it's time to act when we're silent on this issue. the other side wins by default, lady that lived over there. i was walking one of the dogs, which is why do you wear again? were you scared or nothing could take it off of it. i think the people need to take responsibility in their own and be prepared if those kinds of weapons who are less available. we wouldn't have a lot of the shootings. we certainly wouldn't have the number of deaths in our review of the week this our rusher and they also list to proposals to nato for maintaining joint security with moscow's deputy 4 minutes. the saying the ball is now and the alliance is caught when it comes to the escalation. the ukraine depends again, says none of it's personnel will be held liable for the butch driving strike and afghanistan last summer, which killed 10 civilians, including 7 children. we hear from

a grieving relative with 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 of flagging houses, being false or misleading, facebook admit sin court that it's much wanted fact checks are actually based on the opinion. and i'll tell you vouch, sticky pie thing in response to a string of attacks against this brand new german language channel. in the last few days, it's been taken off teaching band a case of lacking the required license to broadcast in germany. ah, hello there, the latest developments and look back at the last 7 days. you're watching a weekly hear an rti international i friday. so russia release a list of proposals to deescalate 10 since with night, say,

amid says the flare up in ukraine among the demands are a scale back of military activity in a rush is borders to west military broke says it will consider the document, although does insist that any outcome will require input from key f r senior correspondent, we're against the f 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. then 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, both 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 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 doctrine, 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 berg announced that roger has no veto, no sane nato operations and no right to any sort of security. buffalo sphere of influence. nato has proven over 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 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 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 disgust 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, sense willed prevail,

well moscow's proposals to come as the worst again accuses of preparing to invade ukraine. a claim that strongly denied latest chief, also stressed to ukraine's request to join the lines, would be decided between kia nato and his allies alone. while at the same time, he highlighted what he called a pattern of russian aggression. the cremeans for ministry spokeswoman though says remarks like that only create more tension if a shingle ordinary, this is edison formation 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, 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 over to what right of the have to do this. i try to understand this every time. when was the last time russia attacked,

anyone who 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 im 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 . what early this week i spoke with a former offering foreign minister carrier, nice and about this. 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 interest since on. at the moment we have both side saying, russia saying, look, we've got grave security concerns about nato. we have eastern european countries,

we've got great security concerns about russia and a potential invasion. so what, where is the meeting point where the meeting points can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building those, sir, simply a complete disregard for historic and contemporary a 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 nato officials, e u, and, and the u. s. a administration, we seeing that at all, anywhere. unfortunately, we are in times of a decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. if we are in a world of unilateral statements postal fathers looked at this arm amount of words. i mean, this terminology is kick, it 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 cold 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 full 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 thought that the us side, what would put its priorities in a different way,

and that ever since the june meeting some more saba and pragmatic approach. what, what will be on the agenda now, no, us military personnel involved in august botched drained try. can africana stan will 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 on monday. did you not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here strength luck. the key uppers 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 a need on the ground from their satellites. so how could they not see the innocent family they were about to kill? they found no connection between us and islamic states. so why didn't they do those

checks before launching obama to us? it looks like no other country is forcing them 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. when 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 solidly? well, his 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 missile missile and in total, 7 youngsters were killed all from just one family. the pentagon initially defended the cabal strike claiming it, targeted members of his amec state. more than 2 weeks later though, did acknowledge that a tragic mistake was made. but we discussed the developments with a former

u. s. military trone operator brandon bright. you know, its 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 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, innocence had been killed, not just innocent and innocent aid worker who was there trying to help. i really think that the united states has lost knowledge on how to conduct warfare. and it's now a business. they're not going to punish the people that make them money. they're just going to punish the people that are so the supposed enemies and the, the ones that they test this, munitions on who should be punished or the officers. they said that there is

a breakdown in communication, but that is mostly a lie. m, m must have been that there was there and there must been someone miscommunicating something. but they have everything should be in a chat program. like it's not just a radio call instantaneous. you spin up your mess when you shoot. it takes like 5 minutes to get ready to shoot a messiah. this was not an emergency situation. no one was under spire. no one was under duress, no one was under stress. and so they had all the time in the world to make the decision on whether to shoot or not put incident as an to a long list of similar disasters. to, according to the beer of investigative journalism, up to 900 afghan civilians have been killed by u. s. strain strike since 2004, including dozens of children or the new york times. fancy that hundreds civilian deaths were accounted for by the pentagon. brandon brian again shared with his his

experience of operating battery right. 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 on to your own community and you see the same, keep same types of people doing the same thing. they're going to coffee shops, there, go into bookstores, they're hanging out with their friends and family. there is no disconnect for a drone operator. there's so much connection. like if, if a drone operator were to go over there and to meet the people that they interact with. visually, they would probably have a emotional breakdown and cry because they would, 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 may have to reassess the information. i've been guessing from the site that after its parent company matter admitted in call that so called fact checks are actually based mainly on opinion. the revelation came during

a legal battle initiated by a journalist after his post was flanked up as being misleading starsky. taylor, as the story 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 at 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 so 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 fac tech inspection on facebook dot com. instead, you'll learn about how they interview thought, says and consult data and look for facts, you know, to really drive home. the point about how it's all based on opinion. i think some of it's 3000000000 uses worldwide. one, very pleased, after all, many of them had probably used these facts when arguing with their friends. and now it turned out they were just quoting some random person's opinion about embarrassing railing, so that campaigning for face, but 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, i'll fax it, 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. really 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'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 an 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 as false health experts in the u. s. a warning that the new kaywood army cron therein could be the dominant strain there within a matter of weeks and can potentially overwhelm the health care system. but it's also spreading in europe to the netherlands is imposing the tough, is locked down, measures across christmas and into mid january. and britain is also seeing a search in the far as the london mer to carrying a major incident which does mean the capital emergency services and hospitals cannot insure the usual level of response. while the world health organization does say the new variant is now in $809.00 countries. however, despite the rapid spread early studies from south africa and also hong kong do

suggest that omicron is actually less likely to cause severe illnesses than the delta variance. and very few deaths have been linked to the new strain so far said the countries worldwide are ramping up their vaccine and boost campaigns. now, thank you for trying to get more details now from the w h o t 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 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 what they call fife pandemic stabilizers. number one, increase vaccination coverage, number 2, boost boost, boost number city,

double. the number of people varying 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 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. what they called political here 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 deshawn our brand new german language channel. our t d began broadcasting this week, but it didn't take long for a smear campaign. to kickoff the channel is being accused of not having the necessary documentation to broadcast in germany. however, artie management does say its license was obtained in accordance with all european laws and regulations. now it has been a, a rocky start for r t d a than you channel was taken off. you cheap the very day it launched on

thursday. technically there's no connection between that and the t. v. 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. see, call the r t d essentially a peskin in little nuisance. that is, are going to be taken care of. so that is some are interesting language that they are 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 d news channel is actually based in berlin, when in fact, it is based in moscow, are 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 are 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, including in germany. our license was obtained under what is known as the european convention on transferring tier trans frontier television, which under that convention gives us the right to broadcast to $33.00 countries across europe. as long as from us go. 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 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 the 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 this licensing, but you know, the pressure on, on our guests and so forth has been really unprecedented pressure again, as you've mentioned that beginning on our digital platforms, we're ready to keep, to keep fighting with the latest members of the family then getting a flag from many sides already, we spoke to, to high profile jernace to hear what they think you can't separate what's happening . r t is 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, for relations 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 lynching. 38. you have the same application to chinese television. you have a situation where the nations do not have good relations with united states or germany, yet penalize journalists are not an irritant. to people in power are called propaganda us. it is, we should always have an adversarial relationship to power. that's what journalism is about is about shining a lens as much as possible on the inner workings of power. so the public knows what's going on. but i, i actually laughed 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 be much the weekly here are not international. don't forget can all say, well, keep yourself updated by going to our, our website, and you can always find that. i don't to lose join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. i'll be speaking to get us on the world politics sport business. i'm show business, i'll see you then mm. oil and gas manufacturing, electricity, telecom transportation, all of them now have i o t type of infrastructure connected to the internet. so

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