has to change our approach to business industries or on the war bar, attempting to debunk legitimate science by producing new evidence in science, lighting, science. that's how ignorant is manufactured, their attention only seeking to the rail science rolling using science itself. ah, world health organization warns that the rapidly spreading only crone variance of cov, it could lead to high death rates unless we're lucky. we speak to the europe, director about the crisis heavily. our men surround libyan government for offices in tripoli, militia threatening discuss for the upcoming presidential election. the 1st such vote in the rubbish african country for 7 years observed and worrying. that's how moscow's describe. german allegations of criminal, contracted murder and berlin bound to retaliate. expulsion of to russian diplomats

and a frosty future. the plans to drop on long term natural gas contracts after the 2049, despite concerns that much vaunted green alternative won't be able to meet european energy. ah that very good afternoon to appreciate your company here. this afternoon on our team tonight. let's start with some breaking news because our sister channel over in germany, those r t d has been blocked by you tube. and it came on the day that it had only just started it's broadcasts in the country. the reason given is an alleged violation of youtube terms of use. the platform says that it received a complaint that r t d had not taken sufficient technical protection measures. despite the ban,

you can still watch a stream online of the tunnel by adding to d dot r t dot com. the journey to launch day has been the usual track through pressure and passive aggression from the self appointed defenders of democracy. i. e. rival gym and media. it's bad enough that person's voice sounds out across the internet. if it were not for one reliable german media outlet does spiegel kremlin owned outlets would dominate the german digital information space in both the number of articles published in social engagement received. there is reason to believe that most of the traffic on our tea channels is real and not acquired through purchased fake profiles. the thinly veiled disdain from rival gym and media outlets have come in a form of gallant cries to stop the so called moscow mouthpiece. and kremlin back putin propaganda, of course, that has nothing to do with our t deutsche. his popularity on a string of social media,

where they consistently rank among the top most viewed channels as regards news and politics. ah for it wasn't just rival outlets that ran so the hysteria of r t deutsch, his rise through the media rankings. politicians got personal and launched. attacks on our t employees, framing them as perfect traces of this information, and d, stabilizing democracy. those who work for asi have said good bye to critical and independent journalism and whether they want it or not. archie employees are part of the destabilization of democracy. this is not about the approval of

a profane entertainment channel, but about e. u wide access, repeating propaganda and targeted dis, information under the guise of alternative journalism. and what goes up must come down at he toich his assent was yanked back down to earth. when you chew band, the channel from is platform with it, wiping out 600000 and subscribers. now, despite rumors that the pan was burling fat, former chancellor angle, a miracle denied that germany had influence you chief's decision. as for r t, germany did not put any pressure on brussels or the decisions it made in germany. neither the federal government nor the state governments engaging meadows like that . so despite other people's best efforts are t deutsche is primed and ready for action. launching on air and launching a fresh assault on those old ratings and views, rankings. mainstream media, we were well with all the resistance the anti di has faced,

including today's youtube termination. we decided to take a tongue in cheek look at while authorities are so against it. 0 one or 2? yeah. john. mm hm. was it a certain delicate in as shown to the doctor? we stand together. we'll continue to stand together against russia. 80 in germany, repeat some of the arrows that we doubtless made. se, notice in the shockey dawson subaru village influence other nations, france b, u. k. and even latin american and other countries in future than they know where to high from cycle alone, with members of your household, please, please, please, please. we have to continue to fight. don't you just need to rush, you must not be allowed in germany or what?

yeah. through common leave. it's social out. so the, an outdated innovation and the yes actually, indian outside the innovation militants have surrounded a number of key sites in the libyan capital, triply that's ahead of the countries presidential election. it's 1st since 2014. here's an am verified at this point video of the presidential council building. you can see it seems combat vehicles carrying armed men, photos, and videos coming in from tripoli also show fighters outside the offices of libya's interim government of national unity and videos are circulating that appear to show military vehicles patrolling the city. though art is not yet been able to independently verify those early i discussed the situation in libya with our correspondent ag stuff, the poor people of libya and triplet, because they've had the facia of turmoil over the last decade or so am and beyond.

and it's, it's not over, is it yet more unrest? what is causing it? while you're absolutely right, there's more and rest 3 militia groups who are trying to take power inside of tripoli who are trying to disrupt the upcoming elections. and this is, i have to say is only the latest in the violence that has had the country in its tight grip. so essentially we've had to throughout the past couple of weeks, couple of months, we've had numerous reports and pictures coming out of the country as armed groups. we're trying to capture local t v stations as heavy artillery was brought to the capitol. everything that we're seeing there right now, you know, the government internationally recognized government going into hiding local militias and warlords, again having their se, unhindered and unhampered, apparently in the, in the capitol. hampering the work of the internationally recognized government, preventing the political process from happening. this all it is, it is causing some serious, you know, and will, horrifying, flashbacks,

hold way to 2011, one of cause more, mcduffy was ousted with the help of cause of nato and the international community and everything that is going on there right now with all the in fighting with all the, you know, these warlords, what wrestling in its essence, it's a result of a power struggle, of vine for power. and even even if these walls are used as proxies are used as pawns. so what we're seeing right now is that the international community they ended, the rule of law in libya, ended libya stability. they created a state of lawlessness. they created very, very fertile ground for all this and fighting to happen. and there was a bit of a low in the past years, libya has stayed out of the headlines, of course, but it seems that right now the elections, the upcoming elections, they have triggered this new wave of violence. it is very threatening to the political process that the international community has been trying to going for so long. and it really shows that they, they, well, they try to do nation building. they destroyed the country with their bombings and

with, with all the, with all the meddling. and right now the situation shows how little control, if any, the international community has a decade on a decade since more market duffy felt a little more just to break down the what's going on there right now, this little qu, the man the, the front man of the crew is called solid body and he's quite infamous. he's a bit of a colorful figure. he's militiaman, he's one of the few people who actually buried more market daffy who fought against him. so he was the international community's favorite back in 2011. since then he was put on a multiple sanctions list of the u. s. sanctioned list, the un sanctioned list. and the, the for the very same thing he's doing right now for trying to stop for basically disrupting the political process. so he's saying he has said that essentially he believes that the election is rigged in favor of the incumbent prime minister who went into hiding. but if you look at how things are unfolding, the only person to benefit from it is really the prime minister because he is not

seen as a favorite in the elections. in fact, he is in, as an underdog, he is very much upset by safe to duffy, the son of mama kadakya, as it is widely believed that the hearts and minds of the libyan people are with the son who came back from exile. who before that was and remained in captivity rebel captivity, he was tortured, had several fingers chopped off and still despite all the exile despite all this, he apparently still he carries a lot of political weight. so, so right now again, it looks that libya is dangerously close to plunging into yet another circle of violence. more analysis and inside delivery a decade long crisis is just a click away for you. that in fact, and a whole host of other stories available at r t dot com, who's the world health organizations warning that the only from their interest now spreading at an unprecedented rate. one of their senior officials says

that fully vaccinated people are still at risk. and at hospitals across the world could be overwhelmed with infections rising exponentially, doubling every $2.00 to $3.00 days. i have never been more concerned than i am tonight. not just about the u. k, but about the world. l. mccray has currently been registered in more than 70 countries among the worst effected is the u. k. is just recorded its highest number of daily cove cases since the start of the pandemic, almost 80000 new infections with only from accounting for almost 5000 of them. the lia european commission, president of underlines, predicted overcome will be the dominant ruin of ours fair in the you by mid january, and corresponding to the trunk. i spoke with the w. i chose regional director for europe at hans clicker. so let me begin with the thing on everyone's mind right now. all micron, of course, with time,

people really want life to be back to normal. but now, boom, there you have it. we've got this new strain. countries are closing their borders again. there are new measures introduced or re introduced. it's getting more difficult for people to travel. so how much more do we know about our micron at this point? well, this is the optimistic note that we know much more. and we have the doors and about all mcclellan, it's to, it's the latest variant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell, we're not in the business of fighting one variant when the business of fighting all variance and stew. delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well they call fife pandemic stabilizers. number one, increase vaccination coverage. address the vaccine. hesitant people. number do boost boost. boost the best protection against on the come number to city. double.

the number of people waiting marks indorse only 4 to 8 percent in europe and central asia. the people already must endorse. number 4, ventilate, particularly in classrooms, keep the schools open and fife, implement new treatment protocols and overall international solidarity. let's look at south africa botswana. they did the right thing, they did w recommended immediately and transparently sharing. i what happened. they could somehow dis, incentivized, because flights would hold its stopping flight closing. bo, this is not going to hold dividers. well, mr. cook, you mentioned the, among the 5 things vaccination, but how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove ineffective against all micron. where we know as of to date, that vaccines are still effective for the 1st of the 2nd dose. may be little bit less, but it recovers with a cert doest. so the booster becomes very,

very important. well, on the european union, specifically, we've seen a range of different approaches and speaking of strategies, a log down for the in vaccinated full lockdown different roles on how long vaccines last. why aren't we seeing a more uniformity from the block in particular? and he didn't do uniformed, it has been growing over time, for example, to joint procurement of vaccines. was quite a silver lining. but i think the point that it's still really aleck off uniformity was i called political here it is and it's confuses the people. it doesn't help for the trust, but from my perspective, i'm looking broader to the 53 countries and that's why dublin was advocating to establish a bond utopian health threats council at the high level to half uniformed in policy, but ultimately still health is a national competency it's

a decision by the country speaking of sputnik v, r t, we've heard from a number of experts that the issue has been politicized. is that true anyhow? health including vaccines. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of origin. i myself had been working 8 years in the country. i'm very well aware of the huge intellectual and manufacturing capacity, particularly in vaccines. so no politics over there. i shared the optimism of the present of the russian federation that this doubly chill, emergency use listing for sputnik will be there, shown in october. this year. the legal documents are signed by the russian investment development fund. and in the 1st quarter of next year, that will be a follow up on the approval by the debris,

headquarter ones at the da she is being admitted, which will happen before end of the year. okay, what you want. international money is coming up after the short buy ah ah. with

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development only personally and going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk ah, russia says it will retaliate to germany throughout to this diplomat. so wednesday expulsions came after a call to the founder russian citizen guilty of the murder of a chechen man in berlin in 2019 adding that he had acted on behalf of moscow. a

claim the kremlin rejects our correspondent in berlin. peter oliver has more of to russian diplomats have been declared persona non grata by the new german foreign minister anna lena bear bach in one of her 1st duties in that role. it all relates back to the sentencing of a russian national, named as variety. and cathy cove to life, imprisonment for the murder, back in august of 2019 of delhi, man hon gosh valley in the fact that at that killing was well described directly as being at the behest of the russian, stayed by the court that did the sentencing. now moscow denies any involvement in the killing of high gosh, really, who was shot to death in a pearl in park right in the center of the german capital. back in the, the summer of 201938 tractor. the defendant denied the crime, particularly denied being part of the russian security apparatus, or having been commissioned by any security apparatus at all. for there is not

a single piece of evidence and the court also admitted there isn't any evidence that will prove this. there is only circumstantial evidence. this prompted on the line of bare bog to call the russian ambassador to the foreign ministry and which he was informed that 2 of his diplomats would be going home. these are march in startling, this murder on behalf of the state as determined that quite a day represents a serious violation of german law and of germany sovereignty. the russian ambassador wasn't formed, led to members of the diplomatic step of the russian embassy were being declared undesirable. i hope there will be no escalation, because in a moment we don't really need peace read on me, or there's no comical crisis. there's covered crisis. when we look at the rhetorics offered for a ministry on the novel book, i'm a bit afraid she wants to escalate the conflict. i all go to the russian side will try to search dialogue as far as possible,

and then we find her oh transshipment. maybe it will be good missile jimmy and mr. charles, come into a dialog directly model for a ministry in moscow has issued a response very as a card, over their spokesperson saying that there would be a reaction from moscow to the expulsion of those 2 diplomats moscow. denies any involvement in the killing of han, gosh, really. and he was a wanted terrorist in russia. he had a silent status here in germany. but moscow had been seeking him in order to, to prosecute him in connection with the death of almost 100 people directly. that they say he was involved in those death in russia's north caucus region. also, he's accused of being part of the planning and plotting for the 2010 moscow metro suicide attacks. now, the russian ambassador released a statement shortly after this, the sentencing saying that he believed that both the evidence that was provided

from the prosecution and the timing of the sentencing were 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, some one is interested in overshadowing the dialogue between russia and the new german government. the relationship between moscow and berlin is under some strain at the moment whether it involves the future of nord stream to the situation surrounding ukraine. all this particular case and the expulsion of 2 russian diplomats following that sentencing all f sholtes, the new german chancellor and vladimir putin who yet to have a phone call. certainly they haven't met face to face yet, but when the to do there are certainly going to be

a lot for them to talk about. unless patrick, having said in chris banbury, told us what they believe prompted the court decision and the expulsion of the russian diplomats. they will see a change in berlin from ne angel narco years. the news, social democrat read course and i, i expect to take a harder attitude and she did in regards to, to russia. germany is come, is coming on to immense pressure from the united states and from it's i france. so i think we will see germany coming coming through on this, or it's not the 1st time that we've seen our courts or make such a sweeping statements or 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. seems like, you know, these days any time russia is involved, almost assumed that whatever the narrative is that 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 or whatever the various plots are, and there are many of them in the last couple of years. as part of e u efforts to go green and to consign fossil fuels, the history, the european commissions proposed ending all long term natural gas contracts. after the year 2049, they use sam, electricity, gas in hydrogen, hatchbacks for the planned and developed in may integrated manner. avoiding lock in and standard assets and long term gas contracts should not extend by 2049. however, the e u energy commissioner, one of the risks to europe's gas supplies it particularly cold winters, like this one, i'll seen europe in energy prices have risen since the autumn rising walden, 6 times compared with the same period last year. europe's largest gas supplier, russia has repeatedly spoken in favor of long term deals saying they bring much

needed stability some snugger. and that was still as if they made mistakes. we talked about this with the previous european commission or of its activities were aimed at curtailing long term contracts for gas supplies, giving priority to exchange trading. and it turns out this policy was wrong rusher 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 all participants. and electricity bills in europe are skyrocketing along with the price of natural gas. for example, in spain, their approach going all time high is by government assurance is to bring rates back to 2018 levels. the cost of a megawatt hour is expected to be $7.00 times higher than it was last december. electricity bills in spain, in november, rose by 50 percent compared to the previous year. people across the country are feeling it in their pockets and mental economy of well it valerie's movement. it changes everything. if you have a sorry that only cover certain things,

it affects you and everything else. if you have 500 euros and spend 300 on electricity, he barely have anything left. all right? what are people going to do? if i were in church, i would, if people in government a low salary and see how the court shawl is reached, this level because no one regulates it. glad albert gay. of course, if you pay a lot for electricity and charge your clients a low price, it affects you a lot. if you charge lions 15 euros and you have to pay rent, electricity cetera, what do you have left? lisa? we're struggling to make ends meet, but hopefully things will be fixed good. the reason i gave them, we spoke with independent journalist luke river, who thinks that 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 their renewables, wind energy, and solar energy. these are intermittent. so if you're billed when turbines, you need 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. is it what europe wants? is it what mrs. formulate once we would be crazy to go that way? completely crazy. so this is really something which is trying to annoy moscow. bridge right up to date. appreciate you watching our table in half an hour. mm. or

i. jeremy williams is so delegated and as you want to talk to, we stand together. we'll continue to stand together against russia. 80 in germany. repeat some of the arrows that we don, this may say, notice if you do this, chunky dawson, it's about their ability to influence other nations, france b, u. k. and even latin america and other countries in future than maybe knew where to high from will cycle cologne with members of your household. so please, please, please, please. we're going to continue to fight with just need to to do. russian must not

be allowed in german or the out through common leave. it's so short, so didn't al td innovation? the 5 and the yes. ok to ended outside the in office. mrs. gunston sons her right now. there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to sell food. this is tracy and sugary and salty and addicted. it's not at the individual level, it's not individual willpower. and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic? it's corporate with

ah, i our match, guys are this is because the report matches states are in mexico city, part of our winter southern. so journey heading to the promised land el salvador with the big coin standard, the hope of the world. but we're in mexico city. things are happening. they tell us more. right, max, so wow, we've been traveling here. what i noticed was that there was an inflation in inflation propaganda. you know, kaiser report was the 1st of the global financial news programs, unlike bloomberg, on like wall street journal. unlike cnbc,

we warn you about inflation coming and the mindset setting in, well over the past week or 2, we've seen an extraordinary amount of, of what shall we call it propaganda about how great, you know, inflation is supposed to be. we already covered that one from a few weeks ago. a whereby they were saying, you know, inflation is good for the poor. well. 6 let's start with a poll kruchinin the that guy that nobel economist, they call him that he was at, he's at the new york times and this is what he tweeted. aside from priorities, is this even true? i, he was responding to an article saying inflation is bad for the poor. is there any good reason to believe that inflation hits low income households, especially hard, and then he followed it up with the 2nd tweet. inflation redistributes from creditors to debtors. not exactly a burden on the bottom half of the income distribution. so sad because he's telling

people.