emotional threat because dealing with that means we have to change our approach to business industries are on the war, bomb attempting to debunk legitimate science by producing new evidence in science and writing science. that's how ignorant says manufactured their attention only seeking to the rail science rolling using stier cell. ah, week's top stories from arts aide. russia avails a list of proposals to nato for maintaining joint security, with the deputy foreign minister saying the ball is now in the alliance's court when it comes to the escalation over ukraine spending and says, no u. s. military personnel will be held liable for august botched drone strike in afghanistan would kill 10 civilians including 7 children. we have from a grieving relative book with a telephone book 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 . after years of flagging posts as false or misleading facebook admits in court that 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 it's 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 and germany. ah, good, happy with us this sunday. it's the weekly, which means taking you through some of the bigger stores we've reported on here over the past 7 days. also, the weekends developments were keeping watch on to 1st though friday sore, russia released the list of proposals, but the escalating tensions with nato, amid fears of a flare up in ukraine among the demands of

a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. the western military alliance says it will consider the document, adding, though that any outcome will require input from kiev. i'll senior correspond him or i guess d of 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 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, nato, a talking in fearful tones about war and of a 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 move to russia,

the more unpredictable the game gets, which is why putin has set his red line. nato states commit themselves to refrain from any further enlargement of nato, including the accession of ukraine, as well as other states. not that nato thinks much of russia's concerns. not long ago, secretary general stockton 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 that all spheres for to new members, despite protests, wrong or from russia. and also, we are supporting ukraine in ukraine's efforts to a con, closer to

a 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. that 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 discuss them amongst themselves and with input from ukraine. that there isn't much cause for optimism buses, 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. come as the west's been accusing rusher of preparing to invade ukraine, which the kremlin strongly denies. nature's chief,

also stress ukraine's request to join the alliance would be decided between keith nato and its allies alone. on the same time, he highlighted more, he called a pattern of russian aggression. the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman says remarks like that only create more tension. if a she no longer this is a disinformation 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 look. so this will not bring stability and security either international relations or the regional janda. it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course, western journalists really use the word aggressor for into our country over to you, what try to the have to do this. i tried understand this every time. when was the last time russia attacked anyone else? people need to back up this claim with arguments and how many times have native countries the texts are in states, in the last 20 years. and how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries. we would,

can you show me something in close to that from the russian side? no, there is nothing. you need to figure out where there are facts and where there's propaganda . i'll some thoughts on this. andrew father spoke at length earlier this week with formal austrian foreign minister, current meisel. she outlined ways which she believes could help overcome the current political style made between moscow and 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 international relations and not only about self impaired digman, of national security interests and so on. at the moment we have both sides 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 points can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building?

there is simply a complete disregard for historic and contemporary r worries on, on, on the russian side. so 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 later officials you and, and to your administration, we see that at all, anywhere. unfortunately, we are in times of our decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. it's, we are in a world of unilateral statements post afford it, this arm amount 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 bill to which, which had as effect planets on. so there is a many people are required to act in

a more responsible way because the stakes are simply too high. such a language was not present in the cold war days in the seventy's eighty's. maybe because we still have people in office who knew what war meant. 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 fleshed war because they knew what was most about. we have to see more moments 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 problematic approach. what will what will be on the agenda? no us military personnel involved in august's bought to drug strike in afghanistan

will face any kind of punishment. 10 civilians were killed in the attack. most of them were children. the pentagon made the announcement on monday. did you 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 claim that they can spot the 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 is a why didn't they do those checks before launching a vomits 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 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. no one 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? all right, a good job of 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. and the pentagon initially defended the cobble strike claiming it. targeted members of islamic state. more than 2 weeks later though, a quote tragic mistake was acknowledged. we discussed of elements with former g u. s. military drone operator, brenda 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, 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 suppose it enemies in 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, 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 couple 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 into 2004, including thousands of children. while the new york times found that hundreds of civilian deaths were unaccounted for by the pentagon. brandon brian also shared with us his experience of operating battled robes. there is no way that anyone who has ever done this job and sit there watching these people live their day 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'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've been getting from the site after his parent company, meta admitted in court that the so called fact checks. it's been conducting a based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by journalist after his posts were flagged as misleading is husky. taylor 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 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 or not based on fact, what a 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 double down on how it gives it sac check has a very long lease. though 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 fact checking section 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 facts when arguing with their friends. and now it's turned out they were just quoting some random person's opinion about embarrassing railing, so that campaigning for facebook not to 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 fact 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,

i'll fax it, labels cannot be false or defamatory because they concede she 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 proved it's committed to free speech. it is 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 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 to lead 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 gonna cost them big time, but it's gonna open the door to a flood of similar law search 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. health experts said the united states, the warning that the new coven omicron variant could be the dominant strain,

the in a matter of weeks and potentially overwhelming health care system. it's also spreading in europe. the netherlands is imposing the strictest lockdown measures across christmas and well into mid january. that's a nationwide sort of infections in britain to in london, the mass re declared a major incident, meaning the capitals, emergency services, and hospitals can't ensure that usual level of response. will health organisation says the new variant is now in $189.00 countries. despite his rapid spread early studies from south africa and hong kong suggests omicron is less likely to go to coal, severe illness than the delta variant. very few deaths have been linked to the u strain either, but countries worldwide are ramping up their vaccine. a booster campaigns artillio for tank. a got more details from the w. i chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about alma chron at this point to? we know much more, and we have the doors and about all mcclung. it's true, 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 will they call fife bon demick stabilizers number one, increase vaccination coverage. number 2, boost boost, boost numbers. city double. the number of people waiting marks 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 on the crone 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 search 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 why dublin was 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 dub ritual emergency use listing for sputnik ruby. there should our brand new german language channel

t. d began broadcasting this week, but it didn't take long for us. may a campaign to kick off alongside it, the channels being accused of not having the necessary documentation to broadcast in germany. artie management responded saying that his license was obtained in accordance with all european laws and regulations. it's been a rocky start, frothy da, some context here though. the channel was taken of youtube, the very day launched on thursday. technically there's no connection between that and the german t. v broadcast dispute. later, an official for a 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 her. first 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 are in his view,

we are have no business broadcasting in germany. he is claiming, ah, incorrectly, that our tv 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 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 go 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 make some of the shows r t d e productions does not need a license, because our d v 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 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 to keep fighting with the latest member of the aussie family, getting flexible sites already. we spoke to a number of high profile journalists table. they think you can't separate that's happening with our t. 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 america 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 penalize journalists are not an irritant. the 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 lens as much as possible on the inner workings of power. so the public knows what's going on. but i actually laughed when i, 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, it showed how utterly naive or tone deaf he was about the role of journalism. that's the weekly for the south. thanks for watching. next. the dangers and risks taken by ball correspondence and trying to report the real cost of conflict with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally

and get into this. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time to sit down and ah, ah, oil and gas manufacturing, electricity, telecom guys, with all of them now have your teeth type of infrastructure connected to the internet. well, clearly realizing there's disruptive potential that those countries can't ignore it because it threatens national security. if we take the nato new countries, virtually all of them subscribe to certain doctrines and maintains selling but task forces. they are a cyber army on behalf of a country that's their job. with

scientific knowledge has never been so readily available to everyone across the globe, but overwhelmed by information. how can we distinguish the real science from the one being imposed upon us? we are living in a world where there are many people who have a vested interest in finding information, finding scientific evidence, and discrediting even the notion that science could provide. the truth about the natural world in the pursuit of business goes large corporations, a challenge strongly by scientific evidence. if you're emotionally invested and free markets, them climate change is a serious emotional threat because 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 the evidence. it's science, writing science. that's how ignorant says manufacture their attention only seeking to the rail science rolling. using sy,

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