wrong, oh, just don't hold any world. yes, to shave out disdain, to come to the african and engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah, russia vows retaliation after germany expels 2 diplomats accusing the kremlin of ordering a murder on german soil. 2 years ago. moscow dismisses the claim as baseless a frosty future. the you plans to drop all long term natural gas contracts after 2049. despite concerns that much vaunted green alternatives won't be able to meet european energy needs and jailed 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 validly married in another country, then this is not for us to split them up on the place. you certainly don't comply with lee the laws. jeanette said, what we've done now is we've created to society subway, who's the society for the immigrants, where they have the rules and then the society for essentially the white people who have that rules ah, broadcasting live from the russian capital, this is our t international. my name's donald quarter. welcome to the program. now we start this news hour with some breaking news from libya where a group of armed men stormed to the headquarters of the government of national unity and the ministry of defense and tripoli on wednesday evening. as according to the countries state news agency and the affiliation of the armed group is not yet

clear. several areas of delivery and capital have also reportedly been left without electricity. libby as presidential elections are scheduled to take place in just 8 days. all sco says it will retaliate after germany throughout 2 of its diplomats and summoned the russian ambassador on wednesday and comes after a berlin court convicted a russian citizen of murder. the presiding judge stated that moscow ordered the 2019 killing of georgia national in the german capital at a claim that the kremlin fiercely dice or europe corresponded. peter oliver can tell us more about that. 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 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 minister 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 instantly mass 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 there is a kind of a spokes person 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

challenges. he was here in germany with asylum status now he'd been 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 biscuit was never confirmed by convincing evidence to accept pseudo investigations and unsubstantiated statements of the bias 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 households. 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 north 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 with discuss the issue with the former greek ambassador to canada. he thinks berlin is taking its lead from washington. i would be less diplomatic than the russian or busted. the reason in 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 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 that 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 service support job, particularly the the government. now as part of the use push to go green and consign fossil fuels to history, the european commission has suggested an end to all long term natural gas contracts . after 2049, they use sam, electricity, gas, and hydrogen networks with planned and developed in may integrated manner. avoiding lock in nonstandard assets, and long term gas contracts should not extend by 2049. however,

the new energy commissioner went on to warn of the risks to europe's gas supplies, if particularly cold winters like this one are seen. european energy energy prices have surged since autumn due to market volatility rising more than 6 times compared to the same period last year. europe's largest gas supplier, russia, as 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. all 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 purchase happens, let's assume. and electricity bills in europe are skyrocketing as well, along with the price of natural gas. in spain,

they're approaching in all time high despite government assurances to bring rates back to 2018 levels. the cost of a megawatt hour a megawatt hour is expected to be $7.00 times higher than last december. and electricity bills in spain, in november were up 50 percent compared to a year earlier. people across the country are feeling it in their pockets. i'm dental exam. well it valerie's movement. it changes everything. if you have a salary that only cover certain things, it affects you and everything else. if you how 500 euros and spend t 100 another through city, he barely have anything left over. what are people going to do? if i were in church i would if people in government a low salary and see how it eco, rader surely is reached this level because no one regulates it. oh, good. glad of. okay, 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 ran to electricity cetera.

what do you have left you? so we're struggling to make ends meet, but hopefully things will be fixed good. the reason i gave them is spoke with independent journalist, luke reggae. he thinks that the decisions coming from brussels are only making the energy crisis worse. you that would be too politically 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 discarded. this is wrong. why? because they choose their renewables, wind energy, and solar energy. these are intermittent, so if you're billed when turbines, you need to 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 all the spot market in europe is incredibly high. is it what europe wants, is it what misses found the land once? we would be crazy to go that way completely crazy. so this is really something which is trying to ignore in moscow. a clash of cultures has seen, denmark's ex immigration minister jailed anger. stolberg was sentenced to 2 months behind bars for illegally separating refugee couples. back in 2016, under danish law couples can marry 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, then minister ordered the young wives to be separated from their husbands and a danish court ruled that that was unlawful as the decision was made without consideration of individual circumstances. mister burke says she was only trying to protect children and has no regrets. yes, ma'am. i see,

i can only say that i am very, very surprised by despair. entities 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 i have a bad time. so i mean, simply one has a moral and compassionate obligation to protect the girls. and that was what i did . we heard from our guests on whether the danish foreign ministers for 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. right. and the fact that we are making that had to stop about somebody 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 law of another country, then there is already existing provision to, to actually accept. and to legitimize some of those marriages and 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 the society for essentially the white people who have their rules. i think that is not acceptable as it should be. a universal sense of morality, who 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 labels is been controlled, immigration in order to destroy europe, that they're 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. hello. then today we are perfectly happy not to port illegal aided. we're perfectly happy to take on foreign criminals and the idea of what comes to jail. the midst of that said to stop it robin jail, 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. busy have got to be more careful about the way they make decisions and to act 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 of right over the years. the if they was sent to jail if it would really. busy change things quite for much, could 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 of fast to convict of all the idea that you're not strong to take action

against people that have barry children. i think really just shows a moral bankruptcy in this whole immigration debates. this is r t international, the story of the harry potter author and the great trans backlash. no booker movie this time though, just a whole lot of abuse on social media coming up in just about 90 seconds. oh london, love polls particularly when polls 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 any more if so, then why should

be noted that we also see 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 by 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 t global complex, which is unconscionable because you know, just because bill gays wants to make a few more $1000000.00, we're going to go to war. the rest of the world is so sad, but this is america today with ah, welcome back. to the program, now 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 simply based on opinion. the revelation came during a journalist's legal battle launched after his posts were flagged asked as misleading r. t. southgate taylor reports 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 a partly full sticker on one of his post. so he food 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 a 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. 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 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, sorry, pleased. after all, many of them had probably used these facts when arguing with that friends, and now it's turned out, they were 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 it's labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it at 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 checked. 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 loves giving people a voice, especially donald trump. it's dedicated to openness, transparency, and of course, democracy. i mean, it says all the time, if 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 elite people. i don't feel comfortable at all saying they don't get to have a voice because i don't agree with. they said our ability to know what is misinformation is itself in question. and i think reasonably so fact checkers. facebook favorite friends protecting it from defamation, setting it free for accountability, someone to hide behind and times of trouble, but most importantly, always ready to get their opinion. facebook has found themselves back against the wall and if they try to cling to the idea that they are fact checking in court, they're going to lose. and not only is it gonna cost them big time, but it's 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, what more analysis and insight into the facebook revelations? it's just a click away for that and plenty more. besides head over to r t dot com, the author of harry potter, j. k. rowling has landed herself in hot water. she is infuriated the transgender community by criticizing the police in scotland, who allowed rape suspects to identify as women. that's even if they haven't legally or physically changed their gender saying only that their female rollin channels. george orwell is novel, 1984 on twitter to make her point. where is peace,

freedom of slavery, ignorance, his strength, the penis thing to vigil. hurrah, too is a woman. many people have shared rawlings concerns saying that the new approach will clearly distort crime statistics and thereby render them absolutely useless. but the authors faced a heavy backlash 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 anti universe filled with wonderful characters, fantastical beasts magic and wanda. but can't fathom the trans people exist. you've gone downhill from the inspiring woman who wrote harry pasa, from her call. why does it sound like yom upset about trans peoples in rapists? hills like you pro, it is a wrong here bay. it's also not the 1st time rawlings been chewed out by trans

rights activists back in 2020, she was accused of trans phobia. after ridiculing an article that used the phrase, people who meant straight instead of women that prompted protests outside of her house and even death threats all the while the writer insists she has nothing against transgender people themselves. really are my colleague niel harvey spoke with the director of the project. keep prisons, 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 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 family makes, i mean, how do you feel about that side of the argument? once you start pretending that biological sex doesn't matter, then you start opening up spaces to males to men and 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. why don't we are putin and his chinese counterparts seizing ping have held a video conference both publicly committed to strengthening ties,

amid increasingly strained relations between the east and the west. rushes leader also reiterated his desire to attend the beijing winter olympics. opening ceremony in february with more on that story here is, art is either on 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, the 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 cause some 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 court 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 fleets. this is an attempt by washington and london to make a se, 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, ah, going back to this virtual conference between vladimir putin itching ping,

they also expressed a desire to move further away from exchanges in dollars when it comes to bilateral trade and well 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 lie to 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 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, or heard from politics. professor joseph gregory mahoney and he thinks that russia

and china are reacting to us aggression frankly, with the office deal, basically proliferating nuclear weapons toss trail. yeah. especially against china, with reports that us troops are now in taiwan with biden, undermining strategic ambiguity repeatedly in verbal remarks with ongoing attempts to rally a new alliance nation against by joining with constant provocations in the south china sea. with washington propaganda machine constantly dehumanizing china unfairly. accusing of genocide and gross human rights violations. i wouldn't say the u. s. is being careful, i would say rather, that it's been 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 with 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. just before we go, a quick recap of our breaking news from libya. a group of armed men, storms, the headquarters of the government, of national unity and the ministry of defense and tripoli on wednesday evening. that's according to the country's state news agency. affiliation of the armed group is not yet clear. non verified video circulating online appear to show military vehicles patrolling the city. r t has not yet been able to independently verify this footage. several areas of the libyan capital have also reportedly been left without electricity. comes just 8 days before the country's presidential elections

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