ah ah, breaking news on art, see russia. viola was retaliation after germany expels to diplomats accusing the kremlin of ordering a murder on german soil. 2 years ago. moscow dismisses the claim. miss braun led multi coming up after years of flagging post cells false or misleading. facebook admits in court that it's much vaunted fact checks are actually o pinion on jail for trying to protect young girls, denmark's former immigration minister, it gets 2 months behind bars for separating refugee child brides from their husbands, wheat at bait beach if they'd been valid. married in another country when it is not

for us to split them up on the basis that they don't comply with lee the laws in our country. what we've done now is we've created to society some way, who's the society for the immigrants, where they have that rules and then the society for essentially the white people who have devils ah, live for moscow. this is our t grid to help you with us today. my name's unit only. let's get to her stories. we indeed begin with breaking news. moscow has said it will retaliate after germany through our to up it's diplomats son summoned the russian ambassador. this wedding stay, that's after a russian citizen was convicted of murder. no berlin court ruled on moscow, ordered the 2019 killing of a georgian national in berlin. that's a claim the kremlin vehemently denies. ortiz peter oliver picks up the story. the

courtier and berlin ruled there to well sentenced vadim kasey cove to life imprisonment for his role in the murder of zaman hunger fairly back in august of 2019 hunger really was shot dead in a central berlin park in provide. 1 and hunting down that sentence, the court said that the killing had been carried out at the behest of the russian government. this is something that moscow has denied since the arrest was made of cassock cove. now it prompted analynn burbock, the new german 4 ministers to summon the russian ambassador to the foreign ministry here and which she told him, but swell to russian diplomats would be being declared. persona non grata. these are not in startling, this murder on behalf of the state as determined that quite a day represents a serious violation of german law and of germany. sovereignty the russian ambassador wasn't formed that to members of the diplomatic step of the russian embassy were being declared undesirable. while maria's account of her spokesperson

for the russian foreign ministry in moscow is 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, really now, he was a georgia passport holder of chechen descent and was wanted in russia on tara challenges. he was here in germany 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, the russian ambassador to add to germany said that the evidence that was presented by the prosecution on 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 biased 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. as yet to be amazing, not even a phone call yet between olaf shoulds the new german chancellor and russia's president vladimir putin. an awful lot to talk about as relations between moscow and berlin of strained at the moment between the future of the gnawed. busy stream to gas pipeline, the ongoing situation regarding ukraine, and now the hun gosh, really case, certainly going to be a lot to discuss when those 2 leaders finally get in contact. let's welcome on to the program. now martin dolton martin is a member of the hamburg parliament for the left party. you are indeed very welcome to the program. chancellor schultz has only been in office for around a week,

and his government's already sparked a major diplomatic incident with russia. is this the start of a more hawkish approach towards moscow? oh, i'm a bit afraid it could be. i hope it will not be, but i'm afraid it could be especially the gentleman for him. it's not bad luck. she has a very aggressive pretence towards moscow. i don't know how far she quoted natured expulsion with chance. i think she should have been some coordination. but i think it's a very bad signal, especially when you look at the evidence, which doesn't seem to be very clear all there can be doubt and whether there have been doing at all. so it's an impulse to an escalate to spiral, which i will like should be imposed more because we need dialogue,

especially in that time. but i'm afraid there is some actors in the less than capitalist fears to want to have more to get out of the economic crisis. but i hope they will not win in this ideological wall, which is done in the background in a moment. on the case itself, smart and russia denies it, has anything to do with the killing unsafe no link has been proven you think for from what know and what is public that germany has provided enough evidence that this was indeed a state sponsored auction. so as far as i could research, and as far as i can reach in the german media and the international media, the evidence was not convincing. so, and if you have some kind of that loan, convincing evidence, i think it's very, it's not at least to reflect it to do the magic step like the foreign minister and

only know about it. so if that would have been evidence that for in clear evidence . but if you look at the conflict in teaching, and if you look at the piece of the victim of that crime in building, he was involved in teaching and terrorism, which is a very, very complicated structure. and then if you want to have a clear, it would have been clear evidence that it would have been presented to the public. and as far as we've been done, i think that's kind of all the reaction of the german for him is 32, it's positive. no months in the past half hour or so, moscow said it will retaliate. is this going to to escalate in your eyes? i don't know. i mean, you always have the action and reaction. catch him. well,

i hope there will be no escalation because in the moment we don't need peace, we don't need or there's an economic crisis. there's covert crisis. good chair, with the for the un general secretary that has to be like the fire during which i would appreciate an investigation. when we look at the pro cation in the ukraine. when we look at the rhetorics of our industry and not that book, i'm a bit afraid she wants to escalate the conflict. she's caught all those actors who like to deepen their conflicts. and i hope that the rational side will try to search dialogue as far as possible and that we find who transferred the maybe it would be good to mr. put in your mr. charles, come in to a dialogue directly and to fill those actors who want to de escalate on both sides

can have deeper communication with each other. i would prefer that to call them to call transportation, which is just destroying and a lot of people life. if you get an escalation, well, situation, i don't like that idea. what, what about people in germany themselves? europe, as you mentioned in the midst of many crisis, including energy, how much public appetite is there in germany for renewed hostilities with russia, the continents biggest energy supplier. when we look at the evaluation for examiner institute and other institutions during regular, the evaluations, in spite of all propaganda which is conducted in german media and by some of the politicians in germany, the majority of german still aiming to friendly

relationship to russia, to china and that was the recently, that was in the migration that more than 83 percent of german prefer stuff and back an export and having peace through foreign relations. so the majority of germans was peace. meanwhile, sometimes part of the governments conducting a different politics. you bring up a lot of interesting points as always, martin dole's or member of parliament in hamburg the left party member. thanks so much. thank you. you have a good evening and moving the program on not facebook users may have to reassess the information they've been getting from the site after its parent company, meta admitted in court that so called fact checks are not that they're based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by journalist after his post for

a flag doesn't misleading. ortiz southgate report turns out the famous fact checkers who are busy labeling things false partly 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 day slapped at partly full sticker on one of his post. so he sued for defamation because facebook where he spent millions of dollars on legal fees over the years, it got creative this time and claimed that front checkers don't decide what's false . so not based on fact, what to ridiculous idea, but on their opinion. hence the title fact checker, 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 checkers. a very long lease, though, matter identifies potential misinformation, for fact,

check is to review and rate it leaves the ultimate determination whether information is full 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 check is, 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 talk. com. instead, you'll learn about how they interview full says and consult day to 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, want very pleased. after all, many of them had probably used these facts when auction with our friends. and now it's turned out they would just quoting some random person's opinion. i've been embarrassing railing, so that campaigning for facebook not to be less off the hook. 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 clement it's labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it a publisher. facebook, your opinion piece is non exempt from being fact checks even when they are clearly labeled as op eds or editorials. also, facebook, i'll fax it, labels cannot be false or defamatory because they concede she 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 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 of lead 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's 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 going to cost them big time, but it's an open the door to a flood of similar law search 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 check is false. ah, the more analysis and insight into those facebook revelations on been quite a revelation doesn't it? it's just a click away are teak, dot com has a cover for that time. plenty more. besides a clash of cultures, how it seen denmark to exit. immigration minister jailed inger steinberg was sentenced a 2 months behind bars for a legally separating refugee couples. back in 2016. under danish law couples can 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. the then minister ordered the young wives to be separated from their husbands. a danish court ruled up was unlawful. now the decision was made without

consideration of individual circumstances, mastoid berg say she was only trying to protect children and has no regrets yet minay accuracy. and yeah, i can only say that i am very, very surprised by despair date. and it is, as it were, the only scenario i had not prepared for the fall away because i thought it was completely unrealistic. mean, but here we are, and i take my punishment and i do it without bending. my knack wound. oh boy. and agnes said her notable 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 with our guests, shared their views on whether the danish former minister, his actions were justified is absolutely justified what she did. just think of the morality of a country that says that it's wrong to separate people in the case where one of them is a child drives and the fact that we are making that had to stop about something

that should be something we celebrate not throw ministers in prison for if they've been valid married in another country, then it is not for us to split them up on the basis that they don't comply with the, the laws in our country that needs to be pragmatism. but where there has been a marriage that has been sanctioned under the lore of another country, then there is already existing provision to, to out she accept. and to legitimize some of those marriages, i mean, marriages, for example, under sharia law. and what we've done now is we've created to society subway, who is the society to be immigrants, where they have the rules and then as a society for essentially the white people who have their rules, i think that that is not acceptable as it should be. a universal sense of morality, who should be universal set of laws thought. i mean, at the end of the day, we can't impose arrow laws on the rest of the world. what labels his own controlled

immigration in order to destroy europe, that they not bothered about the damage system to civil society. and they want to find a way of attacking any politician that attempts to stop people coming out of the border and look at the end the day. we are perfectly happy not to port illegal. aided were perfectly happy to take on foreign criminals. and the idea of what comes to jail, the midst of that sentence to stop it, robin gerald. the people responsible is obviously bothering. well, it does seem very severe. um, but if i it sends a message the immigration ministers around the world have got to be more careful about the way. busy they make decisions and to act lawfully, then it, he has a welcome and we say that every time an immigration minister made an illegal decision on the big, quite a number of those other right over the years the, if they were sent to jail. but it would really. busy change things quite dramatic.

could he say very, very worrying trends? the criminalization of politics? well, what you do with your potency, ralph, and debate them, you attempt to find a criminal, a fast to convict of all the idea that you're not strong to take action against people. the children, i think, really just shows a moral bankruptcy if this whole immigration debates just approaching 20 minutes into the program will be back with more world news. this went insane. 90 seconds. ah, now it shows seemed wrong when i was just a shape out disdain. because the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart,

we choose to look for common ground. ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ah, ah ah, let's start back with a story that's got a lot of people talking in the u. k and beyond harry potter or 3rd j. k. rowling

has infuriated that transgender community by criticizing police in scotland for allowing rape suspects to identify women. that's even if they haven't legally or physically change gender saying only that there are female rallying channel of george or wells, 1984 on twitter to make her point. where is peace, freedom of slavery, ignorance is trans. the meanest individual horrid to you is a woman. many people have shared rollings concern, seeing the new approach will clearly distort crime statistics under a bi, render them useless. but the authors faced the heavy backlash from activists on people on social media 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 wonder, but con father, the trans people exist. he has gone downhill from the inspiring woman who wrote harry potter from her car. why does it sound like your mood said about trans people and rapists feels like you pro it is a wrong here baby. it's not the 1st time rawlings been rounded owned by trauma campaigners back in 2020. she was accused of trans phobia. after ridiculing an article that used the phrase, people who men straight instead of women that prompted protest outside our house and death threats. the writer insist she has nothing against transgender people themselves or my colleagues new harvey spoke with a director of the project. keep prison, single sex who believes a dangerous precedence has been set in scotland. 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 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 formulate an appropriate response. so 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 biological sex doesn't matter, then you start opening up spaces, team, 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 vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart. she asian ping have held a video conference both publicly committed to strengthening ties, amid increasingly strain relations between east and west. the russian leader also reiterated his desire to attend the beijing winter olympics opening ceremony. in february ortiz, he worked on the reports. it comes amid as both nations, they face very similar geopolitical 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 changing 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 concern was expressed by the activity of the americans in re configuring 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 stranger 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, 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 our, of going back to the spiritual conference between vladimir putin in teaching ping. they also express a desire to move further away from exchanges in dollars when it comes to bilateral trade and will 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 covert. 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 are the amount, the volume of bilateral trade has increased by 31 percent, which is basically it has reached to levels higher than a before the pandemic. so there you have it, it 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 . yet just to take up air eager points. there we heard from politics, professor joseph gregory mahoney, he thinks that russia and china are reacting to u. s. aggression, frankly, with the office deal, basically proliferating nuclear weapons to australia, ostensibly against china. with reports. us troops are now in taiwan with biden, undermining strategic ambiguity repeatedly in verbal remarks with ongoing attempts to rally a new alliance in asia against beijing, with constant provocations in the south china sea, with washington propaganda machine constantly dehumanizing china unfairly accusing

it of genocide and gross human rights violations. i wouldn't say the u. s. is being careful, i would say rather, that it's being extremely aggressive. we're in a very fraught moment. the pandemic, of course, has made things even more tight. and so i think what we're saying is 2 countries and the case of russia and china that have a lot of shared teaching interest and finding that close consultation benefits. most of them, i think they have some shared strategic interest. but i think we see it on, on multiple fronts. i think both of them are tired of the dollar as the global reserve currency. i think they're both tired of this sort of irrational flip flop politics coming out of washington. i think they understand that to move forward, they need to find a way to transcend the american lead order. and i think that's what they're working to do. a lot is your mid week news run off for now. we'll keep the updates coming up the top. hope you'll join me then. by me

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