barrett of christmas. you decide. i a a put in demands nato, give assurances to not me basis closer to russia. he answers questions on global politics during his annual media briefing. more than half of adults in britain are too scared to express that real opinions openly for fear of falling victim to cancel culture. living in a coach in our bullying, we used to have a good healthy democracy with how we debate and country where you could save it. and then you'd have to argue, okay,

people are frightened to always say what they feel in case there's a, a bunch prime minister approval ratings plummets after media outlets published a photo showing him apparently in flagrant violation of his own coded restrictions with very good morning to you watching r t international great to have your company, nato expansion, rack or gas prices and a whole range of other issues and concerns were the topics addressed by president putin on thursday. this is during his marathon end of year q and a with the media. more than $500.00 journals gathered in moscow for the event and included representatives from foreign outlets. ah,

no, she used to will, directions will not depend on negotiations. they will depend on unconditional compliance with russia's security today. and in the future, we medi clear nights as further movement to the east is unacceptable, was not clear about it. are we the ones who deploy missiles next, the united states know that the united states who brought their missiles next to our home, already on our doorstep, is it an excessive demand? no more a tax systems near our home. is there something unusual about this? yet no, we're doing, we're not an inch towards the east. we were told in the 19 nineties and what they fooled us. they outrageously deceived us. 5 ways of nato expansion, and now they say, would have ukraine's whoa, whoa. usually if i take the traditional approach, that is a woman, is a woman, a man is a man, a mother is a mother, a father is a father or she is not all the peoples of the russian federation have a certain internal moral protection against such obscurity. them let them in the

west do whatever they want, borrowed sufficient and well this must be fought, not my direct instructions and shouts, but by the support of the traditional values of them. so it is necessary 1st of all, to rely on the data of the investigation. 17 criminal cases have been initiated under under investigation. over a 1000 people dismissed and their criminal cases opened against the law. i assure you there is not a single investigator interested in any case. this is why we have divided the investigative committee and the prosecutor's office. there problem. yes, there is a problem we need to work with. it's umbrella and conscientious, fully fledged investigation of those crimes. and these are clearly the crimes that have been committed. we need to bring it to an end so that everyone understands the punishments for these offences is inevitable. ah, yeah, i have no way. oh, long time ago i spoke with one the form you as president guess with whom. and he told me the boy cause the olympics in los angeles in moscow were big mistakes,

including on the side of the united states. and united states keeps on making them again, why the diplomatic and political boycotts of china. they tried to hold back the elements of china. there are no other motives. ah, you know these very clearly we need to be realistic. the forces that appeared at the helm of afghanistan are trying to have different ethnic groups in the countries leadership. and this alone can create conditions for hope, for stabilization in afghanistan. bullshit do now to help the people of afghanistan . and 1st of all, it should be done by the countries that created such severe damage to the afghan economy and people. those were there for 20 years. destroying the economy should be the 1st to help on our side will do everything depending on us. president putin also replied to a question about sore and gas prices laying the blame for that at the door of the west. the rule to him with both them with they are lying to us there confusing every one does promise, shipping the entire volume requested by its counter agents. in accordance with the

existing contract, we were saying we must not destroy long term contracts, but know that the european commission, we must use market terms. the market will regulated. well, here's how it's regulated and we have $2000.00. 1000 cubic meters. you're welcome. the issue of gas, it's pretty clear that, you know, russia has nothing to do with that. a he said that gas from one is one of the few companies in the world that has increased its supplies to europe. whereas, for example, the american suppliers have diverted gas from the yeah, liquefied natural gas from the european market. toys, the markets where they can make more money. russia hasn't done that. it increased its supplies to germany, for example, by 10 percent. but that's not enough. i'm in and the russia is always whenever there is a, any issue, any contentious issue or even a domestic problem. it seems that in europe and the west in general, i, in the habit of sort of resurrecting russia as the scarecrow to, you know,

hang all the possible problems on and the, you know, you can be or irritated by that. but after a certain amount of time, he's just still paying attention and i think this is the state that is at the moment. it's just simply boring. you know, like to narrow down every problem in the world onto the rushes. plotting are evil doing more than half of people in the united kingdom are too scared to so they really think a new po found that they're worried about being canceled. my friends colleagues, even members of their own family was he shall he, i do stuff. she has the story council culture is silencing academics, a gagging public figures and wiping celebrities of the face of the planet. wait, can i really say that? who knows? but i'm not the only one biting my tongue as according to you got paul. majority of brits are living in fear of will being canceled. the majority of britons 57 percent say they have at least sometimes found themselves stopping themselves from

expressing their political or social views for fear of judgment or negative responses from others. the id or password can be cancelled, or in other words, blocked from having a platform is happening to hundreds with a very similar cycle. you say something offensive receive a public backlash, and suddenly you're gone done a finish cancelled by by. but it's only happening to big names and faces, but people like you and me work on line on dates and even at home. i think we're living in a coach now of bullying, bullying in workplaces the government actually. so i think people are frightened to always say what they feel in cases come back on. so the main street made you seem to have one sort of point of view of everything. and so if you say in different you get, so it's quite, you get quite has to think there's a lot of things for the climate, change, covey or whatever. there's no discussion that is the narrative and you

of the group, or we should cause you down a lot of issues where you fear fred, very careful about what you say and that's not right now, but good debate. and we used to have a good healthy democracy, could have a debate and country where you could say things and then you'd have to all your case and some people just don't want to argue, i want to hear the ever argument. i just want to shut you down and say, no, you can't tell you that you don't allowed to say that i thought device. i traditional a private to the apology. atonement forgiveness is no longer enough to warrant if they weren't accountability, social justice boycott. and the more controversial the view on any hot topic like race, immigration breck, that the more you should keep your thoughts and your mouth shop most with less progressive views on device of social topics, feel more reluctant to voice their opinion. some say rather than being politically correct, the whole thing has been spelled out of control into a social media merchant, a smoke rule. but i haven't felt some from taking the risk of being cancelled. like

for instance, j. k. rowling and anti trust public position. worse bees, freedom of slavery, ignorance is trans. the biggest thing to vigil. hurrah! too is a woman. well, that wasn't her only comment. there's been plenty more. and as a result, she's been wiped off the face of the up even by the world. she created the, bought the community and the movie production team deleted her from scripts. meanwhile. * r h b yos. 20th anniversary. she was bought. not only that, a number of couldn't leaks class they really do exist, announced their rebranding to distance themselves away from j. k. rowling, the tough. that's a trans exclusionary radical feminist. but there are others in her potty school of thought. jackie riley wrote all the harry potter books by herself and they canceled her because she said gender was a fact. and then the trans community got mad and they started calling her turf trans, exclusionary radical feminist onto turf. gender is a fact well,

trans employees and allies at netflix stage to walk out forcing the c e o to publicly apologize when you ah ah. meanwhile, team tough relished in the drama. if this is what being cancels, is like i love it. the song continues as monty python's star. terry gilliam got cancelled for endorsing chapels, netflix special shortly after the old vic right here in london, announcer pulling his shirt into the woods for miss november schedule. it is very said that a great cultural institution like the old, vague, allowed itself to be intimidated into cancelling our production of into the woods

by small group of closed minded humor, averse i. d. o. x on their stuff. my unspeakable crime was recommending my facebook followers to watch netflix special by brilliant and provocative american committed . they did, and civilization didn't collapse. ok, so that's on the most extreme end of the scale. but at the end of the day, how hard is it not to say something that's obviously donning turns out really hard indeed. cancel culture. this cancelling this punishment. it's everywhere. punishment and i for and i, you said that therefore you must never work again. sooner or later the counselors will win. oh, british actress of primetime tele, more in let been thinks, even comedy is now on the verge of being canceled. it's a bit like laughter in church. something has to be forbidden to make you really laugh, to make you belly laugh. it's when you shouldn't be laughing. and so therefore all the things that are being canceled out,

or i'm afraid the things that i've always made people laugh. so is it time to cancel, cancel culture, because pretending somebody doesn't exist because they've touched a nerve, is a simply slope as let's face it. we've all upset someone somewhere haven't way will staying in the united kingdom. the beleaguered british foreign ministers approval rating that his nose dived to a record la forest wilson cohen has around a 3rd of the support that he had at the start of the panoramic. most people polled now believe that he will not be leading the government in the u. k. any is time. and one of the main reasons seems to be the almost daily damning revelations in photos suggesting down the street staff. conservative party work is even the prime minister himself violated coven restrictions last year. and the picture i'm particular talking about was published by the guardian showing boris johnson with his family members of staff, sharing wine and cheese. very nice in the dining street garden. when the rest of the country was under strict laws against social mixing during the 1st lockdown,

despite that photo evidence. so for us, johnson rejects that. he did anything wrong. do you normally have wine and cheese were made for people? there is a meetings of people at work talk about this is where i live and so i work. those are meetings of people at what talking about work while adding to the british foreign ministers. whoa says an open letter by national health service staff accusing his government of exploiting them thus after he ass medics to help to deliver the fastest and biggest vaccination drive to stave off. the surging only from cove is variance health workers so that that they ask them more and more and getting nothing in return. we would like to ask each and every one of you why, despite our incredible efforts you continue to exploit us. on behalf of the whole n h s workforce, we want you to acknowledge the damage. you have cost apologize and let someone else fix your mess. the n a chest needs to be removed from the political playground.

people's lives aren't again. we spoke to another nurse who says that she says no effort by the government to tackle the issues medical staff are facing where we're already seeing like widespread shortages that all having a massive impact on patient care. and not only that, i think working under those conditions where you are short staffed, then impacts the work as, as well and, and it's kind of like a cycle, it becomes unbearable. and so i think he's a massive reason why i just stay and people walk away and drive. i myself have left the well, i was in a contracted role. i left that now and i just do agency type nothing. the page. you know, they've done nothing to address the pay on the 3 percent that they given, you know, inflation that she has 4 percent so it's not felt by, by the stuff you know, why would they stay? and that is pressure doing miss thought,

what if they're not being paid fairly and they don't feel valued? there's been no, no s that i've seen from the government to to tackle retention within the work on the way. i know so many colleagues of walked away, the fact that we haven't had to pay addressed the fact that way with now last 2 of the services that we can offer, it's a lot, a lot of pressure is going to have an effect then on the services that we can offer, it's a lot, a lot of pressure at the moment and people are tired, they are devalued. that demoralized and i can't see anything that this government is doing at the moment to dress the now today marks. so if he is, since the ussr officially cease to exist, the union was replaced by 15 independent states among them, russia. now these were, i guess the takes a look back at what has changed since the soviet flag over the kremlin was lowered . 30 years ago, humanity witnessed the spectacle,

the dramatically changed the course of history, the spectacular overnight collapse of the ussr. she loo sloan realty, too. as a result of a newly formed situation, creation of the commonwealth of independent states, i seize my activities in the post of the ussr president, show so uniqueness, ah, here enough, 300000000 people woke up with a new nationality. their homeland gone race that the stroke of the pen and it began with a perestroika, a radical rethinking of soviet mentality, identity and ideology. we must begin 1st by restructuring our thinking on psychology, organizationally in the style and ways working. i will say frankly,

that we do not restructure ourselves, and i'm deeply convinced of this, that we will not rebuild economy or social life. but perestroika proved too much too sudden, too intense to unpredictable where the intent was evolution. the result was revolution, nationalism reared up with frightful speed across the u. s. sr. a leads, and opportunities and various republics clamored for power and independence. the result was climactic. the ussr a season, his existence as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality. it was the dawn of a new age. that was pessimism, but there was also optimism what marvels could peace bring. a great empire and nicholas superpower was split into independent countries, which got the chance to cooperate with each other as closely as they wanted, without any bloodshed. and so began uh, flood of cultural exchange,

as western ideas rolled and roiled across the former ussr. ah . ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback hundreds of millions of people have thrown off communism dictatorship or apartheid former adversaries. now cooperate with us in diplomacy and global problem solving. the ality, however, turned out to be far uglier than the propaganda post as will mainstream media promised. the guiding hand of the communist party, god, old and buried hatreds, re ignited, and neighbors turned on each other. ah .

it wasn't just war and uncountable debts. i'd was misery, pure and simple economic social health care collapse, the rise of transnational mathee as an organized crime fraud and corruption sisted across the former soviet union. ah . ringback ringback ringback ah, a traumatized the people undoubtedly the misery and the hopelessness of the 90s lay

yearned for stability. not for communism, no, nor the ussr, but for a semblance of order. and whatever his, the tractors might have to say about putin, he gave the russians stability. agatha. unfortunately, are common fatherland, the soviet union dissolved. as you know, the core of this common states is historical russia, the russian federation, which is, you know, lost almost half of its industrial potential, half of its economy, the same share of its population and a substantial part of its territory. what can we do about this? now, i've already said that restoring the soviet union would be pointless and impossible for many reasons. and not even desirable because of the senior which make sense. few want the you, as a saw communists back legends have made that very clear. but to build a new state, a new russia, one which provides for the people, rather than uses them and at the same time,

evoked the sort of respect that the soviet union did. while that scares russia's opponents, hooton's plan scares them. you know, i think the concern is that president putin's public lamentations and private lamentations about the demise of the soviet union have gotten on noisier and stronger over the years. so the concern is that he's actually as a legacy project seeking to reconstitute the soviet union. and then, you know, would his appetite be fulfilled with that eating or what he seek? the soviet union has been gone for 30 years, but had spirited lives on it lives on the hearts of former citizens who now remember only the glory days, the good pots. they forget the empty shelves, the food lines, the k g b, at lives on the minds of rush, has rivals who still think in terms of blocks and super bowers stuck as they are in

the past. who believe that russia last did say forever when the usaa saw collapsed? regardless of the fact that 30 years have passed since i rodnick, isn't it? the women death, the soviet union still shapes our futures, who he spoke to, michael retired, who lives in estonia, but was never made a citizen after the collapse of the earth. so he told us about the struggles russian speak his face in estonia these days. it's so funny, she doesn't you mother was like a lot of his sons have always held high positions and after his don't again, its independence. all arch enterprises were brought to bankruptcy by any means over all the russians who worked there did not speak stone in and were fired. and while they were learning missed on in there, people took all the vacant places. my mother tried and learned the language,

but even she, with the higher education, had to work as a cleaner. they called after independence language categories appeared in estonia, language inspection body was active and rates on schools and other institutions began. those identified were laid off. little there are russian speak in civil servants, but they tend not to be further up in the highest government circles. russian speakers can vote in local elections, but they cannot vote in parliamentary elections like do you non citizen status or truly like the ellen passport is equivalent to refugee state. and i have it even though i was born and grew up here in estonia and my grandmother and mother are buried here. it is not rightly some students to really open all russian schools will be close in tar 2. or if they want to prohibit teaching in russian language that they haven't studied russian history for a long time. but the schools are teaching the history of estonia while the occupation and all that were foolish enough here. so i was born in the stone in soviet social's republic, which has become estonia, but for me,

nothing has changed since it was in the year ceasar. it has remained the same, the same people around me, the same houses, the same roads. i consider is stone at to be my homeland. my motherland will always be the country where my ancestors lived, russia. it turns out the hopes of millions of libyans, that she's a new direction for that country, have been scuffled after elections on friday was scrapped. that decision came as a warlord started to parade. 3 round the capital tripoli rat sting up fears of a fresh civil war dantes eager don off reports delaying the vote could serve certain outside interests this year, promised to bring a tonic change for libya, a chance to revitalize its political life and hold in election. the 1st one since the whole decade of lawlessness and in fighting, but local militia has had their opinion on this whole democracy. not on our watch

said a bunch of warlords, as the internationally recognized governments fled into hiding. the u. s. is predictably disappointed, almost as if this om takeover was and led by the personal mob of sala body. a militant one, celebrated armed and funded by the west. when both sides pursued a common goal, we will deny the regime arms cut off and supplies of cash, assist the opposition and work with other nations to hasten the day when gadhafi leaves power. the un greenlight nato's bombing campaign and bombs hailed down on libya. as per the un resolution sorties were meant to protect civilians. as per you and statistics, some 60 people actually perished under nato bombs. and some activists actually believe real figures to be much higher. but they did the job,

we can conduct the forces enough for local militants to finish him off on the ground without any trial. the we came, we saw died. but the triumph of democracy did not come. instead, libya a once prosperous and promising oil rich nation turned into a lucrative pi up for carving to be split him at goons and warlords. ah

ah, ah, hillary clinton did not laugh any more as she was watching an american consulate being rushed by a murderous mob, killing the ambassador. i asked myself, how could this happen? how could this happen in a country we helped liberate in a city? we helped save from destruction. those libyans who had nowhere to flee, had to survive in this hot mess of the international communities creation for a whole decade. this selection was there a dim light of hope at normality, miss berlin as to the elections? i think it's in the interest of the libyan people and libyan state to emerge out of this crisis after years of darkness, and to avoid all problems and political disputes in the coming years. then of sarah,

how, shaving, honestly, the libyan people were disappointed. there are $2800000.00 registered voters, and suddenly they manipulate their feelings and decide to cancel the elections. libyan people reject this principle. they want these elections to stop building a country that embraces everyone. in this money that him to her, i believe that postponing the elections isn't in the interest of the libyan people . the commission has dashed to hopes of the lee been people because the delay means more corruption. what does it instead got yet another chance to confirm for themselves that right now, whoever has more guns in libya, rules and any sort of west and back leadership will be serving only for as long as the warlords allow it to. obviously the main culprit is nato, which destroyed a sovereign nation, the most prosperous nation in africa before the nato bombing. it converted

libya into a failed state. the us doesn't care about democracy either at home here. i don't think they care about it. and libby, i think what they care about is having a compliant country that will allow the us and other western countries to pillage its resources. i don't think they really care whether they're election there or not . in the i certainly don't think they want elections that would result in a leader being elected that would protect libya's national sovereignty and resources. i had the good of a libyan opposition politician till the 2400000 voters have been insulted. a man, leisure bad. so what's happened with the elections as an insult? the 2 and a half 1000000 libyans who ready to elect a candidate e b. if we say that the people ruled on that power and the final word amongst the people had, well, then we should not neglect millions of people who are registered to vote. jacobo bought up nearly $100.00 candidates, were lined up to run in the selection,

and they came from an array of religious communities, tribes and social groups. having about 5000 have been nominated to be elected to the house of representatives we're living. unfortunately, the postponement of elections show that libyans do not have free will, are the libyans. he wants to have the final say day tomorrow. and in the future, i should take to the streets, had his laughter. all you authorities have been manipulating you and insulting on that. yeah. it's been one thing after another for more than 10 years in this never ending performing. he adds insulting when bullying at this level in another class where she joining me here in the studio this sunday morning. i'll return without this for you 30 minutes time. ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have a tree that even foundation let it be an arms race. his aunt offends very dramatic development only personally and.