all suitable to sell food. this is cathy and sugary and salty and victim not at the individual level. it's not individual well power. and if we go on believing that never change is obesity epidemic. that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment for what's driving the obesity epidemic. it's corporate. ah, this of the top stories from us over the last 7 days, russia unveils a list of proposals to nato. full maintaining joint security is moscow's deputy for a minute to say the bulls. now in the alliance is called when it comes to the escalation of ukraine. the pentagon said none of its personnel would be held liable for the botched drone strike in afghanistan last summer, which killed 10 civilians including 7 children. the week we heard from

a grieving relative uncle with nobody approached us. no one contacted us and we were given no information. how can they compensate to 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 posts is full so misleading, facebook admit same core, it's much wanted fact checks are actually based on opinion. ah, hello there live from out. he's will do is h q. moscow. this sunday will welcome to the weekly with week heavy. now in our round up some of the biggest stories we brought over the last 7 days. and 1st friday. so russia released the list of proposals to deescalate tensions with nato of mid fears of a flare up and ukraine among the demands or a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. the west military block says it will consider the documents, although it says to that,

and the outcome will require input from key f o senior correspondent or gazda of reports on what moscow is 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 u. s. and nato, its wishlist for return to normality. something to start talking about and it begins with the call to de, escalate. to end the constant threats and true build ups, which only lead to more of the same. the parties shall not use the territories of other states with a view to preparing or carrying out an armed attack against the other party judge for yourself. where in previous years they threatened each other with, with sanctions or legal action. now, openly booth russia and nato,

a talking and 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 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 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 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 stalkin berg announced that roger has no veto, no se nato operations and no right to any sort of security buffer or fear 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, puddles in deeds potter by inviting to new countries. montenegrin north m madonna to become members, so we have enlarged the line. so the last few years for to new members, despite protests from, from russia. and also we are supporting ukraine in ukraine's efforts to a con, closer to a natal membership,

which sets us back all the way to square one at the nebulous motor. this is not an attempt to revise the post cold war order. it's a response to western expansion which has been conducted in a hostile manner. the, 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. but there isn't much cause for optimism. rushes requests of largely been rejected, summoned in private, some in public, consult mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time sense will prevail where moscow's proposals come as the west again accusative, preparing to invade ukraine, a claim that strongly denied. nato's chief, also stressed. ukraine's request to join the alliance would be decided between kiev,

nato, and its allies alone. while the same time he highlighted body colder patton of russia, aggression, the criminals. foreign ministry spokeswoman saying remarks like that only create more tension. if a tional washington, this is it, is information contain the aims to great. firstly, the image of russia is an aggressor, a secondly, additional passion in the region, including the black sea, the russia crane border, and se ukraine. this will not bring stability insecurity, either international relations or the regional agenda. it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course western during the freely use the word aggressor for into our country. what try to the have to do this? i try to understand this every time. when was the last time russia tech 21? people need to pick up this queen with arguments and how many times have needed countries to text her and states in the last 20 years. how many special operations were carried out by the native country? can you show me something in the close to that from the russian side? and now there is nothing you need to figure out where there are faculty and where

there's a propaganda. early the suite we spoke to with a former student for a minister current connect flu outlined ways that she believes could help overcome the current political deadline between moscow in the west. ah, yes, we are in a stalemate. no doubt about that. but in such a stalemate, it takes people with some sort of creativity. that's what diplomacy is about international relations and not only about self impaired digna's of national security 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, same. we've got great security concerns about russia and a potential invasion. so what, where's the meeting point? where the meeting point can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building those sir, simply a complete disregard for historic and contemporary a 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 enter your administration. 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, 1st afford a look at this armament 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 bill to which, which had as effect planets on. so there is a many people are required to act in a more responsible way because the stakes are simply too high. such

a language was not a 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 or translation. so they, they wouldn't play around with words like nuclear at tech or a fully fledged war because they knew what was most about. we have to seize this more moments now to do really something like confidence building back. and i thought that the us side, what would put this priorities in a different way and that seems to june meeting some more saba and brock matic approach. what, what will be on the agenda? this is big news to know us military personnel involved in august, spots,

stroke strike and i've got to stop face any kind of punishment. 10 civilians were killed in the attack. most of the children we got reaction from a grieving relative 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 strike flock. the key up as the news came, as a shock, is humiliating for us to hear that no one will be prosecuted. they should have kept their word. we held that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claimed that they can spot a need on the ground from their satellites. so how could they not see the innocent family they were about to kill? they found no connection between us and islamic states is a why didn't they do those checks before launching a bomb at 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. 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, electra. this girl was among the children killed in the strike. she was just 2 years old. 3 the children had been here in a car at the time and it was hit by a missile. in total 7 youngsters were killed. all from just one family and the pentagon initially defended the cabal strike claiming it, targeted members of his la mc state. but more than 2 weeks later then is acknowledged that it was a tragic mistake. i discussed the developments with former u. s. military drone operator. brandon bryant, 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 them

and no one's being held accountable. like we've been talking about this for 10 years now. when i 1st started talking about it, people called me a liar. people tried to defame me and now that we see it for what it actually is, innocence had been killed, not just innocent and innocent aid worker who was there trying to help. i really think that the united states has lost knowledge on how to conduct warfare. and it's now a business. they're not going to punish the people that make them money. they're just going to punish the people that are so the supposed 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. 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. the cowboy instant had so long list of similar disasters, according to the bureau of investigative journalism, up to 900 afghan civilians been killed by us. drone strikes as 2004, including dozens of children, while the new york times found that hundreds of civilian deaths run, accounted for by the pentagon brand abroad again, sharing with me his experience of operating battle drones. 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 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. facebook uses may have to reassess information. they've been getting from that site after his parent company and the week meta admitted and called that so called fact checks, a base merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by a journalist after his posts were flagged as misleading. his husky tailor turns out the famous fact checkers who are busy labeling things false party, false misleading, have 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 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. 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 doubled down on how it gives it fact checkers a very long lease. 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 fact checking section on facebook dot com. instead, you'll learn about how they interview thought, says and consult data and look for facts you know, to really drive home. the point about how it's all based on opinion. i think some of it's 3000000000 users worldwide. one, very pleased, after all, many of them had probably used these fact excellent arguing with their friends. and now it's turned out they were just quoting some random person's opinion and that 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 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 fax it labels can not be false or defamatory because they concede 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 elite 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. sanskrit taylor buller suddenly we let me tell you what's coming up as we look at more of the news in review. we brought you in the weekly with me, kevin, i, while the all mc crone covert strain, here we go again, is now in nearly 90 countries, closing alarm and more locked out. after the break, we discussed the current threats posing with the old health organizations, regional director for europe. ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. but i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, school business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. ah

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it may be the dominant strain there in a matter of weeks it could potentially, they say overwhelmed. the health care system. well, health organizations as the new variant is now in 89 countries. despite his rapid spread, early studies, though from south africa in hong kong, did seem to suggest on mac, on is less likely to cause severe illness than the delta varied. very few deaths have been linked to the new strain so far. however, from today, the netherlands is imposing the toughest lockdown measures across christmas and into mid january while london's marriage is yes, they declared a major incident over omicron. artesian patrol care got more details now from the w . h chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about our micron at this point? we know much more and we have to tours and about all mcclellan. it's to, it's the latest variant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell we're not in the business of fighting one variant when the business of fighting all variance and stu,

delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well, they call fife pandemic stabilizers. number one, increase vaccination coverage, number 2, boost boost, boost number to 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 micron, 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, 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 right, doubly choice, 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 doubly true emergency use listing for sputnik will be there soon. devastated locals of trying to pick up the pieces of that unprecedented deadly set. a tornadoes that rate havoc across vast swathes of the united states.

notably, the state of kentucky, the residence discovered some lawmakers since we putting a political point scoring above helping them rebuild their lives in the week, nikki aramis on that a worst. most devastating, most deadly tornado event in kentucky's history. there's our hometown and it's just devastating. everybody's. all of their walls were shaken . house collapse in a guess. you can see where the whole house is buckled. the backside of this house is all total devastation for our town. most of our historic buildings are now gone with

is likely to be one of the largest tornado operates in our history. entire towns were destroyed as some 30 powerful tornadoes, ravaged across thick that us states the worst affected can. saki needs help support and relief, 8. and so it turns to the governments and fellow americans. but politics is politics. and it seems not even a monumental disaster, like this one can bridge america's political divide. and some believe it's a perfect opportunity to show that you reap what you sow. when hurricane harvey's hit in 2017, the 17 senators who voted against a bill to provide billions of dollars in relief. all republicans among them, kentucky's sen, round pole. once again, thousands are suffering,

but there is no time like the present for political punches. we should do all we can to help our kentucky neighbors. good wisdom, the person, but do not for one second. forget that rand pole has voted against helping most americans, most times. very neat. we know, rand paul is a heartless hypocrite. the people in kentucky deserve the relief, regardless of their buffoon ish leadership. much of the damage done to use this against him and his party in the future. it is a missed opportunity for some it's not even off limits to suggest that if you vote read, then you had it coming vote for climate change deniers and see what happens. tornadoes in december are rad, but weather climate change was a factor is not clear at this point. still as the country real than shock and concerns, i have a climate change peak. it could also play into the democrats hands as they bid to push a $1.00 trillion dollar climate package through the senate. all i know is that the

intensity of the weather across the board has some impacts as a consequence of a warming to a plan and the climate change. and so it seems something as devastating as this can only wet the appetite for those looking to score political points. the on the whether side of in the week or climate change expert warm, the time was running out over natural disasters, particularly for the worst often society. people who are always defeated by these times and kind of disasters. and extreme events tend to be those who are already the least advantage. so people who really have a waste of time being the pool is too few services that they have even fewer resources to cook with those native situations. events a session with it kind of once

a year or much with even much less frequently, politically. we're at a moment where over the last few months, the most recent climate change report from the i p. c. c has been released. and what that report really shows is that we have very little time and incredibly agent who makes quite drastic action. but will it happen? well, that's the weekly the way, some of the big news headline to the last 7 days on that. thanks ever so much watch a visitation live for most go with me, kevin, or next programs and you're part of the world or after this quick break. mm

ah, 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 spoke about there was a going to buy another, shooting another safe part of american life shattered by violence. the gunman was armed with an a ar 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 says, why do you wear again? were you scared to death in the ticket? off of i think the people need to take responsibility in their own and be prepared if those kinds of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of the shootings. we certainly wouldn't have the number of deaths

with ah ah, the obesity epidemic is the most important international health problem. let me thought that the new policy to waste controlled abyssal and then the only thing different. the fact that it's a man made tragedy. earlier in my life i thought that my weight was all my fault. i felt like

a failure and frankly unworthy. and it took me awhile to really start questioning most beliefs and challenging those thoughts like well, are you really a failure? and the answer is no. i'm not, i'm not. but it took a while to get to that point. ah, obesity. a blob of our arrows fantasies caught in a web of prejudice. it prompts scolding for poor choices and accusations of laziness. omnipotent genes provide an alibi. but what if obesity were a collective failure or not an individual one? the symptom of a free market that hates fat that produces fat so's a b. so genic society or.