our approach to business industries are on the war bar, attempting to debunk legitimate science by producing new evidence in science, writing science. that's how ignorant says manufactured their attention only seeking to the rail science rolling to using science itself. awe midnight. now in moscow, in some of the top stories from us over the last 7 days, russia unveiled a list of proposals to nato for maintaining joint security. with moscow's deputy forum is to say the ball is now in the alliance is cool. when it comes to the escalation of ukraine. in other news, the pentagon saying none of its personnel will be held liable for the bosh thrown strike in afghanistan last summer, which kill 10 civilians including 7 children. we heard from a grieving relative a single though nobody approached us. no one contacted us and we were given no

information. how can they compensate us for our family members? oh, 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 admitted in court that it's much wanted fact checks. they're actually based on opinion ah, by their life from ortiz, will use age q this early monday morning in moscow. welcome to the weekly with me, kevin. now, in our round up, some of the biggest stories have brought you over the last 7 days. and 1st, friday saw russia release a list of proposals to deescalate tensions with nato, amid phase of a flare up in ukraine. among the demands or scale back of military activity near russia's borders, the western military block says it will consider the documentary though, insisting to at the same time that any outcome will require input from key of our

senior correspondent mortality of report. so what moscow 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 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 and fearful tones about war,

another cuban missile crisis. i'd like to believe that this is rock bottom, but as no guarantees and guarantees are what russia wants. guarantees, for example, that us missiles aren't stationed within a few minutes flight time to moscow. the parties shall not deploy land based, intermediate and short range missiles in air is allowing them to reach the territory of the other parties. moscow sees nato slow and unexplainable encroachment towards russia's borders. as an existential threat, nato argues that it's peaceful but right then the u. s. military doctorate. russia is referred to as an adversary. the closer that nato and u. s. troops and tags and missiles moved to russia, the more unpredictable the game gets, which is why putin has set his red line. nato states commit themselves to

refrain from any further enlargement of nato, including the accession of ukraine, as well as other states. not that nato thinks much of russia's concerns. not long ago, secretary general stockton berg announced that roger has no vito, no se nato operations and no right to any sort of security buffer all sphere of influence. nato has proven over the last years that her are 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 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 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 discuss them amongst themselves and with input from ukraine, that there isn't much cause for optimism. buses, requests of largely been rejected, summoned in private, some and public consult mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time, sense willed, prevail, perhaps. well moscow's proposal comes as the west again accuses of preparing to invade ukraine. a claim that its strongly denied nature's chief, also stress cubes. request to join. the alliance would be decided between ukraine, nato, and the allies alone. while the same tommy highlighted what he called

a pattern of russian aggression, while the criminals for ministry spokeswoman saying remarks like that, only created more tension at their shingle wars. now this is as information campaign that aims to crate. 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. so this will not bring stability and security either in international relations or the regional janda guy. yeah, it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course western during oil, really use 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 rush attacked? anyone else, people need to back up the screen 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 would, 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's

a propaganda. earlier in the week who spoke with a former austrian foreign minister current canal, so you outlined ways that she believed 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 international relations and not only about self in peril, digman 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 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 historical contemporary a worries on, on,

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 admin special, 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. first of all, this looked 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 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 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 wouldn't play around with words like nuclear attack or a fully fledged war because they knew what was the 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 its priorities in a different way. and that seems the june meeting some more saba and pragmatic approach. what about what will be on the agenda? and there was this, no us military personnel involved in august thought drone strike and i've got this done. would 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 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 up as the news came, as a shock is humiliating for us to hear that no one will be prosecuted. they should have kept their word. we held that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claimed that they can spot a needle on the ground from their satellites. so how could they not see the innocent family they were about to kill? they found no connection between us and islamic state is a why didn't they do those checks before launching vomitous? it looked 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 innocent. what did they do? all rhetoric 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 he was hit by a missile. in total 7 youngsters were killed all from just one family. the pentagon initially defended the cabal strike claiming it targeted members of his la mc 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. 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. 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 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 cable insta, that adds to a long list of similar disasters. according to the bureau of investigative journalism, up to $900.00 afghan civilians were killed by us drone strike since 2004, including dozens of children. while the new york times found that hundreds of civilian deaths were unaccounted for by the pentagon, rondon brian shed more with me of his experience of operating those 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 break down and cry because they would see these people are suffering and no different than themselves. and that we're perpetuating that suffering because of our actions. we're doing it. this is big news in the wake. facebook uses may have to reassess the information they've been getting from the site after his parent company, meta admitted in court that so called fact checks of based merely on opinion. revelation coming during a legal battle initiated by journalist after his posts were flagged as misleading. saskia taylor covered 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 to john list. he didn't like the day slapped a partly full sticker on one of his post. so he food for defamation. i'm because

facebook where he spent millions of dollars on legal fees over the years, it got creative this time and claimed that front check was don't decide what's false. so not based on fact, what to ridiculous idea, but on their opinion. hence the title fact checker, 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 leash, though meta identifies potential misinformation, for fact check is to review and great. it leaves the ultimate determination whether information is full so misleading to the fact checkers. and though meta has designed its platforms so that fact checker ratings appear next to content that the fact check is, have reviewed and rated. it does not contribute to the substance of those ratings. now you won't find any of these details in the giant fact checking section on

facebook. talk. com. instead you'll learn about how they interview full says and consult data. look for facts, you know, to really drive home the point about how it's all based on opinion. i think some of it's 3000000000 uses worldwide, want very pleased. after all, many of them had probably used these facts when auction with our friends. and now it's turned out they would just quoting some random person's opinion. i've been 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 fat checks are not really fat 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, all fact checked labels cannot 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 any way? 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 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. huda thought coming up,

thanks me with us. by the way, reviewed, shouldn't. in this early monday morning, 17 past midnight on the weekly with me, kevin, now in the alma crohn cove, it strains now in nearly 90 countries causing alarm, a more lock terms of the break we discussed. the colored threat is posing on the w . h. chose regional director for europe talks to us ah mash, kaiser's financial survival guide, liquid assets are those that you can convert into cash quite easily. but keep in mind, no, as if you need to inflation better watch guys report ah, is your media a reflection of reality? ah,

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rapid spread, some early studies back a few days ago from south africa and hong kong do seem to suggest omicron, though, is less likely the think to cause severe illness than the delta variant. and very few deaths have been linked to the new strain. so far, however, as it stands, as of the weekend sunday, the netherlands imposing the toughest lockdown measures across christmas and into mid january. germany's bring in a lockdown for brits coming from britain as well. more by that later, while london's mares declared a major instant over on the chrome spread are usually per trend gets more details. no, from february 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 mcclung. 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 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, 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. speaking of sputnik v, 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 really be there soon. devastated locals are trying to pick up the pieces after the unprecedented deadly tornadoes, the wrecked havoc across a vast swathes of the u. s. notably the state of kentucky but residence discovered

some law make his work soon, putting political point, scoring above helping them rebuild their lives. nicky arrow reported on it a worst most devastating, most deadly tornado event in kentucky's history. there's our hometown and it's just devastating. everybody's off, their laws were shaking house collapse in a guess. if you see where the whole house is buckled, the wall back side of this house is all total devastation for all town. most of our historic buildings are now gone. ah, with

the largest toyota, operates in our history, entire towns were destroyed as them 30 powerful tornadoes, ravaged across 6 us states. the worst effected can saki, and needs help support and relief 8. 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 17 senators who voted against a bill to provide billions of dollars in relief. we're all republicans among them. kentucky's senator rand, pull, once again thousands are suffering,

but there's no time like the present for political punches. we should do what we can to help our kentucky neighbors, good wisdom, the hosting, but do not for one second soccer that rand paul has voted against, hoping 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, that when the climate change was a factor is not clear at this point. still as the country real than shock and concerns over 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 impact as a consequence of a warm animal planet and the climate change. and so it themes something as devastating as this can only wet the appetite for those looking to score political points. in the week of climate change, expert warned the time was running out of a natural disasters, particularly for the worst off in society. people who are always defeated by the time of disasters, and extreme events, tend to be those who are already the beast advantage. so people who really have a waste of either being the pool or is too few services that they have even fewer resources to cope with those negative situations. events, oh, be the session with once

a year or much more frequently than that or even much less frequently, politically. we're at the moment where over the last few months, the most recent climate change and a report from me i p. c. c has been released and what that report really shows is that we have very little time and it incredibly in stuff who makes quite drastic action for a leave has to take a look at some styling, images of rushes. so you spacecraft getting ready to return to earth from international space station. these aren't quite live. it's not very recently. the spacecraft is now closed, it's transfer hutches as it prepares, this box, all that of their own is carrying back. 3 people, russian cosmonaut into japanese space tourist this time, they are still of quite a trip. out of them though with touched on earth, expected to run about 6 i was tom and counting the trail began the journey from the russian operated bike and of cosmo jerome on december. the 8th has been

a 10 day trip and they've spent under the weather 12 days and space. i won't do math live on air again or high. that's the way things look in the in the weekly some of the big stories of the last 7 days. i sort of pan, thanks for watching the station with me, kevin. oh, in my next program, and you're probably well drawn in ranking or well, the panoramic no. certainly no borders applied to nationalities and users. as a merge, we don't have with ultimate vaccine. the whole world leads to take action and be ready. people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also

know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great. the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together for what we got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms. race is often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk which

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