i was watching one of the gods. this is what you where again we stay with the ticket office. i think the people need to take responsibility in their own hands and be prepared if those kinds of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of the shootings and we certainly wouldn't have the number of deaths. ah, this is our to international. we begin with breaking news in our headline stories today. our new german language channel art c. d. 's threatened with legal action by the german broadcast regulator over a licensing dispute. although our t management are saying the license was obtained in full compliance with european will also add on the program. russia publishes a list of proposals to nato for maintaining security with the country deputy foreign minister saying. busy the bold is not firmly in the alliance's court when

it comes to de escalation and also on a busy news day, we dig into disturbing revelations that the manchester irene, a suicide bomber, who killed $22.00 people in 2017 attack links to a former nato soldier turned terrors ah, just after 11 am in denver 11 pm in la, who are a 9 in the evening right here in moscow this friday, december, the 17th. welcome to the news our on our t. i'm you know, neil. we begin with breaking news. our new sister channel r t d has been threatened with legal action by the german media regulator over a licensing issue. our team management has responded saying the license was quote, obtained in accordance with all applicable european laws and regulations. will this

all happened after an official for the european media watchdog raised concerns about the new broadcaster? the license must be issued in germany and the application must also be filed her festival. this is a real nuisance and we will take care of it. just some context. the new channel was taken off youtube on the very day it was launched. technically, there is no link between that and the german t v broadcast dispute, but you can see it's been quite the rocky start for r t. d. well, i'm delighted to welcome into the studio now our teeth deputy editor in chief and head off communications on a balcony on a thanks for coming in and explaining what was happening today. really what just to start with, what is the head of the european regulator complaining about in particular? well, 1st of all, this was a very interesting interview,

very interesting comments that we saw him give where he called the r t d. essentially a pesky little nuisance that is going to be taken care of. so that is some interesting language there right off the bat. but the crux of the issue is that in his view, we have no business broadcasting in germany now. and this is actually correct a little bit your intro, because kids he is claiming incorrectly that our t v news channel is actually based in berlin, when in fact, it is based in moscow, quite literally down the hall from, from the studio. and the news programs are coming out here being filmed here, edited put on the air and so forth. and they are, they are doing got via

a license through another country and serbia through another european license and are in full right to broadcast across all of europe. including in germany, various media outlets authorities in germany are saying there's an issue, but where are td's license such he just mentioned there was obtained, you said it was attained in serbia. so what's, what's the problem there? that's, that's legal. correct? absolutely. so our license was obtained under what is known as the european convention on trans frontier trans frontier television. which under that convention gives us the right to broadcast to $33.00 countries across europe. as long as you know, broadcast for moscow. and those countries include germany, but they also include other countries with majority or significant german language populations, such as austria, switzerland, luxembourg, and so forth. now the issue that these various commentators are saying is that

we're not in fact broadcasting from moscow, which is just absurd. but that we're doing so from, from berlin, which is home just to a production company r t d e productions that make some of our content. yeah, but the lion's share, the news broadcast that's being done here. exactly. and legal action has been launched by the german regulator. i think that's the situation as it stands. can you tell us more about what you know? but yeah, so this is, this is where this separation is really important. the legal action is being launched against our tv productions, which makes some, you know, make some of the shows but it is being launched for not applying for a, for applying for essentially, for a serbian license not applying for the german license because they're a channel broadcasting in germany, which is absolutely false. our tv productions does not need

a license because our tv production is not a channel. it channel is our tv that is coming out of here and thus moscow, our headquarters. our parent company applied for applied for, for the license in serbia. that's a significant distinction, is that it's not, it's not. and this is where it seems that they, yeah, they're taking issue with broadcasting and germany when they're just not doing such a thing. we are broadcasting in germany and we are doing so in accordance with absolutely all the laws and regulations of europe, of the convention that i mentioned and, and absolutely every territory where we operate and have always done so. and a big question. do you expect the child to be shut down? we believe that the law is on our side, that the right is on our side because we data all the i's and cross the t's and did everything exactly as we should have. and so, believe that at the end of the day, we will prevail. that said, the amount of pressure that our new german channel has faced even before it went on

the air. difficulties with banks difficulties, not just the licensing, but you know, the pressure on, you know, on our guest and so forth, has been really unprecedented pressure again, as you've mentioned, the beginning on our digital platforms. so we just launched the channel yesterday and you can see everything that's happening so we don't know what tomorrow will bring. but that said, we are ready to keep to keep fighting. yeah, it's been quite even for 24 hours. indeed. thank you very much. so for taking the time, i know you're busy today coming in on sharing. it's our team deputy editor in chief and head of communications on a can live in rti. thanks for having q. ok, another big story of the day, russia has published a list of proposals for d, escalating tensions with nate. so i made fears of a conflict in ukraine among the month or a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. the western defense ally

and south already responded, saying i will consider the documents, but any i'd come will require this, this significant part input from ukraine or senior correspond the rock goes dear reports and what moscow has put forward for years now. we've heard the same thing. oh, things have gone too far. a we don't want war. we want to be friends for both nato and russia. but things keep getting worse. escalating the russia has taken its step publishing proposals for the us and nato, its wishlist for return to normality. something to start talking about. and it begins with a call to de escalate. to end the constant threats and true build ups, which only lead to more of the same. the parties shall not use the territories of other states with a view to preparing or carrying out an armed attack against the other party judge

for yourself. where in previous years they threatened each other with, with sanctions or legal action. now openly, booth, russia, nato, a talking in fearful tones about war, another cuban missile crisis. i'd like to believe that this is rock bottom, but there's no guarantees and guarantees are what russia wants. guarantees, for example, that us missiles aren't stationed within a few minutes flight time to moscow. the parties shall not deploy land based, intermediate, and short range missiles. in areas allowing them to reach the territory of the other parties. moscow sees nato slow and unexplainable encroachment towards russia's borders. as an existential threat, nato argues that it's peaceful but right then the u. s. military doctrine, russia is referred to as an adversary. the closer that nato and

u. s. troops and tags and missiles moved to russia, the more unpredictable the game gets, which is why putin has said he's red line. nato states committed themselves to refrain from any further enlargement of nato, including the accession of ukraine, as well as other states. not that nato thinks much of russia's concerns. not long ago, secretary general stalkin berg announced that roger has no vito, no sane nato operations and no right to any sort of security. buffalo sphere of influence, which sets us back all the way to square one at the previous month. this is not an attempt to revise the post cold war order. it's a response to western expansion which has been conducted in a hostile manner. the gist of the proposal that, that the u. s. nato and russia have a requirement for security as essential as food or water that they must all equally

respect. nato has received the proposals and says that a little discuss them amongst themselves and with input from ukraine. there isn't much cause for optimism. russ's requests of largely been rejected, summoned in private, summoned public, consult mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time sense will prevail. among the reaction we got to the story was from political analysts. nicholas markovich, who believes the ongoing efforts to deescalate, show that both sides understand the danger of what's currently unfolding. well, i think they do has been paying a lot of war games on the rushes border since the end of the, of the ussr. a couple of years ago and operation like anaconda do, over 30000 natal soldiers conducting motor exercises. and these past weeks years there been a lot of military operations conducted by nato on russian borders. again,

that is not forget that james baker said the read the at the end of us a story about nato powers or naco one inch eastward. and we see now that the new bases are all around are a former eastern european countries. and so i think that now it is good that both parties maybe agree or to say that it's time to negotiate to discuss. but i think that we've seen a recent, a press release from nato, saying that it is ready to discuss all of a sudden it may be some people, maybe some of the politicians, not the military with politician. feel that now if they go a little bit further, they do sorta may provoke something, which should be a threatening a for algebra because we know that both nato and russia are nuclear superpowers and other overhead line stories. today the manchester arena, ballmer may have been radicalized by a former nato soldier, turn terrorists not was revealed during an inquiry into the atrocity on thursday senior figures from the you case, counter terrorism, police and the home office as well,

gave their closing submissions. let's just go through a reminder of what happened in 2017 selma bady at detonated explosives in a stadium hosting and arianna drummed a concert. 22 people were killed and many children. the youngest son, 8 year old girl, hundreds more people injured, eager sent on a flipped snow at the latest fax to come to light. he murdered 22 people in one suicide last. now a public inquiry is trying to establish what turned a hod cool potty go up into a suicide boma and how it could have been prevented. the probe has yet to deliver concrete answers, but over the past couple of years it has yielded plenty of disturbing revelations. these pictures unearthed by the inquiry leave little to the imagination the bomb.

his whole family himself included, have been gun toting maniacs, thoroughly radicalized according to the findings. this is his father and the m. i. 5, they admitted they knew about the trigger. happy father who apparently was turning his sons into extremists. am i 5 also knew about the bombers contacts with not one or 2, but 6 people who were just short of being placed on the terror. watchlist and my 5 were also reportedly warned by the f b. i that cell mana betty was planning an attack in the u. k. which in fact he was none of that was apparently good enough to ban him from entry in 2015 and my 5 received information that summoner bady was in contact with the subject of interest as so i see a so i see was a long standing a so i, because was previous affiliation with an extremist group in libya, from mid 2015 onwards. and my 5 received information, or some, and a baby on several occasions which included conflicting information about his

a spousal of pro eisley views. ah, this is abdullah rove abdullah a convicted terrorist, suspected of radical ising the manchester terrorist. he was friends with the bomber with the bomb his father. more than that, they were brothers in arms within one of libya's largest militant groups. the february 17th martyrs brigade, that's where they learned how to shoot, kill and bomb. not without the help of nato instructors, there was a group that had taken up arms to fight against rudolf. yes indeed, we had to force to us as we were backed up by the whole world and below fighting nature was frightened actually with us, long sighted as, as the british government. also actually, i was chained by and actually nato. it was just normal, basic training and weapons at basic training,

and yet i out to ain't you and reload militant groups that later birth terrorists have been once favored by western officials. the inquiry has shown when a delores commander was done with fighting in libya, he formed an anti government militia in syria on irish government money, or did he subsequently lead a group from libya to, sir, is it? yes, i saw the manner he did under before that he was in ireland. is it likely he was a live is i live in irish, i. lo and, and he was aided by the irish government with money. and i believe the british government also knew of others well to go and help syrians, if against that, to fight against asset during the libyan conflict. in 2011, the british government was in communication with

a wide range of libyans involved in the conflicts against the cathy regime forces. it is likely that this included former members of the libyan islamic fighting group and the 17th of february, march. this brigade is part of our broad engagement during this time. the you case help to rebel groups of various degrees of extremism did not. and there britton's a lead troops were caught on camera in libya, despite official assurances at the time that there were no boots on the ground them . there was no other choice but to admit the reality. if the malicious and or herb bellinger had not been there playing a key role, i'm not so certain that air paula would have resulted in good of his downfall in the way that we had a few people embedded with them. not of france, so to speak. but beckoned carriers rebel groups firepower grew. nato was dropping bombs by the 1000 and could our feed, well, eventually fell. and with him went down libya's security and rule of law as war,

this myriad of militias turned against each other vying for power. the country turned into a free for all, so the u. k. began to evacuate its citizens, including militants. well guess who boarded the royal navies. h. m. s. enterprise. back in 20. 14 in tripoli. none other than the future manchester bomber. salman abedi enforces on the full r t has asked nato on u. k. officials to comment on the admissions. we'll let you know what response is given for more on the inquiry head to a website, which also has plenty of stories we just couldn't fit into our bulletin, including how the u. s. and ukraine voted against a un resolution condemning naziism that just a click away at r t dot com ah, with cove it on the right again in the united states and other countries to nearing

150000 daily infection. states like at present and biden has given a grim warning to vaccinated americans prime vaccinated. we are looking at a winter of severe illness and vaccinated for themselves, their families and the hospital will soon overwhelm well, the u. s. has now passed another grim milestone $800000.00 cov ed to related debts and it comes with a ton of soaring inflation, living costs as well, all of which is having a pretty negative impact on the popularity of the american leader. as you can see here, sorry, nick yard. a tragic milestone bind and cold it unties right. the number of covey death in the u. s. is now about equal to the population of atlanta and the newest combined. the toll stanza, more than $800000.00 a grim figure, which is doubled in a single year. it's a heavy burden for any president to carry in his 1st year in office. but it seems

that president biden took some convincing on the gravity of the situation. was was 200000. what preventable death life looks when vaccines wo, readily available. and the old habits of blaming donald trump is no longer going to work. just over 4 weeks ago, america had no real plan of action that most of the country, my predecessors, my mother would say, god love them failed order, and of vaccines fail to mobilize the effort to administer the shot. fail to set up vaccine centers that changed the moment we took office, as by the now uses his influence to encourage people to get vaccinated. won't turn

help but wonder where the trust in the presidents woods has been undermined. vaccinated. 57, shoot me. 570 to me. i don't want to read. i'm not sure i got the right number. the total number boosters is what is $77000000.00 boosters. we have roughly 350000000 people have actually united stage and as bite and comes to the end of what was expected to be a common gear after trans post. so that almost at 70 percent of americans have reservations, where the bind and is a leader. they can believe in no doubt not helped by his multiple fo par, like cracking jokes about kentucky after the state was ravaged by killer tornadoes by kid and say, the best thing ever came out of kentucky. was my sister in law. the president's performance this year has also been enough to turn some of the mainstream media

against him just months ago. the future look to bright as for cost as spec optimistically about how life with bind in at the helm would play out. but the tune has changed with some media outlets now urging bite and against another run. combined president joe biden's age. he'll be a to, to shortly after the 2024 election and his ongoing political struggles. he's mired in the low fourties and job approval. and you get this a series of stories examining with abide and runs again, and if not, what might take his place. so was the president to do? he should announce much sooner than later that he would not run for a 2nd term. the arguments against this is that he would instantly turn him into a lame duck presidents. and that's undoubtedly true. bought news flush right now, he's worse than a lame duck. the white house press secretary, however, says the president has every intention of keeping his job, whether the country will concur is another matter. american society being splits

along party lines could be, quote, irreversible, and extremely dangerous. that's the finding of a new academic study, which concludes that the vision in the u. s. is close to tipping point, just to go through that. it claims that polarization has gone so far that americans will find it difficult if not impossible to unite even when faced by a serious threat such as war, physical commentator, an rti contributor lauren chin, give us heartache and how things got to this stage. political division in america is at an all time high right now, and it is no secret that by and large the corporate press are not fans of conservatives. after all, they have been calling them not season white supremacists for going on 5 years now . and perhaps it is because the rhetoric against republicans was already so strong that now leading up to the 2020 to mid term elections. and yes, even 2024 general elections. it seems like the new way to demonize, anyone who would dare to support donald trump is not just by calling them

ideological extremist as we've been seeing. but to actually go so far as to imply that they are physically a literally dangerous and an actual threat to democracy. and if you think that's just hyperbole, check out this op ed from the washington post in his piece. our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emma and b c's. john heilman make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say

the job was illegitimate. and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restored. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for activism. hearing the corporate press now trying to paint conservatives as the real threat of domestic terrorism in the country might seem disingenuous. and so with all this discussion of political division and even violence and should come as no surprise that the top of secession has even come back to the main stream . in fact, as a bloomberg opinion piece recently noted from texas to the new california republic poles in the u. s. do show strong support for splitting the nation among blue and red lines. and although the concept of balconies ation or succession is still regarded as an extreme suggestion by many in the media, if from supporters and republicans really are as violent and bigoted as they would have us believe us,

shouldn't they be jumping at the chance to separate themselves from them or perhaps are the allegations against conservatives. merely smears meant to keep them out of political power. all while allowing democrats to enact legislative control over them. 3 months after the taliban took over afghanistan, humanitarian groups are continuing to sun. the alarm, the banking system must collapse, found the countries on the brink of mass starvation, a situation that is expected to intensify during winter. i winter means even more like spending the whole day in lines as against some bren at 3 loaves of bread help us veto children where the sun improve. the baker says here from morning to make it for 3 loaves is brad. the price of bread has skyrocketed with hundreds of people, including women and children,

and the elderly come to the bakery every day and make for bread. people live in poverty prices a low from a break, used to cost $10.00 connie's. but now it is 2023000000 people facing huge, huge shortages this winter. that's more than half the country's population out. that's how the band take over. foreign donors cuts off financial aid. humanitarian aid is still getting it, but there is no telling if it will pass the 1st place to test. will the taliban government is now working? the u. s. to release $10000000000.00, an afghan assets which were frozen after the islamist group seized power in august, the taliban foreign minister as asked the world to show mercy and compassion to the country citizens. we discussed the crisis with the un secretary general's deputy representative for the nation. ah, situation on the ground in afghanistan continues to be difficult and complex.

winter has come. we have temperatures dropping low 0 and people are definitely not having enough food enough warm enough of supplies. so it's a difficult situation. ah, our teams are reaching out to over 8000000 people now. providing them essential food items and also delivering hundreds of thousands of kids which contain in transition items and which keep people warm at went overall package of h to of constant was estimated at $8000000.00 annually. and for the next year, we will be seeking $4400000.00 towards the human 10 appeal. an additional $3.00 to what is basic human needs. the aid is coming and it's producing an impact . there may be able to make a difference for the people on the grounds. however,

i've gone on this far from meeting the needs of the people there's been a surprising twist in the migrant. stunned off on the belarus, poland border, and polish border soldier as defected to belarus on requested political asylum parties. elliot, katrinka can tell us more. so when the de facto was talking to the bell russian media, he said that he was 100 percent. sure. that war saw is now going to try and portray him as a traitor and also a very bad man. and when he was asked the question, by doing so, do the polish officials want to draw attention away from the crisis on the bell ring? poland border? his answer was obvious. the yes, the former soldier also said that he pretty much couldn't stand what was happening at the border where for months now, plenty of microns and refugees have been trying to cross into v. you. the most

serious accusation that we heard from the defector was that he saw 2 cases when the polish military shot and killed volunteers who were trying to help the migrants. the soldier also describe how his fellow service men behaved. and he called that a pure display of domination, people among the most senior ranks of the polish military have admitted that one of their soldiers has defected and they are absolutely furious. the man's commanders have already been fired. the defense minister says that he was an offender. and that he wasn't even simple to serve at the border. the minister once punishment for those who sent him there. a soldier who went missing a city, had serious problems of the law and resigned from the army. he should never have been assigned to the board of service. i've asked for an explanation as to who was responsible for this.