and sugary and salty. other thing too is not at the individual level. it's not individual well power. and if we go on believing that will never change is 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, in our review of the weakness i rusher and bios a list to proposals to nato for maintaining joint security with moscow's deputy 4 minutes to say the ball is now and the alliance is caught when it comes to the escalation. the crane also to come, the pentagon says none of its personnel will be held liable for the butch drones strike in afghanistan last summer, which killed 10 civilians including 7 children. we hear from a craving relative though 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 pace is being false or misleading, facebook admits in court that it's much wanted fact checks are actually based on opinion and r t vibe to keep fighting in response to a string of attacks against this brand new german language channel in the last few days is being taking a feature and the keys to blacking the required license to broadcast in germany. ah, hello that the latest news and the look back of what's been happening over the last 7 days. this is the weekly here, an rti international friday. so rush to release a list of proposals to deescalate tensions with nato emmett phase of a flare up in you. pain among the demands or a scale back of military activity,

nay. russia's borders west military block says it will consider the document, although insist that any outcome will require input from key as our senior correspondent, more against airports now. and 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 that 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 parties shall not deploy land based, intermediate, and short range missiles in areas allowing them to reach the territory of the other parties. moscow sees native 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 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 stalking berg announced that roger has no veto, no se nato operations and no right to any sort of security buffer. all sphere of influence, nato has proven on the last year starter. our open door policy is not only something we are support in words for those in these partners 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 ukraine's

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, 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. 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. laura garcia very well. moscow's proposals come as the west

again accuses it of preparing to invade ukraine. a climate 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 pattern of russian aggression. cremeans foreign ministry spokeswoman though says remarks like that only create more tension at the chena lotion, and this is it is 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, 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 tag to anyone else? people need to back up this claim with arguments and how many times have need

a countries the texts are in states in the last 20 years. and 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 is propaganda. early this week i spoke with the former austrian foreign minister carrier nicely 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 digna's, of national security interests and so on. at the moment we have bayside saying, russia saying, look, we've got grave security concerns about nato. we have eastern european countries, we've got great security concerns about russia and a potential invasion. so where's the meeting point where the meeting points can

only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building? there is simply a complete disregard for historic and contemporary a worries on, on, 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. it's, we are in a world of unilateral statements. first 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 bill to which, which is affect 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 court 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 war generation, so they, they wouldn't play around with words like nuclear at tech or a fully fleshed war because they knew what was most about. we have to see more moments now to do really something like confidence building back. and i saw that the us side. what would put this priority is in a different way and that seems to june meeting some more saba and product matic

approach. what will be on the agenda? i know u. s. military personnel involved in august botched drain strike in afghanistan 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 to this announcement that 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 up. as the news came, as a shock is humiliating for us to hear that no one will be prosecuted, they should have kept their word. we held that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claim that they can spot 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 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. when 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 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, or they could truck. while this girl was among the children killed in the strike. miss just 2 years old. 3 the children had been in a car when it was hit by a missile. and in total 7 youngsters were killed. all from just one family. now, the pentagon initially defended that cabal strike claiming it targeted members of his amec state. more than 2 weeks later though it did acknowledge that a tragic mistake had been made. we discussed the developments with

a former hugh s military throne operator brandon bride. 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 on them. they're just going to punish the people that are so the supposed 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, there must been someone miscommunicating something or, 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 fully coupled 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. strange strike since 2004, including dozens of children. while the new york times is found at hundreds of civilian deaths were unaccounted full by the pentagon. brendan brian again shared with us his experience of operating, baffled writes. there is no way that anyone who has ever done this job and sit

there watching these people live their daily lives. i cannot 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 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 action. we're doing it. facebook uses may have to reassess the information they been getting from the site and after the it's a parent company, meta admitted in court, that so called fact checks. it based merely on opinion. the revelation came during

a legal battle initiated by journalist after his post were flagged as being misleading with mon story, his saskatoon 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 bay 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 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 so 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, 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 fit 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 facebook not to be let off the hook. court filing. facebook

admits its fact checkers. don't check facts. is facebook admitted here that it's fact checks are not really fact checks at all, but merely opinion assertions also by facebook claim. and it's labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it a publisher. facebook, your opinion piece is not exempt from being fact checked, even when they are clearly labeled as op eds or editorials. also facebook, or fact check labels can not be false or to pharma tree because they concent 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 anxious 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 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 from accountability, someone to hide behind and times of trouble, but most importantly, always ready to get their opinion. okay, well it's just give you an update on a story that we've been following at tonight because a 120 of a 100. 28 minus have been evacuated so far from a mine, the court fire rushes largest co producing area. emergency services are still trying to rescue the remaining workers after an alarm went off early today at the facility in the chris bass region in western side barrier. the site isn't far either from the mine that last month, also called fire killing more than 40 workers. watching the weekly still had to decide the on the current k,

which strain is now in nearly 90 countries causing alarm. and more lot dimes off the break. we discussed the threat, it's posing with the world health organizations, regional director for years. ah ah ah

and i dreamer shaped bankers are those with dares sinks. we dare to ask oh, welcome back to the way tina health experts in the us al, warning the new co you we don't micron very could be the dominant strain bay 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 into mid january and britain is also seeing a surgeon the virus with the london may, 9th declaring a major incident which does main. the capitals, emergency services and hospitals cannot insure their usual level of response. now the world health organization does say that new variance is in $89.00 countries so far. however, despite is rapid spread, early studies from south africa and hong kong do suggested all 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 to that said the countries worldwide are ramping up the vaccine and boost campaigns. not a deliberate franca gets more details now from the w. h o regional director for your 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, 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 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 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 covers 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 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 president of the russian federation. that this debate your emergency your to listing for sputnik and ruby, they're shown our brand new german language channel

r t t 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 will they lottie? management does say his license was obtained in accordance with all european laws and regulations. it has been a rocky start them for r t d. the new channel was taken off the chief, the very day yet launched on thursday. technically, there isn't a connection between that and the tv broadcasting dispute in germany, where one media watchdog official though as handsome ominous words for the fledgling chance 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, are going to be taken care of. so that is some are interesting language there right off the bat. but the, the crux of the issue is that are in his view,

we are have no business broadcasting in germany. he, 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 through another european license and are in full right to broadcast across all of europe, including in germany. our license was obtained and are what is known as the european convention on trans frontier tra trans frontier television which are under that convention gives us the right to broadcast to $33.00 countries

across europe and 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 dd production is not a channel. it channel is our tv that is coming out of here. and thus moscow, our headquarters, our parent company applied for i applied for the for the license in serbia. the amount of pressure that our new german channel has faced even before it went on the air. difficulties with banks, difficulties, not just with licensing, but you know, the pressure on our guests and so forth has been really unprecedented. 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 fiarty family. then getting flack from many sides already. we spoke to to high profile janice to hear what they think you can't separate that's happening with our t. it's chinese television with other broadcasters, from the political situation, poor relations between germany and russia right now for relations between united states and russia. right now, the correlations between states and china. all of this is linked in my view. it's purely politic. there is a sense, so i can only speak here in 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 lighting, 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 who 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 lans 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 is coming to help us an evening this sunday here mosque. i, thanks for the company was good to have it. we're back again with more stories from the last 7 days and about half ah ah, oil and gas manufacturing,

electricity, telecom dies, quotation, all of them now have io t type of infrastructure connected to the internet. so clearly realizing this disruptive potential so that those countries cons, ignore it because it threatens national security. if we take with nato and you country, virtually all of them subscribe to certain doctrines and maintains selling but tell us forces. they are a cyber army on behalf of a country that's their job. to join me every thursday on the alex, simon, sure. but i'll be speaking to guess on the world politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. oh working room or should in the back she popped in. she said, well i'm getting ready to go shopping for christmas and we,

we say it was a good to buy another, shooting another safe part of american life. shattered by violence. the gunman was armed with an 8 or 15, semi automatic rifle. when the issue comes home, it's time to act. when we're filing on this issue, the other side wins by default, lady that lived over there, i was walking one of the dogs. this is why you where again, were you scared with nothing but take it off it. i think the people need to take responsibility into their own hands and be prepared if those kind of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of the shootings that we certainly wouldn't have the number a desk a .