ah ah, hey, the stories are across this wednesday and i'll tell you americans big budget priorities. put the pentagon over the pandemic that president biden signed off an enormous $700000000000.00 defense plant. washington's global vaccination campaign keeps running out of cash. my religious lambs, australia, policy of deporting convicted criminals to new zealand saying is causing a surgeon gang related crime. it is not good enough that new zealand is becoming a penal colony for australia and just supporting your problem. why does not solve the problem of gangs and both australia and new zealand under proponent of critical race theory, faces a barrage of criticism for suggesting parents and not the side while the children are taught in schools. we discuss whether us history is in need of

a classroom overhaul. the claim to be the moral ironic claim to be the speaking a truth, but all is doing is dividing. people confuse the children and wanting children to turn against each other. this is a fear of the right from hearing and having to embrace the truth with abby with us. it's wednesday, the 29th of december. i'm calling brain the world news from r t international 1st for you while the world rounds of another year struggling to combat the kobe pandemic. america has a different priority with joe biden, signing a whopping $700000000000.00 military budget for the upcoming year, or even by america's own estimates. that's a 100 times more than the cost of vaccinating the entire planet. or i guess the of looks at how even an era defining health crisis county rail washington's massive defense spending. it's bigger than it's bader than ever before. america's new

military budget, $777700000000.00. so vast it board doesn't monstrous. and it's still not enough, say the people who passed it are nations facing many threats right now. just read the paper every day. china russia ran in yet that budget was actually pro provided by the white house. was a cut, pretty dramatic code. if you look at it as inger adjusted for inflation, it is remarkable these lawmakers they'll, they'll sit there and argue for weeks months about maternity leave or building roads or bridges or, or walls. but the better part of a trillion dollars on a war machine back 88 for 11 against past and the next day that will come to work and to congress and. and they'll wonder where the heck all their money went. i also find it amusing that senator mansion indicates his worry about the deficit after

voting just this week for a military budget of $778000000000.04 times greater than build back better over 10 years and $25000000000.00 more than the president requested $778000000000.00. i mean $700000000.00 is a decimal here. a decimal were rounding up and down by, by hundreds of millions, 16 times greater than rushes, military budget greater than the next 11 highest military budgets put together. a sudden that the human mind can barely comprehend. somewhat of the extra billions going towards the secretary shall take appropriate action to increase the use of low emission initial fee and net 0 initial energy technologies in the operations programs project and activities of the department provided these is cost effective on the life cycle of evening and there's also a new ranko position in the u. s. military, according to the n d,

a draft bill. and that is gender advisor. so troops can get help if they feel like changing genders. we can only guess how many millions that's going to cost. and of course, none of this would be possible without china and russia because of whom the pentagon argued. it needed more money in your sunday. we certainly opposed the u. s. slipping negative content, considering china, or making an issue out of china for political manipulation is not implement negative content and articles in the act that target china and damaged chinese interests or hurts. overall bilateral ties and cooperation and important areas. while the l g b t, q plus community may let out a sigh of relief, people that have been incarcerated. guantanamo bay innocence included without trial or justice for decades, will just have to wait a little longer. now one thing they didn't find any money for is, is a field doesn't plane tickets to send guantanamo inmates home or to court.

unfortunately, he section 1032 of the act continues to bar the use of fonts to transfer guantanamo bay. detainees to the cassidy are effective control of certain foreign countries, and section 1033 of the act bars, the use of funds to transfer guantanamo bay detainees into the united states unless certain conditions are met. it would cost an estimated $7000000000.00 to vaccinate billions. those who still can't get the vaccine. one percent of america's military budget, just one percent, to potentially hold the development of new strains and variance of coven. but no gender advise us in the electric cars for the pentagon. that's the priority. the more the pentagon spends on insanity, the more military contractors make money, isn't we're not at war with anybody. and why we need a military budget. the, his bigger than the next over 10 nations combined. i mean that's,

that's nonsense. now, if you just ended that military industrial compet use ended this massive military state and let people spend their own money as they see fit. you'd see people spending their money to help people far more effectively than you as a i d ever does. to provide health here for people overseas and not using their money to hurt people the way the military does. ah, a new zealand indigenous leader is accusing australia of using his country as a dumping ground for convicted criminals. national murray authority, chairman matthew to khaki, says their neighbors behavior darkens the spirit of friendship between their countries. it is not good enough that new zealand is becoming a penal colony for australia and just reporting your problem. why does not solve the problem of gangs and both australia and new zealand. it is not good enough just to say we're gonna stick a whole lot of people on applying on a government charter plane and seem them back to new zealand. that is not the

spirit of friendship that you would expect between 2 neighbors. well, even permanent residency lived in australia for more than 10 years can be deported under the migration acts, section 5 or one if they've been convicted of a drug offense, a result is even politicians say that instead of rehabilitation, australia simply dumps them elsewhere that's causing a surge of gang related crime in oakland. o, a spokesperson for australia's immigration ministers says the government routinely removes foreign nationals from a range of countries due to serious offenses in an effort to promote safety in australia. but matthew to khaki says the country needs to work with new zealand to find a better solution. now, i also did that australian citizens, you know, it's easy just to deport the problem away. and australians want exactly what we want. we want safe communities. we do not want to say drugs being sold to our children. we are sick and tired of saying gun violence on our streets. one possible

solution is a joint task force to address a couple of different things. and even though our police forces like to share information, doctorate intelligence at the moment, it would be good to see if we could just increase and including in beastie and joint resources. that, that means also having a look at information and intelligence to find out where these drug supplies networks are establishing themselves across southeast asia, even into the pacific being, let's do their job together as australia and new zealand. and that ends explorer, ah, should parents have more say in what their children are taught in schools? well, according to nicole 100 jones, they shouldn't. she's the founder of the controversial 1619 project with james to reframe us history in terms of race and have is proving polarizing. i don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught. i'm not a professional educator. i don't have a degree in social studies or science,

we send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have expertise in the subject area. and that is not my job. as a parents, i have every right to ensure my child isn't being taught lies despite what nicole 100 jones says, how can this be promoted? could share anyone else to say parents don't get a say in our children's education. her position is faulty and shouldn't be listened to and must have a platform removed. sorry, but parents must be involved. come on, you pesky parents, just let her indoctrinate your kids in peace. on a journey, lawrence, the 69 team project with the new york times 2 years ago. it's goal is to highlight the legacy of slavery battle. so the contributions of black americans throughout us history content from the projects being included in school curricular, and at least 5 us states. we discussed the issue with the legal analyst, jennifer braden de master and political activist, anthony rogers, right. fortunately in america right now, the political faction is kind of taking over everything else including education. i

think that's some of the concern here because really what you're trying to do is refrain retrain, children's mind. and that's, that could lead and, and we're seeing this now the rise and anxiety and political issues in children getting younger and younger every year. and i think parents have a right to be concerned about that. the major issue here is that a professor hannah jones is actually talking about the truth and, and that's what's lacking so much in this nation right now. and it's really, really sad that even the most far right wing people in germany can accept the fact that there were nazis that carried out atrocities the fact that this nation was forge in a cauldron of white supremacy. slavery indigenous genocide and lance matching is not alive at the end of the day. this is a fear of the right from hearing and having to embrace the truth. and it's funny that the people on the side, the i are also talking about also talking about not the germany because not the

journey with a, with also the government and the order that the leadership there that started to import this propaganda into the population to say if you agree or you don't, that is what my colleague is saying here. that's what some of these new educational politicians are trying to are trying to impose on children on young children. and all that's going to do is continue dividing the population because one thing has happened from this they, they claim to be the moral high ground. it claims to be the beacon of truth, but all it's doing is dividing. people confuse the children and wanting children to turn against each other. i don't even know what just happened. that was a very interesting soliloquy. again, we're not trying to tear people apart from each other. truth is truth. if truth is going to hurt people that's on, on the people, and what you just heard in this very myopic and silly a soliloquy is that it's some sort of political motivation. truth just is, is truth. you cannot deny what has happened in this country. what is happening in

this country, and you cannot deny that this country was founded in an image and the lens of benefiting white people at the expense of other people. and that's just a fact. you can absolutely talk and teach about history about what's happened in this country. them the horrific things of labor without having to completely d. do is completely unravel the fabric and the foundation of the country, the 3. but, but you know, when it comes to the truth, my goodness, we are so far off when that you mean it's not a relative term it without a good, happy with this is wednesday coming up consumer confidence and environmental concerns. we look at whether eco friendly claims be in my by some firms really stack up. it's our next story. when we come back with ah

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ah, hello again. next tapping into fears of rising pollution and climate change. businesses are increasingly pumping up the eco friendly credentials. but just how much of it is marketing artes. peter oliver looks at how some consumers in europe being duped by so called green washing as we learn more about our impact upon the climate as increasing impetus, almost all to keep that in mind when it comes to purchases. and that's also being seized upon by advertisers who are very keen to push their product as the best one for the environment. jim and consumer rights group food watch handout, a yearly award. the golden cream puff which shames those products that pitch themselves as green. but in reality, they're using climate concern to just shift more units. our diet has its share in

the huge problems we face to day. the food industry now wants to cash in on consumers, need for more sustainability and is marketing their products as a way of saving the environment and the climate. these are the products on german shells that made up the top 3 this year when it comes to green washing or promoting yourself is good for the climate when really, you're not in the bronze medal position on these coffee capsules from hamburg faced coffee roasted j. j, damp oven and partnership with the swiss culprit giant move and pick branded as composter, bowl and biodegradable. they are anything but and waste companies will struggle to do anything with them other than incinerator them. second place goes to this bottle of volvic water, climate neutral, certified according to the packaging. it's the plastic bottle, so that's already not stacking up user usable. if you can, also, this water has to be transported all the way from france when this perfectly good,

much better for the environment. water coming out of tops and drinking fountains. volvic on their parent company to non did have this to say in their defense. since august 2020, we have only used recycle td for our disposable bottles. for long transport routes . these bowels are the ecologically most sensible packaging. also, the company has launched a regional mineral water that is sold in class deposit bottles. this year's winner was the see from ok to river and there climate neutral chicken breasts. there's a lot of c o 2 produced getting a chicken from farm to supermarket river promise that is offset through a scheme that finances climate protection in the rain forests of peru. the problem is, according to the investigative work of food watch, that program doesn't seem to have had any of the desired effect. it can be demonstrated that the rate of deforestation in the critic terry actually more than doubled after the project started. here's what we're ever had to say for themselves

. the revenue group had already reacted and as climate partner as the project manager to submit an assessment based on the information available. unfortunately, this was previously not possible because the author of the study had not made direct contact with the rebate group climate partner or the local project developer boskus amazon. of course, this would have made the false allegations easy to refute. while the companies named in this particular awards ceremony are keen to stress that their climate action is legitimate. i guess the big takeaway is to make sure that when you buy something that advertises itself as good for the climate that they are going further than just a label on a bottle or a box. peter oliver r t. berlin, civilians killed homes, destroyed the people impacted by the us led war in afghanistan are more than just statistics now. throughout this year, artes online project unheard voices has been sharing some of their life changing

experiences on r t dot com. and also on our youtube channel. so i'm going to leave you this are with one of those stories, a man who spent nearly 3 years in notorious american run prisons abroad. i had to stop telling myself that i am a father, that i am a son. i am a husband that i am a human being. i saw that to call myself. um what i had been told that i was and that was my number 558. that was my number in guantanamo room in may. 2002. i was interrogated by the cia and the f b i and they threatened if i did not cooperate to send me either to egypt will to syria, to be further tortured. either you with us or you were the enemy. there is no in between. and that doctor is still stay on

i think it's quite clear to me if the united states response to the terrible deaths of, of 911 was vengeance. the war on terror is not a police operation. it's a military operation. why they picked on me? it wasn't just me, they picked on every one. you know, who knows? if anybody is prepared to hand you over to a country to talk to you. i live is a pakistan is and to be override. and i'm my parents from pakistan on a deal national. they handed me over to the americans without any legal possible. ah, i was held there for a year in 2002 to 2003, and i saw 2 individuals beaten to death by american soldiers.

these terrors play by a whole set of different rules. kids kind of force us than your words, the get mean dirty a master in order to take them on. we'll use all tools at our disposal. the boys a few bad apples. isolated incidents one by one. the terrorists are learning the meaning of american justice. for me, this place, i pity my what the united states was doing. i've done that. they were bringing people to this torture site afghans ordering a gun and abusing them outside of the rule of law and then allowing some of them to go back home. and they would go home and tell people what the americans did. by the time i got to guantanamo, i was begging to go to turn on because what i've seen and witnessed in belgrade was

so destructive to this day. i haven't, i can't sleep. ah, several of us since one cannibal, including several taliban members who now heads of various departments in the government were tortured. we were stripped, we were beaten and was spat upon. we were humiliated photographs. this was taken during this period of time, they had a, the sounds of a woman in the next room that led me to believe was my wife's name, tortured. they waved with pictures of my children in front of me and asked me where do you think they are now, what do you think happened through the night and took your way? and of course, what they wanted me to do was cosign a confession that i was a member of al qaeda, which i was not. and this was, i'd say, stand it, i got it. i think i got it better than a lot of the other prisoners. ah, ah,

i oh, so this is kinda handmade calendar that i made when i was in town. and i thought that perhaps if i counted the days that it will be easier. but when the days turn it to weeks and months, and then 2 years, i realized that it was just futile. when i received such letters from my children who are very young at the time, it's actually made it worse to look at the calendar and start to count down the days my children growing up without me. and every day, without them, with a stab in the heart. and they would come sporadically, they had to be vetted uncensored by the u. s. censorship. my daughter who was 6 at the time, wrote a poem, 12345. once i caught official life and they redacted that because they said that

has numbers in a numbers could mean some sort of a code. so it was that kind of nonsensical reduction disconnecting from the idea of being a father. ironically and sadly, but also my own personal faith, my belief in god my reading, the koran and again and expectedly becoming friends with several of the american soldiers who would bring me little snippets of information. sometime next week in a chocolate, sometime next week, and a dvd player and show me a film, lexus, humanity that i have never forgotten to this day. and i think i left guantanamo not hating america because of those soldiers, me messages directly from some american soldiers who say that

this has been a, a war that has destroyed us as individuals. soldiers, i've spoken to have told me that they cannot sleep at night. so i am in no doubt about the, the effects of this war, not just on the individuals, but on the nation as a whole of whom the soldiers representative me has gone to the shop and unity types were destroyed. the united states produced a senate report on torture, but not a single person was ever bought for charges for these war hunt. recently, i gave evidence the international criminal court for their investigations of abuses by americans, enough to understand they would investigate to the united states. the national army and the taliban. the only ones who responded by threatening the international court

was the like. states of america. they said that we will sanction all members of the national committee court. we will arrest any members of the icpc who come to the usa or elsewhere that want to investigate us. i think the united states of america needs to step back if it wants to help any of any assistance to the people who understand it's got in the position to negotiate those conditions. it has, it has been an aggressive. the taliban already made gestures towards russia to it's china to it's the wrong to it's focused on with indonesia would be like states and britain in particular. i think that feeling very upset because this is a defeat. it's a military defeat. however, you want to look at it and that imperial hubris, as it were, will not allow them to say that we need to move forward and continue within negotiations that we began in doha, that they cannot be any more saber rattling. it's no good for the african people. it's no good. i've got in touch with britain or america. you've really got to find

a way for ah, 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 that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. and the point obviously, is to great trust rather than fear with the area with artificial intelligence. real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with

one of the worst ever mess. shootings in america was in las vegas in 2017. the tragedy exploded a little of the real las vegas, where many se elected officials are controlled by casino knows the dank is shooting, revealed what the l v p d really is. and now it's part of the stand machine. most of the american public barely remembers that it happens that just shows you the power of money in las vegas. the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic head, the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades. and then you have a mayor who doesn't care. so here's carolyn goodman, offering the lives of the vegas residence to be the control group. to the shiny facades conceal a deep indifference to the people vice could have been saved if they were to take an action. absolutely, keep the registering and keep the slot machines doing in vegas as a money machine is a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives

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case out so far in the pandemic. this is goldman sachs is given the i'm a nation, a gleaming forecast or economic recovery straight ahead. we'll discuss this and the latest revisions to global recovery outlook and later will take you to be airline sector, where the new very intense driven math, cancellations and staffing issue will talk with an expert in the field to break it all down. we will pack show today, so let's dive right in and we begin with the latest on the omni cron variant of covey in what seems like quite frankly, a complete turnaround from what he's been saying for the past few months. president joe biden now says that there is no federal solution to overcoming the corona virus pandemic, and that the solution, it's got to come from the states and from governors. look, there is no federal solution. escape solved. state level my message, the governor simple. if you need something, say something, and we are going to have your back and any way we can

now keep in mind, president biden has issued a series of attempted federal mandates and work around using osha. so this new statement that it's up to, governors, to take action once again, certainly new will. meanwhile, koby cases in the you have reached a record high of 129471 new cases reported in just a single day on tuesday. that's in england. and in wells in fact, data from the n h s. england released on tuesday revealed that the number of patients in the hospital had risen by more than 1000 in the space of a day with more than 9500 beds occupied by people with cobit on tuesday. compared with just over 8400 people. the day before joining the found the place established hillary ford, which with the british american business association, hillary great to have you on. thanks for being here. says you ran. so obviously you were watching this number of cases a sore here in the united states with crime. no question about that. we hear about

new cases every single day. certainly that seems to be the case that we just talked about in the u. k as well. what seems.