self, ah ah oh, i am good mountains in the u. k. of a new restrictions being brought in to combat the foss spreading amr con varian with even some conservative m. p. 's, comparing the proposals to that old nazi germany. the pentagon says it won't hold anyone liable for a botched drone strike and afghanistan that killed 10 civilians including 7 children, 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 is being held accountable. like we've been talking about this for 10 years now. while the west is russia to take the heat out of the ukrainian crisis, washington sends millions of dollars of military aid to keep on the program. we

discuss why russia's concerns have been completely ignored. the former austria foreign minister says simply a complete disregard for historical contemporary worries on, on the russian side. so, ah, and i just after 5 pm on tuesday here on the russian capital, this is auntie international. very well. welcome to the u. k. has started to record a amr gone cases into their thousands. now the variant now accounting for 20 percent. the volt infections in the country, nearly 50 percent in london. the prime minister has tried to get ahead of the way by bringing in his plan b of new restrictions and accelerated booster jobs. however, even members of his own party, not entirely convinced that's the right way forward. we are not

a papers please society. this is not nazi germany. well, the prime minister 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 the in it chances are telling people to stop trying to book their boost the online the system has totally crashed and why. 7 may you ask about the acceleration of this booster program now? when, 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. expect it to become the dominant code 19 parent in the capitol in the next 48 hours. so the 2nd of this week is to get a boosted now, and it's all part of a drive of the plan b, kobe 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 lead 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 the last 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 as being the headline news there in the united kingdom. but many people, as you can see, the q directly behind me, they off following the rules. they want to get that booster. now, perhaps there's a long ditch effort to save that christmas's. meanwhile, there was a brief moment of panic earlier on tuesday after in person p. c. r tests with temporarily unavailable that sites all across england. and the government's website has now been updated, showing new time slots, but aspire. you can efforts to ramp up testing to counter the new, alma kron. there are still plenty of questions about how dangerous it is. are we spoke with dr. simon clark, a microbiologist at redding. university is inevitable when you, when you turn up the volume on these measures, one of these things take time and that to you have to change what's available and

what's delivering that to that program. and i think that's what we need. i think that what we see is, is government being nervous about leaving the stable door from, from the horse to bolts because that's what's happened before. and they don't want it to happen again, much more transmissible. so that trans miss ability could more than take any central drop in virulence, inability to cause disease. if in fact more people, then you'll end up with a big burden on society and on its health care systems. no us personnel will be held liable for a botched drones strike and the gun capital that was back in august killed 10 civilians including 7 kids. 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 strike. let this go right here was just a 2 years old. she was among the children killed in the s drive. you can see some

pictures of them right here. now, 3 of the kids have been in the car when he was hit by a missile. as we said before, 7 kids were killed in total, all belonging to just one family. now 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 to you via saw 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 and i heard an explosion. my daughter later told me that she saw a smaller craft. i drew moving around in a circle which then fired and miss tiled, that hitch or home i turned to look out of there was dust and smoke clodagh. 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. 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 and investigation, however, found no laws 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, 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 strikes of left or well over 300 civilians, died 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 military joint operator. there's 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 out home when you go out into your own community and you see the same peep, 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 breakdown 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. the kremlin has condemned the flow of what it

describes as aggressive rhetoric coming from american officials is seen repeatedly alleged that moscow is planning an offensive on its naval ukraine, citing russian troop movements near the ukrainian border. the kremlin insists can move his troops wherever it wants on his own territory, and doesn't have any invasion plans. despite that though, the u. s. media continues to drum up wall 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 baby standing at the precipice of war between 2 nuclear armed powers to s, to deescalate tension with de escalation mania fever pitch. you think putin himself with lining up nuclear weapons and pointing them at ukraine. in reality,

we'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 elements such as javelin missiles that exist to blow up tanks, perfect for de escalation, which but he's 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 delivered almost half a $1000000000.00 in assistance. but while biden's ruled out putting boots on the ground, moscow is not so sure. your trade 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 there who realize it, 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. the 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 rush, his neck is a guarantee that nato's not going to set up camp right next door there. 0 trust in relation to nato. many times we found ourselves in

a situation when 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 to 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 de 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 former foreign minister of austria. karen, can i sell about a big range of issues, shall find ways in which she believes though the current political stalemate can perhaps 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 in peril, digna's 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 or 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 walrus on, on,

on the russian side, so that i think that should be taken into account and, and to overcome that still 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 armament of words. i mean, this terminology is kick 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, the bills which, which had as effect planets on. so there is many glove required to act in

a more responsible way because the stakes are simply too high. it's a stalemate. we see a sequence of unit at rows, 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 statements feeding the media. you have some common media which even publish a crash and plans attack plans even to which day the, the russian army is going to invade. i mean it's, it's really getting serious 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 after the 2nd world war generation. so the, the, they wouldn't play around with words like nuclear at tech or a fully fledged war because they knew what wall most about. we have to see this

more moment now to do really something like confidence building back and i thought that the u. s. side. so what would put its priorities in a different way and that ever since the june meeting or some more saba and programmatic approach. so. 2 what about what will be on the agenda? i was told to come in the programs. we're approaching the halfway point now here on our tea, it may be the sunshine state. the forecast of florida is looking increasingly glue me for the democrat. so in terms of registered voters are now seriously outnumbered by republicans for the 1st time in the states history. that story and more we're back in about one. ah

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very political time. time to sit down and talk ah right now 2020 minutes. watch the hour here at moscow. the u. s. homeland security department is under fire after it was revealed, the agency had secretly obtained information on journalists, congressional staff, and even its own members of the associated press, whose reporter was one of those target. it is now demanding officers 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, bused apparently some of the americas, 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 that 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 and 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 is crunched. midterm elections looming democrats anal scurrying to try and reverse the historic slide. i. let's get some analysis and investigation here with our correspondent artes, ken of martin 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. us us, i beg your pardon, you k, prosecute as a saying now the wife of a u. s. diplomat charged with killing a teenager will face criminal proceedings, author old and the coolest. fled to america. after a car collided with motorcyclists, harried, done. this was outside the pentagon,

military base in england, and the tragedy did actually happen more than 2 years ago and at the coolest has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving. right off of the crash smith, the coolest a claim diplomatic community and was allowed to leave the u. k. the done family then filed an extradition request, which was rejected by washington. lawyers acting for schoolers had previously admitted that she drove on the wrong side of the road before colliding with harry done. i say that's because she had only been in the u. k for 3 weeks and took the right hand laid instinctively. well, i spoke with a rad seager, an advisor for the don family. he thinks that long campaign for justice is finally making progress. we sort of feel this is a combination of almost 2 and a half years now of relentless, tireless campaigning. for this appalling decision by the u. s. government should deny mary's family justice. we don't know why this happened. all we know was that it was a, it's

a terrible decision on the part of the u. s. government and supposedly, or our strongest ally, why you would want to condemn a totally innocent family to, to this torture. this mental torture is beyond me, but we're very pleased now that i'm with your help and your colleagues helping the media that they have now clearly been left with no choice other than to change their decision and allow justice and whatever form that takes to now take its its natural course, i think the attorney toyed was. ready when president biden came into office and we know he suffered a, a similarly similar family tragedy himself. and we, we learned from, from him that he was going to take a different approach to under president truck took, i think my other theory is that inevitably, governments, when they make a decision, find it very difficult to change their minds. but the courage of this family and

the help of the media all around the world, the americans ultimately were left with no choice other than to change their decision. these things, unfortunately do take a lot of time. or that story wraps up this ours news cost here on our team international life from moscow. thank you for joining us here on the program. a coming up next to an aussie international and r t u k. boom bust. with all central banks, all banks, small on fair bible committees, on verifiable centers of our art 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 feelings or the pure

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