ah, ah, the stories were across on our t this, our america's big budget priorities. put the pentagon over the pandemic as president biden signs off an enormous $700000000000.00 defense plant, washington's global vaccination campaign. keep running out of cash. jim, a politician call to ban the popular messaging app telegram over hosting hate speech and cove. it denies moscow. those says that double standards after the german media grounded on russia trying to do the same only a few years ago. mary lita slammed australia's policy of deporting convicted criminals to new zealand saying it's causing a surgeon, gang related crimes. it is not good enough that you feel and is becoming a penal colony for australia and just deporting your problem. well, why does not solve the problem of gangs and both australia and new zealand

with hello live am worldwide. this is the international from moscow. i'm calling bry welcome to you. we'll be 1st then, while the world rams off another year, struggling to come by the coping pandemic america has a different priority with joe biden signing a whopping $700000000000.00 military budget for the upcoming year and even by america's own estimates. that's a 100 times more than the cost of vaccinating the entire planet. where i guess day of next looks at how even an era defining health crises, county rail, washington's massive defense spending. it's bigger than it's bad other 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. sri, the paper,

every day china russia ran and yet that budget was actually pra. a 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 $88.00 for 11 against passed 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 justice 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. where 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, projects and activities of the department provided these is cost effective on with ally cycle of the innocent, there's also a new rankel 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 firmly opposed the u. s. slipping negative content, considering china, or making an issue out of china for political manipulation issue not implements negative content and articles in the acts that target china and damaged chinese interests or hurts overall bilateral ties and corporation 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 a guantanamo bay. detainees to the custody or 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, yes, 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 actively did

u. s. a r d ever does to provide health care for people overseas and not using their money to hurt people the way the military does. oh, okay. new in this hour, the popular messaging app telegram might soon be restricted in germany over claims that is not doing enough to combat extreme content and actually vaccine conspiracy theories. but it wasn't that long ago that german media rounded on russia for trying similar restrictions on the app as moscow has been quick to point out. when in 2018 russian court imposed restrictions on the telegram app and prevent attended messages, almost every german media outlets reported about that so called violation of the freedom of speech in russia. but now that political campaign is heating up in germany. guess what they are targeting with restrictions? telegram, eltic responded. he goes down across his force. i. there you go. how exactly is the german government spooked by? won't telegrams doing something that roscoe sees something of double standards?

well, it's all rather simple calling because telegram. well, since it's a very popular message, a messenger, it made sort of revolutionized messaging, but it is also at the same time, one of the least regulated apps for that. and so there are always 2 sides to one majel. and of course, since, of course, telegram has brought a lot of good to the table, but at the same time, it has harbert became a haven to all sorts of fringe movements. and some fringe movements can be quite well, innocent. others, well, they can be very, very harmful for example. you can't, you don't even have to search for that long to find all sorts of, for example, anti facts and groups. there's drug trade that's going on via telegram boats online as well. and so, well, germany, governments problem has been essentially anti faxes using telegram to coordinate their, well, their actions to coordinate their protests and to basically this is where the, where they're getting all the misinformation. this has become their echo chamber, so to speak. so this is where they're getting and they,

they exist in this little bubble of misinformation and bubble of delusion that, that they well that they exist in. and so this has been germany's problem. and from that standpoint, from that point of view, of course, the germany's government can be understood, the desire to do something about just that. but his, where the hypocrisy bit kicks in. when back in 2018, russia did the same when russia tried to block telegram because it refused to take down certain chats in certain groups where outright extremists and terrorists were gathering german media. didn't care of one bit for one bit for it, they were just blatantly accusing russia of, of censorship, of tyranny. and these are the headlines that they use to talk about russia and to describe brushes, actions. and here's what the said back at the time, have a listen the blocking of telegram as yet another sound development concerning freedom of speech pluralism and the right to privacy in russia. so it was privacy

when moscow was doing it now that germany is facing a very, very similar it's not the same problem. now their rhetoric has kind of changed, develop, you can compare yourself we must quickly create a legal option for switching telegram. so what about the abuse of sending the messages, any reaction from the german public it? well, of course, because now the german politicians, that those, those politicians who have, who have called to block telegram, they are receiving a bit of their own medicine because now others criticize them and brought harshly. and i was a, in turn, a being accused of well trampling on the freedom of speech. it does not fit in with a free constitutional state to simply switch off digital platforms. this proposal fits into totalitarian regimes but not into our constitutional order. switching off an entire app is a form of state media censorship that we do not want in germany. so there you have

it and telegram is not the only media platform that has well has been receiving the short under the stake. i mean, r t, german sister channel has been blocked in germany, and a lot of people argue that it wasn't well that that decision wasn't justified, but germany blocked it on the, on the account that they did not receive a german broadcasting license, even though they didn't have to legally they just received a serbian one and under that umbrella, they are allowed to broadcast all across the you. so kind of all these accusations of censorship when it comes to germany, they have been mounting lately. you know there's ever shifting sands in terms of definition of freedom of speech. ok, thanks very much for that. ah. 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 that their neighbors behavior darkens the spirit of friendship between their countries. it is not good enough. now that new zealand is becoming

a penal colony for australia and, 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 a plane, on a government charter plane and seem them back to new zealand. that is not the spirit of friendship that you will expect between 2 neighbors or even permanent residence. you've lived in australia for more than 10 years can be deported under the migration acts. section 5. 0 one if they've been convicted of a drug offense or assault new zealand, politicians say that instead of rehabilitation, australia simply dumps them elsewhere. and that's causing a surge of gang related crime in oakland. well for their part it ers spokesperson for australia. immigration minister says the government routinely moved foreign nationals from a range of countries to serious offenses in an effort to promote safety in australia, but matthew to kirk. he says that 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 they do share information, dathan intelligence at the moment, it would be good to see if we could just increase and including beastie and joint resources. 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 that job together as australia and new sealants and that ends explorer. ah, how should parents have more say, and what their children are taught in schools? well, according to nicole hannah jones,

they shouldn't. she is the founder of the controversial 1619 project which came to reframe us history in terms of race and her views, the 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 a people who have an 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 any one else to say parents don't get a say in our children's education. her position is faulty and should 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. i had a jones launch, the 69 team project with the new york times 2 years ago. it's goal is to highlight the legacy of slavery and the contributions of black americans throughout us

history. content from the projects already been included in school curricular, and at least 5 us states. we discussed the issue with legal analysts, jennifer braden de master, and political activist, antony 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, 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 hannon 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 and 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. it's funny that the people on the side, the i are also talking about are also talking about not the germany, because not the journey with a, with also the government and the, or the leadership there. that it started to import this propaganda into the population to say if you agree or you don't, that is my colleague 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 hybrid. it claims to be the beacon of truth, but all it's doing is dividing people confusing 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, 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 a 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 and about what's happened in this country, them the horrific things laboring without having to completely de, completely unravel the fabric and the foundation of the country, the 3. but, but you know, when it comes to truth migrant, we are so far from when that you mean it's not a relative term. i still had this wednesday and i'll see consumer conscience and environmental concern. we look at whether the eco friendly claims may buy some firms really stack up. our next story when we come back.

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at the end of every year across stock to answer some of your many questions. not surprisingly, many of your questions, concerns politics, the current international situation, and whether we should trust legacy median. we'll do our best to answer as many questions as we are again now. tapping into our phase of rising pollution and climate change. businesses are increasingly pumping up the eco friendly credentials, but just how much of it is simply marketing ortiz, peter, all of the next looks at how some consumers in europe a 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 been 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 it's sharon, 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 of these coffee capsules from hamburg faced coffee roasted j. j, damp oven, and partnership with the swiss culprit giant morgan 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 was a, 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 de non did have this to say in their defense. since august 2020, we have only used recycle tedi 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 at the rate of deforestation in the critic terrier, actually more than doubled after the project started. here's what we ever had to say for themselves. the revenue group had already reacted and as climate partner is the project manager to submit an assessment based on the information available. unfortunately, this was previously not possible because the author of this study had not made direct contact with the rebate group climate partner or the local project developer boscus 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 are t. berlin,

civilians killed homes, destroyed the people impacted by the us led war in afghanistan are more than just statistics now. throughout the year, artes online project unheard voices has been sharing some of their life changing experiences on both auto dot com and on our youtube channel. i'm gonna leave you this hour with one of those stories, a man who spent the 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'm a human being, i solitude whole myself. i what i had been told that i was and that was my number 558. that was my number and gone tommy 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 are with us or you are the enemy. there is no in between. and that doctor is still stay on i think it's quite clear to me at the united states response to the terrible deaths 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 everybody, you know, who knows? if anybody's prepared to hand you over to a country to talk to you and you know, i live it was a pakistani, ended me override. and i'm my parents from pakistan on a deal national. they handed me over to the americans without any legal proceed. 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 me 30 and master in order to take them on will use all tools at our disposal to do the the boys a few bad apples. isolated incidents, one by one, the terrorists are learning the meaning of american justice. for me, this place a pit demise. what the united states was doing in afghanistan, 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, by the time i got to guantanamo, i was begging to go to the tunnel because what i've seen and witnessed in belgrade was so destructive to this day. i haven't, i can't sleep. oh, i use several of us since one cannibal, including several taliban members who now heads of various departments in the act and government were tortured. we were stripped, we were beaten and were spat upon. we were humiliated photographs. this was taken during this period of time. they had a chance, a woman in the next room that led me to believe was my wife being tortured. they waved with the picture of my children in front of me and asked me where do you think they are now, what do you think happened in 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 ah, so this is the handmade calendar that i made when i was in guantanamo. i thought that perhaps if i counted the days that it will be easier. but when the days tended 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 called the fisher 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 effect 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 to report on torture, but not a single person was ever bought for charges for these kind. recently, i gave evidence the international criminal court for their investigations of abuses

by americans. enough got a son, 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 united states of america. they said that we will sanction all members of the international 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 a 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 pakistan 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 not 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 people, it's no good. i've got in touch with the britain or america you've really got to find a way for ah ah.