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nation is if you say it's genocide, it's suggest that you need to do something with ah thousands, riley in central london against a raft of new and t covert measures as daily infections in the u. k. reportedly reach an old time high. the british supreme court ruled 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 to at this
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constant weight noise. that commandment took over your brain. weaver deny actually we'll show port to night. you should toilet that which concert for the 7 days. also in the program, hours owner law enforcement struggling to deal with hundreds of migrants arriving each and every day. officials now all rounding on the biden administration with sheriffs describing the situation is in total chaos. so we end up with the desk in the desert, the robberies that are happening along the border, the pursuit. then the ancillary criminal activity, like large amounts of drugs that are being smuggled into our country, ah, or live in a 100 countries world wide. it's auntie international, straight into you have saturday stories right now. the u. k has recorded
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a record cove, it search with more than 93 cases registered in the past 24 hours, and the government has now ramping up restrictions, sparking a furious response on the streets of london. oh, a 1000 people are marching right now in the capital. you can see that heavy police presence are there outraged over reported plans for mandatory vaccines as well as the whole new covered pos system under the rules. adults in england have to show an immunity pass to enter night clubs, sports event, news, and other large events. and a similar pitcher is also playing out well all across europe. artes peter oliver, now fall. this report from berlin for the 4th wave old cove at 19 certainly isn't over. and while we're still dealing with that,
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the new german health minister car allowed to buy has been, will painting a pretty bleak picture about the immediate future. and he was looking at the number of infections of the ohm icon variant in the united kingdom and saying that there is potentially a massive 5th wave of the virus on its way rushed. thus i'm assuming there'll 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, where there are problems on the horizons. a new action being taken in switzerland.
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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, l. the capacity for that bed space in switzerland, past 82 percent this week. so the country deciding to take a emergency measures they're in denmark, they've also implemented new measures. they are going to be closing theaters and cinemas 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 sheer number of cases, tens and tens of thousands. huge amounts of covert case has been recorded in the united kingdom, france deciding they well was few people as possible traveling between the 2 countries. so also prompted action and a new level member states and their leaders saying that they wanted to see more vaccines that are specifically tailored to taco, the oma cron variance of cove at 19. in fact, the orders are all ready to go in for a 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 boosted 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 back scenes 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 saying 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 arms. we spoke with our w h, i representative a margaret harris. she things with the new american very and vaccines are more important than ever. the really big difference between um, a coin on the of the variance is its speed 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 other forms of the, of the size covey to virus were re infected with army front. so we can see that
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only kron 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 the severe form from dying ending this 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 own a to help people around the world get vaccinated. we all need to take seriously the measures to prevent the virus from spreading a person to person until we vaccinate roughly around the world. we are making it possible for new versions to new variance to arise. the you
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k is a supreme court, has ruled that it was illegal for police to drop a probe into alleged torture committed by british soldiers in northern ireland back in 1971. the case relates to the troubles when hundreds of suspected ira members were detained. often without charge of 14 of those arrested were subjected to special interrogation techniques. these were later recognized as a legal in france as mcguigan or one of the 14 told us what happened to him. i was booted forced to stand against a wall finger tips and tip trolls. small move back, push them to my body, was actually bold with this constant weight noise. that commandment took over your brain. we were denied sleep. we also were denied you should toilet they took, remove my own clothes and put me in a boiler shirt that boiler suit was may day, close my nice clothes and my toilet for 7 days. and that
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just went on did. and we're forced to stand against this wall with your finger tips and that in the stress position, the body only stands too much and you would collapse and what state you're just beaten, taken back up up against the wall. and that that was constant for the 7 days. i finished up with the broken ribs. i still have nightmares. i don't owe him money. difference to kind of this i've spoken to on. ready the majority him tell me, i've been so for a not long that they don't say a liver go away. earlier, the u. k announced plans to introduce limitations that would block prosecutions into alleged crimes related to that of northern ireland. there are many members of the armed services you continue to face with all that say she is a prosecution,
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went into the seventy's and eighty's and router and we are finally mr. speaker bringing forward a solution to this problem. to enable the problem to the lot of to do a line under the trauma to enable the people to move forward with the council. here i was commission of a human rights wrote a letter saying that 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 used by the bush administration to justify enhance interrogation techniques. for example, both all them being used at a i just say both by graham and guantanamo bay, cuba, the e. c. h 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. and the holiday, the british government means nothing to me. i think the word and it's more than i acknowledge the fact that what happened the us, the sam was what happened and when turn them all black shapes,
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there's no investigation. so nobody was ever brought the he for the bar last night on his way of certainly don't the lag, his clothes are all done and this thing protect and soldier suggests per, sadly, or old soldiers being dragged to the cause. i personally don't believe, but it's anything whatsoever to do the soldiers. we want every kiss in court. we've never lost a court and we're no farther forward today than we are. billy's policy just stalling and stalling delay at stolid delay or push it back. push it back, push it back, maybe along forget it. but let me go away. we are going away. so we're not stuff and we're never going to stop on our children, grandchildren faces. so i was on a law enforcement say they are overwhelmed as hundreds of illegal migrants are crossing the border wall in yuma each and every day, earlier,
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the county mayor imposed a state of emergency to secure additional resources for dealing with the inflow of people. local sheriff's of describe the situation as chaos. so our correspondent caleb mob now explains how it's gotten 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 come as soon as possible. now the biden administration 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, told us administration if they decided to in phoebe. it was going to cause these problems and obviously the ancillary impacts in the upper in our back yard.
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so we end up with the desk in the desert of the robberies that are happening along the borders of pursuit. then lea ancillary criminal activity like the large amounts of drugs that are being smuggled into our country. from mexico all are occurring in every order county along the southwestern board. now the local mayor has declared a state of emergency. he's calling on federal officials for help. a 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 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
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last 6 months out, comma harris, who was vice president, and just recently named as border czar by joe biden, doesn't seem to really be on the case. the guar all and head of state says he hasn't heard from her since june, despite whitehouse reassurance. 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 have got him on the 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 migrant flow. but how much a trickle of funds from pepsi, cargill and mastercard will actually do, remains unclear. meanwhile,
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50000 juveniles seeking asylum had disappeared. according to the country's top migration tracker, when compared case by case record by reco with the previous months data dump truck received, we find that records just disappear without explanation truck is 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 continued 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 juveniles, their own a company on the, they need to change their messaging. obviously, when you sit there and say that you're going to do individuals money because they were separated at the border, that's just a draw for the cartels and for the criminal wilma to exploit. so now that's why we
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see a number of juveniles come across 1st. and then the parents come late, which as they know that 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. roughly half way through the program here on the south today on auto international still to come electricity costs to us guy recruiting in europe. this comes off, the fronds shuts down one or 2, but fold nuclear reactors. the same time russia is now looking eastward doctor, being snowed by the e u over energy. many stories feel to come back in about a
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ah, so join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. oh, good to happy with us today. so covered is not europe's only headache right now. the other is out of energy costs, including soaring power bills, which shot off even further this week it came off, the fraud says biggest power provide a shot down for nuclear reactors. now e d f says just out a technical fold slowly, i discussed the situation with our correspondent saskia tyler. while europe's energy crisis might be a hot topic besides me, it does look like it's going to be a cold winter on the continent. because while gas prices have spike to gas itself is running low and i'm talking dangerously record lows. in fact, european gas stores supplies haven't been this spot in a decade, on average,
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across the block, starting 74 percent full ducks down from 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, no real resolved, that anyone can sort of depend to and he's really tight times. and things do seem to be going from bad to worse because state own electricity to france or e d f announce that it will be shutting down to bits nucular reactive because of safety reasons. some pipes that are part and you need repairing on top of that and not the to have pools, walk pending inspections. this is bad news, of course not just the fronts he's electricity is most kate and you can generate to there's not just bad news for the nations of exports to, for example, the u. k. but it's also very nerve wracking for the mall kits, which i've already been on a total roller coaster ride over the last couple of months. but of course,
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who has taken the biggest hit full people. i mean, i was absolutely shocked to read that europeans were 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 to say, it's a pretty dire situation. a lot of this russian guy that goes into europe, it hasn't, they didn't fill up their coffers during last summer. so they were, as you were saying that the guest levels were low, prices have gone up, but russia is the one who's a priority taken the blame and, and certainly the u. k. media and the top lawyers and the european media. they, but i think russia for these high prices, it is a big supplier of gus to europe. and how was moscow reacting to all of this? what you are right around 30 percent of europe, natural gas that comes from russia. so you'd think that 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. an hour long summit i it basically turns round and accuses moscow
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or using gas as 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 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 we'll start looking at how the situation is unfolding. it will say, thinking generally about how frosty brussels has been to russia and we some times. and i 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 cards he gave, but i missed it in practical terms. it's a project for gas pipeline, from russia to china via mongolia. the work is progressing successfully. it could become a continuation of the russian power of siberia to pipeline,
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unless you come 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 constructs on that could start as early as 2024. in the meantime, what's happening, europe's crisis was named the global markets bracing itself. meanwhile, nordstrom to pipeline, which is ready to go and could significantly, of course, alleviate that you use energy crisis is lying idle, mired in political games. and of course, who's paying the highest price quite a tree. in this case, european assistance all brand new german sr channel r t d e has been accused of not having the necessary documentation to bro cost in germany. all the management has responded saying his license was quote, obtained in accordance with all european laws and regulations. let's give you some context here. the channel was launch, the usher say was taken off youtube, the very day was launched. that was on last thursday. technically there is no connection between dad and the german t. v broke off dispute. but as you can see,
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it's been a bit of a rocky start for r t e. an official for the european media watchdog had some rather ominous words for the new channel. 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 in 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 having no business broadcasting in germany. he is claiming, ah, incorrectly that rti, the 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,
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edited put on the air and so forth. and they are, they're doing that via a 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 transfer on tier tra, trans frontier television, which i, under that convention gives us the right to broadcast to 33 countries across europe . and as long as broadcast from moscow. and those countries include germany, but they also include other countries with majority or significant german which populations are such as austria, switzerland, luxembourg, and so forth. 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. our tv productions does not need a license,
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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, for the license in serbia, 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. yeah. pressure again, as you've mentioned, the beginning on our digital platforms, we're ready to keep, keep fighting or let's say a lot more about this right now and across like the gym, laurie media consultant and former nbc and abc correspondent joining us life aeronautics international. a very good evening to you all the way from moscow. thank you for joining us for the program. i rory, why do you think the german media regulator is targeting r t d e? i just wanted to say that, you know, we have all the spanish audi french,
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artie english audi our big now the new tunnel, artie german, aussie deutsch, but it's being targeted by berlin. why do you think? well, 1st of all, i have to take it very historical with broad approach. i am not in germany, i washington dc. so i'll take a very broad approach. you can't separate what's happening. the r t chinese television with other broadcasters, from the political situation, poor relations between germany and russia right now, the poor relations between it states and russia. right now, the poor relations between stated china, all of this is linked. you have a situation where back in the 1990 began to see with the development of the internet, a proliferation of different sorts of platforms for information. we had. first of all, here in america, we had something called the fox news channel, which came out and that changed the whole dynamics of television and content in
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america. then you have in the 2 thousands, the development of the international tv news channels. you were one of the al jazeera was another, the chinese launch what the turks marched. so you have this proliferation, if you will, of different channels. many of these channels, of course, are state own or state sponsor, western nations. united states in particular, or by the u. k, and now followed by germany, it appears simply do not have the where with all the desire to welcome state control news channels into their country. i think. but is that the reason of these different channel is that questioning the mainstream narrative, or if there's something more to it than that? in my view, it's purely political. there is a sense, so i can only speak here in america where our tea has been sanctioned in the past, by being labeled as something
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a part of the foreign agent regulation act. 1938. you have the same application to trainings, television. you have a situation where the nations did not have good relations with united states or germany get penalized. and that is simply because they use the, the, the excuse if you will, of being state control. now if you examine the content of many of these global channels, you will find fallacious content and good content. in america, for example, you have one particular new channel fox news. you also have other digital news channels like news, max, net, proliferate falsehoods, every single day. no, no action is taken against these commercial entities, but actions are taken against state sponsored television. so a real political issue here, and i radically, you don't see any longer. any condemnation of, for example, al jazeera, there was
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a time here in the states where al jazeera was condemned for being too close to arab terrorists. so you have a situation where these international channels embroiled in the international politics of the day. well as, as you, as you say, as you say jim, there is an awful lot of politics getting involved and all of this are you work for nbc abc for a good number of years. as a correspondent, i worked for c and for nearly 10 years as well. and what i left thea and they said to me, oh you're defecting to the russians. and so that gave me a taste of what to expect. jim laurie, wish i had more time to speak to you about this, our writer and media consultant for my us correspondent. thank you very much for joining us here when i get to national. thank you. well, thanks for joining us here for the program. now we've reached out to one of the main european authorities dealing with a press freedom to get his position on this dispute. we'll let you know what they say. well, thanks for joining us here. we're not international. your program will return in about half an hour's time. more saturday stories for you when we are back at the
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