makes people destroy trees and exploit sales. i'm so sorry kids center is not coming to town anymore. i follow these instructions. stick to the spirit of christmas. you decide. i a civilian death and destruction. the headlines here, one on t as an afghan whistle blower lift the lid on america's drone program. the form operator, currently in a hiding from the taliban, spoke to ortiz unheard. voice is project. throughout operations we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target to be at . i'm in hiding alone underground. i live in fear speaking. honestly,

i am fed up with my life brushes for a minute. the acute as nato of trying to grab the eastern european territory, i'm debunked. claims from the alliance of russian aggression along ukraine, people leading belgian engineers. i left dismayed as the government decides to shut down all nuclear reactors within 3 years, even though atomic bonds generate almost half of the countries electricity. also with what i think, what the living room of a house, that's what i can piece together from what the neighbors are telling me use to be home. some 10 people who now flayed travel to the battle ground to the ongoing civil war. and ethiopia, speaking to people, caught up in both sides of the contract with

to 5 pm here in moscow is turning now into a busy afternoon. and even a busy evening at asi international. welcome to your monday headlines. so afghan drone operators operating that for the us, they will apparently kept in the dark about civilian deaths. now that is according to a whistleblower who spoke to r t about his job during the war on terror. he showed his story with aussies unheard, boyce his project vallejo. we live in a horrible situation. very bad conditions. be honestly, i am fed up with my life that's out of it. so i'm in hiding alone. underground. yeah, i can't go outside. i'm hopeless. percent. when i ask myself, do i have the right to live a peaceful life in my own homeland will not let me say straight, and i wish i had been born in a different country. to me. the decimal got the telling me w, i am

a pillow top. we had to operate our drones. i was an 8 alice today. and then the same at night there was a u. s. company and the afghan government was signed an agreement with he. so we were employed by this company, the scam eagle with each month, one pilot conducted $1720.00 drone strikes. it could be more than that, but not less with

data throughout our operations, we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong targets, and the statistics on this were out of our control. we didn't have access to this data. ah ah ah, you got a minute before we lost a couple of our pilots in the last days of our work in fin after the taliban. so cova and one was arrested and cobbled. and the 2nd when he was visiting his family . some drone pilots were also beaten and humiliated only about 3 or 4 of our colleagues are missing, where they even the closest relatives don't know where they on the problem, sec chased a blanket is leading the continued diplomatic efforts to ensure safe facets for any

american afghan partner or foreign national wants to leave afghanistan. what we are doing every single minute of every single hour of every single day is working to create safe passage for all civilians, including the afghans who work for us to the airport to get them on planes and get them out. we worked intensely to evacuate and relocate afghans who work alongside us and our particular risk reprisals are committed to them. has no deadline. oh, let me put it this way. yes, i've lost my own people. no, 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 phones. yulu

and i will say we all hopeless. we have lost our way. what can we do? and what will they do to us? we'll counting our last breaths because they might kill us today or tomorrow. i'm a, 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 like yet. there is no want 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. but us of that emission. i've got this don has now handed over responsibility saying the afghan army can operate all the drones by itself independent, well, for most stores and how the war on terror change. i've got to stop all the people's lives that you can. what's more about on heard? voices, projects that are not the so russia is that top diplomat who said the entire purpose of nato is to seize

territories to at least a circular for off was speaking ahead of possible talks with the western alliance. not this is just, she's the gilbert. i teach right now, nato is clearly a geo political project designed to grant territories left after the disappearance of the war, so packed, and the dissolution of the soviet union. what is nicky, aaron? are joining us here this monday afternoon. live in the street for more details on this nicki strong words there from circular for off the foreign minister. can you give us some context behind all this? absolutely. well, 1st of all, let's remind ourselves what b was all packed was. it was a collective defense treaty established by the soviet union and 7 other satellites . it states, it was created in reaction to the integration of west germany in nature and $955.00 . so basically the both are packed was like a mirror alliance to nato. but while the pack was dissolved in 1991 nato is still very much alive and kicking and expanding since the end of the cold war. so the just a lot of the saying is, with the points of nathan anymore. you know,

he's post cold war gave, if not, as he suggests, the geopolitical project came to collecting all of these countries with a lifetime ago. we're in opposition to nathan. now, nathan has previously offered membership to a former members of the both pucks, which is poland which joined in 1999 to former soviet republics, such as the both states in 2004. so the question of ukraine joining nato is a 10 subject because he crane is of course, the country. it's history, geography, and people are so intertwined with those of russia. now as we know, tensions between nato and russia been simmering for quite a while early this month. the head of nato young stoughton, but he rushed to be transparent about its military plans. this comes in a face that rushes planning to invade ukraine. moscow has dismissed these face. they call them alarmist and in turn complained of nato plans and activities in the region. so needless to say, there's a lack of trust between the 2 sides remains,

is nothing new, was indicated. obviously plenty of accusations flying around here. as i understand russia is proposing a solution. can you tell us about that? absolutely. so rather than letting things continue to fester and possibly worse, and moscow has presented the west with this draw agreements of security guarantees, essentially aimed at, you know, diffusing tensions here. but it's been translated in the west as demands rather than proposals. and these attempts to calming the situation of just being more or less shuns so far, and russia continues to be demonized as the aggressor. our cooperation with ukraine is defensive. it's not in the way it's set to russia, the aggressor, hey, it's russia. and it's kind of, this is days ago, russia even pulled back its troops from the ukraine border following drills there, which could have been seen as another olive branch from russia to see western leaders. but yeah, yeah, and stuff like that from data calling russia,

the aggressive here, the u. k. media is been saying for weeks now, the 100000 russian soldiers were lining the border to invade ukraine. even the u. s . media was saying, a 175000 tons out. it was 10000 soldiers doing drills near the border. do you think now we can actually expect any of these accusations to stop? well, one would hope it, but little me to say a positive direction. as yet fear mongering, the me, the media, is it a all time high this full scale russian invasion talks, folks have another cuban missile crisis that continues to be a favorite topic. and we're still cause for sanctions on russia, though the walls were not sure because russia doesn't seem to have done anything at the moment. anyway. sanctions on russia. sorry. one on a list from sepa for us on this. and i was even calling for sanctions on russia, preventing any possible moves from russia. 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 shoot, impose new sanctions now and agree to lift those sanctions only if russia pulls back from military escalation book with sugar. and just recently one think tank, he said, why wait until something happens? let's introduce preventive sanctions. and if russia doesn't start, anything will lift them, but it's clear that no one would ever lift anything. so this is how things stand as of now a 10 by russia to come, things are so far being ignored. but this is something the russian side seems to have seen as predictable is live up suggested in that quote. nato's agenda is quite different to what one might expect. well, the presidential spokesman to be true. pest golf said recently on russian television that the ukraine issue, the nato wish you, this is a life or death issue for russians. so clearly it is a red line for the kremlin nicky. thank you. ok. ok. well it's good to have you with us to day. so people in east ukraine's a break away. republics are still living under the constant threat of shelling from

key as armed forces. and this despite as cease fire agreement being struck between the rebels and the governments. years ago, with nato forces openly supplying the ukrainian military parties were mad cause her f went to the don bass region. ah ah, 7 civilians were killed and 32 wounded on the territory of the self proclaimed the next people's republic. this year alone. the total number of foot noncombatants who perished in this civil war is now well over $5000.00. 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 would meet 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 need ala 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. and those listen to but on the my oldest in september, a shell fell on my street. 2 little children living near by that place. when did you lose or do you should be id chesko? there are los periodically skipped, then shelling returns. look, we are tired and looked at the little one residence in larger cities like the republics capital of the nascar. farther away from the war, both physically and mentally, there are 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 because 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 curfew in dusky just in the thought. 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 passed the 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 artsy, done ask howard dock circle and counter productive. that's how belgian engineers describe a government decision to a d nuclear rise the country over the next 3 years. at brussels will shut down all is nuclear reactors and redirect investment into new technologies. the government's decision to phase out nuclear energy, the largest source of flow, carbon energy, in belgium, and to finance new fossil gas power plants is paradoxical and counterproductive.

these decision would only reinforce the predominance of fossil fuels in the belgian energy landscape. currently, there are 2 nuclear plants in belgium, with 7 reactors, and they generate almost half of the entire countries, electricity authorities say. avoiding nuclear energy will make power production more safe, and is in line with a common e. you goal of going green. however, it all comes as europe grapples with an energy crisis at a seen price is going through the roof. now, in neighboring france and germany well known for that nuclear power capabilities, the cost of atomic energy has spiked after paris close to $1.00 of its plants and halted operations at another of a suspected security system issues. now as for germany, it intends to close all is nuclear power plants by the end of next year. starting 1st off with us rock golf site on new year's eve. the closure will leave the country with 3 nuclear power stations, and the germans have responded to the news with, well,

pretty mixed reaction. and that's on a 4th on an antenna. 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? i'm and it isn't the other thing. 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. if, of course, there are people in the village that 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, auto, pollution. i think it's an important decision, but i also think we're not there yet. we can't get from renewable energy. we're, we're getting from nuclear power. many locals work there and we have to see where they will end up, but some people will definitely lose their jobs. we discussed the issue with independent journalists, charlie boyle, and urena pluto, 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 harm for the climate because belgium replace is a low carbon energy form by a carbon 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 harming the climate. and it's purely either logical read reason of the green party. once again it's, it's all about like a plan and seen as a point score and, and these politicians may well those beliefs. but as usual practice, counties always take home. and now the reality is sinking in high inflation.

a huge demand search i going in the winter 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 transition to renewables. housing is 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 on their program continued in just in join me every thursday on the alex silent. sure. when i was speaking to guess when the world politics sport business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah

ah, there's no such thing as your lateral security. all real security is always collected. this is precisely how russia views, endless western hostility and nato expansion. moscow is presented ways to avoid conflict and assure all security is the west suite at the switch, ah,

quite by 20 pm here on the russian capital. a u. n. report is accused parties and ethiopia, civil war of committing atrocities were talking about rape, torture, and unlawful killings. as follows, more than a year of intense fighting between the tig gray people's liberation front and the ethiopian government ought his policy a travel to the east african nation. a 135 kilometers from the capital city of addis ababa in a city called deborah, bet hon. now this is the 1st city when you're traveling from the capital where 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 work that are soldiers, people who witness 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 they've witnessed so far about 25 women where i'd meet that in our hospital. and the majority of women were treated and we started you called the beta improvement ends remaining contain saturday. i did meet that here has been kind of easy to them. and one was a calamity for 80 years old woman. yeah. 8180. and she was rapes. yeah. she wrapped and you kind of cut the thing. she's not in our hospital by hitting the news. it's very shocking to new ripping 80 years old woman chancellor. it's the same. so let's say that either it's cause it's cause also a cause or otherwise ecology.

i you often okay to talk to us. yeah. that one into there. okay. yes we can. ah my nathan, that when i was asleep during the night he knocked on the door and sat 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, to be some of the way 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 4 of them rape me. i wasn't

the 6 months of my pregnancy and i lost the baby. i'm not sure if i'll ever be fine again. i normally do teaching. i'm high school teacher observable. but after that, what broke out? i just came here to head to this hospital and i was a volunteer. they took younger vitamin said i'd, she's best, it's best to not started to watch us. we see a cnn, the bbc data dedira and we know francois any port there on may know that the national media, which are doing together with the t p live forces. because a we have seen in gold a place where people who are caught by the does the, the soldiers swore that under to the so just all it towed by the so just they said we are formally followed by our leader still waiting to be on a banner for sa uniforms and andre people key and cbs, whatever to in blame. they to be on the soldiers. okay. as

a produce fake fake movie. they produce fica effect pictures from different but it just places and them, they think they're on government. the government is bombarding a chart to send marcus ah, well, now we're going to go to a nearby town. well, actually, most of the wait victims come from hearing their harrowing stories. we now go and see the actual damage that was left behind. ah, i'm standing in what i think was the living room of a house that what i can piece together from 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 attire and the grand 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 there'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 yes, even the window frame. absolutely. everything has been taken everything. ah, the wall has been raging for just over a year and the government chief, 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 human rights council earlier did vote for an independent

investigation into the atrocities committed by all sides, ethiopia, corporate decision, politically motivated, and refused to cooperate. ah, so a court in northern russia has sentenced a gulag historian, uri dmitri f to 15 years in prison for the sexual abuse. it was adopted. daughter, the latest conviction adds 2 years to demetrius, 13 year sentence handed down last year. his supporters denied the allegations. the same charges have been fabricated. i see the senior correspondent, but i guess be of investigations. historians united media has been under investigation for, for many years now. he has been incarcerated since 2018 when he was acquitted of similar charges of possession of child pornography. the verdict was appealed and the investigation was relaunched. he has now been found guilty of further possession and production of child pornography,

as well as the sexual abuse of his adopted daughter, who at the time was younger than 14, as well as the illegal possession of at least a part of a far arm and a legal far mitchie of himself to does all charges he claims they are politically motivated. he himself has been active in identifying and unearthing the remains of victims of repressions mass graves in russia's, cordelia region. one specific mass graves that he identified, he claimed a, was full of the victims of soviet repressions, where official records say that there the remains of people killed by hostile action by, by finished forces in, in the 19 thirty's. and that has drawn a lot of criticism towards him. historians in russia, as well as in israel, have identified nazi collaborators in lists of political, the victims of political repressions, published by memorial. the organization itself has been accused of revisionist

tendencies for, for many years, or more than a decade, in fact, but mitre of himself, it will now appeal the verdict. he has said his lewis, and they will also take the case to the european court of human rights to joining us for the monday program. lie from moscow and r t international. any stories you want to follow up on catch up on may have missed. check out our website with blue l look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order is a conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. at the point obviously is too great trust,

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fire style author of planet ponzi match. nice to see happy holidays. ah, ah, ah. hello and welcome to cross stock. were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . there is no such thing as unilateral security. all real security is always collector. this is precisely how russia views, endless. western hostility and nato expansion to the east. moscow is presented ways to avoid conflict and assure all security is the west.