who the pentagon says that it will not holds any book the liable for a butch drones striking cobble that killed 10 civilians, including 7 children on for me, u. s. military drone pilot told us of his frustration about that decision to see that nothing has changed, even when it's blatantly out in front of everyone's face, how we operate and no one's being held accountable. like we've been talking about this for 10 years now. i angry scenes and demands for the british prime ministers arrest over his plans for dealing with the omicron cove variances and some tory m pays of compared to pam's proposals to nazi germany. while the west village is russia to take the

heat out of the ukrainian crisis, washington sends millions of dollars worth of military aid to care, to discuss why russia's concerns have gone completely ignored with a former austrian foreign minister. that says simply a complete disregard for historical contemporary where it's on, on the russian side. so i that very good morning to you. you're watching alta international. no us personnel will be held liable for a box drawn strike in the african capitalists was in august, it killed 10 civilians, including 7 children. the decision follows an internal review do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here straight. now this scale you can see he was just 2 years old. she was

among those children killed in the strike. you can see footage of them here, 3 of the children of been in the car when that car was hit by a missile. as we said before, 7 children died in all, all them belonging to just one family was part of our project unheard voices which you can check out on a web site or t dot com. we heard from the bereaved fathers of those children. her 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. i just crossed the road on i heard an explosion. my daughter later told me that she saw a smaller craft, a drawn moving around in a circle which then fired a missile that hit or hold all that i turned to look, but that there was dust and smoke louder. yeah, it was a terrible scene. i went in to my home and found my brother and

a nephew. they were critically. busy 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, as bob was maya, loved cosmetics. she liked painting her nails. she liked dolls very much. the main cause of the incident 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. the pentagon initially defended the miss, saw strike on on that car with that being the resulting devastation they sold as strike was aimed at is learning state members in the vehicle more than 2 weeks later, though a tragic mistake was acknowledged investigation as found,

snow laws were broken and ruled, the commanders could decide on any accountability. now the pentagon says that there won't be any accountability siting a communication breakdown as being the reason for civilian deaths. we discussed this with form a u. s. military turn operator. brandon brands you know, it's been 10 years since i blew the whistle on the u. s. drone program will be 10 years in 5 days, actually. um, and to see that nothing has changed, even when it's blatantly out in front of everyone's face. how we operate. um and no one's being held accountable like we've been talking about this for 10 years now. when i 1st started talking about it, people called me a liar. people tried to defame me and now that we see it for what it actually is, innocence had been killed, not just innocent and innocent aid worker who was there trying to help. i really think that the managed state has lost 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 so the supposed enemies in the, the ones that they test this, munitions on who should be punished are the officers. they said that there's a breakdown in communication, but that is mostly a lie. m. m must have been that there was there and 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 shoot. it takes like 5 minutes to get ready to shoot a messiah. this was not an emergency situation. none was under spire. 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 will numerous us turn the taxes left on 300 civilians, steady in afghanistan between 242020, according to the bureau of investigative journalism at least, $66.00 of those killed children. it's brandon bryant again,

reflecting on the work of a military drone operator. there is no way that anyone who has ever done this job and sit there watching these people live their day daily lives out. can not look at them and say, these are not people there. people because you go home and 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 sheed, these people are suffering and no different than themselves. and that we're perpetuating that suffering because of our actions we're doing the rest for us, johnson knows the call from a group of foundry demonstrators outside the british parliament. so been outraged

morris johnson's approach to dealing with the ami con cove variant in the u. k. o. well then, anger the, his handling of the pandemic comes in addition to the outraged felts about the alleged downing street christmas party last year. it is said to have happened despite strict lockdown rules, as well as further claims of government hypocrisy. but a supposed quiz party involving the prime minister himself. meanwhile, brittany started to counts only con cases in the thousands. now, with the very it counting for 20 percent of all infections in the country, more than 40 percent in london, the prime ministers try to get ahead of the curve at wave bring in his plan b of new restrictions. an accelerated roll out of booster jumps. but even members of his own party are not convinced that that is the way forward. we are not papers please society, this is not nazi. germany brought us get an update on this from our correspondent

in europe. pay to oliver morning peters, the prime ministers plan's not going down very well with the people of u. k. it seems certainly not going down well with some members of his own party. we heard from markets, fish just, they're not fun at all when it comes to coven id. interestingly enough, mr. fish is a big fan when it comes to vote to id, however, different issues, different opinions, of course. but boars johnson is coming in for a lot of flak from people like mr. fish were in his own policy. this follow result and from the changing of the rules and the, the restrictions that are put in place for citizens within the united kingdom has led to some criticism that people are going to take them seriously enough. what we have seen is the reintroduction of masks to be war in england on public transport and in shops. there's also a requisite to isolate if you've come into contact with anybody who has the oma

chrome very and this is prompted so well. they outrage from some members of the conservative party with some setting to real well, showing that pony show for the dramatic really we were told these measures might be lifted before santa took to his sleigh, and certainly before half the country was pinged into the gulard, there seems no lead up to this kind of self defeating dystopian logic. well, the health secretary such a job, it has said that things are serious and the measures are needed. he's pointed out the own recruiting variance of cove at 19 could be the dominant type of the virus in london and just the next few days. and that measures have to be taken and are being taken in preparation. the u. k. 4 chief medical officers raised the co would a level to for its 2nd highest level. this was done over the weekend and n h s,

england has just announced that it will return to his highest level of emergency preparedness level for. ready national incident. well, here in germany, the health minister call allowed to by, has said that coven figures are slowly stabilizing that stuff the some reductions in the 7 day coven indices of infection. however, what we have seen is demonstrations against the measures that have been brought into lower those numbers. those demonstrations turning particularly nasty in the state of today. and jill. so here, as well elsewhere in european, in austria, where they've just had a lockdown as everybody we seeing that lockdown being challenged in the highest court in the land. the austrian constitutional court. the cases being brought by somebody who had had 3 jobs of a coven vaccination, they say it placed in no necessary infringement upon their freedoms. we'll wait until probably the spring know before we see any movement on this case before it

appears before the constitutional court in austria, looking at a similar case that was brought here in germany. the constitutional court ruled this while there were infringements upon civil liberties because of locked downs, those infringements were necessary due to the serious nature of the coven. 1900 pandemic correspondent to all about bring is the latest for you to thank you. now an expert in communicable disease control that we spoke to believe the british government should be more cautious in its approach to the on the convent. so clearly indicates, as is biologically expected, that this version is highly infectious. in that, in a matter of a few days, the rise in number of cases has been high experiential, very fast, very quickly. the case numbers have gone up. the 2nd bit is as expected, rising number of cases equals are we will get some hospital admissions equals we

will get some people seriously ill. and it also was unfortunately that some people will die. so at the bottom line is just because if mike appear to be innocuous doesn't mean you drop your guard and not take all necessary precautions, i know that that is, it's very easy to say we have pandemic fatigue, but it is also incumbent upon the leaders to moti weight, the population to keep the population happy to keep the population. what we would call on messy, much with news coming out, that certain people, certain senior people in government may have been having parties when the rest of the nation was asked to shut down, is not good news. it doesn't look good and it makes my job very difficult because people say to me, i'm not going to listen any more. the kremlin is condemned the flow of what it describes as aggressive rhetoric coming from american officials has

been repeatedly alleged. moscow is planning an offensive on its neighbor ukraine, citing russian troop movements near the ukrainian border. the kremlin assist. it can move its troops wherever it likes on its own territory and says it doesn't have any invasion plants. despite that, there's only the u. s. stands being echoed in american media. us intelligence officials say russia could invade ukraine as soon as january, and that's because of russian troops that are massed on ukraine's borders. the question now is there anything the west can do to prevent food from moving in to prevent a foreign policy crisis on the russia, ukraine border, the world river, standing at the precipice of war, between 2 nuclear armed powers to s, to deescalate tension with de escalation mania fi, the pitch. you think putin himself was lining up nuclear weapons and pointing the met ukraine. in reality, you've got russian troops doing trails in russia, not a crime as far as i'm aware. in the meantime,

one of those pointing the finger must go up to we did approved president by an approved a $60000000.00 security systems package. the final elements of that will be arriving in ukraine this week with her small arms and ammunition, small arms and ammunition, including, but you won't hear him say it. lethal element, such as javelin missiles that exist to blow up tanks, perfect for de escalation, which at least publicly you promise you want. now the $60000000.00 is just washington's christmas gift to key at the latest bonus. because this year alone, the white house has to live at almost half a $1000000000.00 in assistance. but while biden's ruled out putting boots on the ground, moscow is not so sure. your claim has been pumped up with weapons. we're talking about direct delivery is about multi 1000000 and multi $1000000000.00 contracts for the future and total, they'll transfer militants under the guise of instructors. now,

there are one or 2 voices out there who realize that arming up and cooling down don't often go hand in hand, but they don't have too many funds at the moment. germany continues to build the north street to gas pipeline, and at the same time block our purchase of defensive weapons. this is very unfair. so to be clear, the us flying out web is to keep these a 2 countries in no way allied officially is for protection and only fire, but russian troops on russian land is a threat that must be contained, dislike, countless assurances that talk of invasion is unfounded. hysteria, because all the kremlin really once after decades of broken promises and threats to fly, the nato flag like a noose around russia's neck is a guarantee that nato's not going to set up camp right next door. there's 0 trust in relation to nato. many times we found ourselves in a situation where something is announced the day after something else a year later,

another thing again, and all this is done as if nothing had happened. and one of the reasons why russia now demands legal security guarantees on the highest possible level. is that so far all of the promises all the assurances and even the political obligations have been overturned. but given how much goes previous suggestion to not deploy sat and missiles near its european border, as long as washington and co reciprocate was met with stony silence. my guess is a deal with nato's a long shot, because it turns out that only really likes the escalation if someone else is doing it. and if that means it can keep its weapons, all fired up and ready to go. my colleague drew farmer spoke with the former foreign minister of austria. that's karen. can i sill about the range of issues? she outlined ways in which she believes the current political style might could be overcome. yes, we are in a stalemate. no doubt about that. but in such a stalemate, it takes people with some sort of creativity. that's what diplomacy is about

international relations and not only about the power of national security interest and so on. at the moment we have bayside saying russia angler, we've got grave security concerns about nights we have eastern european countries saying we've got great security concerns about russia and a potential invasion. so what was the meeting point where the meeting points can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building. and for that, we need a lot of back channeling, we need creative minds who are not reading out only to speaking notes at, at the table, but really looking for converging, interest converging and, and also understanding the other side. i mean, that's simply a complete disregard for historical contemporary worries on, on, on the russian side. so that i think that should be taken into account and,

and to overcome that state made, it requires genuine diplomatic creativity on the side of nato officials, you and, and the us special we see matter to anywhere. unfortunately, we are in times of the decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. it's, we are in the world of uni, latch was statements the 2 phosphate. now we're having a genuine conversation. we look into each other's eyes to listen to each other and try to reach some sort of synthesis throughout this program. maybe we come to a synthesis, but this is not anymore to case and high level made to cancel. you attach meetings, i didn't see it and is a dramatic needs tool to bring it back because that the stakes are simply too high . the post before this looked at this alma amount of words, i mean,

this terminology is cannot be continued as it has been the case over the last few weeks. the media should act in a more responsible way of quoting this, this gentleman paper, the bids which, which is effect plan and so on. so there is many people are required to act in, in a more responsible way because the stakes are simply too high. it's a stalemate. we see a sequence of unit actually statements by different protagonists, whether it's mrs on the line, whether it's person inside and whether it's different voices in the german parliament and old. that is, it's not very helpful to say the least because all of those unit actual statements feeding the media from german media, which even publish a question plans of tech plans from which day the russian army is going to invade. i mean, it's really getting story out such

a language was not present in the cold war days in the seventy's eighty's. maybe because we still have people in office who knew what war meant. some of them well off the 2nd world war to ration so they wouldn't play around with words like nuclear at tech or a fully fleshed war because they knew what was most about. we have to see more moments now to do really something like confidence building back. and i thought that the us side, what would put its priorities in a different way. and that seems to june meeting some more saba and pragmatic approach. what, what the on the agenda still to come this hour, it may be the sunshine state. the forecast of florida is looking increasingly gloomy for democrats who are now out number by registered republican voters for the

1st time in history or on that after the break. with hello driven by dreamer shapes banks concur. some of those with dares sinks we dare to ask ah

ah ah oh, come back. democratic party alarm bells ringing in the key state of florida. republicans that overtook the democrats to the 1st time in modern history per number of registered voters. with next he is crunch mid term elections looming. large democrats now wondering how to reverse that historic slide. gillum open experience 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 price will not be easy, but it's about so much more than any $1.00 of us. and there's florida democrats. we have lost so many times that donors and ponders have given up on us. now florida's governor de santis gave a statement celebrating these new numbers, saying that this shows that the residence 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 lashonda, as well as national party leadership will at this point, consider florida to simply be

a red state. they'll consider it to be last territory and, and not really work on fighting for voters in this very important state that has generally been considered a swing state and us 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 us president joe biden, at this point be approval rating of joe biden, when it comes to handling the vital issue of inflation, is pretty low, only 28 percent of american 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, jo biden's approval ratings have been continuing to drop back in march. he was 20 points higher in terms of approval with the u. s. public than he is now. many wonder what the implications could be as the mid term can rational actions are less

than a year away. soon and smoking headlines again instead of reporting on them just a week out of the network sector star rank chris cuomo over his role in fighting his brother's sexual harassment allegations will have as producers, has now been accused of attempting to lou minors for lawful sexual activity. details on the scandal, his nicky error, it seems the most trusted name in news that has a serious credibility problem. the latest embarrassment for the channel involves the arrest of a senior producer after he allegedly engaged in sexual activity with children. as young as 9. griffin is said to have befriended parents of young girls online inviting them to hold virtual training sessions in which he would teach the young daughters how to be quote, sexually submissive amongst the allegations that produce, that is also said to have paid for one mother to bring her under age,

daughter to his house, where he then abused her. in june of 2020 griffin advised a mother of 9 and 13 year old daughters that the mother's responsibility was to see that her older daughter was trained properly. griffin later transferred over $3000.00 to the mother for plane tickets. the mother and child flew to boston in july of 2020, where, driven, picked them up and his tesla drove them to his ludlow house. at the house, the daughter was directed to engage in and did engage in unlawful sexual activity. cnn has called the charges against griffin, deeply disturbing and suspended him pending further investigation. but this highly distressing case is just the latest in a growing list of embarrassments both cnn, which clearly has its hands full when it comes to damage control and choosing to avoid the drama by playing it down, it just isn't going to cut it. brian's delta and cnn spend days covering a tucker carlson writer who got busted for offensive comments made in private,

but they have completely ignored. one of their senior produces been indicted for raping a 9 year old go. this is cnn. i like to par, were you ignored one of cnn's producers being federally charged with child sex crimes? this is your information force, but cnn clearly things as few as have no problem with forgiving and forgetting. like when it welcomes back chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin after his embarrassing scandal in which he pleasured himself during a live video conference. then there's chris cuomo, the well known c. n. n. anchor dismissed for advising his disgrace, new york, my brother, who faced multiple allegations of sexual harassment, but all is forgiven and he'll be back on screens as early as next month. say reports as the channels that ratings freefall losing a massive 76 percent of his audience since january this year. perhaps his case is like this that are actually resonating with viewers. political analysts. jennifer,

britons not convinced even the talk to tow leadership change would revive the network's credibility. i think of the american people, both sides of the aisle kind of lost any sort of any sort of trust or, or faith in cnn is an honest objective reporting news network with so much bias and propaganda. and you can say that about many news networks, but in terms of wanting to report that, so if there's a chance of a leader coming in or new leadership by changing the board of directors, changing the ceo, i don't really think that that's going to change things for the people, it's going to have to be a complete, a complete i think, a complete barebones thing, whether that's changing leadership or whether that's actually starting to report on things that are objective that are not politically motivated, that are not bias, that don't seek to incite and that didn't, don't promote the incitement of violence by any stretch of imagination. the don't

promote division and dissension. all these things they did to themselves. and i really don't believe that new leadership is going to change that. finally, this our not all superheroes where capes wanted the central russian city of who fos him to drive the taxi zoned starlight status in the region for donating part of his earnings to families with seriously of children. we found out what prompted him to do so. i ah well, so before i promised myself once i had a proper salary, paid off all my debts, i'd start to help others in spring i decided to work for free one day each month and all the revenue, all the tips i gained that day i decided to donate to the hospital

with ingenious, with my instagram friends also took part in that they told their friends started to posted on social media. people followed me and got involved more and more.