who had lunch with this hour here one r t a caught in germany, finds a russian man responsible for carrying out a killing in berlin on moscow's orders. russia denies any involvement in the case, claiming a total lack of evidence. facebook to parent company admits in court that it's a 3rd party fact check. so nothing more than opinion is fueling further allegations of bias and censorship across social media jail to try to protect young girls, denmark x immigration minister gets 2 months behind bars for separating refugee child wives from their husband. if she was so worried about them, then she diminished her. would have been something more humane already told you about trying to cheat 3 people. so i don't think it to our achievements shown since

ah, your wednesday hum day headlines like from moscow. welcome to the mrs. archie international with me, rural re sushi, a political decision not backed with any solid evidence. that's how russia's ambassador to germany has dismissed the conviction of a russian national for the alleged state sponsored killing of a man in berlin. back in 2019, the court ruled the motor was carried out on moscow's orders. let's learn more right now, approaching life to berlin. ozzy's peter oliver. peter, it's fair to say moscow is not exactly thrilled with the verdict. and you take us through the details. of course, here in berlin sentence, they rushed national to life in prison on wednesday, vadim classic cove known by the alias. so critical of,

according to the court with previously had previously been found guilty of the 2019 murder of viola hume hun. gosh, really though, the court said on wednesday that the killing was directly linked to the russian government. something moscow has denied multiple times. hon gosh, really had been wanted as a terrorist in russia. he was said to have been directly responsible in the killing of almost 100 people in russia's north caucuses. he was also tied to the planning of the 2010 moscow metro suicide bombings. he had asylum status here in berlin before he was shot to death. in a park, in the center of the german capital, the ambassador from russia to berlin said again, the child has been far from happy though with the evidence that was presented in this case. the absurd thesis about the involvement of the russian federation

in this case was never confirmed by convincing evidence to accept pseudo investigations and unsubstantiated statements of the bias media such as belling, cat, an insider and other speculations is at least strange the time chosen for the announcement of the verdict is hardly accidental. obviously, someone is interested in overshadowing the dialogue between russia and the new german government. while they're still being no meeting between all of sholtes, the new german chancellor and russia's president vladimir putin, either by phone or in person. there is a lot of issues between moscow and berlin right now, not just this case, but also if you look at the future of the north stream to gas pipeline tensions over ukraine. and what we had seen previously in this particular case, was the expulsion of diplomats from the russian embassy by the german government. now what the court said here earlier on wednesday does leave a door open for diplomacy. there was some mention of the possibility that this

russian national could be sent to russia in order to either serve out a sentence or any other or for any other purposes. plenty of work still to do all not. but what we heard from the russian embassy here in berlin, they all fall from happy with this ruling on wednesday. i'll tell you, peter, all of a thank you. facebook users may have to reassess the information they've been getting from the site, offer its parent company, meta admitted in court, but so called fact checks based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by a journalist after his posts were flagged as misleading, picking up the story, etc. saskia taylor turns out the famous fact checkers who are busy labeling things false party, false misleading. i've actually been a bit loose with, well, the facts. facebook yet again found itself in court. this time up against to john list. he didn't like that. they slapped

a partner full stickle on one of his posts. so he food for defamation. i'm because facebook already spent millions of dollars on legal fees over the years. it got creative this time and claimed that front check was don't decide what's false, so not based on fact. what to ridiculous idea, but on their opinion. hence the title, fact checkup i'm because opinion in america is sacred. you can't sue it. it's a very, very nifty loophole. but just to really escape any liability whatsoever. facebook doubled down on how it gives it. fact check has a very long leash so matter identifies potential misinformation, for fact checkers to review and rate. it leaves the ultimate determination whether information is false so misleading to the fact checkers. and though meta has designed its platforms so that fact checker ratings appear next to content that the fact checkers have reviewed and rated. it does not contribute to the substance of

those ratings. now you won't find any of these details in the giant fact checking section on facebook dot com. instead, you'll learn about how they interview thought fit and consult data and look for facts, you know, to really drive home. the point about how it's all based on opinion. i think some of it's 3000000000 users worldwide. one, very pleased, after all, many of them had probably used these fact jackson arguing with their friends. and now it's turned out they were just quoting some random person's opinion and then embarrassing railing, so that campaigning for face may not be let off. the hook. is facebook admitted here that it's fact checks are not really fat 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 all peds or editorials. also, facebook are fact check labels cannot be false or defamatory because they consist

sheet protected opinion, even though we present them. as fact, my question though is, what does facebook need these opinionated fact checkers for anyway, after all, over the years, it's proved, it's committed to free speech. it is giving people a voice, especially don't come. it's dedicated to openness, transparency, and of course, democracy. i mean, it says all the time 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. really, people, i don't feel comfortable at all saying they don't get to have a voice because i don't agree what they said, our ability to know what is misinformation is itself in question. and i think reasonably so fact checkers. facebook favorite friends, protecting it from defamation. setting it free for accountability, someone to hide behind and times of trouble, but most importantly, always ready to get their opinion. 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 gonna cost them big time, but it's gonna 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 as false sla, more analysis and insight into the revelations from facebook. they seem to be happening with increasing frequency these days is just a click away at r t dot com right in the united states. now,

a journalist to pushing back against government surveillance after was revealed the homeland security department secretly obtained information on reporters congressional members and possibly even his own staff. by running database checks, normally reserved for suspected terrorists with the associated press, whose reporter was one of those targeted is demanding answers where he 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. at the center of the uproar is a special unit inside customs and border protection. it's called the counter the counter network division. reportedly gather data on 20 journalists using sensitive databases. the revelation is prompted condemnation, not just from media workers, but lawmakers as well. 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. there needs to be serious consequences for every official 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. the department of homeland security insists its quote, deeply committed to ensuring the protection of 1st amendment rights, namely the freedom of press and the freedom of speech, a journalist, and come with it. a chadwick mall told us that a people in the united states of well, long been spied upon by their government deeply shocking and chilling, actually to quit it more accurately. but this is also nothing really new. and this is something that. a transcends administration that transcends democrat and republican administrations, and there's absolutely no reason why someone from a government should be looking at your bank records, who you're emailing your travel records, it goes spot mentally against everything that this country stands for and that's in

our constitution. so it doesn't matter if you have something to hide or not, it's wrong and it should be a legal probably is a legal and it's not, it's a representative of the values of this country. and the people in journalists are being deceived. and this is all been funded by our government. it seems like congress shouldn't be able to do something about it. they won't. you put up quotes from congress, people who are saying we're deeply concerned. i don't think anything will happen. might be, i don't know if it's too far to say that maybe because these agencies have every bit of dirt, they can't on members of congress. maybe congress, people are frightened to come out against these agencies and it's elgin services in any kind of meaningful way. that's possible. but congress could absolutely do something, but they haven't, and i don't think they will a clash of cultures so seen, denmark's ex immigration minister jailed. she was sentenced to 2 months full and legally separating refugees. couples back in 2016. under danish law couples can

only marry from the age of 18 with during the migrant crisis. girls as young as 15 who had legally married in the home countries arrived in denmark. the then minister old of the young wives to be separate from their husbands. a danish court ruled that was unlawful as the decision was made without consideration of individual circumstances. while inca storybook says she was only trying to protect children and she has no regrets. yes, may i? cuz i see it. yeah. i can only see that i am very, very surprised by this verdict, and it is as it were, the only scenario i had not prepared for before. well, because i thought it was completely unrealistic. mean, but here we are, and i take my punishment and they do it without bending my neck. oh no. oh boy, an argona said, oh no, no, there is nothing over that. so, i mean, simply one has a moral and compassionate obligation to protect the girls, and that was what i did. we invited some guests, sir, to debate whether the danish ex minister's decision was justified or not. to me,

nobody is above the law is as simple as that. and she has been only sentence for 2 months, not for 2 years. and we are for know that she will not go to the present. you can maybe get us trap on, on her leg. you know, and that is, that would be that i think the lessons learned is up a see there is a lack of proportionality, a on behalf of the davis minister, also acting on behalf of the tool because we're talking about 23 people. so i don't think our mom's sentence, most of the girls who are in this 24 cases give are 1617. so they were not child right. like 5 years, 6 years, 7 years and more girls a were already married with these campers and to separate those people. i think that if she wanted to do something human,

she should have gone to the court and some come pretend expert who had given her some good advice. but she didn't do that. i think they didn't touch insert town or they, they sent us. there is a good faith trying to protect the danish why, why she might go to the wrong about how god members also having economic time since we syria, which is contributing to so many of them coming to denmark didn't know that that they didn't know what became as asylum seeker, how would they know the last of the land? they were renting from the lights are in the country. they were seeking asylum somewhere. and they came to the denmark. and if she was so worried about them, then she the minister would have done something more humane. talk to them and explain to them. well, i think if you go by what she said, she said she is defending daily,

protecting child bodies. it is that the material one day or one year is suggest a matter of subjecting those poor people who are seeking asylum and, and the government and the minister is subjecting them to come from unbearable pressure. and that is, i think, personally for me is absolutely terrible. so the main reason people come from sherry, i'd say to places like the denmark and the u. k. is the all for each make sanctions which literally agree on i'm, it's a nightmare. so you ever passing me today would be to make sense. so then maybe it's a little bit more bearable. i still to come on the program here when i see pledging to uphold and enhance the time to bind that to nations, the russian president and chinese leader log on for an online shock. but what did they talk about?

we'll tell you more in just a moment. the oh, driven by a dreamer shaped bankers are those with dares sinks. we dare to ask ah

ah ah, i good to have you with us today for the program of law may putin and his chinese counterpart have held a video conference both publicly committed to strengthening that ties. am it increasingly strained relations between the east and west of corresponded eager to donal has details. it comes amid as both nations, they face very similar geo political challenges, and most of them are coming from half the world away from the united states,

both nations, both russia and china, are no stranger to nato, bolstering its military presence, either close to the national borders, or when it comes to china in the asia pacific, hence in an area, the china that beijing views as its own backyard. here both vladimir putin and cheating ping, they criticize the so called all cause deal saying that while essentially it undermines the well the global nuclear stability and that it is essentially a threat to global security. have a listen cause some was expressed by the activity of the americans in reconfiguring the current situation in the asia pacific region. and in this regard, both from our side and from the chinese side and negative assessment was expressed about the creation of new alliances such as the indo pacific court and the american anglo australian union orcus basically, this orkin deal is the united states and the u. k. uniting and helping a strange lawyer create its own basically expand its nuclear capabilities,

expand the nuclear capabilities of its fleet. so this is an attempt by washington and london to make us trailer, into more into more of an atomic superpower. in fact, on the side note at this deal has already caused quite a scandal between the allies, because initially, france was about to do more or less the same, but washington and london, well, they muscled out their partner, their ally, paris, out of a very lucrative contract but going back to the meeting between her, going back to this virtual conference between vladimir putin itching ping, they also expressed a desire to move further away from exchanges in dollars when it comes to bilateral trade and well increase the volume of deals or in our local currencies, in fact, staying was there, the subject of economy. vladimir putin has revealed that more than a 150000000 of doses of russia's vaccines against covered sputnik v and

sputnik light will be produced in china as contracts with 6 chinese firms have been signed. and in general, during 2021. the or the amount, the volume of bilateral trade has increased by 31 percent, which is basically it has reached to levels higher than the a before the pandemic. so there you have it in seems both leaders, they well they see i to i and this meeting, this virtual summit seems to have lamented the alliance between moscow and beijing for harry potter ortho j. k. rowling has infuriated the transgender community by criticizing police in scotland for allowing rape suspects to identify as women, as even if they haven't legally, or even physically changed their gender, a rollin channel, george or wells, 1984 on twitter to make a point. where is peace, freedom of slavery, ignorance, his strength, the pianist, individual,

her aim to you is a woman. a feminist activists are share. rawlings concerns saying the new approach to rape suspects will distort crime statistics and thereby render them useless. and, but the author has faced a heavy backlash for the views. vast majority of sexual souls are committed by men who don't identify as anything other than men. perhaps you might consider using your public profile to come by this. instead, you created an entire universe filled with wonderful characters, fantastical beasts magic and wander. but can't fathom that trans people exist. you've gone downhill from the inspiring woman who wrote harry potter from her car. why does it sound like you're more upset about trans people than rapists? hills like you pro, it is a wrong here. they well, it's not the 1st time rawlings been rounded on by trans activists. back in 2020, she was accused of trans phobia. after ridiculing an article that used to phrase

people who menstruate instead of women prompted protest outside her house, the writer says she has nothing against transgender people and the director of the project keep prisons, single sex believes it's a dangerous practice to substitute biological sex with agenda identity, i think this is another example of institutional catcher of our public and private institutions by the transgender, low bay. the intention was to then be able to roll out to other sexes. so i think the capturing of the criminal justice system, whether it's crime statistics or it's the prison service, has been very key tactical made within the crime statistics. we know that sex is an incredibly important variable, analyzing the causes of crime and the response to crime. so if you substituting gender identity to biological sex,

you're really messing up the data right at the beginning and you can never formulate an appropriate response. some men are just exploiting a loophole here to get themselves into female presence. and that is great danger to the family mates. i mean, how do you feel about that side of the argument? once you start pretending that biological sex doesn't matter, then you start opening up spaces to males to men into boys on the basis of what they believe about themselves on the basis of gender identity. and that puts women at risk as j. k. rowling says, this is fundamentally, it's about protecting the rights of women and girls is about protecting the safety of women and girls. consumer prices are hitting, you highs in america with inflation reaching a near for decade peak just earlier this year. and recent media advice for americans to spend before those savings, the value hasn't gone down particularly well, especially among those who are already struck for cash. everything costs more,

the grocery stores of pretty much everything universally costs more. everything's got up gas, food, everything. so it's not good, i'm a small, you know, black home business owner and all the prices on my products. i 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 oil stuff. so it's kind of bad, you know, 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 jumps 6.8 percent the highest and 41 years. 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 welm service, struggling shall pony a later ivan delivered it pupil. we 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 my last with more intention is achievable for everyone, especially affluent shoppers. it's incumbent and americans, the wealthiest people in the well to come back, come and be critical of their consumption. many c biden's policies as being

directly to blame job. i didn't seems bored of explaining how he sees it, not too interested in defending his actions. 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. we're what restaurant room haven't had me explain the supply chain to us. we can understand what's what we're talking about. at this point, 60 percent of americans blame 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 by to mr. trisha 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 beat out. 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 and anybody's lifetimes. spine you, it's gonna be in for a shock when they get that next electricity bills. a power prices are set, they hit a brand new reco despite government assurance is to reign them into 2018 levels. and the cost of a megawatt hour is full cost to be $7.00 times higher than last december. expos, sorry, that's partly due to surgeon gas prices. a spanish electricity bill in november, we're up 50 percent year on year, and people across the country of really starting to feel it. i'm get thought. hm, yeah. well, it voyeurism human. it changes everything. if you have a sorry that only cover certain things, it affects you and everything else. if you how 500 euros and spent a 100 another through city, he barely have anything left. all right?

what are people going to do? if i were in church, i would if people in government a low salary and see how the corporate controller shawl is reached this level because no one regulates it or do glad albert again. of course, if you pay a lot for electricity and charge you clients a low price, it affects you a lot. if you charge lions 15 euros and you have to pay around electricity cetera, what do you have left being so we're struggling to make ends made, but hopefully things will be fixed good. the reason i gave them the chief investment officer sucks. so bank osteen jacobson discussed europe's energy. we're on the latest edition of our sophie coverage in areas you can watch it on friday for now though, a quick preview. what we are doing right now with the way we are executing is that we are a, securing on getting more money more flow, a taxonomy in terms of the year, which is entirely built in green transformation and investments. but when you a d cup, a nice in your major life and the economy, and then on top of that,

which is the single most i was standing issue, it's going to be colder. and the stores of energy is low again, also, which means that the inflationary pressure, the energy crisis, us a concept is already there, the ability to do a base load energy generation in europe is of all time low. this week alone, we had the highest energy prices ever in france, basically for the europeans sector right now, we ha, more, depending on the flow from russia than ever before. this is saying in the market, this is the best way to get lower prices is to get higher prices. what we, what, what the market means by that is that when the market price gets high enough, the marginal cost of energy gets so high that supply needs to be unable to problem . we have specifically for energy is that it is under the guidance under the sort of the containment of the s g label. no professional invest a no southern wealth and no pension fund is today able to actually invest into the

fossil energy sector at a time where it is the most needed will need that the capital available. the marginal cost of capital available for the energy sector needs to come down, and that is the big fight that the politicians will have to have with the climate groups. well, that just about wraps up a busy program here. we're naughty, international, lots of headlines for this wednesday hump day program live from moscow. thanks for joining us or nazi. we are back the top of the oh.