win in these was i knew it was defeated by the taliban with just a fraction of the resources that the u. s. military had and the u. s. a. back to afghan army. that was, as we spend tens of billions, i think over $80000000000.00 pro training that just evaporated. so it is astounding that the american public doesn't say what are we doing, and why are we throwing so much money into this military? that doesn't even when was and isn't this a time to really cut the pentagon budget, which is something that our organization is really involved along with david groups when without war and sarah flanders, i mean we are trying to push for a real grassroots up pricing to say, why are you throwing more money at this military and the death and destruction that's here it talks about is not just the military, it's through the economic warfare that is now one of the major ways that the u. s. wages. these words with sanctions that are so cruel and barbaric that they're designed to star people so that people will rise up against these governments. so yes, there is a lot that needs to be exposed to bad. b u. s. policy overseas, but more importan

u. s. history and the history of the major dean. isn't this another case of a terrible blow back that isis k is actually a kind of descendant of british and u. s. policy in syria since 2011? well, i don't think so. i mean, i think what happened in to take it back to the iraq serious theater. is that after barack obama withdrew american forces from iraq in 2011. because really what could go wrong everything. everything was taken care of best plan isis arose in western iraq and, and eastern syria. and we had to go back in to counter this new threat or more virulent form of al qaeda. so i hardly think that it was in reaction to our withdrawal that we saw isis arise. i think it was the spread of this terrorist mentality which, which was a courtesy thing to read. of course one can say that then it's still a descendant of u. s. u. k. policy because of the invasion of iraq. i mean, i, the, i the way with them i, well, maybe it all goes back to british imperialism in the 1900. everything does a mazda. huh. no, this is more recent over the, the 2001 war i should. i mean, before we leave h

u. s. is continuing the case against julian a such a earlier this year, a british judge denied washington's extradition request. ruling julian assange would be a suicide risk if put in a u. s. prison back the american authorities have a hearing is set for later this month. a sanchez lawyers will forward over the yahoo board, which may have bolstered the case against extradition on the grounds that the british judge used to block the u. s. government's request for extradition were pretty narrow. they were about the risk of suicide. that assange would face where he served time in the u. s. prison. the british court case doesn't go to these larger issues of press freedom and potential government misconduct that we laid out in the peace. now there is talk among a sondors legal team of possibly trying to broaden the parameters of that british extradition case to include some of these allegations, journalists at yahoo and have likely strengthen the case against extra writing. julian, us ashton, united states, through the reporting that they've done here the yahoo news reporting reveals that u. s. official seriously considered taking a traditional and frankly a legal action at the violence ju

so this is the situation that they are coming back to is really not good and talking about us policy a few minutes ago a, do he put what u. s. policy a month ago, the u. s. said that they were not sending back haitians who had been in the us for the last few years. they're giving them their extending the t p. s. or the temporary protective a order a month later. did decide that, hey, is now safe. it wasn't safe a month ago for thousands of patients. now i would say for another thousands of patients, it's totally and cal here. it makes no sense. that's why i was saying what us policy. we don't understand it. but meanwhile, here in haiti, we have our own work to do to get the country back to a functioning, honest, non cool up government when you can. thank you very much need for donors here. coming up on this news are from london creation border police under investigation. after my words say, they were beaten looking for peace and answers, we joined the 1st large scale search in mexico. miss your candidate for thousands. we've disappeared there and in sport, the world heavyweight boxing champion, it's back at acquisitions tha

back. i'm still here with the full, the u. s. ambassador of u. n. and the 27th us national security advisor, john bolton, quite a lot of us subsidy to the you. and i know that under trump, you got out of unesco biting. took you back in. did you advise of national security adviser that some of that us subsidy to the u. n. g reduced i belong shall. based on my tenure in new york is un baster and other positions i've held that the u. s. money is, is wasted in many respects misspent in many respects. and my overall reform proposal for the un is to abolish what are called assess contributions, which are essentially mandatory. the u. s. pays around 2022 percent of the budgets and most agencies i make all contributions from national members of the you and i make all. busy contributions, cibola, but here, i mean, there must be people all over the world, arguably that would agree with all this. why did you get nowhere with all of this, the notion to make contributions, voluntary, unfortunately didn't have agreement all around the world. but i, it did, it would be like a synonymy sweeping through the halls of the us in the un security council, of cours

a u. s. house committee backs a contempt report on former donald trump, aides the banner and a 96 year old foreman. nazi concentration camp secretary, who initially fled her trial, faces caught in almost complete sun is more than ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways, boated world's best, a line of 2021. hello, thanks for joining in. here's her weather story for asia. we're going to see the return of more rain for southern india. certainly we do not need this with all of the flooding. so the state of carola but another 100 millimeters of rain to come in the next 24 hours. and just the conveyor belt of rain from the bay have been gone right into bungler dash up against the foothills of the himalayas for the indian state of sick. and we had a red weather alert in playing out by wednesday that's dropped. but still, we're going to get strikes of some heavy rain here into china, northern parts of vietnam over the past 72 hours. about half a meter of rain has been picked up. but we'll start to see a peter out still bursts of rain for southern section

a u. s. on nato backed uprising a decade ago. richard med host has details. so libby as again one of these countries where the west goes and destroys it and then never mentioned that again in 2011 they were screaming about gadhafi, how evil he is hyping up this bombing campaign. and then they go in and you never hear a word again. there never really was an arab spring in libya or syria, like there was in egypt, denisia. we're talking about much, much smaller numbers and a tiny minority of extremist groups backed by the west. so under the pretext of this arab spring in human rights, nature comes in to support these so called rebels. but the real goal here is to get rid of gadhafi, take over libby as resources. and of course under operation timber sycamore. the cia begins funnelling tons of weapons and ammunition to syria, to support al qaeda and other groups there. so why could afy book had off? he was an anti imperialist. he believed in pan arab ism, and pan african ism in the 1970s. he tried to merge libya with egypt and syria to form a unified arab state. i

a u. s. back plot to overthrow his government. official say it was almost 12 hours before a damaged pipeline was investigated. after oil seeped into waters of southern california, the trying to find out of the damage was caused by a ship's anchor. here. a total of more than $700000.00 people of no died in the united states from covered 19 the washington national cathedral told its well $700.00 times to mark the fatalities. the number of deaths this year has already surpassed 2020. only 330000 children were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of the french catholic church over 70 years. as the finding of an independent commission, which also says the church showed cruel indifference to the victims. there was the headlines. we'll be back in half an hour. good bye. how many nukes is too many new comerica has in many ways driven the arms race for parties are much more like the british, poised out to them their us, you will regulations to own a tiger than there are its own as on how can this be happen

u. s. effort in afghanistan. he was not a very supportive and he stated it even back then. and that the level of engagement of the u. s. a son was not something that he was and off, and when he began the president, he showed that amid unfair because that meant, as we now know, he just didn't support the surge. that obama was supporting. he said that obama that we're using a young president does me when they did that surgeon 2010. i mean the read out from the meeting of this to have canister meeting in the past 24 hours. he says from the biden statement, the leaders discuss critical need to maintain laser focus, enduring counter terrorism efforts, including against threats or isis, isis k wouldn't. who is who funds isis k? is it related to the isis, the britain in the united states de facto supported against us, out of syria? or is it not at all connected with that isis? and if not, why is it called isis? and then k, we don't really know, be honest with you, even when i was strong in body nissan, is that in my own home province? i'm. it wasn't mysterious for the prior to that

a mistake for the u. s. make, it's a mistake for global stability. certainly, it's a mistake for the people of afghanistan still ahead, ceiling in to a storm moscow's milton backing down after stopping a u. s. warship for the apparently attempting to violate russian territory of waters. and more coming up with, ah ah, when europe is mentioned, what do you think a place an idea, a commonplace with diverging ideas? maybe you think of the european union, think what you wish, but europe is in crisis. it must choose between being an ideological construct or a place with real people. and real me ah, 20 minutes into the program. welcome back. transport workers in italy are threatening strike action over a new coven health path system. with raleigh's, held in several major cities across the country. people are protesting against new rules which require all workers to either show proof of vaccination or a negative cobit test. or else go without pay or europe correspondent peter oliver saw one such march take place in rome. he sent us this report afterwards. it's lee has become the latest country to see it. citizens upset about the introduction of coven 19 vaccine passport

a u. s. backed plot to overthrow his government investigated. say a pipeline that laid hundreds of thousands of lasers of oil into the water of southern california was not initially investigated for almost 12 hours. the coast guard says he didn't have enough evidence and was hindered by darkness. and a lack of technology. anti one's president sy, in when has warned of catastrophic consequences. if the island fell to china in an article published on tuesday, she's found to do whatever it takes to guard against threats. it comes after a record number of chinese aircraft entered. ty, one's a defense on the islands. defense ministry says $148.00 chinese wall plains had breached the zone since friday. those are the headlines. cindy's continues here on al jazeera after inside story, and i'll be back at the top of the hour. ah no facebook instagram or whatsapp for 6 hours facebook blaine's a technical glitch for its worst global outage in years. are we to reliant on social media to communicate and do business and has facebook become too powerful? this i

u. s. president, back home. and so that does present a serious challenge to american leadership, the one that he says that he believes the united states to place a role. right. and it's interesting because he was asked about declining poll ratings and president responded by saying that they tend to be volatile and unpredictable. and, and prior to swings bought on the supply chain crisis. how serious a domestic challenge is. this present item, particularly in light of these increasingly this increasingly strained relationship with china. it's an enormous problem and that's why we saw the secretary of state addressing this issue with the, the counterpart, the chinese counterpart of the sidelines of the g 20. sure, this is an issue that has been a challenge for both of these nations for some time. and it started with coping 19 . but the problem is, is that it hasn't gotten better. what we're seeing in the united states are not just high energy prices, but high food prices, high cost of basic household goods like canned food or toilet paper,

u. s and the european nations who are part of the iran deal. so the u. k. france and germany discussing that deal and trying to see if there's a way to get the u. s. back into that deal. iran has not returned so far to the talks in a stalled in vienna, but says it will go back to the negotiating table before the end of november. and james were watching live pictures now of some of the leaders and representatives of various to 20 nations arrive at the venue, being welcomed by the italian prime minister, the merrier drug. he will be expecting a lot more of them to arrive in the coming hour and a half or so ahead of the the 1st gathering of the day as we've been saying, dreams s g 20 is also taking place in the run up to that climate conference in glasgow, so presumably what's being said here, amongst the leaders that we see will release at the tone for discussions there. what is not the only thing that's being discussed as i just mention, but i think it's the most important thing that's going on behind the scenes all the time. here at the summit, it's deliberately time to have g 20 summit just days before comp. in fact, the leader is going to be flying,

a mistake for the u. s. make, it's a mistake for stability. certainly, it's a mistake for the people of afghanistan. i had a feeling into a storm. moscow was not backing down after stuffing a u. s. warship from apparently attempting to violate russian territorial waters and plenty more besides coming up short with well, the kid is american country armed with volcano energy is calling out the wall street and the whole financier class ah ah ah ah ah hello again with us consumers in the grip of an energy price surge. republicans, i've called on president biden, to rethink his push for green energy in a joint latter. more than a 100 lawmakers argue his plans are anti american. i'll absurd. none of called on the administration to increase domestic energy production. instead, the criticism comes and projections that heating bills will rocket if there is colder than normal temperatures this winter. we expect that the nearly half of the us households, that heat primarily with natural gas, will spend 30 percent more than they spent last winter on average, 50 percent more if the wind to is 10 percent colder than average. since joe biden took office in january t

a while back. a report and the u. s. media was based on statements from 30 former u. s. officials and sent it on my pompei when he was director of the agency during donald trump presidency. a pompei of denies accusations and indeed wants action taken now against the people who made those claims. or they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the central intelligence agency. maybe they didn't, maybe as a gov, just made it up. but you should, i take seriously my responsibilities to protect that information. this can be seen as pompoms confirmation of the assange kit, not or kill story. why else would you want to prosecute those sources? speaking about classified activity kidnapped ariel man hundreds and shootout with russian spies and central london. a new james bond movie. not exactly. in fact, these are the highlights from a reported cia secret plan will silence the journalist 40 who revealed americans for dirty secrets. location london, the year 2017 starting. julian, a saw a man of interest hiding yet the doors embassy might compare.

a mistake for the u. s. make it's a mistake for stability. certainly, it's a mistake for the people of afghanistan. this is our key international still ahead . ceiling into a store moscow's not backing down after stopping a u. s. warship from apparently attempting to violate russian territorial waters. more coming up shortly with join me every thursday on the alex salmon show. but i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. oh is your media a reflection of reality? ah, in a world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation, whole community. are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? was his faith in the world corrupted. you need to descend, have join us in the depths or remain in the shallows? ah ah, 20 minutes into the program. welcome back. transport workers in italy are threatening strike action or brand new coven help pass system with rallies held in several major cities across the country. people are protesting against new rules which require all workers to either show proof of vaccination or a negative cobit test, or al school without pay or your correspond peter

a mistake for the u. s. i think it's a mistake for stability. certainly, it's a mistake for the people of afghanistan, the head ceiling into a store, moscow's not backing down after stopping a u. s. warship from apparently attempting to violate russian territorial borders. we've got that and more coming up shortly. ah, and decisions tactile perception as well as his or her. i saw it helps a lot because you need to make sure you don't like the thread. well, seeing the searches and robotic hands can't do that. not now. and i believe not ever. you can write software for the machine, but you cannot give a human tactile perception. ah, ah, ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah ah. just approaching 90 minutes past the are a welcome back facebook seal market zuckerberg may have used his vast well to swing the 2020 presidential election enjo biden's favor. that's according to a study carried out for the new york post. researchers find out his donations to electoral organizations heavily favored left leaning districts in swing states. but the democrats ended up taking the 2020 election was stolen, it was likely bought by one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful man po

u. s. is going to be meeting with its european allies, the u. k. germany and france to try and see if there's a pass way back to the u. s. rejoining that deal, the president trump pulled out job so controversially wrong. all they actually interested in the u. s. rejoining the deal. they say they are and they say they'll go back to the school talks in vienna by the end of that, but very busy a day that and ryan james based out of magic editor across that for us, for now. thank you very much, james. well, i was, james was saying that one of those big agenda items for this meeting is the response to the pandemic that's not bring in robert yates. he's the executive director at the center of universal health at jasmine house in london. rabbit. i was looking at some numbers and by some analysis g. 20 countries have received 15 times more cobit 19 vaccine doses per capita than low income countries. countries in sub saharan africa. i know you yourself have used the word indifference when it comes to how, which countries of address that do you expect need is actually to do anything today to change that? well, they mu

u. s. war crimes revealed by the wikileaks found it, which then reportedly led to see a plot to kill him. the tribunal was intended, the strength and public backing of the whistleblower head of his u. s. extradition hearing coming up, which spoke to some of his members the point i was making it in a democratic society, security service and the military and the special forces have to be accountable. my whole point is that julian saw in a different country in a different place if we came to a hero. but because you'd be exposing what the us and britain in particular were doing, he's saying to me is somebody that when the history books are written 21st century, julian, this how's his name movie write up somebody that told the truth. there is an irony in the talk to the new so face to change order of the appeal against against the verdict to say that he shouldn't be the type that you've been used to move you know, in the following day for me is a cornerstone of legislation and i think it's already in the fact that those that are being used now to extort to the us and when it comes to the issue of june. the sound is very significant that the nation in

the entire sudanese political process back in a positive direction after this significant in a warming set back. let's just translate exactly without means. the u. s. state department has announced a whole 2 hundreds of millions of dollars in economic aid to the country in response at to the on rest. but just who does that decision hurt the most? a question, our senior correspondent auth gazda, has been delving into in this day and age. almost nothing is sacred off limits. you can weaponized anything, trade, culture information. it doesn't have to kill. all it has to do is hurt. in light of these developments, the united states is pausing assistance from, from the $700.00 are $700000000.00 in emergency assistance appropriations of economic support funds for suzanne. this was badly needed money for one of the poorest nations in the world, but it came of all sorts of political strings attached thick cables of them. as a door assistance often does, they are weapons behave do as you are told or will cut you off. the problem is the people who get cut off usually aren't the ones that misbehaved. like when the us froze of gas don's bank accounts, preside

an awkward moment at the g 20, as joe biden meets a manual my call for the 1st time after the u. s. stamp. france in the back. over a nuclear submarine deal. we did was clumsy was not done with a lot of you. parliament is suing the european commission for failing to hold accountable those member states who defied the blocks rule of law that has the polish foreign ministry summons the belgian ambassador over the country's criticism of warsaw as approach to its legal dispute with brussels.

military planes recently flew inside a buffer zone close to time one's air defense. facebook c, e o mog circle boat has pushed back after a whistleblower testimony to u. s. congress in a blog post. he said his company's research should be taken out of context and the documents that pushes content for profit on a logical but former product manager funds this organ told lawmakers on capitol hill. the social media giant is an urgent threat to its users and should be regulated. she says the company sites home children, stoked divisions and we can democracies officials say it was almost 12 hours before the damaged pipeline that caused a large oil leak and water off southern california was investigated. the coast guard says it didn't have enough evidence of the issue. i'm was hindered by darkness and the lack of technology. they were investigating if the damage was caused by a ship's anchor. more than 500000 liters of oil as lea to into the ocean. and it's now washing up and beaches. we've determined that approximately 4000 feet of the 17.7 mile pipe wine has been displaced and it's been latterly displaced by a 105 feet. what they further located was a 13 inc

u. s. cap in france in the back over a nuclear submarine deal. we did was clumsy. this was done a lot of grace that you parliament is suing the european commission for failing to hold accountable those member states who defy the blocks rule of law that as the polish foreign ministry summons the belgian ambassador of the countries, criticism of warsaw his approach to its legal dispute with brussels and private that does it for me this r.

u. s. stepping back to the bank. the agreement to hold a virtual summit between the u. s. and chinese presidents by the end of the year comes off to a closed door meeting in switzerland between beijing and washington. others talks raised, hopes of a reproach, meant tough to multiple disputes, including a tower full. and we spoke with pat long or senior lecture and politics have bought the university in the u. k. he thinks the usaa ministration needs to take a more realistic view on its rivalry with china, economically and technology. equally. china is obviously on the rise. although our east military budget, east nought on is polity, but it's already the 2nd largest in the world. the us are this proportion nicely, the me 3 spending east, the largest, and i don't think china is going to catch up here for sean. however, the united states, economic and technology, technological capability. he spent tree in decline. we cannot just so say that why not us and china sit down and make peace with each other and have a half and all, i think this is too naive. you got to be realistic

anywhere in western europe to send a single dock, short danish or german or french soldier to fight in ukraine. ah, welcome back. this is our t international. now a u. s. company is feeling the effects of pushing for diversity. a former employee has been awarded $10000000.00 compensation after he was fired and replaced by 2 women, allegedly as part of the company's diversity and inclusion program. they tried to say a trial that they fired him because 2 years before he had gotten sick during his speech and had to sit down and it was embarrassing to the c. e. o any. and he never recovered from it instead and standing in that he was not adequately engaged in his work. although all the documentation showed that he was more than engaged and that he was delegating it. it parents as before, the board to his subordinates. but he was deliberately doing that for their development, his employees. and so they really had the jury found that they had nothing to justify the termination. and it was only the only thing that made sense was their firing. and because of this very explicit diversity goal that they had set for that year for 2018 hospital executive david de

u. s. a. j. c. b. o. a. what prospects do you think and what's the delay since biden go back in of the iran nuclear deal? i know you're, you're an opponent. i don't know whether you think you think the option is to attack iran militarily. i'm not sure what your view is of iran u. s. relations in by the administration for all. busy public purposes remains committed to trying to get back into deal and to get to run back into the deal. i think the deal is fatally flawed when it was agreed in 2015. it hasn't gotten any better with age. i think the regime and tara is committed to getting deliverable nuclear weapons. it's never showed any evidence. what is your views a well known about what, what should the policy be now, the best step forward given how unpopular the cheiron regime is inside? afghanistan is to find ways to split the top leaders in the revolutionary guards and the armed forces and to reflect what is the wide spread view among the population out. plenty of places where there aren't western reporters reporting how unpopular that regime is and see if it can't be overthrown . give the government to

a submarine. u. s denounces a provocation that says it's open to talks. and a u. s. committee investigating the storming of the capitol backs contempt charges for one of former president donald trump's topics. ah, we begin with syria where state media say 2 roadside bombs that exploded near an army bust in the worst attack in the capital. in years. at least 14 people have been killed and several others are injured. authorities are calling it a terrorist attack. no groups claimed responsibility so far as bringing as in a hoarder who is in neighboring lebanon life from beirut, sienna, no claim of responsibility yet, but the syrian regime is likely to blame the opposition. what more do we know about what's happening right now? well, the authorities are calling this a terrorist attack. there has been no claim of responsibility this explosion in the heart of the syrian capital. clearly a security breach of bus carrying soldiers was targeted. so it was the military that was targeted. what we understand from stake media that there were 2 explosive devices that went off as the bus was passing, and according to them, there was a 3rd

was a tipping point came in january 2020 when iran fired missiles, a dozen missiles at 22 us bases. and the u. s. did not strike back. so i mean that that was a really, to me, one of the biggest, besides, couldn't entrance into the steering war in october 2015. this moved by iran as a retaliation of the assassination of general cost, some sort of money and iraqi joan and us that was triggered. i think it's slow, a major realign in terms of west asian geo politics. i think it's irreversible because the u. s. is power is also based on it's the, it's a conus ability to fear them or to respect them. and iran basically called their bluff and look what's happened. nothing has happened to ron. there's been a lot of stay branding. israel is assassinating nuclear scientists, etc. that's going on the fringes, but geopolitically, iraq is also changing their orientation. again, you know, antique more anti u. s. and the clock is ticking. the us will eventually have to leave iraq. i don't know how long they'll be able to keep going. and now iraqi kurdistan is now basically under threat as well by some of the same forces. but it's

more than a dozen major emission cern there is will reveal back then form a u. s. marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter, telling us the f b i is non compliant shows it's disregard for the low. the inspector general's report shows that what the f b i has been doing is not only a violation of procedure, but a violation of the law. and if it's something that every american should be deeply concerned about, any organization that is tasked with carrying out activities that touch upon an important constitutional rights and has a duty and obligation to ensure that what they do conforms with not only the intent but the letter of the law and the, the f b i is a, you calls itself the premier law enforcement agency in the united states. if any agency should a, you know, comply with its own regulations, its own procedures, it should be the f, b i. and any failure to do so must be because the api i believes as an organization that is above the law. ah, that a fairy us influence of the russian meteor is in focus once again the now german state broke us a dodge, havana

back a bit this week. so tough talks in the u. s. congress as lawmakers lashed out at joe biden and his military commanders over the afghan withdrawal. humiliating is just one of the ways to pull out been described. the president said, none of his commanders said that he should keep troops in afghanistan was on a false statement by the president as remembered. you do not have a duty to cover for the president when he's not telling the truth. i've given him my judgment on it. now we think we all know it was a false state. i have been frustrated by the lack of someone in char, on the biggest national security fiasco in a generation. there has been 0 accountability, no responsibility from anybody. we have poured cache and blood and credibility into a ghani government. that was a mirage. it fell immediately. we were buying into the big lot, the big law that this, that this was ever going to be successful near. here's the thing. there's only 3 possibilities here. either the president lie to the american people, or he legitimately cannot

u. s. a. working together for the environment to bring back much needed life to the does it ah. it's another beautiful sunny day of 35000 feet. the weather is sponsored by cattle airways, voted world's best, a line of 2021. hello there. let's start in east asia, my watching typhoon mentally, as it tracks north east, along the coast of japan. it's not expected to make landfill, but it's bringing some very wet and windy weather to south eastern areas of han shoe and you can see it moving very quickly across the east of her kinda. we are going to see the warms. come back into tokyo and things start to dry up on saturday and it's looking very dry across the korean peninsula as it is across those central areas on the north east of china's thunderstorms. coming into play for some day in beijing. and you can see that slow moving weather system once again kicking in, pulsing that to renshaw, rain across central air is he not province, could see some further flooding. but to the south of this, it is looking hotter and dryer, across sensual areas, temperature than woo, hannon, shannon rig

russian cosmonaut their months ahead of a competing hollywood project featuring tom cruise, which was announced last year by the u. s. space agency, massa. a movie making back on earth now. and this year's london film festival is showcasing a host of new horror movies ng but drawing people back into the cinema's. me bark takes a look at what's getting festival. go as goosebumps oh, now we have your attention. let's talk. all right. this is london film festivals, a wash with a list who's plugging oscar fodder. lurking in the back grounds, a glut of horror movies that delve into our deepest anxieties. among them, british movie shepherd. he's one i can see the story of a man seeking solitude of the mysterious death of his wife, only to find himself trapped and spiraling it to madness on a frightening weather beaten island. if that sounds uncannily like your experience of coven locked arms, you're not alone. and there are a lot of parallels to what we've been through the last couple of years, working remotely on same with editors and san designers, and music, which is a very bizarre way. but also quite pleasant. we're working on making a film about a guy, his i