hey, i in the story to shape the weak aeronautics international. russia shuts down the moscow office of german broadcast, at deutsch avella. it's off the berlin block, sought assisted channel archie. the iep rules are not for everyone. and australian curling team player is allowed to compete in the beijing winter olympics despite the testing positive cove. it at least 6 children are killed in northwest syria, that the american commandos claimed to have taken out the leader of islamic state at the same time. and the same place with a lot of stories making headlines around the world this week. let's grab some of

the top picks, hey, remittance, he's weekly program. so germany's media regulator this week, ban dos, just a channel r t t across all platforms. so in retaliation, russia shot down the moscow bureau of german broadcast, at deutsch avella, the foreign ministry warning of further measures to come. our correspondent donald quarter takes a good look. it was this week, the biggest violation of freedom of the press in germany. the countries 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 structures in germany involved in the streets in the broadcast of all c d and putting pressure on the russian media outlets who 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 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. or you can still appeal the decision, but how much good will that do at this point? almost immediately after r t d 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 our t d. 's success, which i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics they using say 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 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 velez. his license has been revoked.

profit this was the 1st time or even maybe the 2nd time r t 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 to phil direct morton traffic. he says, the ban on our tv is aimed at silencing those who challenge mainstreamed 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 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 australia has one its 1st ever limpid calling event, the beijing winter games, despite a team member testing positive for cope it on saturday, a correspondent elected shasky reports from the host city. winter 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 attack lee gill was tested positive for call it. 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 on 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 . and move like that would seem as a very heartwarming gesture from the health authorities to allow athletes with low symptoms. of course 19 to participate in the games. how did not be in 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 west new salva who was immediately taken into isolation upon arrival, having tested positive for corporate and just a few days back, she put

a post on instagram describing horrible conditions as she described it. she had 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 are 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 lie, gill, 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 alexandra bush,

off of the russian limbic committee team who managed to win gold in the sky race. and that is the 1st goal 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, also in the week's top stories are not he of better in or pulled her crashing with the us state department spokesperson. it was a officials that fail to show any evidence to back up a claim that rushes 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 math? i'm not saying that they're not, but you just come out and say this and expect those 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 class by 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 dollars and information that the russians are putting out. that is, that is where you to do most go. so it is not surprised by another string of accusations, say good hogs back in 2003, when washington made false claims about a 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 lp east and later confirmed as authentic by washington. so my colleagues saskia taylor and neil harvey discussed the contents over the past few weeks we've seen at the highest diplomatic levels, riley's of accusations of verbal sparring and that's just what's been happening and public's. 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's security concerns. now, the spanish language paper hasn't managed to get it comes on the nato and us response to russia. security proposals now will remember those proposals they were sent back in december. they fin triggered a flurry of diplomatic talks and calls and essentially they requested legal guarantees, restricting father 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 under 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 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 associates? just because when you much listen carefully to what i say in ukraine's own doctor. i know 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 nate 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, it seems to me both sides refusing to budge and let him pitch and set it there in a slightly different context. but what do we do? what's versus reaction?

been to this, moscow has already sent, follow up questions to 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 a country's 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, even though you know shows abortion is just 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 other states. so the washing liters, 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 the 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 normal, existential concern of rushes, as we hear you, but we don't care enough to do anything. and this is in fact case closed. we're not gonna 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. we spoke with political analysts to chris by murray. he says that nato has gone from being a defensive block to an aggressive one. now wanted to room here is the question of need to expansion and not document tries to avoid the fact that a promise was made to mikhail gorbachev on the head of the soviet union, a promise made by the americans to be no need to expansion into eastern europe and the former soviet republics, that promise which no the americans are trying to deny is ever made, or they just said above all bottle promises that doesn't come. that has obviously been broken. i don't this need to in the west simply point hardball by saying that it can be obtained is open to a policy towards ukraine. not as a c. inside. does it say that it's unlikely the ukraine will ever be allowed to

join nato, but the appointment hardball, which seems to me an aggressive policy in relation to the russia. the expansion in eastern europe expansion into the former soviet republics is a long way for being a defensive warms based on the north atlantic. so nice role is fundamentally change and it's become an aggressive one. are plentiful highlights still the comrades were doing the weekly program here on the sunday life from moscow. london's police chief is in the spotlight again after a report reveals disturbing private messages between offices. joking about rape and murder, that full story. i'm the rest of your weekly highlights. we're back in just a moment and the to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation,

let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical time to sit down and talk to others, driven by dream shaped bankers. and those with dares sinks. we dare to ask in with

stories of the week here on our t international. a police watchdog and the u. k. has revealed a rather disturbing internal culture of mr. johnny and attitudes on sexual violence wanting. you may find some of the upcoming contents offensive. the report includes private messages between offices of the metropolitan police force which does serve greater london in wind. an officer said he would like to rape a female colleague, while another one jokes about getting a woman into bed using a knife. so our correspondent investigates all careful incidents of hey crime involving racist, sexist and homophobic messages have been discovered by a watchdog investigation into the police. thousands of messages taking place between 20162018 were reviewed. only 2 officers sucked. 9 of the 14 investigated are still serving in the 4th, while another holds

a contract to stop role. now the commission of faces schools 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 obliteration 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, christina, dick cannot be proud of her record when this is the norman charing cross neck. yet her 6 to your salary past 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 mac, 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 everyone 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 of the post 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 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 dix watch. institutional feelings were placed under intense scrutiny by the rate and murder of sir 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 and that both to all is a toxic, dangerous culture that yet again, leadership times

a blind eye to any cost. when we actually started our issue and david used on the all work on that one investigation, actually mushroom and to 9 separate investigations and what we uncovered were seated. so the thing that was happening here was that they thought it doesn't just devastate public confidence. it also has on the internal culture with the b service because these officers that were involved with women, they were officers to come from different cultures and back p 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? unicef says 6 children were killed at the time. the us conducted a special operation in northwest syria, a biden held that mission a success claiming the chief overs lovick state 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. the pentagon says 2 children, other women were killed during the raid when the ice is lita report, lea blew himself up. the u. s. department of defense folks both and claims. there are quote, strong, strong indications. american ford, his cause no civilian deaths,

that we spoke with judy, a tumor of unicef, about the cost of violence in that country. when we have an escalation and violence, and that's area on 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, 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 conflict in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children and in future. meanwhile videos are most of what said to be the alec up to the u. s. commanders were forced to blow up during their re, you can see right there, what's left of it. american officials denial crashed or was shot down. they said it

was a mechanical failure that led to a helicopter being detonated. are we supposed to locals to say they witnessed the right? 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 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 of ok mama, 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 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 tom neighbor, we said we didn't know anything. they asked us to move to the neighboring house and started rating ours. the operation in syria is believed to be the worst case of

collateral damage, since the drones toys can cobble in august which killed 10 civilians, including entire family, but also nicholas davis. things that such tragedies may be 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 for over 20 years. 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 you know, large numbers of civilians have just been thousands and thousands of these attacks . and 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 crazy. i to the law story of this, i was weekly here. we're not t,

a passenger on spirit headlines is crying censorship off the stoffel him to remove his face mask because it had the anti biden slogan at. let's go brandon on it. a video of the incident. i went viral on social media, half a 1000000 views on picked off during the week. not america anymore. the america anymore. the company here. if i had a b, l, a mass gone, what did it been? ok. 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 that have the 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. like this. anybody, i don't understand the incident happened on a flight from cleveland to tampa. one of the crew said it was unacceptable for the passenger, adam, or donor to display a political statement,

citing the airlines policy. we spoke to adam himself. he says, the incident is about the flight attendants, personal views, not about the airlines. 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 think it falls under 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 and it's, 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 2024 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 where it slogan. let's go. brandon has become a code for insulting president biden. it started with nascar drive abroad, and brown was being interviewed a few months ago after winning a race crowd behind him began chanting and explain it, but the president, but the reporter thought they were saying, let's go brandon. passenger adam rodonna again says censorship is killing freedom of speech we, 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 if you know, lot of, you know, jump supporters will post things and 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 i, there are some of the top stories of the past week highlighted this hour with the weekly onasia. appreciate you spending a time with us here. thanks for that. most tories is still to come to the top of the hour. they will be the top highlights of the week with my colleague union o'neill with 100 mic. no, certainly no board is under slide number t's and you farish as emerge. we don't have a terribly, we don't to look back seen the whole world needs to take action to be ready. people are judgment,

common crisis with we can do better, we should be doing better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great, the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. my situation is the world's most over fish see unsustainable exploitation of its fish dogs, which maureen biodiversity under great threat. his medicine is the lesson of getting a quote on us from sugar sinuses. he cut us this one. i'm not going to pulling cookie careful for a tech and want to put our lives despite the ease. promise is to end over fishing by 2020. the situation is changing to slow. well,

i'm very disappointed with the politicians that they basically not in public interests. they also do not in the interest of the fishes, the only interest of the fishery lobby and the facial the only ones in danger. the fishermen also at risk of losing all of them before they get to them about that. i'm a bubble thought, i guess it might be with liberty viewership with .