that those countries cons, ignore it because it threatens national security issue. but if we take the nato e u countries, virtually all of them subscribe to certain doctrines and maintains selling but task forces. they are a cyber army on behalf of a country that's their job. and some of the top stories from us over the last 7 days, russia unveiled a list of proposals than to nate, so full maintaining joint security with moscow's deputy foreign minister sake. the balls now and the alliance is caught when it comes to de escalation of ukraine. pentagon said none of its personnel would be held liable for the botched drones strike in afghanistan last summer that killed 10 civilians, including 7 children. we heard from a grieving relative look with a 1000 good though nobody approached us. no one contacted us and we were given no

information. how can they compensate for our family members? all the wealth in the world means nothing to was now we'd lost 10 of our relatives . and after years, a flagging posts is full so misleading. in the wake, facebook admitted in court that it's much vaunted fact checks are actually based on opinion. ah ha their life, marty's will do. thank you moscow, this sunday evening will welcome to the weekly with me, kevin. oh and it's all round up as some of the biggest stories we brought you over the last 7 days and 1st friday. so russia release a list of proposals than to deescalate tensions with nato, amid phase of a flare up in ukraine. among the demands or a scale back of military activity there rushes borders to western military blocks as it will consider the document. although insist that any outcome will require

input from key have a senior correspondent, mood, gazda reporting next and 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 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 you as 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 moved 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 things much of russia's concerns. not long ago, secretary general stockton burge announced that russia has no veto, 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 party 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 trans 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, sense willed prevail when moscow's proposals comes, the west again accuses it of preparing to invade ukraine and claim it strongly denied. nature's chief, also stress cares. request to join, the alliance would be decided between ukraine, nato, and its allies alone. while the same tommy highlighted what he called

a pattern of russian aggression, the criminals, foreign ministry spokeswoman saying remarks like that only create war tension. if a tional wish man, this is as information campaign that aims to create. firstly, the image of russia is an aggressor, a secondly, additional passing in the region, including the black sea, the russia crane border, and se ukraine. 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 journalists freely used the word aggressor, referring to our country over what trade 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 the screen with arguments and how many times have need a countries the text her and states in the last 20 years. how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries. 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 facts and where there's propaganda

. earlier in the week we spoke with a former austin for a minister current canal. so she outlined ways she believes could help overcome the current political deadlock 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 an international relations and not only about self impaired digman alpha, national security interest since 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 point can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building. they serve simply a complete disregard for historical contemporary a worries on, on the,

on the russian side, so that i think that should be taken into account and, and to overcome that state made, 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. it's, we are in a world of unilateral statements. first of all, this looked at this armament of words. i mean, this terminology is kick cannot be continued as, as it has been the case over the last few weeks. the media should act in a more responsible way of quoting this, this chairman paper, the bill 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 seconds, world translation. so they, they wouldn't play around with words like nuclear attack or a fully fledged war because they knew what almost insult we have to seize this more moments now to do really something like confidence building back. and i saw that the us side, what would put its priorities in a different way. and that seems to june meeting some more saba and pragmatic approach. what, what will be on the agenda? no us military personnel involved in august botched drones strike enough canister on the set to face any kind of punishment. 10 civilians were killed in the attack.

most of them were children. we got reaction to the news from a greeting relative to this and. and so that was made by the pentagon on monday. do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here strike flock, the key operation. the news came as a shock is humiliating for us to hear that no one will be prosecuted. they should have kept their word. we held that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claim that they can spot 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 seek justice. there is no one to change them because they're superpower. that's why the americans have failed to keep their promises lehman unused, 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 innocent. what did they do from all roger? they could tra, this girl was among the children killed in the strike. she was just 2 years old. 3 the children had been in a car when it was hit by a missile. in total 7 youngsters were killed all from just one family. well, the pentagon initially defended the cabal strike claiming it, targeted members of islamic state. more than 2 weeks later though it acknowledged 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 the benign state 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 or the officers. they said that there's a breakdown in communication, but that is mostly a lie. i am must have been that there was there and 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. none 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 cobble incident serves to a long list of similar disasters from according to the bureau of investigative journalism, up to 900 afghan civilians have been killed by us drone strike since 2004, including dozens of children. while the new york times found that hundreds of civilian deaths on accounted for by the pentagon rondon brian shared 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 the information they've been getting from that site off for his parent company. meta admitted in cold it's so cold, fact checks are based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle than initiated by journalist. after his posts were flagged as misleading, his husky tailor turns out the famous fact checkers who are busy labeling things false partly, 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 partly full sticker on one of his post. so he sued for defamation. and because space, but the way 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 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, though, 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 fac tech inspection 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 fact jacqueline martin with their friends. and now it's turned out they were just quoting some random person's opinion and then embarrassing railing, so that campaigning for faith might not be let off the hook. court filing, facebook admits its fact checkers. don't check facts. is facebook admitted here that it's 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, all fact check labels cannot be false or defamatory because they constant sheet protected opinion, even though we present them. as fact, my question though is, what does facebook need these opinionated fact checkers for any way?

after all, over the years, it 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, 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 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. this is the way clenotts international lives. and i from oscar with me, kevin. oh. and so coming up the omicron covert strains, no, in nearly 90 countries causing widespread alum

a morlock does off the break. we discuss the current threats. it's posing with a world health organizations, regional director for europe. lou, join me every thursday on the alex, simon, she'll, i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics. small business. i'm show business . i'll see you then. mm. oh is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way or are you being

led somewhere? direct. what is true? what is great? in the world corrupted, you need to descend. ah, so join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, ah, my good health experts in the u. s. a warning that the new covey don't microns very, it may be the dominant strain. they're just a matter of weeks and could potentially overwhelm the health care system. well, health organization seeing the new variance now in 89 countries this weekend despite its rapid spread early studies from south africa. hong kong do seem to suggest, though, on microns less likely may be the cause severe illness than the dell to varied and very few deaths have been linked the new strain sofa. however,

all that said from today, the netherlands is imposing the toughest locked measures across christmas and into mid january. same kind of things happening in germany now to starting while london's mayor is declared a major instant over omicron spread nearly per trying to get some 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 or micron. it's true, it's the latest valiant. 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 stew. delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well they call fife. on the mic stabilizers number one, increase vaccination coverage number to boost boost, boost number city double the number of people voting 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 and effective against all 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, that it covers with a cert dorsey, 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 to has been growing over time, but i take the point that it's still really aleck, off uniformity. what i call political here 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 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 alteration sedation, that this dub ritual emergency use listing for sputnik ruby there soon. devastated locals are trying to pick up the pieces after the unprecedented deadly tornadoes that read havoc across vast swathes of the united states. notably, the state of kentucky, but residence discovered to some lawmakers soon afterward trying to put political point scoring above helping them rebuild their lives in karen explains, ah thing

worst most devastating, most badly tornado event in kentucky history. there's our hometown and it's just devastating. everybody's off, their walls were shaking. house collapsed in a guess. if you see where the whole house is buckled, the little back side of this house is all total devastation for all town. most for historic buildings are now gone. ah

is likely to win the largest tornado operates in our history and higher towns were destroyed as some 30 powerful tornadoes, ravaged across 6 us states. the worst affected can. saki needs help support and relief aid. and so it turns to the government 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 17th senators, who voted against a bill to provide billions of dollars in relief. well, 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. be wisdom, the hudson, but do not for one second. forget that rand pool has voted against helping most

americans, most times they're in need. we know, rand paul is a heartless hypocrite. the people in kentucky deserve the relief regardless of their buffoon, his leadership, much of the dams dont use this against him and his part 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, that weather climate change was a factor is not clear at this point. still is the country real than shock and concerns either 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 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 in the

week on whether side of the climate change expert war the tie was running out of natural disasters, particularly to for the worst off in society. people who always defeated by these type of commerce and climate disasters, and extreme events, tend to be those who are already the least advantage. so people who really have life at a worst of either being the pro or an access to few services that they have even fewer resources to cope with. those negative situations. events are devastating with once a year or much more frequently than that even much less frequently. politically, we're at a moment's way 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 it's incredibly urgent that we make quite drastic action. and that's the weekly the way some of the big news headlines are the last 7 days. panda, thanks for watching this edition live for moscow. with may, kevin, i will head tonight on next programs fill you and your part of the world here are all had after the break. ah ah. ah, working room or should she popped in? she said, well i'm getting ready to go. shopping for christmas. we. we snuck up there was a girl to buy another,

shooting another safe part of american life shattered by violence. the gunman was armed with an hour 15, semi automatic rifle. when the issue comes home, it's time to act when we're aspire was on this issue. the other side wins by default, lady that lived over there. i was walking one of the dogs, which is what you, where again, were you scared with nothing but take it off with i think the people need to take responsibility into 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 for all those driven by dreamers shaped baskin cursed under those with

dares sinks. we dare to ask oh, a ah mm hm. mm. mm. and welcome to worlds apart. millennia poles and philosophers have puzzled over the

nature of law, and why do people come to it? but the opposite question of why do people hate and kill, maybe even harder to answer from the biblical fratricidal murder, to the john sides of the 20th century. how well do we understand this urge to face the other? well, to discuss it now joined by alex hinton distinguished professor of anthropology at rutgers university and the unesco chair on genocide prevention professor can it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for finding the time. yeah, thanks so much for inviting me on. you know, i used to be a, what a correspondence in every conflict. they cover the charges of genocide for the 1st to spring out, partially because it's how fear operates, especially if you're back. but also because it's a highly colton political charge. it can impact the outcome of a conflict.