Or the churches have been blocked. Or that going to mass could be considered a crime. And rescue us from countries including russia, helped refugees to return to new, want to care about and rebuild their lives. But many find they have nothing to return to every day drug buy this house, and this is suds, every adult guarding the house thats been destroyed. And the family that isnt there. 247 live from the russian capital. This is our tents, national, where if you are in the wild, thanks for choosing us this friday. Well, lets start off with how was straight and officials have condemned what they call unfit. Give a bull atrocities committed by that countrys special forces. In afghanistan, the defense minister, the governor general, and a former Prime Minister, spoke out after an inquiry by a stray, his military and the alleged model of 39. 00 afghan civilians including president i got the report 2 weeks ago and it made me physically ill. And it was very, very distressing. Raids, 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 detailing counts of cold blooded murder by members of all armed forces. Well, those messages of remorse, follow a very long list of apologies for war crimes committed by Coalition Forces in afghanistan since the 2001 invasion. And it trenker now looks at how those who are 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 label of stability and to live the lives curity. As it 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 apologize 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 kill in an appalling practice known as bloody atrocities. Ranged from reports of troops killing a 6 year old child and a house raid to approach or 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 coalition. Do you call it what you would just one of 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 there is a disincentive, really, to tell the truth. We have 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 trumps 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 an uncoordinated way, 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 and well be a lie, and that it will crimes by a straight and forces have caused outrage in afghanistan. We ask people in the streets of kabul, what they think should happen, but has admitted to killing innocent afghans and has apologized. These cases happened years ago, but were only hearing about them now. Afghans were killed as if our blood was worthless. Our leaders need to end their inaction and speak out. The foreign soldiers come here to serve their own interests, not to help us. No afghan wants these foreign powers to control our country. We need to decide our own future. Its good for the 1st time, confess and as soldiers killed us, but i dont think emir bulgy is enough. They have been government needs to uphold the law to make sure the family so good victims are compensated in apology is not the solution. The Afghan Government must make sure that no foreign soldier can get away with killing afghans. And the bolgers, not enough. It wasnt just one to 2 people. They killed around 40. I want the government to take this seriously. Then there were console, just killed. Many afghans in the past and the u. S. Will condemn the actions of its soldiers, but then do nothing about it. I am sure the same will happen in australia because for them, one of the soldiers is worth a 1000000. Afghans. Share cost you is actually a former governor of afghanistans ghastly province. Now is that a straight is not the only member of the Us Led Coalition to have 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. How could anybody in the name of humanity will, would 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 other 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. While Health Organization has voiced a law mo, for europe such a great of virus death rate, top to 29000 fatalities were registered in a single week. According to the w. H. O. , one possible europe is now dying from the virus every 17 seconds. Ron says one of the watched it with intensive care was more than 95 percent of full and struggling to cope with the more than 2000000. 00 covert cases, that is actually the continent. Tali medical staff also warning they can no longer cope. You just have to do live thing, go complain about is that we need some rest. 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 with the governments promises sort of interested in the comics in the hospital. Ive never seen that before. The patients all the caregivers. Now theres no francis bond on all religious gatherings, including mass as part of the lockdown is that im going to believe its on to the streets and protest washed as want. Some things are more important than covert restrictions are. Solid deep and ski discusses churches may be closed for services, but catholics are still meeting for prayers and they are protesting. Knock down measures that seem religious services 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 country 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 same time to meet in our churches and strict compliance with health precautions. 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 mers are essential, and should be permitted during the lockdown that 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. Keen not to draw 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 your own needs above 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 covert 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 your 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, there are voices and voices of anger, or roy sing above the crowds. Shoulder to ski, altie, paris. Well still ahead this hour as the e. U. Summit ends in dead log off to 2 nations, veto the props budget, accusing brussels of adopting communist tactics. That story and much, much more of the short break greater transferred to simpson, exacerbating an alarming everyone mindlessly. Actually what that means is we end up making solutions that cost a lot, but actually do very little. Its just a kind of fuel. Instead of the solutions that were tricks of the European Union has failed to agree on a coronavirus recovery fund. On the 7 year budget during a tense video conference, 1000 a summit exposed a deepening rift between Member States on issues ranging from migration to the rule of rule, p. To all of our reports. Migration the budget for the upcoming 7 years. They are 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. On the line, 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. At. Thats been pretty much evident since at least the heights of the migrant crisis back in 2015. The way it currently works is that in 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 as live on the line says the Current System is not fit for purpose and needs to be overhauled in favor of something. Farah, the Current System no longer works. Each member state without exception, must support Member States under pressure. The idea of more burden sharing isnt agreed on by poland and hungary. They say no, they dont want lots of 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 by brussels, of having undermined the independence of the gita surety, as well as having a row did some of the checks and balances of democracy, while in hungary, those fingers pointed at them, saying that in particular, the, 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 the new budget. If you dont play by brussels rules, you dont get brussels as money and that isnt sitting too well with either warsaw or budapest to feel it may be targeted. It pretty much is targeted directly at them, but they arent alone in not being happy with this move. But ive also known notion of propaganda clubs 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 leaved we reject such tools because the rule of law is now being applied in the us. A scare tactic opposite is true, meaning the rule of law should mean the right of states to reform themselves in accordance with treaties and the constitution of numerous media outlets. And some political groups in the European Parliament are openly threatening to use that instrument. Wrong would term, the rule of law in order to discipline individual human by states. Those of us suspend part of our lives under total terror in 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 are holding up though were talking about 1. 8, 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 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 that new budget is going to be approved. If theres to be any breakthrough. When it comes to the future of migration policy in the e. U. European history class apart abandoning, told us the e. U. Increasingly resembles a super state trying to impose uniformity on its members. But i think the european view has been marked as a sole superpower. With this idea of the low actually walk to the moon is not the empire, is not the central artistry and they should not be the all the principle source. If you are ready, we are facing major competition between the western side, which is the most powerful sort of that you can include all the france, germany and the rest of the European Union to be european in the east. So all the for all of these crowds have gathered for a 10th day in the armenian capital. If you are a fan, demanding the Prime Ministers resignation over an unpopular peace deal with as a by john activists formed a human chain through the city Center Legion to an intense standoff with police and dozens of arrests. Meanwhile, russian peacekeepers in the disputed newborn i care about region and now taken up all positions agree to any of this month on to the peace deal. And azerbaijani soldiers accompanied by those peacekeepers are now entering part of the contested region. Seated by all means, the Russian Troops side of this month put an end to 7 weeks of deadly fighting in the contested mountainous region. On to the tubs, both on media and as a by john will hold on to their recent gains, meaning that large swathes also require care about have now fallen on to a salary control, including the city of shashi on mean, it will so hostile handover. 3 other districts to baku, the loss of those areas has prompted many armenian residents to flee that taking a miserable belongings in some of these and funtown that own houses rather than letting us by johnnys move. Then, meanwhile, all the armenians are going back to new corner car box main city of step on a cut, which remains on the back control. But its all ts more aghast to found out. Many of the refugees have nothing to return to who war may be over, but the humanitarian situation here, instapundit yet is still done. Scenes like this are repeated hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times across the city. If left to their root devices, look, emergency workers would be overwhelmed. This is why russia has sent help aside from peacekeepers who patrol the routes of the heights. Russia will sue said civilian rescue is jeannie is billed as the gauge the devastation and this to meet. How much aid will be required . Its not that easy. Quick. So lets go for the next one. How many do you have on your list . There are too many. How many have we visited today . About 50, neither is it pleasant. Every crater has a story. Every destroyed home 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, luko and russian rescuers catalogue 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 had some role in the construction of many of these buildings is painful. There are. The priority now is making cattle 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 laws even for that. My house wasnt heat so bad the bloss way for a new blue, the windows solid, but the one who missed which suffered much worse. Really cant complain. The city is slew. Coming back to life, the shock of the war ease 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 a family. But isnt there more, i guess de of from the garden a car a bot . Well thats us for the hour. Glad you kept me company plan to our home. Any of our social media accounts will keep you updated on the move. To join me every thursday on the alex simon show, and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics, sports business, im show business. Ill see you then. What can we expect from them by didnt ministration when it comes to russia . As things stand today, relations are brought about by us or maybe is replete with hardliners in neocons with a long record of Foreign Policy failure. Could relations continue to get worse . Is your media a reflection of reality . In a world transformed what will make you feel safe from the isolation for community . Are you going the right way or are you being that direct . What is true . What is faith . In the world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depths or remain in the shallowest kind of financial survival job today with all the Money Laundering 1st to visit this campus in this way. Different from oh good, this is a good start. Well, we have our 3 banks all set up here, maybe something in your something in america, something overseas in the cayman islands, or do we do all these banks are complicit in the kleptocracy who decide to give mccall and say ok, im going to do some serious wounds. Ok, lets see how we did while weve got a nice laundry watch for max and for stacy. Oh, beautiful jewelry. And how about luxury automobile . Again, from that you know what Money Laundering is highly illegal. Dont you watch kaiser . Of course. Well welcome to visionaries. May sophie shevardnadze, global institutions are ringing or the taking time. That is the climate change. But my guest today believes the panic is unnecessary or even groundless. Bjorn lomborg, president of the copenhagen visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a skeptical environmentalist joins me now. The president of the copenhagen consensus, an urban setting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and skeptical environmentalist. Its really great to have you with us today. Bjorn, how do you like my last part of your presentation . Skeptical environmentalist. Right. Its what i have to say. Its great to be here senator. So i really try to do is to think about all the things you can worry about in a gentlemanly areas. What are the things where you can actually make the most difference for every dollar and rupee rupee that you spend so that we instead of just feeling good and achieving, i mean, i want to go through this in detail while were chatting. So this International Movement to do something about climate change