And rebuild their homes. But many find they have almost nothing to return to every day we drug buy this house limbs. Its a sad sides every time. A dog god in your house thats been destroyed. And if it isnt, then this is our to International Coming to you straight from the russian capital where its just turned 6 pm. Welcome to the program. Australian officials have condemned what they called un forgivable atrocities committed by their country. Special forces in afghanistan, the defense minister, a governor general and former Prime Minister kevin rudd, spoke out after an inquiry of biased, really as military into the alleged murder of 39. 00 afghan civilians including prisoners to report 2 weeks ago. And it made me physically ill. And it was very, very distressing raid the un forgivable atrocities were committed by a small number of individuals and deliberately concealed from the media chains of command. Im disgusted by the findings of this report will detail in counts of cold blooded murder by members of all messages of remorse, follow a long list of apologies for war crimes committed by Coalition Forces in afghanistan. Since the 2001 invasion are still trying to look at how those waging a war on terror became a source of terror themselves. 2 eggs, australia, and afghanistan, thousands of kilometers apart. One a very keen to help the other. We remind committed to assisting afghanistan in resisting it. Terrorism. Resisting the Taliban Forces providing in cooperation with other countries. I live of stability and to live a lives curity as that youll country can build for itself of a strong and prosperous and secure future. It took the australian Prime Minister a bit more than 13 hours to fly over to kabul to say all that a bit more than 13 years ago. By then, australian troops had already been engaged in the war torn country for several years, almost 20 years ago since the aussies got involved. Their number one military man has no other choice, but to say, sorry, i sincerely and unreservedly apologise for any wrongdoing by a stray in soldiers. I say no choice because allegations of 39 civilian deaths at the hands of his Defense Force as a result of blood lust and competition. Killing deserve an apology or actually much more than that large parts of the military report. We cant even read their blacked out, but even whats available, sounds horrendous and disgusting. This shameful record includes alleged instances in which new patrol in the members were coerced, to shoot a prisoner in order to achieve that soldiers 1st kewl in an appalling practice known as bloody atrocities. Ranged from reports of troops killing a 6 year old child and a house raid to a prisoner being shot dead to save space and a helicopter apology given measures to be taken culprits to be punished. Compensation to be paid. But just think of how many times since 2001, we heard the same kind of stuff from the kolisch to do. You call it what you were just for the course of the president obama spoke by telephone to apologize and express his condolences for the m. S. F. Staff and patients who were killed and injured. Sincere apologies for any offense. This may have caused by apologies to the president of afghanistan, and we will make sure that anybody who was involved is held fully accountable with the full force of the law. These are the cases that they thought deserved an apology. Unlike some unfortunate, i mean quite a few of the fortunate civilian deaths from drone strikes that were often referred to as, remember the phrase collateral damage. But in any case, there is no winning the war on terror without drones, right . They were dangerous. These young men, often deliberately and casually, cruel. I wanted somehow to save them, send them to school, give them a trade to drain them, of the hate that had been filling their heads. And yet the world that they were a part of and the machinery i commanded more often had me killing them. Instead, it all makes you wonder, just how many more thousands of deaths or command full pause. Were still unaware of, especially when its revealed how much the people in charge were in denial about what they were doing. The problem is theres a disincentive, really, to tell the truth. We created an incentive to almost require or for people to law. There is an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue, and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and who bruce so well, the latest report that left the aussies red faced lead 20 strategic consequences and military mindset u. Turns well, by how badly crabs plans to cut the troop presence in afghanistan have been received. Is just Wishful Thinking for now. Weve been in afghanistan for almost 20 years, and no need to ally wants to stay any longer than necessary. But at the same time, the price for leaving too soon, or in uncoordinated, we could be very high afghanistan, risk becoming once again, a platform for International Terrorists to plan and organize attacks on our own lands. So i guess it means more apologies could only be on the way here horse to a former governor of afghanistans ghastly province notes. Australia is not the only member of the u. S. Led coalition to carried out such horrific actions. These are something that is very serious and we feel that that is beyond our comprehension. And im really appalled for that. That. How could anybody and the name of humanity will what even do that, especially with this poor afghan people. And we hope that that will manifest to Something Real and not only for the australian, but also nato countries. And also, United States who have committed similar acts in afghanistan, also needs to pay heed to this issue and reconcile their own differences that i have done in afghanistan. The World Health Organization has voiced alarm over europe, surging coronavirus death rate after 29000. 00 fatalities were registered. And, a single week, according to the w. H. O. , one person in europe is dying from the virus every 2nd, 17 seconds. France is one of the worst hit countries with intensive care ward more than 95 percent full and struggling to cope with more than 2000000 coping cases. Comptons worst medical staff are warning they can no longer cope will complain about is that we need some rest but we have limited places. The less serious patients are in the hospital ward and we only get the patients in the most serious state. Yes, its difficult now. He said over the governments promise is sort of the common hospital. Ive never seen that before. The patients friends of the ban on all religious gatherings, including mass as part of the lockdown as an angry believers onto the streets and protest or shippers. Believe some things are more important than covert restrictions as are to charlotte devinsky reports. Churches may be closed for services, but catholics are still meeting for prayers. And they are protesting. Knock down measures that seem religious service is essential under frances measures to fight the virus. Only funerals and weddings are currently allowed in religious buildings or services, but the limits on the numbers that turned religious leaders say the restrictions of one tree to see could part of the catholic faith, catholics in france, suffer from not being able to come together for the sunshine moment, the sunday mass. Many do not understand how disposable to shop in the supermarket filled with bias and how to split. The saying time to meet in our churches and strict compliance with health precaution. Despite taking their pleas to frances highest administrative court, the Catholic Church has failed to persuade the current sleep state that religious services such as mass, are essential and should be permitted during the lockdown. But some while others have decided to take matters into their own hands. Well, if i might go to confession with you a bit, charlotte, i did not start going to master in the 1st lockdown, and i dont intend to start doing that this time, keeping not to drop focus from the authorities for attending these prohibited masses. We have agreed to hide his identity. Do you feel that that is the responsible thing to do to continue going to mass responsible thing to do for us as catholics, we are mostly responsible to god before we are responsible to our government. And obviously its always best when those 2 are together. But in french history, this isnt the 1st time that going to mass has been considered illegal, or the churches have been locked, or that going to mass could be considered crimes by making this decision. Do you not think that you are putting the general population in . Do you think that as a catholic is the right thing to do . You know, because im not asking anybody to do anything that they dont want to do. If someone doesnt want to go to mass, theyre not being forced to go. And as they say, oh, be all of the laws. As my religion asks me to on public transportation, etc. So i will be a paying the front. So i know because the laws of france do not extend above god. So there are limits to frances power. And i simply recognize that in the practical order, max is not repentant for his desire to continue attending mass, nor would he feel morally responsible, if someone in his congregation caught and delegate nowhere in my life up to 2020. Have i been held morally responsible for being a vector of a disease . I could very well have passed a cold on to someone in the past or the flu, unknowingly. And the way that code has operated with many, many asymptomatic carriers. Its very unlikely that anyone would ever know. So given that i had no intention to distribute the virus or any desire to do so, i couldnt feel bad in that sense. That attitude is likely to in theory a fortys, which one services such as this all banned well for the protests by catholics will not be tolerated. Life is more important than anything else. And life is about battling the coronavirus. Its not just catholics who have been impacted by this. The blanket ban hates any religious service. That means that muslims, jews, hindus and others are all in the same boat. But given that france is still a majority catholic country, their voices and voices of anger or roy sing above the crowds. Shawty been ski, r. T. Paris. Dear opinion has failed to agree on a coronavirus recovery fun and a 7 year budgets during a tense video conference. Theres a summit, expose a deepening rift between Member States on issues ranging from migration to the rule of law. Now we can now bring in our europe correspondent peter oliver for all the details. Peter, talk us through some of the key stumbling blocks or migration. The budget for the upcoming 7 years there, the 2 main problems for the European Union at the moment. There doesnt seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel and getting agreement on either of them. In the e. U. Commission, president said ahead of the summit on thursday that there needs to be an overhaul of the way that migration is dealt with in the e. U. Or thats been pretty much evident since at least the heights of the migrant crisis. Back in 2015, the way it currently works is that if somebody over at the 1st nation, the 1st member state, somebody seeking asylum arrives in, thats the one that is obligated to look after them or see thats not particularly fair on countries like greece or italy on the line says the Current System is not fit for purpose and needs to be overhauled in favor of something. Failed. Migration is a complex issue, and there are many genuine concerns that have to be brought into balance. The Current System no longer works well, the idea of more burden sharing isnt agreed on by poland and hungary. They say no, they dont want that. And at the moment, unless they get on side with it, thats the way its going to stand. Poland, hungary, also not on side when it comes to the conditions of the e. U. Budget for the next 7 years. Now poland has found itself accused of accused by brussels, of having undermined the independence of the gee, this surely is well as having a road at some of the checks and balances of democracy. While in hungary theres fingers pointed at them saying that in particular, the Prime Minister of hungary, viktor orban, saying that hes launched a crackdown against free media. And academics under some of the clauses that are written into, you know, git, if you dont play by brussels rules, you dont get brussels as money and that isnt sitting too well with either warsaw or budapest who feel it may be targeted. It pretty much is targeted directly at them, but they arent alone in not being happy with this move. Revolution notion, a Propaganda Club has emerged in the European Union deciding what the rule of law is and how its broken from communist times. We know well how such clubs he used. We reject such tools because the rule of law is now being applied in the e. U. As a scare tactic to opposite of his true meaning. The rule of law should mean the right of states to reform themselves in accordance with treaties and the constitution. Numerous Media Outlets and some political groups in the European Parliament are openly threatening to use that instrument wrong or termed the rule of law in order to discipline individual human but states. Those of us to spend part of our lives under total terran regime. No. The deviation from reality begins when process is institutions are given a name that reflects the exact opposite of the essence. Its no small change that poland and hungary holding up though were talking about 1. 00, trillion euros, the budget for the next 7 years. Thats the cash that supposed to launch the covert 19 Recovery Plan to build back better. Also, the green initiatives on Digital Economy projects that were put forward as the big marquee goals. They slipped on the line and her Commission Set out for their time in office. It doesnt look like its going to go through any time soon. The deadlock is well pretty much locked as it stands as a lot of work going to have to be done. If a new book just is going to be approved and if theres to be any breakthrough when it comes to the future of migration policy in the year to see you on 9 r. T. S. Peter of our bringing us the latest from that eve summit. Thank you. Voters from azerbaijan, accompanied by russian peacekeepers are now entering parts of the disputed region of newborn aqaba and lined with a peace deal in all refugees are returning to the areas that mean cities to plan a care which is held by our media. But as our kids mongul to found out, many of them have little to nothing to return to the war may be over, but the humanitarian situation here, instapundit yet is still dial. Scenes like this are repeated hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times across the city. And left to their own devices, look at emergency workers would be overwhelmed. This is why russia has sent help aside from peacekeepers who patrolled the routes of the heights. Russia also said civilian rescue has engineers. Fod been billed as the gauge the devastation. And theres to meet how much aid will be required. Its neither easy nor quick. Lets go for the next one. How many do you have on your just there are too many. How many have we visited today . About 50, neither is it pleasant. Every crater has a story, every destroyed whom has its ghosts, and with almost every visit, we hear again and again about how he were a she were all of them died when they were in this room, 2 cousins. And my grandmother, i was in the room over there, which wasnt destroyed and i fell of my bed, opened my eyes and only saw dust. It took me 5 minutes to crawl out the window. Help has come from all over the world, humanitarian organizations, lukoil and russian. Rescuers catalog ruin. After wreckage, our 1st task is to cover all the broken windows and glass so people can survive the winter. Its some pleasant. Even scary. I had some role in the construction of many of these buildings is painful for the priority now is making carol livable again, wreckage will be cleared later, but light damage has to be repaired. Now people are doing what they can, plastering, move a small holes and covering empty window frames with plastic sheets. But there are a lot even for that. My house wasnt hit so bad the last way for live blew their windows solid, but their home, which suffered much worse, really cant complain. The city is slowly coming back to life. The shock of the war is wearing off and with every returning refugees. There is a sense that the city of state by the character has come back from the dead. But in every street there is a somber reminder that life will never be the same. And some people just cant come back every day. We drive by this house and its a sad sight, every time a dog guarding a house thats been destroyed. And the family that isnt there more, i guess, do you have from the u. S. State of georgia has completed its hand recount of president ial election ballots and confirmed joe biden as the winner. Again, the states top of election official also debunked the fraud allegations made by Donald Trumps team. However, trumps lawyers are still claiming fraud in other states and claim they have the witnesses to prove it is not a single voter fraud in one state. To state in the repeats itself, in a number of states. Clearly illegal, clearly, voter fraud easily provable. Hundreds of witnesses, maybe thousands trumps attention, is now shifting to michigan where 2 republican Election Officials are saying they were tricked by democrats into certifying the vote result. The president has reportedly summoned Top Republican lawmakers from the state to the white house to discuss further steps. But president elect joe biden says, trump is fighting a losing battle. Its going to be inches. See who shows up. Im confident he knows he has one thats not going to be able to win, and were going to be sworn in in january 20th. We will go down in history as the one most irresponsible president s in american history. Republican Election Officials in michigan have signed affidavits rescinding their decision to approve the vote count. I need sleep voted not to certify the election, and i still believe this vote should not be certified. And the state board of canvassers should canvass for an additional period republican canvassers, william hartmann, and Monica Palmer initially voted against certifying the Election Results in wayne county, michigan, where detroit is located. They said there were irregularities. They said the poll book, which is the official list of registered voters, did not actually match the Election Results. They had questions, they were not comfortable voting to certify the Election Results. The state of michigan had already been called for joe biden. The we had been ahead at that point 150000 votes, there was kind of a 3 hour deadlock and then there was a zoom call where activists and poll workers spoke to the board on a zoom conference and raised the issue of racism. We are going to you guys are not right, and im sorry for your descendants will be so esteemed of you. I am ashamed of you. Im not going to read it to you. Shame on you. Youre a racist ignorance was showing your racism is very apparent. And i dont know how you sleep at night because this is on the record, monica, your daughter is going to look at you in disgust because shes going to know, and this is going to affect her because people will ask her why is sure mother race is so after about 2 hours of public a humiliation, the republican officials reached a compromise with their democratic counterparts. Now, according to them, they agreed to vote to certify these results. Despite their concerns. In exchange for the democrats conducting an audit afterwards to see what was going on with these irregularities. Now the democrats decided not to conduct an audit. They say essentially that, that their, their agreement was not how peled and they regret certifying the votes. We now have palmer and hartmann saying that they were misled. They have now signed affidavits saying that they rescinded their decision to certify the votes in wayne county, michigan, vice chairman, gave me sure and says that voting for the the november election would result in a full, independent out at of detroits unbalanced precincts. I relied on that assurance and voted to certify the election based on that assurance. Later that evening i was sent statements that secretary jewson benson made saying that she did not view our Audit Resolution to be binding. As a result of this fact, i reset my prior vote to certify wayne county elections. Now the Legal Mechanism by which the votes of wayne county michigan could still be overturned is rather unclear. Now the county is considered by the state of michigan to be certified and the decision to certify the entire state of michigan will be carried out on monday by a Different Committee that would be the board of state canvassers. That committee is split evenly along party lines of republicans and democrats, and its not clear whether or not these affidavits from the 2 republican poll canvassers in wayne county, michigan will have any effect on that upcoming vote. The lawsuit that was filed by the trumpet, ministration in the state of michigan has been dropped. They are no longer in a legal battle with the state of michigan. But michigan is not the only place where there were concerns about irregularities raised by the camp. They claim there is a pattern of voter fraud that favored joe biden and secured his victory in the election. And now, according to a recent poll, 40 percent of americans believe that the recent of the last election on november 3rd was tainted by fraud. And donald trump still maintains that he is the legitimate winner of the election. However, there seems to be a pretty big consensus in u. S. Media that joe biden is the winner. The election took place on november 3rd, but yet the controversy surrounding the u. S. President ial election has not ended. Journalist Dave Lindorff says the whole process has descended into farce. This is all about not winning the election. Its about stirring up the base for the election in georgia. They run off with 2 senators. The whole thing has become a big joke. Its just that trumps hard core supporters believe it. And the reason hes doing it is because he thinks thats going to boost his votes for the senate race in georgia. This is all a lot of noise thats going to result. Surely seen and detritus, 85 percent black and they were willing to say ok, well. d well just recheck the detroit city limits, but the rest of the county will approve the rest of the county slate. I mean, it was such a blatant racist decision they made. They cant take that their vote because once its like, you know, the decision was made thats been our rundown of the days top news for this hour. Thanks for tuning in revenue, maybe so it seems wrong. But ill just tell me to st cloud to stay calm. And in danger, because the trail when something find themselves worlds apart, just on the common ground. A new gold rush is underway and gonna kill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields, hoping to strike it. Rich, as they were, children are torn between gold was very poor. I thought i was doing my best to get back to school. Which side will have the strongest appeal hello and welcome to cross talk. Were all things are considered. What can we expect from a bygone ministration when it comes to russia . As things stand today, relations are at rock bottom. Bidens orbit is replete with hard liners in neo cons with a long record of Foreign Policy failure. Could relations continue to get worse to discuss this and more im joined by my guest. Michael ohanlon in washington is a senior fellow and director of research in the Foreign Policy program at brookings, as well as author of the on nato, a new Security Architecture for eastern europe. Also in washington. We have brian becker, hes the executive director of the answer coalition. And in moscow we cross to, maxie should go, he is an expert at the Russian International affairs council. Originally crossed out rules in effect. That means you can jump in anytime you want. And i always appreciate it. Ok, let me go to maxime 1st here in moscow