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ah, ah, oh, anger mountain, the u. k. of a new restrictions being brought into combat the fast spreading, almo crohn variant with even some conservative nps, comparing the proposals to that old. busy nazi germany, facebook admits in court that it's 3rd party fact check. so nothing more than opinion. it's a fueling allegations of bias and censorship across social media. the pentagon says it won't hold anyone liable for a botched drones strike an afghan, his dog 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,
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how we operate and no one is being held accountable. like we've been talking about this for 10 years now. ah . all right, 7 o'clock on tuesday night, here at moscow. this is auntie international. a very welcome to year the u. k. has started to record all mcmullin cases in the thousands, the very it now accounting for 20 percent of old infections in the country and nearly 50 percent in london. prime minister has tried to get ahead of the way by bringing in his plan b. that entailing a new restrictions on accelerated rollouts of boosters. however, even members of his own party, i'm not convinced this is 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 to boosted and now the aim really is to get every single adult in the country vaccinated with that booster
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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. 7 may you ask about the acceleration of this booth to 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. expect it to become the dominant code 19 found in the capital 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. 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,
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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 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 the last he 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 here in the united kingdom. but many people, as you can see,
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the key directly behind me, they are following the rules. they want to get that these to now perhaps is alarms, ditch effort to save their christmas is. meanwhile, there was a brief moment of panic other on tuesday, after in person pc, our tests were temporarily unavailable, that sites all across england. the government's website has now been updated, showing new time slots. but despite efforts to ramp up testing to counter the new american varian, there are still plenty of questions of whether or not it's deadly. and we spoke with a simon clock at micro biologist at the university of reading, who is inevitable when you, when you turn up the volume on these measures for these things take time and the 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 so what we see is, is government being nervous about leaving the stable boy from, from a horse to bolt,
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because that's what's happened before. and they don't want it to happen again, much more transmissible. so that transmits ability, mold and i would take them any central drop in virulence, inability to cause disease from people. then you will end up with a big burden on, on society and on its health care system. so no us personnel will be held liable for a botched drone strike in the afghan capital in august that 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 a car when he was hit by a missile. as we said before, 7 kids were killed in total, all belonging to just one family. that was part of our project holder on the hood,
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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 at room moving around in a circle which then fired a missile that hit our home. i turned to look out of there was dust and smoke clodagh. it was a terrible scene. i went in to my home and find my brother and a nephew because 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 talking islamic state more than 2 weeks later, though a tragic mistake was acknowledged. an investigation, however,
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found no loss had been broken, but rule that commanders could decide on accountability. now the pentagon says that 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. 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 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 it's,
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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 or 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. but numerous, you, astro stripes, have left well over 300 civilians. they had enough gas down in recent years. that's according to the bureau of investigative journalism. as we understand at least $66.00 of those killed kids, a brandon bryan again reflects on the work of that of
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a military join 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 when you go out into your own community and you see the same, keep same types of people doing the same thing. they're going to coffee shops there, go into bookstores, they're hanging out with their friends and family. there is no disconnect for a drone operator. there's so much connection. like if, if a drone operator were to go over there and to meet the people that they interact with, visually, they would probably have a emotional break down and cry because they would see these people are suffering and no different than themselves. and that we're perpetuating that suffering because of our actions. we're doing it. the u. s. a homeland security department is under fire. after it was revealed, the agency had secretly obtained information on journalists, congressional staff, and possibly even a 1000 members. the associated press,
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whose reporter was one of those targeted, is now demanding us 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, a very few guidelines. it operated and well abided by and according to the report that has well, that has made the headlines, bused partly some of the america's most sensitive databases to look into and to read 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, well 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
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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 they're 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 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
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this conduct and took no action to stop it than needs to be various consequences for every efficient involved and department of homeland security and the justice department must explain what actions they're taking to prevent this unacceptable conduct in the future officials, 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. in the landmark court case, facebook has admitted that its 3rd party fact checks. i just opinions journalists whose posts have been flagged as false and are waging a legal battle against the social media giant, ultimately accusing it of defamation. just a short time ago here in the studio,
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i discussed all of this without ease of saskia. tyler. oh, facebook might have got a self and you name matter, but it seems that it's up to its old trick. the age old question of whether it's a free, an open platform, or in fact, a giant tech company that is to censoring anyone. it does like, has yet again, re and much. now, the latest revelations transpired from a neural suit, filed against facebook by john list. and not because one of his posts from about last year's californian wild fires was fact checked and labeled party false. so he said for defamation, as you said, but the social media platforms response has been to lift up. it sounds and say when it can't be defamation, because they slack check as we're packing out to win. the world of nasty misinformation are actually surprise 3rd party people who decide what is full, so not based, not on facts, but on opinion. because this is america opinion is sacred. still so exclaims focus on the fact check articles written by climate feedback. note the labels are fixed
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through the facebook, but for the labels themselves are neither fools nor defamatory. to the contrary, they constitute protected opinion. so facebook has essentially admitted that, for fact, check, has facts, opp, optional. and of course, it does have a right to do this facebook as a private company. so it's policy is an internal matter. but the point is, is that it does have responsibility on accountability before it's roughly 3000000000 uses wild wide. and actually speaking of that and undoubtedly who feel misled at best. and maybe downright night to it was, they've been sharing that take on these latest developments. court filing, facebook admits it's fact checkers. don't check facts. is facebook admitted here that it's fact checks are not really fact checks at all, but merely opinion assertions also by facebook claim in its labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it a publisher. facebook, your opinion piece is not exempt from being fact checked, even when they are clearly labeled as op eds or editorials. also, facebook or fax, it labels can not be false or from
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a tree because the constant sheet protects it opinion, even though we present them as fact. we don't facebook to put a whole section on its website dedicated to fact check, isn't it ready? does salad. while you know, a 2 organizations watching and 60 languages fighting lies together, it's a rigorous process. and that process involves identifying the problematic post and then reviewing it and apparently, and wanted to decide whether this post is asked to whether not it goes straight to the sun, will sit in to these people consult data. and that on the basis of these findings, that determines whether that content needs to be filtered or allowed to circulate. so it really does sound like a thorough only scientific process, no way in all of that. and bleeping i've, i've some tool through that was a lot of it is absolutely no use was like opinion subjective, you know, personal perception, judgment is nothing like that. and speech more widening. you know, if you do listen to some of the top ross at facebook, you believe that they never really feel to any content because as such great champions of free speech. if your democracy can't tolerate the speech of people,
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i'm not sure what kind of democracy it is. i do believe in giving people more access to information and more anxious to connect with one another and not reserving those as tools for some small number of lead people. i don't feel comfortable at all saying they don't get to have a voice because i don't agree with what they said. our ability to know what is misinformation is itself in question and i think reasonably. so why think many people would agree without a party sentiment from him? but the question tara is, is facebook trying to get us out out of a tight spot with this rule soon by suddenly amending the job description of fact checker in order to escape any liability or has it actually just been lying on its website for this time? by the way, it's not a good look for the company. and it's satin does absolutely nothing to count all of those accusations for all these years that they have been silencing voice says arbitrary talking content quite frankly, stray and to the dangerous territory of censorship. you okay, prosecutor say the wife of a us diplomat charged with killing a teenager will face criminal proceedings after all, and
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a cooler. so fled to america. after her car collided with motorcyclist. how he'd done outside the pentagon military base in england, the tragedy outage. it was actually 2 years ago when it really happened, and the answer kudos has been charged with a now causing death by dangerous driving a right off of the crash. mister cooler, so claimed a diplomatic community and was allowed to leave the u. k. done family then fall, an extradition request, which was rejected by washington. lawyers acting full cyclists have previously admitted that she did drive on the wrong side of the road before colliding with harry done. they said this because she had only been in the u. k. 3 weeks and took the right hand lane instinctively. well, i spoke with a rats iga, 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 us government should deny
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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, it's natural course, i think that turning point was when president died and i came into office, can 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 trump took, i think my other theory is that inevitably, governments, when they make
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a decision, find it very difficult to change their minds. but the, the courage of this family and the help of the media all around the world, the americans ultimately were left with no choice and other than to change their decision. these things, unfortunately, do take a lot of time. 20 pos, here at moscow with estrus. no let up to america. inflationary spiral. a wholesale prices in november will almost 10 percent higher than a year earlier. that's according to the latest data. and analysts have come up with some surprising advice for cash strapped consumers, as kind of mopping now explains with prices on almost all goods and services rising . some media have come up with some advice that isn't going down too well. they say copy inflation ravaged argentina and simply blow all your money before it evaporates in high inflation economy. money that sits in the bank is losing value each day. those $100.00 and deposit by a little bit less. as a result,
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many argentines spend their paychecks as soon as they receive them, cards in a way, weeks worth of groceries in a single shopping trip. even if some of it excess me chicken fish will sit in the freezer for months. so won't burg, offers us to spend more. that's as consumer inflation costs of jumps, 6.8 percent the highest and 41 years. no doubt, many have pointed out how disconnected from reality such a solution is. in the weimer republic, the price change so fast, the customers bought beer for the whole day in the morning. it's coming or the fed can stop printing trillions of dollars, making us all poor in the process with a decline and currency that also works. yeah, you definitely should start live in a hand to mouth because of temper or a blip in inflation. it's not the only example in a recent washington post article, a leading columnist, aptly suggested. not expecting very much. rather than leaving constantly on the
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verge of throw in a fit and rescan taken it out on the well m service struggling shall pony later ivan delivered it pupil would do ourselves a favor by consciously lowering expectations. a recent article from locks recommended reducing holiday requests in order to not feel the crunch of by nomics . the mission to by last with more intention is achievable for everyone, especially f lan, shoppers, it incumbent and americans develop as people in the world to car, back on and be crucial of their consumption. many c biden's policies as being directly to blame while an infusion of treasury bonds may have been necessary at the beginning of the pan amex. this strategy of printing money seems to be backfiring. everything costs more grocery stores of pretty much everything universally costs more. everything's got up gas, food, everything. so it's not dead. i'm a small, you know, black home business owner and all the prices. i'm a products have a coffee shop in brooklyn, in prime grand coffee and like all, li, all the beans,
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all more expensive and it's harder to get like even little products like napkins and cups and all those stuff. so it's kind of bad. you know, i dont think biden has been handling any situation. i think biden has just been sitting in office, says some kind of a doddering man. joe biden seems bored of explaining how he sees it, not too interested in defending his actions. if we were all going out and having lunch together and i said, let's ask whoever, whoever's in the next table, no matter how were what restaurant ran, have had them explained the supply chain to us did understand was what we're talking about. why wouldn't biden be trying to stop inflation if apparently he's the only one who knows what it is, but even economics nobel laureates writing for the new york times say they did not see the inflation coming. trying to clarify my own thoughts on inflation. i got
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inflation wrong, i didn't see the current surge coming, but why? i didn't think the fiscal stimulus early this year would boost demand as much is summers. that's how predicted. and in fact, so far it hasn't. now at this point, 60 percent of americans blamed joe biden for the crisis, but mainstream media seems to disagree and tell them they should blame themselves, not the people leading the country. there's nothing that upsets american voters more than having to pay for ever higher prices that are going up dramatically. vitamins patricia can try to blame the energy companies and private is all they want. but it's all happening on his watch. and i expect that the democrats are going to pay a very serious price for this and the next election, if we make it that long, we don't know what inflation is going to be at. by that time, i'm very much afraid that, that we're going to be facing a reckoning of without any kind of historical precedent. in anybody's lifetimes.
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not all superheroes where capes. one of the central russian city of far simply drives a taxi, but he's owned a bit of a star like stars in the region for donating potty was earnings every month to families with a seriously ill children. so we found out what in spite ah well said before i promised myself once i had a proper salary paid off all my debts, i started 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
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ingenious, yes, 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. it is good to have you with us today that russia has condemned europe's new sanctions against a private military, from branding them illegitimate. the u. s. targeting several russian supposedly
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linked to wagner over its role in ukraine and africa. let's learn more now. coaching live to ortiz. i daniel armstrong for more of the story. a, daniel, can you just tell us more about the firm itself? because it's a bit murky at this point. and what is it being accused of the us? that's why that's the news. there are monday at the european union brought in these sang since against the wagner group that the private military air contract says, and also accused russia of implicated them in dealings with air. the group. now russia has, of course, a very strong air reaction against this says sir gay love ross says the wagner group, which is of course, is a contract says it doesn't belong to russia. russia doesn't have any kind of relationship with the group or marie as a hartman mary, as a however, i should say at also a representative of the ministry of foreign affairs is said that these accusations are baseless. are there against a certain members,
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certain russian citizens that have allegedly, or been working for the group in part of the wagner group. and she does say that the russia has the right to reply the right to defend themselves against their such accusations. of course, as you said, as the wagner group active in place like ukraine, places like africa, the heart of a went as far as to say, as says, these countries the where wagner have been involved in and where they've been active, have been become victims as it were of weston and diplomacy, and it might be something of her or mitigating fafsa, a factor of the western hysteria. why this has been blown out of proportion? why that the european union had brought in the sanctions. that is a horror her. the harvard herself is called a illegitimate. it's going, as far as to say is they, they have no cause of legal bass bait, baseless accusations. as so, russia very, very strong on this their, their position is one of these accusations of a, of any santa kind of involvement of any relationship bear with the bacteria,
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those private military contracts as are completely baseless sir. and of course, said his accusations, russia are gonna be standing against them quite strongly. i doubt his annual armstrong. thank you for that. you're wanting us to run out international for this tuesday program. it's been a pleasure having you with us for this news. so coming up in about half an hour. hi, my colleague, unit o'neill, here are the desk. however, before union, it is the kaiser report. thanks for joining what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race group is on a very dramatic development. the only personally i'm going to resist, i don't see how that strategy will be successful,
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very critical of time. time to sit down and talk lou right now. there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to sell food that he's fancy and sugary and salty under thing. it's not at the individual level, it's not individual well power. and if we go on believing that never change is obesity epidemic. that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic? it's corporate with a reflection of reality.
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