ah, with ah week's top stories from our t rush, aaron bales, a list of proposals to nato for maintaining joint security. the deputy foreign minister st paul is now in the alliance is called when it comes to the escalation over ukraine. pentagon says no u. s. military personnel will be held liable for august's and thought to drone strike in afghanistan, which killed set 10 civilians, including 7 children. we hear from a grieving relative, a 1000 though nobody approached us. no one contacted us and we were given no

information. how can they compensate for our family members? all the wealth in the world means nothing to us. now we've lost 10 of our relatives, of da's flagging posts as false or misleading facebook admits in court, but it's much vaunted fact jacks are actually based on opinion. and r t vows to keep fighting, ma'am response to a string of attacks against is brand new german language channels. in the last few days, it's been taken off youtube and accused of lacking the necessary license to broadcast in germany. ah, good, happy with assist weekends. i'm calling bray at sundown r t, and that means we're going to take you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past 7 days. also keeping an eye on the weekends developments as well . first though, friday, so russia released a list of proposals for deescalate intentions with nato, amid fears of a flare up in ukraine, the among the demand or

a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. the west military alliance says it will consider the document, adding, though that any outcome will require input from keith. i'll senior correspondent, i guess the ever pulled. so what moscow's 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 u. s. and nato, its wishlist for return to normality. something to start talking about. and it begins with the 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 and nato, a talking and fearful tones about war, another cuban missile crisis. i'd like to believe that this is rock bottom, but there's no guarantees and guarantees are what russia wants. guarantees, for example, that us missiles aren't stationed within a few minutes flight time. to moscow. the parties shall not deploy land based, intermediate, and short range missiles in areas allowing them to reach the territory of the other parties. moscow sees nato slow and unexplainable encroachment towards russia's borders. as an existential threat, nato argues that it's peaceful but right then the u. s. military doctrine, russia is referred to as an adversary. the closer that nato and u. s. troops and tags and missiles moved to russia,

the more unpredictable the game gets, which is why putin has said he's red line. nato states 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 stockton berg announced that russia has no veto, no sane nato operations and no right to any sort of security. buffalo sphere of influence. nato has proven over the last years that her, our open door policy is not only something we are supported in words, bottles in deeds potter by inviting to new countries. montenegrin north m madonna to become a member. so we have enlarged the line so that all spheres for to new members, despite protests from, from russia. and also we are supporting ukraine in ukraine's

efforts to a con, closer to natal membership, which sets us back all the way to square one at the nebulous 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 that 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 disgust them amongst themselves and with input from ukraine, that there isn't much cause for optimism. rushes requests of largely been rejected, summoned in private, some and public consult mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time sense will prevail on moscow's proposals come of the west, but accusing rusher of preparing to invade ukraine,

which the kremlin strongly denies either. its chief, also stressed, ukraine's request to join the alliance will be decided between kim nato and its allies alone. on the same time, he highlighted what he called a pattern of russian aggression. the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman says remarks like that only create more tension. at the shingle washington, this is as information campaign that aims to crate. firstly, the image of russia is an aggressor, a secondly, additional pattern and the region, including the black sea, the russia, korean border, and se ukraine. so this will not bring stability and security either in international relations or the regional janda. it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course western door noise freely used the word aggressor for into our country. what try to the have to do this? i try to understand this every time. when was the last time russia attacked anyone? people need to back up the screen with arguments and how many times have native countries the texts her in states, in the last 20 years. how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries? can you show me something in close to that from the russian side?

now, there is nothing you need to figure out where there are facts and where there's propaganda . of the start of the week, andrew pharma spoke at length to football, austrian foreign minister, karen, can i so she outlined ways which she believes could help overcome the current political style made between moscow in the west. ah, yes, we are in a stalemate. no doubt about that, but in such a stalemate, it takes people with some sort of creativity. that's what diplomacy is about an international relations and not only about self impaired digman, of national security interests and so on. at the moment we have both side saying, russia saying, look, we've got grave security concerns about nato. we have eastern european countries, we've got great security concerns about russia and a potential invasion. so where's the meeting point where the meeting point can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building those sir, simply

a complete disregard for historic and contemporary a walrus on, on, on the russian side. so that, that i think that should be taken into account and, and to overcome that stalemate, it requires genuine diplomatic creativity. also on the side of nato officials, you and, and the u. s. atmosphere, shall we see that at all, anywhere. unfortunately, we are in times of our decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. if we are in a world of unilateral statements postal called us look at this armament of words. i mean, this terminology is kick, it cannot be continued as, as it has been the case over the last few weeks the media should act in a more responsible way of quoting this, this german paper, the bills which, which had his effect planets on. so there is many people are required to act in

a more responsible way because the stakes are simply too high. such language was not present in the cold war days in the seventy's eighty's. maybe because we still had people in office who knew what war meant. that some of them, well after the 2nd world generation, so they, they wouldn't play around with words like nuclear at tech or a fully fledged war because they knew what was most about. we have to seize this more moment now to do really something like country dance buildings back. and i saw that the us side, what would put its priorities in a different way, and that seems to june meeting some more saba and pragmatic approach. what will what will be on the agenda next, no,

us military personnel involved in august botched drug strike enough canister will face any kind of punishment. 10 civilians were killed in that attack. most of them were children dependent and made the announcement on monday. do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here strike flock. the key up as the news came, as a shock is humiliating for us to hear that no one will be prosecuted. they should have kept their word. we held that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claimed that they can spot a needle on the ground from their satellites. so how could they not see the innocent family they were about to kill? they found no connection between us and islamic states. so why didn't they do those checks before launching obama to us? it looks like no other country is forcing them seek justice. there is no one to challenge them because their superpower, that's why the americans have failed to keep their promises. but the americans promised justice and compensation, and then they would take us to the us. we found out on the news that they would

take some measures, but nobody approached us nor contacted us. and we were given no information. how can they compensate us for our family members? all the wealth in the world means nothing to us. now we've lost 10 of our relatives . my brother was working for foreigners. he was innocent. all of our children were innocence. what did they do on wall? and roger, they could tra, this girl was among the children killed in that strike. she was just 2 years old. the 3 of the children had been in a car when it was hit by missile in total, 7 youngsters were killed all from just one family that initially defended the cobble strike claiming it. targeted members of islamic state for the 2 weeks later though a quote, tragic mistake was acknowledged. we discussed of elements where the former u. s. military drone operator brandon bryant. you know, it's been 10 years since i blew the whistle on the u. s. drone program will be 10 years in 5 days, actually. um and to see that nothing has changed, even when it's blatantly out in front of everyone's face,

how we operate and no one's being held accountable. like we've been talking about this for 10 years now. when i 1st started talking about it, people called me a liar. people tried to defame me, and now that we see it for what it actually is, innocence had been killed. not just innocent and innocent aid worker who was there trying to help. i really think that the managed states has lost knowledge on how to conduct warfare. and it's now a business. they're not going to punish the people that make them money. they're just going to punish the people that are so the supposed enemies in the, the ones that they test this, munitions on who should be punished or the officers. they said that there's a breakdown in communication, but that is mostly a lie. i am must have been that there was there and there must been someone miscommunicating something but they have everything should be in a chat program like it's not just a radio call instantaneous. you spin up your mess when you shoot. it takes like 5

minutes to get ready to shoot a messiah. this was not an emergency situation. none was under spire. no one was under duress, no one was under stress. and so they had all the time in the world to make the decision on whether to shoot or not. the cobbled incident followed a long string of similar disasters. according to the bureau of investigative journalism, up to 900 afghan civilians have been killed by us. drones since 2004, including dozens of children, while the new york times found that hundreds of civilian deaths were uncounted by the pentagon. brandon brian shared with us his experience of operating battled rooms. there is no way that anyone who has ever done this job and sit there watching these people live their daily lives. i cannot look at them and say, these are not people there. people because you go home and you go out into your own community and you see the same, keep same types of people doing the same thing. they're going to coffee shops there, go into bookstores, they're hanging out with their friends and family. there's no disconnect for

a drone operator. there's so much connection, like if, if a drone operator were to go over there and to meet the people that they interact with. visually, they would probably have a emotional breakdown and cry because they would see that these people are suffering and no different than themselves. and that we're perpetuating that suffering because of our actions. we're doing it. facebook uses may have to reassess the information they think getting from the site after its parent company meta muted in coal. that so called fact checks are a bit based merely own opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by a journalist. after his posts were flagged as misleading, his husky tailor turns out the famous fact checkers who are busy labeling things false partly, false, misleading, have actually been a bit loose with well, the facts. facebook yet again found itself in court. this time up against a john list, he didn't like the bay slapped partly full sticker on one of his post. so he sued

for defamation. and because facebook where he spent millions of dollars on legal fees over the years and got creative this time and claimed that front checkers, don't decide what's false. so not based on fact, what to ridiculous idea, but on their opinion. hence the title fact checker. and because opinion in america is sacred, you can't sue it. it's a very, very nifty loophole. but just to really escape any liability whatsoever. facebook doubled down on how it gives it fact checkers a very long lease. so matter identifies potential misinformation, for fact checkers to review and rate. it leaves the ultimate determination whether information is false, so misleading to the fact checkers. and though meta has designed its platforms so that fact checker ratings appear next to content that the fact checkers have reviewed and rated. it does not contribute to the substance of those ratings. now,

you won't find any of these details in the giant fac tech inspection on facebook dot com. instead, you'll learn about how they interview thought, says and consult data and look for facts, you know, to really drive home. the point about how it's all based on opinion. i think some of it's 3000000000 users worldwide. one, very pleased, after all, many of them had probably used these fact jackson martin with their friends. and now it's turned out they were just quoting some random person's opinion and then embarrassing railing, so that campaigning for faith might not be let off the hook. court filing, facebook admits its fact checkers. don't check facts. is facebook admitted here that it's fact checks are not really fat checks at all, but merely opinion assertions also by facebook claim. and it's labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it a publisher. facebook, your opinion piece is not exempt from being fact checked, even when they are clearly labeled as op eds or editorials. also,

facebook are fact check labels can not be false or defamatory, because they concede sheet protected opinion, even though we present them. as fact. my question though is, what does facebook need these opinionated fact checkers for anyway, after all, over the years, it's proved, it's committed to free speech. it loves giving people a voice, especially donald trump. it's dedicated to openness, transparency, and of course democracy. i mean, it says all the time your democracy can't tolerate the speech of people. i'm not sure what kind of democracy it is. i do believe in giving people more access to information and more access to connect with one another and not reserving those as tools for some small number of elite people. i don't feel comfortable at all saying they don't get to have a voice because i don't agree what they said, our ability to know what is misinformation is itself in question and i think reasonably so fact checkers. facebook favorite friends protecting it from defamation, setting it free for accountability, someone to hide behind and times of trouble, but most importantly, always ready to get their opinion. facebook has found themselves back against the

wall and if they try to cling to the idea that they are fact checking in court, they're going to lose. and not only is it going to cost them big time, but it's going to open the door to a flood of similar lawsuit in the near future. and it could be more than they can handle. i think they're hoping that by admitting that fact, jack just means opinion jack, when facebook puts a label on there, hoping to get out of this lawsuit without harm. and then just sink the story into the daily fountain of news events and hope people forget about it. in due time and in the, in the future, you'll see changes in their labels. they'll stop using the word fact and they'll come up with some other way to express it where they still exercise their dictatorship right to control speech on their platform. but it won't be a false presentation like the word fact jack is false. prisons reported a huge nationwide surgeon cases of the coven,

omicron variance where the total number reaching almost $25000.00 deaths linked to the new strain of written to 7. and with overgrown spreading rampantly in london, the mother has declared a major incidents in the capital, which means that the emergency services and hospitals can't insure their usual level of response. the world health organization says the new variant is now in 89 countries. and despite its rapids spread early studies from south africa, and hong kong suggests oberon is less likely to cause severe illness than the delta varied. very few deaths have been linked to the new strain. but countries worldwide are ramping up their vaccine and boost campaigns. attilio per tank a got more details from the w a chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about our micron at this point? we know much more. and we have to tours and about all mcclellan. it's to, it's the latest variant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell we're not in the business of fighting one variant when the

business of fighting all variance and stu, delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well, they call faith pandemic stabilizers. number one, increase vaccination coverage, number 2, boost boost, boost number city, double the number of people varying mosques. endorse number 4, ventilate, particularly in classrooms, keep the schools open and fife, implement new treatment protocols. how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove ineffective against micron? where we know as of to date, that vaccines are still effective for the 1st or the 2nd. those may be little bit less, but it recovers with a cert dosed well on the european union. specifically, we've seen a range of different approaches. why aren't we seeing a more uniformity from the block in particular, do uniformed,

it has been growing over time. but i take the point that it's still really aleck, off uniformity, with a cold political here it is and it's confuses the people. that's right, doubly choice, advocating to establish a bung european health senate council at the high level to half uniformed in policy, but ultimately still health is a national competency. it's a decision by the country. speaking of sputnik v, a r t, we've heard from a number of experts that the issue has been politicized. is that true anyhow? house including vaccines. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of origin. i shared the optimism of the president of the russian federation that this doubly chal, emergency use listing for sputnik will be there soon. a brand new german language channel, artie da began broadcasting this week,

but it didn't take long for a smear campaign to kick off alongside it. the channels being accused of not having the necessary documentation to broke off in germany. artes management responded to this, saying that his license was obtained in accordance with all european laws and regulations . it's been a rocky stove, artie da, some context here for you. the new channel was taken of youtube, the very day alone on thursday. a technically there's no connection between vass and the german t. v broadcast dispute. later, an official for the european media watchdog had some ominous words for the new channel. black, the license must be issued in germany, and the application must also be filed. her, 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 are in his view, we are have no business broadcasting in germany. he,

he screaming ah, 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 out there doing that via a license or 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 transfer on tier transfer into your television, which are under that convention gives us the right to broadcast to 33 countries across europe as long as you broadcast for moscow. and those countries include

germany. but they also include other countries with majority or significant german language populations, such as austria, switzerland, luxemburg, and so forth. this is where the separation is really important. the legal action is being launched against our tv production, which makes some, you know, make some of the shows. 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. the amount of pressure that a 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 to keep fighting over the latest member of the aussie family,

getting flexible sites already. we spoke to a number of high profile journalists to, well, they think of it, it will, you can't separate what's happening with our tea. it's chinese television with other broadcasters, from the political situation, poor relations between germany and russia right now, for relations between united states and russia right now, the correlations between states and china. all of this is linked in my view. it's purely politic. there is a sense, so i can only speak here in american rich now where our tea has been sanctioned in the past, by being labeled as something a part of the foreign agent regulation act. 1938. you have the same application to chinese television. you have a situation where the nations do not have good relations with united states or germany, yet penalized journalists are not an irritant. to people in power are called

propaganda us. it is, we should always have an adversarial relationship to power. that's what journalism is about is about shining a lands as much as possible on the inner workings of power. so the public knows what's going on. but i, i actually blast one. and when i read it, i thought it was funny. i mean, i guess not funny in terms of the consequences, but i just thought it was as showed how utterly naive or tone deaf he was about the role of journalism article, the resistance that salty d facing, including youtube and plans to take care of the channel and we decided to take a tongue in cheek look at why the authorities else so against it. so i'll leave this out with a parody prime i i mean, you must, it is such a delicate and as you want to talk, so we stand together, continue to stand together against russia, 80 in germany. repeat some of the areas that we doubtless made

say no to 70. this chunky daughter is about their ability to influence other nations, france b, u. k. and even latin american and other countries in future than they knew where to high from. cycle alone. with members of your household, please please, please, please. we're going to continue to fight with justin to russia must not be allowed in germany. i don't want y'all to come and leave it so short. so dean altino faced the father of the yet doctor indian outside the enough. ah ah

ah ah, working on our shirts in the back. she popped in. she said, well, i'm getting ready to go shopping for christmas. and we, we snuck up there was a girl to buy another, shooting another safe part of american life shattered by violence. the gunman was armed with an a ar 15, semi automatic rifle. when the issue comes home, it's time to act when we're aspire was on this issue. the other side wins by default, lady that lived over there. i was walking one of the dogs, which is why do you where again, where you skin doesn't play ticket?

often i think the people need to take responsibility in their own and be prepared if those kinds of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of the shootings. we certainly wouldn't have the number of deaths ah ah, the obesity epidemic as the most important international health problem. let me thought that the new policy to waste code official and then the only thing different from the fact that it's a man made tragedy. earlier

in my life i thought that my weight was all my fault. i felt like a failure and frankly unworthy. and it took me awhile to really start questioning most beliefs and challenging those thoughts like well, are you really a failure? and the answer is no. i'm not, i'm not. but it took a while to get to that point. ah, obesity. a blob of our arrows fantasies caught in a web of prejudice. it prompts scolding for poor choices and accusations of laziness. omnipotent genes provide an alibi. but what if obesity were a collective failure or not an individual one the symptom of a free market that hates.