ah, ah, breaking news on our fee this hour, a sigh of relief in the us state of texas as all the hostages held captive for hours on saturday at the synagogue relief. that's according to the state governor media report. so i think police told the state the health is take care may have been motivated to free a pakistani prisoner building counter terrorism circles, as lady al qaeda family, though, denies any links to the attacker. moscow slums washington alleging that russia is preparing a poll like operation to justify it's supposed that ukraine invasion plans are guess size of the chances of a military conflict need. so and so coming was always going to we detention we have here in ukraine. wines with 5 minutes from moscow. now the question is, how do you,

how to deal with also in the program, the leader of the indigenous shoshone nation. he tells are the about the devastating impact of nuclear bomb tests 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 united states. and there again is the intent to commit genocide from moscow to the world. you're watching r t international life. my name is peter scott. welcome to the program. now we start with an update on that developing story from the u. s. state of texas, where all hostages held captive in a synagogue by suspects a good man have made it out alive. that's according to the state governor. one man was released at 1st and 3 others, reportedly followed a small team and f

b. i have been at a stand off which lasted for hours on a nervous saturday. the local area was called an off by police a mid tens negotiations. now there was a live stream of the service at the synagogue running with the army suspect entered, and apparently negotiations with the police could be heard. lima, lima, you left me a now in the audio clip, the suspects he was holding the house, which is heard referring to his sister. this led to report that he is the brother of pakistani neuroscience if he is now serving 86 years for attempting to kill us military personnel. the prisoners legal council have averages, said that in a statement thing, her biological brother was not in the area ortiz. caleb morphine has more nuts now, finished hostage situation. he walked in to the saturday service at the synagogue

and interrupted the proceedings. and at this point, he 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. with extra day to d. i'd states and charged and convicted for conspiring to kill americans currently serving 86 years in federal prison, labeled 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 had 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. he 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 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 of 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. in the news, moscow has slammed us allegations that rushes, preparing a false flag operation in ukraine. american media and officials claim that the kremlin has pre positioned a group of saboteurs who will create a pretext for invasion. neil harvey and nicky are and discussed what the russian embassy in the u. s. is 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, say 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 the 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 2 miles 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 past year. in s. springs 2021. we saw the headline screaming putin threatens war again, that software that they started, military drills on the boards 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 a difference, which is what russia says, it is in our trips 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, the 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 crane is going to join nato. it's a done deal. it's just a matter of when a recent reports 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 ops on american soil and has been doing so since 2015. the program has, involves very specific training on skills i 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 techniques . la navigation tactics like cover and move intelligence and other areas are washington has reportedly claimed it's solely aimed at defense. they've given the nature of the training in 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 sake, oliver avi, held his annual press conference yesterday and in answering all the questions there are really including on the western phase of an invasion. good shift mcguffey 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. while 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 we could go as nato and russian delegates prepared to embark on 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. well, 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 negotiating 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 the ukraine and to georgia. that would seem to me quite provocative in the current situations, out of america and the british american ships entering as well. russia now, what russia waters that is a major propagation. well, if you think about the iraq war and excuse iraq will be in the southern saying that missiles potentially 45 minutes from london. we have here in ukraine, the plans of the miss of 5 minutes from moscow, 7 minutes from russia. a strategic nuclear defense is in ethics. 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 to 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 they travel wanted to part of nato actually became involved later. because that was in effect and ukraine ability to launch an international war on behalf of an interest and the positions are completely responsible on this question. so that would be another, might move in my strategy coming from the jo biden's administration. i think if there's anything positive that has come out of this crisis, it is the, the west will recognize that it can't get away scott free by bring 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 nature of course is in the baltic states one shot day. so force is important to check like elsewhere, the positive in georgia in the black sea. once you have that revised russian

feelers. and as i say, you don't 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'm just 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, liberal order, which is control essentially by the united states. the gas, etc, etc, etc. we will always bring any government to try to bring any government which doesn't corresponds to those interests or don't disagree with what 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? i'm 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 managed to do that in the past with anglo monochrome 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 supposed to 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, to see itself as a victim where this is heading has to be included in security architecture. otherwise there's no security for anybody. meanwhile, the e. u foreign affairs chief, joseph borough has said the fate of

a key were some gas pipelines to europe could depend on what happens over ukraine. we'll have more now story a bit later in the program. a massive fire has a ropes. it is a chemical plants that per site, new jersey, leading to warnings about air quality in the region. at least one fire fighter has been injured. authorities say they've now managed to contain the fire after bottling the flames. throughout the night. locals were told to stay away from the area and remained indoors with the windows closed. it's still unclear what caused the blaze, but large quantities of chlorine pellets are stored on the site and the concern of toxic smoke. this is one of the videos of the fire this be posted on line. beside 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. think everybody is right now relieved that this is back on to control if that chemical store had been breached. and we've been looking at the chemicals that we could most concerned back to the chlorine match. and that will then change the nature of our fire and the smoke and pollution of rooms from that side to the problem or the fire like this is not just the side. so you've got things being thrown into the air and strain are going to be 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 density is like that will be of concern and you know, they'll be throwing resources or finding out and quantifying exactly what, what that risk is. and now for a story that we believe is important to highlights for years the us can go to

nuclear tests online. there was populated by native americans. are thea spoken to the current head of the western shoshone tribe. and he told us, 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 of ruby valley. when the western shoshone handed certain rights to the us. but did not see

the land these and friendships shall be hereafter established and maintained between the western bands of the shoshone nation and the people 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 from 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 these shoshone never agreed to new. a weapon testing, finding justice is a tough road. 60 shoshone people are on their road. so we really need to continue to investigate and understand this, but we're not getting any help from the united states. they're not investigating this because they're the perpetrators of. busy these of acts which are destroying the shoshone people, disgustingly shameful. that us politicians, the president and the court. they don't talk about these issues. what we began to understand is that we're experiencing a assault. i feel that this is what nazis did in world war 2. ah, well those nuclear says, just one of a number of hardships,

the western shoshone of huts withdrawal. to delve deep into that you can watch our interview with a leader in full of 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. now the state of minnesota did have similar guidelines, but as now 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 at the 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 ethnicity are 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 coven, the reasons multiple and complex, but the analysis goes deeper, while more people in ethnic minority communities may be diagnosed, there appear to be no differences in final health outcomes and critic say that for 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 play 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 all, despite increasingly harsh measures, wave off the wave of cobra continues to effect 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 risk, 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 highly 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 of 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. in the news, the fate of a key russian gas pipeline to europe still hangs in the balance despite construction of no stream to being completed. last year. it's still not been given the final go ahead by the you and the blogs. foreign affairs. she says that could depend on moscow, deescalate intentions on ukraine's border. commission to the penny citizens cannot for b. that's one reason infrastructure. according to the discipline with rules we have in a free market economy and certainly if functioning does infrastructure. we'd also depend on the development of events and ukraine and the attitude to russian. you cannot imagine that we are thinking one side on imposing sanctions just in case and under the infrastructure. in the u. s. republican senator ted cruz made his own

bid to stop the pipeline. this week he put forward a bill the sanction businesses involved in the project. if russia invades ukraine, over 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 rockets in 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 hit hardest by surging prices could get up to $220.00 a month to pay their bills over the winter. electricity cost in the country are up more than 250 percent compared to last year. and on the fates of north street to we've been getting reaction, including from economist ica, hammer, everybody knows that the pipeline will be use 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 part mass or negotiation park mass, which is just the us and russia and all the others are neglectful in this matter. are trying to get a bigger 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 population 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. now let's wrap up with a quick recap of that hostage crisis. a suspected gunman who was holding people hostage in a synagogue in the north west of texas has released all of them alive and safe. well that's according to officials, but local media report, the suspect might be dead. the identity of the tech has not yet been disclosed by

police media report sites in police sources say the attack. it may have been motivated to free a prison, adopt lady al qaeda who's serving 86 years for attempted murder. the legal counsel for the prisoner released a statement denouncing the attack and any link to it. a small team is on the scene along with the f b i as always, will be keeping across the story. i will bring you any updates on when we get them . that's all for now from me. pizza scott's but neil harvey will be taken over in around 30 minutes with the weekly here knox international. thank you for your company. ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy

will be successful, very difficult. i'm time to sit down and talk. now we have easy grids. i just heard that it was a healthy alternative to cigarettes. do we trust tobacco companies with their message that these new products are actually going to reduce these cigarettes or breaking the tobacco at them to the workforce? wow

with

a.