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operates are currently in how you doing from the taliban, spoke to ortiz, unheard of voices that project. throughout operations, we were not told about any civilian deaths, nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target, so i'm in hiding alone with underground i live in fear speaking honestly, i am fed up with my life that roches foreign minister accuses nato trying to bribe eastern european territories and the bung claims from the alliance of russian aggression in you prayed, also needing belgian engineers. i left this may. does the government decide to shut down all nuclear reactors within 3 is even though atomic bombs generate with the top of the country's electricity. also i had with

round the clock renewed. the very latest. this is auto international from everyone here in the moscow. h q. a welcome to the program or starting us off this hour, france and germany are tightening the screws on the on vaccinated with a raft of new antique covert measures, sparking angry street protests. well, it is a picture paying out all across europe. why goblins are struggling with the record inspection rates? what i want to do now was bring in, natalie, pointlessly as she didn't balance poor. good to see you. i mean, look, it's 2 years then pensions clearly not facing what's going on where you are. while the tensions are certainly onto baiting what we've seen across europe is a surge of covert cases. if we start off in phones, the country has hit a record high 100000 new covert cases a day. and the death toll there has now increased to well over a 122000 people. this is largely due to the omi con variant that was supposed to

tested in south africa. but what we are witnessing is also a search in delta cases. and that is leading to quite a number of people having to be hospitalized. the government is looking to transform its cobit health, passed into a vaccine house. now we have heard from the french help, the french prime minister, who announced that a negative taste is no longer going to be enough for people to be able to enter balls, restaurants, and other cultural venues taken listen. the last time she said jewels in france as in europe, the situation is extremely tad. a new wave is sweeping over our competition. we've reached the symbolic 100000 daily new infections. we are drafting a law that will transform the health path into vaccination pass if parliament votes in favor it will be applied from 15,

january the sun such as well the u. k. it has now reported an additional $44917.00 new cove cases and $45.00 new deaths. we had heard from bobby johnson who says that while the u. k. is to quote, concerned about the increase in cobra cases. the country at this stage is not looking at implementing any kind of new restrictions or new locked downs. if we move across now to where i am in germany here, the government is considering tougher restrictions. and in fact, from monday, a number of german states have intro, high temp was fixed and these include among others limiting private gatherings, up to 10 people. and that is 10 people who have either been vaccinated or who have recovered from cove at 19. the government has also shut down club, don, se news and other such public gatherings. not this comes amid a spate of demonstration against the covert restrictions happening in several

cities and towns across the country. several 100 people were wasted at protest that took place in carrying the linen author in one foot. and in the latter venue police, they clashed with potatoes and it became quite violent with police wielding battens and fire and pepper spray into the crowd. while petitioners whose rocks and stones, and sat on the police were about to show you rather disturbing images in which a 4 year old child was accidentally pepper sprayed by police. after her mother took her to the demonstration. the now the mother there had to appear before a judge and thus comes as the police complain that and to vexes are increasing the

using more violent means at demonstrations. if we move now to the netherlands they, we have the health ministry suggesting a ra, innovative way for people who are nervous about taking the vaccine to deal with the vaccine anxiety. the health minister has suggested virtual reality glasses that will help relax during the injection. elsewhere we have increase the country also imposing stricter coven wools to try and deal with the increase in the coven pandemic. the greek government is reportedly struggling to get old the citizens to take the vaccination. israel has started rolling off vaccinations for the 5 to 11 years old age group. while at the same time it means health minister has announced that italians will be able to get a coven booster some 5 months after they vaccination cycle. what is important to point out as well is that of course,

now we had the holiday seasons and you appear in capitals. are trying they base to try and bring the covert numbers down and met the festivities planned for this month and next. well thought to me in the meantime was saying we just saw on the screen actually some pretty dramatic pictures from those protests. it doesn't look like it's going to go away any time. see, not was pulling up. thanks very much. bring us up speed i scan at trone. operators working for the u. s. were kept in the dark about civilian death stops. according to a whistleblower spoke to you about his job during the war on terror, he shot his story with ortiz on hud voices. project lalellah, we live in a horrible situation. very bad conditions with whom speak. honestly, i am fed up with my life that's not about so i'm in hiding alone with underground. yeah, i can't go outside. i'm hopeless. and 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 near the decimal guardian. telling me though, tuan, for 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 assigned an agreement with he said we were employed by this company. they scam eagle with each month one pilots conducted $1720.00 drone strikes. it could be more than that, but not less

with data throughout operations, we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong targets for that. and the statistics on this were out of our control. we didn't have access to this data the 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 and 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 the continued diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any american afghan partner or foreign national wants to lead up again. this is 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 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 capping our phones. me i was we also 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. me us lead to mission in afghanistan has now handed over responsibility saying the african army can operated without outside assistance. if you do want to hear more about how the world, terry,

and i found us don changed lives. i don't know, but to you dot com and you'll find that out on hud voice who watches top dipping, has said the entire purpose of nato is to seize tara trees to its east sa gala for over speaking ahead of possible talks with weston alliance. now this is just, she's the gilbert teacher 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 worse or packed. 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, into nato, 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, what is the point of nathan anymore? you know, he's pose cold war gave. if not, as he suggests, the geopolitical project came to collecting all of these countries for the lifetime ago. we're in opposition to nathan now. nathan has previously offered membership to form a 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 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 agreement 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 yet, and still broke their 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? hi. 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 of 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 than 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 tanka 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. 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 as lot of suggested in, not quote. nato's agenda is quite different to what one might expect. people in su crane's breakaway republics are still living under the constant threat of shelling from his armed forces on, despite across a ceasefire agreement struck between the rebels on the goblins. years ago, with nato full says now open the supplying ukrainian military teams where costs threads traveled to the don bus 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? we'll to 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 a 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 most listen to

randomly or will change september. a shell fell on my street to little children a living nearby that place. when did you lose or do you should be id chesko? there are los periodical hiscock levin 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 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. what's the george been to the new year? i wish miss randall impatient because we live in an unstable situation. so it's generally very, i'm hello to me. i'm tired of having a curfew. i mean, done. sky just was 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 to relieve 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, romantic author of archie. don't ask. we've got a couple of toys come your way off this short break. so see barton. ah, join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess with the world politics, sport, business, i'm sure business. i'll see you then. oh, driven by tremendous shapes, bankers and those with

theirs sinks. we dare to ask for there is 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 could assure all security is the west suite at the switch. mm. logan, our doc school and counter productive. that's how belgian engineers describe the government decision to dean, utilize the country of the next 3 years. reaction came off to brussels, announced as planned to shut down oh reactors and redirect investment into new

technologies. the government's decision to face 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 mccartney. there are 2 nuclear plants in belgium, with southern reactors. they generate with half of the country's electricity authority, say that avoiding euclid, energy will make power, production safer, and is in line with the common you goal to go green. however, it all comes as europe grapples with an energy crisis that seen prices saw to rec or to higher is going to show you in just a 2nd. now in neighboring france and germany known for that nuclear power capabilities, the cost of atomic energy has spiked. as you can see, that's off to power is closed one of its plants and halted operations at another over suspected security system faults. as for germany, well,

it intends to close all its nuclear power plants by the end of next year, starting with its broken off site on new year's eve. the closure will leave the country with 3 power stations. germans responded to these with mixed reactions. as i thought for fun enough time knob, it has its pros and cons. but actually here in bergdorf we only saw advantages other countries are building nuclear power plants too. and the question is, where do we get our electricity from? i'm and it is me of us is finally it's happening. i'm very happy about it because you never know if an accident might occur or thought people might try to destroy jeff, of course, are people in the village that see things differently because the village has become rich on taxpayer money. if you drive through the village and we'll see how much was invested in it for a loop, 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 we're, we're getting from nuclear power. many locals works and we have to see where they will end up,

but some people will definitely lose their jobs. we discuss issue with charlie, boil independent journalist as well as raina cruet, the chairman of germany. collectivist 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 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 the climate protection it's, it's arming 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 positions 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 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 plan around the world, but country by country as to how to 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, which are completely scar. and finding us americans might be alarmed by the colossal scale of government spending joint pandemic and sen. round pool has highlighted some of the bizarre ways that taxpayers dollars are being used. just one example, half a $1000000.00 on research and to pigeons,

but not just average pigeons. the, the pigeons, the think gambling addiction just plain slot machines. think that's a bad acid trip. nope, it's a project founded by the american taxpayers. and it's one of many in the chance a wasteful us initiative. research allows pigeons to spend the sake of gamble tokens, could prove very useful if only pigeon gambling was a really should do kid preferred trips to brooklyn boys back to double check. another state funded research prove that bug is a more appealing faith. john made them gain weight. that was an experiment with taxpayers money well spent. how does bad news affect your mood? take the scientists to figure that out. us funded study, find that bob use cause is happening to jump down. it's not a waste of time if you will learn something that's odds for this hour,

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ah, ah, ah, ah. hello and welcome the crosstalk. were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . there's 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 to sleep at the switch. ah, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess,

marcus papadopoulos in london. he is a historian, analyst and author of the book arise, receive the return of russia to world politics. and in budapest we have toward semi, well, he is a podcast to read the gaggle which can be found on youtube and locals are generally crossed up rules. and the fact that means you can jump in any time you want. and i always appreciate it. i start out in budapest year. george, it's been about a week now. since all of the russians have sent 2 proposals to the united states and nato. we've gotten mixed reactions from the foreign policy blob, a peer, apparently. in july, there'll be some kind of talks in geneva again, really that information on that. and it seems to me that the, with the russians have made a very clear case that they feel that their security is being threatened and they have a solution to improve. and protect the security of all and we can go into that. but the reaction to it is,

is mediocre at best. and the last thing i want to make this clear to all our viewers, the last thing the russians want to hear is, yeah, we'll sit down and talk the time to talk is come to an end their documents on the table and go through them and let sign them publicly. george. you summarize it? excellent. be there. i think that's exactly what the russians saying, which is that we have been saying the same thing to you over and over again starting from 1991 when a child was asking for assurances from the west, the west will not expand into space left. i believe the withdrawal so ok and you know with complaint again and again and the west is treated, complains with content and just say, you know, you lost the call, you know, then the race. and now that the political situation has changed