of course, this fight will not be easy, but is about so much more than any one of us and his florida democrats. we have

lost so many times that donnas and pundits have given up on us. now florida's governor de santis gave a statement celebrating these new numbers, saying that this shows that the residents of his state reject government control from the democratic party and value liberty as put forward by his administration in florida and by the republicans. now at this point, there is a fear on the part of some figures within the democratic party in florida that national donors to the democratic party is rational, as well as national party leadership will. at this point, consider florida to simply be a red state. they'll consider it to be lost territory and, and not really work on fighting for voters in this very important state that has generally been considered a swing state and u. s. presidential elections. it's not as if floridians can't be swayed one way or the other. we need more coordination with the national party. now this comes amid a drop in the approval ratings of u. s. president joe biden, at this point,

the approval rating of joe biden, when it comes to handling the vital issue of inflation, is pretty low. only 28 percent of americans say he's doing a good job. only 54 percent within his own party. and when it comes to the handling of coven 19, while he still maintains a 53 percent approval rating. that number has dropped 10 percent since july. now at this point, joe biden's approval ratings have been continuing to drop back in march. he was 20 points higher in terms of approval with us public than he is now. many wonder what the implications could be as the mid term congressional elections are less than a year away. that said, for this hour, stay tuned for more news and just about 30 minutes. ah ah,

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