we ended up with, for example, the national health service in the u. k. that a chest was completely wiped out from the ransomware talk. if you were coming into a clinic because you had a test or you had an operation, they can't find your records. they had to go back to pen and paper i can with hello, i'm manila chad. you're tuned into in question. we're live at r t america headquarters in washington, d. c. these are the top stories of the day. first, russian president vladimir putin takes on the international media and his annual press free. think i made growing tension between moscow and the west will bring you all the latest with analysis. plus, the james web space telescope will be launched this weekend will tell you why this

launch is so important. and our sports h q team has a special year in review with some of the best highlights and interviews of the year. so stay tuned for that. all right, it's time to boost your news. i q. ah, the annual end of year media briefing by russian president vladimir putin has wrapped up the breathing not so brief. running over 4 hours are tease moran garcia, brings us all the key points. so we had questions ranging from, from issues with mortgages and provincial towns to big gates. questions lou did questions even from foreign journalists asking vladimir putin if he can guarantee that russia won't attack you crude. so will you guarantee on can personally,

that you will not invade ukraine or any other southern country or mercedes to buddhism? erections will not depend on negotiations. they will depend on unconditional compliance with russia. security in this sense, we've made it clear that any further movement to the east is unacceptable that we're not threatening anyone. we didn't come to the u. s. a. u. k. borders, no, they came to ours. not an inch to the east. that was a natal guarantee. in 1990, so what became of that, they fooled us. we've seen 5 waves of nato expansion and you keep demanding some guarantees from us. you must give us the guarantees it is up to you, and you must do it immediately right now, instead of talking about it for decades. he also spoke about the other thing that busha has been charged with a suspected of manipulating. that is the guy gas market in, in europe. he says, well, what we're hearing from various outlets is baseless and senseless. germany for example, is buying gas at $57.00 times below market price. we're and then they're using that

gas to perhaps celadon, to poland, which is paying an entirely different price because it insisted on trading with russia at market prices. now, the gases are the above $2000.00. well, it is ruinous, ruinous for both e. you citizens who have seen their household built for electricity go up for 500 percent ruinous also for businesses which year which are seeing an even larger rise the road to him with by them. look, they are lying to us there confusing every one against promise. shipping the entire volume request is light counteragent. in accordance with the exec ranks contractor, or even increasing the volume around the 20 more since they're increasing shipments to europe in it. i believe the gas form is the only company that you have that. so as supplies and not supplying the european market enough europeans in, i think they had the premium market, which they were left behind when we're talking about like national. yes, america is a transferring the shipments to the premium markets, luxury america,

brazil, china, south korea, from japan. yes. and the prize champion saying we mustn't know miss roy long term, a contract but know yesterday european commission, we must use moderate terms. go to the market will regulate now. well here's how is regulated, at least we have $2000.00. 1000 he be leaders of you're welcome to the other thing that popped up here was us you of recent scandals and russia involving jails. prisons and the torture of suspects and inmates by prison authorities. these were both, both incidents were, was shocking because that was graphic footage of it happening. there are more cases where we haven't seen footage. this is something that has been a sore point among russians for, for many years. and let me put in was asked what is being done about this. he said that the russian government is taking action. there are a number of criminal proceedings against her former prison, institutional staff members, as well as the fact that peter, this is

a problem only in russia. this is a problem in even in developed countries that it is very difficult to put an end to it. of them switch in this case is necessary festival to rely on the dates of the investigation. 17 criminal cases had been initiated and obeying under investigation earth, you have named only one or 2 people, but there are a 1000 or more than a 1000 dismissed. and there are criminal cases opened against them. yes, there is a problem we need to work with. it's a milan or conscientious, fully fledged investigation of those crimes. and these are clearly crimes that have been committed, them will to bring it to an end so that everyone understands the punishment for these offences is inevitable to play. i was lucky enough also to be able to ask latimer bruton question. my question was about canceled culture them for don't know, you as well as in my woocommerce that heavily. so politically, wesley, one of them sometimes in very extreme to form one, for example, for example, the incident with, with jake, a route thing in the house. the axes that she made say mas with her harry potter

movies have turned against it. i asked lads, we have to do what he thinks about the social justice culture and whether it is coming to russia. so been least initial wishes to the peculiarity and strength of all millennial society lies in the fact that russia has evolved as a multinational and multi confessional state. and we've learned to respect each other. and then this means to resume the basis of our traditional spiritual welsh own you might know the peoples of the russian federation of a sudden and tunnel moral protection against such a retrogression. well, this must be full. no one, no rigged instructions and shelves over by the supposed to vote traditional medical, not the biggest crowd that attendance today. because if that makes safety measures that social distancing in effect here, this mosse mandatory models. of course, that was also humidifiers and all sorts of anti sept, expressed in action today, but they were much bigger crowds and previous years. nevertheless, this,

the session lasted for, for 4 hours, 3 hours, 56 minutes. i believe the people defer on the how long? exactly. and this is, this is vladimir prudence press conference. and here to weigh in on putin's marathon presser, former pentagon official might maloof and george sand wiley. he is a writer and senior fellow at the global policy institute over in london. now gentlemen, in his annual marathon press conference, the russian leader fielded questions from the press about anything and everything. nothing was off the table from nato to cov ed. he addressed them all. let's start then with his demand that nato quote immediately confirm that ukraine will not become a member of the block. now i understand the block saying, i'm paraphrasing thing. we don't want you to tell us what to do. but are they willing to risk a military confrontation over this stance? george, give that to you 1st. well,

nato has got itself into a robin lovitz because they have made all these pledges. they've essentially gradually step by step, turning nato into a de facto member or nato. and they are now greg nasal. it is a graduate putting you, getting yourself into the position that the soviet union going itself into during the cuban missile crisis is something that the russians have repeated again and again, which is that at some point, roger will say that we will act unilaterally to secure our interest, if that means a confrontation with nato forces station in ukraine. so we in but there's nothing really you can do about it and it will be the same as it crossed over $962.00 and started making legalistic arguments to kennedy. well yes,

but these myths are allowed to defend you, but it's not aggressive. and q was a sovereign country and you become that you don't have any massage that he was american said, no, we're not listening to these arguments and rushes also say no, we don't listen to the stupid arguments. we will do whatever we need to do to secure our interests, and that means we're going into ukraine, dismantling nato infrastructure, nato intelligence operators. so be, it does nothing much lena can do about now. mike, you got a little been out home. i sat at the producers just sent me some breaking news on the heels of vladimir putin wrapping up this marathon presser, breaking news, a. the a f p is just reported tweeting at the us, ready for talks with russia from early january, according to a senior us official. how much of that do you think had to do with the former, with this press conference and vladimir putin really outlining his red line? well, i heard i heard that news before. the pro conference actually had occurred,

and there has been, there is background dialogue going on between the 2 sides because neither side, once war, having said that, vladimir putin is correct to lay down conditions and from which other countries then can have negotiating points and russia is right, in one, in a buffer zone. and what they're very fearful of, of course, is that native will bring in the amount of even offensive weapons, a lot of defensive weapons to can be turned into offensive weapons. he wants that curved as well. and i think he's right, and i recall back back when, when turkey had had honest john missiles and it wasn't negotiating point with kennedy, that ultimately of russia. if turkey's those missiles were removed from turkey, the russians would back off with its missiles and create

a buffer. and that actually led to the intermediate range ballistic missile treaty, right? so this is a kind of negotiating points that people one otherwise you're going to have a real confrontation. and i think that the, the, the problem is, is that biden has, is listening to the victoria newland and the other. mir conservatives that have their own agendas, and this is what i'm very, very concerned about. plus you have reports that you have the systems coming into from private military contract, right. who could instigate? and that's what i'm very, very fearful of that it will take a spark regarding maloof george him while he thank you both pleasure and now says james web space, telescope agency, successor to the famous hovel, is scheduled to launch this weekend. we'll get you the details after the break,

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for decades, scientists have tried to piece together the early history of the universe and now after several delays, nasa is launching the telescope that could do just that. trinity chavez has those details. while santos lay a circlet or 2 decades of development and around 7 launch delays the long away to launch of the james web space. telescope is expected on christmas morning. nasa's next flagship observatory, the james web space telescope is gearing up for its launched a space on december 25th after yet another delay this time because of interference by mother nature. the news of adverse weather conditions came shortly after. nasa shared that the launch readiness review for the telescope was completed on tuesday and found the upper level high wind could force a rocket off course or even damage or destroy it these last minute snags come after

years of delays and cost overruns for web, the biggest and most powerful science observatory ever built for space. the telescope, which comes with a price tag of some $10000000000.00, has trudged through one of the most difficult development timelines of any space program lasting over 2 decades and costing billions more than its original estimate . now the $10000000000.00 infrared observatory will soar from french giana on south americans north eastern coast, aboard the european, ari on rocket on christmas day. we've done a 2 decades of innovation and a hard work, and this is the result. we are opening up a whole new territory of astronomy. so we will see things that we've never been able to see before because this telescope is much more powerful than even the great hovel telescope. the telescope dub, the hubble space telescope successor, which has been in orbit since 1990, is designed to peer into the atmosphere of distant alien planets and see some of the 1st galaxies that formed after the big bang. i like to think of it as nasa's vehicle for the deepest space, exploration that amana humanity can do. it will allow us to see farther back in

time, to the time when the very 1st stars and galaxies were being born. for decades, scientists have tried to piece together the early history of the universe, and the j. w. s t is the 1st observatory that may give them a real shot at answering longstanding questions. so there is one major difference between j w, estie and hubble, and that is that hubble is looking at the universe invisible light. this is the same kind of light that you and i can see with our eyes. j. w. s. t. on the other hand is looking at in for red light, this is the kind of heat light that our body shine. a lot of things in space also shine really bright in for red light. and while hubble space telescope is orbiting the earth, g w. s t will orbit the sun, which is going to be about 3 times as far away as the moon and by being much further away from our planet, j. w. s t, we'll get a much clearer and cleaner picture of the infrared universe now that will provide coverage of the pre launch launch and the post launch activities for the james web space telescope, the world's largest,

and most powerful space science telescope for in question trinity child as r t well it's been oh wild year in the world of sports with seasons playing a full schedule to life events making their return are tease. steve cra, stock goes, and regina ham share some of their favorite moments and best live events from 2021 . what to say 2021 has been anything, but a roller coaster would be a major understatement. but one thing that always seems to give people hope a reason to while or just some pure entertainment as sport one constant that bonds us together. absolutely. and what a year half from wondering if sports would ever return after 2020 to this year, having stadiums, packet fans cheering on their favorite teams and giving us those truly memorable moments. so in honor of the end of the year, what do you say we take them back to you? yeah, i like that idea. so let's go back to the beginning with an icy start to the most incredible moments that may 20 to 21. if you think winter sports can't be anywhere

extreme at me, check free diver, david dental, the 38 year olds at a world record immense swimming. and this happened to occur under the i dental flam . nearly on meters or 265.75 below the ice in la host, a former quarry about 2 miles north west, the progress it took in one minute and 35 seconds to accomplish this speed. mm hm. but again, for the record to actually count the, i've had to be at least 11.8 inches thick. how i jumped right into it. you know, 1992 your career almost ended with the horrific like injury that happened during training. one point you feel you might have to amputate it. you faced all that adversity went on to win 5500 cc world championships. what kind of mental and physical challenges did you overcome to make all that happen? the physical one was the biggest hurdle, to be honest, the mental challenge was, was believing that i could do it not, never lost that belief. and really it was, it was pushing myself to the limit to, to try and re gain strength and,

and to regain some type of whole use of my leg, which never really actually happened. but thankfully had some good surgeons around, around me in italy and also in the u. s. and i was unable, unable me to get back on the bike. that if i hear the between lot us and johnson john to one of the most dominant chance in m. m a including us for me, if i wait champion, depending about 11 time, but med lot is, is the done on you're not to now the week, give me 2 minutes more. second, a park or there to hill, reaching us highway title and you know, fun fact, the hit that johnson tucker, if this is in the us would be a legal as using a ground to position. but i'm not major. no gathering of some of the best price in sports world. today from sophia, saying those nominated for these illustrious words gathered in a different way to accept their win and share how they gave back to make sport. forget that for some of the your transportation i only osaka lusaka one to us open

titles and 3 years including last year's and 2020, and on the 14th to push the boundaries of sport off of it. though she demonstrated incredible activism and support for the black live matter movement during your on a flushing meadows of sac award, different math every match featuring in the black victim of racial violence in the united states. now there's an old saying that lightning never strikes twice, but tampa bay begs to differ. the squad went back. a to back winning their 2nd stanley cup in a row after defeating the montreal canadians for games to one and it all went down wednesday night on the bolts, whole ice taking game 510 over the hats. i'm so happy we. i didn't want to go back to montreal, but the act that the fans in montreal come on. the acted like they want to stand like i've left game. you kidding me? you kid, i mean john romano, tampa bay times their final was less, less yours. okay. you gotta love it. i mean, so i know you have some, some thoughts on future of their well, i mean,

my biggest question is, i mean i see you shortly. but do you think you can't live? i mean, you never know when these guys when the cup afterwards, i mean, you remember when the caps did it, you saw them out in georgetown in the found chug and doing take stands out of the cup. but i got a safer type of a, you know, that was their 3rd sports franchise title in the past year to tampa bay lightning and one for the buccaneers were gonna have to start calling them tampa bay. i think that that was a good one, but we go down to steve chris coast and our sports h q, who i think is actually saving up to go to space to or maybe he's saving up for a ticket to wimbleton out of now what do you what do you say about other i'd much rather go to a sporting event here on earth fair and blow. speaking of little then it was surely a treat for the fans of the sport as we witnessed. greatness on display sunday afternoon when no back joke of its accomplish something only to others have done in men's professional tennis and that is lift 20 grand slam trophies. the world ever won. triumphed at the all england club capturing his 6th wimbledon title. after

defeating italian, mateo, bear to me and for set joke, which is now tied with raphael on the dol and roger federer for the most grand slam amend titles in history. it's one of our favorite events on the a to be tour. and regina tennis is back now in our nation's capital, after a 2 year hiatus due to the pain demik of course. now what's the mood like at this year's tournament? thus far? a man, see if it is the 52nd edition here of the city open. and let me tell you, i'm excited. i think everybody else is excited to be here then, but such aquash on the to p and w a calendar. so fans are excited to see action after the match. you said something interesting, you turn to him and that i've never said this before, but no back. you are the greatest of all time. no. now what brought that on? why did you, did you realize that at that moment? no, no, i realize it before, just, i won't say it again because i said it was,

i was completely on us. there is no going to to say every time i'm on time. so what i said, well honest this is just incredible. take a look at this by far, one of the most spectacular goals i've ever seen. portland host in the san jose earthquakes, timbers already of one. 0. and the admitted also to head for di, run a scream, making that run. now i said if they keep rejecting marson koski loses control caught up his line and you see what happens is free. i grabbed his bicycle and went for a ride. absolutely not. so we're not sure what's with himself. i don't think even he can believe what does happen known as mister october around the last for a very good reason, a strikes that would make the greatest watch on abraham a bit. pressed the execution. just incredible, using the right leg from outside the area of portland would go on. so when it look how beautiful that it would go on to when it pies for a 2 nails and provide one of the best goals, major league soccer has ever seen were here in the hulu theater at madison square garden, where the final pressure ahead of you f c $268.00,

just took place and let's just say with all the fighters in the main event on stage joined by us, the president dana white things got a bit that we've been hearing in my seat all week covering the events leading up to the big night, the anticipation is that an all time high. so what are you waiting for? let's go, oh good. the band outside the arena. we're more than eager to get quite nice. started with u. f. c. make it to return to new york for the 1st 2 year old recovers in knockout wise. i hey, listen, go to go get read the truth of the book. do oh, let's go from 2024. wow. well, the final action packed day of the world rugby 7th period divide is a full swing, as large crowds at large to witness the best men's and women's scenes from all over the world in one place. competing for that coveted emerett 7th title, the games

a job down, anybody can win on any given day. and it's delivery not again yet again in dubai. and in the in rainy i'm ins, champions booklets, box, south africa continue to dominate, becoming the 1st team and almost 2 decades to earn 3 straight titles in the desert . after feeding australia in the cup final. well, the time is arrived, the big day we've all been waiting for has the word gauge to send on the united arab emirates for the 1st time ever make it. it's the 15th different countries to play a 1000 garden act bars. the sticks were taped. skates released and frozen as the desert heat outside the arena was scorching. what's the future of this game? we don't know, but obviously there's got to be lots of positive that will come out of this game. so is this your 1st talk again? so i'm actually, i,

we're looking forward to attendance and see how things goes along the get excited. this is a very, it's like we've been watching the local game from the local deal. i think i'm back with special things that are super excited. never been okay. oh, good. well, what do you expect to know? and i think i'm a little bit of my router. one would be your final as the 1st k h l game in dubai is now in the books with act bars heading home with afterwards, we caught up with the player of the game, steven camper, who had this to say about the special night. it's memorable because you can always say that you want a game in dubai, and one night it was here a coca cola arena. the atmosphere inside absolutely electric as friends were treated to an event. they will not soon forget. and you can be sure it will not be the last time that ice hockey comes here to the u. e reporting from the k h l world games in dubai. steve, chris stack, those are key and they got a lot of good trips in there for the sports team. so that is gonna do it for us

right now. but make sure you keep up with everything in question at all times by downloading the new and improved portable tv app. so you can watch this show and all the others anytime you want. follow me on twitter and instagram app. manila chan. i am manila chance. thanks for watching. uh, feedback yourself ah, coil and gas manufacturing, electricity, telecom guys potations. all of them now have a type of infrastructure connected to the internet was clearly realizing this disruptive potential so that those countries kind of ignore it because it threatens national security issue. but if we take the money to you country, virtually all of them subscribe to certain doctrines and maintains selling but task

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