u. s. school boards association. the organization filed a lawsuit against the parents who they say, asked too many questions about the highly controversial critical race theory course, which a teacher's children about inequality and discrimination, though it is highly controversial. and one mother claims that she was actually bullied by her daughter's school daughter school for requesting information on the program. a dmitri pug mix up the story. if you think you should have a say in your child's education, then congratulations. you now might be investigated by the f, b i and labeled a domestic terrorist, or just get a lawsuit like this mother from rhode island, i to finance or an enroll my daughter in kindergarten. and now what she was learning. and i asked the principal whether they were going to learn critical race areas under ariana, turns out they would be a thought that they don't. how can boys and girls, they don't use gender terminology, that i'm the 1st they getting. they asked can't, what could been done di

u. s. school boards association. the organization of filed a lawsuit against those who they say asked too many questions about the highly controversial critical race theory. course, which seems to teach children about inequality and discrimination. one mother actually claim she was bullied by her daughter's school for even requesting information on the program. let's get some more details. his are corresponded. dmitri polk. if you think you should have a say in your child's education, then congratulations. you now might be investigated by the f b i and labeled a domestic terrorist or just get a lawsuit like this mother from rhode island. i just wanted to re enroll my daughter in kindergarten and know what she was learning. and i asked the principal whether they were going to learn critical race theory, engender theory. and it turns out they would be, they said that they don't call kids boys and girls. they don't use gender terminology than the 1st thanksgiving. they asked kids what could have been done differently on

as such, national school boards association who quest a joint expedited reviewed by the u. s. department of justice, education and homeland security. additionally, it's asking the u. s. government to use against parents all tools at his disposal. even the patriot act intended to prevent international terrorism by, you know, actual terrorists now, so my thing that all this is a bit over the top, you know, considering most of the lobby groups, complaints are about parents called threats of harassment. it's in other words, just mothers and fathers disagreeing. however, it seems the justice department didn't have to think twice in just 5 days after the letter was sent to us attorney general merritt garland ordered the f b. i to investigate the parents and seek ways to prosecute them and stop this quote, disturbing trend. the department takes these incident seriously, and it's committed to using it so thought a tune resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate. i'm direct them. yes, be i work with each us attorney to con

u. s. schools is adamant in their case, the songs would be safe in the state, so jail has health, physical woman who is not at risk, you'll get a fair trial. he between 2 fairly is that something you believe they lie? i mean, when was the last time they said anything that could be relied upon as being truthful? that's fair enough certainly. and you just go back to those allegations or oversee a plot and measure brought rather to keep them apple or even assassinate the songs . should he, when he read them in 2 days and there was a school of thought that he might well do that. what will be next to them? do you think you'd be safe? that's always questionable because you never know the people in the intelligence can either go very record or get a getting back at people. if you can recall down through history, people been poisoned years later or isn't dismembered and things like that. these kind of agencies do whatever they feel they want to do or need to do anywhere in the world. and that's basically u

u. s. reaction to monday school. the biden administration is taking every opportunity to say that it condemns the coup attempt in cartoon on monday. not only has the by debt ministration decided to suspend all $700000000.00 and economic assistance to the transitional government. it also says it is watching very closely how members of the holder are behaving as the process carries out. this is what bad price had to say about the prospect of sanctions against members of the military. rather than it is very early hours. this happened overnight. we're evaluating the situation on the ground, we're watching very closely. we're communicating and coordinating very closely with our allies and with our partners around the world. so i don't want to get ahead of, of where we are. but suffice to say that we are willing to resort to any and all appropriate measures to hold accountable. those who me be attempting to derail the will, the aspirations of the sudanese people and those who may be responsible for violence for violence th

u. s. lucas's l. ryan school. this donna, i'm provided to assist in columbus cree beautiful under 531. that when keeps the defending champion in the chance of making the play cattle has signed up europe's largest hotel group. i call to help manage accommodation for fans and next year as well. cup organizes hope to attract 1200000 visitors during the torment, but there is limited hotel space. i call has been brought in to operate more than $60000.00 extra rooms in existing residential apartments and villas. the deal will stop cats are being left with too many hotel rooms beyond 2022, south african crickets, a quint into cog, says he will now take the ne before c 20 world cup games off the initially refusing to do so. he's apologize to his teammates and fans to putting out that much against the west indies, off the south african cricket bosses ordered the team to neil the call came from a mixed race. family says he fully supports the stand against racism and didn't mean to offend anyone. he said, i felt like my rights were taken away when i was told what we had to do in the way that we w

u. s. a. tomorrow at the school where black people, because of all of the political tension back, then it was more i just didn't want my daughter to grow up feeling like she was a minority here of today's john as for long years, at the top of the hour coming up next, it's been by can continue the internet, censorship and freedom of speech co exist. there's all important question is being tested. how should miss information be defined? who should be allowed to make this determination? today it's about vaccines will stop there. i miss with this is been by for one business, so you can't afford to mess. i'm ready to love it. and i bred to bore in washington coming up. we have a very special program for you today. covering public debt. the united states has seen it skyrocket. at the debt to g d p ratio, it's highest level since world war 2 will go over who hold that debt and what could happen if the nation default. and it's not just the u. s. global public that has risen to nearly $300000000.00 as government world wide have injected massive amounts of stimulus into their economy in response to the

u. s. a. to actually impose a mandate for vaccine within its schools. it's a massive step in terms of california and politics. and the process though, is simplified in a way, a by the fact that the governors decided to add the cobra 19 vaccines to the list of vaccines at the cuddly. california public health department already requires for school attendance such as measles, polio mumps. these vaccines are already mandated. cobit 19 is simply going to added at to this particular list. there are some 13000 school boards across the state. and they've actually written letters to the governor saying how much they are facing in terms of local school board meetings. some are described as utterly chaotic with some parents are refusing to allow the wearing of mass, certainly refusing any form of force vaccination. one must note that already in california, all to school children have to be wearing masks. all teachers have to be wearing mass. all teachers have to be vaccinated or face regular testing. but even these steps have absolutely infuriated large numbers of

u. s. in terms of school children are just starting to return after 18 months of no education. right. for some reason we mentioned earlier that i thought like shirley, this is going to have some sort of consequence, particularly on the most vulnerable, most important period when they're before they go to middle school. so before you know, up until 5th grade. well, one 4th graders can't read the phoenix school battles. pandemic learning loss students returned to in person learning with diminished reading skills, putting them to grade levels behind. so they highlight this class and outside of phoenix and a working class area i, their parents were all frontline workers. they were construction workers. they were, you know, sewage and electricians, and drivers and stuff like that. so they always had to work. went home to work from home with their children who had to do online classes. so they have 4th graders. he's a 9 year old. right. who couldn't spell rub r u b. they couldn't, he was spell that they and they had to work through them. how to, how to spell that. so this is the level of re

just reflects just how tone death, school boards and school administrators have become about the please of parents on behalf of their children. the u. s. attorney general wrote a letter to the f. b i and criminal attorneys announcing plans for measures to combat what he called a rise in criminal conduct towards school pass. now it follows a letter from the national school board association, which i told of an immediate threat while dealing with issues surrounding criminal race theory and mask mandates. citing several examples, however, critics believe the move simply designed to suppress opposition voices coupled with attacks against school board members and educators for approving policies for masks to protect the health and safety of students in school employees. many public school officials are also facing physical threats because of propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory within classroom instruction and curricula. these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased. the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism a

u. s. in terms of school children are just starting to return after 18 months of no education. right. but for some reason, we mentioned it earlier that i thought like, surely this is going to have some sort of consequence, particularly on the most vulnerable, most important period when they're before they go to middle school. so before you know, up until 5th grade. well, when 4th graders can't read, phoenix, school battles, pandemic learning loss. students return to in person learning with diminished reading skills, putting them to grade levels behind. so they highlight this class and outside of phoenix and a working class area i, their parents were all frontline workers. they were construction workers. they were, you know, sewage and electricians, and drivers and stuff like that. so they always had to work. went home to work from home with a children who had to do online classes. so they have 4th graders. he's a 9 year old. right. who couldn't spell rub r u b. they couldn't, he was spell that they and they had to work through them. how to, how to spell that. so this is the level of r

u. s. in u. k. before a meeting between e e leaders on tuesday prism mattress questioned the reliability of america's protection of europe. we spoke to professor of the paris business school, who says francis relationship with china is at risk. the current china french relation is close to historic heights. ah, it is through many years of trust and good businesses between the 2 country once damage it will take a very long time to repair the relationship. so if france moves one step further to touch the bottom line of the one china principle, ah, by further giving taiwan more formal recognition, it will be a point of no return. there are different invest to interact with scripts that are micron. these 2 sees so far, he has a fair chance to get elected. but if this is a big thing, taiwan issue, backfires, china re, insulate a huge fain to funds. a macro will be at a big risk for reelection. eve child friends touches to one china principal. it be definitely, ah, anger, china and china will not hesitate to suffer lights with price. despite the rise of the blank lives, massive movement racism continues to plague united states and this forcing increasing numbers of people to th

go to school. the u. s. openly say that cooperation with russia is contrary to europe's energy security interests. they want to directly embroil is in this area and reduce our independence on the outgoing german chancellor has been vocal in supports of russia as a supply partner, speaking at an e u. balkan summit. in slovenia, angler merkel stress that mosque was always stuck to it's contractual obligations to far as i get this, if you ask me whether there have been orders that russia has taken and then fail to fulfill as it stands. now, that is not the case varies. there are no orders that russia has said no, we will not deliver those to you, and we are not pumping gas through the ukrainian pipeline. rather, russia can only fulfill orders that have been contract it out. so the question is really, isn't of being ordered. speaking earlier in the week, president putin blamed europe's gas crisis all in fur. lee, hey, steve transition really to green energy couple with brussels decision to switch from long term

the coming days. amanda's pleaded guilty to the murder of 17 people in the deadliest high school shooting the u. s. as ever seen in court. nicholas cruz apologized for killing 14 students and 3 staff members at marjorie stoneham at douglas high school in florida. a 23 year old also admitted the attempted murder of 17 more people in the attack in november 2018. he was expelled for disciplinary reasons, days before the shooting. a jury will now decide whether he should be executed or sentenced to life in prison. i am very sorry for what i did, and i have to live, was it every day? and that if i were to get a 2nd chance, i would do everything in my power to try to help others. and i am doing this for you, and i do not care if you do not believe me. and i love you, and i know you don't believe me, but i have to live with this every day and brings me nightmares and i can't live with myself sometimes. but i try to push through because i know that what you guys will want me to do, i hate drugs, and i believe this country with the bird ever will stop smoking marijuana and doing all these drugs and causing

children has been spurred by a rise in infections of the delta variant and the reopening of schools. the u. s. in canada were among the 1st to approve the job for children above 12. back in may . let's go live to alan fisher at the white house for is so pfizer asking the f d allen to approve your emergency. use of this vaccine on children, just as president biden is, is keeping on with his pushed for vaccine mandates. tell us about the process, how soon could we see kids vaccinated? it's more likely to be next month. so we're told that the, the process i all the detail will be studied ads or start looking at it sometime towards the end of this month. will then be a series of meeting series of discussions in the next year will make a decision probably before the thanksgiving holiday, which is the last week in november. certainly the white house would be keen to see this. they've seen the surgeon the number of cases of children catching covered as you say, it's 3 months since, as the vaccine was approved for those age, 12 to $15.00 throughout the summer they carried out. extensive studies are l

schools. as the u. s . continues to grapple with stagnated inoculation range. president joe biden has been championing and the economic benefits of getting more people vaccinated. renaud, there is no other way to beat pandemic than to get the vast majority of americans. actually, it's as simple as that and to see them, to spread to our children, to spread throughout society or hospitals in the risk of other variances. all dangerous and obvious, but we're still not there. we have to beat loosely trucks in eastern sudan carrying medicine have been allowed through a blockade that's causing a supply crisis. demonstrators from the bay j tribe had forced port sudan to close, as part of a protest against the government. they're angry about the regions week economy. us politicians appeared to have a great to raise the u. s. debt limit by $490000000000.00 to stave off a potential debt to fault. the white house says it's a positive step forward and we'll give the country some breathing room. but this is only a repr

u. s. lucas, is that a ryan school? this donna? i'm provided to assist in columbus free b fall under city 31 that when keep sort of ending champions in the chance of making the play. south african cricketer quinton, the cook says he will now take the ne before t 20. well, cut games off the initially refusing to do so. he's apologize to his teammates, i'm fun, but putting out the match against the west indies. off the south african cricket both is ordered. the team to neil the call came from a mixed race. family says he fully supports the stand against racism and didn't mean to offend anyone, to baseballs while theories and the houston astros have bounced back to level things up against the atlanta braves at 11. his i see that was the saw, the show with a high run in the 7th inning housing seem to a 7 to victory. i'll see if a has now hit 22 post season high runs in his career. and that's high since a 2nd in the all time, this is 7 behind the record holder. my ramirez, the best of 7 series is back to all square and now shift to atla

right, but i mean, it is funny that a prime minister who has been educated at harvard business school in the u. s. m. does things like this, or it happens to somebody like this or to a president who is the every, the darling of been a to and the you. so of course i think i could imagine that they try to get you help. so. busy the, basically the germans or the you to pay for that guest though, and probably this is what is behind it. not by european standards is not a wealthy country, but it does have a $36000000000.00 economy. how realistic that is it the thing from old over to be able to pay up before the winter chill kicks in? well, if your pins will take over the bill and it is possible and this would have would be geo political thing because mode area is one of the missing parts in this so called iron belt that divides europe from russia or bait. better to say germany from, from russia. and so this, i guess they want to blackmail europe and tell them either you help us now. well, we will re adjust our politics towards russia. do you think they'll try and help mold over? yes, i think they will

u. s. face approach of to criticizing critical race theory in schools. we talk to one mother about that later in the program, showing a shakespeare classic. so one class sees one american college like tra, loses job over it. students are apparently outraged, over the leader to wearing black face, put to portray the man the main character of the 1000 sixty's movie of othello. ah, follow them on the 11th of october live from ortiz, world news, h q, or moscow. my name's kevin owen, delighted to be company. hope you can stay with me as well as to take you through a top stories. and as you heard this 1st, francis top bishop in hot water after claims that priests should not report sex crimes against miners. if the offense is revealed during confession, with these 2 to meet the countries interior minister, who's against the idea of church rules taking precedence over french law, we speak to the founder of a victims association, who himself suffered sexual abuse at the hands of clergy. danielle hill, false. when we came to france, i was 8 and 9 years old. how my

just reflects just how tone death, school boards and school administrators have become about the please of parents on behalf of their children. the u. s. attorney general has stepped in writing to the f. b, i on criminal attorneys and announcing plans to combat what he called a disturbing spike and harassment, intimidation and threat, so violence against school personnel. my colleague mil harvey spoke with auntie contributed lauren chin, who thinks that many of the accusations have just been blown out of proportion. the board's letter does site some specific incidents, but if you actually look at the video footage from those incidents, most of the quote violence that they cite is actually things like parents refusing to wear masks. oh, keep a com no, no, no. do you need the guardian do for about critical race theory, which is pretty much we'll be picking who, how to hate each other? how that this was at these meetings a lot of what they side as actually being domestic terrorism or violence actually is just tantamount to some harsh words being said in terms of actual violence. though i believe there's only one or 2 specific incidents t

u. s . face of pro bartlett criticizing critical race theory in schools. we talked to one mother about that later in the program. and coming up to showing a shakespeare classic to a class, sees one american college lecture, a limited job over it. students were apparently outraged over the lead, back to wearing black face to portray the main character 1960 movie of old fellow. ah. hello there. good afternoon. from russia monday. the 11th of october low from ortiz world news h q. moscow. it's kevin over here with our latest for you, and as you heard of us headlines, francis top bishop than in hot water today half to claims priests should not report sex crimes against miners if the offense is revealed during confession used to to meet the countries interior minister who's against the idea of church rules taking precedence over french law. though we speak to the founder of a victims association who himself suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a clergy tanelle hill false. when we came to france, i was 8 and 9 years old, my parents wanted me to join this scout

u. s. state to make it compulsory for school children to be vaccinated against coven. 19 governor gavin newsome says the move could go into effect as early as january. a mandate pending approval from the us food and drug administration. for 12 or 15 year olds. and the global scheme designed to ensure fair access to coven vaccine says it will begin targeting countries with the lowest levels of coverage. since january kovacs is largely allocated doses according to population size, but starting this month, it'll send $75000000.00 doses to $49.00 of the least covered nations. yup. today with the headlines from al jazeera, the latest edition of inside story is next. ah, it was a tough partnership from the start, but now praxis showing between civilian and military players and sedans, transitional government, is it on the brink, blad, does this leave the drive towards democracy? this is inside story. ah. alone welcome to the show. i'm sammy's a than a split is widening between sedans, military and civilian leaders, and attempted to last month as worse and tensions between the 2 sides. the cre

u. s . then face a probe up to criticizing critical race theory in schools. we talk to one mom about that later in the program. and showing as shakespeare classic to a class sees one american college lecture a, lose his job. students were apparently outraged over the leader to wearing black face, but try the main character of the 19 sixty's movie of a fellow. ah, oh, hello. there were good evening from russia monday. the 11th of october live from ortiz, world news, h q in moscow. my name's kevin how, in a top, sorry that frances top bishop in hot water today, after claims that price should not report sex crimes against mine as if the offense is revealed during confession is due to meet the countries interior minister. now, who's against the idea of church rules taking precedence over french law? we speak to a founder of victims association, next to himself suffered sexual abuse at the hands of the clergy. till now all health falls. when we came to france, i was 8 and 9 years old, my parents wanted me to join this scout group. so i spent almost 2 years there u

u. s. date to make it compulsory for school children to be vaccinated against coven . 19 governor gavin newsome says the.

u. s. state to make vaccinations, compulsory for school children. the governor gavin newsome wants it to come into effect from january mandate for 12 to 15 year olds is pending approval from us regulators sell ad on al jazeera take you to a small town in columbia that's now overwhelmed with migrants. most of them oh hello there, there's more wet weather to come to southeast asia. you can see the dense cloud cover. we are going to see more rain grove, parts of indo china in particular for thailand where we have already seen flooding across 31 provinces. that rain is set to continue as it is for parts of indonesia. we've seen flooding in west sumatra where the rain is going to pick up here on monday and we will see some heavier storms kick in across parts of borneo. but it is going to be the philippines that see some of the wet and windy weather arriving on monday. we got a swirling system, bringing some torrential downpours, stronger winds, and we could see some flooding from that. now as we move down under, we've seen severe thunderstorms affect the

them has been spurred by a rise infections of the delta variant and the reopening of schools. abortion clinics in the u. s. state of texas have reopened falling a federal court ruling suspending a law that effectively banned the procedure. wednesday's temporary judgment criticized the legislation as an offensive depravation of such an important right. the texas legislation impose last month is regarded as the most restrictive in the country. and the nobel prize for literature has been awarded to a tanzanian born novelist, a barrage that gunner, his work focuses on colonialism and the fate of refugees is the 1st time a black african has won the prize in 35 years. those were the headlines. the news continues here now to sir, after people in power state you and thanks for watching bye for now. talk to al jazeera, we always get what gives you hope that it is going to be peace because the situation on the ground seems to be pointing. otherwise we listen. we went never on my whatever road to off migration. we meet with global news makers until about the stories that matter on our sierra. ah 2060 a deal between

schools. in may, the u. s. in canada were among the 1st to prove the job for children over 12 years . russia has recorded its highest number of new daily chron of ours cases so far this year. 27550 new infections were reported on thursday. the day, the death toll so past 900 for the 2nd day in a row, reaching 910, the authorities are struggling to control a new surgeon cases due to a slow vaccine uptake and limited corona virus restrictions. rush already has europe's highest death toll. with almost 209000 fatalities. national authorities have dismissed several senior prison officials and opened criminal investigations into alleged torture and assaults. the authorities acted after a prisoner rights group published graphic video evidence of abuses. they all happened at a prison in the saratoga regions southeast of moscow groups as it received a mass league of documents proving that hundreds of people had been tortured and raped by other inmates under the direction of prison. prison officials, still when i've done

after the reopening of schools in may, the u. s. in canada were among the 1st to approve the job for children over 12 years. meanwhile, president biden has been in chicago, making the economic case vaccine mandates. where you want to renew. there is no other way to be depend demik than to get the vast majority of americans vaccinating . it's as simple as that and to spam or 3 to spread to our children, to spread throughout society or hospitals in the risk of other variances, all dangerous and obvious, but we're still not there. we have to be to see us politicians, a pinch of agree to raise the u. s. debt limit by $480000000000.00 to stave off a potential economic crisis. a senate top democrat says the senate will soon start debate on the bill to raise the national barring cap nearer to $29.00 trillion dollars. without it, the countries treasury would not be authorized to pay its bills in less than $2.00 weeks. whitehouse says it's a positive step forward and we'll give the country some breathing room. this is only a reprieve until d

u. s. state to make it compulsory for school children to be vaccinated against cove . at 19, governor gavin newsome says the move could go into effect as early as january. the mandate is pending approval from the us food and drug administration for 12 to 15 year olds. the f d, a fully approved vaccines for students over the age of 16 in august and the broadway musical aladdin has been forced to cancel shows only 3 days after it reopened. disney says the 10 day break came of the several covered infections were reported among it's cast and crew, despite all of them being fully vaccinated. it's the 1st corona virus related cancellation of a broadway show since they began to reopen. after over the last few weeks. people living in a small colombian town say that an influx of mostly haitian refugees migrants is pushing them out of housing. the migrants to try to catch boats on their way north to the u. s. and a solder appeared. he reports now from the town of the coakley. after weeks sucking this beach down a few 100 migrants, mostly haitians are finally able to continue the

u. s. state to make it compulsory for school children to be vaccinated against coven. 19 governor gavin newsome says the move could go into effect as early as january. that mandate pending approval from the us food and drug administration for 12 to 15 year olds. in other news, the white house, as you, as president and members of his democratic party, you have made progress as they try to rescue biden's economic agenda. in a rare move for an american president biden has met his party members on capital hill or divisions among the democrats, which democrats, which threatened his ambitious plans or from rosalind jordan in washington. it comes down to whether members of congress in the president's party can agree on terms on both the social spending flash environmental bill, as well as on the infrastructure spending bill if they can work out their differences on one, the actual price tag for the 1st bill because there are some in the senate who said that bills just simply too expensive at $3.00 trillion dollars. as well as work out the idea that there's going to be a guarantee that that bil

u. s. a brand that an face approach of to criticizing critical race theory in schools. we talk to one mother about it later in the program. and showing a shakespeare classic to a class sees one american college lecture. i lose his job. students who are apparently outraged over the leader to wearing black face to portray the main character the 19th sixty's movie of a fellow. ah . monday, the 11th of october live from ortiz, will use age to moscow. it's kevin o', in here with our latest for you. thanks for your company. so 1st, as you heard that france is top bishops and hot water off to claims that priests should not report sex crimes against mine as if the offense is revealed during confession he's due to meet the countries interior minister who's against the idea of church rules taking precedence over french law, we speak to the founder of a victims association 1st and who himself suffered sexual abuse at the hands of the clergy. tanelle hill false. when we came to france, i was 8 and 9 years old hull. my parents wanted me to join this scout group, so i spent almost 2

u. s. a branded that and face a pro, bob to criticize and critical race theory in schools. we hear from one another about it later in the program. and showing a shakespeare classic to a class sees one american college lecture at lose his job. after students were apparently outraged, over the lead actor wearing black faced hill tray, the main character in the 900 sixty's movie, other fellow ah, hello, good to have you with us since monday evening and 8 here in moscow. my name is colleen bray with you world news from arte international to france. first, then, where the top bishop is in hot water, after claim to the priests should not report sex crimes against miners if the offense is revealed during confession and is due to me, the countries interior minister who's against the idea of church rules taking precedence over a french law or we've spoken to the founder of a victim's association who himself suffered sexual abuse at the hands of clergy. the level hill falls when we came to france, i was 8 and 9 years old, my parents wanted me to join this scout group. so i spent almo

schools are growing in the u. s. to slap new sanctions on russia. i would be no string to pipeline in light of europe's energy crisis. it comes to the days up to vladimir putin splash, so ramp up natural gas supplies to europe as prices hate record highs. also, donald corta took my colleague, you know, neil's through the details. they're basically being accused of trying to artificially keep the price of natural gas as high as possible. but that actually announcement by the russian president vladimir putin to boost to europe's natural gas supplies, caused a price decrease of 20 percent. right after that, amid this energy crisis, and just 2 days after that, we heard from us congressman michael mccall, who said that the u. s. should resume sanctions against russia in connection to the north stream to pipeline. and why? he says that russia's somehow weapon ising. it president biden and chancellor merkel committed to taking action. should russia attempt to use energy as a weapon? yet both of tend to blind eye to the putin regimes, deliberate efforts to