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things are we dare to ask in ah, with the headlines her naughty international, our new german language channel r t d is embroiled and a legal dispute as europe's media regulate a questions. it's broadcast license, but you case a supreme court rules. it was unlawful to drop an inquiry into the alleged torture of 14 suspected. i'll re, members by british soldiers. one of them told us what he went through a door to him by late different psychiatrist i spoke with on the majority. him tell me i the software not log that they told st. deliverable way.
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also in the program, ours, on a law enforcement struggling to deal with the hundreds of migrants arriving each and every day. a state of emergency has now been imposed with sheriffs describing the situation as chaos. so we end up with the decimal desert, the robberies that are happening along the border. the pursuits then li, ancillary criminal act that we like the large amounts of drugs that abuse marble in our country. ah, no shortage of news. and today's program here we are naughty international welcome to it. i'm rural, re sushi, a brand new german sister channel r t d e has been accused of not having the necessary documentation to broadcast in germany or the management has responded saying his license was quote obtained in accordance with all european laws and regulations. it's going to give you some
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context here quickly. the new channel was taken off youtube the very day it was launched on 1st i technically there's no connection between that and the german t v broadcast dispute. as you can see, it's been a bit of a rocky star for r t. an official for the european media watchdog had some rather almost words for this new channel. one of my life, a hope the license must be issued in germany and the application must also be filed to 1st of all, this is a real irritant, and we will take care of it. he called the r t d essentially a peskin and little nuisance that is going to be taken care of. so that is some interesting language there right off the bat. but the, the crux of the issue is that in his view, we are have no business broadcasting in germany. he, he screaming ha incorrectly, that 80 news channel is actually based in berlin,
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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 doing that via license through another country to serbia or another european license and are in full right to broadcast across all of europe, including in germany. our license was obtained under what is known as the european convention on trans frontier tra, trans frontier television, which i under of that convention gives us the right to broadcast to $33.00 countries across europe as long as broadcast from moscow. and those countries include germany. but they also include other countries with majority of significant german language populations, such as austria, switzerland, luxembourg, and so forth. this is where the separation is really important. the legal action is
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being launched against our tv productions, which makes us some young make some of the shows are t d e productions does not need a license because our tv production is not a channel. it channel is our t, the that is coming out of here and thus moscow, our headquarters are our parent company applied for i applied for, for that license in serbia. the amount of pressure that i, our new german channel has faced even before it went on the air, difficulties with bank side difficulties, not just with licensing, but you know, the pressure on, on, you know, on our guests and so forth has been really unprecedented. yeah. pressure again, as you've mentioned, the beginning on our digital platforms, we are ready to keep our ticket fighting. we spoke with geopolitical analyst, patrick henderson. he says, the move is politically motivated and his sets rather a dangerous precedent. not just the german regulars also as it sounds like the i e
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u, the european regulator is also involved. but i think as follows, have sort of a general pattern. it's, there's a lot of has been a lot of political brinkman ship in germany. i, i really believe that there's a geopolitical element to this with germany to really important la language block for media. so it is a really important in terms of soft power in terms of influence. not only is it 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. they don't give any specifics of why they don't like the content, or they just say that, oh, it's because, well, they must be able to no good. the in generally to prelude to hostilities when you have all out media war. that's a prelude. sometimes you could say to hostilities, it means that they're going to be escalating and other areas. we have reached out
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to one of the main european authorities dealing with out of press freedom to get its position on the r t t dispute. the o. s. c. e's representative on the freedom of the media told us our request will be considered as soon as possible. the u. k. supreme court has ruled that it was illegal for police to drop a probe into alleged torture committed by british soldiers in northern ard and back in 1970. 1 of the case relates to the troubles and hundreds of suspected iras members were detained, often without charge of 14 of those arrested was subjected to special interrogation techniques. these were later recognized as illegal a franchise mcguigan. now one of the 14 told us what happened to him. i was forced to stand against the wall finger tips and tip trolls. small mom back pushed and so my body was actually bold with this constant weight noise that commandment
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took over your brain. we were denied chile, we all show, were denied you should toilet. they took, remove my own clothes, put me in a boiler, shoot that boiler suit was may day, close my nice clothes and my toilet for 7 days. and that just went on and we're forced to stand against this wall with your finger tips and that in a stress position. the body only stands too much and you would collapse the westgate you're just beaten, taken back up up against the wall. and that that was constant for the shop. and as i finished up with the broken ribs, i still have nightmares. i don't know how many difference to kind of this i've spoken to on the majority him tell me i've been so for a not long that they don't say liberal go away earlier the u. k. and alice plans to
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introduce limitations that would block prosecutions into alleged crimes related to northern ireland. that there are many members of the om service use who continue to face with where all of that se, shoes of prosecutions are willing to the seventy's and eighty's. and later, and we are finally mrs. speaker bringing forward a solution to this problem to enable the problem to love, to draw a line under the troubles, to enable the people of northern ireland to move with the council of europe's commission of our human rights wrote her letter saying the u. k. was denying justice, however, the european court for human rights ruled back in 1978 that the 14 men's case did not amount to torture. that decision was later used by the bush administration to justify enhanced interrogation techniques used both at by graham and guantanamo bay . now the e c h r rejected a 2018 bid to overturn its ruling. and frances mcguigan again says that he and others won't stop fighting until they get justice. an apology from the british
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government means nothing to me. i think the word and it's more than i acknowledged back to what hutton deals the same as what happens in guantanamo black shapes. there's no investigation. so nobody was ever brought to he or bar last night on his way of shuttle down. the legacies clothes are all done on this thing. they're both attacked and soldiers and nests. perse, abberly, or old soldiers being dragged through the course. i personally don't believe but is anything whatsoever. it was soldiers. we want every kiss in court. we've never lost it. yes, of course, we're no farther forward today than we are a british policy. just solid delay, stolid, delay ads, dollars delay, answer questions back. push it back, push it back. maybe the long forget it, but i love you to go my we ain't gone away. so we're not stop and we're never gonna stop on as i say, our children on our grandchildren with ours on
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a law enforcement say they are overwhelmed as hundreds of illegal migrants are crossing the border wall in yuma. each and every day at the county mayor imposed a state of emergency to secure additional resources for dealing with the inflow of people. local sheriff's have described the situation as chaos, and caleb martin now explains how it got to this point. arizona mexico border is buzzing with activity. 3000 migrants crossed just this weekend and the local sheriff says they are in a hurry. there were a lot of people who were planning to come here. but because of the new law, they decided to comment as possible. now the lightening ministration recently reinstated the trump administration's policy of having asylum seekers remain in mexico waiting in mexico while their claims are considered. now the sheriff thinks that the administration's actions are fueling the crisis. we told us extrusion. if they decided to in phoebe,
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it was going to cause these problems and obviously the ancillary impacts in the upper in our backyard. so we end up with the death in the desert to the robberies that are happening along the border, the pursuit. then lea ancillary criminal activity like large amounts of drugs that are being smuggled into our country. from mexico, all are occurring in every order county along the southwest board. now the local mayor has declared a state of emergency. he's calling on federal officials for help. 110 agents from the department of homeland security have already been re committed. however, local officials are slamming biden for not doing enough. yuma is facing an escalating humanitarian and bought a crisis and it's a direct result of the biden administration's poor communication, lack of organization and complete disregard for border protection. but arizona is not alone. florida is also dealing with the migration wave. so the border is
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obviously a disaster. well, actually the by the administration puts people on planes and flies them in the florida in the wee hours of the morning. so they've done over 70 flights in the last 6 months out. com, a harris, who is vice president and just recently named border czar by joe biden. doesn't seem to really be on the case. the guar alan had of state says he hasn't heard from her since june, despite whitehouse reassurances. why is it that she has not spoken to the president of guatemala since you 6 months? i knew that i could see this kind of strange report from the president of guatemala, saying that he has had no contact with the white house, which is inaccurate. other than you're meeting with harris in june, this is the only one. this is the only communication you've had with the biden administration concerning a legal immigration. yet pamela harris is currently touting her program with private companies to bring foreign investment to central america and stop the
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migrant flow. but how much a trickle of funds from pepsi, cargill and mastercard will actually do, remains unclear. meanwhile, 50000 juveniles seeking asylum have disappeared. according to the country's top migration tracker, when compared case by case record by reco with the previous month day to dump truck received, we find that requisite disappear without explanation truck has repeatedly reached out to the agency executive office of immigration review. the d o j agency, the overseas us immigration cases, but has not received any satisfactory explanation. a number of these asylum cases continues to disappear each month. researchers say the u. s. department of justice is making it more difficult to track a juvenile migrant cases. providing information that is not useful or precise, but one sheriff will not keep silent. they've already got what over $147000.00 juveniles their own, the company own. they, they need to change their messaging. obviously, when you sit there and say that you're going to do individuals money because they
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were separated at the border last, just a draw for the cartels and further from a wilma to exploit. so now that's why we see a member juveniles come across 1st. and then the parents come late, which as they know the bill, it will be reunited. so it's all play on the rules of this administration was put into place. the migrant crisis has hung over the biden administration from the beginning. many wonder if there are any real solutions in the works, not just reassuring words. caleb martin, r t new york and to plenty of all still to come on. the programs were reaching out quarter past the hour and i'll here at moscow. electricity costs are soaring in europe. the fronds shots down not one, not 2, but full nuclear reactors that come with at the same time as russia is now looking at east. after being snobbish by the e. u over energy, lots of storage,
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still the cut way back in just about with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be in arms. race is on offense, varying dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk join me every 1st bit on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess of the world politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah,
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failure to allow bond markets to reflect to market forces has resulted in bifurcation in the economy where the most corrupt are rewarded for committing crimes. j. p. morgan being in prime example. and if you have morals or ethics you're penalized. if you're not out there still sailing alluding, then you're going to be homeless. and that's american today. and it's a sad oh, thank for joining us here for the saturday program. with europe still reeling from a full to wave of cove. it high profile officials, a warning, a 5th wave is poised to break. the german health minister says it's time to brace for new difficulties as countries across the continent offset. once again to re impose tough restrictions. his peter oliver, for the 4th wave old cove at 19 certainly isn't over. and while we're still dealing
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with that, the new german health minister, car louts of our has been or painting a pretty bleak picture about the immediate future. and he was looking at the number of infections of the o micron variant in the united kingdom and saying that there is potentially a massive 5th wave of the virus on its way brushed. thus i'm assuming there will be a massive 5th wave. i mean, close concert with my colleagues from the u. k. both politically and scientifically . we were still coordinating just yesterday, my colleagues say that what has been observed on the ground exceeds anything that has been observed in the entire pandemic. we have to prepare ourselves for a challenge that we have not faced yet in this form. while infection numbers have been dropping gradually in recent days and weeks here in germany, it isn't happening fast enough. according to the country, public health authority, the robert cock institute, in order to release the burden from intensive care beds and the availability of those intensive care beds. not just in germany,
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where there are problems on the horizons. a new action being taken in switzerland. they've brought in new measures which are designed in order to well get more people to get vaccinated. basically, if you haven't been vaccinated or can't prove that, you have recovered from covered it. within the last 6 months, you're going to be pretty much barred from, from everywhere in switzerland, from here on out what we're seeing as you going to need to provide the proof of one of those 2 things to get into sports stadiums. cultural events and leisure facilities, also restaurants as well. it comes after the intensive care unit bed space in the capacity for that bed space in switzerland, past 82 percent this week. so the country deciding to take emergency measures they're in denmark, they've also implemented new measures. they are going to be closing theaters and sinners because of a rise of covert cases there in france. they've done is they've basically cut off all non essential travel between france and the united kingdom because of the,
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the she had number of cases tens and tens of thousands, huge amounts of covert cases being recorded in the united kingdom funds deciding they want a few people as possible traveling between the 2 countries. it's also prompted action, an e u level member states and their leaders saying that they wanted to see more vaccines that are specifically tailored to taco, the oma kron variance of cove at 19. in fact, the orders are all ready to go in for 180000000 doses of coven vaccines that would target specifically the, the omicron very intuitive world, the subject of vaccines. there's been a massive push here in germany to get people to come forward. for booster jobs, in fact, 1500000 people were vaccinated here in germany on wednesday alone, 1300000 of those were booster vaccines. but the problem is, there's not enough vaccines here in germany right now in order to keep up that type
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of pace and it's not the type of pace that the, the new health minister wants to see happening. so what germany is looking to do is to buy vaccines that are being used in countries like poland, bulgaria, and romania vaccines that may well see this, that used by dates expire in the near future, germany say, and they'll take them off their hands in order to try and get enough jobs in the facilities and all that to put them into people's homes. we spoke to w h o representative, margaret harris, she says alma calling poses a threat even to those who have been chapped. the really big difference between alma klein and the other variance is it's made of spread. we are very concerned that there will be a lot of people who become severely ill and end up in hospital people who had previously been infected with all the forms of the, of the size. going to be too virus. we're re infected with army front. so we can
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see that i'm run can infect people, whether or not they have had a previous infection and it can infect people who have been vaccinated. but the critical thing is, we are also saying that people who've been vaccinated ah, being protected from having this via phone, from dying ending as pandemic, is in all our hands at every level of society, every country, if we all do all the things we need to do we can in this pandemic? so what am i talking about? we only to get vaccinated, we only to help people around the world get vaccinated. we all need to take seriously the measures to prevent the violins from spreading her person to person until we vaccinate promptly around the world. we are making it most of all for new versions to new variance to arise. but cova does not europe's only headache. right
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now, the other is energy costs including soaring electricity bills, which shot up even further this week. after franz's biggest power provider shut down not one or 2, but 4 of his nuclear reactors, e d f says down to technical folds. earlier i discussed the situation with correspondence. saskia, china, while europe's energy crisis might be a hot topic, but saw to me it does look like it's going to be a cold winter on the continent. because while gas prices have spike, the gas itself is running low and i'm talking dangerously record lows. in fact, your pink gas store supplies haven't been this spot in a decade, on average, across the blog. 3074 percent full. that's down to 94 percent last year, and germany in particular is on edge. since the coldest pulse of winter is still ahead, the relatively low gas reserves should be used carefully. if we keep withdrawing gas at the current rate, the level will be very low by february. so no buffer,
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no real resolved, that anyone can sort of depend to and these really tight times and things do seem to be going from bad to worse. because state own electricity to france or e t f announce that it will be shutting down to of its new reactive because of safety reasons. some pipes are powered and you need repairing on top of that and not the to have pulls to walk pending inspections. this is bad news, of course not just the fronts electricity is most kate and you can generate it is not just bad news for the nations, the exports to, for example, the u. k. but it's also very nerve wracking for the mall kits which have already been on a total road coast right over the last couple of months. but of course, who has taken the biggest hit full people. i mean, i was absolutely shock to read that europeans will pay 900 percent more the natural gas in january 2022 than they did in january 2021. so i really think looking at this picture now, it's not an exaggeration say, it's a pretty di situation. a lot of this russian gas that goes into europe. it hasn't,
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they didn't fill up their coffers during last summer. so they were, as you were saying that the gas levels were low, prices have gone up, but russia is the one who's apparently taken the blame and, and certainly the u. k. media and the tabloids and the european media. they've been having russia for these high prices. it is a big supplier of gus to europe. and how was moscow reacting to all of this? well, you are right around 30 percent of europe's natural gas that comes from russia. so you'd think then, given how desperate the situation is that brussels would know what side it's bread is buttered on. but what does the you do? having failed to come to an agreement on how to handle and move forward in this ongoing crisis. i was long summit. it basically turns round and accuses moscow of use and gas is a political weapon. so of course we know it's always good to have someone else to blame. the thing is, is russia is fulfilling, it's contracts. and the problem is, is it is unwilling to turn the taps on to overflow. mosca says, look, we've got our own low shortages on top of that domestic demand at the moment is
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incredibly high because you and i very well know the went to here is very cold. we really just can't give you any more. so i was looking at how the situation is unfolding, it'll say, thinking generally about how frosty brussels has been to russia and we some times think you know what, it wouldn't be a bad time to diversify our market and to look to cooperate with perhaps more friendly nations, so to that end, a new pipeline is actually on the calls he gave, but i missed it in practical terms. it's a project for gas pipeline, from russia to china and fi. mongolia to work is progressing successfully. it could become a continuation of the russian power of siberia to pipeline michigan. the optimal route and length of already been determined, the feasibility studies being prepared. and i think it will be ready in the coming weeks. so construction that could start as early as 2024. in the meantime, what's happening, europe's crisis wasn't the global markets embracing itself. meanwhile, north stream to your pipeline, which is ready to go and could significantly of course alleviate the use energy
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crisis is lying idle myers in political games. and of course, who's paying the highest price quite literally, in this case, european assistance analyst on dakota most are folk or helmeyer, says rushes shift to the east to the end of the day. make sense? this energy price crisis may prevail longer if we can make geo politics. an issue of these energy seems we are living in europe together with russia. and i think it is high time to return to serious diplomatic approaches, rather than have a mega phone diplomacy, which rather feeds escalation. i think there has been a shift of interest, given the fact that the euro asian area is growing fast. and that the interest over there in net gas and fossil fuels from russia has increased.
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and thus, if europe doesn't play a long and term, i think, i think the likelihood of russia turning more and more towards the east is extremely high. and it would put a risk on energy safety and the route you can union. but can fort russia has officially left the open skies treaty. that's an agreement that allows states to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over each other's air space. the decision to withdraw came after america pulled out that was last year with details . art is equal to the end of this withdrawal by russia rather than being a beginning of something big. it is a logical and now in hindsight, a an inevitable conclusion to a process started by washington. when last year it accused moscow of violating the basic principles of this open skies agreement and decided to unilaterally leave the
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deal. this treaty, which was signed all the way back in 1992, it served as a very important confidence builder. basically, it allowed russia the us and some many nato member states to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over each other's military infrastructure. as long as there was a 72 hours heads up when washington decided to withdraw, russia found itself at a disadvantage. basically, neither russia nor washington could conduct such flights any more. but the european nato members that were still part of this multi lateral motor bilateral deal. they could still conduct flights over russia's military objects. and most school will try to get guarantees from it's european partners from its partners who are also members of the nato blocker. it try to get guarantees that they will not pass on any information, whatever information they can gather during such flights to their natural ally, washington. they failed to provide such
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a such assurance as such guarantees. so russia said that it had no other choice but to withdraw itself. so this summer, vladimir putin, the president, signed a law as saying that, well, russia will be leaving the deal. and today is officially the day that this deal is obsolete. and that our wraps up the newscast for this, our a live on our team international on this saturday right now. turning half past 3 in the afternoon. thanks for joining us. we're back soon with more. oh ah
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for right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to sell food that he's fussy and sugary and salty and it's not an individual level. it's not individual well power. and if we go on believing that never change is obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment, what's driving the obesity epidemic? it's corporate. ah ah.
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