a with breaking news on our t this, our gunmen has taken people hostage. synagogue in the us state of texas. a swat team is currently responding to this situation. also ad moscow islam from washington for alleging that brushes preparing a false flying operation to justify it said jose ukraine invasion our guest size up the chances of military conflict need. so committee was always going to leads to attention. we have here in ukraine, the plan to be miss also 5 minutes from moscow. question is, how do you, how do you deal with a massive chemical fire in north new jersey sends large plumes of potentially dangerous smoke into the year which could be headed in the direction of nearby new

york with the leader of the indigenous shoshone nation tells r t about the devastating impact of nuclear bomb tests on land belonging to native americans alleging that the aim was to eliminate as 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 with around the clock across the world. this is r t from the team and myself, you know, leo. hello and welcome to the news our. we begin with breaking news. coming out at the u. s. state of texas. a government is holding people hostage in a synagogue in the city of collierville. that's just the short distance northwest of dallas with local media. so i think police sources reporting those held are a rabbi against

a swat team has been sent to the sing nearby residence of buck you waited to safety . there was a live stream of the service of the synagogue running when the armed suspect entered on. apparently negotiations with police could be heard. nothing will be less cross to us, corresponding kill of my been for more kill of we believe the situation remains alive. tickets through what's known. sure. well they were having saturday services at the synagogue near fort worth, texas. and the gunman entered the building and proceeded to take the people hostage . now there was a live stream of the events on the live stream. the gunman apparently shouted, you shouted if anyone tries to enter this building, i'm telling you,

every one will die. i'm going to die. don't cry about me and you repeated that phrase over and over. another was a live stream going a live stream has gone down. it's not clear of the live stream was taken down by law enforcement by the social media outlet or by the shooter himself. now, from what we understand the, the gunman has been identified. he is a pakistani, who is the brother of off the d. s a. d is currently serving an 86 year prison sentence in the united states convicted of conspiring to murder americans. and she's been held. she is pakistani she studied at mit, neuro scientists who had alleged got involved in al qaeda and terrorist organizations and has been previously quite, you know, had there been cases where isis and others have called for her release. so we understand the hostage taker is her brother mohammed said dickie. but this is we're waiting for further confirmation of that. and currently he is still holding

hostages in the building. now we understand not only are there local law enforcement and negotiating teams on the scene, but furthermore, there are also f, b i and federal police on the scene. people are being urged to stay out of the area because this could get very, very intense. people are hoping this can be resolved in a way in which no one is hurt or killed. but at the moment, this is a very serious situation. the live stream that, that had been going has been taken down. there was some talk on the stream earlier about 4 of the hostages potentially being released, if not clear, if that was followed through yet, if any of the hostages were released. but the rabbi and the congregants are being held. this is an active hostage situation, and it's near fort worth, texas, a very intense seeing the whole world seems to be looking on and wondering what will happen next. you know, absolutely intense. killed thanks very much for bringing us right off the bat. it will what is happening there in texas? are us corresponding killing open?

moscow slammed us allegations that rushes, preparing a false flag operation in ukraine. american media and officials claim that kremlin has pre positioned a group of sub tours who create a pretext for invasion earlier. my colleagues need harvey and nicky are and discuss was the russian embassy in the u. s. was branded washington. so 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 bold claims are 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 mentions there 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, and apparently president biden as allegedly hide meteorologists to, you know, give them a forecasts 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 past year in f springs 2021. we saw the headline screaming putin threatens war again, that softer that they started military drills on the border. 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 difference, which is what russia says it is, you know what trips on all 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 is how is it tied 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 eastwood 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. ne, so is unwilling to compromise. it's that it won't provide any assurances to russia on any of these points and even taunting russia as well in a way by saying, well, you train is going to join nato. it's a done deal is just a matter of when a recent report, not ringing, angry in any sense of security or piece to russia off the a yahoo investigation found that the cia is secretly training, ukrainian, special locked on american soil and has been doing so since 2015, the program has involved very specific training and 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 is included training and firearms camouflaged techniques, la navigation tactics like cover and move intelligence and other areas. a washington has reported, they claimed it solely aimed at defense. but given the nature of the training and the plenty of questions arising,

which we have already addressed to the u. s. will thirty's ourselves all in all for the russian position on all the developments. the russian foreign minister, as like a 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 goods just mccarthy news. now as soon as our western colleagues guess by reading tea leaves, they immediately grabbed the sanctions battered. 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 is aimed at the security of europe as a whole, including russia, is and you will nature wants to create military footholds around the russian federation to dominate europe. russia has never and nowhere threatened the ukrainian people, and kids makes direct threats to us. 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 week's worth of diplomacy is clearly failed with the situation now feeling so much more tense than it was before. meanwhile, the e u foreigner, 1st chief, has said the fates of a key russian gas pipeline to europe could depend on what happens over you. frame will of moral not story later, a must have fire has erupt it out. a chemical plant in passaic, new jersey, leading to warnings about or equality in the region. at least one fire fighter has been injured. the authorities say they have now managed to contain the fire after bustling the flames through the night, the locals were told to stay away from the remaining doors with their windows. it's unclear what caused the blaze. large quantities of cor, i'm pallets are stored at the side and the concert over toxics. of this is one

of the videos of the fire that's being posted online. passaic is a city of around $70000.00. people is located run 20 kilometers from new york. authorities have warned people there they might see or smell smoke from the fire sustainability and green technology expert. sure. and george believes the bigger picture of the potential for life has yet to be. i think everybody is right now relieved that they said back under control. if i can recall, store had been bridge that would be with the chemicals that we do most concerned about the cooling in that and that will then change the nature of that fire and the smoke and the pollution that runs from that side to the problem. the fire like safety is not just the site, so you've got the same themes thrown up into the and throwing up and you're actually being disbursed. and that's why you have problems. and this is why,

you know and you know, any pollution, any chemical, especially where you have population density is like that will be of concern and you know, that we do. i mean, we go to the find d now can and quantifying exactly what, what that gets to the story we believe is important to highlight for years. the u. s. conducted nuclear test on land that was populated by native americans r t has spoken to the current head of the western shoshone tribe. he told us of all of the many consequences is the impact on people's health. the most bombed nation on 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 therein 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 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 in governments of the united states. and the said ban, stipulate and agree that has 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 full outs of around 620 killer tons. the comparison hiroshi irma only had 15 killer tons in 1945. all

that had devastating effects on tribal residents who 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 illnesses 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 new a weapon and testing the finding justice is a tough road that the show any people are on their own. 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 just because they're the perpetrators of these 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 the wave of assault. i feel that this is what nazis did in world war 2. from the new test, or just one of a number of hardships, the western shoshone of health, to injure, to delve deeper into the watch or interview with their leader in full archie with the care. let's get a recap of that breaking news from texas. this our a government is holding people hostage in a synagogue in kali vill a city located close to dallas and fort worth. the synagogue called congregation beth israel was in the middle of a service when an ar man entered the gunman has reported the claimed he is the brother of a female pakistani neuroscience. as soon as no serving 86 years for attempting to

kill us military personnel on this hostage situation is an attempt to set her free . a swat team has been sent to the scene on the f. b. i is assisting the operation . nearby residents have been evacuated to safety and people told to stay away from the area the be keeping across the story, of course, and a significant updates will bring them to you. ok, and let's stay in the u. s. the state of utah is being accused of having racist policies against white people for giving so name priority points to minority communities when it comes to eligibility for covert treatment. the state of minnesota have similar guidelines but has 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 have to be made, sometimes, decisions of life and death. because 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 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 your logical illness will only lads 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 than 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 this proportionately affected by covert. the reasons multiple and complex, but the analysis goes deeper, while more people in ethnic minority communities may be diagnose therapy to be no differences in final health outcomes and critic say, therefore, no reason to prioritize treatment. the risk of saws, 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 their 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 controversy 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 secret principle of equal justice for all, despite increasingly harsh measures, wave off the wave of kobe,

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 a 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 on high this 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 all lawful. the judge rule ministers gave 2 companies on, on for advantage. during the 1st wave of the pandemic. the claimant's 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 costing over 18000000000 pounds. and

normal times transparency rules are in place for state contracts to ensure fair competition. but in the hands of a national emergency, these rules were cast aside. instead, the r p lanes were reserved for referrals from an peas and ministers in senior officials and billions of tax payers. cash signed over, well dining 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. can the prime minister give a cost on assurance that from now on from now on, all government contracts will be subject to proper process with full transparency and accountability? absolutely, it's

a huge $1.00. these are pretty sure i reject the idea that somehow the government acted in a way that was wrong. we wanted to get the 32000000000 pieces of p b 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 offers 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. a judge has now

ruled that v i p lane unlawful, but that may be just the tip of the iceberg. well, 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 impose the pockets of pals at the public's expense? very like crazy. i mean, 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. p. far out, strip supply 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 in your bank account will grow and it's free, lateral flow tries to, to be potentially face out. is public health simply becoming a commodity. getting of a story to bring you today, the fates of a key brush and gas pipeline to europe still hangs in the balance the spike construction of newer stream to being completed last year. it's still not being given the final go ahead by the you on the blocks for the 1st chief safe, but could depend on moscow d escalating tensions on ukraine's border. legal mission could have been easy to this is cannot for a b. that's one reason infrastructure, according to reduce the forwarding with rules. we ha, in a free market economy, and certainly your fund for new york is infrastructure. we'd also depend on the development of the events and ukraine and the attitude to

a russian. you cannot imagine that we are thinking one side on boarding sanctions just in case and on the other hand to over infrastructure. while in the u. s. republican senator ted cruz made his own bid to stop the pipeline. this week he put forward a bill to sanction businesses involved in the project. if russia invade you crate, however, the senate voted against the move on thursday. although the democrats have not put forward on alternative bill, which would target key russian officials instead while skyrocketing energy prices, they continued to be a major concern in europe. on wednesday, the swedish government said it would allocate almost $700000000.00 in order to help citizens. those hit hardest by surging prices, could get up to $220.00 a month to help 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 north stream 2,

we've been getting reaction, including from economist i k. everybody knows that the pipeline will be news because it's not only useful, it's essential for germany and europe. energy supplied the sure old games in before that the main partnerships or negotiations are which adjusting us and russia and all the others are. they electable in this matter are trying to get a big deal out of it. 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 eurasian population, they don't care at all. they want to make big money and they don't even what risk a war can before we go and give you a recap of breaking news. this are an ongoing hostage situation of

a synagogue in the u. s. state of texas media report citing police sources. they thought a rabbi is among those taken hostage. the government has reportedly claimed he is the brother of a female pakistani neuro scientist who has no serving 86 years for attempting to kill us military personnel. but this captive situation is an attempt to set her free. a swat team has been sent to the scene, the f b i as well as assisting the operation will be keep across the story. i will bring you any updates as and when they come we are all set to cross to some more great programs in moments here in our to discover what showing river you are today after the shortest breaks particularly ah,

ah, ah ah, i ah, i'm ashen, or dan senior watching a special edition of going underground less than 20 days before vladimir putin. his schedule to be teaching, being at the winter olympics in china, while brittany focuses on personal catastrophes for boris 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 beer rejected his 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, who 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 talk is, is this a small is a good news? i got is still disagreement about how many diplomats each site is going to house. well, you're going to go on to the business department because i am going to have your sales research. i never let me, let me just say one of the for sure. it is good news that after russia produced its draft treaties and it's.