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[000:00:00;00] a breaking news on art c, germany summons the russian ambassador i'm expels to. diplomats accusing moscow of ordering a murder on german soil 2 years ago. i claim the kremlin dismisses us grind also ahead in the program up years of flogging post says false or misleading. facebook admits in court of it's much vaulted fucking checks, are actually o pinion on jail for trying to protect young girls. denmark's x immigration minister gets 2 months behind bars for separating it. refugee child's wife's from their husbands. if she was so worried about them,
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then she the diminished would have been something more humane where the child care about trying to achieve 3 people. so i don't think there are cheap moments, shutting students ah, mid day and also i 11 pm, and deca and 8 in the evening. here in moscow this wednesday, december, the 15th. welcome to the news hour on rti. i'm, you know, new. we begin with breaking news. germany has summoned russia's ambassador and thrown out to diplomats after a russian national was convicted of murder. a court rule that moscow ordered the 2900 killing of a georgian national in berlin. a claim the kremlin vehemently denies. let's cross slice to our europe the correspondent peter oliver,
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in at berlin for more on this situation at peter evening. a big statement from the presiding judge, take us through the days, developments on background. indeed, if you will write the court here in berlin ruled the well sentenced via mcafee cove to life, imprisonment for his role in the murder of very much hunger, fairly back. in august of 2019 hundreds, really was shot dead in a central burly in park. in provide and hunting down the sentence, the court said that the killing it being carried out at the behest of the russian government. this is something that moscow has denied since the arrest was made of catholic cold. now it prompted until in a bad bulk, the new german 4 ministers to summon the russian basset to the foreign ministry here and which she told. busy him but swell to russian diplomats would be being declared persona non grata. these are mot in startling. this
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murder on behalf of the state as determined by the quite to day represent a serious violation of german law and of germany sovereignty. the russian ambassador was informed that 2 members of the diplomatic step of the russian embassy were being declared undesirable. watch after hostile, as account of a spokes person for the russian foreign ministry in moscow. it said that there would 100 percent be a reaction to the expulsion of these diplomats moscow again maintains they had nothing to do with the murder of hun gosh valley. now he was a georgia and passport holder of chechen descent and was wanted in russia on tara challenges. he was here in germany. i with asylum status now he'd be wanted in moscow and connection believe to be directly responsible for the killing of almost 100 people in russia's north caucus region. he was also understood to be part of the planning for the 2010 moscow metro suicide bombings. now, speaking more about this,
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the russian ambassador to add to germany said that the evidence that was presented by the prosecution and the timing of this announcement were all politically motivated. 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 belin, 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. as yet to be amazing, not even a phone call yet between all r sholtes, the new german chancellor and russia's president vladimir putin. an awful lot to talk about as relations between moscow and berlin are strained at the moment between the future of the gnawed stream 2 gas pipeline. the ongoing situation regarding ukraine, and now the hun gosh, really case, certainly going to be
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a lot to discuss when those 2 leaders finally get in contact. peter, thanks very much for tickers all through, thought ortiz peter all over live in berlin. let's stay with this story. i want to bring in political unless chris palm brief for his take. chris joined us from london, so they could to see you, chris, we've only had the new term in government for a matter of days and here it is already expelling russian. diplomats. it's another sign of the approach. it's going to be taking to foreign policy. i think it is, i think we'll see a change in berwin from ne angel narco years. the new social democrat wed coalition . i. i expect to take a harder attitude than she did in regards to russia. are russia. her? germany's come is commander men's pressure from united states and from it's our france shooting no harder position. so i think we will see germany coming coming
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through on this. i am following a more. i want assist agenda under the new, the new governance at a, in part this indication of god is more likely to come. so yes, i think this is a bark of the future. russia denies it had anything to do with the killing and says, no link has actually been proven at from what's public, what, what's known. do you think germany has provided enough evidence that this was. busy a state sponsored action i think they provided some evidence, but it's not much what they're basically saying is that the co, canada carried out this operation without the help of the russian secret services e passports is i tend to stay awake, cetera, et cetera. ah, i mean, it seems unlikely that an individual on their own could carry a killing and right in the center, the 2 guards and right in the sand. so, over over berwin, not far from the seats of govern government, but they haven't provided the concrete evidence which shows how this was done. who did it, except for us, that as
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a degree of ambiguity remains about this case. it says the timing, it's interesting for ard see itself, chris. this dispute comes on the eve of the launch of our german service. a. can we expect a bumpy ride for the channel? i see you've seen to alex. he's had a bumpy ride and burton elsewhere saw, yes, i think he woke up. i'm in my shoe towards this is the old state broadcasting to companies including bbc, have got a definite bias and so on aspects. i think you have to accept that. however, that's never taken into account in regards to the ality and other operations are just branded propaganda vehicles for, in this case, the russian government, the bbc does not get that treatment, does it. but for instance, it's world servers is funded by the british foreign. now foreign are foreign. i foreign office and bbc coverage of things. i remember very, very well of the scottish independence referendum in 2014 was hardly neutral,
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was it? so you know, this accusations of bias, well, let me take a run around every media company has a so i choose and decide certain questions which can be described as bias. and every major, major company is linked to it. so it respects of state. so this can be off a case of the pot calling the kettle black. there is a, a murky back run. when you start digging into this story, russia said many times the victim had a very violent history. authorities here say he was simply a terrorist. that opens up a lot of questions about who indeed could have been involved in this. i would say chest swell in this that had been involved. i so as by rushes that he was involved in a terrorist attack inside russia, i understood i civilians during the very bloody chechen, i church of war. ah, he had fled to georgia where he it was a passport older,
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but didn't feel safe in georgia. i felt that he wanted to find safety in a german, as i say, was eventually gun don't rights in the sensor sensor of berwin. but he clearly has gone a has had a bulky ha monkey passed. ah, and some of us go look, i think come out in the wash. as this story develops, again, we have to recognize that among the chechen diaspora there are many who went vengeance on russia. many endo, for the darius of geo had his groups. so we will see what i say, what comes out in the wash regarding this man? yeah, what you just explained there. it's not read in some of the articles i've just been looking through as well. i think it's important information to, to put everything to life. chris, chris, thanks very much for your time. your thoughts, crisp ambry, political analysts live on our team. facebook users may have to reassess the information they've been getting from this site after its parent company, meta admitted in court,
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that so called fact checks are based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by journalist after his post were flagged this misleading . picking up the story, saskatoon turns out the famous frank checkers, who are busy labeling things false pot in false, misleading. i've actually been a bit loose with well, the facts. facebook yet again, found itself in court. this time up against a john list. he didn't like the bay slapped a partly full sticker on one of his posts. so he food for defamation. i'm because facebook where he spent millions of dollars on legal fees over the years, it got created this time and claimed that front checkers don't decide what's false will not based on fact, what a ridiculous idea, but on their opinion, hence the title fact checker. and because opinion in america is sacred, you gone through it. it's a very, very nifty loophole. but just to really escape any liability whatsoever. facebook
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double down on how it gives it. fact checkers a very long leash though 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 sources 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 uses, worldwide, one, sorry, pleased. after all, many of them had probably used these facts when arguing with their friends. and now it's turned out they would just quoting some random person's opinion. i've been embarrassing railing,
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so that campaigning for facebook not to be let off the hook. court filing. facebook admits its 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 clement, 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 o 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 loves 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
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information and more access to connect with one another and not reserving those as tools for some small number really people's i don't feel comfortable at all saying they don't get to have a voice because i don't agree with 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 an 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
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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 false. ah, marianella says m inside into the facebook revelations as always, just a click away for that and plenty more. besides, had to r t a clash of cultures so seen, denmark's ex immigration minister jailed. inger steinberg was sentenced to 2 months for illegally separating refugee couples. back in 2016, under danish law couples and murray from the age of 18. but during the migrant crisis, girls as young as 15 who had legally married in their home countries arrived in denmark,
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but then minister ordered the young wives to be separated from their husbands. a danish court ruled the that was unlawful. now the decision was made without consideration of individual circumstances. they allege at miss thornburg say she was only trying to protect children and has no regret yet minay accuracy. and yeah, i can only say that i am very, very surprised by this fair dick. and it is as it were, the only scenario i had not prepared for before because i thought it was completely unrealistic. but here we are, and i take my punishment and i do it without bending my neck wound. oh boy. and agnes said, oh no, no, there is nothing ever bad. so i mean, simply one has a moral and compassionate obligation to protect the girls. and that was what i did . or i guess debated 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
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been only sentence for 2 months, not for 2 years. and we also know that she will not go to the present. she maybe get a strap on, on her leg, you know, and that is, that would be that i think the lessons learned is obviously there is a lack of proportionality 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 were already married with these campers and to separate those people. i think that if she wanted to do something humana, she should have gone to the court and some come pretend expert who had given her
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some good advice. but she didn't do that. i think they didn't touch it or they sent us. there is a good faith trying to protect the diagnosis, right. why she might go to the wrong about my food. and i got members also having a moment time since syria, which is contributing to so many of them coming to denmark, didn't know that, that they didn't know what became as a silence euchre. hope they know the last of the land they were renting for their lives. in the country, they were seeking asylum somewhere and it came to 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 he's. i'm attaching child bar it is that the matter of one day or one year,
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he suggests the matter of subjecting those poor people who are seeking asylum and a garland and the minister is subjecting them to come unbearable breast. hm. and that is, i think personally for me is absolutely terrible. so the main reason people come from cherry i to, to christ supplies they've done well. can you tie is the all for economics functions which literally agree on i'm, it's like math. so you never flashing, read today. we're beecher, i'm the, i'm excited. i'm maybe a little bit more go. this is art. see it the minutes past 8 pm here in moscow will have more world news in 90 seconds to close. ah
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show business. i'll see you then. mm ah ah. oh, hello again. hurry porter or 3rd jack here rolling. hans infuriated the trans gender community by criticizing police in scotland for allowing rape suspects to identify as women. that's even if they haven't legally or physically changed gender saying only about their female rallying charlo george orwell. at 1984 on twitter to make her point. where is peace, freedom of slavery, ignorance, his strength, the biggest thing to vigil. hurrah, too is a woman. many people have been sharing, rawlings concern, saying the new approach will clearly distort crime starts thereby render them useless. but the authors faced
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a heavy backlash from activists for her 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. the 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 baby. it's not the 1st time rawlings been rounded on by trans campaigners. by 2020, she was accused of trump phobia. after ridiculing an article about use the phrase, people who men straight instead of women that prompted protest outside our house and even death threats the writer and says she has nothing against transgender
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people themselves. earlier and my colleague need harvey spoke with the director of the project, keep a prison, single sex who believes it's dangerous practice to substitute biological sex with gender identity. i think this is another example of institutional catcher of our public and private institutions by the transgender lobby. the intention was to then be able to roll out to other sectors. 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 for 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
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formulate an appropriate response. so men are just exploiting a loophole here to get themselves into female prisons, 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. as part of the european union's push to go green on consign fossil fuels to history, the european commissioner suggested an end to all long term natural gas contracts. after 2049, they use electricity, gas, and hydrogen networks that were planned and developed in
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a integrated manner. avoiding lock in and standard assets and long term gas contracts should not extend by 2049. however, the e commissioner also warned of the risks to europe. scow supplies, if, particularly cold winters, just like we've seen our seen european energy prices, they've surge since awesome due to market volatility rising more than 6 times compared to the same period. last year. russia, europe's largest gas supplier has repeatedly spoken in favor of long term deal saying they bring much needed stability subs. no good it. i knew that was did issue . they made mistakes. we talked about this with the previous european commission of its activities were aimed at curtailing long term contracts for gas supplies, giving priority to exchange trading. and it turns out this policy was wrong. russia is ready to work to stabilize the world energy market, but this activity should be built on a commercial basis, taking into account the interests of old participants. yeah,
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so electricity bills in europe, there, skyrocketing along with the natural gas price in spain, power prices are approaching an all time record despite government assurance is to bring the back to 2018 levels, the cost of a mega, what our is forecast to be 7 times higher than last december on electricity bills in spain, in november we're up 50 percent compared to a year earlier. people across the country are feeling it in their pockets. i'm yes, uh huh. well, it bodies, me, it changes everything. if you have a sorry that only cover certain things, it affects you in everything else. if you how 500 euros and spend 300 or no through city, he barely have anything left over. what are people going to do? if i were in church, i would if people in government a low salary and see how the cope look shawl is reached this level because no one regulates it. they're glad albert again. of course, if you pay
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a lot for electricity and charge your clients a low price, it affects you a lot. if you charge lions 15 euros and you have to pay round to electricity cetera, what do you have left you? so we're struggling to make ends meet, but hopefully things will be fixed good. the reason i gave them when we spoke with independent journalist luke river, he thinks the decisions coming from brussels are only making the energy crisis worse unit would be completely crazy if they decided to suppress long term contracts for gas or to trying to suppress gas being a fossil fuel, you know, to, to be discarded. this is wrong. why? because they choose their renewables, wind energy, and solar energy. these are intermittent. so if you're billed when turbines you need to st capacity in gas turbines, when there is no wind, they will take over. so you absolutely need gas. if you bet on renewables,
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everybody understands that a long term contract brings you better prices over a long term and stability. it's the same for gas prices. i mean, the price of gas now all the spot market in europe is incredibly high. it was euro wants, is it? what mrs. fondling, ones, we would be crazy to go that way. completely crazy. so this is really something which is trying to enjoy moscow. the cambodian prime minister has urged his country's military to stop using us weapons, following washington's decision to place arms restrictions on pen on pen. it comes as russia security chief, trouble to the south, east asian country to discuss closer ties in terms of and military security, affecting organized crime. as well. ortiz rahman crossroads is there to cambodian prime minister whom sand calls for the destruction and disposal of all
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american made weapons and equipment that are currently being used in the countries armed forces. now this statement came after washington imposed an arms embargo on this to east asian country, accusing the local authorities of human rights violations and corruption as well. i would like to order all our forces to make an urgent review of weapons and military equipment combos has. and to collect o u. s. military weapons and equipment there is and store them in a warehouse or destroyed them. now cambodia is close military, its eyes and the pellets. hill cooperation with china is widely considered to be the main reason behind washington sanctions. but meanwhile, russia says security council secretary, nikolai potter shift continued his trip to southeast asia and made us stop here in cambodia as well. now moscow stopped security man presented the cam bodie and prime
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minister with the order of friendship from president vladimir putin. and also during this visit to the russian, cambodian delegations discussed the country's security cooperation, joined sir counter reaction to a money laundering from crime and the financing of terrorism, and also the disgust to fight against a drug trafficking and organized crime to now the sides also negotiated the expansion of military and military technical corporation between the 2 nations, as well as international information security rahman coffer of non pen kingdom of cambodia. the latest news fuse here gets going in moment, stay close for scotty now on the rest of the team. right after the spring. a london love polls, particularly when pole spur they're
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a certain political agenda, but polling has a check her history as of late. the last 2 election cycles tell us is money, should we put much stock into polling anymore? if so, then why wouldn't be the retailer has decided to actually take a break from social media, but it, it for their mental health course that actually are yours. we will discuss this is facebook said it's fact checkers are from a 3rd party. therefore facebook themselves are not venturing one line of ideology over another. but what if facebook failed to mention they are okay. but these fact checkers having their own opinions, it's all in the details, and we will discuss. and during this latest outbreak of a deadly weather across the mid south, did companies choose to put profit over the safety of their workers. we will give
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