a dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country. do we start asking ourselves, why did they die? why, what were they fighting for? nobody bothers asked about the contractors. ah, moscow vows retaliatory measures against german major, accredited in russia after berlin slaps broadcast banassi system channel r t v. when is the police chief is under fire after report expose his how met offices just in text chats about raping colleagues and killing black children. cnn chief jessica quits over an affair with his co work, really plummeted ratings and blake after torn to scandals of the media. john ah,

mother, very good morning. appreciate you. joining me here on naughty moscow has vowed a mirror, a response against german media accredited in russia. after a berlin watchdog bandar, since the channel r t t across all platforms, the verdict of the german major regulator is an unambiguous signal at russian concerns have been defined me ignored. this stepped approach us if any choice but start implementing retaliatory measures against german media carts in russia as well as in their intermediaries who have arbitrarily and unreasonably deleted the channels accounts from the platforms. the general media regulator says that it blocked r t. d for not having the right broadcasting license for operating in the country am the european law, but r t to speed sat saying the permit it obtained in serbia made so requirements on his deputy deputy editor in chief, annabel can have joined my colleague barissi shade to discuss the situation 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 r t 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 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 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 your banking, banking, relationships, other operational relationships for or for the last number of years. and we believe that, you know, the r t d 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 boards 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. la td's battle to be honest, thought of months ago. antes nicky. aaron takes a look at the hurdles. his face,

the r 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 you chip, just a short time off. it went on air, then just days later, there was a finding increasing interference and the channel signal, after it was taken off one of its 2 satellites, after german 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 and the independence of broadcasters which constitute an indispensable basis for their broadcasting policy. most of them i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tax experiencing say r t d consol. great. they're infringing on freedom of speech and that is very bad,

was accrued to proceed. 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 raf and now although you don't have to dig too far 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 pirates 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 broadcaster requires action at all levels. so could this be the end of the road for the short live channel? well r t d e is already preparing to fight on well picking floyd co founder turn that into this. roger water says the,

the ban. smack. so we'll talk chrissy and aims of silencing any challenge to the western narrative. they want to create and may chain a monopoly of media that only express is the accepted western narrative that comes down to them to those major outlets from the ruling class in western society. and then when in the western countries state, russia today actually provides an alternative view to the view that is given by certainly every single american tv network. you cannot watch network g b in the united states because it's all nonsense, every single minute. i don't care if it's fox news or m s m, b, c. it's all made up nonsense. so russia to day which you can

watch in the united states and which i do watch russia today. but it gives every appearance, have been much more direct and truthful about the reality of our lives on this globe than folks yours or m. s. m, b, a, or any of the other set. certainly. net network television in the usa or the b, b, c o i g, b, or channel for any of the stations as well. they would like to shut down, shut down any voice that doesn't necessarily tow the line and agree with big brother on every single issue. down to the last cross t in doughty, di and full stop. this is so or, well in this is 1984 come to life. they're looking in a mirror. when that,

when they accuse, are see a big december nature of this information, particularly now with all this nonsense about the grain. they're looking in a mirror cuz that's exactly what they are all dirt london's metropolitan police chief is under pressure after the cities now warned. her job was on the law. and after a series of shock revelations, concerning of some misconduct, the mess spokesperson relying that it indicated a return to the battle days. the mayor made clear to the commissioner how angry he is with a return to the bad days of the man of his childhood in the seventy's and eighty's . and that neither he nor londoners will put up with this. he has put the commissioner and notice now this comes after a new report revealed metropolitan police officers have been joking in private messages about raping female colleagues and killing black children with some of those involved still in the jobs that report also says the incidents are not

isolated and cannot be explained away as the behavior of just a few bad apples. ne shantia edward stashed. it takes a closer look at the findings all cable incidents of hey crime involving races, texas and homophobic messages have been discovered by a watch drug investigation into the police offices within the ranks of the metropolitan police have been found to be glorifying, domestic abuse, rape and murder, using language so bad, i cannot repeat them on i would happily rape you. getting a woman into bed is like spreading butter. it can be done with a bit of effort using a credit card, but it's quicker and easier just to use a knife. my dad kidnap some african children unused him to make dog food. the defense just band apparently. in fact the independent office. so please conduct found an officer was named mac, great, the right person,

following rumors about bringing a woman back to the police station to then sexually assault thousands of messages. taking place between 20162018 were reviewed yet only 2 officers sucked. 9 of the 14 investigated are still serving in the 4th, while another holds a contract to stop rolled. the met says it was sorry. we are deeply sorry to londoners and every one they have failed with their appalling conduct to acknowledge how this will damage the trust and confidence of many in the meant in the u. k. officers as opposed to police by consent. but how can trust be restored, or even wasn't ever what to investigate, to say the insidious culture is widespread. we believe these incidents and not isolated or simply the behavior of a few bad apples. the highly dumbing report is just the latest scandal under police commissioner, crescent dicks watch institutional feelings were placed under intense scrutiny by

the rape and murder of sir evarado by a serving metropolitan police officer known to colleagues as the rapist during his career. and now the commission of face is cool to go, but not just from the public, but senior politicians, as well as former high ranking offices. we're not seeing one of instances we've seen now too many instances of the most appalling behaviors. i also think it shows a feeler of literature in some quarters. the met police may be the worst for institutional massage any and racism, but they're not the only ones. only a statutory judge lead inquiry will do. only new leadership will do. surely, chris said it, they cannot be proud of her record when this is the norm. charing cross neck, yet her 6 to your salary past was renewed last auden, which feels like rewarding failure. and if the mecca serious about reading the force of rotten abuses of power, surely those individuals must go and that boss to all is a toxic,

dangerous culture that yet again, leadership turns a blind eye to any cost. this is just not an isolated instance. part of this culture, which is a very toxic culture. these are not isolated incidents. there are very clear incidents going on. number of offices have been challenges way since we saw when cousin being arrested for the offense. murdering sara ever. all. there were a number of offices from his own department that would charge the weight. is it damaging, is extremely damaging, significantly has damaged the reputation of the met police impacted significantly entrusting competent women do not feel comfortable speaking to offices, i expect to number of women who have said they don't feel comfortable incoming. forward to report anything to offices. don't feel comfortable speaking to policemen and certainly will not get in the call of

a policeman says that trust and damage amongst communities as well. how the culture needs to be tackled head on. we need change. now. we don't need change in 6 months to a year or decades on we need change. now the top cnn staff are falling even faster than the ratings is the head of the media john resides for lying about on the phone with the colleague, information revealed during an investigation into another scandal. cnn has been embroiled in with the former cnn host chris cuomo, who helped his brother does sexual assault allegations in new york governor. there's already been skating reaction to the resignation. jeff sucker, a world class sleep bag, who is headed ratings in real news challenge. cnn for far too long, has been terminated for numerous reasons, but predominantly because c n n has lost its way with the view as and everybody else. jeff zocker surprise his employees with an email 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 his email and we're a bit surprised because it seems like many wonder if the ratings 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 back in december john griffin, a producer at cnn, was arrested by the f. b. i on rather serious charges. he was taken the federal prison where he waits trial. ah, and john griffin was charge 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. 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 stepped down as governor of new york. when my brothers situation became turbulent, being looped into calls with other friends of his and advisors. they did include some of his staff. i understand why that was a problem for cnn. there's been another recent dust up 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 comment 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 they're internalizing this information that they're using it to make bad decisions. many found these remarks to be somewhat ironic because the

listenership and viewership of joe rogan's podcast is roughly 11000000 people. now, it's important to know 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 of 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. we spoke about this to legal media analysts law and he says, see, an unlike other american mainstream media is on its last legs. if cnn was a patient and a hospital, the doctor would call a co, the doctor will look at his watch or say, call at,

that's it. they put the sheet over the patient. cnn is gone. if i didn't know better, i think cnn, before every broadcast says, what can we say? that is so fundamentally stupid. so, and so unbelievable that people will talk about it. because we're not getting audience audiences from doing what we're doing. we have to get audiences by having people commented, how stupid we are. many people expect expect there to be fairness. many people believe that c n n owes them a duty of fairness. people will say, this isn't fair. cnn, their journalist, 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 if you can't do well on your show, say something stupid and hope somehow that, you know,

social media picks up on. if social media pick up on your story, maybe that will help because that's the 2nd tier of their worth. not truth, that journalistic in charity go. no, no, no they don't care. did you notice us how to be doing the clicks on the metrics to we get like, are we being retreated? what are people saying are we viral? that's all they care about. cable news. as like a runaway train or our monster that keeps eating and consuming and you've got to keep feeding this monster 24 hours a day. anything, paper, just feed it. news stories, anything a click repeat repeat. what are the people who start your own problem? natural gas and nuclear power could soon be classed as green energy in the european union. the european commission supports the idea which has been slammed by

environmental groups is green washing your correspondingly to oliver picks up the story when 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 was the commission outline their plans to reclassify some natural gas projects and nuclear power projects on 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 get 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 a 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. all will start with those likely to be pretty quickly pleased with the saw . france and germany will start with paris and swell front generates just over 70 percent of its electricity from the 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 important. should this plan go through and gas ultimately be designated green fuel will see more,

more investment towards gus in and across the european union. i said not everybody was happy though. heading into this meeting on wednesday, we heard from austria, denmark, sweden, and the netherlands old saying they didn't want that. the gas added to the list. there's also a whole host of environmental group. well, he say this is essentially just moving the gold post to fit what you want to hear and what you want to see and amount to little more than green washing. the complimentary delegate to that table by the european commission sacrifices the scientific integrity of the taxonomy on the altar of fossil gas and nuclear lobbies . while there'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 many states, no confirmation on that other yet. but it does have to go before the lead is 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 that. looking at probably quite a few months. so 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. we start with german economists folk a hell of mine who says europe's green transition will mean high electricity consumption, which can't be provided without 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 take by politicians within the european union in the european states, is to increase the use of electric electricity by electrons tronic. but he cause whatever. and that means that we will need more energy. we need, if we 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 and for this green transition. i think that's the point that is not being understood. we need a pragmatic approach. and what we hear from those were criticizing the current state of affairs, of those were rather following ideologies, rather than pragmatic approaches. ah, the head of the jewish advocacy group, the anti defamation league has been slammed for his criticism of american tv personality would be goldberg, and the reason holocaust remarked as an explainer of racism on his website didn't include anti semitism, the marginalization and repression of people of color based on the socially

constructed racial hierarchies, had privileges, white people. unfortunately, it is not surprising that will be goldberg is confused about racism in the jewish people when the a d, l, just change the definition. your new definition causes tremendous confusion and damage to countering jew hate. we see that here. why is the atl mad at will be gold birds, holocaust comments? she was just using its new definition of racism, marginalization and slash, or oppression of people of color to benefit white people. anti defamation league corrected would be goldberg now, who's gonna correct the anti defamation league? or they go berg was suspended from t v. after saying that the holocaust wasn't a race issue, they explained on the jewish advocacy group site in 2017 used a traditional definition of racism, but an updated version on the enjo side appears to make the same argument as go book the racism is something that happens only to people of color the

anti defamation league a sense reverted to the original more encompassing definition saying, racism is a matter of discrimination based on race or ethnicity. i guess terry gibson says, go berg. what she said is actually in accordance with the atl definition. i think it's very hypocritical when you change it now, but there's not a so call people call us a, a point out there and for the ceo to come out and make a statement against a goal, which was she was wrong, but she's currently on. well, with the 80 piece and they should go back and do some soul searching them separately on and make a statement of what she said because she's got no, i will not be sure either today. thanks for joining me this morning. this is starting to

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with manny always once the impossible day. first day 8 said to the government, police, public, you government b. they say single to any is the all, please don't touch my, my private life, don't touch my business, don't touch my feet. and this is an impossible contradiction with every turnaround. that traffic circle with the influx of contractors went largely. uncontrolled by yosemite was disorganized

non purpose, it just was too much going on in war zones. and there was no coordination really between the companies. and the problem was that we had all of these different private military companies running around we'd, we'd outsourced too quickly. they weren't coordinated both in contract terms, but also an on the ground operational terms. so what is your answer to a problem of outsourcing? outsource more, we outsourced it to a private military company to coordinate the seem to be ideal for you as company was a huge contract. it was half a $1000000.00 or just under that and was just soon the one of the large, big american companies would win it, but it didn't work out that way. oh, paneled him spies that hit the headline 2 years ago during the army to africa fair

involving his old company sand line. but general sponsor now has developed a thriving business in private security. and it recently won a multi 1000000 pound contract. well, 10 slices with me now tim. good morning. what's your summary of the situation in terms of chaos or lauren order? i would only advise people to go there if the measures in put in place for their protection are sound. mm hm. is a contract in iraq was to oversee the communication, coordination for all of the private security companies from the ground with it. it meant that they were the general in charge of all of the private contracts. at that point, the u. s. military was the largest military presence in iraq, but if you added together all of the private military contractors spices effectively in charge, the 2nd largest.