ah, ah, it is breaking used this our naughty international as a massive chemical fi and for say in new jersey is sending large plumes or potentially very dangerous smoking to the air. and it could be headed in the direction of nearby new york. moscow slams washington for alleging rushes, preparing a full flag operation to justify its suppose it ukraine invasion plants in the program. i guess it's the size of the chances of a military bust out late. so it is always going to weeks detention. we have here in creating the plans of the missiles, 5 minutes from moscow. the big question is, how do you, how do you deal with a bully? both of the leader of the indigenous sean in nation teldata t about the devastating impact of nuclear bomb tests on land belonging to native

americans. even going as far as to alleged the most to eliminate his people. and these things were conducted without our knowledge. and under a culture of secrecy, of the united states and their in is the intent to commit genocide. also in the program, a law group, a huge is to us states of racism for issuing guidelines that recommend prioritizing non white foot cove treatment with . and we are live at 100 countries worldwide. its all its international live from moscow on this saturday afternoon. it's good to have you with us. we do kick off the program with breaking news for you. this our here on our t as a massive chemical fire in passaic, new jersey is sending plumes of potentially very dangerous smoke up into the air.

as we understand at least one fire fighter has been injured. residents evacuated from the immediate area of the blaze, though we do understand that more than $200.00 firefighters are continuing to battle. the fire, the mayor of the city has told residents to stay away from the area, stay indoors and keep their windows closed. done clear what started the fire, large quantities of flooring pallets store the site and the concern over that of toxic smoke. now, this is one of the videos that emerged say it was a city of around 70000 people and it's located roughly 12 miles from new york and new york city emergency management says residents might see or smell smoke from the fire. and here on our team to national, we will keep you updated on this developing situation. for now, the moscow has slammed the u. s. allegations that russia is preparing a false flag operation in ukraine, american media and officials, clay moscow has pre positioned a group of supper tours, who will create

a pretext for invasion earlier. my colleagues, neil harvey and nicky air, and discuss what the russian embassy in the us has branded as washington's old tricks. such rhetoric confirms there is an ongoing information campaign being waged against russia. we see the same scenario being repeated again and again. first, some sensational story is dropped and makes the headlines, and then it becomes a key talking point. such, both claims i coming from the us there and the only intelligence on offer are these elusive source is the allegations were fetch reported by cnn and swiftly echoed by ukrainian and u. s. officials. we have information that indicates rush has already pre positioned a group of operatives to conduct a false flag operation in eastern ukraine. the operatives are trained and urban warfare and in using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against russia's own proxy forces. and the russian military plans to begin these activities several weeks before military invasion, which could begin between mid january and mid february. so not the time frame

mentioned that between mid january and mid february, the claims are the president. putin's window for invasion is dictated by temperatures. basically he needs a layer of ice on the ground so that his heavy hardware like tanks can roll across the border right now is too mild for an invasion by march. it would be too muddy. so apparently president biden as allegedly hide meteorologists to, you know, give them a full cost basically about when this invasion might take place. now, how seriously people are a taken these claims week, which i don't know, but the old familiar headlines, russia plans and invasion of ukraine. in fact, russia planning and invasion of anywhere has become so common, especially over the past year in s. springs 2021. we saw the headline screaming putin threatens war again. that software, they started military drills on the board that they were more warnings in december with both the west and ukraine. so certain that the invasion would take place in december. and yet here we are still no invasion. so we're still coming from both

sides. of course, you know, it's like any story that we have a cover here in the news. you can look at it from, from both perspectives and won't, can look aggressive. one could look defense it, which is what russia says it is, you know what trips are on our territory from the outside though. the accusation is this is basically a massing of troops ready for him. an invasion. how was moscow defended its position on those? how's it tried to kind of calm what seemed to be growing concerns from, from the wider community? moscow has it repeatedly talked about, hit its red lines. those being the further eastward expansion of nato l. the deployment of nato bay says right at the border with russia. we've just concluded that week long talks at diplomacy talks between nato and russia. no progress has been made. ne, so is unwilling to compromise. it's, it won't provide any assurances to russia on any of these points and even taunting rusher as well in a way by saying, well, ukraine is going to join nato. it's

a done deal is just a matter of when i reason reports, not ringing, angling in any sense of security or piece to russia off the a yahoo investigation found that the cia is secretly training ukrainian special ops on american solan has been doing so since 2015 the program has involve very specific training on skills that would enhance the ukrainians ability to push back against the russians. said the former senior intelligence official, the u. s. bay cia program has included training and firearms camouflage techniques . la navigation tactics like cover and move intelligence and other areas. a washington has reported. it claimed it's solely aimed at defense. the given the nature of the training that the 20 or questions arising which we have already addressed to the us will thirty's ourselves. all in all, for the russian position on all the developments, the russian foreign minister, i love ravi held his annual press conference yesterday and in answering all the questions there are really including on the western phase of an invasion. good.

let's just look a huge now the soon as our western colleagues guess by reading tea leaves, they immediately grab the sanctions baton. we are for everything being decided on the basis of mutual respect and the balance of interests. the position of russia were presented to nato is based precisely on the balance of interests and is aimed at the security of europe as a whole, including russia, that while nature wants to create military footholds around the russian federation going to dominate europe. russia has never and nowhere threatened the ukrainian people and kia, makes direct threats to us. the option to do so we could go as nato and russian delegates prepared to embark on the days of talks. expectations were already low for a positive outcome. now we can see a weeks worth of diplomacy is clearly failed with the situation now feeling so much more tense than it was before, earlier august shoot over whether the current tensions really do have the potential

to escalate into that of a full scale war. whatever the rights and wrongs of the situation, but damaged europeans curacy. not, i mean the risk of war, which itself is huge, but also the capability of the states to cooperate, to tackle the existential risks. but faced the world. how can people see negotiation blast around climate change when they're about to go to war against each other? we should also remember something else. georgia did launch a war with russia, you know, and it was backed up by america. and britain essentially didn't know to intervene and we have seen in recent weeks in the black sea, american, british and french warships involve the naval movers and going both to ukraine and to georgia. that would seem to me quite provocative in the current situation of american and british american ships entering as well. russia now, what russia waters that is a major propagation. well, if you think about the iraq war and the excuse,

iraq will be in the southern hussein of missiles potentially 45 minutes from london . we have here in creating the plans of the missiles, 5 minutes from moscow, 7 minutes from rushes, strategic nuclear defense is in effect. russia will have a knife to throw and not enough time to recover if it allows these in russia. we'll have to stop those missiles coming in. this is a cuban missile crisis, so they could end differently from that one. if we don't look at this very carefully, the other of this is the idea that ukraine, if nato wanted to, part of nato actually became involved in a. so because that was in effect and ukraine ability to launch an international war on behalf of an interest. and a completely responsible on this question. so that would be another, might move in this strategy coming from the jo biden's administration. i think if there's anything positive that has come out of this crisis, it is the,

the west will recognize that it can't get away. scott free by bring you crying in tonight, so it would be awfully hard for them to do say so. and so it was always going to weeks to tensions one sure natal course is in the baltic states. once you update, of course is important to check like elsewhere, the positive in georgia in the black sea. once you have that revised russian feelers. and as i say, you don't find a bladder pearson, to understand what those fees are given russian's most recent history, given what happened in the 2nd world war, i'm just going to say though, it's clear that there is a process of regime change across the world wherever there is governments, we don't fit with the neo liberal law, denila florida, which is control the same story by united states, the guy, eccentric, etc, etc. who will always bring down any government or trying to bring down any government which doesn't correspond to those interests or don't disagree with chris is saying. but i also think, but we need to have full about just sliding into just

a confrontational approach towards these sorts of interest and, and, and development. because because they, because they are incredibly powerful. and the big question, the all of us, whether we off commentators in the west or the russian government or anybody else is how do you, how do you deal with a bully? and the way of dealing with the bully is not just to face up to them and, and then get smashed in. you, you have to deal with it very cleverly and you have to try and build relationships and positive connection. i'm the way in which you managed to do that in the past with england, colon from other european government to some limited success has been to be valuable. and important thing that is vitally important for the future of the planet is that russia is included in a new security architecture. you can have a new,

secure wave in an old one with russia labeled as the enemy with the ukraine. massey harvest is close to the russian border as it can without any commentary from the western media and nature, politicians, referring to russia as the enemy. you cannot have stability in russia. of course, the sees itself as the victim aware this is heading has to be included in security architecture. otherwise there's no security for anybody. so for years the u. s. conducted nuclear tests on land that was populated by native americans. we caught up with a current head of the western shoshone tribe. he told us that one of the many consequences was the impact on people's health. the most bond nation, us the label claimed by the shoshone native american tribe, as their sacred lamb turned into a u. s. nuclear weapons testing site. and these things were conducted without our knowledge and under a culture of secrecy, of the united states. and there again is the intent to commit genocide because

these things were developed without our consent. the weapons are tested upon us and there are test series with specific goals to expose humans to radiation. and we are the victims of that. it all started with the 1863 treaty of ruby valley, when the western shoshone handed certain rights to the us, but did not see the land. these and friendships shall be hereafter established and maintained between the western bands of the shoshone nation and the people and governments of the united states. and the said ben stipulate and agree that his duties and all depredations shall cease from 1951 to 1990 to the u. s. conducted 928. tests that 828 underground nuclear tests and 100 atmospheric this resulted in fall out of around 620 killer tons. the comparison hiroshi mom only had 15 killer tons in 1945. all that had devastating effects

on tribal residents who began from investigating health consequences from exposure to radiation to try to understand what had happened to us. we had a significantly higher exposure to the radiation that led to those health consequences such as cancer's leukemias, auto immune deficiencies. and what we began to understand is that there is a wide variety of illnesses, really strange illnesses known to be plausible from exposure to radiation. but we weren't getting any help. we were not getting any support. he says these shoshone never agreed to play a weapon. testing, finding justice is a tough road. 60 shoshone people are on their road. so we really need to continue to investigate and understand this, but we're not getting any help from the united states. they're not investigating this because they're the perpetrators club east of acts which are destroying

the shoshone people. disgustingly shameful that us politicians, the president and the court. they don't talk about these issues. what we began to understand is that we're experiencing a salt. i feel that this is what nazis did in world war 2. will they are new tests were just one of a number of hardships to western shoshone had to endure. you can read more about that at odyssey dot com right now. so the u. s. state of utah's being accused of having racist policies for giving so called priority points to non whites when it comes to eligibility for cobra treatment. the state of minnesota had similar guidelines, but as now were moved advised to take race into account of both states have been threatened with legal action using a patient skin color or if necessity rather than the unique and specific medical circumstances of an individual patient. as a basis for deciding who should obtain lifesaving medical treatment as a part in

a ton of crisis, tough decisions have to be maids. sometimes decisions of life and death. the covered pandemic is one such time and who to prioritize for life saving medical treatment is a decision health workers have to make. now you may think that choices are taken based on greater health risk or the needs of the patient. perhaps the raise your fragility, their co morbidities and chronic illnesses. race may be the last thing on your mind . apparently, you may be wrong. think your liberal a kidney disease is a high risk. think again, your heart problem or neurological illness will only lead you one points on this scale. so will your shortness of breath. when you could get double points based on your ethnic background, the you saw department of health explain the system using statistics, which show people of non white or hispanic committee, a 35 to 50 percent more likely to be hospitalized than white patients. which means

at 1st, the system does sound logical and truly studies have shown ethnic minorities both in the united states. some other countries have been in this proportionately affected by coven. the reasons multiple and complex, but the analysis goes deeper, while more people in ethnic minority communities may be diagnosed. there appear to be no differences in final health outcomes and critic say, therefore, no reason to prioritize treatment. the risk of sa covey to diagnosis was higher in most ethnic minorities. but once hospitalized nuclear inequalities exist in coven 1900 outcomes. the findings highlight the necessity to tackle disparities in social determinants of health, preventative opportunities and in house case across the ocean in the u. k. statistics have shown a civil, a pattern of high impact on minority communities,

but govern reports have also cited specific reasons why this could be the case. these range from someone's occupation to the household size or even place of residence and pollution. in theory, you could fall into these higher risk groups, but not be a minority and achieve a lower score in the table. so unless we assume by default, but all members of ethnic minorities, labor, other crowd of households in the private areas and work in high risk sectors. critics say the focus should be on concrete risk factors and not simply skin color . and advocacy groups have been quick to pick up on the controller, say, these racist policies decide questions of life and death based on skin color and must be rescinded immediately. it's an abomination the radically violate federal law. the united states constitution and the sacred principle of equal justice for our, despite increasingly harsh measures wave after wave of cobra, it continues to affect the world. many specialists say targeted measures are needed

to protect those in the population. most that risk. and just how those population groups are determined based on rational scientific study, may be part of the puzzle in ending the pandemic. there is no scientific basis to judge a person's need for medicine or higher is just based on race. there are many, many other factors with quality you live in. houses are multiple occupation. many people, small houses, and you do jobs are highest category such as hooks cleaners, bus drivers. furthermore, there are then medical conditions and medical conditions are such as diabetes, immune suppression, heart disease, kidney disease, obesity, high blood pressure cause a lot of immigrants tend to be of what you would call

darker skin and they are also whole. and they're also working in high risk jobs. so be that you are white or color as they call it in america. it is, it is quality that kills not necessarily the color of your skin. 20 parts down here in moscow, the scandal my a you k government is now funding off. fresh corruption claims off the countries high court rule that of so called v i. p lane for awarding contracts for p. p was unlawful. a ministers gave to companies an unfair advantage during the 1st wave of the corporate crisis. the claimant have established that the operation of the high priority lane was in breach of the obligation of equal treatment. the illegality is marked by this judgment in a rush to supply the and a chest, the government for 32000000000 p. p items crossing over 18000000000 pounds. and

normal times transparency rules are in place for state contracts to ensure fair competition. but in the heat of a natural emergency, these rules are cast aside. instead, the i p lanes are reserved for referrals from m. p. 's ministers in senior officials and billions of taxpayer cache signed over. well, danny street is considering an appeal against the ruling that some of these behind closed doors dealings were illegal. o contracts underwent sufficient financial and technical due diligence and the court found that we did not rely on the referral to the high priority lane when awarding contracts. this isn't the 1st time the courts have ruled against the government over p p contracts. but number 10 has been consistent that it hasn't acted inappropriately. tamela prime is to give a cost on assurance that from now on from now on, all government contract will be subject to proper process with full transparency and accountability. absolutely, it's a huge one. he's

a p p a. i reject the idea that somehow the government acted in a way that was wrong. we wanted to get the 32000000000 pieces of p, p in the front line because what was important is to save lives. i make no apologies that the government did everything in its power to ensure the n h s. and frontline workers did not run out of p p, even though the judge ruled both the office in question were likely to win contracts anyway. if you went through the high priority lane, you had a one in 10 chance of being successful. those outside of that in a circle had way less than a one in 100 chance. according to the national audit office, 50 firms benefited 1800 tory links, which the opposition, se screams cronyism while our hard working any just staff, we're going without p. p, tory politicians, saw an opportunity to line their cronies pockets. the judge has now ruled that v. i

p lane unlawful, but it may be just the tip of the iceberg. not only were some companies given an honest air advantage, the prices were high supp, in some cases by 200 percent. when the equipment arrived from of it failed to meet basic medical standards. so did the government treat to public health crisis as an opportunity to impose to the pockets of pal at the public expense crated. and i mean it, cause you have to deal with things quickly. so there's, there's no reason why having z i p lane. actually many things could be dealt with more quickly. it just meant certain people got preferential treatment. i think that shows regard to use of taxpayers, money, and disregard to the safety of front line health and cast off at the beginning of the pandemic demand for p. p. far route strips apply to keep up. normal procurement

rules were relaxed, but all this feeds into the idea that if you have the prime minister number and your phone numbers and your bank account will grow and as free lateral flow tax to be potentially phased out in public health, simply becoming a commodity. more police officers were killed on duty in america and 2021 than in any of the previous 25 years. that's according to the f b i which says 73 officers were lost all in the line of duty. it does represent a significant increase on the year before and a homicide and gun violence of also both surged. last year, 13 us cities reported record high homicide rights. that's across m a craft run state to a push to progressive policies such as to funding the police. among the cities are oakland, portland, and in philadelphia, which registered over $500.00 murders of a spike is being blamed on a variety of factors from pandemic to inflation. another is a seething anger of police brutality,

especially in the 2020 the wake of the killing. i should say, plenty of george floyd. now, we did speak to a former police detective. he says, officers become a scapegoat for failed government policies. a police morale is lo, offices are afraid to use force because they are unfairly on a justly persecuting. there was a case here in 2014 detectives. raphael ramos 1 july worse. fascinating. when they were sitting in their patrol vehicle. there was an unprovoked attack. they've been $25.00 unprovoked ambushes out of the $74.00 police killing this year in this country. that was the 1st one that really took the nation and shed light on this, this situation. and this person was emboldened by an ideology, the black lives matter ideology, while the police are, have always bring the scapegoat of government feeling, government policies, right?

the police are the front line, right? that's why we say with it in line to thimble line between us and our key in order. the police are always the 1st arm of government that people deal with violent crime in the cities. there's been 13 cities across this country that have recorded record number of homicides this year, or last year. and as a result, the police are shoved in the middle of violence. and this an are key that's being supported by politicians. and, you know, unfortunately they become casualties of that war. more russian peacekeepers have returned home after completing that mission and catholics on this defense ministry video shows the play and that brought them back. a 17 other flights also left context on saturday. and the russian contingent wasn't catholics on as part of the cfo military box mission. the assistance of course, was requested by the catholic president as deadly unrest swept the country. a peacekeepers though from bella roost, tajikistan kitty was done,

and armenia also took part. as we understand, the situation in the country is now stable. some news adjusting for you here on the programmer on this saturday afternoon in moscow, we understand that south pacific nations including australia are all on the alert. it's offers, tsunami, hit the small island nation of tonga, that's going to start. it was caused by an underwater volcano eruption that we can show you a video that's being posted on social media. it's unclear what the extent of the damages, but as we understand now, there are no reports of any casualties. at the epicenter of their option was just 65 kilometers from congress capital. apparently it was so strong, it was heard on fiji. 800 kilometers away. you can for details on that story right now with the updates at r t c dot com. thanks for joining us with back soon with more. ah,

join me every thursday on the alex summon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world. the politics, sport, business, and show business. i'll see you then. me. ah, ah, i'm at sooner tanzania, watching a special edition of going underground less than 20 days before vladimir putin. his schedule to be g, g, ping at the winter olympics in china while britain focuses on personal catastrophes

for morris johnson and prince andrew. this has been a week of critical talks between nato and russia to avert possible global conflict of ukraine as they reach a seeming impass moscow's hopes of turning back the clock on nato expansion. a be rejected as jo, biden's threats of massive consequences dissolve signs for optimism or pessimism in what could be a global existential crisis. joining me now from cambridge is the ex u. k. p. m, tony blair's former ambassador to russia. so tony branch and thank you so much attorney for coming back on the show. i want to be slightly optimistic before we get into some of the statements being bandied around. europe this week against oldenburg need to at least said that the missions were going to open in moscow and in brussels, or between nato and russia. so at least that some good news talks is that the slow is a good news. i gather is still disagreement about how many diplomats each site is going to house or well,

you're going to go on to the business department. i'd have to go there. i am going to use research. i know. but let me, let me just say one other for sure. it is good news that after russia produced its draft treaties and it's such a demands, the west united states in particular, didn't simply say, get lost, what it said was ok, let's talk. and he's good news to that, the west. ok, we can get. she won't be disagreements, but they have offered some things which the 2 sides can discuss constructively, like arms control, like where people put nuclear weapons like those sorts of things. now you're about to go on to yeah, yeah, the, those good things, suppose good things are missile deployments, i should say, of course, for our audience around the world, the britain is in the leadership crisis of sorts of a corona virus restrictions. and of course, actually this all was taking place in europe. well, north korea tested the hypersonic missile, the can it delay in 30 minutes, but that, that aside from that, the polish for ministers, a big.