not an individual level, it's not individual. well now, or if we go on believing that never change is obesity epidemic. that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment for what's driving the obesity epidemic. it's corporate in house breaking news, an ard, say russia vas retaliation after germany expels to diploma using the kremlin of ordering a murder on german soil. 2 years ago, moscow dismisses the claim has grown less also ad on the program up for years of flagging post says 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,

then marks former immigration minister gets 2 months behind bars for separating refugee child brides from their husbands. we'd debate the issue if they'd been valid. married in another country, and it is not for us to split them off on the basis. they don't comply with the law in our country. what we've done now, if you've created 2 societies, probably who's to society for the emigrants, where they have the rules and then the society for essentially the white people who have devils ah, from moscow to the world, this is our t. my name's unit o'neil's noun. you're welcome to then use our own art. see, we will get to those headline stories in just a moment, but i want to bring you a developing situation on the outskirts of paris coming in. and some at news wire

is a shopping mall, has been evacuated after reports of an armed man entering a cinema. and now i need to reiterate so far. there's no indication that any shots were fired, but we do believe there's a heavy police presence at the scene. so a doubt, developing situation, the outskirts of pars shopping mall, evacuated after reports of an armed man entering his mate, will be of course, keeping a very close eye on developments to a story when any significant updates come in, we'll bring them to you. okay, let me know to our breaking news story with our moscow has said it will retaliate after berlin through 2 of its diplomats and some in the russian ambassador on wednesday. it comes after a german court convicted, a russian citizen of murder. the presiding judge state of the moscow ordered the 2019 killing of a georgia national in the german capital, a clean the crumb the vehemently denies or europe corresponding. peter oliver can

tell us more. 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 cassy 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 marked in startling as murder on behalf of the state as determined that it quite a represent a serious violation of german law and of germany sovereignty, the russian ambassador was informed that the 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 in 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 all our sholtes, the new german chancellor and russia's president vladimir putin. an awful lot to talk about. his relations between moscow and berlin are 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 lead is finally get in contact. well let's pick up on some of those points that are correspondent, was speaking about on speak to geopolitical analysts, patrick heading sin, patrick,

good to see you in the program in the ruling, the courtyard said quote, state organs of the central government of the russian federation took the decision to liquidate the victim. do you think they can really know that for sure? no, no, i don't. i don't. i think it's, it's quite extraordinary. they would make that statement. however, it's not the 1st time that we've seen a courts a make such a sweeping statement, presumably of fact. but when you actually look what the provenance of the statement is, there's, there's not much evidence to draw that conclusion definitively anyway, a so, but it seems like, you know, these days, any time russia is involved in, in, in the courts in the u. s. for instance, or in the u. k, it's almost assumed that whatever the narrative is that is out there in the sort of public domain is probably based on fact is probably true. so we can just,

we have license to go ahead and generalize that. the russian state is behind whatever the various plots are and there are many of them in the last couple of years. how much should we read into these diplomat expulsions? is that german government just taking the obvious response to what a court in berlin has, has ruled or, or do you see patrick has more of the start of a, of an aggressive stance that's going to continue against moscow. there? i think good this, i think this is very much there's. there are a jeep state forces. ah, i would say, mainly from the united states. i'm, there could be some, a british influence as well in this, but in general, nato, the u. s. nato member states, there is a lot of pressure right now. i think this was sending a signal to all off shoulds to set the tone off for his government going forward. because whatever differences there were in the past between germany, let's say,

and, and russia, there was a long relationship between angela merkel and vladimir putin. and that's not something you can just brush aside of. so they're attending many international summit together, negotiating many things, the had of a fairly amaica bull relationship by all accounts. so i think now you've seen this is put all off shoals into kind of a corner. and so this is going to set the tone for his, for his, his administration. but this is very similar to what happened in the czech republic where they blamed russia for an ammunition depot explosion in 2014. and then all the sudden, just this year, in april of 2021, expelled 18 russian diplomats. and they said because they was based on strong suspicion of russian involvement. and i was just good enough for that, which was a pretty extreme diplomatic move. but again, chuck republic, natal member states, so it does follow the same pattern. oh, yeah,

just to just the point i'd chestler schultz is just the, in his, an office less than a week or so. and he's already making this decision. and europe is in the midst of an energy crisis. if we tick politicians, if we take judges, i'd of it. how do you think the german public on going to react to this? is there much appetite would you suspect for renewed hostilities? but russia, the continents biggest energy supply over something like this, which, you know, cannot be clarified as being definitive. i don't think there's particularly appetite, but from the public. but i don't think that really matters any more. i think governments in europe, in the us and certainly in, in the midst of the whole of coven locked down mandatory vaccination sector. they don't really care what the public appetite is. government is now moving, marching forward and doing what it's going to do. i think in terms of the media that's more or less an arm now of the intelligence services. it's an a to

propaganda arm of the deep state. that's certainly the case in germany. if you look at belling. cat is sort of partnering with der spiegel, so all of these, a stories, all of these so called scandals, the no volney poisoning circus that was very much driven by the german media. so, but all of these things have geopolitical value, and they build up this rap sheet against russia as if it seems implausible that moscow would be conducting daytime, a bicycle revenge assassinations in broad daylight in the major european city. but just just i'll not be coils yet. just a laptop, patrick, sorry for interrupting, but russia denies it had anything to do with the killing and says, no link has been proven in terms of the victim. he had a very violent history. and he's been pointer as a terrorist by moscow. a man like that could have a lot of enemies, could he not? and just to say that it's the russian estate who's only in the frame. it's making

a huge statement that would need a lot of facts, a lot of background to back at all. yet not only the fact that a lot of the so called evidence of this and all the love many these other a scandals are based on belling cat and inside are the insider based on things that they produced. but it seems extraordinary that, you know, an al qaeda link, terrorist would be, you know, in the running for asylum in a country like germany to begin with. it almost seems like he's, he's been, he's almost in a very convenient position there in order for some incident to happen like this. it's just bizarre on its face. but what's really clear is that in each of these cases, when we could list off a bunch of them from survey script bow to no vol. me to this current case here, that the west has more to gain than russia from any of these incidents. and i think at some point the penny has to drop as to what's really going on with this and all

of the other string of events that can go right all the way back to even the survey meniscus story. so in the, there's just a bevy of different examples of this. they've all been used to cultivate geopolitical capital, a, get in and use that as leverage against russia. so cath is, is just another example, patrick many, thanks for your time, your thoughts, this witness. they geopolitical as pondering anything live from the u. k to they many can moving all not facebook users may have to reassess the information. they've been getting from this site after its parent company mets admitted in court, that so called fact checks are based merely although pinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by a journalist after his post were flanked as misleading r t. southgate taylor 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 journalist. he didn't like the day slapped a partly full sticker on one of his post. so he food for defamation. i'm because facebook where he spent millions of dollars on legal fees over the years and 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 checkup and 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 double down on how it gives it fact checkers. a very long leash, though meta identifies potential misinformation, for fact checkers to review and great. 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 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 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 wildlife, one, sorry, 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 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 facts at all, but merely opinion assertions also by facebook claim and it's labels constitute

opinions than doesn't that make it a publisher. facebook, your opinion piece is not exempt from being fact checked, even when they are clearly labeled as op eds or editorials. also, facebook, i'll fax it, 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 proved it's committed to free speech. it is giving people a voice, especially donald trump. 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 going to cost them big time, but it can 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 jack is false. but more analysis and insight into the facebook revelations just to click away for that plenty more. besides, you can head to r t dot com. but this is our t international after the break. all, there are the story of the harry potter author on the great trans backlash. no book our movie this time though, just a whole lot of abuse and social media stay close. ah, for is your media reflection of reality in the world transformed what will make you feel safer?

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a story about squandered a lot of reaction, a clash of cultures and seen denmark's x immigration minister jailed inger story berg was sentenced to 2 months behind bars for a legally separating refugee couples back in 2016. under danish law couples can maury 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, but then minister ordered the young wives to be separated from their husbands. a danish court rule that was unlawful as the decision was made without consideration of individual circumstances. no miss story berg said she was only trying to protect children on has no regrets yet minay accuracy. and yeah, i can only say that i am very, very surprised by this fair date, 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, you know, avoiding agnes at her notes. 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 well, i guess, shared their views and whether the danish former ministers auctions were warranted 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 them out, some blocks should be something we celebrate. not throw ministers in prison for if they'd been validly married in another country than 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 um that has been sanctioned under the law of another country. then there

is already existing provision to, to actually, except and 2, legitimize some of those marriages and marriages which are under sharia law. and what we've done now is we've created to society subway, who is the society for the immigrants, where they have their rules and then the society for century, the white people who have their rules. i think that is not acceptable as it should be. a universal set of morality that should be universal set of laws thought. i mean at the end of the day, we can't impose our own laws on the rest of the world. what labels is been controlled, immigration in order to destroy europe, that they not bothered about the damage that started to civil society. and they want to find a way of attacking any politician that attempts to stop people coming out of the border. hello. then today we are perfectly happy not to port illegal ages 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 jail. the people responsible is obviously volley. well, it does seem very severe, um, but if i it sends a message that immigration ministers around the world have got to be more careful about the way they make decisions and to act lawfully than in. he has a welcome, a say is every time and immigration minister made an illegal decision on the being quite a number of those other rights over the years. or if they were sent to jail or if it would really. busy change things quite dramatic. kit is a very, very worried trend. this criminalization of politics. well, what you do with your opponents is ralph debated. you attempt to find a criminal of fast to convict of all the idea that you're not strong to take action against people that are buried. children, i think, really just shows a moral bankruptcy if this whole immigration debates. meanwhile,

another prominent woman who's also landed herself in trouble is harry potter author j. k. rowling. she's infuriated the transgender community by criticizing police and scotland for allowing rape suspects to identify as women. that's even if they haven't legally or physically changed gender. seeing only doubt their female rolling cello, george orwell is 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? yeah, many people have shared rawlings concern, seeing the new approach will clearly distort crime statistics and thereby. busy render them useless, but the offers faced the heavy backlash to from activists and 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 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. they've well, that's not the 1st time rawlings been rounded on by trans campaigners back in 2020 . she was accused of trans phobia. after ridiculing an article that used the phrase, people who meant straight instead of women dot prompted protests outside her house and death threats the writer and says she has nothing against transgendered people themselves. earlier, my colleague harvey spoke with a director of the project. keep prison, single sex who believes a dangerous precedent has been said in scotland. 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 a 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 sacks, 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 prisons. and that this great danger to the family makes, 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 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. okay, i just wanna bring you briefly updates on a security scare outside paris, which we reported on at the top of the r. a shopping mall was briefly evacuated after reports that a gunman had entered a cinema at police where rushed in. they have not concluded it was a false alarm there, pretty indicative really of 10th times across europe, though i think i'll story. okay, that is are lots for know your mid week news opted in the bag. i'll be back at the top with more to join me, then goodbye. this is art international. ah,

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