about labor costs, but it's also about creating layers of lessening responsibility between those who solicit this kind of work and need it. and those who do it with bodily 6 children are killed in heavy fighting in north with syria, while president biden, the hales, they scale. and they vary on the american commandos naming. they killed the leader of islamic state of the same time in the same location. although ahead on the program this, our russia shuts the moscow office of deutsch avella day after germany's media regulator bond r t sr channel r t d. i'm the new zealand catholic church to admit that the 14 percent of clergy how been accused of various forms of abuse since 1951 survivor

told us what he when proof not only was i abused as a young boy in middle school here in museum and i went on to a catholic school, the secondary level was abused sexually and physically again with from moscow to the world. this is our t pleasure to have your company today. my name's, you know, neil, the pentagon has acknowledged down to at least 3 civilians were killed and a raid on terrorists in north west syria. unicef has said at least 6 children died in watts, appears to be this same incident. earlier president joe biden hailed a successful operation targeting the leader all of islam mc state. r t senior correspondent iraq, as dia told me more earlier. half a dozen children killed as well as for women. locals have described these speech

battle that took place at 1 am just after midnight syrian thought in the lasted for hours and in which, presumably these half a dozen children as well as for women were killed as well as the leader of isis moore. abraham mi, i, she, me crazy, she and the 2nd leader of isis after the death of baghdad in 2019, also the result of an american operation strike against him during that episode. also, a number of children were killed, but in this instance, locals describe how helicopters hovered in the air for hours. launching rockets at the house that a gray she was believed to be in the united states says that he designated a suicide vest. while together with members of his family, we still have no verified information as to how will these children perish?

these are civilians, as well as women, whether it was american missiles fired by helicopters, small arms, far by us, special forces in the ground. do indeed these suicide vest. what we know is that these casualties have occurred. multiple sources of said this, including unicef. unicef confirmed that at least 6 children were killed and one girl was badly injured over night in the border town of at my, in the north west of syria due to heavy violence. all of this happened in serious italy province, which is where i will bucher. i baghdad you the found of isis was killed in 2019 a similar us rate. again, a number of children killed that died in that grade also, but he was killed in italy province, which is ruled by protocol rebels. many islamists, among them, indeed the dominant faction there is h t s or neutral front, which is seen as a, a branch of al qaeda in syria. the town of acme, where the, the secondly,

the of isis was killed is just 2 kilometers away from the turkish border. where the found of ice this was killed was just 5 kilometers from the, from the turkish board. and despite these are reports of civilian casualties, we have heard a president biden tell audiences about the strike, which he called precise are forces carried out the operation with their signature preparation of precision. and i directly the department fast to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. this information about civilian casualties. while tragic comes, it's an especially bad time for, for biden, who's administration has been rattled by, by calls for resignations, as well as accountability following the, the deadly drone strike in afghanistan, in kabul in august when the united states was pulling out, evacuated from afghanistan, naz stripe that killed almost

a dozen civilian 7 children. among them there had been calls again for resignations and for accountability. and just a week ago, lloyd austin, the secretary of defense, had, are ruled, had issued a call for the pentagon to form rules to do more, to prevent collateral damage, will, will civilian casualties. because he says that doesn't represent the values of the united states or it's paddlers. and he called in the pentagon to come up with concrete measures on how the pentagon should conduct war whilst minimizing civilian casualties. just staying with this story, we spoke with julia tomorrow. julia is the units of advocacy communications chief in the middle east. she told us it's so far on clear how those 6 children died in northwest syria. but the surgeon fighting is taking a deadly to ms. larry hi, around to confirm the exact circumstances or the reason behind the fact that 6

children the case and one girl fix children were killed. one girl was injured due to the time the violence that we witnessed the overnight in a, in the northwest of syria. perhaps staying on escalation and violence in that area . what this means is that the children paid 1st and they pay most. and if we compare the number of casualties of children during the month of january in comparison to, let's say, december last year, the number is so it's in the higher. and this has been the case since the beginning of the year. and this has got to stop children continue to be the 1st and most to pay in this 11 year long conflict, at least 19 percent of as serious population lives in poverty. and that's start to, in comparison to how it used to be before the war began. 11 years ago,

the war house car i've got to comes in and it comes conflicts have got to stop. we call on all sides and all parties to the conflicts in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children. and it's future even if the war stops today. the picture is so beek for. busy millions and millions of people among the many children. ok to another. a headline story today the russian foreign ministry has published a list of retaliatory measures against germany. it comes a day after the german media regulator blocked our sister channel r t c d. my colleague royce, to shade discuss the latest developments with our tea correspondence. charlotte dubin ski undone quarter deutsch. avella, its offices are going to be closed throughout russia. its journalists are going to have their press accreditations taken away, and all of their russian language broadcasts are going to be taken off the air. now,

darcia bella has since responded to this, they put out a media statement. they said that they're not going to take any action until they get official confirmation from moscow of these measures. and when they do, they are going to appeal them. but this isn't where the rushes retaliation stops. actually a blacklist is being set up of german government officials, media regulators, basically anyone who is possibly involved in this enormous censorship campaign. russia is drawing up a list of representatives of state and public structures in germany involved in restricting the broadcast of r t d. and putting pressure on the russian media outlet, who will be denied entry to the russian federation. now this development comes just one day after germany's top media regulator. rules that are tv must stop all of its broadcast. that means via satellite via internet, social media, basically everywhere. the required media license was not available. the organisation and distribution of the tv program via

a live stream on the internet via mobile and smart tv parking news and via satellite must therefore be discontinued. of course, our tv can still appeal this decision, but this is just one episode in a drawn out pressure campaign aimed at obstructing r t from broadcasting in germany. i mean, the german government says it does. it's not playing a part in this campaign, but banks have not been doing business with our channel. and germany's top regulator seems unwilling to compromise on this issue. and this is all the while as r t has a legal broadcasting license in the european union. 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 via a license that was trained with absolutely all ah, 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 30 plus territories across europe. now,

going back over the past several months, what we mean by pressure campaign, of course, is for example, the fact that our te set up an account on youtube and it was almost immediately taken down by the platform when it started attempting to broadcast over satellite the signal was so poor that people weren't able to tune in. and on top of that, german government officials have described r t, d e as a quote, irritant. so it's not too difficult to imagine that these setbacks could have been set up on purpose to stop r t d e from being successful in germany. and this is something that even the russian president vladimir putin has commented on before. i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics they're using. so all t d cons operate, they're infringing on freedom of speech and that's very bad for career. now like i said before, rushes foreign ministry takes this violation of freedom of the press very seriously . and it says this is only the 1st stage of retaliation that it's willing to dish

out. so, you know, we could see a couple of things play out in the future, perhaps a back and forth between german and russian media authorities, or maybe everyone will come to a compromise will have to see, you know, i don't, as you say auntie d e taking flat from the german authorities, but it's not just confined to germany over to france. stunning by live in paris, charlotte dubin ski. apparently auntie frogs is also in the cross hes shot. it ought he from sees a, in the cross has of the audio visual and digital communications regulate to hearing frogs. they sees all come. now, this was something that was put out in a magazine article that maxine school challenges hayman france and innate. it alleges that all come is about to start looking at how archie, fonts us, mister channel here, has treated several subjects since it started broadcasting. the subjects include the yellow vest protests, also stories from syria, and stories from central africa,

all pretty sensitive topics in the country at the moment. now at the house, in any official confirmation from our come about this. in fact, i checked out their website on thursday afternoon, nothing on there even called the press office, and they didn't have anything to say about add that notification in the magazine challenges. artie, fonts itself says it hasn't received a notification. this is about to happen. but we have had reaction to that from the head of the channel. according to the challenges website, the french media regulator, our com, has opened a probe into our t france. perfect timing right after the situation with our td. if it is confirmed that the regulator is investigating sensitive topics concerning associations, let's welcome a new world of censorship. while she went on to refute that there have been complaints against the channel and said that there was one issue that was dealt

with by this usa, which is the, the old regulator. and that was did it. okay. some more big figures for you. k, households to deal with energy bills for british homes are about to search by an average of $700.00 pounds a year after the national regulator lifted a price up. it comes amid soaring natural gas prices across europe. this prost live now to ortiz shoddy, was dusty in london. hi shelby. this is going to be the biggest price hike on record. give us a sense of how it's going to impact people and what the government's doing to help while it's being described as a by now pe later, scam essentially the opposition at describing it in such a way like that because they simply think that this packet of support are so called package of support is simply not good enough. of course, the government says it's trying to help alleviate the costs and the pressures for

every day people admit this mammoth energy price hike. so just to run through the thick isn't for you. what we'll see is energy price cap will be a double 254 percent in april, just shy of 2000 pounds. and what that means is, every year people have to pay $693.00 pounds more every single year than double what it was just a year ago. so a huge, huge hike with dire consequences as well. but the government says it doesn't recognize it needs to step in, and that's why is offering this support package. what we can do is take the sting out of a significant points shop for millions of families by making sure that the increase in prices is smaller initially, and spread over a longer period without government intention. the increase in the price tap would leave the average household having to find an extra $693.00 pounds. the actions i'm

announcing today will provide to the vast majority of household just over half of that amount. well versus do next seem to reprise the role of being the rescuer of the nation coming forward with a package of support. however, it's all as generous as it may seem. so to break it down, it's to tid. first off, they'll be a $200.00 pound discount. however, that's not exactly a freebie, it's a loan. i will have to be repaid in 40 pounds installments over 5 years, so that money could just simply accumulate for people that are already struggling. then they'll be a rebate and tax and council tax for that's just a $150.00 pounds. plus risha sudak fell short of scrapping b a t. many people were hoping he was going to do that because if you take that lump sum that 2000 pounds, a 100 pounds of thought is v a t, that could be a significant amount of money. it could have really helped. now all of this is gone

down like a lead balloon. many people are highly, highly critical, especially looking at people that are struggling to make ends meet. the chancellor has often cold comfort to families in poverty to all ready rationing what they can spend on essential, such as heating and food. this support will not get people through the next few months and they will not protect those most at risk of hardship. a day after the leveling up fanfare, the government's piecemeal measures won't protect low income families, either now or in the future. surging energy prices are only the start of the crisis . the help announced for these families today won't be enough. we're going to see more children going hungry as parents struggle to make ends meet. while the government says this is beyond talking, politics blames the pandemic, but also blames the global surgeon demand hiking up all of these gas prices. but on the list, they're quite worried that this could actually happen again from the autumn and

that the government could have halted all of this. instead, the prioritizing profits over the living standards now today is really from bad to worse because the bank of england are now raising interest rate from 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent, which just adds this cost of living sweet. now everybody's going to be affected by the announcement earlier today, we're going to see high, middle and income families taking a quite a hit. but of course it's those low income families are going to be hit the hardest for them. they're already in a dilemma. thinking about eating or heating, but with this announcement, it seems like they might not be able to do either. ortiz, shoddy adverse dusty in the british capital. and let's say keep attention on london because lord prem seeking a labor peer on a country professor joins us live on the program. thank you for doing so. how devastating could today's developments be for ordinary high schools?

well, good evening. it is absolutely devastating. what it will do is create a new forms of destitution. the 2000 bill pound annual bill, which you'll report or refer to, is roughly a whole turn off the stage pension. and there are many people earning bill or $20000.00 pounds a year. so you're talking about taking away a 10 percent off the gross income and indeed food prices are also rising. our rate of inflation is already 7 and a half percent. and it may well be hitting double digits by the summer. so it is really, really devastating, and the other point to remember is this 693 pound increases, the 1st installment further increases to come in autumn. the ship. yeah, i think that's the fear for a lot of families. but what do you say to the government giving help or richie shouldn't act? the chancellor is offering support. seeing the vast majority of high schools will receive $350.00 pounds towards their build. some they'll have to pay back. the

majority of it. they won't have to pay back is not not going to help people, not really. it doesn't really do enough. we have and we have to remind ourselves, last october. the government took away 1040 pound off the welfare support which recall universal credit from over 4000000 people. the government took away 5400000000 pounds from senior citizens. by canceling, the link between state can show earnings. those people are basically left stranded, senior citizens here get winter fuel payments to help with a cold weather. they have been unchanged since 2011. most people are getting good or 200 pound walls. the price of energy has already doubled since then. so this is an extra blow they will simply not be able to cope and i am afraid we will see some debts from cold and possibly from malnutrition as well before long. i'm sure there

are some people opening their bills and just that. finally, when they realize what's happening and asking question why it's happening, you've got u. k. energy operators in the north sea raking and vast profits from the high price exports. they are actually increasing. why is the government allowing this to happen? well, last a good question. it is interesting just to de shell, declare this profits a problem about $4500000000.00 to about $19500000000.00 a washer cash, and they're paying $8500000000.00 pound worth of dividends in the form of share buybacks. the shareholders in the last decade, u k. orland gas company is paid up to 100000000000 pound and dividends. the irony is that the u. k. does call it even produce enough electricity to meet its own needs. it has to import it from places like island, trans belgium,

and so on. it is same with the energy companies who deal with the retailing off energy. they're paid out 23000000000 pound and dividend the last 10 years. yet we have new price stability. and what's happened is that the energy companies have reduced a storage capacity. we only have storage capacity of about 2 percent of annual demand against e, you average of 25 to 37 percent. so that means people are exposed to price in stability and supply swings or the company shareholders are getting their profits. our consumer is falling victim to your country's foreign policy. lord seek this soaring gas prices, largely due to tensions with russia. if north stream to that gas pipeline was improved, now, would it not have an impact on the market? i'm afraid. yes, there is some truth in that, but the effect of markets is always mediated through institutional structures. so

one oil, gas, and energy companies are profiteering that exacerbates the market problems. now imagine if all this was in public ownership, that would have benefited the people and the government here also started in the 1978 is gave away the north sea oil and gas or the position today is that you could collect some about $1.72 per barrel of north sea oil in the form of petroleum. busy tax notice collect over $21.00 because it did not hand all of nature's lottery over to the oil and gas companies. and nowhere the moment they're sitting on a sovereign fund, a $1.00 trillion dollars. whereas the u. k is looking around and say, well ok, how do we make ends meet? in other words, governments have to look at the policy strategies and the idea that to privatize

everything under the sun i'm afraid, has been disastrous. ok, big bills and set to get even bigger before the end of the year. lord prem, seek a labor appear on the counting professor, joining us from london. thank you. thank you. ok, i want to bring you a developing situation from washington d. c. now police are evacuating a congressional office building just side of the u. s. capital building we believe streets in the area have been sealed off as well at less cross live now to or us corresponded killer my pin for, for an understanding of why that is happening. what something, caleb, what is going on there? do you know what, what caused the alarm? a sure the canon office building on capitol hill very close to the u. s. capital used by members of congress, was evacuated, alarms began sounding. people began clearing the b building. there was fear that

something has going on. you'll remember that the january 6, the events of last year have put a lot of fear on capitol hill. there's been increased security, etc. now we do understand that at this point the all clear has been given. police are allowing people back into the building. apparently what happened was a, there was an electrical panel that was malfunctioning, and this caused the alarm to go off. so it was apparently a false alarm. but social media was flooded with videos. members of congress were filming themselves, as the alarms were going off, the seats were streets were closed off. it was quite a moment of fear that something might be happening, but it appears now to have been a false alarm. okay, kayla. bad thanks for keeping us abreast of what is happening in washington. c. r u . s. correspond to kill him up the scale of a legit abuse in new zealand catholic church has been brought to lights and

a bombshell report commissioned by the countries prime minister. the reports claimed that 14 percent of catholic clergy have been accused of abusing children or adults since 1951. the survivors spoke candidly to r t about the trauma he suffered. 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 on to high school, i was also abused again by a priest of the of, of, of the, of the society of mary, the, for a religious priest. abused me. therefore, 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 israel, and as well as independent 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 recorded the abuse, it involved 5 people of the research group pro, to reports of abuse file between 19501999. most of them came from children. nearly 1700 reports against members of the catholic church were made by over a 1000 people. the allegation spun, physical,

sexual and psychological abuse. on the new zealand catholic church, i said it's deeply ashamed of the findings and quote, grateful to those behind the research. it also pledged its commitment to transparency christopher, a long hearse again, thinks the revelations so far. just the tip of the iceberg is that then 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 of religious orders and use it, i have had 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 lodged a complaint. so if we do the math, the application of it forensic would mean that and use the ones catholic church alone. that 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. christopher long hirst. well, the former 1st minister of scotland is bank honor screens. again in moments alex summit and is asking today on a chrome dunes. they are blessing the sky stay close! aah! with

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