ah, ah ah, it is breaking news this hour live on r t international. as russia shuts down the moscow office of deutsch of bela a day after the german media regulate a band to artes fish the channel odd t. london's police chief is under fire after a report exposes how offices some of whom are still in the jobs shed, jokes about in rape and violence. and the new zealand catholic church at mid to 14 percent of clergy has been a tooth of various forms of texas abuse since 1951 survivor told us what he with not only was i abused as

a young boy in middle school here in new zealand i went on to the catholic school, secondary level, was abused sexually and physically again. and then i was abused by a priest in the diocese with what it's 5 to turning into a busy thursday here. we're not to you to national it is good to have you with us today because it's breaking news, kicking off this hour here on the program, the russian foreign ministry has published a list of retaliatory measures against germany. that's comes a day after the german media regulator block to our system channel r t d. that's bringing our senior correspondent, but i'd guess deal with the very latest on this mode at some calling this tit for tat others calling it far more than that. well, this is the 1st stage of fresh response, and it is significant to put it lightly. for example, the which villas office in moscow in

a and in russia. other offices will be shut down. the press accreditation of the, of journalists and employees of deutsch avella will be an old furthermore, all deutsch, avella broadcast, be the by satellite on social media on into that russian language broadcast as well . for example, the, their website views, shola, shall stop. the russia has rule. furthermore, there will now be a black list of german government officials of the media regulator, other other individuals as well as agencies and departments complicit in this huge and sustain pressure campaign censorship campaign against r t. just to remind you as yesterday, the german media regulator ruled that r t must hold stop all broadcast. be they by satellite, be they on the internet, social media, even at t v apps we broadcast and tv apps even there are

t must stop r t d e must stop over all broadcast. the required media law license was not available. the organization and distribution of the tv program via a live stream on the internet via the mobile and smart tv, or r t news and via satellite must therefore be discontinued. as he still has a chance to appeal the german media regulators decision. 4 weeks, i believe, have a chance to appeal at decision again. nevertheless, there has been a sustained a well documented sustain pressure campaign against party to stop them from reaching german audience is that the. busy government has denied that it is played a role in this, in this evident campaign. nevertheless, the, our channel has said, look, look at the banks, for example, who are refusing to do business with us. look at the media. regulus. there's been

no explanation. they have complain. time and time again to various authorities, but there's just been a brick wall. there's been no understanding and no compromise on behalf of german media regulator or the officials. we heard the representative of the german foreign minister here in russia say that again, marcia has the venue responsibility. say that's entirely their business despite the fact that r t has all the necessary licenses there's generally absolutely no broadcasting happening from berlin at all r t d e. the tv channel is a broadcasting right here from moscow via a license that was obtained with absolutely all according european rules and regulations, according to the european convention on transferred to your television. and we are free to broadcast via that license in a 30 plus territory across europe. every imaginable law, at some points,

unimaginable as they were, hurdles that are see his face as have been put there and worked with bags of youtube, deleted the r t g deutsch account. when the chapel launched the it's broadcast. there was also trouble with the signal via satellite. the viewers couldn't june in because of again, trouble with the satellite r t was described as an irritant by officials, an irritant, to be taken care of. now this, this scandal had reach you the highest levels. every one is well aware of what is happening. people pointing out the irony, the european union union, which pilots prides itself on on its freedoms and liberties. mounting these, this huge campaign to prevent a russian voice from reaching german audiences. and this is something that even the president of russia had remarked on which i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics they're using. so

r t d can't operate there infringing on freedom of speech and that's very bad was as response of course made may seem strong at 1st, but again, this is only the 1st stage, the foreign ministry, as the described. this is the 1st stage. so closing down again, deutsch of ellis office, unknowingly press accreditation of their employees as well as this black list of german officials that are believed to be complicit in this pressure campaign against r t g. something again that the media regulator has itself ah, has rejected and denied it, says that it's rulings are, are fair. nevertheless, there could potentially be the cycle now of new measures and sanctions and counter sanctions against ernest, which will only make the work of media both german and brush and more difficult. senior correspondent, i've got the of the letters on this breaking news. thank you for earlier in the program, we did speak with mister ken livingstone,

the former mayor of london. now he thinks the hard line taken by germany's regulator on archie d. e, as that to some degree damaged the countries reputation i'm believe, or it's like going back to the pre will period sensitive noise, cancer, things, and particularly, and i many dictatorships around the world isn't free speech. i mean, germany doesn't gain anything from closing down. rush made, it just makes them look bad. we live in or out democracy based on freedom of speech . and anyone starting to constrain that is endangering democracy, i believe in free speech. now clearly, if someone makes a speech saying they want to go, have people can burn down a, a synagogue or a most, they should be arrested and prostituted. but i think someone should have the freedom to come out and say, i don't believe in climate change. as soon as you put somebody else on the show,

they've been talking to rubbish. well, there's always gonna be different points of views and you know, about 50 years of my life on the base with people who had different views on how range of subjects. and you've got a free media that allows you to take place. as i say, no one should be allowed to advocate violence or spread racial hatred and things like that. but she, everything else i think should be fine if people say something that i think he's mad, i just have a good laugh. a police watchdog and the u. k has revealed a disturbing internal culture of mas sultani and attributes on sexual violence or warning. you may find some of the contents here offensive. the report includes private messages between offices of the metropolitan police force, which that's great or london. and one officer says he would like to rape a female colleague, and other jokes about getting a woman into bed using a knife. some of those behind effects are still in their jobs. so taking a closer look at the findings are correspondent,

shadier edwards dashti. all careful incidents of hey crime involving racist, sexist and homophobic messages have been discovered by a watch drug investigation into the police. thousands of messages taking place between 20162018 were reviewed yet only 2 officers sack 9 of the 14 investigated are still serving in the force one another holds a contract to stop role. 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 and charing cross neck.

yet her 6 through your salary pot was renewed last auden, which feels like rewarding failure. the defense just bunch apparently. in fact, the independent office. so please conduct found an officer was named the great the right person, following rumors about bringing a woman back to the police station to then sexually assault the met says it was sorry. we are deeply sorry to londoners and every one they have failed with their appalling conduct and acknowledge how this will damage the trust and confidence of many in the met in the u. k. officers, i suppose the police by consent, but how can trust be restored, or even wasn't that 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 dick's watch. institutional feelings were placed under intense scrutiny by

the rape and murder of sir everett by a serving metropolitan police officer known to colleagues as the rapists during his career. and i'm just the mattress serious about ridging the force of rocks and abuses of power. surely those individuals must go and the boss to all is a toxic, dangerous culture that yet again, leadership tons of blind eye to any cost. when we actually started our issue and debate your strong all work and that one investigation, actually mushroom and to 9 separate investigations and what we uncovered were cds. so the thing that was happening here was that they thought it doesn't just have a public confidence. it also has a devastating impact on the internal culture within the b service because these

officers that were involved with the women, they were officers to come from different cultures and back please service as in the, from our culture which supports officers no matter where they come from and they won't enjoy their trust and confidence and enjoy the actual how can they go to weapons and rebuild the trust and confidence of the community that these very offices contract on the scale of abuse and new zealand catholic church has been brought to light and a bombshell report, commissioned by the country's prime minister. the reports claimed that 14 percent of catholic church have been accused of abusing children or adults since 1950. 1 survivor spoke quite candidly to us here at odds about the trauma that he endured.

i was abused by a catholic school teacher, a brother, brother of a religious order, who abused me sexually on several occasions. and it may not help. i've filed the complaint, it's been up but, but then when i went to high school, i was also abused again by a priest of the of, of the, of the society of mary, the, for a religious priest. abused me. therefore, in my particular case, i wanted to identify the, the patterns. because not only was i abused as a young boy in middle school here in new zealand. i went on to a catholic school and secondary level was abused sexually and physically again. and then i was abused by a priest in the diocese of, of the cast up the catholic diocese here in new zealand as well in dependent of the

school. so i, because of my connection to the institution and because i remained connected, i was abused and at risk at least in 3 cases. so in the end, when i record the abuse, it involved 5 people. there were such crew probed reports of abuse file between 19501999. a. most of them came from kids. nearly 1700 reports against members of catholic church were made by over a 1000 people. the allegation span, physical, sexual and psychological abuse. well, the new zealand catholic church, i said it is deeply ashamed of the findings ungrateful to those behind the research . it also placed its commitment to transparency a christ of along host again, things the revelation so far. the sadly, just the tip of the iceberg is that the not the 14 percent is simply the

numbers of those people that have reported to the church and the church has recorded. now this number is extremely low based on the information that we have. for example, most of our members have not reported to the church, and we know that the church has not kept records of all those who have reported why . why do i know this? because members are religious orders and use and i have have told me that applying the matrix for each one complaint received. there are between 6 and 10 people out there in the community who have suffered abuse and have not lodge to complain. so if we do the math, the application of it forensic would mean that and use the ones catholic church alone. they would be between 11 and 14000 people who have been abused. 12 times the number that the church is reporting who have dealt with the abuse by leaving and being quiet. russia and china's 1st top level,

somebody over 2 years is happening on friday. it will coincide with the grand opening of the beijing olympics. so our correspondent in the chinese capital is equal so the russian president glamour food and his chinese counterbalance teaching pain about to sit at the same table, face to face something that they have not done in over 2 years. the occasion is as good as it gets the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games. here in b g, a head of his meeting with his chinese counterpart, lateral potent even wrote an article for china's dominating news agencies in what they focused on the cordial relationship between the countries between the leaders and one historical ties between the 2 nations. but given the geopolitical and diplomatic agenda has indeed accumulated between the 2 countries over the course of

the past couple of years. it sounds like a perfect opportunity to, to some sports on related events. given that both nations up rule face a common adverse re. that's the united states, washington has been applying pressure on both russia and china and will, in doing so, it has been doing so in very similar ways. for example, the mainstream media headlines have been dominated by speculation. whether or not russia will indeed you crate speculation spearheaded by the white house and it's allies and well, the general consensus among mainstream media analysts have being that well, but you, money on. yes, that's despite russia vehemently deny any plans or intentions of the sort. and even ukraine also saying that it's not seeing any significant threat going on, or anything well particularly threatening going on. it's buddhist with china. ukraine is swap for taiwan and the rhetoric is very much the same. the rhetoric is

very similar when it comes to, well, the chinese ambitions and one taiwan is in question. and even the very subject olympic games has been util by washington to apply pressure on b. g. for example, washington announced a diplomatic boyhood of the games that's as the f b, i advised the american athletes to use her phones, citing the thread over spine as the main reason. so in the latter potent and teaching thing have a lot to talk about and it has already been announced that the 2 leaders will sign a very hefty pile of documents. and this includes of whose political initiatives, like, for example, creating an independent fiscal system that would allow both russia and china to withstand and to counter any unilateral sanctions that may be imposed against the nations by the united states and its allies. business deals are on the table as

well, mainly in the energy market, given that russia is a major export of gas. and also it has been teased that latimer food and cheating thing will sign them around them over new ways of building international relations in iraq, whatever it means we'll, we'll hopefully find out very shortly. and hopefully we'll also see if there are any well mystery books is hidden in the drawers of the presidents tables. i'm a dish dot reporting from beijing oxy. i spoke with economics professor benjamin chow in this program just a bit earlier. he said it's a bit unfortunate the some professional partners have been quick to politicize the olympics. the pitching olympics is starting tomorrow, but the west is not reporting how well pitching years is a time we check specially valuable for the statement. trust them putting has made today because the west is now reporting how much pitching is facing the pressure,

diplomatic play caught from several key western countries. all of this will not change the fact that it's a special olympics will be held after all, the spotlights should be on the, on the streets, not on politics, but you will still be nice to have some support from the national leaders. so, and here we go, we have present 14, highly acclaimed bitching preparation, and he believes that we hope to be when he picks up the highest standard at the same time. china is also very important to brochure right now. if the situation ukraine for developed to west is very likely sanctioned by show a balance to faith or racial china relationship. even more as russia chinese trade me to reach a historic height of about 140000000000 last year or roughly half way through the show here with our to the national still to come right there. mr. saca. that's the former head of see it and because he's just resigned, comes off to be in court when he was lying over an affair with

a colleague is just one of many scandals. they get back to china. we are back just ah oh, is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed? what will make you feel safer? high selection community. are you going the right way or are you being that somewhere? which direction? what is true? what is great? in the world corrupted, you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the

shallows. as long as humans are at the end of the day, self interested, you can pretty well predict which way bitcoin is going. and the fact that nations will make it legal tender and now be a hash for going on in the house, right? ah, good to have you with us today. so c, u n. boss jeff zacko has fallen on his own sword for lying about an affair with a colleague during an investigation into another scandal of the channel that investigation was involving the former inca chris crump, jeff sucker, a world class least bag who has 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 viewers and everybody else. it had been a few weeks since someone had cnn resigned over some sexual deviancy. but jeff booker came through today and made sure we didn't forget what a band of thick perverts that entire news channel is. 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. i acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. i was required to disclose it when it began, but i didn't. i was wrong. as a result, i am resigning 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 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. 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. 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 sienna. 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 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 they're internalizing this misinformation 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 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. we took a moment to speak with

a legal and media analyst, lionel he says cnn, like some other outlets, basically on their last legs these days. if cnn was a patient and a hospital, the doctor would call a co, the doctor would 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 always them a duty of fairness. people will say, this isn't fair. cnn. there, 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 re tweeted, what are people saying? are we viral? that's all they care about. cable news is like a runaway train or a 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 we p. what other people are?

we start your own problem critics of rounded on the anti defamation league for taking a swipe at will be goldberg on the t. v. personality course outrage recently by saying the holocaust had nothing to do with race. but when the head of the abl which fights anti semitism picked her up on that seems to have forgotten his own website definition of racism at the time, which actually appears to justify goldbergs views. the marginalization and the repression is people of color based on the socially constructed racial hierarchy. that privilege is white people. unfortunately, it is not surprising that will be goldberg is confused about racism. and 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 abl mad at ruby 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? what the gold book was suspended from her tv, draw up of a holocaust fuse back in 2017. the idea adopted a definition of racism that was largely in line with critics of goldberg and in 2020. when the u. s. was in the grip of b l m. protests. it changed it to one that seems to agree with her by maintaining that racism is something that only happens to people of color. or a response to the criticisms. the a d. l has now reverted to a more encompassing definition, saying that racism as a matter of discrimination based on race or ethnicity. well, we got reaction to the whole debacle from derek gibson, who's running for new york state governor. i think it's very helpful critical when you change the definition of the so call people call us a point out there and obviously, you know,

to come out and make this statement against a goal, which was she was wrong. but she is clearly a and they should go back in a statement of what she said because she's deaf now, why do we have accident with a continuation and updates? what are breaking news story here on the international? russia has reacted and responded that is to other german media regulator essentially blocking our t d. r. system channel. more details to come with our senior correspondent in about hoffman with .