dealing with that means we have to change our approach to business industries or on the war bar, attempting to debunk legitimate science by producing new evidence in science, writing, science. that's how ignorant says, manufacture their attention only seeking to the rail science rolling using science itself. ah, week's top stories from all t. russia unveils a list of proposals to nato for maintaining joint security. but the deputy for a minister saying the bull is now in the alliance is cold when it comes to the escalation over you. craig spending and says no u. s. military personnel will be held liable for august. botch drone strike and afghanistan, which killed 10 civilians, including 7 children. we hear from a grieving relative to the fellows in good though. nobody approached us nor contracts those, and we were given no information. how can they compensate for family members?

all the wealth in the world means nothing to us. now we've lost 10 of our relatives . after years of flagging posts as false or misleading facebook admits in court, but it's much vaunted fact checks are actually based on opinion. and r t vows to keep fighting in response to a string of attacks against its brand new german language channel. in the last few days, it's been taken off youtube and accused of lacking the necessary license to broadcast in germany. ah, good to happy with this this weekend. it's sunday on r c. that means we're going to take you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days, the weekends developments for you, we're keeping watch on as well. first though, friday, so russia released a list of proposals for the escalating tensions with nato, amid fears of a flare up in ukraine. among the demands are

a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. the western military alliance says it'll consider the documents, adding, though that any outcome will require input from care. i'll senior correspondent august the reports on 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 a call to de escalate, to end the constant threats and true build ups which only lead to more of the same . the parties shall not use the territories of other states with a view to preparing or carrying out an armed attack against the other party judge for yourself. where in previous years they threatened each other with,

with sanctions or legal action. now, openly booth russia, nato, a talking and fearful tones about war and of the cuban missile crisis. i'd like to believe that this is rock bottom, but there's no guarantees and guarantees are what russia wants. guarantees, for example, that us missiles aren't stationed within a few minutes flight time. to moscow. the parties shall not deploy land based, intermediate, and short range missiles in areas allowing them to reach the territory of the other parties. moscow sees nato slow and unexplainable encroachment towards russia's borders. as an existential threat, nato argues that it's peaceful but right then the u. s. military doctorate. 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 set his red line. nato states committed themselves to refrain from any further enlargement of nato, including the accession of ukraine, as well as other states. not that nato thinks much of russia's concerns. not long ago, secretary general stalking berg announced that roger has no veto, no se nato operations and no right to any sort of security buffer. all sphere of influence. nato has proven on the last years that her, our open door policy is not on the something we are support in words, bottles in deeds potter by inviting to new countries. montenegrin north m madonna to become members, so we have enlarged the line. so the last few years for to new members, despite protests from, from russia. and also we are supporting ukraine in france

efforts to a con, closer to a natal membership, which sets us back all the way to square one. it the policeman. 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 proposals is that the us, 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. 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 willed prevail on moscow's proposals comes the west of an accusing rusher of preparing to invade ukraine, which the kremlin strongly denies. nature's chief,

also stressed, ukraine's request to join the alliance will be decided between key if nato and its allies alone or 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 wars. man, this is edison formation campaign that aims to crate. firstly, the image of russia is an aggressor, a secondly, additional passion in the region, including the black sea, the russia, green border, and se ukraine. so this will not bring stability and security either in international relations or the regional janda guy. yeah, it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course western during noise in freely used the word aggressor for into our country over to you. what right of the have to do this. i try to understand this every time. when was the last time rush attacked, anyone else? people need to back up this claim with arguments and how many times have native countries that texts her in states in the last 20 years and how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries. what can you show me something

even close to that from the russian side. now, there is nothing you need to figure out where they're fagel and where there's propaganda. laundry pharma spoke at length of the of this week to former austrian foreign minister, karen, colossal, she outlined weight, 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 saying we've got great security concerns about russia and a potential invasion. so where's the meeting point where the meeting points can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building? there's sir, simply a complete disregard for historical 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 still made, it requires genuine diplomatic creativity. also on the side of nato officials, you and, and the u. s. a administration, we seeing that at all, anywhere. unfortunately, we are in times of a decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. if we are in a world of unilateral statements post afford a look at this armament of words. i mean, this terminology is kick 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 this 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 confidence building back. and i thought that the us side, what would put its priorities in a different way. and that seems to june meeting some more saba and programmatic approach. what will what will be on the agenda? no us military personnel involved in august's botched drug strike in afghanistan

will face any kind of punishment. 10 civilians were killed in that attack. most of them were children. the pentagon 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 need 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 they're superpower. that's why the americans have failed to keep their promises. but the americans promised as 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 innocent. what did they do on wall? and roger, they could tra, this girl was among the children killed in the strike. she was just 2 years old. 3 of the children had been in a car when it was hit by a missile. in total, 7 youngsters were killed all from just one family, planning and initially defended the carpet strike claiming it. targeted members of islamic state. more than 2 weeks later though a quote tragic mistake was acknowledged. we discussed developments with form a u. s. military drone operator random, brian 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 united 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. m. m 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. no one 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 cobble incident followed a long string of similar disasters. according to the bureau of investigative journalism, up to 900 afghan civilians have been killed by your best road since 2004, including thousands of children. while the new york times found that hundreds of civilian deaths over unaccounted for by the pentagon. brenda bryant shared with us his experience of operating battled rems. there is no way that anyone who has ever done this job and sit there watching these people live their daily lives out, can not 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 is 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 these people are suffering and no different than themselves. and that we're perpetuating that suffering because of our actions. we're doing it. and you're without eager to have you with a says sunday, still a head for you on the weekly the omicron cove. it strain it now in nearly 90 countries causing alarm and yet more lockdown. we discussed the threat is posing with the w. h o's regional director for europe among our stories after the break. ah ah

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical time. time to sit down and talk

ah, hello again. facebook uses may have to reassess the information they've been getting from the site softer. it's parent company, meta admitted in cold. it's so called fact jack based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by a journalist after his posts were flagged as misleading his husky, a tailor turns out the famous fact checkers who are busy labeling things false, partly false, misleading. i've actually been a bit loose with well, the facts. facebook's yet again found itself in court. this time up against to john list. he didn't like the bay slapped at partly full sticker on one of his post. so he sued for defamation because facebook, so when he spent millions of dollars on legal fees over the years, it got creative this time and claimed that front check because don't decide what's

false or not based on fact, what to ridiculous idea, but on their opinion. hence the title, fact checkup 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 double down on how it gives it fact checkers a very long leash 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 jacqueline 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 face may 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 in its 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 don't come. it's dedicated to openness, transparency, and of course, democracy. i mean, it says all the time, if 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 favourite 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 gonna cost them big time,

but it's gonna 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. friends reported a huge nationwide surgeon cases of the coven, omicron varian, where the total number reaching almost $25000.00 deaths linked to the new strain have risen to 7. and with over crumb spreading rampantly in london, the mess re declared a major incident in the capital,

which means the emergency services in hospitals, county sure, the usual level of response of the world health organization says the new variance is now in 18. 9 countries. despite its rapid spread, early studies from south africa and hong kong suggests oma cronies less likely to cause severe illness than the delta very, and very few deaths have been linked to the new strain to but countries worldwide all ramping up their vaccine and boost campaigns. artillio, katrinka 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 mcclung. it's to, it's the latest valiant. 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 what they call faith bundy mc stabilizers. number one, increase vaccination coverage number to boost boost,

boost number city, double the number of people varying marks, indorse number for 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 dose 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, the uniform has been growing over time, but i take the point that it's still really aleck, off uniformity. what i call political here is, and it's confuses the people. that's right, doubly choice, advocating to establish

a bond 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 of 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 present alteration, sedation, that this doubly chill emergency use listing for sputnik will be there soon. a brand new german language channel r t d began broadcasting this way, but it didn't take long for smear campaign to kick off alongside it. the channels being accused of not having the necessary documentation to pro carson germany. archie management responded saying its license was obtained in accordance with all european laws and regulations. i spent a rocky star for

r t d. some context here though, the new channel was taken off you to the very day launched on thursday. of technically, there's no connection between vassar and the german t. v broadcast dispute. later, an official for the german media watchdog had some 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 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 incorrectly, that 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, edited, put on the air and so forth. and they are doing that via license or through another country to serbia through 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 that convention gives us the right to broadcast to $33.00 countries across europe as long as you broadcast from moscow. 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. this is where the separation is really important. the legal action is

being launched against our tv productions, which makes some makes some of the shows r t d e productions does not need a license, because our tv production is not a channel. it channel is our tv that is coming out of here. and thus moscow, our headquarters, our parent company applied for applied for 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 this licensing, but you know, the pressure on, you know, on our guest and so forth, has been really unprecedented pressure. again, as you've mentioned the beginning on our digital platforms, we are ready to keep to keep fighting with the latest member of the family, getting flack from all sides. already. we spoke to a number of high profile journalists to what they think you can't separate what's happening with our tea, chinese television, with other broadcasters,

from 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 lighting, 38. 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 lans 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 shown how utterly naive or tone deaf he was about the role of journalism. and with all the resistance that ality d is facing, including youtube in the plans to take care of the channel. and we decided to take a tongue in cheek look at why the authorities off some against it. so i'll leave you this out with our parity perma. i mean, you must, it is such a delicate and as you want to talk to, we stand together. we'll continue to stand together against russia, 80 in germany. repeat some of the areas that we doubtless made say no to civilians as chunky daughter about their ability to influence other nations. france, u. k. and even latin america and other countries in june,

sure 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 common leave. it's so short. so dean altino, aphasia, the father of the year ended out to you, the in office. ah . join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. i'll be speaking together from the world of politics, sport, business. i'm show business, i'll see you then. ah

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