that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk with facebook admits in court. val, it's 3rd party fact checks are nothing more the low pinions, fueling further allegations of bias. sons, censorship on social media. also ahead. i said, i'm grandma, it's in the u. k. over new restrictions being brought into, come about the foss spreading all me crawling coven variant. some impedes of even compared. the proposals to nutsy are a germany and the pentagon said it won't told any one liable for a bulge drone strike in afghanistan that killed 10 civilians, including 7 children, won't form a u. s. military drone pilot told us of his frustration,

open the decision to see that nothing has changed, even when it's awaiting me out in front of everyone's face, how we operate them, and no one is being held accountable. like we've been talking about this for 10 years now. ah, oh, we're every year tuning in from across the world this our welcome to moscow on to our, to international good the have your company, i'm union o'neill in a lunmark court case, facebook cows admitted that it's 3rd party fact checks are just opinions that it's closer came during a legal buffle journalist had brought against the social media giant, accusing it of defamation. after their posts were flagged, asphalt ortiz southgate taylor takes up a story. facebook might have put a self and new 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 merge. 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 fac, checked, and labelled party falls. so he said for defamation as he said, but the social media platforms response has been to lift up. it sounds and say when it can't be defamation, because this frank check is we're packing out to with 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 soils claims focus on the fact check articles written by climate feedback. note the labels have fixed 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 pin him assertions also by facebook clement it's labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it at 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 labels can not be false or from a tree because they constitute protected opinion, even though we present them as fact. we don't. facebook got a whole section on its website dedicated to fact check, isn't it ready?

does salad while you know, a 2 organizations watch 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 actually not. it goes straight to the source it interviews, people at consult data, and then 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 actual lives of tool through that was a lot of it is absolutely no use of words and opinion. subjective, you know, personal perception, judgment does nothing like that. a speech more widening. you know, if you do listen to some of the top bras at facebook, you believe that they never really fill to any content because that's such great champions of free speech. if your democracy can't tolerate the speech of people, i'm not sure what kind of democracy it is. i do believe in giving people more access to information and more access to connect with one another and not reserving

those as tools for some small number of elite 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 i think many people would agree with that. a party sentiment from him, but the question here is, is facebook trying to get us out out of a tight spot with this rule suit by suddenly amending the job description of fact jekka 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 good enough for the company and it's certain does absolutely nothing to count all those accusations for all these years that they have been silencing voice says arbitrary talking content. quite frankly. straying into the dangerous territory of censorship. when we spoke with social affairs broadcasts or day, perkins, he thinks that facebook is desperately trying to avoid a barrage of further losses. facebook has found themselves back against the wall and if they try to cling to the idea that they are fact checking in court,

they're going to lose. and not only is it going to cost them big dime, but it's going to open the door to a flood of similar lawsuit in the near future. and it could be more than they can handle. i think they're hoping that by admitting that fact, jack just means opinion jack, when facebook puts a label on there, hoping to get out of this lawsuit without harm. and then just sink the story into the daily fountain of news events and hope people forget about it. in due time and in the, in the future, you'll see changes in their labels. they'll stop using the word fact and they'll come up with some other way to express it where they still exercise their dictatorship right to control speech on their platform. but it won't be a false presentation like the word fact jack is off. okay, moving on now the u. k. has started to record all me chron cases in their sizes. that very, it now comes for 20 percent of all infections in the country, nearly half in london as well. one death in total. that's the total confirmation

linked to the. so name newton, straight bar, as johnson has not brought in his plan being new restrictions on an accelerated rule out of the strict jobs, but many members of his own party, they're not convinced it's the 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 boosted job. by the end of this month, the is quite ambitious then really because that would mean i'm 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 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. expect it to become the dominant poet, 19 buried 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 covert restrictions that include face mouse being made. mandatory again cove. it possible it's co, that ice elation rules, but also the most controversial one is trying to get the n 8 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 before santa took to his sleigh, and certainly 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 to the public to take, especially after the last few weeks of revelations that some politicians don't to be playing. that part and try to get on the other side of this pandemic. and yes, i'm talking about those downing street christmas parties. agree in the headline news there 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 booster now perhaps as a long stitch effort to save that christmas's. yeah, shelby mentioned, there was a brief moment of panic on choose the morning after in person p. c r a tests where temporarily unavailable at sites are crossing and the government's website has not been updated showing you time slot on the spike, u. k. efforts to run bob testing to counter the new chrome varied. there is still plenty of questions over how potent or otherwise it actually is. now,

on that point, a little bit earlier in the program, simon clark came on to a chart. he's a microbiologist reading university in the u. k. here should he says do 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's about 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 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 disability could more than even take any central drop in virulence, inability to cause disease, infect people. then you'll end up with a big burden on society and on each health care systems. none of the us military personnel involved in a bought strong strike of ghana stun,

which killed 10 civilians. back in august we'll face any kind of punishment. the pentagon made up and i spent on monday do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th. here strike lou. busy ah, light solve the 7 children who died. the youngest was just to the mom targeted in the strike was zimmer, i act muddy an aide worker who was mistaken for a terrorist. we heard from his grieving brother article, you're personally them. so this also, this news came as a shock for us,

it's humiliating to hear that no one will be prosecuted. they should have kept their word. we hope that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claim they can spot a needle on the ground from their satellites. so how could they not see the innocent family they were about to kill? they found no connection between us and islamic states. so why didn't they do those checks before launching a bomb us us? so they promised us justice and compensation that they would take us to the us. it looks like no other countries forcing them to seek justice. there is no want to challenge them because they're a superpower. me. that's why the americans failed to keep their promises. logo. here on our tea, we've been speaking with more people who lost their loved ones in the bombing rage on the eve of the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan there still hoping for justice . you can watch those interviews in unheard voice is not available right now at r t dot no additional

e. the pentagon initially defended at the car bull strike, claiming it was aimed at islamic state members. more than 2 weeks later though a quote, tragic mistake was acknowledged. we discussed all bound would form a u. s. military drone operator. brandon bryant, you know, it's been 10 years since i blew the whistle and 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 supposed 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 some when 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. the cabal incident followed a long string of similar disasters. according to the bureau, investigative journalism, up to 900 south coun, civilians have been killed by you, astro. and since 2004, including dozens of children,

brandon bryant again thinks it's partly done to the extreme disconnect between drone operators and what is actually happening on the ground. 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 see that 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 british government is flowing to reform its human rights laws by adding

a healthy dose of common sense as the just the secretary put it. some of the proposals have long been called for, including deporting foreign criminals, but many have drawn a wave of criticism from the opposition on rights activists. this bill represents the biggest legal assault on international refugee law ever seen in the u. k. a future where the u. k. brakes, his international law, obligations and ox out of human rights protections is a very bad future. these conservative governments attacks on the rural floor must top the human rights act, does not stop as depaul in serious criminals threatening to weaken people's ability to challenge the government. just because the core sometimes rule against you is the act of dictators and despots. not democrats. the proposed changes will apply to the u. k. human rights act, which has been in place for 20 years. among other things, the conservative government wants greater powers. the curb foreign criminal's ability to appeal deportation. and to give british courts more flexibility in

interpreting rulings from the european court of human rights option returned the host of going underground on r. c believes the timing of the proposals is significant. view is around the world . they're going to say, you know, i, this is just coming days after a british court accused of corruption by some are overturned to previous judgment, that the julian assange of wickedness could be sent to the united states to raise a 175 years for revealing war crimes, so why, why so soon after we learn of that judgment and his stroke in a high security prison? do we suddenly hear a reform or consultation document on the human rights act, which will, which will and on the table is a reform of european human rights at court affiliation of the british system. one of the reform it's one of the main points of it is that the u. k. wants

to make it easier to, to port foreign offenders. that's something that a lot of conservative voters have been asking for for many years. why should that one be a problem? the numbers are far in offenders that have been coming to britain. if you look at statistics, our miniscule in terms of over turning the entire human rights act. one good, maybe i say that britain is, are acting quite intelligibly about this britain. after all knows exactly the scale of the refugee crisis from countries that it participated in the annual bombarding of it was britain, of course, that destroyed africa's riches per capita. country libya on the mediterranean, there were thousands untold thousands of drowned, and course england and france were involved in that. we have refugees drowning in the english channel. and of course, england and britain was responsible partly for the aerial bombardment of iraq, afghanistan of syria,

that britain knows where and why refugees are seeking solace and asylum from countries whose economies and whose entire populations have been destroyed. 19 minutes past the hour. still ahead on american diplomats wife accused of killing a british teenager in a road crush is finally jude's his thumb trial mastery and more few, shortly. ah ah, with

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race, his on offense, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk oh, hello again. the u. s. homeland security department is under fire from after it was

reveal the agency had secretly obtained information on journalists, congress members, and possibly even its own staff. the sensitive government databases used had been set up to tract international terrorists. the associated press, whose reporter was one of those targeted is demanding answers. where deeply concerned about these apparent abusive 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 will abided by and according to the report that has well, that has made the headlines, bused partly 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, 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 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 that 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're 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. you k,

prosecutors say the wife of a u. s. diplomat charged with killing a teenager will face criminal proceedings. after all, answer coolers fled to america. after her car collided with motorist, hurry done outside a u. s. military or a base in england. the tragedy happened more than 2 years ago then mister coolest smalls accused of causing death by dangerous driving. she claimed diplomatic immunity and was allowed to leave the u. k. the done family then filed an extradition request that was rejected by washington, lawyers acting for cyclists on previously admitted that she drove on the wrong side of the road. before colliding with hurried done. they say that's because she had only been in the u. k. 3 weeks and took the right hand lane, quote, instinctively rod seager, an advisor for the done family earlier snow to the program. he thinks their 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. and 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 our strongest ally, why you would want to condemn a totally innocent family to, to this torture. this mental torture is beyond me, but i were 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 turning point was 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 the one that president trump 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, 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. there is no less help to america's inflationary spiral. wholesale prices in november, we're almost 10 percent higher than a year earlier, according to the latest data. and unless i've come up with some rather surprising advice for castro consumers, i was caleb martin, report 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, 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 jump 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 temporary 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 verge of throwing the fit and rescan taken it out on the la whelmed service, struggling shall pony later ivan delivered it pupil would do ourselves a favor by consciously lowering expectations. a recent article from walks recommended reducing holiday requests in order to not feel the crunch of by nomics . the mission to buy last with more intention is achievable for everyone, especially affluent shoppers. it's 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 the, all the beans or 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, 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 have lunch together and i said, let's ask whoever, whoever's in the next table, no matter how were what restaurant rinn have had them explained the supply chain to us. if you don't understand what's, 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 inflation wrong. i didn't see the current such coming, but why? i didn't take the fiscal stimulus early this year would boost demand as much, is summers at our 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 under 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.