itself, ah ah, 09 good mounting in the u. k. of a new restrictions being brought into combat the foss spreading on their crone variant with some conservative employees even comparing the proposals to that of nazi germany. the pentagon says they won't hold anyone liable for a botched drone striking campbell that killed 10 civilians including 7 kids. i mean time one former u. s. military drone pilot told us of his frustration over 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. while the west village is russia to take the heat out of the

ukrainian crisis, washington sends millions of dollars of weapons to key if we discuss why russia's concerns of bo completely ignored. the former austrian foreign minister. this is simply a complete disregard for historical contemporary walrus on, on the russian side. so ah, all right, 3 pm and a winter wonderland hero moscow. big snow in the russian capital today, straight into your new stories here when nazi international. so the u. k. has now started to record the all mark on cases, apparently into the thousands with a very it now accounting for 20 percent of old infections in the country and nearly 50 percent in london. the prime minister has tried to get ahead of the covert away by bringing in his plan b of new restrictions on an accelerated roll out of boosters. however,

even though even members of his own party and not entirely convinced that is the right way forward, we're not a papers please society, this is not nazi germany. well, the prime minister's lake is instruction to the nation is get a boosted and now the aim really is to get every single adult in the country vaccinated with that boosted job. by the end of this month, the is quite ambitious then really because that would mean and 1000000000 people need to be jobs every single day. and i'm outside saint thomas hospital here in central london. and as you can see, the queue is really piling up. now this morning, in fact being a chances are telling people to stop trying to book their boost the online the system has totally crashed. and why may you ask about the acceleration of this booster program now? well, according to the how secretary the on the chrome variant is now the dominant one. no, very old code 19 has spread this fast. oh me con. expected to become the dominant poet 19 found in the capital in the next 48 hours. so the 2nd of this week is to

get a boost it now, and it's all part of a drive of the plan b cobit restrictions, which parliament will actually be voting on later this evening. now that includes face mouse being made. mandatory again, cove at passports, cove, it isolation rules, but also the most controversial one is trying to get the n h just to get vaccinated, making that compulsory now many people in the public se that's an attack on civil liberties. that's something that some m p 's agree with. and so we're expecting a huge tory rebellion. many people saying compelling the public to get immunized as simply a step too far. not to mention the temporary emergency measures that don't seem to be so temporary anymore. 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. well, just yesterday, then the government put the owners back on the public saying we must all be playing

our part. but that's quite a difficult message for the public to take, especially after a few weeks of revelations that some politicians don't seem to be playing their part in trying to get on the other side of this pandemic. and yes, i'm talking about those downing street christmas parties of being the headline news stare in the united kingdom, but many people, as you can see, the q directly behind me, they all following the rules. they want to get that boosted. now, perhaps it's a long stitch effort to save their christmas is one medical professional we heard from believe's, the british government should be more cautious in its approach to this homer 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 experiential learning faust very quickly. the case numbers have gone up. the 2nd bit is as expected. rising number of cases

equals yeah, we will get some hospital admissions equals we will get some people seriously ill and we don't sleep well unfortunately that some people will die. so at the bottom line is just because if mike appear to be innocuous doesn't mean you dropped your god and not take all the necessary precautions. i know that that is, it's very easy to say we have fun that make fatigue, but it is also incumbent upon the lead is 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. it is not good news, it doesn't look good and it makes my job steward very difficult because people say to me, i'm not going to listen any more. well,

i know you s personnel will be held liable for a botched drones try. can the afghan capital in august that killed 10 civilians that included 7 kids? apparently the decision follows an internal review. did you not anticipate that there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here straight. let this go right here. we just are 2 years old. she was among the children killed in the s drive though you can see some pictures of them right here. now 3 of the kids have been in the car when it was hit by a missile. as we said before, 7 kids were killed in total oh, belonging to just one family. that was part of our project holder on the hood, voices which you can see on our website. and we heard from the bereaved father of the deceased 2 year. 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 of the was dust and smoked like it was a terrible scene. i went in to my home on fun, 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. now the pentagon initially defended the strike, claiming it was a targeting islamic state. more than 2 weeks later, though a tragic mistake was acknowledged. an investigation, however, found no loss had been broken but rule that commanders could decide on accountability. now the pentagon says they won't be any, citing a communication breakdown as the reason for the civilian deaths. well, we discussed all this with a former u. s. military drone operator. and mr. brandon bryant, 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 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 going to 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. i am must have been that there was,

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. numerous, you astro stripes of left or well over 300 civilians dead in afghanistan in recent years. that's according to the bureau of investigative journalism. as we understand at least $66.00 of those killed kids, a brand new bride again, reflects on the work of that of a, a military to an operator. there is no way that anyone who has ever done this job and sit there watching these people live their daily lives. i cannot 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's 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 breakdown 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 it. the kremlin has condemned the flow of what it describes as aggressive rhetoric coming from us. officials, if repeatedly alleged that moscow is planning an offensive on its naval ukraine, citing russian troop movements near the ukrainian border. the kremlin insist that can move his troops wherever at once on his own territory and has no invasion plans . despite that though, the u. s. media continues to talk up war 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 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. c 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 promised 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's health. so sure your ukraine has been pumped up with weapons. we're talking about direct delivery is about multi 1000000, 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 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 with 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 must go previous suggestion to not deploy sat and missiles near it's european puerto 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 di escalation if someone else is doing it. and if that means it can keep its weapons, all fired up and ready to go. earlier my colleague andrew farmer spoke to the foreign of, excuse me, the former foreign minister of austria. miss karen, can i sold about a war range of issues. however, she did kind of 0 in on what's being addressed right now. as a political stalemate, how to listen 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, not only about self and para bigness of national security interest and so on. at the moment we have bayside saying russia thing. we've got grave security concerns about nato. 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 fact channeling, we need creative minds who are not reading out only to speaking notes at, at the table, but really looking for converging, interests, converging and, and also understanding the other side. i mean, that is 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, they made, it requires genuine diplomatic creativity also on the side of nato officials, you and and to us special, we see that a tool anywhere. unfortunately, we are in times of the decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. if we are in

a world of unilateral statements post before this look 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 p love 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, 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,

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 office who knew what was meant. some of them well, of the 2nd world war 2 ration. so they wouldn't play around with words like nuclear at tech or a fully fledged war because they knew what was most about. we have to seize this moment 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 the june meeting some more saba and pragmatic approach. what will be on the agenda and still

to come with the program here on our end to national it may be the sunshine state, the forecast for florida with me increasingly gloomy for democrats to in terms of registered voters and now seriously outnumbered by republicans for the 1st time in the states history of that story and many more were entering the 2nd half of the program. and you just choose, oh the ah, ah, central banks, all banks, all unfair bible committees, o unverifiable centers of power are to run. some of them are very corrupt, some of them are extremely around here in el salvador. their money system is completely absence of any corruption because it's only dealing toward the pure monetary premium and truth of bitcoin. and on top of that band rock of trip you can build a fantastic country, the fantastic culture. oh,

when i will show seemed wrong when i'll prove, just don't hold any world. yes. to shape out the same because of the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground with oh, or right now 2020 minutes past the hour. here in moscow, the u. s. homeland security department is on the fire. after it was revealed, the agency had secretly obtained information on journalists,

so congressional staff, and possibly even its own members or the associated press whose reporter was one of those targeted is now demanding answers. where deeply concerned about this apparent abuse of power. this appears to be an example of journalists being targeted for simply doing their jobs, which is a violation of the 1st amendment. what we have in question is a secret border patrol unit called counter network division. and apparently it had very few rules, very few guidelines. it operated and well abided by and according to the report that has well, that has made the headlines views to proudly some of the america's most sensitive databases to look into and to vet people. when i say people, i do not mean known criminals on poor people. charged with something or even people suspected of committing a federal crime. when i say that people, they were rather vetting journalists or world congressman or congress people or just angio workers. they were vetting them as they were considering working with

them this well counter network division and the sort of information they could get they could obtain from databases like for example, a terror watchlist is well, quite expansive. for example, they could get their financial logs, they could get their travel logs, they could even pry into their personal affairs. for example, the apparently used their the most sensitive databases and all sorts of tools to look into well into a journalist than a political reporter who was well, romantically involved with a senior senate staffer, they called the operation a whistle pig, apparently inspired by a very particular brand of whiskey, and they used the information that they had obtained to ensnare said senate staffer . now these revelations, they have caused quite a stir and of they have been condemned. these practices have been condemned by journalists by privacy advocates, and even officials if true, this abuse of government surveillance powers to target journalists, elected officials,

and their stuff is deeply disturbing. if multiple government agencies were aware of this conduct and took no action to stop it than needs to be so various consequences for every efficient involved and department of homeland security and the justice department must explain what actions they are taking to prevent this unacceptable conduct in the future official, as they have said, that quote unquote, they do not condone the investigation of reporters and one person who was singled out as a member of the secret unit. jeffrey rambo has also dismissed the reporting as sensationalized. he has said that they did not do anything out of the ordinary that it was all common practice. this secret unit by the way, it is still operational to this day and a party operates according to the same rule book. democratic party alarm bells are ringing in the key state of florida after republicans overtook them for the 1st time in modern history. that is when it comes to the number of registered voters and with next year's crunch midterm elections looming democrats. and are wondering

how to reverse the historic slide. as on his killer muffin, now investigators 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 it's about so much more than any one of us. and it's florida democrats. we have lost so many times that donors 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. cnn is once again, making headlines instead of reporting on them. just to recap to the network sector, stop presenter chris cuomo over his role in fighting his brother's sexual harassment allegations. one of its producers has not been accused of attempting to lose my nose for unlawful sexual activities and motels. now his assays, nicky, air, 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. also, 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 doctor 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 old daughter was trained properly. griffin lay to 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 in his tesla and 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 on 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 anne's for guessing. like when it's well comes back, chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin off there his embarrassing scandal in which he pleasure himself during a live video conference. then, as chris cuomo, the well known cnn anchor dismissed for advising his disgraced 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 free for losing a massive 76 percent of his audience since january this year. perhaps his case is

like this, that actually resonating with few us or just a moment here on the program. let's bring you some news. reaching out to this hour from south america is where we've just received reports that to blasts of a code, an airport in the northeast of columbia on the countries border with venezuela. and local media reporting, say to police officers were killed. they also claim terrorists were behind the attack. and some reports also say one of the attackers was also killed in the explosion. as we understand now, old flights to and from the airport, have been suspended for the foreseeable future. well that just about wraps up the program for this hour here. live on odyssey. international thinks of spending a time with us here at moscow. well, soaring inflation, no skyrocketing energy prices, the global economy going down the drain, coming up next. the kaiser report

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