a loudly hold on at the how when it comes in then say, hey, do a a, a what i can, and maybe maybe maybe we can in the so as he showed the way here, and i say russia unveiled to list to proposals to nato for maintaining joint security with moscow steps he, for a minister saying the ball is now in the alliance, his court when it comes to de escalation over the crane. for to this are the pentagon says none of its purse now will be held liable for the brought to drone

strike and afghanistan last summer, which claim 10 civilian which killed at 10 civilians including 7 children. we hear from a grieving relative alagood. 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 . and after years, flagging po says, false or misleading. facebook admits in court that it's much wanted fact checks are actually based on opinions and r t, thanks to keep fighting in response to a string of attacks against his brand new german language channel. in the last few days it's been taken off. he chewed and the keys of lacking the required license to broadcast in germany. ah,

and i welcome the latest developments in the look back at the last 7 days you watch in a weekly here on our t international i friday. so russia release a list of proposals to deescalate tensions with nato, amid phase of a flare up in ukraine, among the demands for a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. the west military block says it will consider the document, although insist that any outcome will require input from key f. r senior correspondent would have gazda reports. 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 and nato, a talking in fearful tones about war, another cuban missile crisis. i'd like to believe that this is rock bottom, but as no guarantees and guarantees are what russia wants. guarantees, for example, that u. s. 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 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 vito, no se nato operations and no right to any sort of security. buffalo sphere of influence. nato has proven on the last years that her are 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 members. 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 france efforts to a con, closer to natal membership, which sets us back all the way to square one at the nebulous motor. this is not an attempt to revise the post cold war order. it's a response to western expansion which has been conducted in a hostile manner. the gist of that proposal that, that the u. s. nato and russia have a requirement for security as essential as food or water that they must all equally respect. nato has received the proposals and says that a little discuss them amongst themselves and with input from ukraine, that there isn't much cause for optimism. rushes requests of largely been rejected,

summoned in private, some and public consult mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time, send swelled, prevail. laura garcia, there will moscow's proposals to come to the west again accuses preparing to invade ukraine. a claim that is strongly denied. nato's chief, also stressed to ukraine's request to join the alliance would be decided between kiev, nato, and its allies alone. while at the same time, he highlighted what he called a patent of russian aggression. cremeans for a ministry spokeswoman says though that remarks like that only create more tension if a shingle wash. now, this is edison formation campaign that aims to create firstly, the image of russia is an aggressor, a secondly, additional pattern and the region, including the black sea, the russia, green border, and se ukraine. 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 journalists freely used the word aggressor, referring to our country. 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 needed countries, the texts her in states, in the last 20 years. how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries? can you show me something even 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. with early this week i spoke with the full moral sri and foreign minister, karen i still and she outlined ways which 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 an 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 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, 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 seeing 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 post afford it, 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 a 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 west or it's like nuclear attack or a fully fledged war because they knew what one was about. we have to seize this not moment now to do really something like confidence building back and her.

i thought that the, you asked side, oh, what are, what put its priorities in a different way and that ever since the june meeting or some more saba and pragmatic approach or what, what are, what will be on the agenda? i know you asked me that she personally involved in august botched drone strike in afghanistan will face any kind of punishment and civilians were killed in the attack. most of them were children. we got reaction from a grieving relative to this announcement that was made by the pentagon. accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here. straight pluck. the key up as the news came, as a shock is humiliating for us to hear that no one will be prosecuted. they should have kept their word. we held that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claimed that they can spot a needle on the ground from their satellites. so how could they not see the

innocent family they were about to kill? they found no connection between us and islamic states is a 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 of what the americans promises 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 was 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 rhetoric tra, well, this was among the children killed in that strike. she was just 2 years old. 3 the children had been in a car when he was hit by a miss. aw. and in total 7 youngsters were killed or from just one family. the pentagon initially defended the couple strikes, claiming 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 brandon bryan you know, it's been 10 years since i blew the whistle in the us drone program will be 10 years in 5 days actually. and to see that nothing has changed, even when it's blatantly out in front of everyone's face. how we operate on 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, emma, since i've been killed, not just innocent, an 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's a breakdown in communication, but that is mostly a lie. m, m must have been that there was, 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. what the couple incident does add to a long list of similar disasters. according to the bureau of investigative journalism, up to 900 afghan civilians have been killed by us, trained strike since 2004, including dozens of children or the new york times did find that hundreds of

civilian deaths were actually and accounted for by the pentagon. brandon brian 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 when 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 break down 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 now another new slice, the ease is may have to reassess the information i've been getting from the site

that's after his parent company matter did admitting call that so called fat checks are actually merely based on opinion. revelation came during a legal battle initiated by a journalist after his post were flagged as being misleading with on the story, his ask his head 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 yet again found itself in court. this time up against a john list. he didn't like the day slapped a 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, it got creative this time and claimed that front checkers don't decide what's false . so 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 fact checkers. a very long leash, though meta identifies potential misinformation, for fact checkers to review and rate at least the ultimate determination. whether information is full 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 talk. com. instead, you'll learn about how they interview full says and consult day to 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, want, sorry, pleased. after all, many of them had probably used these facts when auction with that friends. and now

it's turned out they would just quoting some random person's opinion. i've been embarrassing really, 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 clement it's labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it a publisher. facebook, your opinion piece is not exempt from being fact checked, even when they are clearly labeled as op eds or editorials. also, facebook are fact check labels can not be false or defamatory because they 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 loves giving people a voice, especially donald trump. it's dedicated to openness, transparency, and of course, democracy. i mean, it says all the time,

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 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 in the weekly disasters come few. the omicron code strain is now in nearly 90 countries causing alarm and also more lot danes. after the break. we'll discuss the threat. it's posing that the world health organizations, regional director for you or ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. and i'll be speaking to guess from the world politics sport business. i'm

sure business. i'll see you then o my view more broadly as the genocide has taken place. far more than anyone acknowledges. right? it takes place frequently. it has taken place and virtually every country in the world. so why does it come to be hauled up? others people will put on mobilization if you remember, wanda, nobody initially winded my new address. i was saying based nobody wanted to call it that. eventually that label came to take place or not at the time when events weren't sold in border position is if you say it's genocide, it's suggest that you need to do something. ah

ah ah, welcome back to the weekly now health experts in the us are worn and the new code omicron buried could be the dominant strain there in a matter of weeks and can potentially overwhelm the health care system. is also spreading in europe to the netherlands, is imposing the toughest lockdown measures across christmas and into mid january. and britain is also seeing a search in the fires with the london mer declaring a major incident which does mean the capital emergency services and hospitals cannot ensure the usual level of response. while the world health organization does say that new variance is now in $89.00 countries, however, despite is rapid spread, early studies from south africa and also hong kong do suggest that on micron 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, the campaigns aren't easier for franka. got more details now from the w. h o's, 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 michel. 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. valiant when the business of fighting all variance and stu, delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement what they call fife. bon demick stabilizers. number one, increase vaccination coverage number to boost boost, boost number city. double. the number of people voting. marks endorse 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 and effective 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 limitless, but it recovers with a cert dose 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 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 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 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 or direction for the nation that this dub ritual emergency use listing for sputnik will be there soon. 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 channel is being accused of not having the necessary documentation to broadcast in germany. although art management do insist that his license was obtained in accordance with all european laws and regulations . well, it's been a rocky start frosty d. the new channel was taken off few cheap, the very day it launched on thursday. and technically, there's no connection between that and the tv broadcast and the speech in june,

where one media watchdog official though, had some ominous words for the fledgling 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 is claiming 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 there 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 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 production, which makes some, you know, makes 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 applied for license in serbia, the amount of pressure that our new german channels has faced even before it went on the air. difficulties with banks, difficulties, not just with licensing, but you know, the pressure on, on our gasp and so forth has been really unprecedented pressure. as you've mentioned that beginning on our digital platforms, we are ready to keep, to keep fighting with the latest member. then if the r t family getting flat for many sides already, we spoke to, to high profile journalists to hear what 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 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 lighting, 38. you have the same application to chinese television. you have a situation where the nation's does 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 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 a showed how utterly naive or tone deaf he was about the role of journalism weekly here. and i see international just come into ha, possible in the afternoon and most guy will be back again with more stories in the last 7 days in the back office coming ah ah ah, oil and gas manufacturing, electricity, telecomm, guys, quotation, all of them now have a your t type of infrastructure connected to the internet. so clearly realizing there's

disruptive potential that those countries can't ignore it because it threatens national security issue. but if we take the nato e u countries, virtually all of them subscribed to certain doctrines and maintains selling but task forces. they are a cyber army on behalf of the country, that's their job. so 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 getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical time. time to sit down and talk.