ah ah, in the stores that shake the weekend off to you to national russia shuts down the moscow office of jones and broadcast at deutsch avella off to berlin blocks off assist channel r t t e. rules are apparently not for every one. australian cunning team player is allowed to compete in the beijing winter olympics despite all of a sudden testing positive foot cove it and at least 6 children killed at northwest syria. as american commandos claim to have taken out the leader of his la mc stay for the same time and place with an awful lot of stories making headlines all around the world this week. let's pick

out some of the top ones here. it's ortiz weekly program. so germany's media regulated this week, band or sister channel r t e, across all platforms. in retaliation, russia shot down the moscow bureau of german broadcast, at deutsch avella, the foreign ministry warning of possible further measures. a correspondent donald quarter takes it good luck. it was this week, the 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 organisation and distribution of the tv program by a live stream on the internet for the mobile and smart tv up asi news, and via satellite miss death will be discontinued. what was russia left to do, but to respond and kind deutsch. evello 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 every one complicit in this enormous censorship campaign against r t. russia is drawing up a list of representatives of states and public stretches in germany, involved in the streets in 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 and 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 r t 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 r t d e 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 say r t d can't operate their 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 g d e z kindly broadcasting without the license. and the trauma has not applied for license the german state media officers decision was based on this. this is a completely different situation to deutsch, vela, his license have been revoked. profit,

this was the 1st time or even maybe the 2nd time r t was obstructed from broadcasting. one might say russia 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 to film director morton traffic, he says the band on r t d e is aimed at silencing those who challenge mainstream narratives 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 to 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 toward

a curated or controlled media world. or this is obviously, i think, connected to the prevailing political situation not least connected to ukraine. i would suspect it's de 2 of the beijing winter olympics and australia has one is 1st ever limpid coding event, despite a team member testing positive cove. it on saturday. a correspondent lexical shasky reports from the host city. when to lympics are continuing in the chinese capital beijing, and we may have a 1st scandal of big proportions here involving australian curling team. now on saturday night, one of the team members, actually gil, was tested positive for corporate. however, on sunday morning, the chinese authority said that she was clear to participate in the competition while observing close contact rules while looking at curling and the way this game

is played. you cannot imagine any way that this is free of any calls contacts. jill herself was probably very surprised to hear the news already admitting she was heart broken. and the official explanation from the chinese authorities was that her copied readings were too low. and that's why she was allowed to participate. i had a look at how this was actually happening. and obviously gill had no mask on whatsoever . a move like that would seem as a very heart warming gesture from the health authorities to allow athletes with low symptoms, of course, 19 to participate in the games. had it not being for multiple heartbreaking stories involving many athletes from across the planet who had been preparing for the games for, for yes. tested positive up on arrival and were forced to miss out on the lympics. here in beijing, such as the case of a russian by athlete was salva, who was immediately taken into isolation upon arrival,

having tested positive for covet. and just a few days back, she put a post on instagram describing horrible conditions as she described it. she has been kept in on top of that, there are many cases involving colleagues of mine, journalists who have also tested positive. i'm been locked away and even more so those who were on the same plane with them and was sat next to them despite testing negative, are also put into mordor itself. isolation, just to remind you that all of us here are living in a bubble. we are, the allows to be inside the hotels and at olympic venue were not allowed to go into the city. but with all these new regulations and rules imposed by the chinese authorities. all this seems like an unnecessary requirement for us here. why are we supposed to be in a bubble when people like gil, are allowed to participate despite having tested positive for corporate, or at least it's not all that sour for many athletes winning golds and fill those

already. that is the case of alexander bush and off of the russian olympic committee team who managed to win gold in the sky race. and that is the 1st gold for the r o c team here in beijing. of course i'm keeping you updated with everything happening here in the chinese capital electra, the rti reporting from beijing and china. well, i mean, the top stories are shaped the week here. when i see a veteran reporter clashed with a u. s. state department spokesperson this week, it was all, as the officials in the state department failed to show any evidence that of russia or according to them, was planning a false flag operation to justify a war with ukraine. what is the evidence that you had that suggested that the russians are even planning with matt? and i'm not saying that they're not, but you just come out and say this and 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, why just gave it to you,

which was just you making a statement. we do so we did 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 you know, find solace and information that the russians are putting out. that is, that is for you to do. what i want to go said is not surprised by the latest accusations thing. it basically hawks back to 2003 reminiscent when washington made the false claims about rocky weapons of mass destruction. meanwhile, the full text of the confidential us nato responds to russia. security concerns has of course, been leaked. document was published by the spanish newspaper l. payees. it was later confirmed as authentic by washington discussing the contents, my colleagues saskia taylor and we'll have 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 and publics. 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, uninsured. well beyond move, not that does seem to be almost a blind unwillingness from the military alliance to recognize any of russia security concerns. now, the spanish language paper 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 calls, 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 commitments to nato's open door policy under article 10 of the washington treaty. we have of course, requested comment from both nato and the u. s. state department. but if we take just this document, it seems that it is an open shot case. them, they will not compromise. that is despite flat and person warning. 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 assistance? 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 public. imagine for yourself that ukraine and nato members will begin military operations in crimea. what do we do? go to war with the nato block? has anyone thought about that?

so the situation is, 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 most has already sent, follow up questions to this document. so clearly that 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 a countries choices have ramifications beyond its borders and actually pose 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 right of states to freely choose how to ensure

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 once not allow the strengthening of any one security at the expense of the security of other states. so there was only asking why must we sacrifice our security that someone else can feel safe? not said it would be remiss if i didn't point out that the document has some encouraging moments. i'm talking about reestablish communication long military channels, reinstating the nato office here and moscow discussing arms control. so reducing missile deployment to ukraine. but if we get to the bottom of it, let's be blown. according to this document, the west responds to ne, 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 fundamental 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, we spoke with political analyst chris barry. he said that her nato has gone from being a defensive block to now being a brother aggressive one. allison, this room here is the question of need to expansion. i'm not document tries to avoid the fact that a promise was made to mikhail gorbachev on the head of the soviet union. promises made by the americans to be no need to expansion into eastern. you're an almost soviet republics. that promise which no the americans are trying to deny that for me or they just say it's a bible promises that has obviously been broken. i don't this need to in the west simply play hardball by saying the going to contain is open to

a policy towards ukraine. not as a c inside as a say that it's unlikely ukraine will ever be allowed to join. natal bought the appointment hardball, which seems to me an aggressive policy in relation to russia. they expansion in eastern europe, expansion into the former soviet republics is a long way for being defensive warms based on the north atlantic. so nice is rule is fundamentally change and become an aggressive one. go become for you, that's all here on our team. london's police chief is back in the spotlight. off the report reveals disturbing private messages between officers. joking about rape and murder. that full story on the rest of your week highlights with back just use. oh, i use join me every thursday on the alex sermon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the

world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me back. kaiser's financial survival guy, housing, rob, oh oh, you mean as a downside artificially mo morgan could not get carried away. what kind of report ah, in october 1962 in a period known as the cuban missile crisis united states and then the soviet union were on the brink of war, fast forward to february 2022. and the americans and russians find themselves in a similar to a perilous situation. this time on the russian ukrainian border will diplomacy as in 1960 to be enough to prevent war in 2022. mm

ah. all right, your weekly highlights here one r t, so a police watch dog and the u. k. has revealed at a stoping internal cultural muscle. jeanie, an attitude on sexual violence at warning. you may find some of the upcoming contents offensive. the report includes private messages between officers of the metropolitan police force which does serve greater london. and one and officer says he would like to rape a female colleague and other jokes about getting a woman into bed using a knife. so our correspondence investigates the findings, arguable incidents of hate crime involving races, sexism, 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 sacked. 9 of the 14

investigated are still serving in the force. one another holds a contract staff role. now the commissioner faces calls to go, but not just from the public, but senior politicians, as well as former high ranking officers, were not seen one instances. we've seen now too many instances of the most appalling behaviors. i also think it shows a feeler of leadership in some quarters. the match police may be the worst for institutional muscle, jeanie and racism, but they're not the only ones. only a statutory judge lead inquiry will do. only new leadership will do. surely, christina, dick can not be proud of her record. when this is the norman charing cross neck, yet her 6th through your salary pot was renewed last auden, which feels like rewarding failure. the defense just bank apparently. in fact, the independent office. so please conduct found an officer was named 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 london, isn't 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 ever that what investigate to say, the insidious culture is widespread. we believe these incidents are 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 right and murder of sara evarado by a serving metropolitan police officer known to colleagues as the rapists. during his earlier corin, i'm just the meta serious about ridging the force of rotten abuses of power. surely those individuals must go off to all it's a toxic, dangerous culture that yet again, leadership times

a blind eye to any cost when we actually started or an issue and the bed used on these for all work and that one investigation, actually mushrooms and to 9 separate investigations and what we uncovered were cds. so the thing that was happening here was that it doesn't just have a public on it also has a devasted. ready on the internal culture within the b service, because these officers that were involved with the women, they were officers who come from different cultures and back please service as the promot culture, which supports officers no matter where they come from, what their sex it. 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 ah, unit f says 6 children were killed at the time. the u. s. conducted a special operation in northwest syria, a biden hail that mission a success, claiming that the chief was long state, had been killed or was 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. the pentagon says 2 children and a woman were killed during the raid when the ice leader reportedly blew himself up . u. s. department of defense spokesperson claims there are quote, strong,

strong indications. american ford has caused no civilian death. so we did speak with juliet tumor of unicef, though about the cost of violence in that country. when we have seen an escalation and violence and bad area, what this means is that children pay 1st and they pay most. and if we compare the number of casualties of children during the month of january in comparison to 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 conflict in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children and its future. meanwhile, video is emotional was said to be the helicopter, that us commanders will force to blow up during their re. you can see what's left

of it. american officials deny it crashed over shot down. they say the crew is fine, adding that it was a mechanical failure that led to the helicopter being detonated. oh, that we did speak to some locals who say they witnessed the raid. soon as i let them there, there were helicopters flying at low altitude, about 4 or 5 aircraft. then we saw soldiers landing the soldiers targets as 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. about an hour the helicopter carried out 4 or 5 machine gun attacks on the house. but we were preparing to go to sleep and suddenly we heard wind and the sound of helicopters. my aunt went to see what was going on. she found the sky totally red. they asked us 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 our neighbor. we said we didn't know anything. they asked us to move to the neighboring house and started rating us.

well, the operation in syria is believed to be the worst case of collateral damage since the us drones strike on cobble in august which killed 10 civilians, including an entire family, but also nicholas davies. things that such tragedies, or just the tip of the iceberg. united states has been a war and all these countries in the middle east, in the greater middle east, over 20. yes. the last few months. we've had a couple of incidents where just because of the circumstances ah, the united states has not been able to deny the fact that it killed large numbers of civilians have just been thousands and thousands of attacks. and to think that, you know, these couple, but we have recently heard about some how unique in the fact that they killed civilians is, is just to be would be utterly credulous. a passenger on

spirit airlines is crying censorship. off the staff told him to remove his face mask because it had the anti biden slogan, let's go brandon on the front of it. a video of the incident, but pretty big on social media, 500000 views on tick tock during the week. not america anymore. the not america anymore. the company here. if i had a b, l mask on what did it been? ok, what does that mean? like like that or? no. what does that grand in? what does that mean? it's my name. but isn't it? freedom of speech that have the mascot. is it? is it a pretty massive home? i just, i can't, we are massive says let's go brandon. like this. anybody, i don't understand. the incident happened on a flight from cleveland to tampa. one of the crews that it was unacceptable for the

passenger item or donor, a display, a political statement, citing policy of the airline. we spoke to adam himself, who says the incident is about the flight attendants, personal views, not the airlines rooms. in the public, you're an airline, it's a company that they can enforce, you know, policies and things and things like that. but i still think it falls under freedom of speech because it was, you know, it was basically violated. it wasn't spirit, it wasn't spirit palsy 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 and it's not, it's all a personal thing. it's not, you know, she might have thought me might, you know, but is it something else was offensive if i but if i would have had, you know, by the 24 or 5 mad or anything, anything of that sort. what she had told me to take it off, you know,

and i don't think that would be the case. i think if she would have like did, she would have, let me, let me wear it. that slogan, let's go. brandon has become a code for insulting president biden started by nascar driver. brandon brown was being interviewed a few months ago after winning a race. the crowd behind him began chanting and explaining that the president, but the reporter thought they were saying, let's go brandon. a passenger i remember don't or again says censorship is killing freedom of 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 all the time. that if you know, lot of, you know, jump supporters will post things, you know, they'll be taken down or you know, things that they support. but if you talk to the other side,

it's not censored. so i feel like, you know, the freedom of speech. there is, you know, being, being taken away and it's basically one side of all right, highlighting some of the top stories over the weekend of the day with the weekly program. hereon, audience measurements, what hop off 6 now sunday evening. thanks for joining us. more highlights to come when we were at the top with with

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ah, welcome to worlds apart. competing interest and power politics have existed as long as nation states came into being spurring the development of diplomacy on the one hand and viewing arms races on the other. every now and then especially in european politics, diplomats and generals get sidelined by demagogues who dance on portraying adversaries as not just the geopolitical competitors. but rather as laurel degenerates or even so is ational inferiors. i'll be back to the era of winter or mention in european affairs. well to discuss it, i'm now joined by richard sock was professor of russian and european politics at

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