a with a breaking news this our on our t gunmen has taken people, hostage of synagogue in the us state of tex's walk team is currently responding to this situation also ahead moscow plus washington for alleging that brushes preparing a false flag operation to justify it. suppose it ukraine invasion or get dies up, but the chances of an electrical company need someone to come in was always going to we have here, you credit the plans, complete miss all 5 minutes from moscow. the big question is, how do you, how do you deal with a bully, a massive chemical fire in north new jersey sense large plumes i'll potentially

dangerous smoke into the year which could be headed in the direction of nearby new york city. the leader of the indigenous shoshone nation tells r t a bus the devastating impact of nuclear baldwin tasks on land belonging to native americans. even alleging that the aim was to eliminate his people. and these things were conducted without our knowledge. and under a culture of secrecy, of the united states. and there again is the intent dennis with midnight in baghdad, in mombasa, and right here in moscow. welcome to the news our on our t. i'm in an audio. we begin with breaking news coming out of the u. s. state of texas. i government is holding people hostage in a synagogue in the city of collierville, just a short distance north west of dallas, with local media reporting. those held are

a rabbi on congregants, police and local media say a swat team has been sent to the scene and nearby residents evacuated to safety. were less cross live now to r a u. s. correspondence heal up low and a killer. good to see you can tell us what more is known about the situation than in taxes. sure. well, at the synagogue in a city near fort worth, they were having their saturday services worship services as they do on a weekly basis. and then from there, there was a live stream of an individual who answered the individuals live streaming themselves. they had a gun and they repeated if anyone tries to enter this building, i'm telling you everyone will die. we understand that the rabbi and congregates are being held hostage inside of the building on the live stream. you also said, quote,

i'm going to die. don't cry about me. now the, the gunman is reported to have a british accent and elsewhere on the streams. he has made references to islam from what we understand, the government has not been identified. now there is a police negotiating team as well as a swat team and law enforcement convening in the area. and they are negotiating with the government and trying to resolve the hostage situation. now, from what we understand, in addition to that, the live stream that was rolling has been cut off and it's not clear if it was cut off by the person doing the live streaming, or rather if it was cut off by, by the social media outlet or by law enforcement back clear, but the live stream did and but before the live stream ended the shooter, that something about letting 4 of the hostages go. so it is still being considered to be an active hostage situation. negotiations are in process,

police are urging everyone to avoid the area. this could get intense very quickly. many are looking on and hoping this can be resolved the peaceful way without anyone being killed without any, any shooting or anything like that. but very intense situation. a lot of people are looking on are quite nervous about how this could turn out. yeah, really extraordinary kilobit. you could actually hear that, that live feed earlier on as well. any, an old developments, of course we will bring it to our viewers or us correspond to kill up and bring this right up to date. on what is known in texas. the moscow has slammed us allegations of rushes, preparing a false flag operation in ukraine. american media and officials claim the kremlin house pre positioned, a group of subcultures who will create a pretext for invasion. earlier, my colleagues, new harvey, nikki, are and discuss what the russian embassy in the u. s. has branded 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 wind, i, for invasion, is dictated by temperatures. basically he needs a layer of ice on the ground so that he's 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 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 policy 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 one 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 that diplomacy talks between nato and russia. no progress has been made nay. so is unwilling to compromise. it's that 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. it's just a matter of when a recent report not bring it ain't bringing any sense of security or piece to russia off the a yahoo investigation found that the cia is secretly training ukrainian special

locks 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 camouflaged, leaks. lon, navigation tactics like cover and move intelligence and other areas. a washington has reported, he claimed it solely aimed at defense that given the nature of the training in the plenty of questions arising, which we have already addressed to the us will thirty's ourselves, all in over the russian position on all the developments the russian foreign minister say 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 go through news now. as 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 presented to nato is based precisely on the balance of interests and his aim to the security of europe as a whole, including russia, on his annual nature, wants to create military footholds around the russian federation to dominate europe . russia has never and nowhere threatened the ukrainian people and kia, makes direct threats to us. so a week ago, 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. meanwhile, the e. u foreign affairs chief, your sample l. how said the face of a key russian gas pipeline to europe codes depends on what happens over you frame. we'll dig deeper into the story later and get another story to bring you today. a must have fire has arrested on

a chemical plant in pacific new jersey leading to warnings about ur quality in the region. at least one firefighter has been injured. the authority say they have no mother to contain the fire. after buckling the flames through the night, the locals were told to stay away from the area and remain in doors with their windows close. it's clear what caused the blades. large quantities of chloride pallets are stored at the side, hence the concern over the toxic smoke. this is one. busy of the videos of the fire that's been posted on life pacific is a city of around 70000. people located about 20 kilometers from new york. authorities have warrant people there they might see or smell smoke from the fire sustainability and green technology expert. sharon george believes the bigger picture of the potential for it has yet to be assess,

inspect the cooling and match and not all the unchanged nature without bias and the smoke and the pollution that runs from that side to the problem. the fire like safety is not just decided to so you've got the same things thrown up into the and throwing up into the chain being dispersed and that way you have a problem. so this is why you know and any pollution, any chemical, especially where you have population density is like that will be a concern and the sewing resources and finding out and, and quantifying exactly what, what that means. case ok, story now we believe is important to highlight for years. the u. s. conducted nucular tests on land that was populated by native americans r t has spoken to the current head of the western shoshone tribe. he told us,

one of the many consequences is the impact on people's health. the most boomed nation on earth, 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 their in 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 $1863.00 treaty a 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 ban,

stipulate and agree that hostilities 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 full ounce of around 620 killer tons. the comparison hiroshi hima only had 15 killer tons in 1945. all that had devastating effects on tribal residents. we began to investigate 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's a wide variety of illnesses really strange illness is known to be plausible from exposure to radiation,

but we weren't getting any help. we were not getting any support. he says the she showed he never agreed to nuclear weapon testing, but finding justice isn't tough road because it's the show any 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 love. busy these of acts which are destroying the shoshone people, disgustingly shameful. that us politicians, the president and the courts. they don't talk about these issues. what we began to understand is that we're experiencing a wave after wave of assault. i feel that this is what nazis did in world war 2. then you can test or just one of a number of hardships, the western shoshone of hum to injure, to tell deeper into that you can watch or interview with their leader info. that's

an r t dot kill us bringing a recap of breaking news coming out of the u. s. state of texas today, a gunman is reportedly holding people hostage in a synagogue in the city of collierville, located close to the cities of dallas and fort worth. the synagogue call congregation. beth israel was in the middle of a service when an armed man entered a live stream of the service, continued with the voice of the gunman. heard in the background, apparently negotiating with the police local report states that the gunman claims he is the brother of a pakistani neurosciences, who is no serving 86 years for attempting to kill us military personnel. a swat team has been sent to the scene on the f. b, i is assisting the operation. your bi residents have been evacuated to safety, and people told to stay away from the area. we will of course, be keeping across this story any and all significant details and updates will bring them to the us state of utah is being

accused of having racist policies for giving. so name priority points to non whites when it comes to eligibility for cobra treatment. the state of minnesota had similar guidelines, but it's not removed advice to take race into account. both states have been threatened with legal action using a patient skin color or if nifty, 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 after the 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 timmy disease is a high risk? think again, your heart problem or neurological illness will only lead you one points on the scale. so will your shortness of breath. but 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 non white patients, which means at 1st the system does sound logical and truly studies have shown ethnic minorities, both in the united states and some other countries have been in this proportionately affected by covert. 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 19 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 lowest 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. they radically violate federal law. the united states constitution and the sacred principle of equal justice for our, despite increasingly harsh measures wave off the 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 high risk 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. the scandal mired u. k. government is fending off fresh corruption claims. the high court has ruled

by the so called v i. p lane for awarding contracts for supplying protective equipment, was unlawful. the judge rule ministers gave 2 companies on, on for advantage. during the 1st wave of the public, 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 port, 32000000000 p. p items costing 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 mpm and 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. chandler 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, 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 a 100 chance. according to the national audit office, 50 firms benefited 18 had tore links, which the opposition, se screams cronyism. while our hard working n h s staff were 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 that may be just the tip of the iceberg. not only where some company is given an unfair advantage, the prices were heights up, in some cases by 200 percent. when the equipment arrived, some of it failed to meet basic medical standards. so did the government treats a public health crisis as an opportunity to both the pockets of pals at the public's expense. very like crazy. i mean it,

of course you have to do with things quickly, but there's, there's no reason why having to v i p lane. actually many things could be dealt with more quickly. it just meant to people go preferential treatment. i think that shows history. god for use of tax has money and disregard to the safety of front line health and cast off. at the beginning of the pandemic demand for p. far outstripped supply to keep up normal procurement rules were relaxed. but all this feeds into the idea that if you have the prime minister number on your phone, your numbers in your bank account will grow and it's free lateral flow tasa to be potentially phased out, is public health. simply becoming a commodity candle. the story we're across today, the face of a key russian gas pipeline to europe still hangs in the balance despite construction of nord stream to being completed last year. it's still not been given

the final go ahead by the european union on the blocks for in the 1st chief use, a braille says i could depend on moscow deescalate intentions, and ukraine's border. legal mission could have been easy to this is, cannot release that from one lives and infrastructure accordingly with it is afforded in with rules. we ha, in a free market economy. and certainly if funding for us to, to we also depend on the development of the events and ukraine and that to do to russia. you cannot imagine that we are thinking one side on boarding sanctions just in case. and on the other hand, to open any infrastructure, while in the u. s. republican senator ted cruz made his own bed to stop the pipeline. this week, he put forward to build a sanction businesses involved in the project. if russia invade ukraine, however, the senate voted against the move on thursday. the democrats have not put forward

on alternative bill, which would target key russian officials instead. milan, skyrocketing energy prices continue to be a major concern in europe. on wednesday, the swedish government said it would allocate almost. busy $700000000.00 in order to help citizens. those hit hardest by surging prices could get up to $220.00 a month to pay their bills or winter electricity. costs in the country are up more than 250 percent compared to last year. and on the fate of nordstrom to we got reaction. busy including from economist i, caliber everybody knows that the pipeline will be news because it's not only useful, it's essential for germany's and europe's energy supply. these are all games in before that the main partnerships or negotiations are which are just the us

and russia and all the others are negligible in this matter. are trying to get a big deal out of the big business ruling the day and they don't care at all on the, on the necessary piece of the german population of the russian public of the you are asian population. they don't care at all. they want to make big money and they don't even what risk a war. busy now, europe is still being gripped by waves of anti cove at rallies in paris in the center of your screen. the yellow best movement demonstrated over the bucks a nation, and other measures taken by the french government to try heard the spread of colbert. organizers say that demos are also against rising unemployment, along with social and economic justice in just vaccination mandates restrictions on possible even younger protesters in the austrian capital. the government is lanesha,

implement a mandatory vaccination requirement starting next month in the german city of homburg. a country demo ranged against unexpected rally over coven restrictions. that didn't happen. rally the court denied it. earlier this month in germany, introduce stricter measures to come by the corona virus, including titans rules to enter vars. leslie. ah, okay, before we go to break, i wanna bring you a recap over breaking news this hour. there is a hostage situation on going out a synagogue in the u. s. state of texas media citing police sources say that a rabbi is among the hostages. local reports, they thought the armed suspect claims that he is the brother of a pakistani neuro scientist who is now serving 86 years for attempting to kill us military personnel. a swat team has been sent to the c on the f. b,

i is assisting the operation nearby. residents have been evacuated to safety, and people have been told to stay away from the area we will be keeping across this story. i'll bring you any updates when we get them and indeed for a deeper dive into that and any of this, our stories do let our t dot com do the heavy lifting. lots to get stuck into there over the weekend. see again. well the monday make no sydney, no board is just like to tease and you finish as emerge. we don't have maternity, we don't have a vaccine worried leaves to take action to be ready. people are judgment,

common crisis with we can do better. we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great. the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together with welcome to reject it to night, the pentagon, the organization responsible for the most killing on the planet. if you don't include jackie's land, lock sea food, import him up. i $68.00 and youngstown, ohio home will be under a cook yellow tailed fi bastardization bowl. they were special bucket. forget about to regurgitate an internal oregon, but you get to keep the bucket any.