ah, ah, breaking news on our see this, our a good one is taken people hostage at the synagogue in the us state of texas. a swat team is currently responding to the situation local reports they the arm suspect is trying to free pakistani scientists doped in counter terrorism circles as lady al qaeda. she serving 86 years in texas jail for attempted murder moscow slums washington alleging that brushes preparing a full like operation to justify it's supposed to ukraine invasion plans are guess size of the chances of military conflict need someone. so coming, we're always going to week to tensions we have here in ukraine, the plan to be miss out 5 minutes from moscow. the big question is, how do you, how do you deal with also on the program,

the leader of the indigenous shoshone nation cells are the about the devastating impacts of nuclear bomb threats on land belonging to a native american. even a legend of 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 to commit genocide. ah, you're watching our international mind is peter scott taking over from you know, neil, welcome to the program. now we start this out with a developing story coming out to the us state of texas. a good money is holding people hostage in a synagogue in the city of collierville, just a short distance north west of dallas. local media sites in police sources is reporting those held a rabbi and congregants. a small team has been sent to the scene, a near by residence, evacuated to safety. now there was

a live stream of the service, the synagogue running when the arm suspect entered, and apparently negotiations with police could be heard and will be less cross live now to our us corresponding caleb moping. caleb, a very fluid situation. the moment can you think? because what we know so far, please indeed, so we have a situation in kali's vill texas just outside of fort worth. there's a synagogue. and at that synagogue of 4 people are being held hostage by a gunman. now from what we understand, those who are being held hostage are the rabbi of the synagogue, as well as 3 congregants who had attended the saturday weekly services held at the synagogue. now from what we understand, at this point,

the live stream has been cut off. there was a live stream that was going showing the services and that live stream has been cut off and negotiations with local police as well as the f b. i continue to take place now at this point, the shooter or the gunman. i guess he hasn't shot anyone yet as, as from what we understand, no one has been and has been shot, but the man with the gun was taken. the hostages being identified as mohammed the deacon, and he was the brother of our fears to dp obvious. the d here is a pakistani neuro scientist with extradited to the 8th and sentenced to 86 years in prison for conspiring to kill americans. and is accused of having links to al qaeda, it's cetera. and from what we understand, her brother mohammed said he is the gunman and his calling for the release of his sister and is demanding that they be released. now he can be heard on the tape saying that anyone tries to enter the building,

then everyone will die. he's also been repeating, you know, repeatedly saying that he intends to die. he knows he's going to die. so this is quite an intense scene. now law enforcement, both federal and local, are on the scene and people are being told to avoid the area to do everything they can possibly do to avoid the area. because at this point is a very touchy situation. people do not know how this will and, and how this standoff will reach its conclusion. people are hoping that it can be resolved in a way that no one is har, and that the hostages can be free. dan, the gunmen apprehended, but people don't know what will happen next. all eyes at this point are on the best beth israel, synagogue and colleague, bill texas, because this is quite a touchy and intense situation. yes, we'll be giving you more developments as news comes at kayla. thank you very much. just a very touchy situation and let's all hope that it's resolved peacefully. us correspondent

kellum open. thank you. moscow has slammed us allegations that rushes preparing a false flag operation in ukraine. american media and officials claim the kremlin has pre positioned a group of sub it says, who will create the pretext for invasion. neil harvey, nikki, are in discussed 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 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 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 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 for cos, 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 spring 2021. we saw the headline screaming putin

threatens war again. that software, they started military drills on the boards that they were more warnings and 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 in our troops 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 charge 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 where the 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. so 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, ukraine is going to join nato. it's a done deal. it's just a matter of when i reason reports, not ringing, angling in any sense of security or piece to russia off the 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 is included training and firearms camouflaged techniques . la navigation tactics like cover and move intelligence and other areas. are washington has reported acclaimed, it's solely aimed at defense. the given the nature of the training and the plenty of questions arising, which we have already addressed to the u. s. all thirty's ourselves. all in over,

the russian position on all the developments, the russian foreign minister. like i love, robbie 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 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 is aimed at the security of europe as a whole, including russia, as well. nater wants to create military footholds around the russian federation to dominate europe. russia has never and nowhere threatened the ukrainian people and kill 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 you foreign affairs chief joe said burrell has said the fate of a key russian gas pipelines to europe could depend on what happens over ukraine. will have more of that story just a little later in the program. a massive fire has a ropes, it's a chemical plant at for sake, new jersey, new jersey, leading to warnings about air quality in the region. at least one fire fights has been injured. the authorities say they've now managed to contain the fire after buckling the flames throughout the nights, locals were told to stay away from the area and remaining doors where their windows closed. it's still unclear what caused the blaze. what large quantities of chlorine pallets are stored at the site and the concern over toxic smoke? this is one of the videos that's being posted online. you can see the in the middle of your screen for psych is

a city of around 70000 people. and he's located about 20 kilometers from new york or authorities of want people they might see or smell smoke from the fire and sustain sustainability and green technology expert show. and george thinks the bigger picture of the potential fallout is yet to be seen. i think everybody is right now relieved that this is back on to control if that chemical store has been changed and we've been looking at the chemicals that would be most concerned back to the chlorine match, and that will then change the nature of fire and the smoke and pollution of rooms from that side to the problem or the fire like this is not just the scientist. so you've got things being thrown into the strange country on seeing, being dispatched, and that's where you have a problem. so this is why you know, this is serious and you know, any pollution, any chemical, especially where you have population density is like that will be as concern and

you know, they'll be wearing resources or finding out and quantifying exactly what, what that risk is. now for a story that we believe is important to highlight, 3 is the u. s. conducted nuclear tests on land that was populated by native americans and r c. a spoken to the current head of the western shoshone tribe. and he told us, one of the many concrete consequences is the impact on people's health. the most bombed nation on us, the label claimed by the shoshone native american tribe, as a 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 $1863.00 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 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. 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 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 with and testing, finding justice is a tough road is it's the show the 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 this because they're, the perpetrators of these are acts which are destroying the ship. only people, disgustingly shameful, that us politicians, the president and the court. they don't talk about his issue. we begin to

understand is that we're experiencing a assault. i feel that this is what nazis did in world war 2. the nuclear tests are just one of a number of hardships the western shoshone have had to endure. and to delve deeper into that, you can watch our interview in full over at r t dot com. now for a recap of our breaking news from texas, a good man is holding people hostage in a synagogue in collierville, a city located close to dallas, and fort worth, the synagogue called congregation. beth israel was in the middle of a service when an armed man entered the government has reported, he claimed he's the brother of a female pakistan in euro scientist who is now serving 86 years for attempting to kill us military personnel on this hosted situation is apparently, an attempt to set her free,

a swat team has been sent to the scene and the f. b. i is assisting the operation. nearby residents have been evacuated to safety, and people told to stay away from the area to discuss the situation, let's cross live to an anti terror experts and legal analyst jennifer breed, and jennifer grates have you on the program at such short notice. it's going to be on. so we've heard reports that the suspect is trying to free, and his sister, those the claims are serving 86 is given the charges that she was sentenced on. do you think that he's someone that would have been on the radar? us intelligence radar. you would certainly think so because even though some people might just be hearing out this woman a for the 1st time, she's actually been quite famous amongst terror counterterrorism circles. and she has tried to be, she's been used as a bartering ship, a bargaining shift from multiple militant groups, multiple jihadist groups,

in order to get back james, fully of our job, back in 2009 and many others. as you seem to have been to have very close ties located and has never really and sources of that even. and in terms of the bomb administration, it was never going to be negotiating shit. they were never going to release her. this woman is seen as being that dangerous, and so her name has floated around for a long time and some of these terrorism circle she is extremely, she's known to be extremely dangerous. she, i was educated here in united states at mit and others, you doctorate is a neuro scientist, them and, and so now serving and 86 year term. so you would think with a woman like this, who has been on the radar for all over 10 years, we are getting 86 year prison sentence. i mean questions you have to learn where if this man is sources, claim his name is mohammed city. he. if this is really her brother, why, how is he here? was that on the radar of the feds was that on the radar?

did they know that when did he come here? i mean, there are a lot of questions that need to be answered by now, but certainly if this is a blood brother, he should have certainly been on, at least on the radar as you've already touched on. she's also quite an important figure. i'm on with still to develop a situation. so we're still speculating this stage, but do you think it's a family issue or part of a wider sort of agenda the trying to free the sista? you know, there's really, there's really no telling, obviously, plan really is very important. it's important in most cultures. it's certainly important in pakistan, in some of these countries. but you know, as somebody has said, anybody that might have sympathies or ties into with isis or one of these, i mean family continues to be important, but there are always different different elements, different ideologies that come into play. and so, so it is a questionable, i mean,

he doesn't seem to be making specific demands for what he wants to do with the release. it seems like he's just asking to talk to her. he's, he seems convinced he's going to die. you know, i've, i've had many people within these circles and, and so many you're studying, some of these ideologies of these jihadists are terrorist persons or people. and they carry out some of these apps or attacks. and they don't really fall with any uniform framework. you know, it's either going to be something very sudden that nobody expected to tap maximum casualties or something like this. that is, which is actually more rare, which is going to garner lots and lots and lots of attention. so it's the fact that this is that he hasn't done anything violent yet. he's claiming to have bonds. he's playing me to take his life. i mean that he's going to take lies than that we're speculating, a hasn't happened. this is war rare. we don't see this with either al qaeda or ice is inspired on attacks. they're usually quite sudden for maximum damage. that's

generally that ideology. this does not seem to be doing that. it's on a lot of attention, a lot of media attention, a lot of circulation, a lot of publicity. and so it does seem to kind of fear from the norm in that respect. but again, the speculation, i know this is ongoing, so it'll be interesting to see what comes of this and what they have. yes, it does seem like a very unusual profile and he has reportedly threatened that, you know, he was going to die is going to kill himself during this. but it, obviously officials are still negotiating with him and is still developing both of the possible outcomes in the u. s. for someone in this situation from a legal perspective. well, from a legal perspective, i mean obviously it's, i mean you're looking at not only age are meant to say you're looking at certainly a terrorism charges it. he's already. 3 stated that he is, he is aligned with these groups you're looking at, i mean, definitely terrorism charges for whatever purpose that is even planning somebody's

name with the counter terrorism intent. and so that's, that's incredibly dangerous. these kinds of extremist ideologies will generally fall under terrorism, likely international terrorism. they would, they refer to international terrorism for groups that are based across the nation borders, which would be, i says, ok to one of these. so that's, that's the least of what he's looking at and not only, you know, reckless endangerment or whatever else, whatever charges can go there. and of course, in the end, what, what comes out of that, you know, are these hostage is going to be free. are these hostages going to be ok, so a lot looking at that. but generally from a top standpoint, international terrorism charges and, or alignment with a group that is in fact found out which his own words have now said. but again, this is all in the air. it is, it is interesting to see this tied to a woman that's been known around the circles for such a long time. and you know, then what you as an official have known in this process. so that will be

interesting to see what comes out in terms of the legal charges the standpoint. but of course we're all you know, thinking and praying of the people that are now in the situation that they make it out alive. jennifer, thank you very much for your take on this developing and rather troubling situation in the us. onstar. extra legal, honest jennifer breeding. thank you. thank you. ah, the u. s. state of utah is being accused of having racist policies against white people for giving so called priority points to minority communities when it comes to eligibility for covey treatments. the state of minnesota has similar guidelines, but now removed advice to take race into accounts. 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 made, sometimes, decisions of life and death. the cupboard 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 the choices are taken based on greater health risk or the needs of the patient. perhaps the raise your facility, their co morbidities and chronic illnesses. race may be the last thing on your mind . apparently, you may be wrong. think you're liberal, a kidney disease is a high risk thing to get him. your heart problem or your logical 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. not what 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 covered the reasons multiple and complex. but the analysis goes deeper, while more people in ethnic minority communities maybe 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 19 outcomes. the findings highlight the necessity to tackle disparities in social determinants of health. preventative opportunities, and hey, in house case, across the ocean and 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 the radically violate federal law. the united states constitution and the secret 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 hire 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 b 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 face of a key russian gas pipeline to europe still hangs in the balance despite construction of north stream through being completed last year. it's still not being given the final go ahead by the you and the blocks. foreign affairs chief says that could depend on moscow, deescalate intentions on ukraine's border. local mission could have been easy to choose, cannot beat that from one region, infrastructure according to supporting with rules. we are in a free market economy and certainly if functioning of these infrastructure, we'd also depend on the development of the events and ukraine, and the attitude to russia. you cannot imagine that we are thinking one side on

imposing sanctions just in case and on the other hand to over an infrastructure. meanwhile, in the us 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 projects if russia invades ukraine, over the senate voted against the move on thursday. although the democrats have now put forth an alternative bill which would target key russian officials instead. meanwhile, sky rockets in energy prices continue to be a major concern in europe. on wednesday, the swedish government that it would allocate almost $700000000.00 in order to help citizens lowes his hardest by surging prices, could get up to $220.00 a month to pay the bills of a winter electricity costs in the country. more than 250 percent compared to last year, and on the fates of no stream to we've been getting reaction, including from economist i kamer everybody knows that the pipeline will be

used because it's not only useful, it's essential for germany and europe. energy supplied visa, old games in before that the main park naps or negotiation park, which is just the us and russia and all the others are they collectible in this matter. are trying to, 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, your asian population. they don't care at all. they want to make big money and they don't even risk a war. busy not just before we go a recap of breaking news this our that's ongoing hosted situation at the synagogue in the us states of texas. media reports citing police sources state that the rabbi is among those taken hostage. the gunman has reported acclaimed. he's the brother

of a female packets done in euro scientist who is now serving 86 years for attempting to kill us military personnel on this captive situation is an attempt to set her free. a sort theme has been sent to the theme and the f. b, i is assisting in the operation as always will be keeping across that story and we're bringing any old dates out and when we get them. but that's all from me now. you are buying up to date with the latest from around the world. and of course not developing story in texas. my name is peter scott and i'll be back again with another bulletin in just over 30 minutes. ah.