i have a, a oh no, it's a 7 years a year. what kind of report? ah, nato calls russia to dialogue and warns that any further so called aggression would, quote, would carry a quote high price in its 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. a new study finds that divisions in u. s. society could be reaching a tipping point with so c ologist concluding that republicans and democrats may not

be able to unite, even in the face of war. and as global concerns spread over the alma chron cove at variance the w h. o, europe, director tells r t, it's vital to deliver vaccines where they're needed, including rushes. sputnik, the shot pills, including vaccines. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of audited. ah, oh, it's early in the morning here in russia's capital and you're watching our t international. my name's donald quarter. welcome to the program. nato has warned of consequences amid rising tension over the don boss, breakaway region of ukraine. releasing a statement calling for dialogue with russia, it says 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 borders of ukraine in recent months and rejects the false russian claims of ukrainian and nato provocations. we colon bushes 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 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 is being patton of aggression coming from russia. and he said, nito 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 over the last years 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 muscle now to become a member, so we have enlarged the line. so the last few years 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 rushes 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 as russia's point of view. it has repeatedly denied that there is any intention i any build up that is looking to invade into ukraine at, 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. at the shingle wars, 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 journalists freely used the word aggressor, referring to our country. what right, 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 attack to sovereign states in the last 20 years? how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries? kenny show me something, im 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 who, who was suggesting that this war is brewing between russia and ukraine and could pull in other countries as well. president mack, on saying at such talk doesn't help and act, she could end up being a self fulfilling prophecy. economist and political commentator doctor, i calmer, told us he thinks the goal of nato is to creep ever closer to the russian border. the major especially the us, one of the nature to go further to the russian border, to deploy 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 as the lead of watching. so whatever happens there is washington's will. and if they are

pushing for war, it could be the same. the same situation as with q white and the americans encouraged the iraqi to march into q, y. and afterwards they said the best iraqis, when we have to help the major always ones to start a new conflict about nato also wants to get american military companies into a business. and ukraine is already a big, big business. and the other big business i've gone on just when went past so. busy of course, major always a migrant around and wants to keep american military machine and they're all punch in every 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 his alleged activities well before they

made the arrest ortiz. caleb martin 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? 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 enforcement 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 sought 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 picked them up in his tesla and drove them to his ludlow house. at the house, the daughter was directed to engage in and did engage in unlawful sexual activity. and 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. 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. we've asked the f b i for comments requesting a statement on the revelations made by fox news regarding the case. of course, 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 colleague rory sushi here in the studio to share his perspective on the growing rift in american politics. the nbc accomodate of nbc was saying he said there was 30000000 people right now. ready to take up arms to fit 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 gonna see anybody taking up arms in the literal sense of, you know, having, you know, 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 maybe united states look weak on the international . you know, a platform where they didn't get the americans out before the troops, laughter. 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, we, for the 1st time, i mean, in a long time, we have inflation so 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, 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 absolute 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 that's the late 19 eighties 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 it 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, more unified than ever. now we look at 2020. do i want to tell my republican friend get ready bell? you're going in for a problem. he seems certainly out and made and optimistic the 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, and 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 you're gonna feel very good slate of, of candidates. this is our t international britain records. it's highest ever number of coven cases in a single day as countries grapple with rising infections due to the reportedly more contagious omicron variance, but deaths from the so called mutant strain remain extremely low at story. and more after the short break 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 buffett,

they arg driving that we're all t 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 is so sad. this is america today to talk about a space res, i'm hypersonic weapons. we talk about the fact that would be a rain check on fossil energy. we talk about a democrat democracy prizes in the us. so if you don't think that's outrageous enough that you know is only because stay the everyday life seems to me as seth summers been doing this for 30 years. it's very difficult actually, to make a rated diction compete with the reality of the rages to day by day life that we're seeing. mm. welcome back to the program. now the u. k. has reported

a record covered search with 88000 cases registered in the past 24 hours. testing has been ramped up amid fears over the new omicron strain. a 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 actually 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 corresponded daily for tranquil sat down with the w, a chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about our micron at this point? we know much more. and we have to tours 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 stu, delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well they call fife on their mic stabilizers number one,

increase vaccination coverage. number 2, boost boost, boost number city. double the number of people varying marks. indorse number for ventilate, particularly in classrooms. keep the schools open and fife, implement new treatment protocols. how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove ineffective against on the chrome where we know as of to date, that vaccines are still effective for the 1st or the 2nd dose may be little bit less, but it covers with a cert dosed 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, uniformed, it has been growing over time, but i take the point that it's still really a luck off uniformity. we're like old political here it is. and it's confuses the

people. that's right, doubly choice, 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, 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 will be 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 and dresden has received death threats or europe corresponded peter oliver reports.

munich was the later city in germany, to see demonstrations by anti banks 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 9. seeing the police, there are 4000 people, turned out the demonstration in bavaria. that was all relatively peaceful until a group of around $4.00 to $500.00 of them decided they were going to go in a march around the city that resulted in some captain most with the police. bit of pushing and shoving and ultimately according to the police 28 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 should and choose on the amounts of people who are getting involved in violence. yeah. ah,

the when we're talking about these demonstrations, they are groups of anti vaccine, as they said, also opposed to those cov, it measures. but a lot of them looked under the umbrella of a group called the lateral think is now the f. b roundly marked here in germany in society as well as on tv and 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's michael smith also to launch a tax again for the politician in not state. no saxony has some of the lowest rates of vaccination in germany. it also had some of the highest rates of covert infection as well. well, following those rates,

5 men and one woman were taken into custody. what is seen is a number of politicians turning on the messaging application telegram with then saying that it was all about messaging application that this type of plot was able to be for nest 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 the latter thing. because the anti faxes, the, the anti cove measured people are small percentage of the population than the, those at large. what we have seen is a large number of people coming forward for vaccinations here in germany. in fact, on wednesday they pro records with 1500000 jobs being handed out across the whole of the country. now 1300000 of those web things to vaccines. what we have those, the read the rest were i the 1st or 2nd doses of,

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 all be a mentally 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 all our sholtes, the german chancellor talking about the possibilities of potentially in the future . seeing mandatory vaccination countries like austria andree civil already said that from next year they will be implementing mandatory vaccination. it's still up the discussion phase here in germany, though. also in germany, our sister channel r t deutsch has been taken off youtube. it happened on the day it launched its 1st televised broadcast in the country. the reason given for the ban is that our t george has previous youtube account was removed and apparently the owner of any blocked channel is forbidden from starting a new one. that's despite the fact that archie dodged his new channel, has

a different owner. and in any case, you can always watch the brand new channel at d dot r t dot com. got the low down on what unfolded on launch day for one of the stations, hes on t o. m to has been terminated by you for what you did, code violation of the times of service. the mentioned that the court said that you got to complain that auntie augmentin had effect invented some technical safety measures. this means, according to you, that quite easy, your channel is terminated. you may be unable to use our no create any out that the child and quite auto center was the latest addition to r t family on youtube that included dozens of channels. it was sent out by the bottom company. oh god t and a tv novice do. in most cases i'm confused by a new team of editors. id of the dentist have no relation to our tv youtube channel that was terminated in september. i that i did tori the poor technically,

because the channel that was defeated 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. and i got 540000000 views. and despite the you to ban our germans, sister channel is now up, and running ortiz, danny armstrong looks at what other obstacles has had to overcome to get on air the journey. so last 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 putins voice sounds out across the internet. if it were not for one reliable german media outlet, dis 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 hysteria 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 asi have said good bye to critical and independent journalism, and whether they want it or not on 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 arte deutsche his ascent was yank back down to earth. when you chew band, the channel from is platform with it, wiping out 600000 subscribers. now, despite rumors that the ban was barely bat, former chancellor angle, a miracle denied that germany had influence you chief's decision. as for r t, germany did not put any pressure and brussels of the decisions it made in germany. neither the federal government nor the state governments engaging meadows like that . so this by other people's best efforts,

artie 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, if you'd like more details on your top new stories, you can always check out our website r t dot com or follow us on twitter. we'll be back with more news in just about 30 minutes so stated with ah, working room or should she popped in? she said, well, i'm getting ready to go shopping for christmas and i wish there was a girl to buy another, shooting another safe part of american life shattered by violence. the gunman was

armed with an 8 or 15, semi automatic rifle. when the issue comes home, it's time to act. when we're filing on this issue, the other side wins by default, lady that lived over there, i was walking one of the dogs. so why do you wear again? were you scared me? nothing could take it off of me. i think the people need to take responsibility into their own hands and be prepared if those kind of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of shootings that we certainly wouldn't have the number address with

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