ah, with a lease 20 people die in a fire. it's a nursing home in central russia, while 2 others are hospitalized in a political condition. ah, ah, flushes break out in paris after the shooting at the community center. it leaves 3 people dead. the local curtis community, how to run it. it's a racially motivated attack at israel, that designate to prime minister is forming one of the most anti are of government in the country's history. any support by hinting of the annexation of the occupied west with

just gone 10 am on saturday here in the russian capital. my name is peter scott taking over from fiorella isabel. and here's how the world is looking. as we head into the welcome to the program, we start off with some tragic news. at least 20 people have lost their lives in a nursing home fire in the central russian city of came in over. 2 of the victims were taken to us on our reported to be in a critical condition. the fire broke out around 3 30 am local time and emergency services have since he's out preliminary find didn't show the blaze, may have been caused by a faulty boiler. the russian investigation committee has begun a criminal investigation and a local journalist center. this report. i behind me building the ground pieces. the roof is scattered everywhere. nothing remains the building. the fire has already been extinguished. according to the ministry of emergency situations, the blaze occurred in the area of

a 180 square meters. preliminary data from the prosecutor's office, say the far use of the pro ration of the heating device. the government of the region promised inspections will be carried out and such institution in the future to crimea. now where russian defense systems have reportedly repelled ukrainian drone attack at least one drone was reportedly shot down according to local media. an oil depot in the south east of the peninsula was the target and now to the situation in the dom bus, where ukrainian forces have been showing the city of done yet in this, on very 5 footage, you can see the aftermath of those latest strikes. we saw several areas of the city targeted local officials report. the attacks left over 15000 people without electricity and 2 people injured. as the selling continues are see visit

a sites on the border of the guns and done yet, republics, where 3 people were reportedly killed, all corresponded from a cost of such as this report on the ground. 1 1 ah, ah ah, i'm at the border health desk and elegans creegan said the moment this used to be a house at around 2 o'clock in the morning. it was struck by ukrainian artillery. according to officials, ukrainian nationalists used to high precision high mart's rocket against this village. as the result, 3 people, a husband and wife, and a father in law have been killed. yes, michelle, i do motion at 1st. i thought my place had been shelled, so i ran outside,

but there was no one in the street that i saw. my neighbor's house had been destroyed. then firefighters came, but by then there was nothing left to put out. sir gay's body was on the ground below. tatyana and another family member were found in the rubble. their children were lucky, they had left some time before i knew the family, they were good people. i spoke with the mayor of the local village and local residence as well. and according to their witness account, ukraine has been shelling civilians here for the last 2 weeks, continuously. and as the result, free people had died on friday morning and another 3 people. 3 civilians were killed. about a week ago, were mon cosser of r t. done after republic, a law t crew members came on defy in the suburbs of the next city on friday. they weren't

injured, but several people in the area were wounded. we take a close look at the many problems faced by those who report on the front lines and a new documentary shortly after the program aah with with, with with,

with, with on 2 fronts now. when clashes broke out in paris on friday after a shooting. now a kurdish cultural center left 3 people dead and feel this wounded ah

least use tear gas to disperse the crowds as hundreds of local churlish community members gathered near the size of the shooting. the french in terry ministers arrival at the scene only appeared to add fuel to the fire with enraged demonstrates his 3 objects offices, while lighting fires undamaged near by vehicles. we heard from a local reporter who described the scene of the events. i could only feel good on the security forces have arrived. they are right behind me. yeah, the security forces are everywhere. the police are every street. it's very dangerous here. the projectiles have for an all round. that 40 the police have thrown the stun grenade near me, but doesn't purpose is becoming very dangerous here. 69, your suspects has been detained in connection with the shooting and prosecutor say he had a police record and previous convictions for assault on possession of the legal weapon. all the victims are reported to have been kurdish community members and authorities are investigating. if a rachel motive was involved,

a witness shed what he saw do saw a person in his sixties shooting at 3 locations, the kurdish cultural center, a hair dressers and a restaurant. he was moving forward and didn't say anything that when he shot he didn't miss 3 bystanders eventually managed to tackle him to the ground. and 20 minutes later the police arrived and germany doesn't want people to know their culture. well, that's according to a controversial speech by a german politician. he claims that housing migrants under sodom seek was in gymnasiums was bleeding, local schools, dry blendy, this fellow, i want to intentionally say loud and clear even before christmas that it is not our intention to bleed schools, a recreational sports for this asylum policy. and i also don't want to follow the path where we put people who come to us who don't know our culture in multi family

houses. and for that reason i believe social freedoms are in danger. i say on behalf of the party leader, the party executive in the christian democrats in germany, we emphatically distance ourselves from the choice of words of the bouts in district administrator. as a union, we have a very clear, unambiguous and deeply humane stance which is supported by the dignity of every human being which must also be untouchable in language. such language and politics is not worthy of a christian democrat. i can only be ashamed and apologize for that. not only in view of the christmas message, the number of asylum seekers in the country has jumped by a 3rd compared to last year. several cities have started putting them tense unturned convention centers into tempe. accommodation, as, as most places hosting migrants have become overcrowded, one region has even been forced to host refugees in a former airport. meanwhile, over in the netherlands, a courts has exposed double standards in the countries refugee system as it rules that accommodation for non ukrainian refugees are inadequate,

and they must be given the same rights as ukrainian migrants. this comes, as the dutch refugee agency sued the states claiming migrant census do not meet international standards. the danish, pakistani author and consultants on minority right says that the eas, selective treatments of refugees comes down to religious and racial prejudices. ukrainians and white and christian in denmark where i live and the rest of for years and countries ukrainians are considered as european and as one of us. so people from outside europe, especially from middle east, are considered as unwanted because of their religion, culture and ethnicity. it is not a new thing in denmark or in europe, it has been going on for a long time. i have been working with issues for the last 4 years and there are documentation reports which will tell you what i'm seeing. ukrainian, a few g 's come from all type of social classes and even if some do come

from such middle class, there are many other groups like judy and for example, they're all educated. they came from a class but their teacher differently. and the problem is that if you run for your life, it doesn't matter, you come from your grand or shar, whichever country, and you should give protection and you should not be disconnected because you're from middle class who are background with israel now, where designated a prime minister been human, that's not so it. netanyahu has confirmed a new coalition, crazy, one of the most fall rides, governments in the country's history, according to deal. hence the annexation of areas in the occupied westbank could be a priority. the prime minister will lead to formulation and advancement of policies within the framework of applying sovereignty in judea and samaria. while it was

over it all ready that with people like mr. moultrie, for example, they had always rose far rides. really design is and polity put in charge of the territories affairs in the new government. benjamin netanyahu was already planning to pause for a stronger israeli control over parts of today and samaria, biblical name school, the occupied west bank. but this new information seems to take us even further. a number of very important steps were already agreed to strengthen israel's hold on areas. see all the occupied west bank, the biggest go 3 administrative divisions within the west bank that according to the 1993, all low courts was supposed to be handed to the palestinian jurisdiction, but instead was always under full israeli control. israel says that all measures needed for security reasons with fears and concerns. are that a hard y scale confrontation with the palestinians and bring given more violence to

the area? these ear has been the deadliest for the occupied west bank with at least 150 pounds teenagers, and certainly one israeli is killed since the beginning of these here, the highest death. so since 2006 and what's also very alarming, there appears to be little accountability. new data shows that less than one percent of israeli soldiers accused of harming and killing palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip in the last 5 years had ever been charged. the figures for 2017 to 2021. demonstrate the military law enforcement systems, complete disregard for palestinian lives. its conduct precludes any possibility of deterrence and encourages the continued use of a deadly trigger. happy policy that has claimed so many palestinian lives. it seems as though the military law enforcement system, main function is white washing crimes committed against palestinian spice railey soldiers. so nathan, yahoo stepped towards what appears to be a plan for

a complete annexation of they occupied west bank are unlikely to be welcomed by the palestinians, obviously, but internationally, they might be problems who just recently and alleged a new document was leaks throwing the blocks intention to push for a complete re unification of all parts of the wide west bank under palestinian authority. and neither will probably be un support. benjamin isn't. yeah. who's plans really please? this is what it's a cobra report concluded the commission finds that there are reasonable grounds to conclude that the israeli occupation of palestinian territory is now unlawful under international law. owing to its permanence into actions, undertaken by israel tactics, parts of the land de facto into jury, even the years community seems to be worrying hundreds of rubbish in the us for example. and now, pledging to block the members of the coalition design a party from speaking at their synagogues and inside e 0. many politicians have also expressed concerns and fears. but nathan,

yeah. who knew government the most far right in the country's history will buried along the way to to stay solution to these rally pollies feet in conflict then. yeah. now it says that he aims to swear in the new government in the coming week. well, in the meantime, he's not even in power yet, and he's already causing big waves. the high red newspaper, compensates, or, and who's also defense and governments on list. so there's still a chance the new coalition will not be formed is about to swear in government. he's not yet successful, and there is still a slight chance that the government will not before 10. you know, he's desperate to go back to power as prime minister because of his legal trouble. once he's straight from his position, he's actually defenseless. this is why he's willing to pay any price at all to his

partner. and part of the price is the rhetorical concession regard regarding an extension. it is virtually impossible for israel to enact any territory without breaching the 2 peace agreements with egypt and jordan. in addition to the other justified religion, which it will absorb with this is why i suppose the patient is right now saying yes, we will. and next, maybe even moscow will be a next if this is what they demand. but the, actually, he is not going to do it because he's unable to, it will be very, very difficult to go on living under these really system. and there will be resistance go to investments. well,

that's how hillary clinton views ukraine, according to a statement she made falling present. zalinski is addressed to the u. s. congress, making it clear that washington has a horse in this race. no one is asking for a blank check. i believe that the ukrainians have proven that they are a really good investment for the united states. they are not asking us to be there to fight their war. they're fighting at themselves. they're asking us and our allies for the means to not only defend themselves, but to actually win since the starts of 2022, the biden administration has directed nearly $50000000000.00 in aid to ukraine. the majority going towards weapon systems, trainings, unintelligence, of the vast amount of aid when compared to other u. s. recipients. washington, for example, gave afghanistan 10 times less than on your funding. despite a 20 year military involvement. the day after the landscape, congressional address,

the u. s. states approved an additional $45000000000.00 in a key if the decision was made despite recent poll, suggesting that average american vote says don't consider ukraine to be a top priority. both the but and ministration. phone chart shows no signs, overland thing, and it's support of ukraine. journalist and author, daniel lazar says that any ally the u. s. uses to reach its foreign policy goals will serve a hosp consequences. hillary clinton is very happy to have others do. america's dirty work for it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter to her how many ukrainians die, how many ukrainian cities are devastated. as long as the u. s. gets what it wants, and that is essentially a heavily militarized, the nato wise ukraine and a russia that is surrounded and militarily weakened

and eventually leading to regime change in moscow. that's what america wants and, and it thinks that by, by finding a proxy war in the ukraine, that's what it will yet other allies will pay a price as well. and in germany is seeing it, industry gutted. europe is, is relying economically and politically. so they will pay an enormous price to, but the only thing that the washington cares about is america's own fortunes. germany's state secretary in charge of competition has called on the you commission salanza probe in fits with his policies under the use new digital markets. and the tech giant could pose a threat to free speech. author contributes a retro marston pixel. the story complained to the european union's executive leadership about press. censorship is kind of like walking into mcdonalds and

whining about obesity. but that's what german economy ministry secretary of state fen jiggled of the green party just did. he wrote to the european commission demanding that the e u. tackle censorship on the american social media platform, twitter. because he doesn't like how it's new owner. ellen musk is running in changing general terms and conditions, almost every hour, erotic justifications for extensive restrictions on links and the blocking of journalists accounts. not only threatened freedom of competition, but also pose a risk to democracy, freedom of opinion, information, and the press. the you should use all the possibilities at its disposal to protect competition and freedom of speech on digital platforms. you kind of have to wonder how long rip van jiggled here has been a sleeper. what rockies been hiding under. we're talking about the same european commission that keeps arbitrarily sanctioning journalism, appearing on any and all russian platforms. the end result is that citizens living

inside the supposedly free and democratic europe, smack up against the eas information, iron curtain whenever they want to see news. an analysis on these platforms of the you doesn't like which people elsewhere in the world all the way from vietnam. to brazil have absolutely no problem accessing. jiggle, never spoke up about press censorship in the front of democracy there, but now he's demanding action against mosque in twitter, and he's not the only one either. you commission vice president for values and transparency. yeah, that's an actual title. veered to rover tweeted recently, quote, news about arbitrary suspension of. busy jurists on twitter is worrying, and she said there they are, quote red lines and sanctions soon. so she's threatened must, with sanctions for the kind of press censorship that the e u practices itself. is it a surprise of these journalists band briefly on twitter by musk? we're establishment journalists and not anyone in particular known for ruffling the establishments feathers. where are these european champions of press freedom,

one must disclosed recently after taking over twitter the extent to which twitter knowingly greenlit accounts belonging to the pentagon. in order to run covert online influence campaigns to push washington's official narrative redated the conflicts like those involving yemen, syria, iraq, and kuwait. or where were they, when it came to the western mainstream media attention that the most popular western social media outlets like twitter and facebook are chocked full of former f b i and cia officials and were closely with the intelligence community on a regular basis. so how do we know that's the case? because after must forked over $44000000000.00 to buy twitter and got his hands on the company's internal documents. he started releasing them through select journalists on twitter, blowing the whistle on practices that pre dated his ownership. interesting that it's only now when mosque is revealing the truth about the kind of narrative gate keeping that went on involving western intelligence and western officials that

these european leaders suddenly want the you to get must on a short leash. why isn't the german official jiggled asking the e you to look into the new study just released by the university of maine's, concluding that the german language mainstream reporting on the ukraine conflict has been super biased. while ukraine of president zalinski were mostly wrote to positively in the media, russia and president putin will almost exclusively writer, negatively diplomatic negotiations were presented as meaningful. in less than half of the cases, only spiegel writes, diplomatic measures is more sensible than the delivery of heavy weapons. while for all other media, it was the other way around. your frame was portrayed positively and 64 percent of all the coverage and russia negatively. and 88 percent of the german language media coverage. the study also found that a whopping 93 percent of german press reports attributed blame to russian president

vladimir putin or to russia while just 4 percent of the news items attributed any responsibility to the west. ukrainian responsibility was evoked just 2 percent of the time and 74 percent of items promoted western and german military support to ukraine. quote, extremely positively. but apparently, all that has escaped the radar of this esteemed german official and his european colleagues who are very concerned about press freedom suddenly, but seemingly only one. it affects the ellison journalists that they like and who don't pose much of a threat to the big establishment narratives. well, that's a rob for now. my name is peter scott. i'll be back again at the top of the hour with all the latest news and views and right on on to see them with

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the who's it's very difficult to be a whistleblower, especially when thought goes into the decision. the stakes are very high, particularly when the national security is involved. in almost all such cases, the whistleblower faces the prospect of losing friends of having co workers turn on him and even the loss of relationships with family members. but add to that the hostility from the f b i. d i a and even the white house. it's one of the most daunting decisions any person could ever make. i'm john to reaku and you're watching the whistleblowers, the. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 welcome to the whistleblowers. i'm john kerry otto. today we're going to look at a u. s. national security whistleblower case that is ongoing as we speak. this is

a case of steven friend an f. b. i. agent who recently blew the whistle on an increasingly politicized f. b i. for his trouble, the 12 year f, b i, veteran and member of the f. b. i's. special weapons and tactics team was stripped of his gun and his badge and escorted out of the building. let's start this story from the beginning. stephen friend did exactly as he was instructed to do when he made a complaint to the f b. i inspector general saying that the f b, i's leadership, has become increasingly politicized. he offered proof that the f, b, i's washington d. c. field office was exaggerating the threat of domestic terrorism, even calling parents who complained about educational curricula in their children's schools, potential terrorists. he argued that many of the f b i targets were having their civil rights and civil liberties violated in the specific incident that led to his whistle blowing. steven friend was ordered to

participate in in daytona beach, florida, where the f b. i was going to arrest people who were alleged to have committed misdemeanors, minor crimes. he told his leaders that this violated f b. i regulations and constituted an illegal use of force. he said that he had taken an oath to uphold the constitution, and that he would not participate in an illegality. that was the end of his career . we are privileged today to have with us f b i whistle blower, steven friend steven, welcome to the show. thank you very much for having it. we're very glad to have you and i'd like to begin with something that your attorneys have said to the media in some quarters you've been wrongly painted as a right wing extremist. your attorneys have told the media that your whistle blowing is very simply not a partisan issue. you didn't vote for donald trump in 2020 elections. instead, you had a genuine concern for protecting the civil rights and civil liberties of americans

. and you took, took your oath to the constitution seriously. was this your calculation that americans, civil liberties and civil rights were being violated? but nobody was doing anything about it without question. that's, i've always said about myself that i'm a centrist in that the constitution is the only thing that really matter to me was go from personal politics standpoint and also just from a professional standpoint. so when i had the opportunity to look into some of the january 6 investigations and realize people were doing the. ready so how to step with the rules. i really grew on my heart strings in that regard because the due process clause in the 6th amendment and the cruel, unusual punishment and the 8th amendments who are in there. and that's what i brought to the attention to my supervisor when i made my disclosures. why when the f b, i fire you when you made a legally protected whistleblower.