with good with what is hid? i'm the mother of course. good or she's done it, but of course that ah ah, the physical integrity of the bottled zappa rogia a nuclear power plant has been reached several times. according to the head of the un nuclear watchdog, stacy agencies representatives will remain up the plan also ahead on the program this our e mails released by us attorney's general claim to show the by the administration has been in a quote, incestuous relationship with big tech firms in that censuring content with rick guns up school with there will be noise for country supporting up price cap.

that's the winning from moscow. s g 7 finance chief are said to support to impose our price limit on russian group with live from moscow to the world. it is our team pleasure to have your company today in my name's unit only the physical integrity of the embattled zapatero she a nuclear power plant has been violated nowadays, the view of the chief of the u. s. nuclear watchdog, which is currently assessing the site. i will continue to be worried about the plans. again, we have a situation which is more stable, which is more predictable is abuse. that's the plan. and the physical integrity of the plan has been violated several times by chance, by, by deliberation. we don't have the elements to assess that, but this is

a reality that we with that we have 2 week of nights. and this is something that cannot continue to happen. just some background to those remarks. the mission arrived to the plant on thursday, shortly after ukrainian forces have attempted to seize the sites according to local officials. while the head of the international atomic energy agency has not returned to kiev control territory, the bodies representatives will continue to assess the plans. living to the latest on the front lines, russia, essays, it has taken the key ukrainian defense position of pesky a town west of done yet. the russian, the fence ministry also confirmed a country offensive by key of forces was under way in the her san region. however, it question the results of the passion claim there were high casualties among keeps forces. meanwhile, 2 civilians have been killed after 4 ukrainian missiles reportedly had a residential building in the russia control city off her son. 4 people were

injured not according to local authorities, which also claim western supplied missiles where used the okay to more world news. there is an incestuous relationship between top officials from the biden administration and big tech, the claim being made from the louisiana, missouri attorneys general. after newly released the mil showed more than 40 employees of the current administration as well as some u. s. agencies have been pressing social media platforms to center content. we have already received a number of documents that clearly prove that the federal government has an incestuous relationship with social media companies and clearly coordinates to censor freedom of speech. the department of justice is cowering behind executive privilege and as refuse to turn over communications between the highest ranking

biden administration. officials and social media companies are correspond. rachel blevins joins us in the studio now with more on this. hi there, rachel. pretty extraordinary developments there by the attorneys general the, the, to, than the issue has long been discussed happening. but now it finally seems to be proven . and that's right there, referencing what they say are a series of documents. and now they're saying that these documents show conversations between top social media platforms and around 45 federal officials. specifically when it comes to content, longer ration, and those good old words of misinformation and disinformation that we have heard so much about lately. now, specifically, when it comes to facebook, that's a big one that's mentioned here. and in one of the conversations, a facebook official actually talks about meetings directly with the white house. take a listen. i know our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the white

house expects from facebook on misinformation going forward. in our previous conversations, i've appreciated the way you and your team have approached our engagement and we have worked hard to meet the moment. we've dedicated enormous time and resources to fighting this pandemic, and consider ourselves to be partners in fighting the same battle. now speaking with this information, and there is been this conversation where you had another facebook official talks about reaching out to the cdc directly and asking for help with their policies we have been talking about in addition to our weekly meetings, doing a monthly mison fo debunking meeting with may be claim topics communicated a few days prior, so that the cdc can bring and matching experts and chat casually for 30 minutes or so. yes, we would love to do that. now that line of conversation appears to have gone both ways. here, there are also emails that were sent by the white house coven,

19 response team, in which they were reaching out to facebook, actually asking them to take down an instagram parity account. i'm dr. anthony found, she. facebook's response was to say, yep, on it. so there was no push back there when we had that back and forth between those 2 when it came to content moderation. extraordinary really isn't. it comes right after confirmation by message c o marker berg that the f b. i interfered in the 2020 presidential election by pressuring his company to center ledge, russian misinformation and the hunter biden laptop story to. that's right. you may remember back in october 2020 facebook and twitter took really unprecedented and moves to censor this story about hunter biden's laptop that was published by the new york post office of didn't go quite as far as twitter did. however, mark sucker bird did speak out about that this week. he admitted the f b i reached out to him. now what's interesting here is he said that the f b,

i was warning him should be prepared for some sort of quote unquote, russian disinformation that facebook needed to be on high alert. and so she said that their decision to censor that story was part of them being on high alert. however, does, of course raise the question of how often this happens, how many times has the bi ministration reached out to those social media tech giants and asked them to make certain decisions. and how often have they complied as these emails appear to show them? in some cases they were even asking for more and more direction. they've been called these revelations bombshell, i've used the words myself. extraordinary. but do the revelations come as a surprise at all? well, with this administration, they become almost more and more expected, especially when you have someone like president by then who gave a speech earlier in which you referred to republicans as extremis. there's a lot of building concern about what his administration has done and what it's

continuing to do when it comes to those members of the public that they don't agree with. and it's even drawing some comparisons to a police state like this one. take a list. so that laptop was not centered because it was propaganda. whatever that means, it was censored because it might hurt joe biden. that is a definition of police state behavior. so certainly a lot of daycare and a lot of concerns, especially as we get closer and closer to the mid term elections with top social media jones like facebook and twitter are ready saying that they plan to act against when they see as misinformation, art cars for rachel blevins bring this right up to date on that. rachel, thank you. will the author of google archipelago the digital gulag, the simulation of freedom, dr. michael rectinwald's. believe the white house uses big tech to its own advantage. the government itself, using these big tech monopolies to infringe upon political and other speech

and basically shut down all opposition. now we're talking about direct assaults on the 1st amendment of the united states. that is the freedom of speech. we're always told, you know, these are private companies, they can do whatever they want. they can censor, you know, you don't have to allow somebody in your house to speak things you don't want to hear. but they've proven over and over again that they're actually appendages of the state that they are state apparatuses that are doing the bidding of the state. in particular, the unit party controlled state, the democratic party controlled state that they work for. so they are not private enterprises, strictly speaking, they're actually part of the state and they're being wielded by the state to do its bidding. ah, g 7 finance chief have agreed to impose a price camp on russian or according to a statement released after a meeting of the groups ministers. the move comes despite moscow warning that it

won't supply anyone supporting the move just trying to get to those countries that will join the potential price cap will not be among the recipients of russian oil. we simply will not interact with them in terms of oil on such non market conditions . our oil will go to other markets to those countries that are ready to act according to market conditions. artillio but tranquil has been following developments, all not enjoying us live. hi, there. earlier you have the message coming from the president of direct succinct. that is, it doesn't appear to have either put the g 7 ministers off, or they're just not listening. union. good afternoon. well, russia's response is pretty straightforward. if you're part of the price cap agreement, you will simply not be able to receive russia's commodities to buy rushes, commodities. and i'm saying commodities because actually this isn't only about oil,

but i'll come back to that about a bit later. so what are the u. s. and allies trying to achieve in this case, the plan is to reduce moscow's oil revenues by introducing a limit on the prices while maintaining a global prices. well, we heard from the white house that in the energy field, this is the most effective way to punish the russian government. now when it comes to natural gas, we also already heard from european, the head of the european commission. ursula further line that sheet supports a similar price cap, not only in europe, but also globally, but then immediately comes to question. how can you call that initiative global if for instance, china is not part of it, right? the skeptics are saying that moscow has plenty of alternative consumers,

and i do have to say that there are enough skeptics among western industry experts as well. i don't know of anybody who works in markets who believes this is a workable idea. and i think most of us who work in markets believe that it has dangers associated with it. it invites opportunities to use potential loopholes. and like very often in the past. so we also heard quite enough voices that say that currently in the world, there's simply not enough capacity to replace rushes energy supplies globally. us doesn't have the capacity to fill that up and does the opec producers are not gas producers? any case, there isn't any l n g capacity in the world to make up for the russian exports to, to europe. they were running at about 14000000 cubic feet, and then we have to find the resources to replace. so that's going to take years.

so the near future will show us whether the decision by the g 7, ministers will only back fire on the authors of this initiative, or whether that will really be the most effective way to punish lot of our poor for what's happening in ukraine. yeah. leave a tranquil they're giving us the latest developments on that's ok. moving on. now, this is a story's been talking about for the last few days. turn off the lights, turn down the heat. now is the message increasingly being conveyed to people in

europe as governments scramble to slash soaring energy built. it comes amid fears of a shortage of gas, this winter of sanctions against russia bite. while i am delighted to welcome to the studio, now the former at foreign minister of austria, current can nice so to speak, to on this card and good to have you in the pro. how are you? i think i'm doing very well. thank you very much for the invitation. as i said, we've been speaking about this through for the last few days and every day there's something else that makes you say, really is not the case just to go through that. the european parliament this we ditch plans to renovate some of its buildings. it was going to put new carpets and even a new ad bar as well at to make life a little bit easier for the m p 's there. but at would that in any way or what is that thinking they're in, in, in, in terms of mitigating the energy crisis?

do they have a handle on how serious the issue is? i don't think that people have really got the priority of problems because everybody is still thinking about a gas crisis. while actually we have already entered into a full fledged electricity crisis, which has a lot to do with the half hearted liberalization. after that tricity market that has been underway for the last 18 years approximately and it's an electricity market that is complex, that was made as an incentive for renewables. and that was made as mrs. are from the lion and the commission prisoner has said a for a different time. but that holds true for a lot of legislation that we have seen was in the european union, or whether it's my christian legislation, whether it's energy at legislation, whether it's it's on other topics it was made if you want for sunny days, but not for the rainy days now this you can call also on our di did the wrong, the inadequate legislation as such because either you do it well is do

a full fledged liberalization of the market. and you let market forces work are, or you do a plant economy and a, we have something half way when it comes to, for instance would electricity market. so people are still speaking about heating, you're speaking of don't shower too long, or they're speaking of, of, of tiny things or don't renovate this or don't drive. but it, sir, it's electricity crisis that has 1st of all, a downsize, the purchasing power of people buy sometimes 100 percent because you risk to pay him. now, more for your electricity bills than for your rent. ah. so it's all about purchasing power. it's about of running into misery and it's also about the risk of blackouts because you have a number of power, stacy. yes. are which are risk? her insolvency that has already been in the u. k. actually case in summer 2021 long

before i events of 2022 and a. so when you have a number of power stations closing, that means that the pressure of a switch to european grits ah is oscillating. if i have the correct english term on that was 50 hertz, and it starts somewhere in turkey, and it ends somewhere in the atlas, in mountain in morocco. so it's one huge crate. so if they're in this sir hartzer unit go down to, let's say, 47, which has been the case from time to time. and especially with no wind blowing of sunshine in germany than power stations start to shut down by themselves. it's an automatic shut down. so this is the risk and it's much more then do you change carpets or to your shower to minutes or 5 minutes? it's oh i think people have not yet crass the actual low on the

severity for it. but is that, is that what politicians are seeking? is that what they want? we embarrass johnson saying, buy a new kettle because you'll save 20 pounds a year for that. it is little things about it. is that what the, the government's high officials are trying to say? don't worry, look after the pennies and the pines will look after themselves. but really, the issue is so big here that whatever you do in terms of trying to see of energy as, as, as valiant as that might be. it's only a drop in the ocean depth, kathy and, you know, then deanna topic has to my, i perception. lemme been really and is still we were speaking for about 20 years on lamb, it changed, we even dropped the term energy minister to climate change minister, or in a transition minister. some of them are all themselves so that anna is actually the underpinning fundament of everything. it was never taken, not off,

and i've seen it as, as her as a teacher, as somebody who did briefings for, as i liked this english strong decision maker a schepers, jo fin, the english language was wonderful specific term of the decision shaper and the decision taker the decision shape are, are, are there the high ranking civil servants in a ministry in a company? because the da da, da da da da c o or, or the minister has. it relies on, on, on, on their papers. and also the decision shaping level. in many companies, in many ministries, authorities to myer observation over the last 20 years. they have misunderstood a topic and it breaks and it breaks down till such by now things like market forces, supply and demand. i mean, we have seen as a decrease of to supply wired the, your says imposing energy sanctions against russia. now, i mean, this is a fundamental off economics when you're down size supply even and,

and that was done in a very artificial way. then the price goes up. i mean, this is, this is basic economics, not rocket science. it those remarks by the way, this week at by german foreign minister molina burr, a bach seeing that she is personally committed to supporting key of quote it no matter what german voters think. our european politicians prepared to to risk years of recession to punish moscow for what is happening in ukraine. it is not the level . no, we're out. ah, you know, last time we met that was in mid december and our i answer them one of the questions by saying i cannot imagine that the europeans are going to to do what they are currently doing because the stakes are so high. so that was my real inner conviction. now, 7 months later we see that they went even so the stakes are very high. ah, it's irrational. but we have seen an irrational behavior long before february 24th

. and her indiana, you are accountable towards your electorate. this is a fact or so this is said this will have to be decided by the german electorate. you citizens as you, as you live there are facing huge energy bills. when i say huge, it doesn't really give the full practice of it. it's, it's many, many, many times larger than last year when you look at especially small business owners and people that had no reason to think about being in poverty before are on the verge of it, or on the edge of that. what will your opinion leaders do? will sanctions against russia? if that is one of the main reasons this is happening, will it be seriously discussed and possibly lifted? when you asked me what to do?

i mean, we have seen each and every country right now running for its own. so why, but if i may say, and if your wife does not, not the real common action, i mean that everybody is trying to get the guests that can get on the market. and we see different strategies tactics in france if the internationalization of the largest utility company it if it existed in last. it was nationalized already a few months ago. that was talk about the nationalization in the u. k, which is not european union, but it's also harshly hit by them by the, by the energy crisis. and we have a completely different situation in a federal state like germany. when you're, when you're compared to italy or to france, it's a completely different situation because the federal federally organized utility companies same situation in austria. and they are, they are somewhat even last by but by what's going on because they also participate

in the hatching. for instance, as to electricity stock exchange, watch it in leipzig, and they are overtaken by events, but they also commit to mistakes. and so how will, how this will be handled? i think it would be handled in very different ways. in some cases, my c national i sation. in some cases we might see maybe governments accepting threats. there will be maybe even cutting down of energy supply for a certain period of the day. that there's a confusion and discussion has been going on. like for half a year will and it should be supplied for the industry 1st. and then for the private consumer households where the private consumer house will be priority or use of political decisions. and they will be very different from one country to the

other. but the overall issue on, on a u level, you've got the foreign policy chief usa burrell. recently acknowledging that certain voices within the block are urging a rethink malfunctions how loud, how significant from what you've seen are those voices. you see, when you break it down to the very simple point of departure, when do you introduce sanction? so why were these particular sanctions into to it was to co earth the russian government into a change of behavior. so they did, it was the point of departure have succeeded. no, but their own people are being hurt even more so is that not a more radical rethinking needed now? and definitely there is, but i i, you think they're willing to take the pain because actually it's the citizens who

will suffer. but it's a lot of people have put their heads to fall out of the window. if i ok, if i say that that i would put it in german and to really back now would look foolish that this is why. but on the other hand, also you know, we, we should acknowledge that the very, the very oh, that the genuine point of departure was to change a russian behavior. this is, this is what a sanction is about. so of course you see now they're hurting, and people sat in the beginning. yes, we are going to take that pain. the are ready to do that. that's what the government set are. but always assuming that there will be a change or in action by the russian government. so did this, this is the current situation. the mechanism of how all that works it's,

it's very interesting and it's been in the headlines this week. german chelsea love schultz called at for the e u to start approval measures via majority of food instead of what happens on a unanimous if somebody has it has an issue than it it can't be passed. but they want to change that in germany. but with that, not just silence dissenting voices from smaller states primarily for example, hungary, we know, recently rejected the idea of a total visa band on russian tourists. it's a big issue this anna, it hasn't really been raised now or on the front pages. why this isn't all debate was in the european union and within our several domains of issues, we have majority will thing. but when it comes to foreign policy is deals with full half unanimity. why? ah, because the foreign policy remains that did that the issue of the seller. and if you want to know that the european union is something between ah,

a big international organization, inter governmental and on the other hand, wishing to have a separate national, lo, integration. so it's half way we have to separate national, far reaching integration and, and their majority working on uncertain is this like agriculture, fishing. but you have, are very important competences important for the, for the summer entity of their respective country and foreign policy is one. and that's been a desire by many countries to go into majority voting instead of the compromise instead of the unanimous proficiency problem. if concerns us has its merits and its its logic because the moment you you're, you're going to majority voting, those for older volts it's outward fits, they will do their own thing. and so it doesn't work. what you mean by the way,

that if there is a decision, let's say in terms of no import, fresh gas, you know, let's say by a majority vote, but you will have certain countries will say no, we will continue. ryan ok. just a few more points on this current. if i may, it was the west, particularly the u. s. and the u that impose sanctions on rush in the 1st place. but, but some countries are there pretty vehement in, in, blaming moscow for, for everything, for the, for the current energy crisis. i would maybe put to that in some ways. moscow is, is escape go after 2 years of cobit lock, dine as well. thinking that there was going to be no payback for what they did to their economies ravaged economies as well. russia seems to be the enemy at the right time right now. yeah, i think it's a, it's a very original behavior that started

a long time ago. it didn't stop this year and it's irritates me, and i think it's so much telling that this amount of hatred is amount of blame that you've put on anything that is the right now happening or would you boil it rissa phobia? yes, you can call it, i mean i, i personally, i don't like so much to terms with it is level for bureaus or forbear because it's, it, it can't, it has a lot of connotations, but let me put it like dads, i, i've been watching them the case of iran, the case of the arab islamic world for, for decades, and her even in the worst times when it comes to iran. and iran has been at the margins and he has been that patio if you want for decades. but there never was this amount of hatred and this amount of planing iraq and i'll for, for anything that is happening in, in, in the, in the rest of the world. and now whether it's inflation, whether it's in the history city, bill, ah, whether it's their loss of purchase power, it's all put on on russia. it's all put on the russian government on the president,

which is nonsense is complete nonsense. i mean, if you, if you have a basic economic knowledge and you are aware of the fact that our inflation problem started with quantitative easing, our, when money was simply to print it in order to save the euro in order to get out of the financial, economic crisis of 2008, 2009. so we have a problem with money supply. we have too much money in the market are, which is not any more backed up by a buy something in, in terms of economic production in terms of gold, in terms of commodities, whatever. so it's a, it's an inflation problem that is there. and that started a long time ago, and this is now had we have a galloping inflation now because the uncertainties is rising because it's reflected on so many daily.