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that paid to have gone on addressed. we spoke to a man who loved his family and the 2017 grand fo blaise. it's like there's a lot of profits before laws. i'm just calling up with a very well welcome to my team here in moscow. this is asi international. it's great to happy with us. i top story this, our as tensions of ukraine remain high, the top diplomats of the us and russia alternate in switzerland and a couple of hours to discuss moscow's proposal was for regional security guarantees . rushes envoy, foreign minister, thank a lot for auth, has already arrived in geneva for the talks with us secretary of state antony blanket. the key topic is moscow's demands that made so we'll stop expanding towards russia's borders. but the u. s. and european nato states have repeatedly

rejected that proposal. r t correspondence. peter oliver takes a closer look at the international context of this meeting in geneva. the search for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing tensions between russia and nato, comes back to the shores of lake geneva and the heads of his meeting with russian foreign minister, sir. gala rove the us secretary of state anthony blinking has been putting america's message to its partners directly before coming to switzerland. the u. s. foreign policy chief within lynn for full way talks with representatives of germany, france, and the united kingdom. russia is entitled to protect itself in the united states in europe, are prepared to discuss russia, security concerns and how we can address them in a reciprocal way. while the secretary of state look to protect one voice from the 4 nations that had taken part in the talks, as he gave those remarks alongside the german 4 minister, the french president,

emanuel micron told the european parliament earlier in the week that europe needs to come to its own arrangements with russia, parallel to those of nato and the united states. it's good that europeans and the united states are coordinating, but it's necessary for europeans to conduct their own dialogue. we should build as europeans, working with other europeans and nato, and then propose it for negotiation with russia. before the trip to berlin, lincoln was in kiev with a message of peace and the promise of more weapons for ukraine. we continued to bolster ukraine's ability to defend itself and make clear the costs of the united states and europe will impose on moscow if it rejects the diplomatic craft that we've laid out and received with an unwarranted unprovoked, unacceptable invasion or destabilization of ukraine. last week talks in geneva, brussels and vienna didn't get things much further along on tuesday speaking in

moscow for minutes, the said again, love rob said that russia wasn't interested in just holding meetings for the sake of having meetings. buddhism as a bush, unless we expressed our concern about nature's policy of containment of the russian federation. and in that regard, we do attention in some detail to the initiatives that the russian side has taken to negotiate credible, legally binding security guarantees. let me remind you that we have given such guarantees to the u. s. and members of the north atlantic alliance. we are waiting responses as we have been promised to these proposals in order to continue negotiations. it would seem that those responses were given as these talks a going ahead between this meeting it being announced. and now there has been a lot of chatter about how nato, driven by the us should tackle russia with sanctions, including the possibility of cutting moscow off from the swift international payment system of his don't to run back in 2014. however,

after much deliberation that particular plan to seem dead in the water for now, it isn't expected to be a long conversation between foreign minister lovegrove and secretary of state blinking around an hour and a half or so. and they aren't going to sold out all of the problems that exist between russia and the west right now. but what they can do, what we really have to hope that they will do is lay the groundwork for a diplomatic way to put right. a relationship that has been delighted by miss trust . peter, all of a r t in geneva conference in gary law of head of the russian delegation for military security and arms control based in vienna. have expressed his opinion on what to expect. when the talks, the meeting minister wrote and 2nd sibling will help to make progress in these negotiations and giving you evidence to the ukraine and the provokes conflict. on the,

on the board visit us in public submitted in just on our like can them make all small groups according to our international obligations. busy in rate, ukraine, we don't need these now, didn't really make any problem again to, to, to, to have negotiations positions before negotiations. i think they accusing blaming graphic there, but i think what can happen moscow? sans the us state department, accusations about russian dis, information, either ukraine as washington health sounds and media outlets r t and spurt. nick in get more details on this now from our senior correspondent, my dance dfi joins been a studio. thanks for coming in more at. so just bring us up to speed on these

latest allegations. mother, the latest allegations washington periodically comes out with her with new reports, with new investigations into archie. and they're almost always regurgitated things that they've said before. at least this time with with it and have a senate hearing with, with serious men and stars and stripes. discussing an r t video about the statue receive in too many views that has happened before ls this time. the gist of it is that washington has come out and said that, look, media that is independent and free and generally aligned values, the interests of washington. these, when they report on something it is, it is news, this unbiased, that is, it is balanced. when r t reports on the same thing, it is propaganda. and this information, this is, this is the gist of what they have said. they have listed all sorts of examples

where they believe that r t has a twisted and twisted facts or twisted news or narrative. for example, we, we had an incident where they talked about artes critical coverage of the european union's response. initial response to the pandemic. which is, you know, completely justified you had the president of the european commission come out herself or sula on the line and apologize. issue heartfelt apology to 700000000 european citizens who were left disappointed with the, with the european union's response and reporting on this somehow in the us of washington or the state department. eas, propaganda, and this information. there was also an interesting bit where they compared our t and scrutiny to, to b, b, c, and voice of america, voice of america, which until up until 2013 was forbidden from broadcasting in the united states. because there was an understanding that it is propaganda intended for foreign

consumption because it is unhealthy for americans up until 202000 sorry, and 30 m all manner of insiders and, and former employees of was america, come out and say, over the years that yes, it is essentially funded by congress an arm of congress. nevertheless, the, this is opposed to charge for them. a journalist. there's also a very interesting bit about week leeks. when colleagues, by the way, which has never published ally, which is statistically more accurate and more dependable than that, almost any media out as in the world be at cnn. bbc, will we have an r t at statistically they have never published a life so. so here the problem that washington has us is they allege, and this is alive. they alleged that art. he published a wiki leaks expose a information about a new data dump before weekly leaks it, which is a lie,

it has been debunked for years. what happened is we can, it's published approve of a new information, and they forgot to they forgot to on twitter to announce it r t announced that because they saw it on their side and, and 4 year as washington has stuck to this, put the odds. he published weekly weeks information before wikileaks did, which is an outright lie, so you can understand the general level of fact checking in. in this report, there was also a bit about turkey saying that russian coverage, russian media coverage of turkey before a short shot down a russian jet was neutral after it's what shot down a russian jet. it was negative. well, was that surprising? imagine mexico shooting down an american jet. what would american media say or say someone else shooting down a british jet? can you imagine that headlines are on the daily mail? for example. nevertheless, this is, this is the latest dump from the americans,

the very latest investigation into our t and, and sputnik but it is much the same as it has been in, in past years. and it is always interesting to consider the timing as well as these allegations against darcy and spurred nick as we had had to day into those crucial talks in geneva. one can't help but wonder whether this has something to do with it . but anyway, thanks for coming in. i can see as we go reaction frontier political analyst today at daniel mcadams, he stays the us government simply doesn't want the media to challenge it's present narratives. it's classic us government. they always want to drop a stink bomb and advance with any condom negotiations. it's just their way of putting up a middle finger. they're accusing of rti of representing a pro russia view as if the u. s. media in its entirety, and the u. s. mainstream media represents the pro u. s. government,

not us us government view. they have no clue that the vast majority of americans can't stand american foreign policy. and so what is their, what is their, what is their conclusion? well, should we change our policy? no, let's don't let them watch things that challenge their perspective. the challenge is their narratives. any reports claims form a pipe benedict, the 16th failed to take action in 4 cases of alleged sexual abuse or serving as archbishop of the german cities of munich. confronting the study by a german law firm looks into the cases of abuse perpetrated in the periods between 945 and 2019. and how church officials handled them. according to the report, over 2 thirds of people investigated in connection with sexually abusive behavior turned out to be priests where the report claims the former pope supported the investigations but denied any wrong doing. in connection with the allegations, wilford has them and said he was a victim of sex,

abuse by the clergy during that period and talks about what he's been through someone. it happened in the summer of $979.00. i was 11 years old back then pastor act served as st. andrews church and when he left us and groups of people started attacking me, they knew i was one of the reasons he left. we moved to another district of the town and in 1999, i began to be affected by my experiences. i could not work. i had dizziness. i could not drive or simply go out of the house. my whole family was suffering because of that. i started visiting doctors to find out what the problem was. and finally i got to see a psychotherapist. i told him the whole story and he said i had been through a really traumatic experience that triggered memories of all the abuse i had experienced. when i saw the pastor munich, he was standing among other pastor, smiling. i told myself, listen paraphilias disease. so he'll most likely keep going. he did when it's by fall, the 1st time the senior catholic clergyman have been under fire,

of alleged sexual abuse with numerous cases having been reported in other german cities islands on france. well, for the 1st months they said after his letter, pope benedict changed some instructions on how clergy should punish those who sexually abuse minus but 1st the meanings. this says taken church officials too long to take any measures to address the claims when he walks by talking in 2006 in 2008, i sent an automated emails to the munich diocese. i wrote about my experiences with pastor acts when he was in s and they ignored my letter in 2006. so i try it again in 2008 when abuse victims were demanded compensation for the 1st time. they then described my letter as criminal blackmail, but it's clear that i hadn't been blackmailing the church. those officials who came to me realized i was a victim right away. they also realized they themselves had been used by the church . they were simply fooled by it. i was 1st of all concerned about justice because the pastor just went to another place when i was writing the letter. it was important to me to protect others and may 2010. i wrote to pope benedict. i told

him my whole story on may 21st. i got a response saying the pope would take care of it and he really did. but as we have seen, it took 2530 years for a victim to open up and start talking about it. still a, had an american man at the center of a conspiracy theory about suppose the sci involvement and last year capitol hill riot, except to be questioned by the congressional committee, investigating the incident will bring you that story and more after the break, stay with the as inflation increases the stories, the rhetoric, the explanations, the justifications will get more and more bizarre because there's nothing in the, in the playbook for mainstream media to explain in place. because they've been

told for 20 years now that there's no inflation that there's only deflation. and the need to keep printing money to stop the of the possibility of, of, of a deflationary spiral. so called enhanced interrogation techniques used by the u. s. officials were basically designed as techniques to break down the human mind. if you force a human being to stay in a certain position doesn't take very long to the pain involved to become absolutely excruciating. but nobody screen finger on you. you are doing it to yourself. we started adopting those techniques when i was station in mosul, among them wordpress positions sleep deprivation. and using type of thermo,

there's already beginning to be evidence that these old techniques are now being used on immigrant and children, whatever you do or more comes home. nobody has been held accountable for the torture that happened in the past and the moral authority, the made america leader sacrifice for the shimmer of effective interrogation. ah oh

ah, welcome back. 4 and a half years after london's deadly grown full fire tragedy fairs of a repeat have emerged among the public as the mid tons to build a new high rise in the area with yet again, only one set of fire escape stairs for its residence at ease at shot edwards darcy has the details in the shadows of the grunfeld tower. the tragedy that came the lives of 72 plans are in place to build a new skyscraper twice the heights, and just a few meters away. despite the public inquiry concluding the safety policy, all the grand crowds, how a failed, this new building is set to adhere to that failed policy, including the requirement for just a single escape staircase. we would, he knows that single staircase could stay cases all very difficult to use for fire fighting on the skype type. the whole situation in the year every becomes very

crowded. you have to have a skype roots on the exterior to a building because mainly could be naturally eventually the proposed high rise is designed to accommodate hundreds of households and would adopt similar policy neville to car last 5 members of his family on the 14th of june. 2017, and that night residents were told to stay pert. i'm very concerned the fact that it's a, once the case of staples is also destroying to include the poor. why haven't they still learned or from the previous, you know, do we want to go straight to planning and making them learn from our mistakes? we shouldn't do that. the government is currently reviewing the provision of escape routes and building regulations. while the local council insists residents, safety comes for the safety of our residents. as our number one priority, we took a tough line with developers to ensure that anything they build is fully compliant

with all safety and other regulations as a minimum. and that local people are fully consulted. we are aware of this development and we will be providing a response to the planning consultation. while new homes can no longer be caught in combustible material like that, which caused flames to shoot up the grunfeld tower. the government is still yet to remove cutting from thousands of tar blocks in the u. k. and unlike to do so, before 2025, the survivors and the bereaved erecting another high rise building while lessons haven't been learned, is unforgivable. we still haven't finished with the inquiry full, so their proposal to be given or even new laws or recommendations or whatever it is . it's like is if we carry non profits before lives on that, this can't happen. when will they ever learn the school? nothing has been learned, they say lightning doesn't strike twice. but is this really the place to build

a tower and with questionable safety precautions as the community is still in morning under waiting justice charge edwards dusty. archie london, reports out of northern syria. say a terrorist attack by the islamic state group has enabled over a dozen prisoners to escape a detention facility. the car bomb was detonated just outside. local correspondent mohammed ali reports from syria. the incident happened when a he was last with heard around the look where on prison, which is also known as a lesson offer that has a governor 8 year in which turned out to be an attack by a sleeper sofa dice using a car bomb. they tried to attack the prison classes were reported over there between to dash terrorists attacking from the outside. and the guards of the prison affiliated, of course, would be so called through democrats care forces,

also the reports or if they're coming out of that area to just that just from the u. s. coalition carried out stories over the area over there, and also choppers were engaged and open gunfire around in the facility. the prison . according to curtis media outlets about 20 dashed prisoners were able to escape. and according to the coordination and military operation center of the series democrats forces, they said that currently engaged in operation to retake control entirely of the prison. and also, search operation are currently underway and the neighborhoods around and wait on and then has like in order to attract those who escaped re app, say, participants of the pro trump rally that descended into chaos on capitol hill on

january. the 6th last year is set to questioning by the congressional committee, investigating the incident, although hundreds have been detained. epps has become a person of particular interest to the public. as allegations the house links to the f b i. he was caught on camera before and on the day of the protest, inciting people to quote, go into the capital at with post on the f. b i 's. most willing people is in connection with the incidence, but we're late to removed. he then became the focus of a conspiracy theory that the f b i could have allegedly been involved and inciting, the chaos. apps has adamantly denied having links with the f b. i mean, while the federal agency has been while the choir, it's about the issue under intense question and get tersely acknowledge the man, but declined to further comment. who is re ups? i'm aware of the individual, sir. i don't have a specific background to him. on the night of january 5th,

2021 eps wandered around the crowd that had gathered. and there's video out there. he had channing to borrow. we need to get into the capital in the capital. this was strange behavior so strange that the crowd began chanting bed bed bed bed bed bed. miss sanborn was re absa fed. sir, i cannot answer that question. we spoke to bruce marx, he was a republican member of the pennsylvania state senate. he think this too early to dismiss this fed man conspiracy api. i could have determined that he wasn't involved to do that he did nothing wrong. the 2nd answer is that he did something wrong, but he's cooperating. and therefore, they don't need him to be on the list. and then the 3rd answer is of course that he could have been an f, b i, informant. and then whoever put him on the list didn't realize it at the time. and then once they realized that he was an f b i, informant, they removed him from the list right now that,

that's just speculation. but it's possible the f b, i has used infiltrators in the past that joined organizations and, and encouraged to illegal activity. and i think it's a matter of concern, and that's why it's really important for the f, b i and the department of justice to explain to the public whether mister apps was acting on behalf of the government. or that it wasn't the cia has shed light on a recent conundrum in diplomacy. many reported cases of the mysterious neurological affliction known as havana syndrome. and they just finding is rule out involvement by foreign actors such as russia and the majority of the cases. the health incident 1st came to light in 2016 reported by u. s embassy personnel in the cuban campus. so similar complaints were later made by u. s. employees at other facilities around the world. yvonne, a syndrome plotted by russians, apparently not. ca,

rules out foreign attacks after probing for a year. we assess, it is unlikely that a foreign actor, including russia, is conducting a sustained worldwide campaign, harming us personnel with a weapon or mechanism in the serious illnesses have been targeting us officials abroad since 2017 causing hearing unexplained sounds. headache and niger attacks of an invisible enemy, secret microwave weapons. cricket lading noises, majority of cases turn out to be caused by medical, environmental, and technical factors. time to close the case. thank again. with 2 dozen unexplained cases, there's still room for conspiracy theories. thanks for joining us here on our t international. i think as you can find plenty more stories on our website, r t dot com. we'll be back with the latest and about them in

on this addition to the program, we discuss the ongoing nato, russia pensions. we ask, what is nato strategy also, what is russia strategy dealing with nato, the sport expansion, and what are the likely outcomes for both? join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. yes, yeah, i didn't know if that will. at least the typical there's only 9 but already 8 university students that away on slash one. we're open. if that was

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will all come to you so feca, visionaries, me sophie shepherd, not well theoretical and particle physics continues to be mysterious, almost an occult science and the more you try to figure out our reality, the more confusing and counter i'll be as it gets. well, i talk to noble prize winning physicist, professor heather at hoffman today. professor, who thank you very much for agreeing to to us. that's my pleasure. we did an interview, but we couldn't see each other because it was over the satellite. so i'm very glad that we're able to do this life and in person i last i,

we were speaking about black holes. this time, since we're meeting face to face, i thought i would ask you all the big questions. literally, because i don't know and i'm going to see you next. so let's start with this, your noble crises for studying. electra weak interactions, the 4 grade interactions that govern the universe of which gravity is the most basic one. so gravity for us is this. think that help us stay grounded, so we don't. so are somewhere in the universe. but do we have any idea of how gravity actually came? what it is, is, can there be a universe without gravity? well, gravity didn't just come and go. it's not a force you can switch on and off or something like that. gravity is always been there. the question is, of course, to her, understand how to describe it. and as it was the concussions we physicist asked, don't ask an expert.