i 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 the shootings and we certainly wouldn't have the number of this. ah, our new german language channel, our t d e, is embroiled in a legal dispute as europe's media regulator, questions it's broadcast license, ortiz management, stressed. the license was obtained in full compliance with european law. russia publishes the list of proposals to nato for maintaining security with the country is deputy foreign minister saying the ball is now in the alliance's court when it comes to de escalation. also we dig into disturbing revelations that the manchester arena suicide bomber had linked to a former nato soldier turned terrorist ah,

oh, broadcasting live from moscow, russia. this is our t international. my name is donald quarter. welcome to the program. our brand new sr channel r t d e has been accused of not having the necessary documentation to broadcast in germany. our t management has responded saying its license was quote, obtained in accordance with all applicable european laws and regulations, and 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 her. first of all, this is a real irritant, and we will take care of it. now little context here, the new channel was taken off you tube the very day it was launched on thursday. technically there's no connection between that and the german t v broadcast dispute. but as you can see, it's been a rocky start for

r t d. earlier my colleague, you know, neil spoke to ortiz, deputy editor in chief and head of communications. anna belkin up. she explained what the disagreement is 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 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 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 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'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 for mosquito. 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 then we're doing so from a from berlin, which is home just 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, makes 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 i applied for the for the license in serbia. that's a significant distinction. it's not a, it's no, absolutely um this is where it seems that they do. yeah. they're taking issue with them broadcasting in germany when 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 we're, we operate and have always done. so i'm 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. 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, but that said, we're ready to keep. keep fighting. we spoke with political analyst, chris banbury, and geopolitical analyst, patrick kennings sent, who say the move is politically motivated. not just the german regulars also. so it sounds like the i, e u, the european regulator is also involved. but i think this follows as sort of

a general pattern because there's a lot of, there's been a lot of political brings been ship in germany. i really believe that there's a geo political element to this. and 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 hand or t simply because it's, russian does sound like there's a bias. there an inherent bias when you have all out media war, that's a prelude. sometimes you could say to hostilities if we have a new germany governments which wants to distinguish itself from angela marco's pizza says so on, is clearly moving in a direction, whirl wind with united states and its allies in relation to russia. so shutting down our t deutsch would fit in with that agenda, but germany no one's prove itself as being a law while ally of the united states in this new cold war with, with,

with rog and russia, but not logical in terms of freedom, speech, not logical in terms of what's going on in the world, we've 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 e representative and freedom of the media told us our request will be considered as soon as possible. russia has published a list of proposals for de escalating tensions with nato, amid fears of a flare up in ukraine among the demands or a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. western defense alliance has already responded, saying it will consider the document, but any outcome will require input from ukraine are senior, corresponding more gazda of 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 that 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 oh, carrying out an armed attack against the of the party judge for yourself. where in previous years they threatened each other with, with sanctions or legal action. now, openly booth russia and 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 you as missiles on 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 doctorate. russia is referred to as an adversary. the closer that nato and u. s. troops and tags and missiles move to russia, the more unpredictable the game gets, which is why putin has said his red line. nato states commit 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, burge announced that roger has no veto, no say in nato operations and no right to any sort of security buffer sphere of

influence, which sets us back all the way to square one. if the police 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. but there isn't much cause for optimism, buses, requests of largely been rejected, summoned in private, some in public and some mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time sense will prevail, independent, political consultant, rain or roth for us thinks it's in europe's interest to strike a compromise with russia. nato. i think that at least the european branch in nature

should accept this offer happily gladly. because it's of great interest, of course, for europe to live in good partnership and to tease with russia. but the question is whether nato will decide in a way that the u. europeans, at least, should wish. it may well be in the interest of the united states government um, to raise the tensions between europe and russia in order to or 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 the 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 a ever closer relationship with china. 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 the you case, counter terrorism, police and the home office gave their closing submissions. a reminder of what happened. 2017 salman. a betty dat detonated explosives in a stadium hosting and ariana grande's concert. 22 were killed. many of them being children. and the youngest of which was an 8 year old girl. hundreds more was injured as well. anchors down of looks now at the latest fax to come to light. he murdered 22 people in one suicide blast. now a public inquiry is trying to establish what turned a hard cool party go into as so as boma 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. 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 subjects 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 someone, 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 bummer 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 2 or 4 to 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 chained by and actually nato. it was just normal, basic training, and weapons at basic training yet. out to ain't you and reload militant groups that lay to birth. terrorists have been ones 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. and did he subsequently lead a group from libya to, sir? is it? yes, i saw mano he did under before that he was an island. is it it?

he was a live is a live in irish i, lou 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, the 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 earlier areas, rebel groups firepower grew. nato was dropping bombs by the 1000 and qaddafi while 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, boehmer, solomon abedi. arches asked nato and you k officials to comment on the revelations . we'll let you know what response we get more on the inquiry head over to our website, which also has plenty of stories. we can't fit into our bulletin,

including how the u. s. and ukraine voted against a un resolution condemning naziism. that's just a click away at r t dot com. now to the united states where cove it's on the rise. once again, the country is nearing 150000 daily infections, and 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, unvaccinated for themselves, for families and the hospital will soon over well. apart from cove, it concerns people in the us are battling soaring inflation and living causes, all of which is having quite a negative impact on the popularity of the american head of state. as ortiz, nikki aaron explains a tragic milestone bind and cold it unties right. the number of cov, a death in the u. s. is now about equal to the population of atlanta and st. louis

combined. the toll stanza, more than $800000.00, a grim figure, which has 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 vaccines fail to mobilize the effort to administer the shots, fail to set up vaccine centers that change 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 on the mind vaccinated. 57 to me. 570 to me. i want to read, i'm not sure i got to read number. the total number boosters is what i have 57000000 boosters. we have a roughly 350000000 people that actually united stage and as bite and comes to the end of what was expected to be a common gear off the trunk post. so that almost at 70 percent of americans have it reservations where the find an is elidah. they can believe in no doubt not helps by his multiple fo par, like cracking jokes about kentucky after the state was ravaged by killer tornadoes

. by kid say, the best thing you 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, his full cost is spoke optimistically, about how life with bind and at the helm would play out. but the tune has changed with some media outlets now urging bite and against another run. combined president, jew biden's, age. he'll be 82 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? you should announce much sooner than later that he would not to rone 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. boat news flush right now,

he's worse than the lame duck. the white house press secretary, however safe the president has every intention of keeping his job, whether the country will concur is another massa, american society being split along party lines could be, quote, irreversible, and extremely dangerous. that's the finding of a new academic study, which concludes that division in the united states is approaching its tipping point and says that because the country has become so polarized that americans would find it difficult if not impossible, to unite even when faced by a serious threat such as a war, political commentator, and archie contributor lauren chen 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 emma send me, sees john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion,

the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and that may be as many as 12 percent of the american people now say, the job was illegitimate. and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restoring. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 a large scale, political violence was almost exclusively left winger rena, 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 should come as no surprise that the car 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 term 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 sound the alarm. the banking system has collapsed and the countries on the brink of mass starvation, a situation that's expected to intensify during the winter. oh, when to means that even with like, spending the whole day in line since against some bryn at 3 loaves of bread, help us veto children and 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 loaf of bread used to cost $10.00 connie's. but now it is 2023000000 people face acute food 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. the taliban government is now urging the u. s. to release $10000000000.00 worth of afghan assets which were frozen after the islamic group seized power in august, the taliban foreign minister was asked has 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 afghanistan. situation on the

ground in afghanistan continues to be difficult and conflicts. 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. i, our teams are reaching out to over 8000000 people now providing them essential food items and also delivering hundreds of thousands of kids which and came into possession items and which keep people warm at winter. overall package of age to of constant was estimated at $8000000.00 annually. and to the next year we will be seeking $4400000000.00 towards the human 10 appeal. an additional $3.00 towards basic human needs. the aid is coming and it's producing an

impact. there may move to make a difference for the people on the grounds. however, i'm gonna spend this far from meeting the needs of the people. that's the news for this. our sticker on for world news headlines and just about 30 minutes in in terms of security and defense, your stance at a crossroads should outdated cold war era structures be maintained like nato in over. we line on the u. s. or should europe define and shoulder responsibilities for its own defense? and what about russia? ah ah

ah, mm. ah, failure to allow bond markets to reflect to market forces has resulted in a bifurcation in the economy where the most corrupt are rewarded for committing crimes. jamie morgan being in prime example and if you have morals or ethics you're penalized. if you're not out there still stealing a load ink, then you're going to be almost.