the pentagon gets it. and so actually think that that is one of the real pluses in how congress right now, people are not fighting in terms of understanding the nature of when it comes to china. when you get into specifics, there's a lot of business. our former sell-off goods to china. our defense and aerospace companies have businesses over their. so, when you get into the inches, that's when it gets a little tough. but on the other hand, i think there is a general awareness that this is something we've got to pay a lot of attention to. and it's on a bipartisan thesis. i'm encouraged there. what we've got to have is an administration and pentagon, and i'm not specifically pointing the ad ministry the figure at this one, that when it comes to specifics as general jones says. here's some things we need to do. here are things the administration supports. here's legislation we need in this area. again, it's not just the pentagon. we're too dependent on the chinese supply chain for a lot of the issues. it was

lightbulbs and jobs tied into them in the pentagon so you've got to get the pentagon like we talked in the green room to adopt, willing to take this on. the pentagon, if they basically signal to the congress which i think is already declined in that direction on the bipartisan defense committees, they want to get more bang for the buck and you could work those things in a more cooperative way but it took us three or four years to pass over the objection of the pentagon and that was because you had really strong leaders. and you've got to have the cooperation of the pentagon on these, they are exceedingly complex. do more business with the department of defense than public companies about how large the organizations are so i think the will is there, it will just take the pentagon and congress, it will take us from the outside, the news media focusing people on the nature of the problem in getting people to be willing to show courage and backbone and bite the bullet. >> -- thank you. i think one of the things we should be careful about is not to overstate china's capabilities and brus

at the pentagon gets it. so i actually think that's one of the real crosses in our congress right now. people are not fighting the problem in terms of understanding the nature of what we have to deal with when it comes to china. now, when you get into the specifics there's a lot of business i mean -- we sell a lot of goods to china. aerospace companies have businesses over there so when you get into that, that's when it gets a little tough. but on the other hand, i think there is a general awareness that this is something that we've got to pay a lot of attention to. bob it's a bipartisan basis. but we've got a has an administration in the pentagon dog, not specifically pointing the finger at this one, but when it comes to congress with specifics, as general jones said, here are some things we need to do. his legislation that we need in this area, again, it's not just the pentagon. we are too dependent on the sub chinese supply chain. it was very troubling for somebody like me when covid hit, when the head of

the pentagon ordered an investigation, he reported back to the pentagon and found it had been a mistake, a tragic mistake. however, the investigator found no real accountability and handed that decision to two generals who are basically at the top of command, that is the general in charge of the central command, along with the general in charge of special forces. now, it's understood they have reported back to the secretary of defense, confirming the finding that nobody is held accountable, the mistakes were made during the operation, confirming as well that ways are being looked at in which to rectify these mistakes that were made, but still, no accountability, and this was confirmed indirectly by the spokesman for the pentagon who had this to say. >> the recommendations were more about procedure and process. most of them are of the classified nature. there was no overt recommendation made by either, specific to accountability. anchor: what happens next? reporter: it would appear as far as the pentagon is concerned, this is the end of the case. things may still happen. ensuring that th

on 911, that is essentially how i got involved with the creation of the pentagon memorial. and the fund which is a nonprofit that i now serve as executive director of been very similar to the new york memorial, we worked very closely with the design competition were very closely with partners of defense because the family members all felt the memorial needed to be there on the ground on the pentagon this was a little bit of a different situation that we were closely with the pentagon and the design competition and it started shortly the planning it started shortly after the attack. that was probably a month where the families come together and asked me members. there is an international design competition, the new york museum and basically they had designs or ideas and posters that were held in the national building museum in washington dc and you can imagine it going through room after room of these designs. there were 2000 designs that were submitted it 56 different countries around the world and it was really unbelievable to see these designs. so we went through a proces

this is not the pentagon papers. this was at times editors rifling through documents, figuring out what could be released and what couldn't be released in explaining it . this was a guy that got stolen documents and gave it to the world. a pretty bold statement considering that daniel ellsberg, the guy who leaked the pentagon papers in 1971, which revealed that the government had lied about vietnam, says that whatever julian assange is guilty of, i'm guilty. of course, the only thing that julian a challenge is really guilty of is journalist. a concept that most morning jo host aren't that familiar with. now despite what you'll hear on m s n b c, julian us on isn't on trial for colluding with russians. hacking hillary clinton's emails or tricking her and did not campaigning and michigan back in 2016. these charges are sold in about 20 head, when wiki lakes released documents that revealed several instances of the us breaking international law from war crimes in iraq to spying on foreign dignitaries . you know, actual

the pentagon says, yes, it is doing this. that whole issue of accountability was referred to the generals in direct command. they have now it is reported, told the secretary of defense that there is no accountability. nobody will be held to account, despite the fact that the pentagon had acknowledged culpability. and the fact by admitting it was a tragic mistake, but one has got to look very quickly, darren, at the history to this. and the last time any major investigation was carried out was back in 2016 following at drone strike in 2015 and couple. there it was found that $42.00 staff personnel had been responsible. they were removed from their positions, but nobody was held accountable. we've got a similar situation here where mistakes have been acknowledged. nobody is being held accountable. the pentagon drawing a veil over the processes by which it came to this conclusion by saying, as we heard from the spokesman there, that the national security issues involved. this is the matter the end of the matter. as far as the pe

now to be clear, the pentagon is defending these two generals. gave us a statement saying that piatt and flynn were honest when they spoke to the committee. these are two diverging narratives and it doesn't seem possible for both of them to be true. the fact that there is this new emerging narrative coming out right now about why it took so long, is a really significant development. >> we should just be clear, this document is scorching. he says that the ig report, it is a revisionist tract worthy of the best stalinist or north korea propaganda-ness. says these men are liars. unmitigated lying, that flynn committed perjury. the big issue that strikes me here is that these both men are on the record and i believe under oath saying, we didn't slow walk this. because a concern about optics. we weren't worried about how it would look at the national guard was called up. that wasn't the issue. what you have for matthews is he is saying that is not true. that's precisely, at least in his telling, that's precisely what they were worried about. >> right,

the pentagon then ordered an investigation into the strike. the inspector general of the air force conducted that investigation. he reported back to the the, the pentagon that he was found that it had to be in the mistake, a tragic mistake. as it was decided. however, the investigator found no real accountability and handed over that decision to 2 generals who are basically at the top of command. that is the general in charge of the central command, along with the general in charge of special forces. now it is understood, they have reported back to the secretary of defense confirming that finding that nobody is held accountable. though mistakes were made during the operation confirming as well that ways are being looked at in which to rectify these mistakes that were made. but still no accountability and this was confirmed in directly by this, the spokesman for the pentagon, who had this to say the recommendations were more about procedure and process and the secretary reviewed them as accepted them. and again, most of them are of a classified

anyways, the pentagon is more concerned with profit than it ever has been. why did we lose those wars in iraq, afghanistan? it's because that hasn't been the point. it's been pushing claims and missiles that may or may not be use. the war on terror was a holo cash cow for the defense industry. the u. s. military is fighting efficiency has a low priority. the military are generally not interested in war, save as a means to budget enhancement. what's the defense department's job anyways? defense? i mean, when the military says it's keeping the future safe for our children, what they really mean is the military is making sure that a contractor has an in ground pool and a pool house for failed son to grow old in or his failed daughter. this week, democrats in congress, abandoned the bill back better or reconciled reconciliation bill, which expands childcare, gives to education expands health care workers rights, because they couldn't figure out how to pay for it, or how to install the crypto rig. the pentagon budget is well over that amount and no one asks how i

it essentially said that the pentagon did everything it could have done, that senior pentagon leaders were doing their best, and that this day on the whole looks good for the u.s. military. what we have emerging now is a counternarrative coming not from the pentagon, but from the d.c. national guard, the actual group of troops who were called to respond to the capitol building. of course, we've had general walker's testimony. and now we have colonel matthews, who was on that 2:30 call amplifying and adding detail to that testimony. one key point of dissension is what did these two generals, flynn and pyatt say on the call when the capitol police chief was begging them to send in the national guard as soon as possible? those two generals have told congress that they did not oppose immediately sending in the national guard while matthews now says in this document that's been delivered to the january 6 select committee that in fact they did. and very importantly, another key piece of detail that matthews brings here is he describes how everyone in the d.c. national guard at the armory in

amy: "the new york times" has revealed the pentagon has covered up the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians killed in the u.s. air wars in the middle east. the explosive report directly contradicts claims by barack -- u.s. presidents and military leaders who praised the precision of the u.s. airstrikes. we will speak to reporter azmat khan, who personally visited 60 bomb sites in iraq, syria, and afghanistan to document the human toll of the air war. then we will look at president biden's plan to respond to the surge in covid cases linked to the omicron variant, from free-at home tests to deploying the military to help overwhelmed hospitals. pres. biden: how concerned should you be about omicron, which is now the dominant variant and it is country? it happened so quickly. the answer is straightforward, if you not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned. amy: we will speak to an emergency room doctor. and a group of haitian asylum-seekers have filed a class action lawsuit against the biden administration, accusing government of physical abuse, racial discrimination,

the truth, as ben is saying, especially at the pentagon, is knowable. how do investigators, and is it is 1/6 committee, i think they're the most aggressive investigators at this point, how do they go about getting to this truth? >> well, ben took the words right out of my mouth and i've got to agree with him and say, yes, this is a job for the t january 6th select committee and i think, based on this report, and other information out there in the public domain, is we are going to find that, at best, this was what they call in the military a cya exercise, these officers were trying to cover their butts. but at worst, this is a cover-up and we're not talking about people getting their hands caught in the cookie jar. this is about a siege at the capitol and the allegation that senior military officers lied to congress about the response. there's a lot of gravity there, and not just because of the politics around january 6th. there's something ben and i worked on in government called c.o.g., continuity of government. the government is responsible for puttin

the pentagon says this is now being carried out. they are not giving any further details and did not even directly say that nobody is being held accountable for the strikes. this is what the spokesman for the pentagon at to say the recommendations were more about procedure and process and the secretary, we reviewed them as accepted them. and again, most of them are of classified nature. so we won't be talking about the specifics, but there was no overt recommendation made by either specific to accountability mike, so what happens next and in terms of recommendations, and is this now the end of the case? well, it would appear that that is what the pentagon believes. it believes that it has investigated the matter. it has gotten down the line of command. it is found that nobody is accountable. certain procedures have to be changed. it says in the way in which drones strike so carried out. but at this stage, the secretary of defense has ruled, according to the spokesman there that there is no accountability. he accepts the report from

any body in the pentagon and again, i am no expert in what's going on at the pentagon. obviously none of us are colin powell. anybody saw what happened that morning and now is hearing the pentagon saying nothing to see here and move along? we all know they're lying. we all know they're covering up. we need a tiktok. we need a second by second accounting of where the pentagon was and why they were dragging to their feet and why they let our capitol, why trump's leaders inside the pentagon and commander in chief hid himself, why did they let our capitol get ransacked and ravaged. the people's house defiled. we understand donald trump enjoyed the show. i am just curious what was happening inside the pentagon and you were reporting on the leading up to january 6th. jonathan lemire, i remember talking to you about the letter that dick cheney got with other secretaries of defenses to say watch out, it's coming with this guy. it became america watched the people's house desecrated. they did nothing. >> i'm siting at blocks from the u.s. capitol right now. it's hard to police c

the intelligence official at the pentagon. i have no visibility into who the bad guys are in afghanistan or iraq. all of the intel from the community and it sounds like we know a great deal. when you push at it, we find out we don't have anything that is actionable. we are deficient in human intelligence. two years into the war, the secretary of defense, i have no ability into who the bad guys are in afghanistan. two years in the war, we cannot define the enemy. within the first six months, the leaders had been captured or fled the country. that part of the mission had been accomplished. two years later we are still fighting. cannot really define who the enemy is. this sums that more than anything. getting hands on these documents at the washington post. we will publish a series about what went wrong in afghanistan. i will just read you the headline in the first paragraph. at war with the troops. the trove of government documents obtained by the washington post reveals that senior u.s. officials failed to use the truth about t

i had been covering the pentagon before i joined the investigative desk. i was very interested in what this interview with general flynn had been about. he was interviewed in length about the war in afghanistan. this interview was with a not very well known government agency called the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction. that is a mouthful but the inspector general's job was to attract fraud, waste and abuse in the war zone and start out if money were being misspent or people stealing it. i was curious why they interviewed general flynn but i thought i want to copy of what he said, i want to transcript in this interview. he was known for being a blunt forthright spoken person about how things are going in the war. i thought this is a relatively supple request. i called the special inspector general's office of afghanistan inside your people conducted an interview with general flynn. i hear it's an unclassified interview. he had been retired at that point. i would like to see what he said. can i have a copy? at first they said sure, th

this in a sec to its way confirmed by the spokesman for the pentagon as well. who said that it's not likely that anybody will be found accountable for the attack. now to take this back and explain the process of what happened here. the inspector general of the air force conducted what was called an independent research into the events in couple which led to the death of 10 civilians. he subsequently found that there was no accountability at such, but he referred that decision to the officers at the command of the, at the head of the command chain. that is the head of special services and the head of special forces. now they concluded in a report to the secretary of defense, it is said that there is no accountability. the pentagon, previously acknowledging that mistakes were made, the independent research finding that mistakes are made. but now it would appear and confirmed it would appear by the spokesmen for the pentagon, that nobody will be held accountable. now, the military appears to be cloaking this in a veil of technocratic language. already it has ackno

powell called the pentagon official with a bizarre request. her request was specific, urgent, highly sensitive. it was also completely insane. quote, cia director gina haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in germany, she told the official. you need to launch a special operations mission to go get her. the official had never before spoken with sydney powell and was shocked she had called him on his direct phone line in his office. it's a phone that only rang with calls from within the pentagon or from the white house. it was an unpublished number that somebody with access to the internal directory had to have given her. sydney powell went on to explain on the call that cia director gina haspel had been hurt while on a secret cia operation to seize a computer server from a company named scytal. s-c-y-t-l, scytl. the server, sydney powell claims, contained evidence that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of votes had been switched using rigged voting machines. sydney powell believed that cia director gina haspel had embarked on this sec

this really points to a crisis of accountability in the pentagon. you see that by the fact the strike -- the area of the strike was bulldozed. in the control room, the reportindid not as it ould hav ge. in tms otheecord-eping, that also did not go the weight was meant to go. the way we are told those. we are told, and sheaid, ts mitary doemore tn any other miliry in th world to event cilian casualts, and ye -- ain and ain, thais not what we se we connue to see civians geing kill. thorgh invesgations a not happening. anthats a key rt ofha needs to hapn. w can you say, military's doing more than any other military under the world when you're not doing the basic elements needed to properly investigate what happens, why civilians are getting killed, and taking the basic steps to ensure it doesn't happen again? if you're not properly investigating these types of incidents, then you're not able to make the corrections needed to make to ensure civilians don't get killed in the future. that is why we are looking not just at what happened in baghuz, but a 20

according to the pentagon, in the d. o d, it is completely in say, well, and you have to look at the majority of the military. i think this is overwhelming, is conservative slash republican. they voted time and time again and elections for republic. and so the majority of them are this way. so they go in like a republican website or conservative website, they're facing some sort of punishment. but here's where that i think the blurry line is, did the military, this policy actually define specific extreme is what that means to them, or they leaving them to the social media platforms to make that definition and trusting facebook and twitter for that. c definition, right, so they are trusting, they are trusting social media companies that are labeling things extreme is right, which is across the board, right. so it's not just conservatives under republicans. if you're libertarian, if you're an anarcho capitalist, for instance, that would be considered to be an extremist, because you believe in, don't know, sovereign money a

>> bret: jennifer at the pentagon, thank you. the border crisis is not just affecting the southwestern u.s. along those border states. the legal immigration is surging right now in the state of florida. correspondent phil keating has the story tonight from south florida. >> here they come. >> another beach day like this. a boat comes towards shore full of illegal migrants who jump into the surf aiming to blame into florida. the latest right in front of beach goers this weekend in fort lauderdale. nine foreigners taken into custody. 10 days ago in jupiter same thing, 26 men and women startling adults and kids alike, all now likely to be sent right back from where they came. clearly this is not just happening along the rio grande in texas, just on a smaller scale. often coming via paid off human smugglers, many of the boats full of desperate people crossing the florida straits into the keys or the state's east coast they're interdicted out at sea by the coast guard. >> do not take to the sea. that's the bottom line message. illegal

what about this pentagon and deep 22 veterans every single day in this country commit suicide. where the policies that are changing that were the policies that are focusing on that issue. there is what 19000000 veterans in this country right now. 19000000 and you have 24 cases. and you're going to revamp the entire policy of the pentagon in the, at the institute of snitching system so that they can monitor each other on social media. but you're going to keep it all very vague so that you can punish essentially political enemies. that's really what this comes down to talk about sabotaging yourself. because been in those situations when they're actually in a place of war or attention, they've got to trust their brother or sister to have their back. but yet that same brother is the one and possibly turned them in for liking a page like in the show, anything that they're gonna terminate streaming, right? that right, there is how you defeat, what was the greatest super power in the world military wise? let's just hope we don't do anything to get involved. i'm not to worry about how

or even here at home, the pentagon has decided to go after those within their own rakes, by issuing a new policy, which could be an infringement of their own soldiers, constitutional rights. we will discuss and from jail cell to a standing ovation cow rittenhouse, life has turned a 180 over the last month. but will you seek legal action about those who were the 1st to condemn him? we will discuss that with our legal expert. well, it used to be hard, but now harvard getting in harvard has announced that no standardized test requirements for the next 5 upcoming classes will be required. we will tell you why and if other schools will follow. and sadly, we are continuing to see the numbers once again of a horrible disease which became worse under the pandemic. all made illegal by state government in order to help people cope with a pandemic, a predictable outcome, which sadly will cost lives. am sky though huge in these stories, a warranty that needs views use right here on our to america. ah, one year ago president joe biden told the american people this we can join forces, stop the shou

you should check with the pentagon about that. now just yesterday the republican governor of oklahoma along with that state's attorney general filed a lawsuit trying to argue that the vaccine requirement is somehow illegal. in the end they will likely lose this fight. and it will cost the taxpayers of oklahoma whatever it's going to cost them to fight the fight. it will cost of the governor and attorney general nothing terms in of their personal lives and careers. they might score republican political points. but the guard members following them off the cliff who are stuck between the orders of their governor and the very clear orders of the pentagon, if they decide to follow what their governor is saying they are facing discharge and the loss of their entire military career and veterans benefits. so where does this go from here? joining us now i'm pleased to say is former secretary of homeland security during the obama administration. jay johnson. before that secretary johnson was general counsel of defense department, general co

the pentagon depended on found there was no laws violated. that was then when they're investigating themselves, let's say you. yeah. well, listen, i mean, at this point in our history, if this was done, a vacuum may be different. at this point in our history, what we know is the government used allies to initiate the russia hoax which debilitated government. it was a coo and then the government, the same people that are in power now in the congress had they had impeachment, they made up impeachment that ukrainian peach. it was a joke. there were 1st and peach. it was a joke. they have a january 6th commission that's a jo and in other words, my point is what they're using. it, use government and media to weaponized against the american people. so the people should have no competence. by the way, for guy like me, i want to be clear when you fight wars all over the world on people, this is going to happen. that's why you can't fight wars all over the world because it's going to happen and it's terrible. you need to be very careful, but right now

we know these are real, the pentagon takes them seriously. why in the world with a still be hiding this information from us? >> it is kind of peculiar, isn't it, the day before thanksgiving, the pentagon decides to announce the creation of this office when they've had four years to do it beforehand. i do think it is a good idea to have a centralized office. not so sure that it's good to put it where they want to put it. at the end of the day, the organization they want to put it is under the under the secretary of defense of intelligence, which is an oversight capability, not an operational capability. plus there is still some of the old elements in the organization that really didn't do us much favors when i was running the program four years ago. >> that's obvious. if it weren't for you effectively blowing the whistle we wouldn't have this conversation in the first place. speculate, and your informed way, about their motive hit what did they know that they don't want us to know, and what do you think? >> if i could be complete we forthcomin

amy: i want to go back to pentagon press briefing this week with the pentagon spokesperson john kirby was questioned about exactly how the new rules will be implemented. >> does that mean they are authorized -- will they be monitoring social media 24/7 of their unit members or any recruits? how does the monitoring -- >> it is not about monitoring. there's no methodology in here. there is no intent. we don't -- there is no ability to monitor the personal social media content of every member of the armed forces. and even if there was, that is not the intent here. what we are talking about is a case where, for instance, it came to light that an individual on social media openly advocated , forwarded, encouraged the dissemination of prohibited extremist material. that would have to come to light through various streams of reporting. it would not be something the command or the department is going to be actively fishing for. >> so if a member of u.s. military "likes" a process as joe biden is not the president, as i considered extremist behavior a punishable? >> i'm not going to get into s

we're talking about the pentagon budget, ladies and gentlemen, christmas came early for the pentagon. for the rest of us. well here the disappointed screams of pre pubescent boys pierced the christmas morning when they discover that there wasn't a new x box waiting for them. instead, under the tree, children will find a copy of the economist, the supply chain crisis issue. some i got you a magazine subscription, free trial, and next month, none the less, the pentagon got more money than they were asking for more than $8.00 trillion dollars for the next 10 years and 768 $1000000000.00 just for next year. and republicans tacked on another $24000000000.00 tip. the chiefs of staff are probably like, ah, we should occupy another country for 20 years and help the taliban take it over. maybe mold oh, well, what to do when anyways, the pentagon is more concerned with profit than it ever has been. why did we lose those wars in iraq and afghanistan? it's because that hasn't been the point. it's been pushing claims and missiles that may or may not be use. the war on terror was hello, cash cow fo

the balls now and the alliance is court when it comes to the escalation of the ukraine. pentagon said none of its personnel will be held liable for the botched drones strike in afghanistan. last summer. the kill 10 civilians including 7 children. in a week we heard from a grieving relative with nobody approached us. no one contacted us and we were given no information. how can they compensate us for our family members? all the wealth in the world means nothing to us. now we've lost 10 of our relatives . and after years of flagging posts as false or misleading, facebook admitted in court that it's much vaunted fact checks are actually based on opinion. ah ha their life, marty's will, these h q, moscow, this sunday evening, will welcome to the weekly with may kevin o'. in our round up with some of the biggest storage. it brought you over the last 7 days. and 1st, friday saw russia release a list of proposals to deescalate tensions with nato made fears of a flare up and ukraine among the demands or a scale back of military activity near near russia's borders. the western military block s

and so that was made by the pentagon on monday. do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here strike flock, the key operation. the news came as a shock is humiliating for us to hear that no one will be prosecuted. they should have kept their word. we held that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claim that they can spot a need on the ground from their satellites. so how could they not see the innocent family they were about to kill? they found no connection between us and islamic states. so why didn't they do those checks before launching obama to us? it looks like no other country is forcing them seek justice. there is no one to change them because they're superpower. that's why the americans have failed to keep their promises lehman unused, that they would take some measures. but nobody approached us nor contacted us, and we were given no information. how can they compensate us for our family members? all the wealth i

the spokesman for the pentagon says that this is under way now to alter these procedures. however, that spokesman did not confirm directly that there is no accountability in this particular case. what he did say though, is that there is no discussion of any accountability being assigned from the recommendation of the 2 military generals who investigated the matter and report it back to the secretary of defense. so i don't know whether that makes it any care, but the simple point is, is that it does appear that nobody will be held accountable for that drone strike. despite the fact that the pentagon admitted liability to it. and despite the fact that the pentagon kept quiet, or indeed lived about those events for a period of time before a newspaper report brought it all to light. and so as you say, no one will be held accountable that we sink. but of course, the moral damage was done and lives were lost a do you think that there's going to be any kind of political fallout over this because, you know, we, we know about this case. many, many other is a took place over the dec

mpr pentagon correspondent called a searing indictment of deceit, blunders senior military and civilian officials with the same tragic echoes of the vietnam conflict. with that i give you craig whitlock. [applause] today.ks for coming out i am a reporter with the "washington post" thank you so much for the kind introduction. just want to talk aor little bit about how this book came together. i definitely help you ask lots of questions, i am a reporter that is my job to ask questions so i would be remiss if i did not take the opportunity to answer as many as i possibly could weather about this book of thewe war in afghanistan in general pretty when i am done talking please do not hesitate, do not be shy it is all free. this book the afghanistan papers in a nutshell is about what went wrong in afghanistan over the past 20 years also about how u.s. officials misled, deceived, lied to the public for much of that time. i do not use those words lightly in the book i am careful to characterize when government officials are spinning, misleading, hiding information or in some cases flat outng ly

the pentagon said none of its personnel would be held liable for the botched drone strike in afghanistan last summer, which killed 10 civilians including 7 children. the week we heard from a grieving relative uncle with nobody approached us. no one contacted us and we were given no information. how can they compensate to us for our family members? all the wealth in the world means nothing to us. now we've lost 10 of our relatives . and after years of flagging posts is full so misleading, facebook admit same core, it's much wanted fact checks are actually based on opinion. ah, hello there live from out. he's will do is h q. moscow. this sunday will welcome to the weekly with week heavy. now in our round up some of the biggest stories we brought over the last 7 days. and 1st friday. so russia released the list of proposals to deescalate tensions with nato of mid fears of a flare up and ukraine among the demands or a scale back of military activity near russia's borders. the west military block says it will consider the documents, although it says to that, and the outcome will require input

ah, blue deadlines in our t, america's big budget priorities, put the pentagon before the pandemic, as president biden signs off on a massive $700000000000.00 defense plan. while washington's global vaccination campaign keeps running out of money. also this, our german politicians call to ban the popular messaging app telegram over hosting hate speech and cable conspiracy theories. however, bosco says that double standards after the german media criticized russia for trying to do the same just a few years ago. and mary leader slammed australia's policy of deporting convicts to new zealand saying, is causing a surgeon, gang related crimes and demands that australia stops treating his country like a dumping ground. it is not good enough. the zealand is becoming a penal colony for australia and just reporting your problem. why does not solve the problem of gangs and both australia and new zealand. hello, good evening. just gone 6 o'clock here in moscow. you're watching arte international . now, while the global covey pandemic does continue, america has a different priority. the joe biden,

pentagon released new rules aimed at combating extremism in the military. but critics say these rules could violate first amendment rights. >> the 21-page report on handling protests, extremist and criminal gang activities among members of the armed forces recommends the pentagon revise its training and vetting materials. some fear this is a political witch hunt that will trample the first amendment rights of the troops. >> i am worried about what they may do to influence the opinions of members of the military. when you sign up to the military, you sign up to serve the country, not to become a tiktok star. >> the new social media policy focuses on liking posts that call for violence, discrimination, or the overthrow of the government. >> this isn't about political leanings or partisan inchicago nations. it's about prohibited extremist activity. >> the pentagon would not give a breakdown of the 100 extremists identified out of 200 million active duty military members. >> were they members of what you have would consider white supremacist groups or president

cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr has been following this. barbara, this is an issue that for months austin has been looking into. they devoted a lot of effort here. how serious a problem does the pentagon view this and what steps are they taking? >> the pentagon still feels it is a relatively small percentage of the active duty or national g guard reserve force involved in extremist activity. most of those arrested, charged in the january 6th incident, were veterans out of the service at this time. but still, they have had these ongoing problems for many years with some members being part of extremist groups and they were having trouble really focusing in on how to define the problem so they could go after these people, they say. what they have done is sharpen it all up. right now, given the new rules, very sharp focus on limiting, restricting, forbidding active participation in extremist actions. not naming any groups per se, but limiting the actions. and we have a list of some of the prohibited activities now. such as recruiting, training,