for that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment for what's driving the obesity epidemic. it's corporate with. mm hm. ah, ah, in some of 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 alliances court when it comes to de escalation over ukraine. the pentagon said none of its personnel would be held liable for the bought drone strive can afghanistan last summer, which killed 10 civilians, including 7 children. we heard from a grieving relative

a 1000. nobody approached us, no one contacted those and we were given no information. how can they compensate for 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 post says, false or misleading, facebook admits in court that it's much vaunted fact checks are actually based on opinion ah, are broadcasting more direct from our studios in moscow recapping to week stop stories with our weekly program. this is our to international i now friday, saw russia release a lists of proposals to deescalate tensions with nato, amid fears of a flare up and 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 our correspondent august to have comments 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 us and nato, its wishlist for return to normality. something to start talking about that 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 and of the cuban missile crisis. i'd like to

believe that this is rock bottom, but there's no guarantees and guarantees are what russia wants. guarantees, for example, that us missiles aren't stationed within a few minutes flight time. to moscow. the parties shall not deploy land based intermediate in short range missiles, in areas allowing them to reach the territory of the other parties. moscow sees native slow and unexplainable encroachment towards russia's borders. as an existential threat, nato argues that it's peaceful but right then the u. s. military doctorate. russia is referred to as an adversary. the close of 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 thinks much of russia's concerns. not long ago, secretary general stockton, burge 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. moscow's proposals come as the west again accuses it of prepping to invade ukraine. a claim that is strongly denied. near those chief also stressed the key of request to to join the alliance would be decided between ukraine, nato,

and its allies alone. while the same time he highlighted what he called a pattern of russian aggression. the cremeans foreign ministry spokeswoman says, remarks like that only create more attention at the shingle wars. man, this is edison formation 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 look. so this will not bring stability and security either in international relations or the regional janda. it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course western during noise, really use the word aggressor for into our country over to you. what right of the have to do this. i try to understand this every time. when was the last time russia attacked anyone as people need to back up this claim with arguments and how many times have native countries the texts her in states in the last 20 years, and how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries. when can you show me something im close to that from the russian side. now there is nothing

you need to figure out where there are facts and where there is a propaganda. earlier in the week, andrew farmer spoke with the former austrian foreign minister minister kern nissan . she outlined ways that she believes that could help overcome the current political deadlock between moscow in the west. 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, not only about so the para dig most of national security interest 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 saying we've got great security concerns about russia and a potential invasion. so what was the meeting point where the meeting points can only be achieved by saba, pragmatic, diplomatic trust building that is simply

a complete disregard for historical contemporary worries 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, and the us administration. we see that at all, anywhere. unfortunately, we are in times of the decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. if we are in a world of unilateral statements 1st before this, look at this amount of words, i mean this terminology is cannot be continued 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 bids which, which had effect planets on. so many people are required to act in

a more responsible way because the fakes 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 have people in office who knew what war meant. some of them well of the 2nd world generation. so they, 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 see 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 ever since the june meeting some more saba and problematic approach. what will what will be on the agenda? no. u. s. military personnel involved in august, but john strike enough,

kenneth's 10 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. do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here strength lock, 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 state. so why didn't they do those checks before launching obama 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. the wealth in the world means nothing to was 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 from all rhetoric or the girl was among the children killed in the strike when shown here, the picture. she was just 2 years old and 3 of the children had been in the car when it was hit by a missile. and in total, 7 youngsters were killed all from just one family. now the pentagon initially defended the cobble strike claiming it, targeted members of islamic state. more than 2 weeks later though it acknowledged that it was a tragic mistake. 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. 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

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, 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 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 adds to a long list of similar disastrous, according to the bureau of investigative journalism. up to 900 afghan civilians have been killed by us, john strikes since 2004, including dozens of children. while the new york times found that hundreds of civilian deaths were unaccounted for by the pentagon, brendan bryant again shows his experience of operating metal trans. 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 the 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 users may have to reassess the information they've been getting from the side after its parent company, meta admitted in court, that it's so called fact shanks are based merely on opinion. the revolution came during a legal battle, initiated by a journalist. after his posts were flagged as misleading with commentary, here's sask taylor 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's yet again found itself in court. this time up against to 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 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 leash so matter identifies potential misinformation, for fact checkers to review and rate. it leaves the ultimate determination whether information is false so misleading to the fact checkers. and though meta has designed its platforms so that fact checker ratings appear next to content that the fact checkers have reviewed and rated. it does not contribute to the substance of those ratings. now you won't find any of these details in the giant fact checking

section on facebook dot com. instead, you'll learn about how they interview thought, 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 fact jacqueline martin 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 face may 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 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 shit labels can not be false or defamatory because they consist 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 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 with. 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. still ahead on the wiggly the oma con cove. it

variant is now in nearly 90 countries causing alarm. and more locked down after the break, we discussed the current thread. it is posing with the world health organizations, regional director for europe. 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 successfully, very critical time. time to sit down and talk to others, driven by dream shaped bank. concur some of those with,

there's things we dare to ask a ah, welcome back. this is our to international now health experts in the u. s. and our warning that the new coven, i'm a crohn variant, may be the dominant strain there in just a matter of weeks and could potentially overwhelm the health care system. the world health organization says the new variant is now in 89 countries. now,

despite its rapid spread, o'con 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 lock down going through christmas and into mid january and germany has banned most foreign travelers from the u. k. as london's mayor has declared a major incident due to the new strain or cheese italy pacheko spoke with the w. a 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 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 what they call fife pandemic stabilizers. number one, increase vaccination coverage, number 2, boost boost, boost number city, double. the number of people varying 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 and effective 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 a little bit less. but it, that 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, the uniform to has been growing over time. but i think the point that it's still really aleck off uniformity,

what they called political here. it is. and it's confuse us the people that's right . doubling 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. 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 shed the optimism of the present alteration. sedation that this debris chal, emergency use listing for sputnik will be there soon. devastated locals are trying to pick up the pieces following the unprecedented deadly tornadoes that retired across vast swaths of the wes noticeably in the state of

kentucky. but residence discovered some lawmakers are putting political point, scoring above helping them to rebuild their lives or to think aaron explains ah mm hm. worst most devastating, most deadly tornado event. and kentucky's history and our hometown and it's just devastating. everybody's off, their walls were shaking. house collapsing, i guess. do you see where the whole house is buckled? the whole backside of this house is all total devastation for all town most for historic buildings are now. gough with

the largest tornado outbreaks in our history and fire towns were destroyed as some 30 powerful tornadoes, ravaged across 6 us dates the worst affected can. saki needs help support and relief 8. and so it turns to the government and fellow americans. but politics is politics. and his themes, 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 sen, round poll. 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 be wisdom. they're hurting, but do not for one second soccer. that rammed pole 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 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 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 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 a climate change expert warned that time was running out over natural disastrous, particularly for the worst off in society. people who are 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 life at a waste of time being they put all this to few services that they have even fewer resources to cook with those negative situations. events for 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 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's incredibly urgent. so who makes quite drastic action rushes that, sorry is spacecraft is now returning to earth from the international space station is carrying 3 people, a russian cosmonaut and to japanese space tourists. and they have quite a trip ahead of them with touch down on earth expected in just about 2 hours, the trio began their journey from the russian operated by canard, cosmo roman cousin on on december the 8th and have spent 12 days in space.

space is cool or is it does for me? i'll be back in about 32 minutes with another look to weekly here with us, marty international one and i make no certainly no board is a team and you as emerge. we don't have with the we don't have a vaccine, whole world needs to take action and to be ready. people are judgment. 2 come 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 are in it together

with oh, my view more broadly is that genocide has taken place. far more than anyone acknowledges. right. it takes place frequently. it is taking place in virtually every country in the world. so why does it come to be called them? well, there's political will medical mobilization, if you remember, wanda, nobody initially wanted to name or may knew it. just as i was saying, mice, nobody wanted to call it, eventually that label came to take my son, not at the time when events weren't full name about political is asian is if you say it's genocide, is suggest that you need to do something with

ah are the obesity epidemic as the most important international health problem. let me thought that the new policy to waste your soda bissell and then the only thing on the fact that it's a man made tragedy. earlier my life, i thought that my weight was all my fault.