no, not at the individual level, it's not individual well power. and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic? it's corporate. ah. when the source is shake, the way care when i say russia unveiled to list to proposals to nato, for maintaining joint security with the deputy for a minute to say the board is now in the alliance's court when it comes to the escalation, a v, crying o to this, out of the pentagon says no u. s. military personnel will be held liable for that. bought strange strike in afghanistan last summer, which killed 10 civilians including 7 children. we hear from a grieving relative that i let him go, so nobody approached us,

nor contracts those, 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, and after years of flagging house is false or misleading facebook at mixing court that it's much vaunted fat checks are actually based on opinion. and r t e vibe 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 to blacken the nest the necessary license to broadcast in germany. ah, i welcome the latest development and the look back. what's been happening over the last 7 days. you watching a weekly hear an rti international my friday. so russia release a list of proposals for deescalate intentions with nato says the sara, in ukraine,

among the demands are scaled back as military activity in a rush is borders. west military line says it will consider the document, although does insist that any outcome will require input from keith are senior correspondent. we're against here for ports now. what moscow has 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 us 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 in 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 miss ours, aren't stationed within a few minutes flight time to moscow. the party 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 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 burge announced that russia has no vito, no se nato operations and no right to any sort of security. buffalo fear of influence nato has proven on the last year's daughter. 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 members. so we have enlarged the line, so that was for 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. at the nip, it is not, 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 discuss them amongst themselves and with input from ukraine. but there isn't much cause for optimism. rushes requests of largely been rejected, summoned in private, summoned public, consult mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time, sense willed prevail, not

a garcia. there will moscow's proposals to come as the worst accuses rusher of preparing to invade ukraine, which the kremlin strongly denies. knight, i was chief, also stressed to ukraine's request to join the alliance would be decided between kiev, nato, and his allies alone. while at the same time, he highlighted what he called a parson of russian aggression. the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman no says remarks like that only create more tension. if a shingle wars man, this is it, is information campaign that aims to crate. firstly, the image of russia is an aggressor, a secondly, additional pattern 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 door noise freely used 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 needed countries, the texts her and states in the last 20 years. how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries that we were to? 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 faculty and where there's propaganda. by early this week, i did speak with the former austrian for a minister carol nicely by vision. she outlined at ways she believes could actually help overcome the current political deadlock 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 bass, i saying russia saying, look, we've got great 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 is simply a complete disregard for historic and contemporary r worries on, on the, 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. at mid special. we see 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 afforded, 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 as 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 a language was not present in the court war days in the seventy's eighty's. maybe because we still had 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 the most about. we have to seize this more moment now to do really something like confidence building back. and i saw that the us side, what would put its priorities in a different way. and that seems the june meeting some more saba and problematic

approach. what will be on the agenda? i know u. s. military personnel involved in august bought strange try can africana stan move face any kind of punishment? 10 civilians were killed in the attack. most of them were children. we got reaction from a grieving relative to this announcement was made by the pentagon or monday. did you not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here, straight lock, the key operation. 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 vomitous?

it looks like no other country is forcing them to 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 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? all right. now this girl was among the children killed in that strike. she was just 2 years old, 3 the children had been in a car when it was hit by a missile entitle. 7 youngsters were killed all from just one family. by the pentagon initially defended the cabal strike, claiming it, targeted members of islamic state. more than 2 weeks later though it did acknowledge that a tragic mistake was made. we discussed the developments with for me,

u. s. military thrown operator random bright. 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. um 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 are the officers. they said that there is a breakdown in communication, but that is mostly

a lie. i am must have been that there was there and there must been some when 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. well, a couple incident does follow a long string of similar disasters. according to the bureau of investigative journalism, up to 900 afghan civilians have been killed by us. strange trains since 2004, including dozens of children. what the new york times found that hundreds of civilian deaths were accounted for by the pentagon. brandon bryant again shared with us his experience of operating baffled rights. 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 the 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 break down and cry because they would, she, these people are suffering and no different than themselves. and that we're perpetuating that suffering because of our actions. we're doing it. my facebook uses my have to reassess the information. i've been getting from the site because so that's after these parent company, meta admitted in court that so called fact checks are based merely on opinion. revelation came during

a legal battle initiated by journalist after his post were flag to be misleading. with more, his tusky type turns out the famous fact checkers who are busy labeling things false party, false misleading. i've 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 or not based on fact, what a 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,

0 matter identifies potential misinformation, for fact checkers to review and rate. it leaves the ultimate determination whether information is false or 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 practical 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 uses, worldwide, one, sorry, pleased. after all, many of them had probably used these fact jackson 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 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 fac 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 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 ally 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's 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. watching the weekly here, ne has come to you this hour. the omicron code strain is now nearly 90 countries causing alarm and more locked. and after the break, we discuss the threat. it's posing the w h chose regional director for europe. ah hello driven by dreamer shaped by son kirsten. those with

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well how much the weekly now health experts in the us are warning, but then you can read, omicron there and could be the dominant strain that in a matter of weeks and could potentially overwhelm health care system, it's also spreading in europe to the netherlands is imposing the toughest loc damages across christmas and into mid january. and britain is also seen as search in the virus with the mayor of london declaring a major, major incident which does main, the capitals, emergency services and hospitals cannot ensure the usual level of response. while the world health organization does say new variance is now an $89.00 countries. however, despite is rapid spread, early studies from south africa and home. com do suggested omicron is less likely to cause severe illness than the delta variant. and very few deaths have been linked to the new strain. so far. that said, though, countries worldwide are ramping up their vaccine and boost to campaigns. not easy,

but franco got more details from the w. h. o z, 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, oh michel, 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 their mic 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 on the chron 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, 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 rachel emerged. she used listing for sputnik ruby. they're shown our brand new german language channel r t d began broadcasting this week, but it didn't take too long for a smear campaign to kick off the channels being accused of not having the necessary documentation to broadcast in germany. although artie management responded by saying his license was obtained in accordance with all european laws and regulations when it's been a rocky start for arti. d. e. the new channel was taken off youtube. the very day was launched on thursday. 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. first of all, this is a real irritant, and we will take care of it. he called her r t d essentially a peskin in little nuisance. that is, ah, going to be taken care of. so that is some are interesting language out 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 the r t, the news channel is actually based in berlin, when in fact, it is based in moscow, are quite literally down the hall from our, 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, are there doing that via a license or through another country to serbia for another european license and are

in full right to broadcast across all of europe include in germany, our license was obtained under what is known as the european convention on trans frontier tra, track frontier television, which are under that convention gives us the right to broadcast to $33.00 countries across europe. and as long as you go broadcast from moscow and those countries include germany. but they also include other countries with majority of 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 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. the pressure again, as you've mentioned that beginning on our digital platforms, we're ready to keep to keep fighting with the latest member fiarty family. then getting flexible side already we spoke to a number of high profile tunis to, hey, what they have to 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 right state 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. 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 laughed 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 just come in to half past 3 yet this sunday afternoon here must

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