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 headline, teradowski international, civilian death and destruction. an afghan whistleblower lifts the lid on america's drone program. the formal operator currently and hiding from the taliban, spoke to ortiz a special project on the hood, voices. throughout operations we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target to that. i'm in hiding alone, all the way underground. i live in fear speaking. honestly,

i am fed up with my life. who rushes of foreign minister accuses nato of trying to grab the eastern european territories and abundance claims from the alliance of russia. no question in ukraine. leading a belgian engineers left her all the dismayed as the government decides to shut down all nuclear reactors within 3 years. even though we're told my plans generate a half of the countries electricity. all sort i'm standing and 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 who've now flayed a drug, also the battle grounds of the ongoing civil war in ethiopia. speaking of people caught up in both sides of the conflict with

all right, heading into the evening hours here at moscow, just office 7 pm on monday. welcome to the program, its asi, international. will africa, dry operators, working for the united states were kept in the dark, apparently about that of civilian death. this is all according to a whistleblower who spoke to r t about his job during the war on terror. he shed his story with ortiz, a special project unheard voices. vallejo, we live in a horrible situation. very bad conditions. be honestly, i am fed up with my life. that's kind of it. so i'm in hiding alone. underground. yeah, i can't go outside. i'm hopeless. and i asked 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 me. the decimal got in telling me w, i am

a pillow top. 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 he. so we were employed by this company. they scam eagle with each month, one pilot conducted $1720.00 drone strikes. it could be more than that, but not blessed with

data throughout all 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. 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 with a even the closest relatives don't know where they are. 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 again 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 afghans who worked alongside us in our particular risk reprise of 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 in 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. me 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 mission in afghanistan has now handed over responsibility, saying they ask an army can operate all the drones by itself in the pendant leave of more stories if you like, on the war on terror. and i've got to find how it's changed lives and affected people, ask you to call them, you can see more of our unheard voices, special project. but for now, here on monday program, a rushes top diplomat has said the entire purpose of nato is to seize territories

to its east. so to get 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. first of all, let's remind ourselves what be worth or parked was. it was a collective defense treaty established by the soviet union and 7 other satellites target states. it was created in reaction to the integration of west germany in nate's or $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 about law for the saying is, what is the point of nathan anymore? you know, he's pose 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,

nathan has previously offered membership to form a member of the boards or 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, please 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, but he rushes to be transparent about his 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 bugs from data calling russia the aggressive, the you k media. it's 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 while one would hope it, but little meet is a positive direction as yet fear mongering. the me the media, is it a all time high? they send full scale invasion talks. folks have another cuban missile crisis that continues to be a favorite topic. and there was still cause for sanctions on russia though that was, we're not sure because it 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. pre, i'm seeing 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 should impose new sanctions now and agree to lift those sanctions only if russia pulls back from military escalation. i took book with sugar and just recently one think tank, he said, why wait until something happens? let's introduce preventive sessions. and if russia doesn't start anything,

we'll lift them, but it's clear that no one would ever lift anything. so this is how things stand as of now attend by russia to come. things are so far being ignored, but this is something new question. so i seems to have seen as predictable as lot of suggested in that quote. nato's agenda is quite different. so what one might expect. meantime, people in east ukraine's breakaway republics are still living under the constant threat of shutting from kiev armed forces. that is, despite a cease fire agreement being struck between the rebels and the government years ago, with nato forces meantime, openly supplying the ukrainian military analyses remark caught a ref. now reports from don bass. ah ah

7 civilians were killed and $32.00 wounded on the territory of the self proclaimed the next people's republic of 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 the 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? we are often shelling a statement. she said we are not need ala the bye 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 not listen to her, but on the my older team september, a shell fell on my street. 2 little children living nearby that plays when did you lose our dca b? i d chesko there. i los periodical hitler, 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, they are all sold. sired, 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. with the buzzer, much bigger than you. yeah, i wish miss randall impatient scott because we live in an unstable situation. so it's generally very unpaid you watch and i'm tired of having a curfew. i mean, done. sky just was in the study are now used to living in this chaos. but i really want all the bad things to internationalist mesa, we're afraid something can happen to the children. and so in general it's just to relieve to be alive mozilla. after years of living on the rank, people just won this war to ends and returns to living and normal violence, free life, romantic author of arte, dun esque,

paradoxical and counter productive. that's how belgian engineers describe a government decision to di, nuclear eyes, the entire country. over the next 3 years. brussels will shot all this nuclear reactors and re direct 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. thoughtless bring about for you here, went into national to show you. there are currently 2 nuclear plants in belgium, up north, and just down here, central southeast as well. they generate almost half of the country's entire electricity, and the authorities say avoiding nuclear energy will make power production more safe. and of course, that is also in line with a common e. you go to go green. however, it all comes out. europe has been grappling with an energy crisis that i'm sure

you're aware of, has been seeing all the energy prices go through the roof. let's give you an idea. for example, neighboring france and germany very well known for that nuclear power capabilities . the cost of atomic energy look right here has totally spiked. now, it comes off the paris closed one of its plants and hold it operators at another over suspected security system issues. now as for germany, it intends to close all of this nuclear power plant by the end of next year, starting with this brock door site on new year's the closure. it will leave the country with 3 nuclear power stations, and we hit the streets of germany to speak to the locals and see how they respond to this. and basically, it's been a bit of a mixed reaction that's, that's 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. of course, the people in the village to see things differently because the village has become rich on taxpayer money. if you drive through the village and see how much is invested in it, or i think it's an important decision, but i also think we're not there yet. we can't get from renewable energy. we getting from nuclear power. many locals work there. 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 i ran a tutor. 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 out those beliefs. but as usual practice, counties always take home. and now the reality is sinking in high inflation. a huge demand search. i'm 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, but country by country as to how to get

a transmission transition, renewables. how's it going to say what the mixture is going to be going to be? i need to be honest about me, which are completely and stories continue in less than one minute. ah . oh, is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed? what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way? or are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? what is great?

in the world corrupted, you need to descend. ah, so join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. there's 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 sure all secure is the west suite at the switch. ah, it's just about to turn 20 parts down here in the russian capital. good to have you with us tonight. you had report has accused parties in ethiopia as civil war of committing atrocities. we're talking about torture unlawful killing and ripe. this follows more than a year of intense fighting between the t gray people's liberation front and the

ethiopian government policies policy. i travel to the east african nation. she filed this report, a 135 kilometers from the capital city of addis ababa in a city called deborah bad hon. now this is the 1st city when you're coming 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 victim rate victims, people who work that are soldiers, people who witness the playground, 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 witness so far. about

$25.00 women where i'd meet that will be done and the majority of women, when they started, you called the beta improvement and the remaining team saturday to meet that here has been kind of easy to them. and one of the calamities, 80 years old woman yeah. 8180. and she was late. yeah. shaped. and you kind of media the, she's not in our hospital by heating the news. it's very shocking to new ripping 80 years old woman hands. and if they st, let's say that either it was, it was also use it or otherwise psychology. ah, can you often if they've okay to talk to us,

is that one into their oh i when i was asleep during the 19 open 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 5th month of my pregnancy and i lost the baby. i'm not sure if i'll ever be fine again. i normally do teaching on the high school teacher, but up that was broke out. i just came here to add to the thoughts baton bought

into. they've done government tried. she's best. it's best to not start to watch. we see the cnn, the bbc data, and waiting for let me know that international media we are doing together with forces because we have seen in going to place people who are caught by the soldiers who are set to the so just all it towed, but just they said, we are for money told by our leaders for waiting to be on the banner force uniform . re, people can see what they've up to in blame japan, the soldiers. ok. they produce that movie. they produce quite effect pictures from different places and they say they've done government. the government has bombarding touch with and i,

well now we're going to go to a nearby town where actually most of the re fictions come from hearing their harrowing stories. we now go and see the actual damage that was left behind. ah, ah, i'm standing in 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've now fled and have taken refuge with family in addis ababa in the capital city. i mean, the town of kaya and the grand people 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 burn it when they lift and not only are people still afraid to come back, but there's really not much to come back. i mean, if you look yeah, even the window frame. absolutely. everything has been taken everything ah, the war 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 o p u n. the human rights council earlier did vote for an independent investigation into the atrocities committed by all sides. if you call that decision politically motivated and refused to cooperate to florida. now in the u. s.

sunshine state seeing soaring, cancer rates and pollution solving blamed on phosphate mining. but his locals fight for their health. one mining giant accused of polluting the vast waterways plans to open another site. later today in the evening, our c will area documentary about the situation for now. a quick preview. one of the most toxic places in america ah, florida, one of florida's biggest industries and best kept secrets is fostering in the biggest player in 80. $5000000000.00 industry is mosaic. and i, there are reports of millions of gallons of contaminated water now flowing into the florida aqua naval. there's a chronic i don't want to hear that work towards me, but that's what it is. in 2013 my uncle, our family dog, my brother, who is 21 years old, myself along with

a good plan. yeah. maybe they'll actually, we're, that far hill is more important than the company responded to the accusations made in that documentary by saying it doesn't accurately portrayed the cancer risks associated with phosphate mining. earlier this year, a 1000000 gallons of waste water from one form of mining facility leaked in florida . the state is now building an injection well to pump out the remaining water as something environmental a se could just make it all so much was filmmaker eric crown, who made the documentary you just saw previewed, explained his motivation as i was traveling around the world, doing a lot of direct action conservation work. i started to see that right in my own back yard. we had these issues where we were questioning children in

a way that regularly is actually regulated and allowed. so you know, as soon as i saw that i thought this is something we can stop and if he's environmental cancers, if we're able to stop them, it's our obligation to investigate and stop them from continuing. one interesting thing is they're allowed to do their testings fast, so they simply do their own tests and then provide the results to the state. so there is no oversight on this entire industry statewide. and that is where we're finding the difficulties. you know, i was able to come up with it by going through the public records of the different counties that have mining and mining areas and they're all their leading cause of death was cancer and their rates were extremely higher. i spoke to a lot of people that had been silenced by them by music directly. as a matter of fact, one person who spoke of recently had a gag order placed on them where they could not speak publicly about music,

which i just thought was crazy. actually, the gag order said you're not allowed to speak about music on facebook and for somebody to lose the 1st amendment, right, like that. that shows a lot of influence in the area. you know, we find that music goes through and they kind of gain the favor of a lot of people by putting a lot of money into the local communities. but at the same time they're, they're presenting this nice picture while they're also getting everybody sick at the same time. you know, and it was, it was maddening for me because we did find cancer causing chemicals, and it was proven in the movie. we even found one of their outfalls had there, there's a level that they're not supposed to go over and we found that level and we tested the water of radiation. so we're finding that there's, there's just, again, there's no oversight into this type of an industry. and they kind of run roughshod over everybody in the local areas. now you can watch out full documentary later today on our channel as well as a tomorrow all day long. it's artie on ad,

but also odyssey online with all you tube channels as well. well, thanks for joining us here for the monday evening program live from moscow. this is our t international. great pleasure having with us today, my colleague saskia taylor here at the desk and half an hour's time. i do hope you can join her at the top with with i'm action or it's and see, and you're watching going underground. the team and i will be back for a brand new season on wednesday,

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