is a real possibility of privacy violation, and that's something most of us wouldn't want to wells transparent, but we must live with permanent surveillance with the russian foreign ministry vows through italy, 8 against german media outlets in russia. dr. germany media regulators lopsided broadcast on ortiz history channel. g d. a head on the program, the u. s. nato response to russia's proposed security guarantees. is li, done, published by a spanish newspaper. the document rejects russia's key them, including keeping the neighboring brain out with on the you could soon pump the green label on galsen nuclear power paving the way for subsidies and

tax cuts says member states class over the switch to renewables, mit stuff. and then with just a few moments into our brand new day here in moscow, thursday, february, the 3rd welcome to the news hour on arte. russia has pledged to take action against german media outlets operating in the country. the announcement from the foreign ministry came just hours after our sister channel r t. d was blocked by germany's media regulator. the verdict of the german media regulator is an unambiguous signal that russian concerns have been defiantly ignored. this step deprives us of any choice but to start implementing retaliatory measures against german media accredited in russia. as well as internet intermediaries who have arbitrarily and unreasonably deleted the channels accounts from their platform. we repeatedly pointed out to germany,

the unacceptability of exerting politically motivated pressure on the russian media outlet and the inevitability of counter measures. if berlin refused to seek a constructive solution to the problem, it had created with r t d earlier r t accused. the german regulator of suppressing free speech after r t d was hit with a full bomb that full bon includes online news as well. now the networks production arm is taking the regulator to court after it is wrongly named as the channels broadcaster ortiz, deputy editor in chief on belk. and i gave my colleague maurice to share a breakdown of the dispute via a license that was obtained with absolutely all courting european rules and regulations, according to the european convention on transferred to your television. and we are free to broadcast via that license in 30 plus territory across europe. they are saying that our tv productions, which is an entirely independent production company,

is actually the tv channel of that broadcast from germany. and there's generally absolutely no broadcasting happening from berlin at all or to d e. the tv channel is oh, broadcasting right here for moscow in, in fact, there studios are essentially next door to where we're sitting here. and we were here all launching the channel mid december. yet nevertheless, the regulator is asking the production company to start broadcasting, which they are not even doing. and to do it not just on television, but to do it on the all the online platforms, apps, etc, etc. which again, the production has absolutely no control over all of this is centered right here in moscow. and the tv broadcasting as well is done from here with the you think they were afraid of something that we do here at our team? i mean, it definitely seems that there is quite a lot of apprehension about a different voice, like r t s, or it's being present there, you know,

and they're under fire, not just under it from authorities. in, in germany, the youtube channel was taken down within hours of the, of the beginning of the broadcast. that is obviously an american company. and then indeed there was pressure being put on an indicator independence satellite operator . util sat to take us to, to stop broadcasting our feed as well. so it really is a multi pronged attack when one of the comments that you've made regarding this, you say, quote, we will not be removing our feeds or channels voluntarily and encourage all platforms not to be bullied by the media watchdogs, illegitimate minds that does it seem like bullying. yeah, absolutely. and we've seen those done not just with regards to the broadcasting, but various productions have had all of their various partners, bullied, including banking, banking, relationships, other operational relationships for or for the last number of years. and we believe

that, you know, the production position is entirely not just legal and in accordance with all the rules and regulations, but is beyond substantiated and that we're hoping that the courts are going to see that and side with them. likewise, our tv channels position is entirely legitimate within germany and other european markets, and we will be defending that position. let me just bring you what the russian foreign ministry air, their point to spooks person. maria is a hard accused germany of breaching its legal obligations, leaving moscow with no choice but to retaliate. just don't let berlin now say that they weren't offered a way of staying within the international legal framework. we offer that repeatedly and at various levels. we've pointed out solutions to problems that were not created by us. but if germany has steamrolled through its obligations in protecting

freedom of speech, then we have no reason to be shy about retaliating. and if all this is sounding familiar, thus may be because the r t c d saga has been going on for months are really since launched. they are tease nicky are in take a look back now at the turbulent events surrounding the channel. the all t d e launch date was an exciting day, but within hours it wasn't just reporting the news. it was the news with the channels live stream deleted from youtube, just the sure time off it went on and then just days later was a finding increasing interference. and the channel signal of that was taken off. one of its 2 softer lines off the juvenile authorities claimed it didn't have the license needed to operate in the country. but the thing is, it doesn't need one. having obtained its broadcasting license in serbia, which just like germany is a signatory to the european convention of trans frontier television. the member

states of the council of europe and the other states party to the european cultural convention, or reaffirming their commitment to the principles of the free flow of information and ideas in the independence of broadcasters which constitute an indispensable basis for their broadcasting policy. most of which i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics they're using say r t d cons operate, they're infringing on freedom of speech and that's very bad. but the european regulator is clearly under a different impression. the license must be issued in germany, and the application must also be filed here. first of all, this is a real irritant, and we will take care of it. so what's the reaction from the german government? what it seems they've decided to stay out of the route and now know that you don't have to dig tufa to find the kind of tone being set by some in the ruling coalition . the media authority and youtube rightly pulled the plug on the pirate station of the enemies of democracy and lateral thinkers. this repeated attempt to circumvent

european and national laws, underscores the danger of this self proclaimed t. v broadcast. it requires action at all levels. so could this be the end of the road for the short live channel? well, archie, d, e is already preparing to fight on well, let's delve into some of those points are correspond to was making with martin doles or martin's a lawyer. so she ologist than member of germany's the left party. good to see you. germany's foreign minister angelina burbock said during her recent visit to moscow that the german government had nothing to do with the media regulators, actions against r t d. do you find that plausible? i think it's, i know if you look at the o procedure in the list the way we can see that of course, it fits to the quality of the german government. and to my mind, freedom of credit, freedom of expression. and that's where the diversity of press agency

and chris relieved it, and t v stations cling to a good and democrat tick state. and so that to now to the routing, he tries to block russia today, the german sector, that is not a good sign. it's not a good sign because it's done attempt or censorship. and if the government has nothing to do with it, we believe that in the moment i think wants to relieve that, can believe that, but it's cling to the politics of the government. maybe it's not directly influence, so it's not a direct direct idea of the government, but it follows the ideas of the government. i think that's a problem r t d,

according to staff, legal staff working across the channel made all the necessary arrangements. they say that comes with launching and international news channel uncovered all its basis. only for this to now happen. how much smart do you think the regulators issue in germany will stand up legally when it's challenge? i don't know. i hope that the courts are independent and i could research on that topic. i can see that all the rules and regulations are filled and there should be no reason that a call which is arc for judgment, should allow our tv to, to broadcast. so i hope that the courts will be independent of the political situation on and off the propaganda, which is the moment by some actors in the german politic and in the media. the

russian foreign ministry phase. it's going to retaliate against german media outlets. here in russia, no one of course wants to see journalists caught in the crossfire, but moscow point side. it's been left with no choice. yes, i think so. it's always a matter of, in germany we have the seeing. the way you show into far as the echo will be. so if you long time sheldon the forest very frankly of the forest who echo unfriendly. so i don't say active human act as far as the saying is true. so if you want to have stability and if you want to have relationships on the basis of respect and especially freedom of press and freedom of expression is the one basic human right . it's in the constitution, it's an international regulations, and we are not in times of war now and i don't like to be reminded on

welcome to show or anything. if i switch on some some tv stations, some german t v stations. and i want to, i have a diversity of correct in and of t v stations and of chris organ, the like newspapers and magazines. and the more there is a virus and diversity, the richer the countries. and the more the people can educate themselves and build that opinion. and if you stop and aggress station like russia today, who is trying to and doing like bringing different opinions into public with the casting and stuff that just because some of the pinions might, might not be your own. that is some kind of a way

which lead to in the end. and i don't like that would be an escalation of no mixed . russia stops another german broadcaster all use paper and then vice rosa. this is not the way we should live together and friendship, and we should accept and respect other opinions who can do that. it's to blame on escalating the situation. very succinctly puts on. i think a lot of people would agree with those sentiments. martin, thanks for your time today. martin doors, her lawyer sociologist and member of germany's the left party live on our team. not moving on the full text of the confidential us nato responds to russia's security concerns has been leaked. the purported document was published by spanish newspaper l. payees, now nearly or my colleagues knew harvey and saskia taylor discuss the contents over

the past few weeks. we've seen at the highest diplomatic levels, riley's of accusations of verbal sparring and that's just what's been happening and public's. we can only imagine what's going on behind closed doors. but now a fresh document leak has offered us a glimpse into what is indeed happening behind those doors. and it's really showed that moscow in washington, alongside nato, a very, very far from reaching any kind of consensus with regards to ukraine, issue, uninsured. well beyond move, not that does seem to be almost a blind unwillingness from the military alliance to recognize any of russia security concerns. now, the spanish language paper open hasn't managed to get it comes on the nato and us response to russia. security proposals now will remember those proposals they were sent back in december. they fin triggered a flurry of diplomatic talks and calls and essentially they requested legal guarantees, restricting for the nato expansion, specifically with regards to ukraine. the document that we're seeing now though,

reveals a very blunt response from washington and brussels. and it's in all states should respect the right of other states to choose or change security arrangements and to decide their own future and foreign policy free from outside interference. in this slide, we reaffirm our commitment to nato's open door policy under article 10 of the washington treaty. we have of course, requested comment from both nato and the us state department. but if we take just this document, it seems that it is an open shot case. them, they will not compromise, that is despite flat and person warning that this is a very reckless disregard of russia's concerns. it's not well for help, because do people realize that this could potentially set all nations involved down a very dangerous path of no return associates? just because when you much listen carefully to what i say in ukraine's own doctrine, the documents it is written that they plan to return crimea,

including by military means that it's not what they say publicly. imagine for yourself that ukraine and nate members will begin military operations in crimea. what do we do? go to war with the nato block? has anyone thought about that? so the situation is it seems to me both sides refusing to budge and let him have pigeon set it there in a slightly different context. but what do we do? what's versus reaction? been to this moscow has already sent follow up questions to this document. so clearly that there is a desire for continued a dialogue, but most dispositional this has been consistent from the beginning. it recognizes, of course, that every single country has the right to determine its own policy and assure its own security thought is not what's being disputed. here the issue is when countries choices have ramifications beyond its borders and actually post a very real physical threat to someone else. and let's just be clear. a potential natal launchpad located in ukraine is just a couple of minutes miss all away from, from russia. so it's essentially, i think,

this fear that really underlies russia's concerns, even though you know, shows abortion that ignoring or concerns the u. s. and need to refer to the rights of states to freely choose how to insure the security. but it's not just about giving someone this right. after all, this is only one parts of the well known formula for the indivisibility of security . the 2nd integral part says that one should not allow the strengthening of any one security at the expense of the security of other states. so the wash and liters asking why must we sacrifice our security that someone else can feel safe? not said it would be remiss if i didn't point out that the document has some encouraging moments. i'm talking about re establish communication long military channels, reinstating the nato office here and moscow discussing arms control. so reducing missile deployment to ukraine. but if we get to the bottom of it, that's the plan. according to this document,

the west responds to an almost existential concern of russia. as we hear you, what we don't care enough to do anything. and this is in fact case closed. we're not gonna discuss it further, but here's a list of much smaller things that we feel that we can give you to project an image that we are listening and being co operative but do nothing in any way to address your fun demand concerns. and with that kind of inflexible rhetoric combined, of course, with this ongoing footage of millions of dollars worth of weapons being sent to kiev. it's very difficult even with the best of intentions to see where to move from now. kevin and earlier discussed the story with daniel mc gannons, the executive director of the ron poll institute for peace and prosperity. he thinks the biden administration's hyping up the ukraine crisis to boost its own ratings. we have a president in the u. s. is deeply, deeply unpopular. he's just but to do something to rally americans behind him. and this is viewed by the u. s. foreign policy establishment as a sort of a risk free way of boosting his numbers,

which is the rest of us who are saying believes it's a very dangerous game to play who to know. so said officially, ukrainian government documents show they want to use military force to seize crimea, while ukraine's been asking for so much military assistance from the west who go for it. you know, i mean, that's not going to happen. ukraine is not going to take crimea back, you know, we, the u. s. government love to talk about self determination. there was a vote in crimea. they voted to rejoin a russia that had it had been part of, for hundreds of years. russian troops were already there. the americans love to say that russia invaded crimea. russia was already there. it had a lease up until i know the end of next century. so no, this is a good argument to not let him in. but you know, the u. s. is not interested in a good arguments, the u. s. is interested in the political when it by the administration, i should say, ah, the head of c n. n has resigned for lying about when and i 1st started with a colleague,

jeff sucker spent 9 years at the news network of the time of pretty much continually falling ratings. here's our to kill him up and with more in the story, jeff zocker surprised his employees with an e mail this morning announcing that he had been having an affair, consensual affair with an employee, one of his colleagues, and he did not disclose it under cnn's policies. what started out as a friendship evolved into a romantic relationship and because of that, he is stepping down from cnn. now many looked at this e mail and we're a bit surprised because it seems like many wonder if the writings and the decreasing ratings over the past 9 years has more to do with it than simply this, this matter of reporting or disclosing a romantic relationship. and at this point, cnn has stepped up and named the successors of jeff zocker, that he will be replaced by a triumvirate of sorts. michael bass,

the current vice president of programming amy at, tell us the current vice president of talent and content and can jot the executive vice president of cnn will. all 3 of them together be stepping up to replace jeff soccer and take on his roles at the primary news network in the united states. cnn . back in december, john griffin, a producer at cnn, was arrested by the f. b. i on rather serious charges. he was taken to the federal prison where he waits trial. ah, and john griffin was charged with setting up a facility to run interstate commerce for the purpose of learning in young, under age girls and their parents and training these under age girls to be sexually submissive. i mean quite a serious allegation and he's awaiting trial. now this is not a low level employee, john griffin, this is a high ranking producer. this is someone who rubbed shoulders with chris cuomo and you'll recall that chris cuomo also stepped down because it was proven that he was

colluding with his brother andrew cuomo when he was facing scandals and eventually step down as governor of new york. now there's been another recent dust, kate rosenfeld. cnn commentator kat rosenfeld. she compared jo grogan's audience, so the podcast or joe rogan, who's been at the center of some controversy recently. she compared his audience to people that are overweight and made some other comments that many did not appreciate about the audience of joe rogan. here's what she said. here's people who you know. they like something that we consider ourselves more enlightened. don't think it's good for them. you know, we think that there internalizing this misinformation that they're using it to make bad decisions. now, many found these remarks to be somewhat ironic because the listenership and viewership of jo rogan's podcast is roughly 11000000 people regularly, 11000000 people. listen to what joe rogan has to say. now it's important to note that the viewership of cnn has been significantly decreasing. last year. in the 1st

week of january, viewership of cnn was at 2700000. but now in the 1st week of this year, it was only $548000.00 and many have looked on at this. and they've noticed that trust for mainstream media in the united states is certainly declining according to polls. and now i guess we see that jeff zocker, after 9 years the head of cnn is stepping down. not good times for cnn, and for american mainstream media. if cnn was a patient and a hospital, the doctor would call a co, the doctor would look at his watch or say, call that, that's it. they put the sheet over the patient. cnn is gone. many people expect expect there to be fairness. many people believe that c, n n owes them a duty of fairness. people who say this isn't fair, cnn, their journal is they're supposed to be journalist. this isn't fair. how can you

say this? how can you get away with this? how can they do this? first, this is a my, her again, media where you can say anything you want kind of, number 2, dare dying. they have nothing to lose. they're hoping somebody notices that if, if they were to exhibit unfairness and non journalistic tendencies, you know what, what happened to them? nothing. or there were any independent sources for journalistic review. no natural gas on nuclear power could soon be clos, those green energy in the u. the european commission supports the idea which has been slum by environmental groups of so called green washing, or europe correspond. peter oliver takes up the story for you. entered, she's been in focus for quite

a while with energy prices across year of being through the roof. but what we've seen on wednesday with the e u commission outline their plans to reclassify some natural gas projects and nuclear power projects. odds green energy investments. what the u commission hope that this would do is that it would well take a couple of boxes, really, one that it would gets investment cash flowing into energy projects to get more energy projects off the ground for to supply much needed energy to the european union. country also that it would help the european union take some of it or meet some of its climate goals that it's set. the commissioner in charge of these type of things outlined exactly why they've gone down this route. we need to use all the tools that are disposal to achieve climate neutrality. we putting in place strict conditions for their inclusion. they're subject to clear limits and phase out periods. some will use this instrument and others may not. but whoever invests will

be certain that the product they're investing in should it contain nuclear or gas. they will know, well not everybody is happy with this, but some will start with those likely to be pretty particularly pleased with they saw france and germany will start with paris and swell front generates just over 70 percent of its electricity from nuclear power. well, they may well just become one of the greenest countries in the european union if this eventually goes through because of their use of nuclear, it's also likely to be quite well received here in berlin. germany does use an awful lot of gas to generate electricity. an awful lot of renewables as well, but gas is seen very much, is the bridging fuel as they try and transfer more and more towards renewables. the gulf stream to gas pipelines be much talked about, thus infrastructure project between germany and russia, looking more and more. and should this plan go through and gas ultimately be

designated on spot? green fuel will see more and more investment towards gus in and across the european union. i said not everybody was happy though. and heading into this meeting on wednesday, we heard from austria, denmark, sweden, and the netherlands all saying they didn't want the gas added to the list. there's also a whole host of environmental groups as well, who say this is essentially just moving the goal posts to fit what you want to hear and what you want to see and amounts to little more than green washing. the complimentary delegated act table by the european commission sacrifices the scientific integrity of the taxonomy on the altar of fossil gas and nuclear lobbies . firstly, labeling fossil gas is a sustainable activity is completely incompatible with limiting global warming to $1.00 degrees celsius and with use 2030 climate targets. secondly, even if ignoring the risks of catastrophic nuclear accidents, it is evident that nuclear does not apply to these key principles is it poses

significant environmental and social hazards at all stages of its supply chain. while it's still a few hoops to for this to jump through before it could come into force. in fact, there was some questions, put the money out. and again, as the commissioner about potential legal challenges from so member states no confirmation or not other yet, but it does helps to go before the leaders of the 27 members of the european union . once it gets passed there, which it looks like it will, it goes to the european parliament way, more than half of any piece have to vote in favor of it. right now it does seem like it would squeak by us looking at probably quite a few months though before we see these new rules come into place and we see gas or some gas projects and nuclear power labeled as green energy projects by the european union. staying with this story, i spoke the german economist, full cur helmeyer. he said, europe green transition will mean higher electricity consumption,

which can't be provided with art, gas and nuclear power. i think the green transition is right to follow, but what we have to be in mind is that all measures we tank by politicians within the european union in the european states, is to increase the use of electric electricity by electron a tronic because whatever and that means that we will need more energy we need if you take the forecasts of the international energy agency until 2050 roughly the same amount of fossil fuels than currently. and in that respect, we have to understand that in order to have a proper transition, we need the old economy for a certain time. we need fossil fuels, we need nuclear energy in order to set up the allocation for capital for it. for this green transition, i think that's a point that is not being understood. we need a pragmatic approach. and what we hear from those,

we're criticizing the current state of affairs. of those we're rather following ideologies, rather than pragmatic approaches. folk are helmeyer and that is where we li, big round up for. and i do give our website a look though, for all the latest developments. and what was a busy news. they, this is what happened. i make no, certainly no borders and is like teeth and you face is a merge. we don't have authority, we don't have a vaccine. whole world needs to be ready. people are just, you know, come with we can do.