[000:00:00;00] ah ah, renew german language shuttle r t d is embroiled in a legal dispute cells. europe's meteor regulate her questions. it's broadcast license r t management however stressed the license was obtained info, compliance with european law also a head on the program. russia publishes a list of proposals to nato for maintaining security. what the country's deputy

foreign minister saying the bowl is melanie alliances, courts when it comes and d escalation. also we dig into disturbing revelations that the manchester irene, a suicide bomber had linked to a former nato soldier, turned terrorists ah, live for most go. this is our t. my name's you. no, no. neil on 30 minutes of news and views starting our our new sister channel. busy our t d, just over a day old has been caught up in a legal dispute in germany related to licensing r t management has responded saying the license was quote obtained in accordance with all applicable european laws. busy and regulations on official for the european media watchdog had some ominous words for the new channel. the license

must be issued in germany and the application must also be filed here. first of all, this is a real irritant, and we will take care of it. some context here, the new channel was taken off at youtube on the very day. it was launch thursday. technically there is no link between that and the german t v broadcast dispute. now as you can see, it's been a rocky star for r t d. and earlier i spoke to ortiz, deputy editor in chief and head of communications, alma belkin, a. she explained what the disagreements all about just to start, but what is the head of the european regulator can complaining if i 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 and 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. 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're 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 german are saying there's an issue, but where are td's license such he just mentioned there was obtained you said it was obtained in serbia. so what was the problem there? that's a 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 from us go. 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 a from berlin, which is home just to a production company r t d e productions that makes some of our content yeah, but the lion's share of 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 of a? yeah, so this is a, this is where the 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. r t d e 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 i applied for the for the license in serbia. that's a significant distinction. it's not, it's no, that's a little and this is where it seems that they do. yeah. they're taking issue with them broadcasting and germany went, they're just not doing such a thing. we are broadcasting in germany and we're doing so in accordance with

absolutely all the laws and regulations of europe, of that convention that i mentioned and, and absolutely, every territory where we operate and have always done. so in a big question, do you expect the shuttle 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 with licensing, but you know, the pressure on our guests and so forth has been really unprecedented. the pressure again, as you've mentioned, the beginning on our digital platforms are. so, you know, we just launched the channel yesterday or you can see everything that's happening

so we don't know what tomorrow will bring up. but that said, we're ready to keep it to keep fighting. among the reaction we got to the move was from geopolitical analyst, patrick hennington, who is of the view that the moves politically motivated. another dangerous precedent has not been established. not just the german regulars celsius. it sounds like the i, e u. the european regulator is also involved, but i think as follows have sort of a general pattern. it's, there's a lot, it's been a lot of political brings midship in germany. i, i really believe that there is a geopolitical element to this with germany to really important. ah, language block for media. so it is a really important in terms of soft power in terms of influence. and this is the, this is what media is all about. all countries exercise all power in the problem is not always in a dangerous precedent, but the, you know, the language is also disturbing when you have this sort of blogs,

a ah dismissal and dismissing off and r t simply because it's, russian does sound like there's a bias there an inherent bias. they don't give any specifics of why they don't like the content, or they just say that, oh, it's because, well, there they must be up to no good. the in general, it's a prelude to hostilities when you have all out media war. that's a prelude. sometimes you could say to hostility, that means that they're going to be escalating and other areas. patrick, heading symbol. we have reached out to one of the main european authorities dealing with press freedom for its views on the r t d e dispute. the o. s. c representative on freedom of the media to list our requests will be considered as soon as possible. russia has published a list of proposals for d, escalating tensions with nato. i made fears of a conflict in ukraine, among the mountains or a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. the western defense

alliance has already responded, saying it will consider the document. but any, i'd come will require input from ukraine, our senior correspondent, murat, gas, the reports on 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 and of the 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 close of 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 stockton 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. it the piteous motor, 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. that there isn't much cause for optimism, buses, requests of largely been rejected, summoned in private, summoned public, consult mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time sense will prevail. just to our, to morality, peace, independent, political, consult, and run. a rough 1st thinks it's in europe's interests, actually to strike a compromise with russia on nato. i think that at least the european branch in nato should accept this offer happily gladly. because it's of great interest to force for europe to live in good partnership and peace with russia. but the question is whether nato will decide in a way that you, europeans, at least, should wish. it may well be in the interest of the united states government

to raise the tensions between europe and russia in order to keep europe as close as possible independence off the united states. instead of watching a good relationship building of evolving between the european neighbors of which also a russia is a part of this may well explain why nato behaves in a way that is against the interests off the europeans. and which drives russia into ever closer relationship with china? this is our international news keeps rolling in 90 seconds. i'm counting johnny's from we're off the break. ah

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with recreation came we get the rest, the 7 years bill. every year i've tried to report oh hello again. let's start the program. back in the u. k, the manchester arena bomber may have been radicalized by a former nato soldier, turned terrorist that was revealed during an inquiry into the atrocity. on thursday, senior figures from britain's counter terrorism police on the home office at gave the closing submissions. and also a reminder of what happened in 2017. let's bring that as well. selman, a bady detonated explosives in a stadium hosting and arianna grant a concert. 22 were killed. many children the youngest, an 8 year old girl. hundreds more people are injured as eager to down of looks now than latest likes to come to and he murdered $22.00 people in one suicide blast.

now a public inquiry is trying to establish what turned a hard core party. go into a suicide bomber. and how it could have been prevented the probe was 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 and my 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 watch list. 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 subjects of interest as so i see a so i see was a long standing a so i, because of his previous affiliation with an extremist group in libya, from mid 2015 onwards, am i 5 received information or some on 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. i think the manchester terrorist, he was friends with the bummer with the bomb his father. more than that they were brothers in arms within one of libby as largest militant groups. the february 17th march his brigade, that's where they learned how to shoot,

kill and bomb. not without the help of nato instructors, it was a group that had taken up arms to fight against coffee. this indeed, we had 2 or forced us. as we were backed up by the whole world and we were fighting and nature was frightened actually with us. long sighted us as the british government. also, actually i was trained by and actually nato. it was just normal, basic training and weapons. basic training yet out to ain't you and reload militant groups that later birth terrorists have been ones favored by western officials. the inquiry has shown, when of dallas commander was done with fighting in libya, he formed an anti government militia in syria on irish government, money. and did he subsequently a lead a group from libya to syria?

yes, i saw mano he did, and here if for that he was an island, is it live it? he was a live is a live in irish island. 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 effect 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 u. k. help to rebel groups of various degrees of extremism did not, and their britons elite 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 their reality. if the malicious and the era bellows had not been there playing a key role, i am not so certain that air power would have resulted in good of his downfall in the way that we had a few people imbedded with them, not up front 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 all 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, boehmer, solomon abedi, will r t has asked nato

a new k officials to comment on the revelations. we'll let you know what response is given from wharton on the inquiry had to our website, which also has plenty of stories. we just couldn't fit into our bulletin, including how the u. s. and ukraine voted against the un resolution condemning naziism. not just a click away at r t dot right to the united states. we go, we're co bids on the rise once more. the countries nearing 850000 daily infections on president biden has given this warning to millions of vaccine hesitant citizens for on vaccinated. we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death vaccinated for themselves. are families and hospitals wilson over well well, apart from cove, it concerns people in the u. s. are doing battle with soaring inflation on living costs, all of which is having a pretty negative impact on the popularity of the american leader years ortiz nicky,

earn a tragic milestone bind and cold it unties right. the number of covey, dest in the u. s. is now about equal to the population of atlanta. anthony lewis 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 his name to the president biden took some convincing on the gravity of the situation. what was 200000 where preventable death live 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 brother would say, god love them fail. the ordering of vaccines fell to mobilize the effort to administer the shots, 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. one can't help but wonder where the trust and the presidents woods has been undermined vaccinated 57 to me. 570 to me. i want to read, i'm not sure i got the right number. the total number boosters is what it is. $77000000.00 booster, we have a roughly $350000000.00 people that actually united stage at as biden comes to the end of what was expected to be a common gear after trend 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. so 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 bryant as for cost as spoke optimistically about how life with bind in at the helm would play out. but the tune has changed with some media outlets now, urging bitin 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 what's the president to do? he should announce much sooner than later that he would not run for

a 2nd term. the argument 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 split along party lines could be, quote, irreversible and extremely dangerous. nowadays, the finding of a new academic study, which concludes that the vision in the u. s. is close to tipping point. let's go through that story. it says, because 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. political commentator antarctic contributor lauren shane gave us her take on how things got to this point. 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 incidence 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 m. s. n 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 is appropriate tool to remove human restore. 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. here in 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 should come as no surprise that the pick of secession has even come back to the main stream. in fact, as

a bloomberg opinion piece recently noted from tax it to the new california republic poles in the us do show strong support for splitting the nation among blue and red lines. and although the concept of balcony zation or succession is still regarded as an extreme suggestion by many in the media, if trump 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 . now with the world preoccupied with cove, it scientists are a warning of a potentially greater threats in the form of ancient viruses that are lying dormant under arctic ice. russia is taking the lead, calling on the arctic council to start examining such diseases urgently as melting

permafrost means they could. if nothings don't be unleashed on humanity. deadly ancient viruses, revived horror movie. no reality. rushes come, a frost is melting. viruses and bacteria that were trapped in frost for thousands of years now could wake up. there are extremely good papers that say yes, you can revive bacteria from deep permafrost. russia establishes an organization to examine these threats. with that, i sure there are a number of well documented outbreaks of paleo infections that had arisen from thermal degradation of permafrost in the arctic and sub up to greens, anthrax, smallpox tuberculosis, one virus, has already been found the pit. the virus has defrosted from the pan of frost and

right after that it started attacking and killing amoebas. luckily it is not harmful to humans, but what else is hidden in the frozen soil? what is awaiting us in 2022, kosh host. comedian dennis miller takes over our screens again in moments, find out who's joining him in conversation today, right after the break. good bye. ah ah ah