is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great. the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. ah russia valez read tele ation now through germany expels to diplomats accusing the kremlin of ordering a murder on german soil 2 years ago. moscow dismisses the claim as groundless also had on the program after years of flagging post says, false or misleading. facebook admits in court that it's much vaunted fact checks are actually o pinion. jail for trying to protect young girls, denmark's former immigration minister gets 2 months behind bars for separating

refugee child brides from their husbands. we debate the issue if they've been valid, married in another healthy then that is not for us to split them up on the basis that late that comply with lee the laws in our country. what we've done now is we've created 2 societies, homeaway, who's the society for the immigrants, where they have that rules, and then the society for essentially the white people who have that old ah, whenever you're counting the program from today, welcome to most going to our, to international, my name's uni. good to have your company. moscow has said it will retaliate after germany threw out 2 of its diplomats and summoned the russian ambassador on wednesday. it comes after a berlin court convicted,

a russian citizen of the murder. the presiding judge stated that moscow ordered the 2019 killing of a georgian national in the german capital, a claim the kremlin vehemently denies or europe correspond. peter oliver told me more earlier. the courtier in 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 anguish, really was shot dead in a central berlin park in provide 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 much in startling as murder on behalf of the state as determined that 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 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 charges. 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 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 our shoulds, 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 nord 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. or we discussed the issue with the former greek and buster to canada. he thinks berlin is taking its lead from washington. i would be less romantic than the rest of the buses or in new berlin was. i have the impression that berlin is receiving instructions from washington on this issue. i must not forget that washington has expelled many, many russian diplomats. and we must almost take, we must almost take into consideration that 2 days ago to berlin stopped the pipeline, which shows that m. berlin is going to follow instructions from washington to be tough on, on, on moscow. because i don't think them germany would, would like it's such a critical face to create such an issue with,

with russia. but of course germany needs a washington's support job, particularly to you covered with not having a program. all not facebook users may have to reassess the information they've been getting from this site softer. it's per company, meta admitted in court that so call fact checks are based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by a journalist. after his posts were flagged as misleading or t saskia taylor can tell us more. 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 food for defamation. i'm because facebook the 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, 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 doubled down on how it gives it fact checkers a very long leash. so 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 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, want, sorry, pleased. after all, many of them had probably used these facts when arguing with that friends. and now it's turned out they would just quoting some random person's opinion. i've been embarrassing really, 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 clement, 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 fact check 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 loves giving people a voice, especially donald trump is 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 anxious to connect with one another and not reserving those as tools for some small number to 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 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 going to 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, let deeper dive into those facebook revelations are just a click away for the plenty more. besides as well, you can go to r t dot com a clash of cultures and seen denmark's

x immigration minister jailed inger stolberg was sentenced to 2 months behind bars for a legally separating refugee couple's back in 2016 now. 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 that then minister ordered the young wives to be separated from their husbands. danish court ruled that was unlawful, so the decision was made without consideration of individual circumstances. miss thornburg 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 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. mean, but here we are and i take my punishment and i do it without bending my neck. i

wanna avoid agnes said her, noted with 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 with our guests shared their views. and whether the danish former ministers actions 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 an effort to stop them out. somebody should be something we celebrate. not throw ministers in prison for if they've 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 the, the laws in our country. that needs to be pragmatism. but where there has been a marriage that has been sanctioned under the lower of another country, then there is already existing provision to,

to actually accept. and to legitimize some of those marriages or 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 their rules. and then as a society for essentially the white people who have their rules, i think that is not acceptable either should be a universal sense of morality should be universal sets 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 they want is 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. then we are perfectly happy not to port illegal aliens were perfectly happy to take on foreign criminals. and the idea of what comes to jail, the midst of that said to stop it, robin gerald,

the people responsible is obviously bothering well, it does seem very severe. um, but if it, it sends a message, the immigration ministers around the world. busy have got to be more careful about the way. busy they make decisions and to actually lawfully then it, he has a welcome effect. every time and immigration minister made an illegal decision on the being quite a number of those other fight over the years the, if they was sent to jail. but it would really. busy change things quite too much. could he say very, very worrying trends? this 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 shown to take action against people. the children, i think, really just shows a moral bankruptcy. if this whole immigration debates this is our, it's international in 90 seconds. the story of the harry potter author and the

great trans backlash, no book or movie this time though, just a whole lot of abuse on social media. ah ah with

ah pundents love souls particularly when pulse further a certain political agenda when polling has a check her history as of late the last 2 election cycles tell us as much. should we put much stock into polling anymore? it so then y o o, 60 minutes, past era, welcome back. now let's start back with the story. thus got a lot of people talking this week harry potter or 3rd, j. k. rowling has london herself and hot water. she's infuriated the transgender community by criticizing police and scotland for allowing rape suspects to identify as women are. that's even if they haven't legally or physically change gender saying only that. yes, i am female at rollin channel, george or wells novel,

1994 on twitter to make her point where is peace, freedom of slavery, ignorance is trans. the meanest individual. her aim to you is a woman. many people have shared rawlings concern, seeing the new approach will clearly distort crime statistics, thereby render them useless to say the least. but the author's face to have a backlash to from activists on people on social media here, some of their views on her. 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 combine these. instead, you created an anti 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 almost said

about trance people then? rapists, hills like you pro, it's is a wrong here baby. it's not the 1st time rollings been run developed by trans campaigners back in 2020. she was accused of trans phobia. after ridiculing an article about use the phrase, people who men straight instead of women that prompted protests outside her hosts on death threats to the writer and says, she's got nothing against transgender people themselves. earlier, my colleague new harvey spoke with the director of the project. keep prison, single sex who believes a dangerous precedent has been 7 scholars. 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 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 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 female 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. now as part of the use push to go

green and consign fossil fuels, the history of the european commissioners suggested an end to all long term natural gas contracts. after 2049, they use sam, assistant gas and hydrogen networks for the plant and developed in may integrated manner. avoiding locked in and standard assets, and long term gas contents should not extend by 2049. however, the e u energy commissioner, also one of the risks to europe's gal supplies, if particularly cold winters, just like this one, are seen european energy prices. how absurd since autumn jude 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 deals, saying they bring much needed stability subs. no good if i knew that was delicious . they made mistakes. we talked about this with the previous european commission of

its activities were aimed at containing 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 lives and electricity bills in europe. their skyrocketing along with a natural gas price in spain. they've approached an all time record, despite government assurances to bring rates back to 2018 levels. in fact, the cost of a megawatt hour is forecast to be $7.00 times higher than last. december and electricity built in spain in november, rope 50 percent compared to a year earlier. people across the country are feeling it's in their pockets. i'm yes, uh huh. well, it valerie's movement, it changes everything. but if you have a sorry that only cover certain things, it affects you in everything else. if you how 500 euros and spend 300 on know

through city, you barely have anything left over. what are people going to do them? and if i were in church, i would if people in government a low salary and see how the corporate law shawl is reached, this level because no one regulates it or good. glad albert again, of course, if you pay a lot for electricity and charge you clients, a low price to fax you a lot. if you charge lions 15 euros and you have to pay round electricity cetera, what do you have left me and so we're struggling to make ends meet, but hopefully things will be fixed. good. i mean i get them or we spoke with independent journalist lucrative a. 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 try to suppress gas b, a fossil fuel, you know, to, to be discarded. this is wrong. why? because they choose the 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, 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 on the spot market in europe is incredibly high. is it what europe wants? is it? what is this fumbling once? we would be crazy to go that way. completely crazy. so this is really something which is trying to enjoy moscow. vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart she gin ping have held a video conference both publicly and committed to strengthening ties, are made increasingly strained. relations between east and west at the russian

leader. by the way, i also reiterated his desire to attend the beijing winter olympics opening ceremony . in february ortiz eager should ela has more. 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 bay ging 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 lesson concern was expressed about 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. 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 of 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 a, going back to the spiritual conference between vladimir putin and 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 or the amount. the volume of bilateral trade has increased by 31 percent, which is basically it has reached to levels higher than 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 . and we also 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, the 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 that 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. right, more great programs camp. they're starting moments here on our t c. stay with us to see what's showing wherever you are today. right off the short of the break. me. ah, ah, ah, ah,

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