oh, it's selling my life was over just about balcony and died. mm hm. you just couldn't stop. with alice hope headlines, are you international from civilian death and destruction and afghan? what's a blow a lift the lid on america's drone program, the former operator currently in hiding from the taliban po to walk. he's a special project unheard. boyd, with russia foreign minister accuses nato of trying to grab it, eastern european territory, and debug claims from the alliance of russian aggression in new prank

or in the program leading belgium engineers are left dismayed as the government decides to shut down all nuclear reactors within 3 years, even though atomic energy does generate almost half of the countries in higher electrical output, also with the living room of a house, that's what i can get if what the neighbors are telling me to use to be home from tennessee. now played policy travels to the battleground to the ongoing civil war in ethiopia. speaking to people caught up in both sides up with all right, your work. we're kicking off with a handful of your hot topics today. welcome to the program on audience afghan drone operators working for the united states were apparently kept in the dark about civilian deaths. that is according to a whistleblower who spoke to

r t about his job during the war on terror. he's currently in hiding from the taliban in fair for his life, even refusing to contact his own family to keep them safe. he shut his story with ortiz unheard. voices, lalellah, we live in a horrible situation. very bad conditions. i honestly, i am fed up with my life that's out of it, so i'm in hiding alone with underground. yeah, i can't go outside. i'm hopeless for somebody. i ask myself, do i have the right to live a peaceful life in my own homeland will not let me save strength. and i wish i had been born in a different country to me at the decimal got in telling me that would be like a pillow top. we had to operate our drones. i was an 8 hours a day. and then the same at night there was a u. s. company and the afghan government assigned an agreement with them. he said

we were employed by this company. they scam eagle with each month one, pilots conducted 17. is it 20 drone strikes? it could be more than that, but not blessing with data throughout all operations,

we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target to that. and the statistics on this were out of our control. we didn't have access to this data the government at the port, we lost a couple of our pilots in the last days of our work. and after the taliban took over, one was arrested in cobble and the 2nd, when he was visiting his family, some drone pilots were also beaten and humiliated. and 3 or 4 of our colleagues are missing was a even the closest relatives don't know where they are. sex age stay blinking is leading the continued diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any american afghan partner or foreign national. who wants to leave afghan as to what we're doing every single minute of every single hour of

every single day. it's working to create safe passage for all civilians, including the afghans who worked for us to the airport to get them on planes and get them out. we worked intensely to evacuate and relocate and worked alongside us in our particular risk reprise of our commitment to them has no deadline of let me put it this way and yet i've lost my own people. know i'm hiding at different places. i can't stay at one place. i can't meet my family. i don't even know how my family is doing now. i can't see them with my colleagues. we can't see or contact each other because we are afraid the taliban are tapping our phone. is me, i guess we have lost our way. what can we do and what will they do to us?

we are counting our last breast because they might kill us today or tomorrow. i have one son staying with me and when he goes out to buy something to eat, he says he is afraid of being killed or kept. so there is no one to help us in this situation. i live in here and i have to wonder why i was born in this hell, i am a human being, i have the right to free life. so the us lead mission and i've kind of saw, has now handed over responsibility saying the ass can army can operate all the drones independently of more stories and how the war on terror affects the lives of everyone. and i've gotten a thought you can check out more of our unheard boyce's projects right now. anytime you like, actually just over there at all. for now, here, your monday program. russia's top different matters, said the entire purpose of nato is to seize territories to its east. a circle for off we're speaking ahead of possible talks with the western alliance. not the

fishes cheese, the gilbert teach right now. nato is clearly a geopolitical project designed to grab territories left after the disappearance of the war. so packed and the dissolution of the soviet union or the author, nicky air. and joining us in the studio on this monday to discuss this further greatly see you today, nikki. so does a pretty strong words from the foreign minister. so good luck for off. can you give us? i don't know, some of the context behind that. absolutely. well and still having to history a little bit 1st because we go into the warsaw pact now. this was a collective defense treaty established by the soviet union and 7 other folk it satellite states in central and eastern europe. now it was created and reaction to the integration of west german into nato, $955.00. so nato, if you like, is a mirror alliance to be was all packed and while the wolf pack tooth is all the $991.00 nato, as we know is still very much alive and kicking for the gist of what love of is

saying. here is what is the points of nato anymore? if not, as he suggests, a tool for collecting these countries that a lifetime ago, we're in opposition to nato. now, as we know, tensions between nato and russia have been simmering for quite a while now. this month. the head of nato, again, stoughton, but he urged russia to be more transparent about his military plans by comes amid speculation that russia has could be planning an invasion of ukraine. while moscow has dismissed these phases alarmist and in turn, a complaint of increasing nato activity in the region. so needless to lay this to say, this lack of trust remains nothing new, but rather than leaving things to fester and quite possibly worse than moscow has presented the west with a draft agreements of security guarantees essentially, and ensuring some kind of trust between the 2 sides but these attempts were calling the situation had so far been more or less shunned, and russia continues to be demonized as the aggressor. our corporation. we do,

craig is defensive. it's not in the way it's set to russia, the aggressor, hey, it's russia. it's also comes as i russia has also suggested a meeting between the 2 sides after the new year holidays holiday. that's also something that nathan has not responded to as yet. now, just days ago, around christmas time, russia pulled back. it's 10000 troops from the ukraine border, which was the cause of the big problem in the 1st place. and this could have been seen at another olive branch by the west, but nothing so far. got nikki, bring us a really good point. i mean, that was again stoughton buck of nato a 2nd ago. right? they're saying the rusher is the aggressive. well, let's be clear about one thing. russia is not moving its borders to the west. the borders are being moved to the east by nato member countries. and the funny thing is the u. k. media has been saying now for quite some time, a 100000 russian soldiers aligning the ukrainian border to invade ukraine. the us at one point at 175000 russian soldiers are about to invade ukraine. as it turns

out, there were $10000.00 rust soldiers doing drills. can we now expect the accusations to stop? let hope so, but let's just say for now this fear mongering in the western media, it continue this, you know, warning of a full scale russian invasion is something that maybe people like to read about. i don't know, but it continues in the press. one, the analyst from steeper, who used to be a and us ambassador. he's the us to impose sanctions on russia right now even before. but he does anything. current western policy is that if russia does something worse, stan and only then would the west adopt new sanctions. the dynamic must now be reversed. the west should impose new sanctions now and agree to lift those sanctions only if russia pulls back from military escalation booklet with sugar. and just recently, one thing tank is said, why wait until something happens? let's introduce preventive sanctions, and if russia doesn't start anything,

we'll lift them. but it's clear that no one would ever lift anything. so as things are we thinking o time, low between relations, between ne so and russia, any attempts that russia has made have been shunned or ignored so far as to hope that in the new year things we've in a positive direction or teach nicky. aaron, thank you for any more tell to come on the program on our team to national on this monday program, we floor that of the self proclaimed breakaway republics of eastern ukraine. also that a local exhaustion over the years of the so paradoxical and counter productive. that's how belgian engineers describe a government decision to de nuclear arise, the entire country over the next 3 years at brussels, will shut down all of his nuclear reactors and redirect investment into new technologies. the government's decision to phase out nuclear energy,

the largest source of low carbon energy in belgium and to finance new fossil gas power plants is paradoxical and counterproductive. this decision would only reinforce the predominance of fossil fuels in the belgian energy landscape locality . there are 2 nuclear plants in belgium, with 7 reactors, and the to generate almost half of the entire country, electricity authorities say, avoiding nuclear energy will make power production more safe. and of course is in line with a common e. you goal to go green. however, it does all come as your was been grappling with an energy crisis that has seen prices sorrento record highs. let's give you some ideas here to neighboring france and germany. they're very well known for the nuclear power capabilities. the cost of atomic energy that has spiked got this though. it's off the pirates closed one of its plans and stopped operations at another over suspected security system problems as well. as for germany,

it intends to close all of this nuclear power plant by the end of next year, starting with its brock door site on new year's eve. the closure will leave the country with 3 nuclear power stations, and germans have responded to the news with a fairly mixed reaction. on a forefront enough time, it has its pros and cons. but actually here in bergdorf we only saw advantages, other countries are building nuclear power plants to and the question is, where do we get our electricity from? and it isn't the out of the finally, it's happening and i'm very happy about it because you never know if an accident might occur or thought people might try to destroy it. yes, of course. are people in the village to see things differently because the village has become rich on taxpayers, money. if you drive through the village, you'll see how much was invested in it's been, i think it's an important decision, but i also think we're not there yet. we can't get from renewable energy. what we're getting from nuclear power. many locals works. we have to see where they will end up, but some people will definitely lose their jobs. we discussed the issue with an

independent journalist, charlie boyle and ran a cooter, the chairman of a german nuclear activist organization. solar and wind are not available 100 percent of the time while nuclear is so you have to fill the gaps with fossil generation. and this is a tremendous hom for the climate because belgium replace is a low carbon energy form by a common intensive form of electricity. and this is just the opposite of climate protection, but belgium is doing here. it is, it is of no use for the climate it's, it's not climate protection it's, it's arming the climate. and it's purely illogical read reason some of the green party. once again it's, it's all about like a plan and seen as a point score and,

and the policy may well those beliefs. but as usual practice counties always take on. and now the reality is sinking in high inflation. a huge demand search. i going into it and we, we simply can't have a situation where energy crisis is going up 1200 percent year. we need to have a plan around the world, but country by country as to how to get a transmission transition to renewables. i was going to say what the mixture is going to be and we're going to be, i need to be honest about me so which are completely fine. i got a parked out here in moscow still to come on monday program a u. n. report has shed light on ramp and human rights abuses, but this time it's all about ethiopia, a story. and with

ah, is your media action of reality? ah, ah, in a world transformed what will make you feel safe, isolation or community? are you going the right way, or are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? what is faith? in the world corrupted, you need to descend so join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. there is no such thing as unilateral security. all real security is always

collected. this is precisely how russia views, endless. western hostility and nato expansion to moscow is presented ways to avoid conflict. to the sheriff, all secure is the west suite at the switch a program one ot international. a u. n report is accused potties and ethiopia. busy is civil war of committing atrocities. we're talking about rate torture and unlawful killing as follows. more than a year of intense fighting between the t gray people's liberation front and the ethiopian government. so on his policy i travel to the east african i'm a 135 kilometers from the capital city of addis ababa in a city called deborah b at hon. now this is the 1st city when you're coming from the capital. when you get a sense of the impact of the fighting over the past few weeks in the past few days

. and that is because the victims rate victims, people who were that soldiers, people who witness of the people's liberation party. and the supporters have been largely because the hospitals in the areas that were under fighting were completely destroyed. so this is the main hospital here. we're going to try and get in and see if we can talk to some of the victims and to some of the doctors about what is happening and whatnot. so far about $25.00 women where i'd meet at the normal speed and as a majority of women were treated in the strategy called the beta involvement. and the remaining contain saturday. i did meet here has been kind of easy to them. and what was the calamities? yeah. shaped and you kind of media fin. she's not in our hospital by heating the

news. it's very shocking. good news. wrapping 80. you saw the woman chancellor. it's the same. so let's say that either it's because it has also as it has or are there, i have to say college i often if they've okay to talk to us. yeah. that one into there. okay. yeah. i oh i nathan. when i was asleep during the 19 knocked on the door and said, please open the door. then he punched me. took me down and rate me. i don't know him. he was a stranger with

a gun. i'll never forget what he did to me. ah, when they came to my home accusing me of being the wife of one of their enemies. i denied it, but they just burst into my home, tied me up and then for them raped me. i was in the 6 months of my pregnancy and i was the baby. i'm not sure if i'll ever be fine again. i normally do teaching. i'm high school teacher. but after the war broke out, i just came here to add to the thought baton bought into younger, but a man said i'd, she's best, it's best to not start to watch. we see the cnn bbc data and from 24. let me know that international media we're doing together with a t p forces because we have seen in place that people who are caught by

does this. who told us was that on to the so just a little intel but so just they said we are formally told by our leaders for waiting to be on there. if you're gonna force a uniform, re, people key and cbs, whatever to in blame day to be on the soldiers. ok. they produce that movie. they produce quite effect pictures from different but just places they say to me. but government bombarding, touches and motors. i. well, now we're going to go to a nearby town where actually most of the right victims come from off to hearing their harrowing stories. we now go and see the actual damage that was left behind news . i am sending what i think was the living room of

a house that what i can piece together, what the neighbors are telling me, use to be home some 10 people who've now fled and have taken refuge with family in addis ababa in the capital city. i mean the town of kaya and the t graham people's liberation front, and the allies came here at least a time. so that's a different occasion. and the last time they stayed for 18 days. so as you can see, they've completely destroyed homes like this. i mean it's absolutely nothing. so not only did they lose the home, but they also burnt it when they lift and not only are people still afraid to come back, but there's really not much to come back to. i mean, if you look yeah, even the window frame. absolutely. everything has been taken everything. ah,

the wall has been raging for just over a year and the government keeps promising. it will in soon. but for people who live here, it's already too late. they've lost everything. policy a r t e c. ok. the un no human rights council did earlier vote for an independent investigation into the atrocities committed by all sides. well, if you hope you call the decision politically motivated and refused to cooperate. so people in east ukraine's breakaway republics are still living under the constant threat of shelling from pm's armed forces, but is despite a ceasefire agreement being struck between the rebels and the government. years ago, however, with nato forces openly supplying the ukrainian military as his remind quarter of went to the don bass region. ah,

ah, 7 civilians were killed and $32.00 wounded on the territory of the self proclaimed john nest people's republic this year alone. the total number of but noncombatants who perished in this civil war is now well over 5000. while ordinary people who live along the front lines continue to suffer. many of them say they don't see their future. will ukraine any more? will to me a month ago, a woman and a man were very badly wounded and another man was killed just before that. what can i say? they are often showing us statement. they say we are not needing the but yet everyone is afraid of god. because the shelling is going on throughout the summer, they were shelling day and night. so nothing good is happening. some those listen to randomly i will in september a shell fell on my street to little children

a living nearby that place. or did you lose or do you should be id just there last periodically. but then shelling returns. we are tired of the one residence in larger cities like the republic capital of the nascar, farther away from the war, both physically and mentally there also desired. however many speak about the constant feeling of uncertainty and express hope that the conflict will soon end so that they can be free to choose their own fate was supposed to watch the new year. i wish for strength and patience because we live in an unstable situation. so it's generally very unpacking. i'm tired of having a coffee when done teach us in the school, we are now used to living in this chaos. but i really want all the bad things to internationalize mesa, we're afraid something can happen to the children. and so in general, it's just a relief to be alive mozilla. after years of living on the brink, people just won this war 2 ends and returns to living normal violence,

free life. vermont costs are of artie. don't ask a court in northern russia, a sentence to google like historian unity dmitri f to 15 years in prison for the sexual abuse of her adopted daughter. the latest conviction adds 2 years to to be 3 fifths. 13 years sentence handed down last year is supporters deny the allegations bo, saying the charges have been fabricated? let's learn more about this right now. and funding live to our senior correspondent, murat, gas d f mo dad. can you pick up the story for us and tell us, what do you know about the case? well, in 2018 duty, admittedly of a historian working for memorial, which is a loose activist organization in russia, is recognizes as a foreign agent. and he was acquitted of the possession of child pornography. this is in 2018. the verdict was appeal, the investigation was launched again. and now he has been found guilty of

possessing child pornography of manufacturing child pornography. the sexual abuse of his adopted daughter who at the time was, was younger than 14, as well as the possession of at least a part of a firearm, of the legal possession. and before on his door and himself, you re says that this verdict is driven politically. it is politically motivated for his role in trying to for his role in unearthing the remains of mass graves in russia, which he says were, were killed the victims of repressions in russia rather than as say others. his critics are the result of killings by finished forces and in the 19 thirty's, he says that he is being persecuted and prosecuted for his, for his activities for his human rights activities. nevertheless, the court was adamant that they had identified the child pornography and that he was complicit in its production and again for the sexual abuse of his,

of his adopted daughter art. but august here. thank you. i thank you for joining us here for the monday program. on auto international ally from moscow, nearly half past 4 in the afternoon here, we're back at the top of the hour with more. go ahead with join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics sport. business. i'm show business, i'll see you then. mm. badgers . survival guy, i going to stored safely at the federal reserve. if you're still there or you don't forget about it. oh no. it's

a recreation came where we get the rest in 7 years. bill every year i've tried to report ah, a with i'm ashen or it's antsy and you're watching going underground. the team and i will be back for a brand new season on wednesday, the 12th of january. but until then, we'll be showing some of your favorite shows from this season coming up in the show as 1400000000 people wake up off to china's national day celebrations. when it's nuclear weapons, now be targeting not any cities in nuclear mentor nations,

but australia to after the biden johnson morrison nuclear submarine deal. and as you, caleb alida suggest, alma declares his party, the party of nato. we ask the palestinian ambassador to new k. if he has any hope for her majesty's opposition when it comes to fighting for the palestinian people after another week of you can us armed violence in palestine before fits the day after mainland, china's national day celebrations, which marked 72 years since the establishment of the people's republic of china up to the chinese communist party, won the civil war against the u. s. backed nationalist party. this made control vesee over revelations of phone calls by u. s. general mili to re ensure china of no m and, and us nuclear strike. and the surprise australia nuclear submarine deal with london in washington. joining me now from aging is the center for china and globalization, vice president, victor gow, to thanks so much for coming back. that on, as i said as the day after, when you have a britain's, a queen elizabeth aircraft carrier.