successful, very critical time, time to sit down and talk with pentagon says that it won't hold any one liable for a botched drones striking. cobble that killed 10 civilians including 7 children for me. u. s. military drone pilot told us of his frustration about the 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 is being held accountable. like we've been talking about this for 10 years now. and angry scenes and demands for the british prime ministers arrest all over his plans for dealing with the only cron cove at variance. even centurion thies though have compared the pm's proposals to nancy germany. i'm all the west

thirty's russia to take the heat out of the training crisis. washington and millions of dollars with a military aid to kia. we discussed wine questions have gone completely ignored with a former austrian foreigners there's certainly a complete disregard for historical contemporary art. walrus on on, on, on the russian side with high that great have your company you watching artie international. no us personnel will be held liable for a bush strung strike in the afghan capital in august. the kill 10 civilians including 7 children. decision fell as an internal review not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th

here straight. now the skill here, it was just 2 years old. the time of the strike, she was among those children killed. you can see footage of them on your screen. the 3 of those children had been in a car at the time it was hit by a missile. and as we said before, 7 children died in all, all of them belong to just the one family. it's part of our project unheard voices which you can check out on our website. auntie dot com we heard from the bereaved father of the deceased to europe. her saw thought the sandals belonged 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 at room moving around in a circle which then fired a missile that hit or hold all that i turned to look. but all that there was dust and smoke ladder guy. 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 was, they later died in the 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. or the pentagon initially defended that strike, claiming that it was aimed at his law mich state members. more than 2 weeks later, though a tragic mistake was acknowledged, an investigation found yet no laws were broken. and rule commanders could decide on any accountability. now the pentagon says there won't be any accountability that is citing a communication breakdown as the reason for the civilian death. who discussed all this with form u. s. military drone operator brandon bryan? you know, it's been 10 years since i blew the whistle on the u. s strong 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 them

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 united states has lost knowledge on how to conduct warfare. and it's now a business. they're not gonna punish the people that make them money. they're just going to punish the people that are so the suppose it enemies in 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, there must been someone miscommunicating something or, 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. well, numerous u. s. thrown attacks of little 300 civilians dead in afghanistan, us between 242020, according to the bureau of investigative journalism. at least 66 of those who died with children, friend and brian to gain reflects 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. cannot look at them and say, these are not people there. people because you go 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, she'd, these people are suffering and no different than themselves. and that we're perpetuating that suffering because of our actions. we're doing it the rest boris johnson was the call coming from a group of angry demonstrate is outside the british parliament who've been outraged to what they see as being the prime ministers. heavy handed approach to dealing with the armstrong cove varied. oh. with our anger is handling of the pandemic comes in addition to the outrage felt of the alleged downing street christmas party last year, which he said to have happen despite strict lockdown rules have also been further claims of government hypocrisy over suppose quiz part involving the pin himself,

in the meantime, britain started to record on the con cases in that thousands with very now accounting for 20 percent of all infections in the country, nearly 50 percent. when it comes to london, the prime minister tried to get ahead of the cove. it wave is brought in his plan b if any restrictions and an accelerated roll out a booster jap. however, even members of his own party are not convinced that this is the way fort we are not papers please society, this is not nazi germany. boss johnson is coming in for a lot of flak from people like mr. fish were in his own party. this follows on from the well changing of the rules and the, the restrictions that are put in place and for citizens within the united kingdom has led. so to some criticism that people aren't going to take them seriously enough, what we have seen though is the reintroduction of masks to be worn in england on public transport and in shops. there's also an a requisite to isolate if you've

come into contact with anybody who has the omicron variant, this is prompted so well be outrage from some members of the conservative party with some turning to real air. well, showing that pawnshop for the dramatic, really, we were told these measures might be left to before santa took to his sleigh. and suddenly, before half the country was pinged into the gulag, there seems no let up to this kind of self defeating dystopian logic of the health secretary. sergeant javert has said that things are serious and the measures are needed. he's pointed out the omicron variant of cove at 19 could be the dominant type of the virus in london in just the next few days. and that measures have to be taken and are being taken in preparation. the you case for chief medical officers raised the code alert levels to for its 2nd highest level. this was done over the weekend and any chance england has just announced that it will return to his highest level of emergency preparedness level for. ready national incident,

or here in germany, the health minister car allowed to back his said that covered figures are slowly stabilizing that south 3rd, some reductions in the 7 day coven indices of infection. however, what we have seen is demonstrations against the measures that have been brought in to lower those numbers. those demonstrations turning particularly nasty, in the state of to injure, also here in berlin as well. elsewhere in europe, in, in austria, where they've just had a, a lockdown of everybody. we're seeing that lockdown being challenged in the highest court in the land. the austrian constitutional court, the case has been brought by somebody who had had 3 jobs of a covered vaccination. they say it placed an unnecessary infringement upon their freedoms. looking at a similar case there was brought here in germany. the constitutional court here ruled that while there were infringements upon civil liberties because of locked

downs bows, infringements were necessary due to the serious nature of the coven. 19 pandemic, an expert and communicable disease control. we heard from belief that the british government should be more cautious in its approach to the metro variant. so clearly indicates as is biologically expected, that this variant is highly infectious in that in a matter of a few days. the rise in number of cases has been hacked financial very fast, very quickly. the case numbers have gone up. the 2nd bit is as expected. rising number of cases equals or we will get some hospital admissions equals we will get some people seriously ill. and we don't sleep balls unfortunately, that some people will die. so the bottom line is just because if mike appear to be innocuous doesn't mean you drop your guard and not take all the necessary precautions. i know that that is, it's very easy to say we have found that make 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 a 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 current lynn is condense the flow of what is described as aggressive rhetoric coming from american officials. it's been repeatedly alleged that most goes planning and offensive. on his neighbor, he crime, citing russian troop movements near the crime board. the crown and no says it can move his troops wherever it once on its own territory and doesn't have any invasion plans. despite that, it's only the u. s. stunt being echoed in the 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 maybe standing at the precipice of war between 2 nuclear armed powers to s, to deescalate tension with de escalation mania, fee 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. a 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 is public key. you promise you want. now these $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. in total, they'll transfer militants under the guise of instructors. now there are one or 2 voices out that 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 stream 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, but only really likes de 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 and re pharma spoke to the former foreign minister of austria, colonel, can i sl about a range of issues and she outlined ways in which she believes the current political still that could be overcome. ah, 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 self impaired digman, of national security interests and so on. at the moment we have bayside saying, russia saying, look, we've got grave security concerns about nato. we have eastern european countries,

we've got great security concerns about russia and a potential invasion. so what, where's the meeting point? where the meeting point can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building. and for that, we need a lot of back channeling. we need her creative minds who are not reading out only to speaking notes at, at a table, but really looking for converging, interests, converging and, and also understanding the other side. i mean, there's simply a complete disregard for historical contemporary a 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. also on the side of, of nato officials. e, u and, and the u. s. a administration, we seeing that at all, anywhere. unfortunately, we are in times of

a decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice, if we are in a world of unilateral statements postal fathers looked at this arm amount of words. i mean, this terminology is kick, it 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 german paper bills which, which that is affect planets on. so there is many required to act in a more responsible way because the fakes are simply too high. it's a stalemate. we see a sequence of unit that shows statements by different protagonists, whether it's mrs on the line with a person inside and whether it's different voices and 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 lance, even which day the russian army is going to invade. i mean, it's really getting, sorry 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 the office who knew what was meant. some of them well off the 2nd world war to ration. so they wouldn't play around with words like nuclear attack or a fully fleshed war because they knew what was most about. we have to seize this more moment now to do really something like confidence building back. and i saw 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 will be on the agenda feel? the comments may be the sunshine state, but the forecasts for florida looking increasingly gloomy for democrats, who in terms of registered voters on now numbered by republicans to the 1st time in history. so you'll about after this short break. ah ah.

join me every thursday on the alex salmon? sure, but i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport business, i'm sure business i'll see you then ah ah welcome back. democratic party alarm bells ringing in the key state of florida.

this is after republicans overtook them there for the 1st time and moment history in terms of the number of registered voters and with next year's crunch, mid term elections leaving large democrats now wondering how to reverse the historic slide. kellum open 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 price will not be easy, but it's about so much more than any $1.00 of us and the 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 washing 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 present, 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 a 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 the 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. cnn is again, making headlines instead of just reporting on them just a week out of the network sect star anchor goose cuomo over his roland fighting his for the sexual harassment allegations. one of the channels produces has now been accused of attempting to lou a minus for lawful sexual activities. with the details is nikia. 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 he says, lying 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 just isn't going to cut it. brian stouter 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 san and kenny things as few as have no problem with forgiving and forgetting. like when it's well comes 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 cnn 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 ratings. freefall losing a massive 76 percent of its audience since january this year. perhaps is cases like this that are actually resonating with viewers. well honestly, we spoke to believe that the string of scandals folder network is not the only reason that it's lost credibility. i think of the american people, both sides of the aisle either lost any sort of any sort of trust or, or faith in cnn is an honest objective reporting news networks 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 cum cooley, a complete, i think, a complete barebones thing. the reason why people watch news is not because of

their leadership, not because of the executive hierarchy was it comes out of simply this. is it watchable? is it good to? is it entertaining? any answer is no shock, and nobody is going to change their mind because of personnel changes. cnn is an watchable. now, when you have been infected politically by people who are having you, place individuals on your show who are there for no other reason than to perpetuate a particular way of thinking and ideology. that's one of the story completely that, that is destructive. you can't, do you want to run a political party, or you want to have a network? do you want to? what exactly do you want to do? cnn lost its way. seems are not all superheroes where capes on in the central russian city of a fall simply drives a taxi, but he's earned

a star like status in the region for donating part of his earnings to families with seriously ill children. we found out what prompted him to do so. ah, well, 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, here been 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. that wraps it up. appreciate your company. thanks to staying with her. is your media a reflection of reality?

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