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is called stretching time, but again, you probably don't wanna watch it because it might just change the way inside the us lawmakers picture a separate $16000000000.00 a foreign a bill for ukraine with the proposed money going take care of loans instead of donations. disturbing images, at least 11 people, including children, are killed in them. is really our strike on the refugee camp in central gals. that was the desk told there since october 7th, purportedly nearly $34000.00. the georgian prime minister of pushes for the adoption of a foreign agents law of the countries of president vows to veto it. we discussed the bill with our correspondent who was just returning to moscow after being deported from the typically seat and also
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a head on the problem. we got too much attention from the at the i, the security agencies, wherever we came to the west. the creator of a telegram up opens up the tucker carlson about the pressure exerted on him by the f. b. i for on google make 1st stronger sensors than any government the one minutes past 10 pm at night. this wedding stay in jerusalem and it's been born right here in law school. welcome to the global user and all of our teachers in the latest attempt to get a controversial foreign aid package. past us, lawmakers have decided to break it all down into several separate bills, including $860000000000.00 deal for ukraine. congress members who are expected to vote on the proposal on some of the evening want to loan the money instead of
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donating it to kids across live now to our new york corresponding kayla martin for more on this heck of a lot of bills to get our head around, what are the chances of seeing those big foreign a numbers past in washington after months of deadlock, take us through it as well as you just alluded to, there has been quite a bit of negotiation and deadlock, preventing the passing of a new crane aid package now the newest bill now that's been put forward to the us house of representatives, the lower house of the us congress. uh this bill would give aid to ukraine in the form of a loan rather than just a gift. uh, this would be a loan. um, they are separating aid for ukraine uh with one bill and then they have aid for the government on taiwan and aid for israel in separate bills. now,
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the bill for ukraine would provide you grain with attack. them's missiles, it would give you grand $61000000000.00 in aid that would need to be reimbursed. and the us president could negotiate the terms of that repayment and that negotiation with ukraine now. up to 50 percent of ukraine's debt could be written off off at the discretion of the president in the terms put forward in the bill. and a 3rd of that, $61000000000.00 would not go directly to ukraine, but rather be provided to us weapons manufacturers to then provide weaponry to ukraine. $26000000000.00 is expected to go to israel in a separate bill that sites there confrontation with iran as the reason for providing it. we've already heard voices, which speaking up among the house of representatives objecting to this new bill, marjorie taylor green, the noted margot republican, she was among those voices. here's what she had to say. as you speaker john santa
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voted against $300000000.00 for your grade. before we gave you the gamble along the majority of republicans, no one understands why it is now, your top priority to give you credit. $60000000000.00 more dollars you see was the out of step with the republicans by continuing to pass bills, dependent on democrats. everyone sees through this now voting on this new bill and the house of representatives is set to take place on saturday. and people are looking at recent events and ukraine and the new mobilization that has been carried out where you, cranny, and men are being drafted at, at a far higher rate. and wondering if this is part of the terms through which ukraine is now, possibly going to receive the aid after all. now, if these aid goes through and ukraine is expected to repay it, that makes ukraine even more behold into the united states in order to get as much
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of the debt written off as possible with the president being able to negotiate the terms of their repayment. this puts, you granted a situation where it is even more of a hold into the united states and exchange for the aid and weaponry that it receives. so this is an interesting development people wonder if this will be what finally pushes this a package for ukraine over the top and gets it, you know, gets it approved by both houses of the us congress. we are waiting to see what the results will be. voting is expected on saturday. yeah, we'll see what kind of reception it death star take you up up and bring this right throughout thanksgiving. are now at least 11 people, including children now being killed is really are a strike on the mcgill's, a refugee camp in central gals and wanting disturbing images are ahead. bodies were brought to the out ox, hospital for the strong relative bid farewell to their loved ones. prayers were
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held outside the building over the bodies of the victims before they were taken away for burial. while another is really strong kits, a refugee camp in southern russ setups near the egyptian border with dowser. children also among the dead there to the judge to the ever growing death tool. and so far the number of palestinians killed in 6 months of war has reached over 33800 people and children make up for them. 40 percent of the figure, according to the in the lives health ministry, the add some $76000.00 down since i've been wounded. the turkish president, by the way, has again strongly criticized the killing of children in the conflict with red chip earned on comparing israel's actions. with that was a nazi germany of the children. they killed 14000 children, 14000 children. their actions had already surpassed. people are really going to,
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despite those who did not see the death of 14000 innocent children, and try to curry favor with these well by claiming that some us is a terrorist organization. we will courageously defense, health science, struggle for independence under all circumstances. of course, i want to show you this as well. google's headquarters in the us helping grip by pro palestinian protests in california. new york. the tech joins employees along with active as gathered to condemn what they call the corporation, support. office really actions and gals and protesters stage demonstrations under the slogan, no tech for a part time they calls on google cheats to drop project nimbus. nowadays, a cloud computing project of the idea of sending the muslim employees also claim they faced harassment and bullying which the company has failed to address. some employees were reportedly arrested after a city in protest, laughs the
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buck across the lawn, sig, mine, and colossus broke out in rome after students took to the streets, the modeling to in the a tell the and capital a soppy ends, universities cooperation with israel on academic projects, food testers reportedly tried to break into a meeting of the colleges academic senate for a recent say case, just like that similar was seen in the us as well. that was when the university of southern california, which has publicly supported palestinians cancelled. it's at victoria and speech of this year's graduation over security fears or correspondence in a chart takes a closer look of voices or being silent as it has long been believe. that's a breeze. someone's freedom of speech or thought might almost be considered a deadly sin. at least that's how the west has been promoting their values to be.
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and there may be a bit of truth in it until you are fully still on the line with what they see fit. the university of south california, for instance, has decided to cancel. it's valid victorian speech at this year's graduation also kind of full consideration. we have decided that our student valedictorian will not deliver a speech that's come months, months. while this is disappointing, tradition must give way to safety. to be clear, this decision has nothing to do with freedom of speech. there's no free speech entitlement to speak of the commencement. the issue here is how best to maintain campus security and safety period. they claim that it's all for security reasons, but the real reason my just shop to us, not the bus them, is not shy from using her voice for the policy or cause in her instagram biography . she links a profile, assign page for anyone interested to learn about how to sign her beliefs or no secret. so it's no surprise that she feels as if her university has
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a band and her and chose to silence her instead as just stresses. by canceling her speech, the university is rewarding hatred and some of them and, and see palestinian voices have subjected me to a campaign of racist hatred because of my uncompromising belief in human rights for o. i was hoping to use my commencement speech during spy, my classmates with a message of hope. by canceling my speech, u. s. c is only given to fear and to vote in hatred. but she's not alone. daniel saw a professor at the city university of new york with extensive years of teaching behind him, was fired after he criticized israel's actions in golf. so the decision to pull my contract was made unilaterally by school president carol me and because of pressure she failed from outside of the university. i was fired because of my outspoken as about the united states and israel's ongoing genocide of the people of gaza.
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zionist forces with no relationship to the john jay college community dock, to me, friend me and ultimately gotten me fired. and well when it comes to those are declared themselves as the last bastions of free speech. they most definitely are quick to change their minds once something does not fit their narrative phrases such as genocide, ethnic cleansing or occupied territory when covering the warrant, gaza, our know goes for new york times journalist several times workers believe that these restrictions, according to the, is rarely narrative that i think is the kind of thing that looks professional and logical if you have no knowledge of the historical context of the palestinians, riley conflict. but if you do know it will be clear how apologetic it is to israel, or how about when a b c presenter came under fire when describing israel's attacks and gaza as murders. it was a whole or deal on his own to the point where the prime ministers spokesperson was even demanding complaints to be made directly to the broadcaster impartiality in
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reference to the bbc is absolutely paramount. complete should be raised to the bbc to off. com in the usual ways if people feel they have issue with the way in which the bbc reported that. more broadly though, israel is an ally of the u. k. is the victim of brutal terror attack and clearly has a right to defend itself. we should all be careful without words at this time, particularly even hide them coming to tensions in the u. k. that same spokesperson highlighted that prime minister wishes to not would not have used the word murder to describe those tens of thousands of deaths in gaza. and no worries. everyone else came quick to israel's rescue. even by the bbc standards. this is shocking. buzz is real. does not targets the villains, the country is defending itself from a brutal tyra tag and making strenuous efforts not to harm civilians. the bbc should watch and immediate investigation into the slate just example of an on to is
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ro statement by one of its present as outrages biased from the bbc as well as the nation being its act, the actual victims. so you can to defend themselves from further attacks bytes hatteras to have the stated aim of the store in israel mt and juice. i suppose the less than here is try to challenge that policies or say one wrong word about israel and you're going to be a disgrace. there's been some control to say about awards. i used when i was interviewing the foreign secretary. my final question was about the bas, the morality of the government's position. in particular, the risk that their position could appear to look like active support for israel when it is under attack, but nothing other than words when israel attacks the mode is tens of thousands of innocent pals students. i should have been clear that i was not expressing my own view, let alone that of the bbc. when i use the words modus double standards, hypocrisy is freedom of speech. even real in their world at this point,
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or is it just the facade they're using to continue to scold every other nation on free speech whenever they see fit? the prime minister of georgia sees the government will not screw up its foreign agents bill, despite the criticism coming from certain countries, not those protesters gathered outside the parliament building in the capital, typically see for a 3rd day in a row, demonstrators way georgia and on the flags as they condemned the legislation, which is and providing more transport and see about the for and funding of engineers and media outlets in the country. now today's ongoing really appears peaceful but protest turn findings on tuesday as demonstrators passed with please the
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well on the same day as not tuesday. our correspondent donald quarter was detained by georgia authority upon arrival in sibley see to cover the ongoing protest he was eventually deported back to russia after being held at the airport for hours. don't broke down. the story to my colleague nicky are in here in the studio shortly after his return to moscow. i have dual citizenship, a russian passport, an american passport. i gave them my russian passport as so i entered as a russian citizen and there was quite a bit of time that went by a for just kind of sitting there. and i was like, is there a problem? and she said that there was a that the system that they were using didn't want to accept my documents. i thought that was kinda strange. nothing like that. it ever happen to me before. but she just asked me to wait for a little while one hour went by 2 hours ago by nobody's explaining why i have why
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i'm still waiting. obviously, a program doesn't take that long to load up, but no information has been given to me and by 3 hours i'm, i'm starting to already message our producer in moscow saying, you know, i think it's time to get in touch with the russian foreign ministry with the embassy in group in georgia because something isn't right here. this has never happened to me before. and it's a good thing. we did that because just about an hour after we decided that um 4 hours total me waiting for this. uh suppose a glitch in the system. they come up to me with a piece of paper, half georgia and a half english. um, it's a list of reasons why someone might be refused from the country and a little check mark next to other on the paper they said, i'm not being allowed them to the country. i'm like, uh, you know, what, what is this other reason? can you explain in detail what, what the problem is? and they said no, and the so after that they were like, okay, well, we're deporting you. they brought me to a separate room and they took away my phone without any explanation as to why or if
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i would get it back. and then i waited it out there essentially until 11 pm. no information, not knowing what's going on. i mean, you know, especially since they didn't give me an actual concrete reason, but luckily they actually let me go at the 11 pm when they said they would. they brought me to the plane, didn't my passport back in my phone. and then i was able to make it back to rush at like 4 in the morning and i'm very happy to be back in fresh and sort of the it's good to have you back done. so you're doing no official reason why you need just to be just the put the posted from georgia. but what possible reason was, could that be, do you think? well, i think in hindsight, look and everything. the main reason was probably because i was going there while this unrest connected to this for an agencies bill that the trip that they're passing through parliament was going on. i was there last year when the parliament tried and ultimately failed to pass a very similar law. and there were riots on the streets protest. apparently,
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i'm my guess is that the authorities didn't want me to cover that for some reason. maybe they thought the, my coverage made the georgia government look bad or something. i'm not sure. so the reason we wanted to send you to was that to cover the protest, we wanted to know exactly what was going on. but that was you called guys. okay. do we have any idea or what the situation is right now on the ground? well, protests are continuing. of course we have seen some reports of uh, you know, violence. we've been a lot of official reactions as well. for example, the president of georgia who was very western oriented, she said that after she was asked by a journalist, if she would veto this bill, when it goes through parliament, she said, she absolutely will do all you going to veto the little. because if it does indeed powerful the stages of parliament as president of the nation, you do have the right to usual because i mean, these are going to be slow. are the 2 week, the only other load that's not to bodily, it's triple strategy at school. and case recommendations of, in your opinion,
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that is pretty obvious though, with the georgian present deciding that she's going to veto this legislation that she's really just putting on a show. because even she herself said earlier that if she would go through with a veto of this bill, it's very likely that because of the massive support that it has from georgia in parliament, it would just get over written by the george and parliament. and this legislation would go through anyway, so i guess we have to ask the question, who is she putting on a show for me? i would say her western patrons or the loudest, the voices outside of georgia, calling this for and agency legislations, some sort of pro russian legislation or anything. contradiction with western values, the same countries that are funding and sponsoring these non n g o is non governmental organizations. in georgia, that are basically manipulating public opinion against russia and china. the most recent comment we have is from the use policy cheap foreign policy chief brother joseph perone. we transparency of foreign influence. slow is not in line with e. you norms and values if adopted, it will limit csl and media way again,
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freedom of expression, we urge leaders to refrain from adults and legislation that can compromise george's e path. the main thrust behind this legislation with just means that uh, organizations would have to register in a government database that they received over 20 percent of their income from foreign sources. and this is not something that's specific to georgia. i mean, the european union itself has similar for an agency legislation. it's just they call it a defensive democracy package, not an actual for an agencies law. and if we look at the united states, there's been a for an agencies log there as well. since the mid 20th century, actually. so there's plenty of western countries that have legislation like this that are aimed at controlling for an as the ones in the country itself. despite all these, you know, george and liberals and western politicians and figures saying that this has something to do with russia. it looks far from it. now the funder of the telegrams,
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social media platform pebble, do it off, has broken his silence to american journalists, tucker carson, giving his 1st interview and yours, speaking of his office and defy the russian board. entrepreneur. explain why he couldn't set up shop in the united states and we got too much attention from the, the at the i, the security agencies wherever we came to the us. i brought an engineer that is working for telegram and there was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back by cyber security officers. officers were agents that were trying to persuade him to use certain open source tools that he would then integrate into the telling us code that the mind the same would serve as backdoors would allow the us government to spy on people who use telegram the u. s. government to maybe any
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other government because of backstory is a back door, regardless of who is using it. so many interesting things that he mentioned, especially the fact that he had his b. i. agents, as he said, show up at his doorstep, inquiring about him why he left russia. what telegram is all about entitled to upset? it seemed like they were trying to establish a relationship with him and the connection. and as we just heard that they were trying to employ one of his engineers, they're also interested in the fact that he says that he was contacted by both parties asking for completely different things. one was asking to share the data or else the other one second. well, if you share the data, you'll face punishment. that's here. after the events of january of the 6, we received a letter from i believe, clinic with many of the democratic side. and they requested that we would share all the data we had in relation to what they called this
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authorizing the letter. it seemed very serious and the letter said, you know, if your fail to comply with this request, he will be in violation with them of the us constitution. some of the weeks after butler, we got another letter in new, other from the republican side of the congress. and there we read that if we give out any data according to the previous request, when would be in violation of the risk institution. so we got to the letters that said whatever we do with the file, anything serious constitution. it's funny, right? because he left russia and pursued to all of this freedom of speech, which is why he went to the united states. and then that's what he got in return. because just to remind our viewers again, he left the russia sites in government pressure apparently from
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a store. it's. he's back in 2011. to shop down the pages of opposition politicians back on this conduct c, v k, which is the equivalent of facebook. in russia and he was the owner of that back then. so he refused to do that. then a couple of years after that, he said that he got pressure again from authorities to release the data regarding ukrainian protests leaders. and again, he refused to do that and a telegram, let's not forget was he them blocked or rushed off with 2 years. but of course so horror it is quick. they realize that they it's quite hard to block something these days. i'm sure as you are, but knows as well with r t. so telegram returns and people do of decided to leave russia in pursuit of his freedom of speech. he tried various countries before the united states. he tried single poor, he tried germany as well in germany, didn't work out for the project reasons because he wasn't aware that your regulations require you to hire local as far as even if he can find it isn't if he
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can't find any one. and then finally as the realize that us was a disaster to was he got mugged in san francisco and he settled and the u. a, but he seems to be happy. so in his pacific needs to provide to this platform that offers a you know, a voice. uh so if every person, regardless of use how the succeeded. yes, he calls it a neutral platform and that they only supposedly sensor child pornography. busy terrorism something really violent and then he said come to e u pressure and band arts, these channels, for example, especially in europe, is there a nearby can not on telegram read. are these channels. if you are a russian and other countries, you can, but that in itself shows and proves that telegram is not unusual and they're going by what e u officials want them to do? actually, the most pressure who received was not from the countries government agencies. it was from apple and google, and let's not forget that some ports in the why,
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because you need apple or google to download telegram. so this is what he had to say about the pressure of he felt from them. largest pressure towards those room is not coming from governments. it's coming from apple and google. oh, so when it comes to freedom of speech, those 2 platforms, they could basically sense or whatever it is you can read access on your smartphone . so, i mean do run the risk of being thrown out of their stores. exactly, and that's what they make very clear that they fail to comply with their guidelines . so they call it a told her and can be removed from the stores. also interesting, a final note i'll talk across and ask some, do you think you're being spied on by the and the say the national security agency and it says, well, i can't know 4 or 5. but i assume so because he says that he has very limited space
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in apps that are developed in the united states in terms of privacy. so coming from paddled or of, i think that says at all. now the us national security agency is close to vastly expanding. it's already far reaching surveillance powers that's according to a bill, could be quietly passed on capital hill. later this week for m. s. a contractor and whistle blower. edward snowden is crying file in a last ditch attempt to raise awareness about what it will mean to the national security agencies just days from taking all of the to that. and it's small, it's on the front page of a news paper because no one has noticed while under the current us foreign intelligence surveillance, uh, electronic communications providers like google are obliged to send the say all the information required on the agencies targets. however, the proposed bill would see valid us already expanded to include any company or
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individual providing internet related services as well. let's now discuss this further with former us intelligence officer and host of the whistle blowers stock. sure. what you can watch here on our t, john curry, i could john, good to see you. at least from your experience in the field. you know, we've got a rapidly changing world. ok, spying powers perhaps need to be. we'd calibrated at to keep in touch with that, but this appears to the lima myself to be to be overreach on steroids call. yes, it is a, this is something that is extraordinarily dangerous. and something that you just said a moment ago is very important. it's happening so quietly and so quickly that nobody in the united states is paying any attention to it. what this is is something called section 7 know 2 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. section 7, o 2 has to come up for reauthorization every 2 years and every 2 years it's usually
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relatively pro forma. it's just renewed for 2 more years over and over again. well, this time a couple of civil libertarians in the house of representative conservative republicans . i objected to 7 o 2 and said, wait a minute and is that it has too much power, too much authority. and so the intelligence community said ok, we'll negotiate some, some protections is that the opposite happens. what ended up happening is very quietly. they have elected to expand anastasia authority to intercept communications. so it's not just targets now. individual targets harris groups accused terrace for in spies. it's literally anybody that has anything to do with the internet. that means you in need. now this is coupled with an earlier decision by n s a c i a and f
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b. i to go directly to internet service providers and purchase meta data as if they were a commercial entity or a private company. rather than to go to court and ask for a subpoena or a court order together, we were in uncharted territory here and it's dangerous for all of us. yeah. you, you laid all it there when it comes as well to a time that we're living, we're talking about privacy concerns, constantly a no, this flies in the face all about it appears. don't what kind of opposition will this bring? indeed, not just the us, but it in other countries as well because this is going to go beyond borders. oh this, this is meant to go beyond borders. yes. i hate to say this. it breaks my heart to say it, but i think there will be no 2, almost no push back here in the united states. you know, there may be a lawsuit by the american civil liberties union, or there may be of.

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