[000:00:00;00] the news we don't consider. i was so sick. it was nato, unfortunate to nato. it seems. consider itself to be at war with russia. precious ta diplomat warns that all the weapon read that western powers supplied to care will be considered legitimate military target anti aircraft tanks that germany wants to give you, crane could be useless as the level ammunition reportedly wouldn't be only enough to cover 20 minutes and come back to make a decision to deliver arms to ukraine is fundamentally wrong. the world will intensify and that can be good. while ukrainian refugees are warmly welcomed in the

you and anti fraud investigation claims that asylum seekers from other countries were deported from the block on a massive scale for years without due process and the border guard agencies chief resigned over the scandal and bulgarian men plead for negotiations with russian natural gas supplier gas problem. 2 days after moscow stop sending the commodity to bulgaria because the country refused to pay in roubles. the guest director wants to use moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. are now russia's top diplomat has said in a recent interview that moscow does not view nato as a direct enemy in the ukraine conflict. but western powers are continuing to press on with their aggressive rhetoric against russia. we don't consider ourselves at

war was nato, unfortunately, and nato, it seems, considers itself to be at war with russia, nato and the european union leaders are many of them in england, in the united states. so ball on a france, germany and of course sir european union and chief diplomat, joseph barrell, they blankly publicly and persistently. se 14 must fail. russia must be defeated. when you use this terminology, i believe your thing that you at the war was the person whom you want to be defeated. yes, there supplying arms, the ukraine. we know the roots, ah, which are used for this for this purposes. and as soon as this weapon saw a reaching ukrainian territory, they are fair game, any weapon,

any arms shipment on the ukrainian secretary is legitimate target. the u. s. congress has approved legislation to streamline the world war 2 era, lend leased program to facilitate increased weaponry supplies, to ukraine and their eastern european countries to be used against russia. but there is an interesting fact. the bill was 1st introduced in january a month before the current ukraine conflict began. the document provides authority for the present dent to lend or lease defense equipment to ukraine, to defend from a russian military invasion and for other purposes. meanwhile, washington has said it is ready and already sent more than $3000000000.00 of aid to ukraine. and now joe biden has requested congressional approval for another 33000000000. but the u. s. president has still insisted america does not want to get directly involved in the war ukraine and is not fighting

a proxy war against russia. despite the disturbed rhetoric coming out of the kremlin. the facts are planning for everybody to see. we're not attacking russia. we're helping ukraine defend itself against russian aggression. as we mentioned, biden wants to send more money abroad in military aid to ukraine. that's despite an economic decline at home with the u. s. g d p, displaying its worst performance in years, leaving some critics of the u. s president to say that he's putting america last instead of 1st joe biden, once another $33000000000.00 for ukraine. when does it end? does he expect the taxpayer to rebuild ukraine to after the war is over? how much will that cost? just in bite and wants to send $33000000000.00 to ukraine. i say, hell no, not a dime should go overseas, especially while america's economy is in decline. no more america,

last policies. the timing is certainly notable right now because when we look at the data, it's adding to the increasing concerns for the u. s. economy. and yet, it seems as though the u. s. government is more concerned about ukraine. in fact, right now, as president biden calls on congress to approve another $33000000000.00 and funding for ukraine, congress is also calling on by then to sign off on the return of the lend lease act . that's a world war 2 era program, which essentially allows us companies to provide new weapons and equipment for allied countries like ukraine, without traditional government oversight, and without any promise or plans to immediately pay for those weapons and equipment . so that seems to be where congress has their focus. but then at the same time here in the united states, the latest data shows that the us economy shrink unexpectedly in the 1st quarter of 2022 with g d,

p falling 1.4 percent. now the main culprit here has been supply chain shortages, and that's incredibly notable because biden even said when he was announcing unprecedented sanctions against russia earlier this year, that there would be an impact on global supply. however, even though we're not seeing the strong u. s. economy that by then as attempting to sell to the public. he still claims he is not concerned. well, i'm not concerned about recession. i mean, you're always concerned about recession, but the g, d, p, you know, follow 1.4 percent, but here's the deal. we're also had last quarter consumer spending and business investment residential investment increased in significant rates, both per leisure, as well as harm products. and it's not just by didn't taught mainstream media ls here in the u. s. are also trying to downplay concerns, arguing that american should been stead be focusing on how much the economy has

grown since 2020, when it essentially came to a standstill. now all of this comes as the majority of americans have said that they are concerned about inflation remaining at 40 year highs. and they are concerned about the state of the u. s. economy. we know that we now have the mid term elections coming up in just a few months yet, while americans have made it clear where they want their focus to be. it appears as though biden remains focused on making sure that ukraine has a host of new weapons. the, the average american who watches the news is definitely aware of the conflict because of the want. very one sided, slanted approach. it's been taken by the media, the government, and showing this war they, they bought into the notion of ukraine. good russia, bad. and therefore, are at least theoretically supportive of this provision of weaponry. the irony is, you know, we're actually weakening the ukrainians by giving them this weapon, ria, the logistics of sustaining this and maintain it is

a nightmare. ukraine won't be able to do this. and i've said this before, and i'll say it again here. now, every ukrainian who operates in american provided weapon system is doomed to die in the united states instead of helping ukrainians is help is murdering your training . just is just a statement that germany has admitted that the anti war, anti aircraft tanks that wants to give to ukraine, could be useless due to a lack of ammunition, enough to cover only about 20 minutes of combat. now the 50 jeopardy tanks slated for ukraine could require hundreds of thousands of bullets for their twin canons to be effective. but there are only $23000.00 rounds available in germany, only enough for less than half an hour of intense fighting to get more ammunition. germany is in talks with brazil, cutter and jordan, which have bought such tanks in the past. media report to have speculated the german chancellor of schultz is likely aware of the problem but is still offering

the tanks to relieve political pressure on his leadership. as the lack of ammunition means, the tanks might not be effective. some germans have said that the weaponry deliveries themselves could only further inflame tensions commission of the plaza building. that's what we want to convey. a message that the decision to do we were arms to ukraine is fundamentally wrong. the world will intensify and that can be good. thank you. one of actually i think the sanctions and arms deliveries are completely wrong approach, which is playing with fire. and it will at some point become a real conflagration. because the threat of war war 3 will escalate more and more vasily from the why don't the governments of the western countries you everything in their power. all they have to do is to resolve conflicts to, to a magically, instead of supplying weapons, imposing sanctions and inflame intentionally. to man, scott ritter again, says you officials are supplying weapons to you can because otherwise they would be

under extensive pressure from their constituencies. germany, like all other european countries, are under a tremendous amount of pressure from the united states to be seen is doing something to, to come to the assistance of ukraine or the other. the other thing that's going on is that ukrainian army is under a great deal of stress. they're, they're being rapidly treated. they're in danger of collapsing, you know, within a matter of days or weeks. and if they collapse in germany is seen as having done nothing. that's going to create some political problems for the german leadership. so that's why i think you're seeing right now. a great rush on the part of a variety of nations, including the united states to, to be seen is bending over backwards to provide ukraine with weaponry. they need to defend themselves. i've always been very worried about the, the light anti tank weapons to javelins the in laws did the man portable and here

weapons like the stingers. and i'm very concerned that these light weapons, these man portable weapons, will find their way out of ukraine into the black market and into the hands of terrorists or criminal elements who, who, who will do western society harm. ukrainian army has allegedly shelled a border checkpoint and rushes western bronze region and also damaged a nearby towns cemetery. residents have reported dozens of explosions in the border region, but no casualties have been claimed. emergency workers have been sifting through the rubble and the governor has said water and electricity supplies have been restored. after being damaged by showing from the ukrainian side. local residents have said that it is unbelievable that a cemetery was shells. suzanne, the shells flew in the direction, everything exploded here in the direction of the cemetery. the explosions were heard after 9 o'clock from the ukrainian side cock was. but anyways, there's not

a more fine with that issue. of course. well, let's hand out the weapons. enough suffering already, don't you agree? so that you know if we need to do something, we need to fight the ukrainians. they're doing things. i can't speak of shelling a cemetery. it's unbelievable. it's good. the residential area hasn't been home in response to the strikes on the russian border. the russian military has destroyed a ukrainian missile and aerospace factory and key of mouth goes defensive ministry, said it use a high precision long range missile to target the facility and prevent unintended casualties. and as you can see here in this video, that the area around the factory does not appear to be damaged. moscow had earlier warned q that it would conduct a swift, responsive areas within russia are attacked by ukrainian forces.

an anti fraud investigation has claimed the u deported. asylum seekers only massive scale without properly considering their cases. the chief of the e u. border guard agency has resigned amid the scandal. now the box attitude towards migrants from the middle east and africa has been in sharp contrast to the current situation with ukrainian refugees who are being warmly welcomed. are cheese, charlotte davinsky reports. the ear is a border agency has been coming on the increasing scrutiny over the past few years, have been allegations that form tax has been involved in illegal pushback of my goods that fail to protect the human rights of asylum seekers and that there has been mismanagement a pro was launched in january 2021 by the use anti food office oh life, it has been completed. but while the results aren't yet publicly known, report suggests that it is not

a flattering report. it's understood that the report found the agencies boss. this is fabulously gary was dishonest with you and didn't follow procedures. he's now offered to resign. for some though, that isn't enough. from tex, director lagerry has finally resigned today. it's a scandal that it took so long after countless lies deceptions and human rights violations. the structural problem at the core of front text persists. le, jerry has gone, but front x has many senior officials heavily involved in systematic push backs. the european anti fraud office report can tell us who else is guilty, but front x wants to keep it secret. so many the issues from tex don't start and end with it's leadership though. even the gary himself was previously admitted that he doesn't know exactly what the agencies food mission is between the imperative not to allow people to cross

a regularly in the other the principle of non reform and which forbids push backs as everyone in need of protection has the right to asylum. how should we act? a german government spokesperson has destroyed his resignation. as offering from tex the possibility of a new start. what is that possible more so as you, his open vis food is a free to those fleeing war in ukraine? there has been for many, an even greater sense of injustice in just how my grants and refugees from other countries have been treated by foreign tax agents install. to partitioning of europe in which from tax plays a central role is not a solution but a racist in imperial response. there is also bitterness over the help that has been available to those coming from the ukraine. reception senses with food, clothes medicines, you countries have offered

a welcome that has been described as the gold standard. but at what cost, there are now allegations that hundreds of refugees in germany who fled the taliban in afghanistan. and now being displaced in favor of those who crane all of this is reading with benjamin's with you rips refugee policy plunged into accusations of being myatt hypocrisy charlotte gibbons case all see paris the u. s. house of representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill. legalizing the seizure of russian assets in america to use them as aids to the new government. some representatives, however, claims that the measure is unconstitutional. giving joe biden unilateral authority to seize property in the united states without any due process sets a dangerous and disturbing precedent. the bill provides essentially no evidentiary

standards for assets. seizure contains 0 measures to ensure transparency and accountability. the bill effectively gives the president a blank check to fund poorly defined democracy and human rights programming and monitoring this vote as president biden to violate. the 4th amendment sees private property and determine where it would go all without due process. the new legislation allows for the seizure of assets with more than $2000000.00 belonging to those supporting russia. the liquidated resources would then be used to help you claim, including for the purchase of weapons. moscow has denounced the move as illegal and vowed a response us initiative has found support is from across the atlantic as well, with ireland top diplomat saying that dublin could allow the use of a 1000000000 euros in frozen russian assets to rebuild ukraine. we heard from international political expert dr. jack rasmus,

who says that the seizures would basically amount to economic piracy and the would unfortunately not be a new phenomena. this is a totally new, if you remember the usaa seized venezuela's oil companies should go and dan divvied up the proceeds to whomever in wanted. ah, the u. k. sees the that as well as gold. and of course, there were seizures of iranian assets a few years back as a minister, just as just politics, as i said, is not new. but republicans are taking advantage of it, rightly so. because what it amounts to resists, willing for century economic piracy. you know, a 100 years ago they would send out their buccaneers and their ships in raid the spanish gold ship. certainly take the gold from the ships. and well, today's all done electronically, you see, and through the banks and the u. s. control the global currency banking system makes it quite easy to do that,

so are not as no justification for the legal or otherwise, but that we shouldn't be surprised. this is standard a practice by a u. s. economic empire. here in the 21st century berlin's popular donner co, bob stands have also been impacted by the sanctions as increasing energy cost and food supply shortages have driven them to raise the prices of their meals. one popular bomb stand in marrying them station still has minds of customers, even with a 20 percent markup on their kabobs to over 5 euros apiece. the local st. it's a significant difference. thing is cut off and i think there are many homeless people who probably would like to eat a diner cabal because they don't have many other options. if they're asking for spare change, maybe they can get one euro in an hour. if they're lucky from 3 or 4 people, so the one euro price rise really makes a lot of difference. and it depends on the doctor. you could spend more for quality

one, but not for a bad one. the sellers have to make ends meet, so it's justified, i think on, but it should be only to a certain extent. it's definitely going to be a problem in the long run model. it's a topic that will concern us for years. it can't be compensated for. so quickly, bulgaria is deputy prime minister has insisted that the country should resume it negotiations with russian gas export or gas problem to restore supplies. she made that announcement following a meeting with this leaders. this is after russia cut off gas applies to bulgaria and poland after they refused to pay for the commodity in roubles. what we discuss and what we suggest according to my employees, is that the government do everything possible to restore talks with guess from and deliver the contract. e. u leader ursula vander lion and foreign policy. chief joseph burrell. have said that russia's ultimate amounts to blackmail they want you

to, and it's dependence on russian fuel, but most to gas problem can customers, including the use largest economy. germany have complied with moscow's request for rouble payments. austria and germany have said that stopping fuel imports from russia could lead to a deep economic recession. those concerns have been echoed by residents of countries that have refused to comply with the to know well. i think it will be extremely bad for us. but what i'm waiting for as the government to resign, i expect new elections and a new normal government because we cannot expect anything good from the current line. i expect it to have a catastrophic effect. prices will grow up more. that's the way it will be. i think this is the government's job to consider and resolve the problem. that's what they are going to do. in fact, they will resolve it. you said it, it has become clear that we can get gas from europe, but at a higher price, all sort of men. so i do not believe it's an appropriate solution if gas is halted

from russia. let's not forget that many you countries will pay in roubles to get gas from russia despite the imposed sanctions. as i understand it, we will not do so little in favor of it is difficult for me to imagine how we will continue to live with such increases. i think that this will lead to an increase in poverty or the impoverishment of society in general. what will people it will be viewed, sir? harder. no, gra, surprises lou increase? yes. i think that the rising price is a worrying a soul, but we believe that we will deal with it and that these increases will be quite bearable for us. former austrian top to black current. can i, sol, says bulgaria is still largely dependent on russian gas imports. and occasionally, by guerria, it is evident that that's, that's been this very strong connection to, to, russian gets employed by the area is definitely

a case at stake. also given the rather low purchase power off the average for gary and citizen. and i remember that in by the area we have seen over the last 15 years, etc, instances, social unrest because of high electricity bills because of high utility prices to topic that is very close to the everett i've given citizen, i would say, and i can also imagine that officials are especially sensitive to the topic because they're very, very specific history, recent history elsewhere in europe, yet another country, spain is in energy predicament. as algeria, one of its main gas providers threatens to suspend supplies of the problem is not only affecting digging spain, but also algeria is neighbor morocco, one of spain's chief trade partners relations between algeria and morocco took a dive last year after algeria halted supplies through one of its pipelines and it's now spain that is providing algerian gas to morocco, through

a reverse flow. again, former austrian top diplomat, carrington meisel says algeria is energy resources are limited. a julia has been a traditional supplier of natural gas for spain, much more for spain and italy done. for instance france regis. org and sometimes difficult sometimes very strong relations. but julia has come back on. he had chan love from an e u point a few like effect me a little bit ironic out people are looking on the map and say, well, we don't want to have for gas for russia, so let us look for gas and whereas, and you rehab it north africa, so cheerier has gained some attract dignity and everybody speaking a jury on once again. but let us also bear in mind, cheery has all its production limits. it's a, it's

a country that was as an i producing member country of optic is, is facing. it's your logical limits. i have, i'm app know in light in its current potential as a gas produce and gas ex border. but i know that it has been facing the limits in particular when it came to fly production with the last years within days of the world's richest man, you must reaching a deal to buy twitter as he pledges to restore freedom of speech to on the platform by ministration has decided to expand, the department of homeland security is purview to shut down narratives that the u. s. government opposes, has alleged this information or tease interest of comments. twitter, a cozy umbrella for all shapes and sizes of leftist fringe and an incinerator for conservative voices. what started with unobtrusive hush hush shadow bands climaxed in

a resounding crescendo of then president donald trump's eviction from the platform . but now that ellen musk a self proclaimed free speech, absolutist has promised to make a twitter maximum fun. there's panic in the ranks. ellen musk is the fox coming into the hen house, and it is shameful that twitter which has a fiduciary obligation, i would think to protect people who actually use the millions of people who actually use them. do they ask a single woman, a single woman with a single woman consulted? that's an example of a broader question for twitter, which is if you, if you can invite you to something where there are no rules where there is total freedom ever ever, everybody do you actually want to go to that party or, or you decide to stay home you don't have to explain yourself, you don't even have to be transparent. you could secretly ban one parties, candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees. or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out

about it till after the election. notice there running a mocking up in flames, not because they might get silenced, but because an alternative opinion could now suddenly pop their info bubble. nothing like that has actually happened yet, but hundreds of thousands of twitter uses have already jumped ship. even the white house was triggered and has set up what it calls a disinformation board, but some had a different name for it. we have just established a miss in this information governance board in the department of homeland security to more effectively a combat of this threat not only to election security. i've been to our homeland security. george orwell is 1984 quickly started trending again. ironically on twitter, i detect serious 1st amendment problems with this garbage idea. the left has been controlling the narrative for years,

but now they're just being blatant about it. welcome the ministry of truth, us bite and launches, ministry of truth to ensure you only speak. thank in hear what the state approves. how soon until biden's ministry of truth is sending dissidence to concentration and re education camps. so, oh, exactly is going to be this detached, and evenhanded judge to sort fact from fiction, meet the lady in charge of washington's new board. nina yankovic, she's being a fellow with the wilson center which gets a 3rd of its funding from the u. s. government, which apparently makes yankovic 2 thirds non partisan. so most of the different formation that we've seen this highly, emotionally manipulative content is coming from the right. if you look at the top 10, you know, most engaged with post on facebook or twitter on a given day. they are usually post that are coming from the right. and that's because the right does deal on this highly emotional rhetoric. russia is something that sprouts far beyond her korea at the wilson center,

formerly embedded with the ukranian foreign ministry. she's never shied away from publicly despising moscow, mainly for exposing uncomfortable facts about the us. it's clear that actors like russia are using those internal fisher, things like our systemic racism here in the united states. things like economic inequality, to amplify these issues and, and really make us distrust this system. love for the democrats. hatred towards russia makes more classic than fish and chips nowadays. the world of nina young coverage is simple and solved if anything is hurting the dems image. surely that must be russian disinformation. like when she dismissed the story about hunter biden's, laptop, and tons of incriminating data on it as a fairy tale, which it obviously wasn't. the emails do not need to be altered to be part of an influence campaign. voters deserve that context. not a fairy tale about a laptop prepare shop and the

e mails candle that buried hillary clinton's run for the white house. well, it shouldn't have been brought to light in the 1st place. according to young cabbage was a really bizarre decision to declassify. some unverified intelligence about the 2016 election, that kind of trashed up the whole hillary clinton mail scandal and the heck and lee corporation perpetrated by the russians. and again, that seemed like a political decision designed to help president trump in general. she's certainly not a big fan of ultimate free speech advocates and elan mark himself. and it really shows where this whole this information board is coming from. i shuddered to think about free speech absolutist taking over more platforms. what would that look like for the much in life communities which are already shouldering disproportion amount of abuse? indeed, to think there might be a platform allowing equal opportunities of expression for the people with opposing