being collected or similar states that as 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 among the stories that shaped this week. russia closes the moscow office of german broadcaster to which of bella after berlin, slaps and ban on our to assist the channel. the western media abandoned the principle of leaving politics out of sport with war mongering commentary. coming to the forest, the beijing winter olympics began. russia has a mass more than a 100000 troops on 3 sides of ukraine. u. s. officials have threatened severe sanctions. so at least 6 children are killed in heavy fighting in northwest syria or president biden pales the skill and bravery of american commanders claiming they

kill the leader of islamic states at the same time in the same location with either very good morning. great to have you with us here for the weekly on arte germany's media regulator has band auntie sister channel r t t. across all platforms. in retaliation, rushes closed down. the bosco bureau of the german broadcast, the deutsch vela with the foreign ministry warning further measures would follow on . please don't recall to take a closer look. it was this week's biggest violation of freedom of the press. in germany, the country's top media regulator took r t d. e's broadcast off the air on the internet via satellite social media, absolutely everywhere. the required media low license was not available. the organization and distribution of the tv program by a live stream on the internet for the mobile and smart tv up archie, news,

and via satellite miss death will be discontinued. what was russia left to do, but to respond and kind, deutsche avella was told, its offices in russia will be shut down. it's journalists press accreditation, revoked, and it's russian language broadcasts. taken off the air on top of all that a blacklist was declared to include everyone complicit in this enormous censorship campaign against r t. russia is drawing up a list of representatives of states and public switches in germany. involved in restriction the broadcast of r t d and putting pressure on the russian media outlets will be denied entry to the russian federation. moscow promise. this was just the 1st stage of measures that it was willing to take. after all this r t d e ban is only the latest episode in a drawn out pressure campaign that's been aimed at obstructing r t from broadcasting in germany. sure, the government denies playing any role in all this, but it's done nothing about the fact that a number of banks won't do business with our channel or that the country's top

media regulator seems unwilling to even reach a compromise. that's all, despite our te, holding a legal european broadcast license. r t d was licensed in serbia under the european convention of trans frontier television, r t t e can book cost as programs in 33 european countries, including germany, art you can still appeal the decision, but how much good will that do at this point? almost immediately after our tv created a youtube account, the platform deleted it. when it tried to broadcast over satellite, the signal was so poor, people couldn't even to an in german officials have even labeled our german language channel, an irritant. it's not difficult to imagine that these problems were deliberately set up to impede r t d e 's success, which i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics. they're using se r t d cons operate, they're infringing on freedom of speech, and that's very bad. and yet berlin's acting like moscow took these measures out of

the blue r t d e z. kindly broadcasting without the license. and the channel has not applied for license. the german state media office is decision was based on this. this is a completely different situation to daughter velez. his license has been revoked. perhaps if this was the 1st time or even maybe the 2nd time archie was obstructed from broadcasting one might say rush overreacted, but r t d e was entirely banned from broadcasting in germany, and that is no small step in the wrong direction. we spoke, we filmed direct morton traffic, who says that the ban on r t. d ames, that's silencing any challenge to the western narrative in the western hemisphere. so much or what comes up the russia is viewed with such suspicion. because that, that creates a worldview where a lot of people are missing out on potentially valuable corrections or,

or alternative viewpoints. you look at the big tech giants who are already censoring, sometimes in very bizarre ways. statements or viewpoints are supposedly unacceptable, is just a part of a general trend towards i q rated or controlled media world. and this is obviously, i think, connected to the prevailing political situation not least connected to ukraine. i would suspect the 2022 basing winter olympic games of officially kicked off for the opening ceremony on friday, marking the smell of the events, but rather than celebrate to global sporting spectacle, that brings together some of the best athletes on the planet. some western commentators seemed to want to talk, war and politics. russia has a mass more than a 100000 troops on 3 sides of ukraine. us officials have threatened to leer

sanction. russia makes the move. so especially in the light of almost bar, call them please to the media and everyone involved to stay away from politics during the 4th. particularly in respect to athletes, participating in their games. these calls have been disregarded by some media outlets with a clear hyping up of war attempts for war and escalating political situation in ukraine. even before the opening ceremony was over, several pundits ran headlines. something like a limbic war games seems that the entire focus is on the political situation. in light of the crisis in ukraine, journalists representing western media out. that's also a full t jokes online. during the opening ceremony politics and olympics and avoidable these days. it seems, and we of course, no political boy caught from a number of states like us, canada, australia and the united kingdom in light of what they called genocide against the

population of john province. there were even headlines like genocide games as well . and even fun parts of the beijing olympics, like robotic devices, robotic arms, studying drinks and food here at the breast center in beijing are branded by some media outlets as these still be. and we like to think that at a time in the world comes together, drops the politics and we celebrate the athletes that people have worked so hard to be there for the app themselves. we imagine that they would want to be focused on their sports on, on winning metals and doing the best they can and to represent their country. but inevitably, there are going to be politics that sneak into the games, you know, and here we have the media in the united states. wanting to do really drive that home and really want to create tensions between the ukraine and russia, wanting to insert the united states into that. that's just what american media does . all this comes from wanting to hype up the conflicts or the losing conflict,

as they want to say in ukraine, and to distract from what's happening in this country. what do they do? well, let's start talking about world war 3. let's start talking about going to war with russia. that is something that can certainly distract from the failures that's happening in this country and the media. it's very happy to do that for the administration, having a little more fuel to the fire is the fact that you see as recently lighten its rules when it comes to expressing political views during the olympics. previously, athletes who are completely banned from doing it. now they are only banned from doing it during metal ceremony, but they are free to do it in the field of play unless it interferes with the actual process of sport. so we are in probably for a roller coaster ride of olympics here, and i'm here to cover everything and i will bring you all the latest updates have i get it here in virginia. alexi rush, f t r t reporting from beijing. amid the media storm of hysteria over

a possible russian invasion of ukraine, some journalists just don't bias. one veteran reporter clash with a state department spokesperson this week. as the u. s. failed to provide any evidence to back up its claim, rushes, plumbing a false flag operation to justify will. what is the evidence that you had that suggested that the russians are even planning with matt? i'm not saying that they're not, but you just come out and say this, and they expect us just to believe it without you showing a shred of evidence that it's actually true other than when i ask, or what anyone else asked what the information you said, well i just gave it to you, which was just you making a statement. we do so we do classify information only when we're confident in that information. if you doubt, if you doubt the credibility of the u. s. government of the british government of other governments and want to find solace and information that the russians are putting out. that is that is for you to do. oscar says it is not surprised by get

another string of accusations coming from the u. s. adding that it's reminded of 2003 when the americans made false claims about iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify invasion. meanwhile, the full text of the confidential us nato response to russia's security concerns has been linked that supported document was published by spanish paper. l. bice elliot, suskin taylor, and myself, discussed the contents over the past few weeks. we've seen at the highest diplomatic levels, riley's of accusations, verbal sparring, and that's just what's been happening in public. so we can only imagine what's going on behind closed doors. but now a fresh document leak has all put off a glimpse into what is indeed happening behind those doors. and it's really showed that moscow and washington, alongside nato, a very, very far from reaching any kind of consensus with regards to ukraine issue on indeed 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 hasn't managed to get its hands on the nato and us response to russia. security proposals now will remember those proposals. they were sent back in december, they since triggered a flurry of diplomatic talks and cools, and essentially they requested legal guarantees restricting farther 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 and the 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 vladimir putin warning. but 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? because when you much listen carefully to what i say in ukraine's own doc, try no 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 ne to members will begin military operations in crimea. what do we do? go to war with the nato block? has anyone thought about that or not? so the situation is it seems to me both sides refusing to budge and let him have pigeon said it there in a slightly different context. but what do we do? what's versus reaction been to this must have already sent, follow up questions to this and the document. so clearly there is a desire for continued a dialogue. but most disposition on 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 in that area. michelle, which is ignoring our 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, of the states. so the washing leaders asking,

why must we thought provide 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 reestablish communication long military channels, reinstating the nature office here in moscow discussing arms control, also reducing missile deployment to ukraine. but if we get to the bottom of it, let's be blown. according to this document, the west responds to an almost existential concern of russia says we have here, but we don't care enough to do anything. and this is in fact case clothes, we're not going to 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. unit 6, children were killed at the time, the u. s. conductor,

the special operation in northwest syria, president biden held the mission a success, claiming islamic states chief, had been eliminated. forces carried out the operation with their signature preparation and precision. and i directed the department of defense to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. unicef confirms that at least 6 children were killed and one girl was badly injured overnight in the border town of asthma in the northwest of syria due to heavy violence. while the pentagon says that 2 children and a woman were killed during the rain when the icy sleep blew himself up, the u. s. department of defense spokesperson claims there are quote, strong, strong indications. american forces cause no civilian death. i think though, the pentagon was willing to investigate. we spoke with juliet to mar unicef, advocacy, and communications chief in the middle east who told us that the surgeon fighting is taking a dead little,

especially on the most vulnerable. when we have seen an escalation and violence in that area, what this means is that children pay 1st and they pay most. and if we compare the number of counties 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. we call an old fight and all parties to the conflicts in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children. and it's future video is most of what he said to be the helicopter. us commanders were forced to blow up during that great. you can see what remains. american officials deny that a crash that was shot down. they said the crew is safe. now,

i think it was a mechanical failure that led to the helicopter being detonated. we spoke with locals who say they witnessed the raid. soon as i left them there, there were helicopters flying at low altitude, about 4 or 5 aircraft. then we saw soldiers landing the soldiers target is a house near where i live. the house was surrounded. they spoke through land speakers telling everyone surrender or the house would be destroyed. then the fighting started near inside the house for about an hour. the helicopter carried out 4 or 5 machine gun attacks on the house. okay, bummer. we were preparing to go to sleep and suddenly we heard when the sound of helicopters, my aunt went to see what was going on. she found the sky totally red through loudspeakers to go out. we did that, but then they searched us and hank of my father, they asked our names and what we knew about. and they said we didn't know anything . they asked us to move to the neighboring house and started rating ours. we spoke with all the nicholas davis, he says it's u. s. military rates have led to count the civilian deaths. how can it

be? were killing 6 children to the sake of killing, you know, one al qaeda leader apparently slam estate leader who will quickly be replaced by somebody else. now this is, this is just her ethic and secretary austin trying to come up with new rules to prevent the killing of civilians by force. it's under his command. you know, where the united states has been a war and all these countries and the middle east in the greater middle east over 20. yes. to think that, you know, these couple that we have recently heard about some how unique in the fact that they killed civilians is, is just to be, would be utterly correct. you must, the saudi arabia is deadly incursion into yemen,

grinds on the spice of pledge from jo, bud to help. and it's because alicia led by ria, which is on by the u. s. reportedly targeted civilian buildings in the gym and capital monday, as condemnation goes of a saudi arrow on the yemen detention center that cause the highest number of civilian casualties in years. daniel hawkins has more it's one of the deadliest single airstrikes in gibbons, civil war. starting out even among dozens of such incidents, with the red cross condemning it as the worst incident of civilian casualties in 3 years. and had heard a lot about her. since we didn't have any information that there would be an attack, and we only heard the sound of the strike that i heard it when i was at home. i went out and entered the jail. i saw body parts everywhere. oh i did a lot of us. i heard groans and screams. some prisoners were clinging to the walls . i shined a flashlight and saw a huge number of people. the bodies of some of them were torn apart. others crawled on their stomachs. some tried to get up and walk,

others were locked inside the building when there were 3 strikes the 1st bloss hit, the building on the east side from the side of my house. then to strike came on the western side that lives in casualty estimates in the heathy run detention facility very from 80 to over a 100, with hundreds more injured prisons had been here before. an air raid in 2019 killed dozens as have wedding parties, hospitals and schools. officials from the saudi led coalition denied at responsibility for this strike, then pledged to investigate amnesty international as reports on the incident as well as witness accounts on the ground. point to an all too familiar picture. a u. s. manufactured and supplied bomb, launched by coalition aircraft go aquila, you assign us forces attack to back a prison and city of santa using smart bomb sensor. these bombs are used against ground targets and heavily fortified objects, again at the span. bombs have been used earlier. why these are american bombs,

as they are used by the u. s. navy and air force, as well as the saudi arabian air force. images of the shocking aftermath of hundreds of strikes have been tragically consistent throughout more than 7 years of bloody conflict. at n g o s have repeatedly called out weapons sales for the region as a key factor in the worse and crisis. forsake images that have trickles out of yemen, or jarring reminder of who is paying the terrible price for western states, lucrative sales to saudi arabia and its coalition allies. the one thing as consistent as the stream of appalling images from yemen has been us policy on arm sale to saudi arabia and its allies. 3 administrations, both democrat and republican, have completed billions in weapons deals while the war and yemen has raged. and while trumps enthusiasm for alms deals with saudi princes was well known, there was hope the body administration would be different given but now prisoners

criticism of saudi arabia on the campaign trail and pledges to tone down support. this war has to end. and to underscore our commitment, we are ending all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen, including relevant arms sales. there is a very important distinction between our commitment to not engage and not support offensive activities and operations in yemen, including to the provision of offensive weapons. and the legitimate needs of the king of saudi arabia, in terms of its own defense of the united states, will continue its diplomatic outreach and engage with various stakeholders. reality has been different. the spot, the efforts of some sentences to block off sales weaponry has poured into saudi arabia and billions of dollars into the accounts of us. all the manufacturers

mounting civilian casualties have been no obstacle deciding new deals the latest just months ago. and as, and he owes on groups of certain senators and congressmen call for a change in policy. even decrying the sales is a violation of us laws. it seems for now, business will take precedent. wireless very assurances of change and the stream of distressing images from yemen. well, the weapons which are being used in the middle east have been quite a very long time given by the american. so nothing new because the biggest weapons manufacture right now in the world, in the united states of america, they will continue to do this. they will need to sell because the foreign policy of united states is big paid by the military industrial complex or the money that noise in the but i am real live right now, but will it be is once again, a huge,

really beneficial and the profitable business why do they exclude this is the sales that have taken place between america and america. this is not america anymore. his how a passenger on spirit airlines reacted when staff told him to remove his face mask because it had the anti biden. let's go brandon slogan on that video, the incident got attention on social media racking up more than half a 1000000 views on tick tock during the week. not america anymore. the american anymore. the company here. if i had a b, l, a mass guy, what did it been? okay. what does that mean? like lives out or? no. what does that grand in? what does that mean? it's my name. but isn't it freedom of speech to have this mascot? is it? is it a freedom to see? is this massive home?

i just, i can't, we are massive says let's go brandon. is this anybody? i don't understand. well that the incident happened on the flight from cleveland to tampa. one of the crew said it was unacceptable for the passenger, adam rodonna to display a political statement, citing the airlines policy we spoke to out of himself who says the incident is about the flight attendance, personal views, not the airlines rules. in the public, your, you know, an airline, it's a company that they can enforce, you know, policies and things and things like that. but i still, they get balls on their freedom of speech because it was, you know, it was basically violated. it wasn't spirit. it wasn't spirit policy that i should not wear this. so it was, it was a direct situation with the actual flight attendance. i mean anything will offend anybody. it's all a person all saying it's not, you know,

she might have thought me might, you know, but is it something else was offensive? if i put, if i would have had 24 or black or anything, anything of that sort? what she had told me to take it off, you know, and i don't, i don't think that would be the case. i think if she would have like did, she would have, let me, let me where it. well that slogan, let's go. brandon has become a code for insulting president biden started with nascar driver. brandon brown was being interviewed a few months ago after winning erase the drug behind it began chanting and explained to the president of the reporter in the interview. so they were saying, let's go, brandon. and other madonna again says censorship is killing freedom speech. we do have free speech. i think it's you know, being taken away from us by, you know, one sided censorship. i mean,

you see social media. ready all the time that it's you know, let them jump, supporters will post things taken down or, you know, things that they support. but if you talk to the other side, it's not centered. so i feel like, you know, the freedom of speech there is you know, being, being taken away and it's basically one sided and that wraps it up for this sunday morning news bulletin. appreciate your company. join me for updates in half an hour i ah

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hand and viewing arms races on the other. every now and then, especially in european politics, diplomats and generals get sidelined by demagogues, hold on for training adversaries as not just that job political competitors. but rather as laurel degenerates or even civilizational interiors, i'll be back to the era of or mention in european affairs. well, to discuss it, i'm now joined by a russian and european politics at the university of canada, a 2nd grade to see a great to talk to thank you very much for being available. my pleasure. precisely what in your recent article, you mentioned that the current ukrainian saga reminds you of the cuban missile crisis, which marks its 60th anniversary of this year. and in both cases, genuine concerns one mixed up with postering and life escalation. and i see the relevance of this comparison when it comes to russia strategic interest. but when

it comes to the west or the united states, in particular, isn't just as, as this sensually significant as it was back in 1962 with the placement possible placement of the soviet missiles in cuba. if the, the cuban missile crisis is being repeated. but in a sort of slow motion behavior and the lunch context is important and i'll come back to the cuban issue. and the larger one is that i argue, that we are back in a cold war. and you know, cold war 2. and just as the cuban missile crisis in october, 1062 was as it were, the moment turning moment when both sides, moscow and washington, all of the leaders understood that this conflict needs to be managed to else will co into a hot world. the 3rd world war similarly, that's why today as well, it's a moment of shock, a moment of recognition that actually we have all have sides have to change. but

what you said about.