on just hours after it launches its 1st televised broadcasts in germany. are in use history. channel r t. d is blocked by you tube. ah . live for moscow, this is our t. my name's unit o'neill. on 30 minutes of news and views start, not the secretary general of nato said there can be no compromise on expanding the trans atlantic defense alliance. thus, despite calls from president putin, for guarantees that nato will not new members near or on russia's borders. charlotte gibbons kate takes up the story quite a lot to digest from that press conference with the nato secretary general. but he talked about what he sees as being patton of aggression coming from russia. and he said natal will continue to do all it's necessary to ensure that the rights of its allies, its members, are protected. but nato, supporting his opinion, does not mean that it's a threat to russia recently, north macedonia, and also montenegro, both eastern european countries, very near the russian border. have both been accepted into the nato, a life that is despite protests from the russian government about that. let's have a listen to what else yen stilton burke had to say. nato has proven over the last years that are open door policy is not only something we are support in words, but those in deeds parted by inviting to new countries, montenegrin north macedonia to become members. so we have enlarged the line so that all spheres for to new members, despite protests from, from russia. and also we are supporting ukraine in the ukraine efforts to come closer to natal membership. so he went on to talk about what he sees as russia substantial and military build up all the border areas with ukraine . and he said that that build up is a provocation. and that it could destabilize europe, as well as for russia's point of view, it has repeatedly denied that there is any intention or any build up is looking to invade into ukraine. or we know that russia's foreign ministry spokesperson has slammed this sort of talk. and she said that such statements just will not help deescalate tensions in the region. if a tional laws, this is it is information campaign to a to crate. firstly, the image of russia is an aggressor. and secondly, additional tashing of the region, including the black sea, the russia crane border, and se ukraine. this will not bring stability and security either in international relations or the regional agenda. it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course, western journalists freely use the word aggressor, referring to our country. what right do they have to do this? i try to understand this every time. when was the last time russia text, any one? people need to pick up the screen with arguments and how many times have native countries attacked sovereign states in the last 20 years. how many special operations were carried out by the name countries? kenny show me something him close to that from the russian site. no, there is nothing you need to figure out where there are facts and where there is propaganda. now it's not just russia that saying, look, we north intending to invade ukraine. we're also hearing similar views from some of your groups leaders, for example, the prime minister of italy. this is mary druggie. i said that he's been talking to president putin over the last few weeks and months and as far as he's concerned invading ukraine, this idea isn't based on any fact. we've also heard warnings from the french president about this kind of talk, the hoops, who is suggesting that this war is brewing between russia and ukraine, could pull in other countries as well. president macro on saying at such talk doesn't help and act. she could end up being a self fulfilling prophecy goal miss telpa guy spoke with former pentagon security analysts, michael maloof. he thinks the aggressive remarks coming from nato are being guided by washington. stop, bird, i think has to look out for nato interests and he's not going to try to at this point to try to, ah, discourage ukraine. and because native, because nato wants to do more military exercises than i think stolen bergen, nato generally is under so very serious pressure behind the scenes from the biden administration and pushing that narrative and is in their interest to push nato it up to the border for containment purposes of russia proper, the united states is coming half way around the world to, to assert this kind of action. when you have moscow, are alarmed by the activity assertiveness by ukraine and native, generally. and thereby, they have every right to arm their, their western flight. as far as i'm concerned, memory risk can moving on. now the u. k. has reported a record kobe surge with 88000 cases registered in the past 24 hours. testing spain ramped up a mid fears over then you all me chrome strain. it's so far been registered in 77 countries. but despite the rapid spread, early studies from south africa and hong kong suggest micron is less likely to cause severe illness than the delta variant. very few dance sounds been linked to the new strain as yet either. nevertheless, countries worldwide are ramping up. those vaccine campaigns are correspondent elliott. katrinka spoke to the w a chose regional director for europe on that huns kluge. how much more do we know about our micron at this point? we know much more and we have to tours and about all michel. it's to, it's the latest variant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell, we're not in the business of fighting one variant when the business of fighting all variance and stu, delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well they call fife on the mic stabilizers number one, increase vaccination coverage. number 2, boost boost, boost number city. double. the number of people varying marks. endorse number 4, ventilate, particularly in classrooms. keep the schools open and fife, implement new treatment protocols. how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove ineffective against on the chrome where we know as of to date, that vaccines are still effective for the 1st or the 2nd dose may be limitless, but it recovers with a cert dosed well on the european union. specifically, we've seen a range of different approaches. why aren't we seeing a more uniformity from the block in particular, do uniformed, it has been growing over time, but i take the point that it's still really aleck, off uniformity, with a cold political here it is. and it's confuses the people. that's right. dublin was advocating to establish a bung european health senate council at the high level to half uniformed in policy, but ultimately still health is a national competency. it's a decision by the country. speaking of sputnik v, r t, we've heard from a number of experts that the issue has been politicized. is that true anyhow? house including vaccines. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of origin. i shared the optimism of the president of the russian federation that this dub rachel emergency use listing for sputnik ruby there soon. fans clues. speaking to archie, you know, germany's government is facing a furious backlash against plans for monday. treat cobra vaccines and tough new restrictions being implemented. cities including unit comp, seen mass on rest, and unofficial in dressed and received death threats as well. or your correspondent peter oliver reports munich was the later city in germany, to see demonstrations by anti banks groups as well as those that are opposed to the measures that have been put in place to try and stop the spread of coven 19 the police say around 4000 people turned up the demonstration in bavaria. it was all relatively peaceful until a group of around $4.00 to $500.00 of them decided they were going to go in a march around the city that resulted in some captain most with the police. bit of pushing and shoving and ultimately according to the police 28 arrests being made. they ranged from people refusing to wear masks to those that had assaulted police officers. what we have seen at these type of demonstrations though, is an increase in the, the speed at which should and choose on the amounts of people who are getting involved in violence. yeah. ah. the when we're talking about these demonstrations, they are groups that of anti vaccine, as they said, also opposed to those coven measures. but a lot of them are lumped under the umbrella of a group called the lateral think is now the f. b roundly mocked here in germany in society as well as on tv and satirical tv programs and, and elsewhere. but things have taken a much darker turn. in fact, on wednesday morning, dawn rates were carried out across the state of saxony in the east of germany. in connection with a plot to assassinate, be the leader of the government of the state of saxony. the miko coachman also to launch a tax against the politician in not state. no saxony has some of the lowest rates of vaccination in germany. it also had some of the highest rates of covert infection as well. well, following those rates, 5 men and one woman were taken into custody. what is seen is a number of politicians turning on the messaging application telegram with them, saying that it was all about messaging application that this type of plot was able to be for nested and the message being spread. they are extremely dangerous because they're not only talking, chatting and inciting each other, but also taking action very worth while pointing out the thing. because the anti faxes be deemed anti covert measure people are a small percentage of the population than those at large. what we have seen is a large number of people coming forward for bucks a nation theory in germany. in fact, on wednesday they broke records with 1500000 job being handed out across the whole of the country. now 1300000 of those were the vaccines. what we have those the read the rest were i the 1st or 2nd doses all of vaccine. now what we have is around 70 percent of the population fully vaccinated, but there is a group of around 20 percent of the population that all be a mentally anti vaccine here in germany. and they just so absolutely no interest in getting that vaccine whatsoever. in fact, that's why we've seen all our sholtes, the german chancellor talking about the possibilities of potentially in the future . seeing mandatory vaccination countries like austria on greece of already said that from next year they will be implementing mandatory vaccination. it's still up the discussion phase here in germany though. our sister channel in germany r t d has been taken off huge it, it comes on the day it launched its 1st televised broadcast in the country. the reason given for the band is that our t d, previous youtube account was removed, and apparently the owner of any block channel is forbidden from starting a new. however, r t d 's new channel actually has a different owner. and in any case you can always watch the brand new channel d dot r t dot com. we got the lo done on what on for the today from one of the station sites are going to have been terminated by gp with you to code violation of the times of the fact that you've got to complain that our vendors had 2nd, rented some technical safety measures, this means according to that class, if your channel is terminated, you may be unable to use or create any child. and i'll be on that. that was the latest addition to asi, 70 on youtube, that includes dozens of channels. it was that's how by the fancy company, oh god t and then to be novice, in most cases used by team of editors. i of them have no relation to our youtube channel that was terminated in september. i said toy technically because the channel that was deleted in september was owned by a different company, all tv productions. it's also worth mentioning that at the time of termination of your channel, had them 600000 followers. and i got 540000000 views. but despite the huge banner german sister channel, it's up and running ortiz down the armstrong looks at what other obstacles it's had to overcome to get on or the journey. so launched a has been the usual track through pressure and passive aggression from the self appointed defenders of democracy. i. e. rival, gym, and media. it's bad enough that putin's voice sounds out across the internet. if it were not for one reliable german media outlet, dest spiegel kremlin owned outlets would dominate the german digital information space. in both the number of articles published in social engagement received. there is reason to believe that most of the traffic on r t channels is real and not acquired through purchased fake profiles. the thinly veiled disdain from rival gym and media outlets have come in a form of gallant cries to stop the so called moscow mouthpiece. and kremlin back putin propaganda, of course, that has nothing to do with our t deutsche. his popularity on a string of social media, where they consistently rank among the top most viewed channels as regards news and politics. ah but it wasn't just rival outlets that ran. so the, his theory over r t deutsch, his rise through the media rankings. politicians got personal and launched attacks on arte employees, framing them as perpetrators of this information. and d, stabilizing democracy. those who work for asi have said good bye to critical and independent journalism. and whether they want it or not, all the employees are part of the d stabilization of democracy. this is not about the approval of a profane entertainment channel, but about e u wide access for putin propaganda and targeted disinformation under the guise of alternative journalism. and what goes up must come down our tea toich. his ascent was yanked back down to earth when youtube band, the channel from its platform, with it wiping out 600000 subscribers. now, despite rumors that the pan was barely impact, former chancellor angle a miracle denied that germany had influence you chief's decision. as for r t, germany did not put any pressure on brussels or the decisions it made in germany. neither the federal government nor the state governments engaging meadows like that . so this fight will the people's best efforts. artie deutsch is primed and ready for action, launching on air and launching a fresh assault on those old ratings and views, rankings. mainstream media beware. so at all the resistance r t d has faced including today's youtube termination, we decided to delve into just why authorities are so against it. 0, one or 2. yeah. mm hm. you must, it has to be deleted. and as you want to talk to, we stand together, we'll continue to stand together against russia, 80 in germany. repeat some of the areas that we doubtless made say no to civilians as chunky dawson subaru. village influence other nations, france, u. k. and even latin america. and other countries in future than they need to wear to high from cycle pollute with members of your household, please, please, please please. we're going to continue to fight with just need to rush. you must not be allowed in germany. i don't want y'all to common leave. it's so short. so d in al td enough the 5 and the yes, dr. a indian. 80 the enough. mrs. guns until sunday. if it's good enough wrangler. you're watching our t international still ahead. the u. s. could be approaching a tipping point to a democrat and republican voters becoming ever more hostile to each other. that's according to a new study. we delve into the south and worship ah ah ah ah ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offensive, very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk oh, hello. again, an irreversible divide. that's the point to american society is reaching according to a new academic study. it fund that polarization in the u. s. is close to tip important . if polarization is to extreme, people become divided even on the shock issue. if we reach that point we cannot unites even in the face of war, climate change pandemic, or of the challenges to the survival of our society. earlier former pennsylvania state senator bruce marx, john, my colleague, lori sushi here in the studio to share his perspective on the growing rift in american political life. the nbc accomodate of nbc was saying he said there was 30000000 people right now. ready to take off palms to for donald trump, back in the office. that's somewhere between 20 and 30000000 people. that's a mass movement in america, in favor of political violence, which is a new thing. does that sound accurate to you? well, i don't think that you're gonna see anybody taking up arms in the literal sense of, you know, having, you know, weapons. but i think that maybe there's a 120000000 or 130000000, or maybe more people who be willing to vote for donald trump. we had the tobacco in afghanistan, which was poorly handled and, and maybe united states look weak on the international, you know, a platform where they didn't get the americans out before the troops, laughter. that's number one and number 2, with all of the spending that were happening because of these, you know, bills that the democrats just wanna throw money at. we, we, for the 1st time, i mean, in a long time, we have inflation so that, so this is, this is not just the media fear mongering about inflation in america. because we've been reporting that it's nearly at a full decade, high inflation in the united states. it's just about everything across the board now is more expensive than it was even just a year ago. is that, is that true? what's absolutely it's, it's absolutely true. i'm just, i grew up in the 70 so i can remember when we had inflation, then we really haven't had inflation since i'd say that's the late 1980 s has been fairly stable. absolutely. you go to you, listen, you can't fully american public. we have the whole problem, you know, with the, the transport and getting kids goods into the country. i wanted to ask you just briefly, going back to biden's approval ratings and the inflation crisis cove. it afghanistan, the list goes on, and yet he says, he says the following about mid times have a quick listen to this. if you would, in 2021 as a unified democratic party, more unified than ever. now we look at 2022. i want to tell my republican friend get ready bell you're going in for a problem. he seems certainly out and made and optimistic. the how do you think is ratings right now will affect the midterms. i think they've already infected the elections, the united states. we had a republican when governor and virginia completely unexpected. ah, that was in part because of the lack of popularity of president biden. it's typical that the party that's out of power does well in the mid years, but with biden. and his lack of popularity is really even his inability to campaign could didn't even campaign for himself when he was running for president. i don't think that we're going to see him going around the country and supporting very many democrat candidates. and republicans, i think you're gonna feel the very good slate of, of candidates, the lawyer for a russian national, who's been fun guilty of murdering a chechen man in berlin back in 2019. believe the verdict. lex. any solid evidence in an exclusive interview with r t. he said the court relied on highly questionable sources to pull the images. and the problem with this investigation is that it's partly based on sources, which in our view, from the point of view of defense and not credible these belin cat documents from ukraine. and witnesses who gave conflicting testimonies and caught rebelling cat is a business project that focuses on questionable russian stories and serious crimes down there, getting donations and financial help to do that. and which is why we believe that belling cat does not produce independent mutual journalism. on the contrary, as a clear aim, their assumptions that are still in need of evidence from our point of view, evidence from belin cat is unreliable. cabana phobic and the judge also said will sentencing that there's no direct evidence that it was in order from russia. they relied on clues that from all points of view were insufficient. for this ruling deals, it was all i think that the existence of contract was not established. there's no evidence that that's why i believe, at least during the hearings in the evaluation of evidence that such participation from russia wasn't revealed. but the court decided differently, brought back in 2014 russia, put out an international left for classical interpol. i believe this confirms that he's not an agent of the russian secret services. as these aren't usually puts on, international wanted las, where all their private details to divulge with what is the victim, was gun dawn in a park in broad daylight in berlin, back in 2019 the lincoln conquest. philly was a wanted terrorist in russia. he had a solemn status in germany, but moscow wanted to put him on trial for the deaths of around a 100 people in southern russia. he was also suspected of being involved in a series of suicide bombings on the moscow metro and 2010. now after the court sentence, the russian national life in prison for murder and rule, that he was acting on behalf of moscow. berlin also expelled to russian diplomats. and when you say something, warning is a retaliation. the criminal denies any involvement indicating the russian and buster to germany has described. berlin's actions are politically motivated. we also heard from george galloway r t host on former british m. p. he thinks diplomatic expulsions are a dangerous step in relations between berlin and moscow. it's very dismal is potentially very dangerous. we must hope that cooler heads prevail is struck me as being so obvious a blind man, good. see it and into national, lynch, mach seeking to convict without evidence and execute the russian state for anything that happens anywhere on the territory. and i'm sure that russia will respond, it needs to show that it will not be kicked around anymore. this is not the else and period where russia was lying drunk on the ground, having its pocket picked, put on, has made russia really something again, any. i'm sure want to show the political predictions for 2022 on the agenda next. as alex summon gets the crystal ball our commentators, claire fox and peter o'beirne during the former 1st minister of scotland, right after the break state coast. ah lou right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's suitable to sell food because he's fatty and sugary and salty and addicted. it's not at the individual level, it's not individual willpower. and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment. mm hm. what's driving the obesity epidemic? it's corporate in. ah. mm . welcome to the alex salmon. sure. well, we either view the, let's go highlights of 2021 and ask 2 of our favorites to see what can we expect from westminster politics in 2022. in a few short weeks, prime minister johnson has moved from master boley, surveyed to a lame duck drowning and self inflicted scandal. what will the new year break up? that's called a viable for the prime minister or end game for the johnson administration. we interview talk, let's go compensator peter. i interchange tier botanist clear folks. i'm ask them what exactly is going on and importantly, what will happen, right, correct. but 1st she retreats move and message in response. i show last week one ranging up to 26 summer in grad school, michael mcgregor and says, the plan is going back to the formation as it did billions of years ago. i dobson says the realistic carbon cut to cost is ridiculous. and the commercial joke at best, robert died says didn't. but the leaders we have definitely didn't. i'm frankly, are not later note. william nicholas says, i'm starting that all music. and my said, if you took arts have kept me seen these last years. some might see a difference. what an interesting program once again, focusing on some of the good. thank you all, alex simon. sure. no journalist has been a big or thorn and the prime minister site's been the for mid to.

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