tractors, ah, a a month to the west insisting that russia reset to invade to craig tonight, nato secretary general make a stunning newton admitting the military block actually has no confidence whatsoever that any such aggression will happen at all. used to be a policeman, if it depends on the russian federation, then there will be no war. we don't want any wars, but we will also not allow our interest to be rudely trampled on and ignored. i made a growing standard for the west of ukraine. russia talked about stresses. moscow does not want conflict, but insisted security must be insured. elsewhere. health officer, the u. k. government, tens of thousands faced the sac. if they don't get the coven job by next week to

get the latest for one of the doctors behind the lawsuit with hello, they will welcome to our international will these at midnight with me, kevin, how it 1st and tonight, nato secrete general's admitted that the military block actually has no confidence that moscow will invade you, craig, that statement coming despite months of the west, pushing violent anti russian rhetoric, claiming that aggression by the kremlin was imminent installed. but made the starting, you turn at mid atlantic council event earlier. and our time, ah, as long as are shut, docile to once again decide to use military force. you know, there's an empty. while there's all certainty about the uh, the russian plans on the maybe that have not made any final decision. well, it means we're seeing more and more of a public message shifting regarding what was previously referred to as

a russian invasion of ukraine being immediate at just after yen stalsen burg. we've had vladimir zalinski, the ukrainian president and speaking, saying that he also doesn't particularly see an immediate risk of a russian invasion. and if you take the comments from ads and wednesday from st oldenburg and put them alongside briefings that have been given to the media off the record in brussels, from nato h q that have suggested that there's really a want to get a de escalation from the u. s. side that there wasn't really a unanimity amongst nato members that the, the russian troops in the west of russia represented a potential invasion for such, all really, but that the united states as desperate for a d escalation over this issue. because they really want to switch focus over towards china. this is quite a significant switch of pack though, because if you look at the way this message was put across in the last 2 months,

well, was put across very differently. u. s. intelligence officials say russia could invade ukraine as soon as january, and as because of russian troops that are massed on ukraine's borders are now to see to russia could at any point, want an attack in ukraine. russia is the aggressor here. we will not accept the campaign, russia is waging to subvert its democratic neighbors against oldenburg. also spoken awful. lot about the beefing up of nato forces in the east of the alliance. either committing troops towards deployment in the east or troops been ready to deploy to the east. now also on friday was confirmed by the slovakian foreign. yes sir, that his country is in discussion with ne, so for the stationing of troops in slovakia, slovakia does border ukraine, but what was confirmed by yen salton berg on friday also is that there's no plans to send nato troops into ukraine. it's correct that we are not planning to deploy, nate to combat troops to ukraine, and nevada,

great yen salt and berg was also at pains to say that nato was very open to having more talks with russia, particularly when it came to arms control. but this idea of having more talks came at the same time as reports are coming out, that there are plans for a huge sanctions being planned by nato countries, driven by the united states and the united kingdom. the sanctions would target russia's energy and banking sectors. they would kick in, of course, if there was any invasion by russia of ukraine or your correspondence, thus for tomatoes of germany. the last party says the nato cheese remarks may reflect a growing realization that a war on russia's border can be one called the 1st step. it's a good step though to stop this propaganda which has been proceeded for last. let's see, 2 or 3 months. no, maybe we need to states, maybe the u. s. and the 2 states, and inside that,

so it's not useful to escalate. this is conflict because they cannot room an issue objectively. it was clear that rush, ok, i don't have any interests for crane calls. you claim this exactly on the russian border and it was exactly what steps florida to escalate. that situation will be stupid. so maybe no idea what u. s. government has changed. the name has changed that they see a better way to proceed elsewhere. more care says rob to, than the ones for the type of relationship between the us, mainstream media and key ever tough to say and, and deleted. then return an article revealing crane's president told joe biden the america was over playing the it wouldn't russian invasion cut says kit taylor's got the latest on it. hello the last few days, ukraine crisis have thrown out a whole array of contradicting statements from nature. mendecy disagreeing, and whether to keep troops me of russia to e. you said,

disagreeing on whether to send weapons to keep the latest mixed message and quite a mysterious one comes from 2 key players up to washington and kia, not out they the u. s. i'm ukranian president, had a phone conversation, and the media reported the biden was warning the wilma brink of world war 3 peaches waiting for the ground to freeze over in february, and then he'll give the signal for an invasion. so let's keep his part was trying to calm his us counterpart down by stating that it's all still big us. it seems that the 2 leaders was very much at all a call between us president joe biden and ukrainian president volume or zelinski on thursday. did not go well, a senior ukrainian official told cnn amid disagreements over the risk levels of a russian attack. so lensky urge to the american counterpart to come down the messaging warning of economic impact of panic. according to the official, he also said ukrainian intelligence sees the threat differently. so quickly thought

later that on top of all the other disagreements within the e. u. a nato. now, even washington and kia, who off quite literally brothers in arms on to on the same page. and something that happened less than an hour and a half off to the sienna, an article broke. it just disappeared. there was no trace any more bite and whipping up his theory about him in a wall and the landscape telling him to come down on its pace. what a pit? well, a few of tweets from cnn people on farther afield about how the white house dispute, how the call wasn't a success. in fact, it was all just one big lie. whitehouse on biden's lensky call. anonymous sources are leaking falsehoods. president biden said that there is a distinct possibility that the russians could invade ukraine in you wary reports of anything more different than that are completely false on hot on these heels. he also came out claiming that the original article was riddled with mistakes. dear

colleagues, some reports regarding the content of the talks between presidents villa dimmer zalinski and joe biden have appeared on social media. citing the alleged senior ukrainian official. these messages are completely false. so to put it simply, we had an article, citing a senior ukrainian official. now the articles disappeared in a whole army, both in the ukraine and state side out, doing damage control. what happened behind the scenes? it's still a mystery font, understandably that all of the questions and what suspicions, why such a shot? 180 who gave the order for the story to be taken down. and so probably not a surprise. biden's critics are calling the transparency. what they want is a transcript of the phone call. will someone ask press secretary if the white house will release the transcript? when will you release the transcript? what exactly was said in the hour and 20 minute chat between bites and until as he is still unclear,

what did dynamic between them to lead to says it's still unclear. is it indeed true that zelinski was the one telling bite into tongue down the hysteria? there are a lot of questions that will say seems to be the sense that at best this was poor on verify john anderson. and it was, if we're being re cynical, that was something in that article that someone really didn't want to come out. well, just hours before the nato chief spoke, rushes for a minute to spell that included the country does not want war. second level of reiterated moscow's position again on escalating tensions with the west. however, he also noted moscow couldn't simply just stand by watching its interest being ignored. either la ro, shed his thoughts during a 90 minute interview to russian journalists. among them was saw t's editor in chief margaret to some money on his will. mister lovegrove had to say, yes, this is alicia authorities configured c. lately. if it depends on the russian federation, then there will be no war. we don't want any wars,

but we're also not allow our interest to be brutally trampled on and ignored. the foreign minister was asked many questions about the tensions about what russia is going to do about them and where ultimately this is all going to lead. when there's going to be a boy, he himself was much more diplomatic with regards to the america documents, the county proposals to russian security proposals that arrived in moscow just 2 days ago that the united states finally sent and writing, which is something that, marcia now demands given how in the past that feels cheated by verbal guarantees that it was given. so now it insists on, on documents, on paper in rights and guarantees. and what much a sort of guarantees that ultimately, if the gist of it is that native missiles and troops on stationed in the near future on russia's borders, or any closer to russia's borders than they are now. and that is something that, according to many officials, that wasn't included in these documents, he himself,

the farmers, the labyrinth was much more diplomatic. he said that the, they're analyzing them. and that they've received the documents from both the united states and nato at he was much less diplomatic about what he had received from nato, however, or to none of fornia. in contrast to what we've received from nato, the american response is almost like a model of diplomatic decency. the response from nato is so ideological, it breeze so much with the exclusivity of the north atlantic lines that i was a little ashamed of those who wrote these texts. previously, we had heard from other officials that the documents, the counter proposal sent by the united states. i didn't address a single one of russia's concerns that they made no promises that they threw expand further east, or does it ultimately that those and no guarantees that those missiles, they to miss all american massage wouldn't be stationed ever closer to russia.

nevertheless, he says there is some optimism varies, the negotiation, there are talks that are ongoing and perhaps a solution might be reached a solution which satisfies both the united states and russia. nevertheless, we must account. he says, for relations relations, which for years i have a deteriorated, which i now at a level that has catastrophic and which were, which says a lab, rob says a much you to the fault for which is much in united states court. what with various demands that they have made over the years with regards to russia, you slew on you if they insist that they will not change their position, we will not change opposition either. it's just that their position is based on false arguments on a direct turning over the facts and opposition is based on what everyone signed up under. and here i don't see any room for compromise. otherwise, what is they to agree on? if they frankly sabotage and misrepresent the old decisions, this will be

a key test for us and russia with regards to what is happening in ukraine. the russian foreign minister also said that the united states and that nasal are pushing ukraine towards an escalation. they're pushing them with a vast amount of arms. we've heard the united states posting about 283 tons of the lethal farms and other equipment that they have delivered to you credit in the last few months. and this is, this came, was as a boast, the russian say that ultimately the united states is using, using ukraine in order to achieve its own goals, which are to contain rush and ultimately focus on china. you for answer your minute, even us france, germany and the european union called russia, conflicts country. what can be negotiated then when they say you must comply with the minsk agreements? we asked them what exactly of these points should russia fulfill?

nobody answers the key of realised that berlin in paris would not force it to comply with uminski agreements. so they understand that now they can do everything by its zalinski and his regime a used 1st of all by the americans in order to escalate tensions. their main goal is not the feature of ukraine, but to heighten tensions around russia and then move on to china. ultimately, the russians say that the irony side, the only power on earth that can force the ukrainian government to follow through with uminski agreements, a comprehensive peace plan to end the civil war. and you credit that the only power that can force you credit to abide by them is the united states. and it isn't interested in seeing the minsk agreements fulfilled because that would lead to a d escalation. that there wouldn't be a need to keep pumping weapons into your credit, and there wouldn't be a need to escalate tensions with russia. and this is something we ukrainians are beginning to understand formulas to lab. rob says that they are being used,

as sometimes said, sometimes regardless of despite what they want and the ukraine has blame the united states and the media for escalating the situation. there have been ukrainian officials that have said there is no evidence that the russians are preparing for an invasion and that the only other sides of all we've seen have been on television and from the mouths of various politicians. there is also an elaborate said, the fear that the, the situation could be it could go out spiral out of control because of elements that the key of that ukraine doesn't control and that is various extremist and volunteer. battalions 5 is on to the t station near the conflict lines, who could on the orders of someone else carry out a provocation, but today escalate things even further. so senior correspondent, bro galaxy of the hey, thanks for checking in. as out his world news continues at midnight with me, kevin, out from moscow,

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bodily autonomy, there is a question over whether they remain free. it is causing an unacceptable level of stress and uncertainty for them. and for the health service and the public. an a chest cove, it guidance is that it's employees must have had their 1st vaccine dose by the 3rd of february, unvaccinated to star face the sac if they can't be re deployed to a position that doesn't require interaction. face to face with patients, a spokesperson for the government's department of health and social care stands by the ruling. despite pandemic restrictions not being scrapped in almost all other walks of life in the u. k. and i chess medics more. the vaccine mandate is the last straw for them, and a pandemic marked by chronic on to funding. and then the staffing of the service with health chiefs noting that the firings will further her already depleted workforce the traffic malik, who signed the declaration opposing mandatory vaccinations, told me earlier, forcing jobs could be a violation of medical ethics. the concept of mandatory vaccination is really knocking down the cornerstone of medical antics that we've enjoyed for century

bodily tanami. freedom of choice, a tremendous m. s. m stress. i'm just getting inundated messages from health care workers from the whole spectrum of doctors, nurses, audiologist, feeling for their livelihoods and their careers because they're being made to, you know, forced to have a job or choose, you know, being sacked as is, frankly ridiculous. i feel the wind is behind or sales, and i think, you know, we're going to turn this around. i think the public can see through the nonsense ah, more than a to lawmakers, a calling on joe biden to write off student loan debt says so promised during the presidential election campaign. but it seems binds in no hurry to carry out his promise. despite students who believed his pledge waiting for months under the additional strain of the pandemic, we urge you to direct the department of education to publicly released the memo outlining your legal authority to broadly cancel student loan debt and immediately cancel up to $50000.00 of student loan debt per borrower is coming to the u. s.

student debt. toll hits astonishing amounts. now tell pay $1.00 trillion dollars, and the burden is growing at an alarming rate to 6 times faster than the national economy. it's estimated more than 43000000 people still have unpaid federal student loan debt. it's a heck of a worry. a white house spokesperson said biden's continuing to look into the issue . last year, the president asked the u. s. education and justice department to prepare memos on his legal authority to cancel student debt. one person who still hasn't paid off his student loans, told us the government. scott, it's priorities wrong. it's a matter of priority is a matter of where this government puts its priorities and who they put 1st, who they put 1st students and young people and even people who are well into their forties and fifties that are still paying their student loans back. do they put the middle and working classes, the popular sectors of the population 1st or do they put the huge financial

institutions or the military industrial complex? first, obviously they have no problems. spending money. they have no problem printing trillions of dollars to prop up big banks. they have no problem doing bank bailouts . they have no problem allowing, you know, speculation on international markets. they have no problem putting these people 1st . essentially, the, all those arcs, if you will, the united states in the world, but when it comes to helping the people, we're lucky if we get a $2000.00 check, which is a drop in the bucket for the united states budget would be the right decision. to cancel student loans because so many people are hurting. there's a 1000000 and one different things that the government could be doing to help the people of this country. at the same time, we see record breaking inflation. we see also record breaking profit by corporations to add a 3 corporation today are doing better economically than they were before the pandemic. and that's at the same time at that people are not nowhere near better

off than they were before the pandemic. and the sang a lot because they weren't doing very well before the pandemic. to begin with the story, the american federation of teachers has teamed up with self styled online misinformation tool, news, god, to warn tens of millions of children against sites like t. yeah. the private filtering service green lights main street. me does it have to retract many major stories in the past. kellum open reports. now there is plenty of fake news these days, flooding the internet. so why not help american school? kids learn how to sift through it, determine who they can trust and who they can think for themselves. that sounds pretty reasonable. the american federation of teachers is now stepping up to the plate. the american federation of teachers has launched a national partnership with a leading anti misinformation tool, news guard to protect, and champion legitimate journalism. in fact, based reporting and to help educators and their students navigate a see of online dis information. but it's not just about teaching kids to think

critically. the future of the free world is at stake. news guard will save our democracy. young minds must be protected. it is a beacon of clarity to expose the dark depths of the internet and uplift. those outlets committed to truth and honesty rather than falsehoods and fabrications. now with the american federation of teachers, arranging for all of its member educators to have free access to news guard at a time. when misinformation is such a growing threat to public health in our democracy, millions more of america's students will also be news guarding it. louis guard makes a special list of outlets it considers to be trustworthy and on trustworthy. and then it puts a special label in your web browser. now if news garden proves you get a green label, but of news guard disapproves, you get a red label. so you guessed it, r t and sputnik get a red label. switch off immediately. don't let those russians get inside your head

and encourage you to question are fearless american leaders. but what outlets or say, well there's buzzfeed, the guardian, the new york times the washington post and don't forget the official u. s. government outlet called voice of america. now, do you remember when the washington post told us that russia had hacked the power grids? that wasn't true. do you remember when buzz feed ran with the story about trump and the steel dossier? and that turned out to be from a source that was pretty incredible that he remember when almost all the mainstream media outlets told us that iraq had weapons of mass destruction and we just had to invade deer. remember all the lies we were told in the lead up to the nato intervention in libya. but let's not be too hard on news guard. after all, they themselves admit these labels are not a measure of factual accuracy. they only label websites that they determined to have a hidden agenda are green red radio signal if a web site is trying to get it right. or instead has

a hidden agenda. war knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda getting readers more context about their news online. so it's not about what's really true and what's not true. it's about if you're telling the truth with good intentions or whether or not you're telling the truth in a way that might stir up some trouble. now one of the founders is gordon cravens, say, former columnist for the wall street journal. his reporting on the and assaye and edward snowden has been widely criticized, and it appears he was trying to spin things as not so bad on the part of the american government. and then there is richard stengel. he worked at the state department as public affairs chief under barack obama. now he must be totally opposed to any dis information or distortions in media. right. well, job of the state diploma was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist. i'm not against propaganda. every country does it and they have to do it to their own population. and i don't necessarily think it's that's awful. some conservatives in america feel threatened by the teachers unions embracing news guard. the left is

found a dangerous and equally disingenuous. new way to indoctrinate our children without their parents knowing this is as bad as c r t. in fact is was unlike c r t, the left is not going to give it a name this time. this is purposely designed to go under the radar of public scrutiny in america. 6 we're always told about those evil totalitarian countries where the government brainwash has children and tells them not to question authority. and here in america were said to be great because we teach our children to have free and open minds and think for themselves. and now we have news guard to make sure that they're free and open lines are never exposed to anything that might tempt them to question more. caleb martin r t new york. talking to quest you, the more western liberal democrats now live under a full sense of freedom where the us practically in civil war. what do you think about that statement? well, that's what leading philosopher level is easy because warmed in his new book,

heaven and disorder. we got the loaded on why so i think what day really east india isaac's are western liberal democracy themselves. i'm not blaming one site or the opposite of here, the debbie level, off in cuba society, the outrage state policy. this is the spectrum, but the bishop district who, you know, very strange trace can be done slate into political engagement. the in the west cancer is much more than the central leaky the send off. we are james, why we are not even aware of how we are and because

we experience, we do what you want, but there are different, especially digital media. it's not just walk you want to doing what you are doing piece. thank you, stuck somewhere to that new pharmacy or did you consider or manipulate your desire? your says you disagree food by out. she promote that. some will for talking about all of the ecology and so on. but it's like possible that she will lose their elections and then united states cannot react. so this is the be bad now equally safe to war. the country. is that true that you cannot cherry even?

that isn't the dialogue, nbc sh daddy beg, i'll leave you that thought i saw him. he's will these at midnight from moscow with me, kevin, i mean, thanks is ever from watching. they're very good morning for me in the team with is the earth still large 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 empire has extended its grip on the world that walks like a duck and quacks like a dog gets it. 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, it's a private arena,

a wild where a single company controls the distribution of all day. the products and the infrastructure of our economy. is this the world according to amazon? 100 mic. no, certainly no borders on this line to nationalities. as emerge. we don't have with the, we don't have a vaccine. the whole world needs to take action and be ready. people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better, we should be doing 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.