ah ah ah, we recently notified congress of our intent to deliver and 17 helicopters off to the latest round of the escalation talks. the us joins all and i remember sites and ramping up supplies of weapons to clear, but tells russia to pull back its own troops from its portable heat. cramp rallies against co restrictions are breaking out across europe with anger and france over vaccine mandate. and across the challenge button, there, a protest against mandatory jobs for health workers medical experts appeal to the international olympic committee to toughen rules about transgender athletes. saying they have an unfair advantage in women sports who speak to one of the scientists

behind the complaint with the i is he's trying to do is focus on inclusion. and i think that is fine, but they are schools way if you are archive inclusion, then you won't have famous law for moscow. thanks for joining us. and i told i was in special ed, daniel hawkins were if you are this our welcome to the program. now nato members have pledged to send more lethal weapons for ukraine with washington confirm plans to send military helicopters to key if for the same time they have told russia to pull back its own troops on the border with its neighbour. i would note that the united states is delivered more security assistance to ukraine in the last year than any point history. these deliveries are ongoing, including today there's more deliveries coming. we recently notified congress of our intent to deliver and 17 helicopters. it seems all the stops have been pulled

at this point from the, from the side of nathan lethal weapons are flooding into ukraine at, at record speed when record amounts. ukraine has confirmed that it has received the latest shipment of american lethal arms, amounting to 100 tons, 100 tons of lethal arms in just the length of shipment. estonia, latvia, lithuania, fulton, voice. their desire to supply. perhaps i have begun to supply you credit with the guided missiles, javelin guided missiles that they have in turn received from the united states, as well as stinger shoulder, launched anti air missiles, estonia, latvia and lithuania, and the allies of working together expeditiously to hand over security assistance to ukraine, this 8 will further enhance ukraine's capability to defend its territory and population in case of possible russian aggression. this is of course,

in addition to other suppliers that ukraine has received an over recent weeks, including this week with more than 2000 guided missiles supplied by the united kingdom alone via skype bridge, endless military cargo flights you had the czech republic, say that it allows supplies, again, vast quantities of $152.00 millimeter artillery shells which, which have caused a lot of destruction and eastern new cray, a poland with drones and armored vehicles in addition to helicopters, to patrol craft supplied by other countries. nevertheless, there, there has been some disparity, this unity among native states. with regards to this to this on supply route, that has been open to ukraine flood. i would even say some nations have stayed out of it more or less, including germany. estonia has sorta transferred german artillery systems to

ukraine, and germany has refused to sanction this move. the federal government has had a clear stance regarding arms exports in recent years. we have not supported the export of lethal weapons from germany. germany has been on the huge pressure from certain native member states should occur, which include the united states, great britain, certain about the countries, eastern european countries to open up and send lethal arms to ukraine as well. but germany has so far stayed there. as i said, stayed out of it, the german chancellor of sholtes has also been invited to the united states by, by biden, reportedly he refused saying that he has other responsibilities to attend to. but that the, the, this is stand off continues at this point. as you mentioned, at the united states is called in russia to remove its troops from its own soil near you crate that to move them out when russia. at the same time,

nato troops are arriving in again record her quantities to ukraine, which russia has always seen as a, as a security concern. there has also been an opinion in russia that these build up is justified with more securities needed on the border with, with ukraine, given that this again, vast quantity of lisa lamp are being sent to you create and maimed bolden, the regime and in key of the to vap seek a military solution for the crisis and in east than you credit. so certainly no end to the standoff inside the german. maybe she has been forced to apologize for missing. the crimea is now thought a rush errand proposing to stop the demonizing vladimir putin. those comments at a conference in india have drawn a frantic response from mainstream media and online. oh, sure,

because he can do it. oh, it is easy to give him the respect. he also deserves the com. yup. and it is got no comment. this is, this is the fact that sam believable is payton. already financing parts of the navy, vice admiral k. r. cam shown bark must be recalled immediately. fire hen and navy chief must not play his own foreign policy game in a crisis. clearly vice admiral shamrock thought he was off the record, but he was also fundamentally wrong on prospects of appeasing russia. vice admiral playing down the russian sabre rattling. this is a shocking statement since crimea was annexed by russia. it almost sounds like carte blanche her p 10. the vice admiral now calls his statements a mistake. after germany's defense ministry said his words are not reflect its

official position. the crimea was still part of the crime. romans consistently pointed out that the peninsula voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to reunify with russia. independent journalists, mcgreevy says outrage over the commanders. remarks follows a predictable pattern. of course, it can't be accepted that the one of the 3 most important really treat into bonus. fear says such thing. probably you didn't know he was being recorded, but you hear this very much in the corridors of nato, or off the think tanks gravitating around later. people are realistic. they know, of course, that pre micro will never go back to ukraine. i mean it, li, john, russia, everybody knows that it is fresh and somehow so that the rest, the official declarations. and that is the reality. again, this o at middle settle, so that russia own, strengthens its neighbors to keep them in the rushing sphere of influence. it's not

really that to be nice to say that but east nato pro russia is simply a really, she understands press what happens about ukraine and it is very important to have it ah, demonstrations against covered restrictions over up there in major cities across europe this weekend the french are outraged for requirements for every one i was 16 to show proof. all vaccinations went to public places in brooklyn. people want the recent removal of pandemic rules to be extended to national health stuff. surely it was the ash the in london and sort of the ruins can paris are on the ground floor procession that just passed me is one of several that are taking place across the city today as well as many others taking place across france. there is a mixture of issues here, but one of the big issues is that vaccine, passports is going to come into play from monday. anybody age 16 rover will have to be fully vaccinated or have recovered from coverage within the last 6 months to be

able to access very basic things like going to restaurants or balls even now being able to go on trains between different regions. now the protest is, i've spoken to say that, you know, this is stripping way that right citizens and they, not the only ones that are concerned about this is also m, p, 's and senators, who all said that they all against this idea of vaccine mandate. and there of even been legal experts raising some particularly difficult questions. 5000000 unvaccinated citizens will become pariahs, even though there is no vaccination obligation, asking a person for their vaccination status to access certain activities as an anomaly. we are in the midst of a does tapia, this law is in essence, a concentrate of attacks on multiple freedoms and fundamental rights that protest had been dying down in frogs. so the covey 19 restrictions, but they were reinvigorated just a few weeks ago when president macklin gave

a highly controversial interview. in that he said, and these are his words, not mine that he wanted to be unvaccinated. and this and she said that they would known the citizens as they had refused a civic right to go and get the vaccine and not really his i'm good. so many people here, the bus, vox nancy that i was by the vaccine pass as a version of the german house vice id. i got that guy, it's a returned to 1944 to the worst dictatorship. it's a does toby, you have to move these vaccine passes don't work. they infringe on our freedoms. micron has created a sanitary dictatorship. all democrats, medical to new muscular joyce will buckle door. people aren't happy, we took to the streets for our freedom. every one is protesting in france today. sorry, i am against mandatory vaccination. this is a question of freedom to work. go outside for a coffee to a museum ward. i didn't know what corn less bitterly we must respect, fundamental freedoms, mandatory vaccination, and the vaccine pos,

trample on our freedom. it is very important to protest today and be here on the idea of this vaccine means now that with these new restrictions, people are going to be pushed into either going to get vaccinated or to. so to begin the heels and not the sense i got from protested, pay today that's, that's what they want to do. and they will continue to refuse to have that job well, fried and day is very much upon us here in the united kingdom as all included restrictions are to be listed and you think it would be a poor abrasion, but tens of thousands of people are capturing right here in central london, that's going to be angry at the government and how they've handled this entire conduct. they say today it's not the time to be food by the government. simple sense of freedom and actually take control is still very much. you're gonna have the disagree with that with the mandate. it doesn't, it doesn't make sense to me. i haven't been coming to process of just walking, but it's getting so close to me losing my job. i'm angry and i'm sad. we should

have that funded mental choice to decide what we put in my work is it'll take a lot the receptionist. it will be all right. so as we do the monday, they're really bad thing for many people here in the united kingdom. they're also incredibly angry at the fact that children are now even being a co us into getting jobs and arguably, or they say it's my body. my choice is not really, i should be the crux of all government policy not today. protest is in conjunction and connection with various approaches across europe. and ultimately what my role calling for is mass non compliant. it all comes here in the united kingdom as the default nation to someone campbell portion approach to how they deal with these private restrictions. and whether or not they should be listed just yet. in fact, the world's prime minister. he believes devoris johnson is only giving this to

distract. on and western. everything that is happening in westminster at the moment is seen entirely through the lens of how can we get something else to be reported. other than the dahlia. difficulties of the prime minister was created for himself, and that's what i believe lies behind birth announcements that we've seen this week . i've called that mark drake, referring to the park to get down to those who are up to 3, westminster in recent months. all those allocations of number 10, downing street coffee is as far as johnson is very much himself in the world. did they say it's time before it's going to go? however, many people here in the united kingdom proven relate to say, bar 5 is time to go because of course, many people say it's too soon. and this sort of these private, it's tricky to, to, to, to have this freedom day, especially as now and recent news really having of this, some very of the various being just texted by the u. k. health security agency

saying it's a barrier on the investigation. and as we know, the number of private taken was still reaching almost 100000 every single day. it's much more transmissible processed even a re infection risk as well. however, many protests here today, so the other com variance is nothing more than just the common flu and should flu really be a reason to disrupt freedom. russia appears to be approaching collective immunity gates, covered with almost 65 percent of its population. considered immune the highest number ever. that's though was the country and use records. new cases driven by the recent emerged on the grounds strain, 57000 cases about 25 in the past 24 hours nationwide. co responding saskia tyler has the self while all over the wild be highly contagious. omicron of ours is pushing countries to record highs when it comes to case numbers. russia not backing the trend here. daily. we are seeing the numbers climb the latest this saturday. is

that over 57000 people have tested positive, including me? that's why i'm at home. that is, in fact, the highest daily number we've seen since the pandemic began. it's actually 4 times higher than before. just 2 weeks ago. so things really developing quickly. in moscow, the situation is particularly difficult over $16000.00 another record for the capital. on top of that, on the kron has officially been found in 63 regions of russia, of 85, just so you've got an idea of how far this latest barrier has spread across russia's boston territory. not said that doesn't actually seem to be any panic when it comes to response from your forty's. hospitalizations are remaining steady. the medical system at this point isn't overburdened. and well, of course, walking from her room is being encouraged, matter events, all being postponed and generally being told to be extra vigilant. feel for teeth are being very sort of pragmatic,

logical in their approach. so we just recently quarantine for covert suffers has in fact been reduced from 14 days to 7 to match the incubation and recovery period from micron. also probably some reassurance for those in charge at this stage report about 48 percent of the population fully vaccinated, which is an amazing when you look at the european countries bought, the number has been slowly but surely increasing. day by day starting, the government will be hoping that a recent study will boost confidence in this home growing sputnik v vaccine. now, the findings of that joint russian italian studies showed that the antibodies produced by the splitting the vaccine last longer and a more resistant to oma kron, than those, for example, from fight the shots. in fact, the russian facts and seems to be over to, to is more powerful than the american job when it encounters omicron. so, yes, the numbers are creeping up and now the anti record here in russia,

but the only conte baron is less aggressive. the vaccination rates are increasing. i'm the domestic vaccine has at this stage really proved it's mattel, so sad to me that seems to be, i would call a cautious optimism as we write out his latest wave. a disturbing, an unprecedented setback for international space corporation as the u. s. refuses of either to a russian cosmonaut for i ss, training will get reaction on the russian space agency. chief, i'm a fellow cosmo along with all his stories off the brick. mm. ah ah ah

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult time to sit down and talk ah,

welcome back to the program. the international olympic committee is new rules for transgender athletes of sparked controversy. medical experts on small sieves are saying they promote unfair competition in women's vents. now the new regulations come into effect all for the beijing winter olympics next month, and would not require transgender athletes to lower that of star, throw levels to compete in women's events. these are national input committees, also calling on sports organizations to prevent gender based discrimination coding to one of the scientists behind the appeal to the i o. c. testosterone plays a crucial role in the performance of an athlete. i think what sport needs to do is have criteria on which they can base levels of markers like to start thrown to a certain level to allow performance. that is, i think, you know, in the views of those who wrote the framework, i be probably the only ones who believe that to start strand does not play

a role in performance. clearly, no one is saying that performance can be brought down to one hormone and clearly, you know, sporty performance is a multi factorial aspect. but clearly at the moment, we know that distortion does play a major role and has to be considered in the solution. clearly not as the only factor, but one of the primary factors, and probably the best one that we have at the moment when the rules about transgender athletes come off the several high profile cases. new zealander, weightlifter laurel hubbard, became the 1st transgender female se bought in a lympics last year. and recently, american college summer lea, a thomas dominated 1st sport with record breaking performances. this fight undergoing hormone suppression therapy. now according to the international input committee, the new rules will promote a fat and welcoming environment. what janice fits about as well as they could undermine the credibility of competitive sport. i think what he's trying to

do is focus on, on inclusion, being the primary fact to be considered. human rights is vitally important and none of us would, would dispute that. but in addition to the human rights component, we need to consider famous. they all false way, if you, par, archive, inclusion. then you won't have famous. 3 considerations, one has to have when integrated into and the athletes as inclusion as famous and safety. compet focusing only on inclusion is not the way forward. america has refused, without explanation to grant a russian cosmonaut. a visa, the decision has been criticized as shilling and unprecedented set back for international spice corporation and travel nikolai trib was shed. you will to spend 5 weeks at masses space center in texas to familiarize himself with the american segment of the international space station. without the exercises he will be able

to fly to the i s s forcing a complete change in his training. the head of the russian space agency points out washington's unexpected move puts the very work of the i s s at risk. it never occurred to us to refuse a visa to any us astronaut who was heading to star city to prepare for a space flight. what the us authorities have done with our cosmic ups entry visa is a dangerous precedent for cooperation on the international space station. i want to stay with us, i would say in moscow trying to maintain a positive tone, saying they do their best to see visas and appreciate honest escort ration thought they refused to provide a reason for the rejection and experience russian. cosmo old andre. but i think i told you that with this move international, i assess crews can no longer function as a team at the beautiful this is certainly a wrong decision on the part of our foreign colleagues. this will lead to training, shed your disruption. if an esther does not undergo training on our partner facility, many questions arise about how to carry out the next expedition,

or how it will be possible to act in an emergency situation, successfully international crew, the single team on board the station motion of foreign crew members cannot train all the procedures separately. elementary surrounding the death of sex offender and finance jeffrey abstain, has taken a new turn. c, c. u. s. federal documents showing the report of his 1st suicide attempt was heavily redacted. with his own account of the incident and tony blanked out more details, his daddy armstrong, the life and death of jeffrey epstein, billionaire and prolific peter file is a subject mired in mystery and manipulation. the official account of his apparent suicide while held in a notorious new york lock up on charges of child sex trafficking, will seemingly be forever murky with regard to his adjustment to a correctional setting, mister epstein received one incident report: one federal bureau present custody for self mutilation on july the 23rd,

2019. as of august, the 15th 2019, the incident report has been expunged, though. it is in clear why it has been expunged, and whether mr. epstein knew this. so what exactly happened on july 23rd? a patchy paper trail provides more questions than answers. for instance, a doctor's report, officially logged and attempted suicide by asphyxiation, just hours after epstein was found semi conscious on his cell floor. however, epstein version of events is completely redacted from any records. what's more, the report was amended exactly one week later to include the cause of the but suicide as self mutilation. a direct contradiction of the initial report which explicitly states no instances of self harm were found. epstein for his troubles was charged with violating prison rules and placed on suicide watch. if only for one day. at the was pending a code 228, tattooing or self mutilation. and i spoke with who indicates that most likely he

will be found competent because he is not mentally ill pending a disciplinary process which didn't call a single witness. not even epstein cellmate, the disgrace financier was banged up in solitary confinement and subjected to several psychological assessments. the general consensus was one of a picture of optimism who denied any suicidal thoughts, a tool that is in stark contrast to later prism reports painting epstein as a solemn prisoner with a poor attitude intent on taking his own life confused well, you'd be forgiven. even the judge overseeing epstein's case demanded answers. one open question among others is whether the investigations reference in your letter will include the incident at the metropolitan correctional center involving mr. epstein on or about july, the 23rd, 2019 to my knowledge. it has never been definitely explained what the federal

bureau of prisons concluded about the incident. an internal report concluded that the self mutilation charge was warranted book at theme died before an executive decision could be made. so in the absence of any inquiry into july 23rd aside from medical expertise detailing epstein's high spirits. the question to the american justice system. is this, why was the report dotted and will concrete answers that have as yet proved elusive ever be on cove? it people are going to need answers. i think there are things that a lot of the public wants answers to. but because from the very beginning, the epstein the death and some of the questions, the loop holes. you know, what happened with the guard? what happened with the cameras? you know, so much of this cover up so much of this, it's such an obvious spinning such an obvious narrative here. the more that we're going to keep trying to figure out, figure it out on our own. and that's just going to fuel more and more, you know,

ideas about what happened and fuel distress, more distress in our u. s. civilian, legal or justice institutions, none of that trust is ever going to be repaired without any answers. those are the headlines for their sour join us again in 30 minutes for the very latest in the meantime, staves shooting for boom, boss. next, if you want to, you k, it's going on the ground. ah, is the us to launch enough to satisfy the ambitions of jeff bezos? you know, it's got its tentacles in so many aspects of the economy. there's nothing that amazon isn't trying to get into to step by step. the amazon end bye extended its grip on the well to walks like a dog in quacks like a dog hits a dog. ah, so amazon looks like monopoly trades like a monopoly makes money like monopoly behaves like monopoly. amazon essentially controls the market place. it's not really a market as a private arena,

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