people need to take responsibility in their own hands and be prepared if those kind of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of the shootings that we certainly wouldn't have the number of deaths. ah, a nato calls russia to dialogue and warns that any further so called aggression would carry a quote, high price and in statement on ukraine. cnn fires a producer after he's charged with sexually abusing children. questions are now being asked as to why it took 18 months for police to make an arrest after a criminal complaint was filed last year. and he was study, finds that divisions and u. s. society could be reaching a tipping point with sociologists concluding republicans and democrats may not be

able to unite even in the face of war. and has global concern spread over the omicron cove at variance. the w. h o europe director tells r t. it's vital to deliver vaccines where they're needed, including russia. sputnik, the shot health, including vaccines. go beyond to put it next. we should never take into account the country of audited. ah, all too. i am here in the russian capital and you're watching r t international. my name is dawn quarter. welcome to the program. nato has warned of consequences amid rising tension over eastern ukraine, releasing a statement calling for dialogue with russia. it says the fact that further so called aggression against ukraine will carry

a high price. we are gravely concerned by the substantial unprovoked and unjustified russian military buildup on the boulders of ukraine in recent months and rejects the false russian claims of ukrainian and nato provocations. we colon bush, it's immediately deescalate, pursued diplomatic channels, and abide by international commitments on transparency of military activities. in the statement, nato also reaffirmed its commitment to defend its allies and invited moscow to attend the nato russia council. the secretary general of nato said earlier, there can be no compromise on the expand on expanding the trans atlantic defense alliance. that's despite calls from president putin, for guarantees that nato will not add new members near or on russia's borders. charlotte davinsky takes up the story quite a lot to digest from that press conference with the nato secretary general. but he talked about what he sees as being a patent of aggression coming from russia. and he said natal will continue to do

all it's necessary to ensure that the rights of its allies, its members are protected. but nature supporting his opinion. does not mean that it's a threat to russia recently moved from macedonia. and also montenegro have both been accepted into the nato, a life that is despite protests from the russian government about that. let's have a listen to what else yen stilton burke had to say. nato has proven the loss. chairs that are open door policy is not only something we are support in words, but those in deeds parted by inviting to new countries, montenegro north macedonia, to become members. so we have enlarged the line so that all spheres with 2 new members, despite protests from, from russia. and also we are supporting ukraine in ukraine's

efforts to come closer to natal membership. so he went on to talk about what he sees as russia substantial and military and build up all the poorer areas with ukraine. and he said that that build up is a provocation. and that it could destabilize europe as well. if a russia's point of view, it has repeatedly denied that there is any intention or any build up that is looking to invade into ukraine. or we know that russia's foreign ministry spokesperson has slammed this sort of talk. and she said that such statements just will not help deescalate tensions in the region. if a tional laws, this is it is information campaign, the aims to create. firstly, the image of russia is an aggressor. secondly, additional tashing of the region, including the black sea, the russia crane border, and se ukraine. this will not bring stability and security either in international relations or the regional agenda. it will undoubtedly complicate everything.

meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course, western journalist freely used the word aggressor, referring to our country. what right do they have to do this? i tried to understand this every time. when was the last time rush attacked? anyone? people need to pick up the screen with arguments and how many times have native countries attacked sovereign states in the last 20 years. how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries? kenny show me something in close to that from the russian site. no, there is nothing you need to figure out where there are facts and where there is propaganda. now it's not just russia that saying, look, we north intending to invade ukraine. we're also hearing similar views from some of your groups leaders, for example, the prime minister of italy. this is mary a druggie, a said that he's been talking to president putin over the last few weeks and months and as far as he's concerned invading ukraine. this idea isn't based on any fact.

we've also heard warnings from the french president about this kind of talk, the hoops, who is suggesting that this war is brewing between russia and ukraine could pull in other countries as well. president macro on saying at such talk doesn't help and act, she could end up being a self fulfilling prophecy. we heard from an economist and political commentator who told us that he thinks that nato was taking its lead from washington. the major especially us, one of the name to, to go further to the russian for us to deploy these troops and to deploy rockets and so on. and of course, rush our complex testing all the important positions within your grade. outset by major officers or american soldiers. so we can say that the present ukraine government is as the lead watching. so whatever happens there, it will. and if they are pushing for a war,

it could be the same. the same situation as with q white and the americans encouraged the iraqi to march into a few ways. and afterwards they said the best iraqis, when we have to help the major, always ones to start a new conflict about natal also wants to get an american military companies into a business. and ukraine is already a big, big business. the other big business i've gone on just when i went back. so. busy of course, major always a margaret's around and wants to keep american military machine. and that all functionary machine in place a cnn producer has been charged with child sex crimes arrival news outlet has also discovered that a criminal complaint involving the man was filed last year suggesting that law enforcement knew about this a legit about his legit activities. well,

before they made an arrest ortiz caleb bump and can give us more details on the case. john griffin is a long time cnn producer, and we understand he's now been arrested. he's charged with 3 counts of attempting to engage in illegal sexual activities with a minor. now we understand that what happened was there was a mother who took her adoptive daughter to meet with him after receiving $3500.00 from him over the app known as venmo. and at that point, we understand that in august of 2020 this, there was a myriad of electronic devices that were seized from this mother. and now at this point, we have cnn coming forward and saying they had no idea about these illegal and despicable activities. allegedly carried out by their former producer, and they also make a point of saying that none of the electronic devices that were seized were owned

by cnn. here's what they said. prior to his arrest and indictment, we had no knowledge about the case. the question remains, why did it take so long for this arrest and charging to take place? the complaint was received in august of 2020. that's when the electronics were seized. why is the arrest simply happening now? the f. b, i did not give an answer that is satisfying people. the allegations are deeply disturbing. the f. b i along with our lower and for some partners will continue to aggressively investigate those who victimized the most vulnerable in our communities. now the us attorney's statement regarding the arrest of mr. griffin, provide some pretty shocking and harrowing details. apparently, mr. griffin is accused of having tried to set up training sessions for under age girls as well as women. griffin, so to persuade parents to allow him to train their daughters to be sexually

submissive. the mother and child flew to boston in july of 2020, where griffin pick them up in his tesla, and throws him to his ludlow house at the house. the dose was directed to engage in and did engage in unlawful sexual activity. now this long time cnn producer is now in custody, awaiting trial facing charges for 3 counts of sex trafficking, minors. i've convicted, he could face life in prison, but many are looking at this case and asking questions about the timing a. why was it that these electronic devices were seized in august of 2020? the criminal complaint was filed, but he's just been arrested now. what exactly is going on here? people want clear answers, but at this point we don't have those answers. now we've asked the f b i for comments requesting a statement on the revelations made by fox news regarding his case. we'll let you know if we get a response an irreversible divide. that's the stage american society

is reaching according to a new academic study. and it is at a tipping point. if polarization is to extreme, people become divided even on the shock issue. if we reach that point, we cannot unites, even in the face of war, climate change pandemic, or of the challenges to the survival of our society. earlier former pennsylvania state senator bruce marx joined by calling rory sushi here in the studio to share his perspective on the growing rift and american politics. the nbc, a commentator nbc was saying, he said there was 30000000 people right. not ready to take up arms to put donald trump back in the office. that's somewhere between 20 and 30000000 people. that's a mass movement in america, in favor of political violence, which is a new thing. does that sound accurate to you? well, i don't think that you're going to see anybody taking up arms in the literal sense of, you know, having weapons. but i think that maybe there's

a 120000000 or 130000000, or maybe more people who be willing to vote for donald trump. we had the tobacco in afghanistan, which was poorly handled in and made the united states look weak on the international platform where they didn't get the americans out before the troops laughed. that's number one. and number 2, with all of the spending that were happening because of these, you know, bills that the democrats just wanna throw money at. we, for the 1st time, i mean in a long time, we have inflation said that, sorry, this is, this is not just the media fear mongering about inflation in america. because we've been reporting that it's nearly at a full decade high inflation in the united states. it's just about everything across the board now is more expensive than it was even just a year ago. is that? is that true? what's absolutely it's, it's absolutely true. i'm just, i grew up in the 70, so i can remember when we had inflation, then we really haven't had inflation since i'd say the, the late 1980 s has been fairly stable. absolutely. you go to you, listen, you can't fully american public. we have the whole problem, you know,

with the transport and getting goods, goods into the country. i wanted to ask you just briefly, going back to biden's approval ratings and the inflation crisis. cove id afghanistan, the list goes on yet. he says, he says the following about mid times have a quick listen to this. if you would, in 2021 as a unified democratic party for unified that ever. now we look at 2020. do i want to tell my republican friend get ready bell. you're going in for a problem. what he seems certainly out made an optimistic. how do you think is ratings right now will affect the midterms. i think they've already infected the elections, the united states. we had a republican when governor and virginia completely unexpected. ah, that was in part because of the lack of popularity of president biden. it's typical that the party that's out of power does well in the mid years, but with biden. and his lack of popularity is really even his inability to campaign

could didn't even campaign for himself when he was running for president. i don't think that we're gonna see him going around the country and supporting very many democrat candidates. and republicans, i think, are going to field a very good slight of, of candidates. this is our to international britain records. it's highest ever a number of coven cases in a single day as countries grapple with rising infections due to the reportedly more contagious omicron variant. but deaths from the so called mute and strain remain extremely low. that story and more after the short break. ah, ah

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well come back. now the u. k. has reported a record covered search with 88000 cases registered in the past 24 hours. testings been ramped up amid fierce over the new omicron strain. the new varian so far has been registered in 77 countries. despite its rapids spread early studies from south africa and hong kong suggest alma crohn is less likely to cause severe illness than the delta variant. very few deaths have been linked to the new strain, but countries worldwide are ramping up. their vaccine campaigns are corresponding elliott. katrinka sat down with the w, a chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about alma chron at this point? we know much more, and we have to tours, and about all mcclung. it's to, it's the latest valiant. 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 stu,

delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement what they call fife pandemic stabilizers. number one, increase vaccination coverage number to boost, boost, boost number city, double the number of people varying mosques, endorse number 4, ventilate, particularly in classrooms, keep the schools open and fife, implement new treatment protocols. how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove and effective against on the chron, where we know as of to date, that vaccines are still effective for the 1st or the 2nd dose may be a little bit less, but it covers with a cert dos well on the european union, specifically, we've seen a range of different approaches. why aren't we seeing a more uniformity from the block? in particular, the uniform has been growing over time. but i think the point that it's still

really aleck off uniformity, with a cold political here it is and it's confuses the people. that's why dublin was advocating to establish a bung european health senate 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, a r t, we've heard from a number of experts that the issue has been politicized. is that true anyhow? house including vaccines. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of origin. i shared the optimism of the president of the russian federation that this dub ritual emergency use listing for sputnik river there. soon . germany's government is facing a furious backlash against plans for mandatory coven vaccines and tough new restrictions. the region of bavaria has seen mass unrest and an official in dresden

has received death threats or europe corresponded peter oliver reports. munich was the latest city in germany to see demonstrations by anti vax groups, as well as those that are opposed to the measures that have been put in place to try and stop the spread of coven 19 the place. there are 4000 people, turned up at the demonstration in bavaria. it was all relatively peaceful until a group of around $4.00 to $500.00 of them decided they were going to go to march around the city that resulted in some captain. mouse with the police said, bit of pushing and shoving and ultimately according to the police $28.00 arrests being made. they ranged from people refusing to wear masks to those that had assaulted police officers. what we have seen at these type of demonstrations though, is an increase in the, the speed at which it, and choose and the amounts of people who are getting involved in violence, ah,

ah, when we're talking about these demonstrations, they are groups that serve anti vaccine as they said also opposed to those a covert measures, but a lot of them are lumped under the umbrella of a group called the lateral think is now they have been roundly marked a here in germany, in society as well as on t v. in satirical tv programs and, and elsewhere, but things have taken a much darker turn. in fact, on wednesday morning, dawn rates were carried out across the state of saxony, in the east of germany. in connection with a plot to assassinate the, the leader of the government of the state of saxony, that michael coachman also to launch attacks against the politicians in that state . now saxony has some of the lowest rates of vaccination in germany. it also has

some of the highest rates of covert infection as well. well, following those rates, 5 men and one woman were taken into custody. what it's seen is a number of politicians turning on the messaging application telegram with them, saying that it was all not messaging application that this type of, of plot was able to be finessed and, and the message being spread. they are extremely dangerous because they're not only talking, chatting and inciting each other, but also taking action very worth while pointing out. they seem lateral think is the anti vaccines. the m div anti cove measure people are a smaller percentage of the population than leave those at lodge. what we have seen is a large number of people coming forward for vaccinations. here in germany. in fact, on wednesday, they fro records with 1500000 jobs being handed out across the whole of the country . now $1300000.00 of those would booster vaccines. what we have those the read the

rest were i the 1st or 2nd doses olva of vaccine. now what we have is around 70 percent of the population fully vaccinated, but there is a group of around 20 percent of the population that are vehemently anti vaccine here in germany. and they just so absolutely no interest in getting that vaccine whatsoever. in fact, that's why we've seen or laughed sholtes, the german chancellor talking about the possibilities of potentially in the future . seeing mandatory vaccination countries like austria on greece have already said that from next year they will be implementing mandatory vaccination. it's still at the discussion phase here. in germany though, how staying on the subject of germany, our sister channel, our t door has been taken off you tube. it happened on the day it launched its 1st televised broadcast in the country. the reason given for the ban as that our t deutsch, his previous youtube care account was removed,

and apparently the owner of any blocked channel is forbidden from starting a new one at despite artie deutsche his new channel having a for an owner. and in any case, you can always watch the brand new channel at d e dot r t dot com. we got the low down on what unfolded on launch day from one of the stations head salvi. auntie alexander has been terminated by you for what you to code, violation of the time of service. the mentioned that the court said that you got to complain, that oddity of vengeance had circumvented some technical safety measured. this means, according to you, that quite easy, your channel is terminated. you may be unable to use and create any out that you keep child and quiet auto center. what the latest addition to i t family on youtube that includes dozens of channels. it was sent out by the bottom company over t and mtv, obviously, in most cases, i'm confused by new team of editors. i see all of them have no relation to our tv

youtube channel that was terminated in september. i that i did tori. they put technic committee because the channel that was visited in september was owned by a different company on tv productions. it's also worth mentioning that at the time of termination onto the youtube channel, had some 600000 followers of 540000000 views. and despite the u 2 ban, our german sister channel is now up and running parties. danny armstrong looks at what other obstacles it's had to overcome to get on air. the journey to launch day has been the usual trek through pressure and passive aggression from the self appointed defenders of democracy. i. e. rival, gym, and media. it's bad enough that putin's voice sounds out across the internet, if it were not for one reliable german meteor outlet. dest 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, it wasn't just rival outlets that ran. so the, his theory over r t deutsch,

his rise through the media rankings. politicians got personal and launched. attacks on our t employees, framing them as perpetrators of this information, and d, stabilizing democracy. those who work for odyssey have said good bye to critical and independent journalism and whether they want it or not, all the 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 for putin propaganda and targeted disinformation under the guise of alternative journalism. and what goes up must come down our tea toich. his ascent was yanked back down to earth when you chew band, the channel from is platform with it, wiping out 600000 subscribers. now, despite rumors that the pan was pearl impact, 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 this fight will the people's best efforts, r t deutsch is primed and ready for action. launching on air and launching a fresh assault on those old ratings and views, rankings. mainstream media beware. well, you can keep up with the fate of our t dwight. chance your favorite top news stories on our website, r t dot com, but will be back with more news just about 30 minutes. so stay tuned. mm hm. blue right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to sell food. this is tracy and sugary and salty under the victim. 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 established with what's driving the every city of it. it's corporate with well contrib alex salmon. sure. well, we either view the political highlights of 2021 and ask 2 of our favorites to see,

or what can we expect from westminster politics in 2022. in a few short weeks, prime minister johnson has moved from master boley, surveyed to a lame duck drowning and self inflicted scandal. what will the new year brag, upsets quote, a viable for the prime minister or end game for the johnson administration. interview talk, political commentator, peter, all right, i live in pretending to you bought an ass clear false. i'm ask them what exactly is going on and more importantly, what will happen? but 1st she retreats move and meshes in response. i show last week one ranging up to 26 summit in graduate, michael mcgregor and says, the plan is going back to the formation as it did billions of years ago. i adopted says, the realistic carbon cut to cost is ridiculous. and the commercial joke at best, robert died says didn't. but the lead us, we have definitely didn't. i'm frankly,

or not later note, william nicole says, i am certain that all music and my said a piece of arts have kept me seen these last years. some might see a difference. what an interesting program once again, focusing on some of the good. thank you all, alex simon. sure. no, no journalist has been a baker thorn and the prime minister site than the formidable peter over. and earlier this year he published the assault on to detailing the full extent of forest johnson's repeated departures from actually t. i were there for a pointing journey's end. for johnson, alex speaks 52 point bits robot. welcome back to the alex simon. joe is a huge trash yet to be back with you alex, i do apologize. not for being with you in the past. while what we've got you on the screen, peter, that's a very good 2nd bet. so you've been looking at the 2.