we choose to look for common ground in join me every 1st place on the alec simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me . ah, this ours top line, our nazi international civilian deaths and destruction and afghans was to blow a lift the lid on america's drone program. the formal operator, currently in the hiding from the taliban, spoke to ortiz on the hood. voice is project throughout operations. we were not told about any civilian deaths, nobody told us that we had hit the wrong targets the at the time and hiding alone for the way underground. i live in fear speaking. honestly, i am fed up with my life. russia is

a foreign minister accuses nato of trying to grab eastern european territory and also debunked claims from the alliance of russian aggression in ukraine. also in the program, leading belgian engineers left a bit dismayed as the government decides to shut down all nuclear reactors within 3 years, even though atomic bonds generate almost half of the country electricity. also, i'm standing what i think, what the living room of the house that what i can piece together from what the neighbors are telling me use to be home. some 10 people now flayed travels to the battle grounds of the ongoing civil war in ethiopia, speaking to people caught up in both sides of the conflict with i slowly work and i went on monday evening here at moscow, just off the 6 pm here. this is not to international africa. drone operators

working for america were apparently kept in the dark about civilian deaths. that is, according to a whistleblower who spoke to ot see about his job during the war on terror. he showed his story with ortiz, a special project, unheard boyce's lalellah. we live in a horrible situation, very bad conditions with m b, i honestly, i am fed up with my life. that's kind of it. so i'm in hiding alone with underground. yeah, i can't go outside. i'm hopeless. but then when i ask myself, do i have the right to live a peaceful life in my own homeland will not let me save strength. i wish i had been born in a different country to meet the decimal guardian telling me wi fi . we had to operate our drones as an 8 hours per day. and then the same at night

there was a u. s. company and the afghan government was signed an agreement with them. so we were employed by this company. they scam eagle with each month, one pilot conducted $7020.00 drone strikes. it could be more than that, but up less and with

throughout the 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, 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 drain, pilots were also beaten and humiliate. and 3 or 4 of our colleagues are missing with a even the closest relatives don't know where they sex age. they blinking is leading to continue diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any american afghan partner or foreign national wants to lead up

can as to what we're doing every single minute of every single hour of every single day. it's working to create a 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 up our commitment to them as no deadline of let me put it this way. yes, 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 phones in. i guess we have lost our way. what can we do and what

will they do to us? we are counting our last breast. 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. 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. the us life mission in afghanistan has now handed over responsibility, saying the ask me, can i operate all the drones independently for more stories on how the war on terror in afghanistan has changed the country in the lives of those that you can see more of our unheard voices project at r t dot com. the. so russia at top given about has said the entire purpose of nato is to seize territories to its east. gala for off, we're speaking ahead of possible talks with the western military alliance. another

says shes, she's the gilbert dish right now. nato is clearly a geo political project designed to graham territories left after the disappearance of the war. so packed, and the dissolution of the soviet union. first of all, let's remind ourselves what be worked or 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 into nature and $955.00. so basically, the both are packed with 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, what is the point of nathan anymore? you know, he's post cold war gave, if not, as he suggests the geopolitical project same to collecting all of these countries that a lifetime ago. we're in opposition to nathan. now, nature has previously offered membership to form a member that the both pucks,

which is poland, which joined in 1999 to former soviet republics, such as the both 6 states in 2004. so the question of ukraine joining nato is a 10th subject because ukraine is, of course, a country history, geography, and people are so intertwined with those of russia. now, as we know, tensions between nato and russia have been simmering for quite a while early this month. the head of nato young stoughton bag, he rushes to be transparent about its military plans. this comes a made phase that rushes planning see invade ukraine. moscow has dismissed face face. they call them alarmist and in turn complained of nato plans and activities in the region. so needless to say, this lack of trust between the 2 sides remains is nothing new. obviously, plenty of accusations flying around here, but 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. 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 still there from data calling russia. the aggressive here you can meet has been saying for weeks now, the 100000 russian soldiers were lighting 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 while one would hope it, but little me to a positive direction as yet fear mongering? the me the media?

is it a all time high this full scale invasion talks, folks have another cuban missile crisis. it continues to be a favorite topic and we're still cause for sanctions on russia though, the wall it's we not sure because it actually doesn't seem to have done anything at the moment. anyway. sanctions on russia, sorry. one on the list from sepa, former us ambassador nato, was even calling for sanctions on russia. pre, i'm seeing any possible moves from russia. current western policy is that if russia does something worse stand 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 book with sugar. and just recently one thing tank is said, why wait until something happens? let's introduce preventive sessions and if russia doesn't start anything will lift them up. but it's clear that no one would ever lift anything. so,

so this is how things stand as of now a 10 by rushes to calm things as they are being ignored. but this is something that question. so i seems to have seen as predictable as live up suggested in that quote . nato's agenda is quite different to what one might expect. well meantime people and easter grains breakaway republics are still living under the constant threat of shelling from key ebs armed forces. that is despite a ceasefire agreement being struck between the rebels and the governments years ago . with nato meantime, the nato forces openly supplying the ukrainian military law his romantic culture ref. reports from don baths. 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 but non combatants 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 would meet a month ago? a woman and a man were very badly wounded. she 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 to know. listen to randomly wooldridge in september a shell fell on my street. 2 little children living near by that place live here. did you lose or do you should be id chesko? there are los periodically escape prevent shelling returns. look, we are tired and looked at the one residents in larger cities like the republics

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, which the brochure has been to 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. i mean done speech us was in the study 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 to relieve to be alive. mozilla passed the years of living on the rank people just want this war to ends and returns to living and normal violence. free life, romantic author of archie, done as paradoxical and counter productive. that's how belgian engineers describe

a government decision to the nuclear eyes. the entire country over the next 3 years, brussels will shut down all of his nuclear reactors and redirect the investment monies 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, bo, with 7 reactors, and they do generate almost half of the entire countries, electricity authorities say, avoiding nuclear energy will make power production more safe. and of course, is in line with the common e. you goal to go green. however, it all comes as your grapples with an energy crisis. the seen prices soaring to record highs. now a neighboring fronds on germany known for their nuclear power capabilities. the

cost of atomic energy has spiked off the pirates close to $1.00 of its plants and hold it operations at another over suspected security system failures. now, as for germany, it intends to close all is nuclear power plants for the end of next year. starting with this brock door site on new year's eve, the closure will leave the country with just 3 nuclear power stations. and germans have responded to the news with well mixed reactions on a forefront enough time. it has its pros and cons, but actually here in brook therefore only so advantages other countries are building nuclear power plants to. and the question is, where do we get our electricity from? and it is in 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 taxpayer money. if you drive through the village, you'll see how much was invested in it. and i think it's an important decision,

but i also think we're not there yet. we can't get from renewable energy and what we're getting from nuclear power, many locals work that we have to see where they will end up. but some people will definitely lose their jobs. we discussed the issue with our independent journalist charlie boyle and ran a clue to 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. what 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 surge and going in the winter and we, we simply can't have a situation where energy prices are going up 1200 percent year. we need to have a plan around the world, the country by country as to how the transmission transitions renewables, housing is going to say what the mixture is going to be. and we're going to be need to be honest about lisa ones which are completely you stories continue in just a lot. ah

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business. i'm show business, i'll see you then ah ed lines here on our t. u and report is accused parties and ethiopia, civil war of committing atrocities. we're talking about rape, torture on lawful killing. that follows more than a year of intense fighting between the tig gray people's liberation front and the ethiopian government. so as his policy, i travel to the east african nation. i'm a 135 kilometers from the capital city of addis ababa in a city called deborah b at han. now this is the 1st city when you're traveling from the capital. when you get a sense of the impact of the fighting over the past few weeks and the past few days

. and that is because the victim rate victims, people who work that soldiers, people who witness to tell us 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 they've witnessed so far about 25 women where i'd meet that in our course be done. and the majority of women were 3 today, and we started to call the beta improvement. and the remaining 10 saturday to meet that here has been kind of easy to them. and one was a calamity. 80 years old woman. yeah. 8180. and she was wait, yeah,

she wrapped and you kind of meeting the fin. she's not in our hospital by hearing the news. it's very shocking getting ripping a song woman. chancellor. it's the same thing that either it's cause it's cause also it has or are there i have to check on it. i can you if they've okay to talk to us, is that one into their oh i nathan. when i was asleep during the 19 knocked on the door and sat,

please open the door, then he punched me, took me down and raked 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 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 on high school. 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 the wash. we see the cnn bbc data and runs 24. let me know that international media we are doing together with

a t p forces because we have seen in place that people who are caught by the soldiers was that under the so just a little intel. but they said, we are formally told by our leaders for waiting to be on there. if you're gonna force a uniform rate, people can see below us, whatever in japan, the soldiers. ok, they produce that movie. they produce quite effect pictures from different places. they say they've done government, the government is bombarding churches and i, well now we're going to go to a nearby town where actually most of the rate victims come from hearing their harrowing stories. we now go and see the actual damage that was left behind. ah, ah,

i'm spending what i think was the living room of a house. that's what i can piece together. what the neighbors are telling me use to be home some 10 people who now fled and have taken refuge with family in addis ababa in the capital city. i mean, the town of attire and the program people liberation front and the allies came here at least 8 times. 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 burned it when they left 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 hoarsely, a r t e c. ok. the un no human rights council earlier did vote for an independent investigation into the atrocities committed by all sides. as we understand, if you call that decision politically motivated and refused to cooperate. well, a caught in northern russia has sentenced a google, a historian, unity dmitri, after 15 years in prison for the sexual abuse of his adopted daughter at the latest conviction as 2 years to demetrius, 13 year sentence tied down. last year, supporters denied the allegations. those saying the charges of all the fabricated,

discuss it just short time ago with autism, senior correspondent. but i guess the historian you read museum has been under investigation for, for many years now. he has been incarcerated since 2018 when he was acquitted of similar charges, possession of child pornography. the verdict was appealed and the investigation was relaunched. he has now been found guilty of the possession and production of child pornography, as well as the sexual abuse of his adopted daughter, who at that time was younger than 40, as well as the illegal possession of at least a part of a farm. and the 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 rushes, cordelia region. one specific mass grave that he identified, he claimed a was full of the victims of soviet repressions, where official rec,

would say that they're 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. well, it's been a pleasure having your company with us for the monday program here on our t international lie from moscow. thank you for joining us now. is what by the 6 27 pm on monday, here in mazda, we are back soon with more of your ah

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