a with breaking news on our, the, this, our a suspected government who is taking people hostage at the synagogue in your state of texas, releases one person according to official media report, citing police source, the state that the hostage take. it may be motivated to pre a pakistani prisoner building counter terrorism circles, as lady al qaeda family, though, denied any links to the attacker. moscow slums washington alleging that russia's preparing a false like operation to justify suppose that ukraine inflation funds are guessed size of the chances of a military conflict need. so, and so coming will always going to weeks detention. so we have here in your credit plan for 3 miss out 5 minutes for most of the big question is how do how to deal

with it. also in the program, the leader of the indigenous shoshone nation tells are the about the devastating in parts of nuclear bomb threats on land belonging to native americans. even the legend of the aim was to eliminate these people and these things were conducted without our knowledge. and under a culture of secrecy, of the united states, and there is the intent to commit genocide ah, coming to you live from moscow, you're watching the international. it's just on for you. i'm here in the russian capital. my name is peter scott and thank you for joining now we start this hour with a developing story coming out of us state of texas. a suspected gunman who's been holding people hostage in a synagogue in the city of collierville has really one of them. according to

officials. please say that the person is unharmed and local media, citing police sources are reporting that those held all rub by and his congregants a full team has been sent to the scene, a nearby residence, evacuated to safety. now there was a live stream of the service. the synagogue running when the suspect entered, and apparently negotiations with belief could be heard nothing in the audio in knots clipped. the suspect can be heard, referring to his sister. this led to report that he was the brother of pakistani neurosciences, who is now serving 86 years for attempting to kill us military personnel. the prisoner legal counsel, however, has denounced that in a statement, and her biological brother was not in the area. ortiz killer morphine has more on

that still active hostage situation from what we understand. there are 4 individuals who are being held hostage. 3 of them are congregants at the synagogue, and one of them is the rabbi. now we understand that, you know, he walked in to the saturday service at the synagogue and interrupted the proceedings. and at this point, he has said, if anyone tries to enter the building, everyone will die. he has also said that he believes he will die. today we understand the hostage taker is calling for the freedom of office the dc office. the dc is a pakistani neuro scientist who was extradited, the states and charged and convicted for conspiring to kill americans currently serving 86 years in federal prison label that lady al qaeda by terrorism analyst and others in the united states. now there were initially some reports that it was mohammed, the dickie was the hostage taker, but now his lawyers have come forward and confirmed it is not mohammed city. he it

is someone else calling for the freedom of obvious to dickie. he apparently refers to obvious dicky as his sister was repeatedly referred to obvious dicky and his statement as my sister. but that is, that is not a literal sense. it's, i guess, perhaps in the religious or philosophical sense. now we also understand that the f b, i is on the scene and negotiating the situation, trying to negotiate the release of the hostages. at this point, there haven't been any shots fired, but law enforcement on the scene is urging people to stay away from the area because it is a very tense situation who has been going on for several hours and it's not clear what will happen. we have seen a statement go out just recently from the council of american islamic relations, calling this an act of evil and unequivocally condemning what this individual has done. saying this is an attack on a house of worship that goes completely against their principles. and we've seen many figures in the muslim community immediately denounced this activity. there are

questions about who he is. in fact, pakistani as was initially reported, he does have apparently have a british accent. and he is an ongoing negotiation. there was live streaming of those negotiations from the synagogue. that live stream has been cut off. so it is not clear exactly exactly what is happening right now. we will be giving you more developments as this situation continues, very 10th saying the could and very badly, but many are looking on and hoping that some kind of peaceful resolution is arranged. in the news, 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 create a pretext for invasion. neil harvey and nicky are in discuss what the russian embassy in the us as brundage 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 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 prepositioned 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 board 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. ines spring 2021. we saw the headlines, 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 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 where the 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 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, it depends. your questions arising which we have already addressed to the u. s. or thirty's ourselves all in over the russian position on all the developments the russian foreign minister sake. 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 goods. just mccarthy 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 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 weeks worth of diplomacy is clearly failed with the situation now feeling so much more tense than it was before. while earlier our guest shoot over whether the current tensions really do have the potential to escalate into 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 seriously negotiate, 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 america and the british american ships entering as well. russia now, what russia waters that is a major problem cation. well, if you think about the iraq war and excuse iraq will be in the summer saying that we saw potentially 45 minutes from london. we have here in ukraine, the plans of the miss of 5 minutes from moscow, 7 minutes from russia 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 the cuban missile crisis part, so it could end differently from that one. if we don't look at this very carefully, the element of this is the idea that ukraine, if nato wanted to, part of nato actually became appalled nato. because that would, in effect give you crane ability to launch an international wall on the hall with an interest. and the kevin positions are completely irresponsible on this question . so that would be another, might move in my strategy coming from a jo biden's administration. i think if there's anything positive that has come out of this crisis, it is the west will recognize that it can't get away scott free by bring ukraine in tonight. so it would be really hard for them to say, you know, need so, and so coming was always going to weeks to tensions. one sure natal course is in

the baltic states one shot day. so force is important to check like elsewhere, the pos of in georgia in the black sea. once you have that revised russian feelers . and as i say, you don't ban of blythewood pearson to understand what those fees are given russian's most recent history. given what happened in the 2nd world war, i was going to say, 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 order load, which is controlled essentially by the united states. the gas, et cetera, etc, etc. so we will always bring down any government or trying to bring down any government which doesn't corresponds to those interests or don't disagree with chris's saying. but i also think, but we need to have full about just sliding into just a confrontational approach towards these sorts of interests and, and, and developments. 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 page has managed to do that in the past with england and some other european government to some limited success has been to be valuable. and important thing of that is vitally important for the future of the planet, is that russia is included in a new security architecture. you can't have a new security. so even an old one with russia labeled as the enemy, with the ukraine matching harvest, is close to the russian border as it can without any commentary from the west, the media and nature, politicians, referring to russia as the enemy. you cannot have stability the russia of course, the sees itself as the victim aware that it hated it has to be included in security

architecture. otherwise there's no security for anybody. meanwhile, the u foreign affairs chief, joseph burrell, has said the faith of a key russian gas pipelines. the europe depend on what happens over ukraine, will have more no story just a little later in the program. a massive fire has a ropes it as a chemical plant in per site, new jersey, leading to warnings about a quality in the region. at least 15 fights has been injured. the authorities say they've no money to contain the fire after bustling flames throughout the night. the locals were told to stay away from the area and remaining doors with a windows closed. it's still unclear what caused the blades, but large quantities of chlorine pallets are stored at the site and the concern over the top 6 smoke. this is one of the videos of the fire that's been posted online for psych is a city of around 70000 people. and he's located about 20 kilometers from new york

authorities of warned people they might see or smell smoke from the fire 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 great, there would be looking at the chemical that would be most concerned about the chlorine match. and that will then change the nature of our fire and the smoke and pollution rooms from that side to the problem of the fire. like this is not just the side too. so you've got things being thrown into the air and strain or contin disbursed. 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 densities like that will be of concern and they'll be wearing resources or finding out and quantifying exactly what,

what that risk is a know for a story that we believe is important to highlights. for years the us can do to nuclear us online that was populated by native americans, or thea, spoken to the current head of the western shoshone tribe. and he thought is one 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 $1863.00 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 for comparison, hiroshi irma only had 15 killer tons in 1945. all that had devastating effects on tribal residence. 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 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 of. busy these are acts which are destroying the sheesh only 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 assault. i feel that this is what nazis did in world war 2. those nuclear tests are just one of a number of hardships the western shoshone have had to endure. to delve deeper into that, you can watch our interview with the leader in full over r t dot com. 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 koby treatments. the state of minnesota had similar guidelines, but has now been moved advised 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 maids, 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 that choices are taken based on greater health risk or the needs of the patient, perhaps raise your fragility, 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 than 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 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 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 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 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 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 face of a key russian gas pipeline to europe still hangs in the balance despite construction of north stream to being completed last year. it's still not being given the final go ahead by the you and the blocks for the 1st. she says that could depend on moscow, deescalate intentions on ukraine's border. legal mission could have been issued to issues cannot forbid that from one region. infrastructure, according to reduce or forwarding was ruled. we have in a free market economy and certainly functioning autism 1st to 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 boarding sanctions,

just in case and other than to over and 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. however, the senate voted against the move on thursday. although the democrats have now put forward an alternative bill which would targets key russian officials instead. meanwhile, sky rocketing energy prices continue to be a major concern in europe. on wednesday, the swedish governments that he would allocate almost $700000000.00 in order to help citizens. those hits hardest by surging prices could get up to $220.00 a month to pay the bills over winter electricity costs in the country. more than 250 percent compared to last year. and on the face of no stream to we've been getting reaction, including from economist acre, hey ma,

everybody knows that the pipeline will be used because it's not only useful, it's essential for germany and europe's energy supply. these are all games in before that the main partnerships or negotiations are best, which adjusting us and russia and all the others are they electable in this matter are trying to, 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, your asian population. they don't care at all. they want to make big money and they don't even would risk a war just before we go, a recap of our breaking news. this our a suspected goodman, who has taken people hostage at the synagogue in the u. s. state of texas has released one person according to officials, the identity of the taco,

who is still report to the holding. hostages has not yet been confirmed by police. media reports fighting police sources say the socket may have been motivated to free. a prisoner dubbed lady alti eda. now the legal counsel for the prisoner who is serving 86 years released a statement denouncing the psych and any linked with a small team is on the scene alongside the f. b i. and we'll be keeping across the story and bring you any updates as and when we get them. that's all for now from me. pizza scott's, but i'll be back with another one down of the world news. and any developments from the hostage situation intake this at the top of the hour? ah, me, well, the make no, certainly no borders and the line to tease ah,

as a merge, we don't have a therapy. we don't have a vaccine. the whole world needs 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 are in it together with oh yeah, recently of course, or the un, sorry. did the united states talking about shaman, right?

talking about press freedom. if you got to talk the top, you gotta walk the book. in other words, he's got to be consistent. you cast out on the one hand we believe in press freedom, but on the other hand, we're gonna exclude chile massage. nothing to hypocrisy. i mean, united states is tracy. what really makes a lot of people really mad about the, the caching turning here in australia where they just don't understand them. right . what is the starting citizen which comes down with a less than one year ago. the 17 year old from detroit underwent a double lung transplant. previously, daniel had assumed that the cigarettes were harmless,

at least that's what he had always heard.