potentially seeking tear the rail science rolling, using sy against the shell. with the week's top stories from all tape. russia unveils a list of proposals to nato, for maintaining joint security. with the deputy foreign minister saying the ball is now in the alliance is caught when it comes to the escalation over ukraine fund again says no u. s. military personnel will be held liable for august thought drones strike in afghanistan, which killed 10 civilians, including 7 children. we hear from a grieving relative to the pharmaceutical, so 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

. after years of 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 in response to a string of attacks against is 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 . are good to have you with us. it's sunday and our tea. and that means we take you through some of the bigger stores reported on here over the past of 7 days. also keeping watch on the weekends developments as well. first though friday, so russia release a list of proposals for the escalating tensions with nato. amid fears of a flare up in ukraine, among the demands 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 kev. i'll senior correspondent reg gasdio reports on what moscow is putting 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 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 you as 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 air is 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 said he's 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 stockton berg announced that roger has no vito, no se nato operations and no right to any sort of security. buffalo sphere of influence. nato has proven on the last year's daughter. our open door policy is not only something we are support 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 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. the gist of the 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. russ's requests of largely been rejected, summoned in private, summoned public, consult mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time, sense willed, prevail. as much as i mentioned, there moscow's proposals come the west of an accusing russia 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 kiev, nato,

and its allies alone. on the same time highlighting what he called a pattern of russian aggression. the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman says remarks like that's 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 crane 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 over to you. what right of 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 this claim with arguments and how many times have native countries the texts are 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 is

propaganda. all some thoughts on that, untrue pharma spoke at length early this week with a former austrian foreign minister. karen, can i so she outlined ways which she believes could help become the current political stalemate 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 international relations and not only about self impaired digna's, of national security interests and so on. at the moment we have both sides saying russia saying, look, we've got great 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 the, 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 nato 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. if we are in a world of unilateral statements, 1st of all, it is okay 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 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, 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 of what would put its priorities in a different way. and that seems to june meeting some more saba and brock matic approach. what will what will be on the agenda? no u. s. military personnel involved in august's bought drone strike. an afghan stan will face any kind of punishment. 10 civilians were killed in that attack. most of them

were children, depending 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 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 state. so why didn't they do those checks before launching a vomitous? 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 innocence. what did they do from all of russia? they could talk, this girl was among the children killed in the strike. she was just 2 years old. 3 of the children have been in a car when it was hit by a missile. in total 7 youngsters were killed all from just one family. pentagon initially defended the cabal strike, claiming a target of members of this law. make state more than 2 weeks later, though a quote tragic mistake was acknowledged. we discussed developments with former u. s. military drone operator. brandon bryant, you know, it's been 10 years since i blew the whistle and 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 them

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. m, m 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. 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 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 drone since 2004, including dozens of children. and while the new york times found that hundreds of civilian deaths were unaccounted for by the pentagon, brenda bryant also shared with us his experience of operating battled ruins. 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 some of the information they've been getting from the site, but for its parent company, meta admitted in court, that so called fact checks of based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle, the initiated by journalist, whose posts were flagged as misleading. his asking a 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's yet again found itself in court. this time up against a john list. he didn't like the day slapped at partly full sticker on one of his post. so he sued for defamation. and because facebook, when he spent millions of dollars on legal fees over the years,

it got creative this time and claimed that front chequers 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 doubled down on how it gives it fact checkers. a very long leash, 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, sorry, 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 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 then 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 consist 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 is 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 a lead people. i don't feel comfortable at all saying they don't get to have a voice because i don't agree with. 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 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. it says, i'll say for moscow still ahead for you on the weekly, the oma kron kobe strain is now with nearly 90 countries, causing a lot more locked downs. after the break, we discussed the threat it's posing with the w h. o is regional director for europe

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join me every 1st day on the alex simon sure, but i'll be speaking to guess when the world politics sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah ah, hello again, health experts in the united states, a warning that the new cobit omicron variant could be the dominant strain that in a matter of weeks potentially overwhelmed a health care system. it's also spreading in europe. the netherlands is imposing the strictest lockdown measures across christmas and, and well into mid january. that is a nationwide search of infections in britain to in london. the mayor has re declared a major incident, meaning the capitals, emergency services, and hospitals cannot insure their usual level of response. the world health

organization says the new variant is now in 89 countries. despite his rapid spread, early studies from south africa and hong kong suggest this over crohn is less likely to call severe illness than the delta very. and very few deaths have been linked to the new strain. but countries worldwide are ramping up their vaccine, and booster campaigns, artes alia for tank, got more details from the w. h arose 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 fife. on the mic stabilizers number one, increase vaccination coverage. number 2, 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 on the crone where we know as of to date, that vaccines are still effective for the 1st of the 2nd dose may be little bit less, but it covers with a cert, doest 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 advocating to establish

a bond european health city 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 vaccine. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of origin. i shared the optimism of the present alteration for the nation that this dub ritual emergency use listing for sputnik ruby there soon. our brand new german language channel, our 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. auto management responded saying it's license was obtained in accordance with old european laws and regulations, which been iraq. he started da,

the new channel was taken off youtube, the very day launched on thursday. of technically there's no connection between that and the tv broadcasting dispute in germany, where one media watchdog official had some ominous words for the fledgling channel . 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 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 ah, 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 out there doing that via a license or through another country to serbia for another year can 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 broadcast from. 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, you know,

makes some of the shows our tv productions do 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, for the license in serbia, the amount of pressure that, 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. the 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 ot family getting flat from all sides already we spoke to a number of high profile journalists to stay while they think you can't separate what's happening with our tea, 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 switch now where our tea has been sanctioned in the past, by being labeled as something a part of the foreign agent regulation act. launching $38.00, 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, 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. and that's the waiting for this our next, even though science can give us more answers to the world's problems like never before that still and information overload calls and confusion and deadly levels of ignorance. we assess that shortly aeronautics ah

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