drones is manufactured, they are constantly seeking tv rail science, rowing using stier to against the shell. a for headline stories this, our russia vas, retaliation after germany expels. busy to diplomats accusing the kremlin of ordering a murder on german soil. 2 years ago, moscow dismisses the claim has brought this frosty future, the plans to drop all long term natural gas contracts. after a 2049, despite concerns that much vaunted green alternatives won't be able to meet european energy needs on jail for trying to protect young girls,

denmark's former immigration minister against 2 months behind bars for separating refugee child brides from their husbands. we debate the issue if they'd be valid, married another country, then this is not for us to split them up on the basis that later comply with the laws in our country. what we've done now is we've created 2 societies, probably who is the society for the emigrants, where they have the rules and then the society for essentially the white people who have that rules ah, are coming to you live from moscow. this is our t. my name's unit o'neill on 30 minutes of news and views start not moscow has said it will retaliate after germany through our 2 of its diplomats and summoned the russian ambassador on wednesday. it comes after

a burning court convicted, a russian citizen of murder. the presiding judge stated that moscow ordered the 2019 killing of a georgia national, and the german capital acclaim the kremlin. fear, mentally denied, 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, a bare bach, the new german 4 ministers to summon the russian ambassador to the foreign ministry here and which she told him, but swell to rush and diplomats would be being declared. persona non grata. these

are much in startling as murder on behalf of the state as determined that a 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 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 biased 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 gnawed 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 while since our story really broke, i've been getting reactions through the day all night, including from the former greek ambassador to canada. he told me he is of the view . berlin is taking its lead from washington. i would be less diplomatic than the russian or busted, the new berlin was. i have the impression that berlin is receiving instructions from washington on this issue. i don't forget that washington has expelled very many russian diplomats and we must almost take, we went sullivan was taken to consideration that 2 days ago to berlin stopped the pipeline, which shows that 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, particularly the government now. okay, moving the story all. now as part of the use push to go green on, consign fossil fuels to history, the european commission, how suggested an end to all long term natural gas contracts. after 2049, they use sam, electricity, gas, and hydrogen networks in the plant and developed in may incubated manner. i've like and locked in and standard assets and long term gas contents should not extend byte . thank you. 49. we need to say though, that you, you official went on to warn up the risks to europe. scow supplies,

if particularly cold winter's, just like this one are seen. european energy prices have served since autumn drew 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 are skyrocketing along with the natural gas price. give you a sense, spain, they're approaching all time records. there are the spike government assurances

that bring rate spock to 2018 levels. again, this is what they're dealing with. the cost of a megawatt hour as, as forecast to be $7.00 times higher than last december. and electricity bills in spain, in november of 50 per cent, compared to a year earlier. people across the country are feeling it in their pockets mental economy. well, it valerie's movement. it changes every tune. if you have a sorry that only cover certain things in the proxy and everything else. if you how 500 euros and spend t 100 on electricity, he barely have anything left over. what are people going to do them in the if i were in charity, i would if people in government a low salary and see how the quote is very low, surely is reached this level because no one regulates it or good. glad albert gay, of course, if you pay a lot for electricity and charge declines, hello price to fact he a lot. if he charged lions 15 euros and you have to pay rounds, electricity cetera. what do you have left? you say we're struggling to make ends made,

but hopefully things will be fixed. good. i mean i get them now a lot of worry there just before christmas. and 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 trying to suppress gas b, a fossil fuel, you know, to, to be discard. this is wrong. why? because they choose the renewables, wind energy, and solar energy. these are intermittent. so if you're billed when turbines unique, the same 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, easy while europe wants. is it? what is this fumbling once? we would be crazy to go that way. completely crazy. so this is the be something which is trying to enjoy moscow. a clash of cultures has seen, denmark's ex immigration minister jailed. inger steinberg was sentenced a 2 months behind bars for a legally separating refugee couple's back in 2016. under danish law couples can marie from the age of 13, 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 lives to be separated from their husbands. a danish court rule that was unlawful. now the decision was made with thought consideration of individual circumstances. miss joy burke say she was only trying to protect children and has no regret. yes,

i can. i see. i can only say that i am very, very surprised by despair, 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. oh boy agnes, i don't know 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 when our gas share their views. and whether the danish former administers 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 bright and the fact that we are making an effort to stamp them out. some black 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 the rules and then the 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 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 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 pull 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 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 big, quite a number of those other fight over the years the, if they were sent to jail. but it would really. busy change things quite too much, kid. he's a very, very worrying trend. 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 strong to take action against people. the children, i think, really just shows a moral bankruptcy if this whole immigration debates you're watching are to international after the break this story of the harry potter author and the great trends backlash, no book or movie this time though, just the whole of abuse, social media there close oh is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed what will make you feel safer?

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they've been getting from this site after it's per company. meta admitted in court, that so called fought checks are based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by journalist after his post were flagged as misleading taken us through all that southgate taylor 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. and 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 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 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 least 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 arguing with our friends,

and now it's turned out they would just quoting some random person's opinion. i've been embarrassing railing, so di, 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 checks even when they are clearly labeled as op eds or editorials. also, facebook are fact check labels can not be false or defamatory because they consist sheet protected opinion, even though we present them. as fact. my question though is, what does facebook need these opinionated fact checkers for anyway, after all, over the years, it's proved, it's committed to free speech. it is giving people a voice, especially 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 of a lead 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'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 gonna cost them big time, but it's gonna open the door to a flood of similar lawsuit in the near future. and it could be more than they can handle. i think they're hoping that by admitting that fact,

jack just means opinion jack, when facebook puts a label on there, hoping to get out of this lawsuit without harm. and then just sink the story into the daily fountain of news events and hope people forget about it. in due time and in the, in the future, you'll see changes in their labels. they'll stop using the word fact and they'll come up with some other way to express it where they still exercise their dictatorship right to control speech on their platform. but it won't be a false presentation like the word fact jack is false. ah, here's an interesting story and we're annella says an insight into those facebook revelations just to click away for that aren't plenty more besides r t dot com. how's you covered? but here on, there are another story to bring you. harry potter author, j. k. rowling has landed herself in out water. she has infuriated the transgender community by criticizing police in scotland for allowing rape suspects to identify

as women. that's even if they haven't legally or physically change gender saying only to the police. i'm a female. rolling cello george orwell. novel, 1984 on twitter to make her point worse. peace, freedom of slavery, ignorance, his strength. the meanest individual who raped you is a woman. many people have shared rawlings concern, seeing the new approach will clearly distort crime statistics and thereby 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 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 yom upset about trans people than rapists? hills like you pro, it is a wrong here. they and it'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 use that phrase, people who men straight instead of women that prompted protests outside her house and that threats to the writer and says she's got nothing against transgender people themselves. earlier, my colleague niel harvey spoke with the director of the project. keep prison, single sex who believes a dangerous precedent 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 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 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 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. love him. on his chinese counterpart, she gen ping of elder videoconference, both publicly committed to strengthening ties, increasingly straight relations between east and west. at the russian leader, by the way, also reiterated his desire to attend the beijing winter olympics, opening ceremony in february with more heres ortiz eager to them, 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 cheating ping,

they criticize the so called all cause deal saying that while essentially it undermines the well the global nuclear stability and that it is essentially a threat to global security. have listen concern was expressed by the activity of the americans in reconfiguring the current situation in the asia pacific region. and in this regard, both from our side and from the chinese side and negative assessment was expressed about the creation of new alliances such as the indo pacific quad and the american anglo australian union orcus basically this orkin deal is the united states and the u. k. uniting and helping a se, trailer create its own basically expand its nuclear capabilities, expand the nuclear capabilities of its fleet. so this is an attempt by washington and london to make us trailer, into more into more of an atomic superpower. in fact, on the side note at this deal has already caused quite a scandal between the allies, because initially,

france was about to do more or less the same, but washington and london, well, they muscled out their partner, their ally, paris, out of a very lucrative contract but going back to the meeting between our, we're going back to the spiritual conference between vladimir putin and changing pain. 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 . but we heard from politics, professor joseph gregory mahoney on this. he thinks that russia and china are reacting to us aggression frankly, with the office deal, basically proliferating nuclear weapons toss kalia 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 to 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. or election polls actually useful in the post of trump era and its love them. but are they any way accurate? any more, cross talk, get stuck into that. that's next to a

notice in the us dollar going up at the same time and other currencies around the world falling and entering into hyde park place, starting collapse. that's my design to us by supporting bankrupt companies like brooks can buy, supporting stock by bags and crowds like warren buffet. they are driving the world, the global complex, which is unconscionable, because you know, just because bill gates wants to make a few more $1000000.00, we're going to go to war the rest of the world. it's so sad, but this is america today. blue right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to sell food. this is kathy and sugary and salty under think . it's not at the individual level,

it's not individual well power. and if we go on believing that will never change as obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment. mm hm. so what's driving the obesity epidemic? it's corporate in with hello and welcome to cross stock where all things are considered. i'm peter labelle . pundents love polls, particularly when polls further a certain political agenda, but pulling his a checkered history as of late the last 2 election cycles tell us as much.