and if we go on believing that never change is obesity upcoming, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment for what's driving the obesity epidemic. it's corporate ah hybrid . it's over the top stories from us over the last 7 days. russia unveils a list of proposals to nato, for maintaining joint security with moscow's deputy foreign minister, saying the ball is now in the alliance escort. when it comes to de escalation over you, craig, the pentagon said that none of its personnel would be held liable for the botch to drones, drank in afghanistan last summer, which killed 10 civilians, including 7 children. we heard from

a grieving relative of with nobody approached us, no one contacted those and we were given no information and how can they compensate us for family members? all the wealth in the world means nothing to was now we've lost 10 of our relatives . and after years of flagging post says, false or misleading, facebook admits in court that it's much vaunted fact checks are actually based on opinion ah, what testing live direct from studios and moscow? recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program. this is our teacher national. but have you with us? are now friday saw rush, i'll release a list of proposals to de escalate tensions with nato, amid fears of a flare up in ukraine, among the demands are a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. the western military block

says it will consider the document, although insisting that any outcome will require input from give of correspondent what i've got to have reports on 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 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 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 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 berg announced that roger has no vito, no se nato operations and no right to any sort of security buffer. all fear of influence nato has proven on the last year's daughter. our open door policy is not only 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 the 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, summoned public, consult mockingly for the cameras. but perhaps this time, sense willed, prevail. moscow's proposals come as the west again accuses it of preparing to invade ukraine. a claim that is strongly denied. nato's chief, also stress kim's request should join the alliance would be decided between ukraine

and nato and its allies alone. while at the same time, he highlighted that he called a pattern of russian aggression the kremlin foreign ministry spokeswoman says remarks like that only create more tension if a tional wish man. 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, green border, and se ukraine look. so this will not bring stability and security either international relations or the regional janda guy. yeah, it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course western door noise 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 russia attacked anyone else? people need to back up this claim with arguments and how many times have needed countries at texas her 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 the more there is nothing. you need to figure out where there are faculty and where there is a propaganda. earlier in the week we spoke with the former austrian foreign minister at karen canal. she outlined ways that she believes would help overcome the current political deadlock between moscow and 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, interest and so on. at the moment we have both side saying, russia saying, look, we've got grave security concerns about nato. we have eastern european countries, we've got great security concerns about russia and a potential invasion. so what, where is the meeting point where the meeting points can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building. there is simply

a complete disregard for historic and contemporary a walrus on, on, on the russian side. so that i think that should be taken into account and, and to overcome that stalemate, it requires genuine diplomatic creativity. also on the side of nato officials, e u, and, and the u. s. a administration, we seeing that at all, anywhere. unfortunately, we are in times of a decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. it's, we are in a world of unilateral statements. postal fathers 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 bills which, which had that 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. that some of them, well after the 2nd world generation, so they, they, they wouldn't play around with, or it's like nuclear attack or a fully fledged war because they knew what one was about. we have to see this not moment now to do really something like confidence building back and her. i thought that the us side oh, what are, what put its priorities in a different way and that ever since the june meeting or some more saba and pragmatic approach. um what, what are, what will be on the agenda? no. u. s. military personnel involved in august's botched drones strike and

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 announcement made by the pentagon on monday. if you not anticipate their 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 hope 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 is like state. so why didn't they do those checks before launching obama to us? it looks like no other country is forcing them to seek justice. there is no one to change them because they're superpower. that's why the americans have failed to keep their promises. when the americans promised justice and compensation and then they would take us to the us,

we found out on the news that they would take some measures, but nobody approached us. 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 . my brother was working for foreigners. he was innocent. all of our children were innocent. what did they do from all? rather they could tour. this girl was among the children killed in the strike. she was just 2 years old. 3 of 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. the pentagon initially defended the, the couple strike craving a targeted members of islamic state within 2 weeks later though, it acknowledged that it was a tragic mistake that was made. we 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. strong program will be 10 years in 5 days actually. and to see that nothing has changed,

even when it's blatantly out in front of everyone's face. how we operate and, 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. i am must have been that there was, 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. 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 to adds to a long list of similar disastrous, according to the bureau of investigative journalists. 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 were unaccounted for. by the pentagon, brendon bryant again shared his experience of operating battle troves. there is no way that anyone who has ever done this job and sit there watching these people live their day 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 see that 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 users may have to re assess the information that they have been getting from the site efforts. parent company, meta admitted in court, that so called fact checks are based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by a journalist after his post were flagged as misleading with commentary here, soccer taylor turns out, the famous fac tech has 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 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 check has, 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 double down on how it gives it fact checkers. a very long leash 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 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, 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 fat 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 checks even when they are clearly

labeled as op eds or editorials. also, facebook, all fact check labels cannot be false or defamatory because they concede she 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 so 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 give their opinion. still a has the program. the alma kron covered strain is now in nearly 90 countries causing alarm. and more locked downs after the break we discussed the current threat. it's posing with the world health organizations, regional doctor, for europe. ah ah ah,

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race. is on offense, very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult, time time to sit down and talk with welcome back. this is the weekly on our to international health experts in the us.

our warning that the new covet, omicron variant may be the dominant strain there in the matter of weeks and could potentially overwhelm the health care system. the world health organization says the new variant is now in 89 countries. and despite its rapid spread, omicron actually appears less likely to cause severe illness than the previous delta variant. according to studies from south africa and hong kong, but still several european countries are re imposing tough restrictions. the netherlands is on a lockdown going through christmas and into mid january and germany has band most foreign travelers from the u. k. as a london mayor has declared a major incident due to the new strength, articulate pacheco spoke with the w, i chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about our micron at this point? we know much more and we have the doors and about all michel, it's to, 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 stu, delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement what they call fife, on the mic stabilizers number one, increase vaccination coverage. number 2, boost boost, boost number city. double. the number of people voting. marks. endorse number 4. ventilate, particularly in classrooms. keep the schools open and fife, implement new treatment protocols. how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove ineffective against on the chrome 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 dose 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 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 sway dublin was advocating to establish a bung european health city 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 for the nation that this dub ritual emergency use listing for sputnik will be there soon.

devastated locals are trying to pick up the pieces following the unprecedented deadly tornadoes that reeked havoc across vast swans of us. notably, the state of kentucky but residence discovered some lawmakers are pulling political point, scoring above helping them to rebuild their lives. are cheese nic, aaron, comments a worst most devastating, most deadly tornado event in kentucky history. there's our home town and it's just devastating. everybody's well, there was were shaking house, collapsing gas if you see where the whole house is buckled, the well back side of this house is all total devastation for all town. most of our historic buildings are now going with

the largest tornado breaks in our history and tire towns were destroyed as some 30 powerful tornadoes ravaged across 6 that 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, it's 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 hit in 2017, the 17 senators who voted against

a bill to provide billions of dollars in relief, will all republicans among them? kentucky's sen runs pull. once again thousands are suffering, but there's no time like the present for political punches. we should do all we can to help our kentucky neighbors be wisdom. they're hurting, but do not for one second. forget that rand pole has voted against helping most americans most times bear in need. we know ran paul is a heartless hypocrite. the people in kentucky deserved a relief regardless of their before in his leadership. but if the dance don't use this against him and his party in the future, it is mister, put unity for some. it's not even off limits to suggest that if you vote read, then you had it coming. vote for climate change, deny isn't. see what happens. tornadoes in december are red, but weather climate change was a factor is not clear at this point. still as the country rules and shock and

concerns the 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 that i know is that the intensity of the weather across the board has some impacts as a consequence of the warming of the planet and the climate change. and so it seems something as devastating as this can only what's the appetite for those looking to score political points in the week, a climate change expert warned that time was running out over daniel disasters, particularly for the worst off in society. people who always defeated by these types of commerce and climate disasters, and extreme events, tend to be those who are already the least advantage. so people who really have a life at a worst of either being bait ppo,

or an access to few services, you know that they have even fewer resources to cook with those negative situations, events o devastation where they come once a year or much more frequently than that or even much less frequently, politically, we're at a moment where over the last few months, the most recent climate change and a report from me and i, d, c, c has been released. and what that report really shows is that we have very little time and it incredibly urgent, stuck who makes quite drastic action rushes. so user space craft is getting ready to return to earth from international space station space is cool. it was carrying 3 people, a russian cause modern to japanese space tourist. the capital has now closed its hatters as it prepares to disembark and they have quite

a trip ahead of them. the trail began that their journey from the russian operated by can or cosmo roman catholic st on on december 8th, and have spent 12 days and space. what does it does it for me? i will be back in about 32 minutes with another solar fresh look of the weekly with look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. at that point obviously is to place truck rather than fear i would like to take on various job with artificial intelligence. real, somebody with a

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