is this idea that everybody's deserve it, and just that virtue of your being here with yes, another revelation on the so called put files of stuff that lives apparently push to bomb the u. s. president at the time, double drug this like an internal company monitor saying that wouldn't violate policy. a ukraine sees is athens of senior orthodox clerics in the country, and across town declared by president the russian orthodox church. last demonstrations erupt in belgrade in support of ethics served in the breakaway

province of kosovo after troops are reportedly deployed on both sides of the administrative board. and a senior official says the block is disgraced, quite late. corruption, scandal files, the european parliament, vice president is suspended for allegedly taking bribes, middle east and power a good afternoon. good evening where ever you are the world. welcome to international is just gone. 5 am here in the russian capital. as always, it's great to have you with us. i'm more on time. i mean, let's take a look at today's top stories. yet another round of the so called twitter files has revealed the sent within the ranks of the company or some staff members pushed for binding the u. s. president. at the time, donald trump, despite an internal masa saying that would violate policy. all tease came open as

the details. well, this concerns the process through which then president donald trump was removed from the platform. his tweets were shown, and i was indicated from those tweets that you should be banned, but now the latest batch of information that's been revealed from the twitter files shows that if you look at these tweets, it says 75000000. great american patriots voted for me america 1st, they will not be disrespected in any way. we said he wouldn't be attending the presidential and not a ration of joe biden on the, just the 20th of january. the internal discussions that went on between quarter employees show that they really didn't think that these tweets really violated the policies. this is what's been reveal. i'm still struggling to understand the decision not to been trump altogether given he's and citing people to violence that has led to people being killed. and i think we owe people in explanation externally

. i think it would have a hard time saying this is incitement. it's pretty clear he's saying the american patrice are the ones who voted for him, and not the terrorists. we can call them right. don't see the incitement angle here . if you look at it, even though they were clear that those weeds did not violate their policies, that they were adamant that they wanted. donald trump to be removed from the platform. after twitter, employee is determined that they wanted to remove donald trump. they conducted an internal review and this internal review brought forward and interesting results. i also am not seeing clear codes incitement into detail tea. twits. i'll respond in the elections channel and say that our team has assessed and found no violations for the d. j t. one, well, this looks like yet another example of blatant partisan political activity by a social media giants. this is the 5th batch of revelation. one wonders what will

come up next as we just see example after example, after example, a twitter being used in a partisan political way to essentially metal and american politics earlier league, same to the saw of high suppress information that could have been unflattering to democratic joe biden, as he was running for president a couple years ago, the platform is also alleged to have use a so called shadow buying system to limit the visibility of tweets by prominent republican uses. legal and media, alice, ly know, says government agencies have been conspicuously silent amid the twitter scandal between the interests are intertwined. with the platform. in 2005, a number of major league baseball players basically lied about steroid use. nothing happened in 1994 before congress. tobacco executives lied about whether they

thought nicotine, believe it or not, was addictive. nobody ever prosecuted them, so don't hold your breath. may i provide you? the real question was their state action. this is critical in a 1st amendment analysis in our legal system did, did government seek social media to act in essence as a proxy, as an agent to quash, to quell to abrupt 1st amendment speech that the government couldn't normally get to do you use these folks as agents, why have inherited media reported one thing on this subject. now does anybody think that facebook and instagram and google and you tube that they don't censure? does anybody think that censorship is not going on right now as we speak? and who believes this idea of i hate to personally bubbles of eli mosque as this white knight in truth savior. why did elected officials,

a law enforcement meet was social media platforms. how commonplace is this? who, who still banned on twitter in 1975, our own church committee said that reveals that we called operation mockingbird, where our intelligence agencies worked with media. this is nothing new. no, no, this is new. and where is the g o p? where are the republicans, or where, what, what happens is, i have a, a strong feeling that social media absorb all of the energy. that's where all of this goes not into the house because in 3 days this is going to be forgotten. this is the tip of the iceberg. this is so critical and it's, it's international, not just here, but do you think anybody's going to go any further? no, you're going to look at the 1st level of this and focus on this. it's low hanging fruit because you've got these interesting characters who look funny, looks range and, and whether we're lifestyles. but the point that is being missed is simply this.

what the government around the world can't do you get social media to do for you? ma'am, the latest developments in a dumbass, local officials say 5 civilians will confirm killed another 5 wounded from recent ukrainian artillery attacks on the city of damascus authorities. se ukrainian forces conducted dozens of similar effects targeting residential areas throughout the dentist republic. in the past 24 hours, homes and stools were left by the damage and the clinic in the regional capital took a direct hit. russian authorities say you creating officials have killed these 20 people in the city of has on and made a reported manhunt against so called russian collaborators from st. media focus on that new cranium crackdown in a recent feature story. derosa education takes many forms,

including the hunt for collaborators or traitors as this post of i me calls them. alexander is a special forces soldier, hunting down. collaborators is something he does to, for example, has no sympathy for those that were tempted to work with the russians. they have to be hunted down. he says. so no, seeing that the report didn't say what exactly happened to those. so call to collaborate is after they are taken into custody. photos have service online, a power nation. some of those have been taught checks. the credit and government has also been conducting a crackdown on religious figures deemed to be connected with the russian orthodox church. authorities seized assets from several senior domestic clergymen, as dozens of orthodox christian sites, were rated throughout the country. ortiz egos,

dental has the story. russia, the ultimate red rag for ukraine. since the start of the war, key of authorities have been spinning the witch hunt against anything russian. they arrested politicians. they detained oligarchs. no one was immune and nothing is sacred. now. president zalinski has imposed sanctions against 7 clergymen of the ukrainian orthodox church. but what sin did, all these people of faith commit against ukraine will after the fall of the soviet union, the church remained under the authority of the moscow patriarchy, but come to the war. the you'll see denounced and divorced russia, the church scrubbed, all mention of moscow from its statute in hope of atoning. but for key of that was not enough to grant absolution when you call a unique goal and a dose of all, we will never allow anyone to build an empire inside the ukranian soul. all body is

responsible for ensuring national security must intensify measures to identify and counter the subversive activities of russian special services in the religious environment of ukraine and apply personal sanctions. the surnames will be made public soon, for the 7 clerks and question sanctions means they will have their assets frozen. they are banned from land ownership and essentially restricted from traveling outside the country. and this is just the tip of the persecution, iceberg. hundreds of religious buildings, including some of the most sacred ones, have been rated by ukraine security services. and more than 800 people have been investigated. agents even crashed the funeral over ukrainian soldier, leaving the devastated mother to beg to leave them in peace, your pursuing. he's guide them in the mean time and then when it was

good to go on their way. such an approach by the authorities has inspired vigilante groups to hope on this bandwagon to hear a group of ukrainian nationalists stormed a church in an attempt to have believers swap prayers and sermons for singing. the national anthem, a a fears that the zalinski government is essentially paving the way towards the total ban of the ukrainian orthodox church. have prompted moscow to condemn this as

intimidation. the ukrainian government has been at war with the russian orthodox church for a long time. i would say that this should be considered as another link in the chain of these military actions against the russian orthodoxy. and so far this is the only official voice of condemnation in this anti church choir. which leaves key of with a very clear understanding that it has a total carte blanche over this. and we get done of reporting from the dumbass. our t attends the situation in the balkans eyes mass demonstrations of erupt in belgrade and support of ethnic serbs of faced off against authorities and the breakaway province of kosovo. devastated gathering in the halls of belgrade, burning called the flags and seeing petrovic songs, they chanted that causeway submit and denounced western backing of the braithwaite region. his r t contribute to nicholas job, which of his,

with his late take on the latest developments to jason on the go swim and focus has been funded better because you know, peaceful to warm or hot of day to day regarding the barricades and the roadblocks. a suggestion is unchanged except for me to gather up on the barricades . on the other hand, the rest of the serb out his lawyer said that there are still no wants to put him into custody for today's to question whether or not there is presence of any criminal activities around him, which he has been accused of. and i would like to remind all the viewers that his arrest was the start of the barricades and the roadblocks in kosovo. so in that manner, sort of scared now come up with formal requests. so they have several press. one of them is of course release of their fellow citizen than the other one

is withdrawal or quote, the special police forces from the north of course. and they request the serbian military and police forces to return to causal according to resolution from 4 to 4 of the security council from admissions at 1000 of them because from a crush me. so foreign affairs that these tiny, serbian de support disturbing cause expressed support for subs in kosovo. and on the other hand, this gina is still pushing k for to dismantle the barricade themselves. and they threatened to do otherwise in their own matter. so that the barricade current is peaceful, but pensions are still very present and both sides are on the watch cause of a prior to submit an application to join the e. u. in the next few days, belgrade has shawnee condemned that move and customer is not recognized. as

independent by every each member states, the e. u has meanwhile called for a d escalation of tensions in the volatile balkan region. we heard from former senior official, he said, crossover must stop is repression, local ethnic serbs that maybe we do not need anything from others. we only want to save our own our families, the actions of the serbian people. our reaction to the unilateral steps taken by christina, we demand peace. we demand reason from all parties. first of all, christina, and we demand that our unjustly and unconstitutionally detained citizens be released. and that albin, cutty, withdraw all the units that he sent to the north. for him to stop bullying our children and stop hunting serbs for new wave of escalation and casa ruptured at the we can on ethnic served, demonstrated erected barricades prevented prominence. so been national from being

taken by authorities to plus was capital sir. been armed forces were reportedly deployed to the admitted border with cause her claim to be a response to a similar measures taken by the close of authorities. cordova unilaterally declared independence from sylvia back in 2008 for a series of devastating was the former yugoslavia. well, grade has always insisted that crossover is part of serbia. all next story, a senior indian government official has confirmed to r t. but and i know bilateral some it with russia won't take place this year because of scheduling issues as a lot of western media guesswork recently about the to say to relations between the 2 countries. all these runs sharma has the details. 3 days ago bloomberg slashed an exclusive scoop, saying that the annual more deep within summit has been cancelled. now while it's

true, the summit has indeed been cancelled, but not because of the reasons the western media is citing. the reason they gave was that mr. fulton threatened to use nuclear weapons in the war, new green, after which mister moore, the decided not to go to moscow. fourthly, no such threats were made. and secondly, as spoken to senior officials in the government of india. and they have told me very categorically that the decision old, mister moore, the not going to moscow this here, has got nothing to do with any statements or comments made by mister booth. and in fact, as decision was taken weeks ago, this happened because of scheduling issues. it's been a pact. time for india for the prime minister as well in the are saw state elections in good drop as well as the marshal for the is also the winter session. of the indian parliament has just started, it's been a busy time. and therefore, because of scheduling issues,

the annual summit between more the in booth which happens every year last year booth and had come down to india. this year movie was supposed to go that some, it of course has been cancelled and began we had to reading north because the reasons that the western media is trying to side. but because of scheduling issues, as india are, isn't factor is maintaining. let me also point out here that no matter what the western media is saying, or the reasons they are citing, they need to perhaps digest this bitter truth that india is nor taking any fights in this war. also the level of engagement that we've seen between you deleon, moscow. after 24th, the february we've seen the health minister of india, b a with the to more school. we've also seen the national security adviser achieve the wall r as well as the foreign minister of india alpha as j shankar. oh, who recently was it in moscow? so that's the level of engagement, but we knew, deleon moss, could that be?

are talking about perhaps that leaves a question mark on the credibility of western media. and all of these reports that are making rounds. perhaps experts believe that this has been done to created riffs within india and russia. but it seems like that is not happening. given by australian think tank says a country should spend tens of billions of dollars in a new fleet of us self almost made rising tensions with china. we enjoyed the benefit of a tyranny of distance from china, but that could end very quickly. we need to prepare for an increasingly ambitious chinese communist party and in increasingly powerful people's liberation army. we are say, a strategic policy astute positions itself as an independent, impartial, zation. but it is funded by both the national government as well as foreign powers,

including the u. s pentagon and the state department. last year the u. s. government granted about one half $1000000.00 to the think tank. there's a way to put this a dozen b $21.00 south, almost insisting that it would be better investing investment than nuclear submarines. they are cross radar, absorb, and construction, and especially long range capabilities are presented as the main advantages. but even the u. s. a said the bombers are still in a testing phase, and there's currently not a concrete time frame for when they could be delivered. we heard from jeff as will alice to madison, who says, australia's concerns about that alleged chinese threat have stem from an over reliance on policy directives from the u. s. this is a serious abuse all public money. the fact that

a us on the think tank is urging purchases try and searches of us military equipment is at least a serious conflict of interest. and probably the worse, some serious corruption going on. but we have to understand this in the context of the operations of the a strong and military which are largely to serve as an adjunct for the us military adventures all around the world. while you might say the blow back or the backlash from all of the other wars that we've been dragged into, china has done nothing against the strike is particularly interesting. china has in fact been major trading partner and potentially a major investor in australia and to raise the specter of some direct confrontation with china is, could well pose an existential threat to the australian system. so i think you have people across the political spectrum and it's very alarmed about the possibility of a potential conflict with china. why there's no particular rational reasons for it,

except that the, the governing body in camber is indebted to or in slave to this us foreign policy. ah, wireless head to the middle east. now the palestinian prime minister says and israeli soldiers shot and killed a teenage fastening girl during a raid in the west bank city of gen. they is ready, military has admitted that the girl was hit by quote, an intentional gunfire. hundreds of able, gathered near a local hospital to mourn the 16 year old death to the funeral procession on principle group attended the ceremony and express the disapproval israeli military action in the west bank. we heard from some of the deceased of family members about what happened with after these really army storm, the german camp and started shooting. jenna was in the house looking for her pet cat. she opened the door and tried to get her cat into the cage. that is when the

occupation soldier fired 13 bullets at her, of which 4 boats hit her body a little something. the shooting was close to us about 50 meters away or even less . the detectives of the palestinian authority, made preliminary investigations and found out that these railey soldiers were the ones who killed her. they examined the gunshots, which were extracted from her body, and proved to be identical with the ones found inside the house. passing authorities say that is ready, forces have killed at least a $165.00 pounds since this year made rising tensions in the region and his way for a politician report to be tapped or tapped to become the countries. next public security messer has said that israel has actually been quote, to merciful towards the past in territories. call me, she'll sales go, b. i need to go over herself. then you can a t,

i'm with me that you have left secret key and then you get a commercial shimoda name role model himself. you may say leave the hot before or if emo philistine your book a few more for the senior difficult. that's a racist policy. for a government, i'm not going to tell me that my name is much of the quote is a cash only reason for the only is to serve as a general in israel's armed forces before he is elected to parliament. he is considered a close ally of benjamin netanyahu, that space it's a soon returned to the post of prime minister for those controversial comments about posting is have been met with harsh criticism, from influential rabbis, and some rival government officials. but the recent general elections have proven him to be quite a popular figure in the country. we heard from a defense on government policy. analysts who warms that anti piracy and rhetoric

among senior israeli officials could only feel a further escalation of tensions. well retired brigadier general fargo, was it well no military officer. he never voiced such sentiments when he was on active duty and it's quite battling how he came to be 63 missed you when he joins with our bank beer in order to be elected the congested member and perhaps get some old folio, perhaps deputy minister or so it's very unfortunate that he has chosen to use such a language. it does not reflect the views of israel, e military officers. it's important to think perhaps it's an exaggeration in order to drive home to point. but the problem is that such

provocative language could edge to be already explosive environment and dr. extremists on both sides of the students as well. this is ready to move from words to actions. a senior e u official says the block has been disgraced by states as corruption scandal and went to european parliament. vice president has been suspended for an legislate taking bribes from a middle east and power. other top european of his all have also spoken out about the case. we heard from all t, contrary to rachel miles, and as well with her opinions on the matter if members of the european parliament and other politicians can be bought to say certain things to vote in certain ways, it's a disgrace and it makes europe weaker. this for option scandal erupts at the heart

of the european union with 4 people charged by belgian authorities, including that vice president of the european parliament. eva cai leave from greece . there was a rate on the home of a belgian euro. deputy market tera, bella, who's the vice chair of the east delegation for relations with the air of peninsula belgian authorities, paid another no not visit to the home of an assistant to yet another euro deputy. so 16 raids altogether resulting and reported 600000 euros in cash seized on friday by a belgian police and allegations from the belgian federal prosecutor's office, of quote, participation in a criminal organization, money laundering, and corruption. hey, you know, it sounds like maybe ukraine really would fit into the you right about now as the most crock country in europe, per transparency international. so i guess it's no wonder european commission, president ursula vander line isn't really sweating ukraine's corruption problems. it's like out, you know, pay come on in. yeah, you know,

keep your shoes on. everyone else has there. she's on no problem here. but to be fair vander line did call the allegations, quote of utmost concern, very serious. and that's pretty measured. coming from queen ursula of europe for once. she also proposed the creation of an independent ethics body for the e. u and it's institutions. you mean that didn't already exist? maybe that's part of the bravo. for an institution like the european union that preaches to other countries about how to clean up their act, you think that they'd have some strong guard rails in place to prevent the kind of things that these charges allege. the western mainstream media though, is trying to frame it as a cutter problem. just check out the headlights european parliament shaken by her corruption scandal. cut our corruption scandal, rocks, the e u. parliament, world cup a missed opportunity to protest, cut their corruption immorality you,

parliament under scrutiny as cut their corruption prob expanse. why is this not considered 1st and foremost, a european union corruption prob, and problem shifting blame out? the cutter only really serves to stop looking right there where cutter stops. but how many other countries could be enjoying similar lobbying arrangements with folks in positions of political power and influence and brussels. transparency international suggest that this kind of thing is actually pretty commonplace. this is not an isolated incident. over many decades, the parliament has allowed a culture of impunity to develop where the combination of lacks financial rules and controls and a complete lack of independence or indeed any ethics oversight that this is over again. so the big question that really should be asked now the big elephant in the middle of the room is if this is the visible tip of the iceberg,

when it comes to shady activities at the e. u, than just how big is the actual iceberg? and is anyone truly interested in digging any deeper to find out? well whereas up, this is a ppo is on the wall. the pod will be back to the top of the hour with more international news. i will see that ah mm mm mm. welcome to wells apart. as shakespeare contended for centuries ago, war makes was strange bedfellows principle that turkey seems to have.