ah, ah said i no longer a beacon of democracy and perhaps never was a major international poll reveal startling thoughts about america's image abroad, especially as most countries questions taking part right now in a democracy, some it posted by united states elsewhere, the us treasury threatens american journalists with hefty fines, if they work for certain publications. one officer daniel issa shares his story with us. us treasury power is north database, individual freelance journalist. i was microscopic armed, but some of them are so frightened, they're unwilling even to give interviews like this one. and in the u. k, reports play members of the ruling conservatives of admitted no to hosting one of those parties in westminster headquarters during locked out last year. as

a raft of similar downing street parties are also set to be investigated for breaching cobit rules. ah, are they live from ortiz world news headquarters here in moscow will welcome to our roundup at 8 pm, this thursday evening with me, kevin, how it and 1st more than a 100 nations to taking part of the moment in a democracy summit, something over the next 2 days it's hosted by the u. s. president joe biden. but ahead of the gathering thousands of respondents from u. s. allied nations said that they thought america is no longer a good example. more than 16000 people from 16 advanced economies took part in a said large scale research about america's image abroad seems more than half of respondents think that the u. s. has lost its credibility as a leading democracy. almost

a quarter say it's never been one. and according to china, america is actually lowering the bar these days by dividing the world into who it thinks other good and the bad may finally all the food. oh good. yeah. the u. s. claims to be a champion of democracy and human rights, but has hidden its dark past and hypocrisy to day. the u. s. has no moral authority to judge whether the rest of the world is democratic or not, no matter how the us glosses over itself, it's true. face of seeking, had gemini, under the guise democracy, has long been exposed to the world. the so called summit for democracy. well, let me go down in history as a manipulator and saboteur of democracy. rise and corruption levels in the us have also been on people's minds recently. and president biden's own son is of course been mighty scandals. more than about what else is apparently incompatible with democratic values. he's, he's kind of open the u. s. government sponsored summit for democracy has already

begun. joe biden is presenting it as his glorious call to spread freedom and human rights around the world. in the lead up to it, a national anti corruption program was announced. our real estate markets are at risk of becoming a safe haven for criminals collette to crafts and others, seeking to pock corrupt profits by the planners say that money laundering via the sale of paintings is very hard to regulate. this is something the white house may be very familiar with. joe biden's, son hunter biden has just discovered some artistic talent. his paintings have sold for half a $1000000.00, not bad for someone who just started painting. although not everyone is impressed. the 3rd painting you may recognize this name is 100 biden. now, you may think that such an exclusive that that 100 biden is in such exclusive company that he would have a background, you know, artistic training for example. but you would be wrong if you thought that or

perhaps that he has been selling his works for years. and again, unfortunately, you would be wrong. this is not just 100 buying story. it is a bite and family story and it's corrupt. and they're basically thumbing their noses at, at, at everybody because nobody seems to want to hold them into account. hunter biden is a jack of all trades. it would seem, he got paid $50000.00 a month by bruce ma holdings, a company in ukraine. even though he had never worked before in the gas and oil sector, and some people looked into this and thought maybe his father got him the gig, and that does not exactly re give squeaking clean politics. however, papa biden has always denied any foul play. we have great confidence in our son. i am not concerned about any accusations been made against him. it's used to get to me. under biden, also owns 10 percent of the chinese investment company, known as b h r. though he now announces he intends to sell his stake when asked to clarify the relationship gen saki,

the white house spokesperson didn't have much to say. the president, son is not an employee at the federal government. so at pointing to his representatives, joe biden just recently gave quite a bit of good publicity to protera electric bust company. now it just so happens that jennifer granholm, who he appointed as secretary of energy, is a major shareholder. given that status the up to $5000000.00 in value of investment, the secretary run home continues to hold him prosser inc. his position to increase in lights for personal, unsubstantial involvement in an aggressive, wide ranging on tireless public relations campaign. to promote electric vehicles, batteries on charging infrastructure with jo biden's, democracy extravaganza kicking off. it's worth noting that recent polling data shows very few things. you asked democracy sets a good example. we decided to ask americans how they view their national leaders. do you think the american political lead is corrupt?

sometimes not always. it depends on who the candidate is in which party you support . yeah. well, they're all serving their own self interest. and then on the american interest, american people's interest at heart. do you believe the corruption allegations against hunter biden? yes. if you read the news and you listened to see in an you'll see how biden jess did everything to cover up for a son. if they were more open about it and actually investigating it and found that there was nothing, then i'd okay, i'd be fine with that. but the fact that they're hiding everything makes me more suspicious. lots of big talk from the biden administration about fighting corruption around the world. but perhaps they should take a look a little closer to home caleb bobbin r t new york. george merely from a london base. think time cone international affairs told us the sudden buzzer on corruptions just to know the till, to control of the countries. the southern re occupation with corruption is a way for. busy the united states to control other countries in particular

controlled. busy the. 1 financial transactions, and this is the piece with the democracy summit. the united states government is now under the control, joseph biden. and the department of justice is treasury department all take the the from the president. and then i'm going to investigate from the by many more than maybe investigated by all of this time by national transaction, southern extremes. but as an office, i remember i'm divide and they announced what was the sometime in the fall. busy of 2020. i think that well, he's been told that he's under investigation by the federal government. well, time is the last and this investigation is obviously going nowhere. american journalists are being threatened with massive fines if they work for what's

perceived to be the wrong publications to contribute is then to a site called the strategic culture foundation of received stared warnings from the us treasury. this last year about say was said to daniel lazar, michael virchow, who are both new york based journalists. it says the s c f is on a list of band organizations accused of election meddling, and the us citizens who engage in transactions with the foundation. therefore, liable now defines of at least $300000.00. daniela's shed is an experience with us. it was a warning regarding future articles. so essentially, if i write for sci fi and gauge and any kind of transaction, which i assume means a, an exchange of money i could be had with massive fines that were completely destroy my finances. so i was taken aback, i was, you know, concerned certainly, but actually had stopped writing for the yes. since the previous, you know,

4 or 5 months earlier. so i didn't feel personally threatened. but others who, who want to continue writing for the works dreamily frightened fair. they have all stopped writing from the site because really there's just, it's, you know, it's impossible to, to battle the us treasury in this kind of case. the us treasury is power is, is, is enormous. and that of a, of an individual freelance journalist, as you know, was microscopic. but some of them are so frightened, they're unwilling even to give interviews like this one. so you know, so this is what it's showing effect means they're, they're unwilling to write and they're unwilling even to talk about why they, why they're too afraid to write. the threats may come. part of a targeted sanctions campaign announced by the treasury secretary back in april. treasury will targets russian leaders, officials intelligence services, and their proxies that attempt to interfere in the us electro process or so bertie has democracy. this is the start of a new u. s. campaign against russian line behavior. u. s. government claims,

the strategic culture foundation is in fact control, but russia's foreign intelligence agency, the s b, and it's also linked to the russian foreign ministry. well, the foundation denies this on calls itself a research platform about you raising global affairs. we contacted the s c f to get a further response to the claims and we're waiting to hear back from the us treasury to we'll let you know what they've got to say. but daniel is told us a dangerous precedent in his view as being set. i think that the that the at the s c f, the foundation hosts honest journalism. even though i don't, i don't agree with much of it. this is, this is serious work by serious. ready journalists, and that is a supporter of a free speech and a free press. i believe that readers should have access to this kind of stuff. and, and yet the, the u. s. government is trying to close it down and therefore trying to stop information, which is usually at variance with official us policy,

from reaching from reaching audiences, including audiences in the us, to stop journalists from writing for these kinds of websites as a new step. and i think that and i was surprised because because the united states, in fact has a very good track record on when it comes to a free press. i mean, in america, we can say anything we want. yeah, i can write that with the most outrageous things about george w bush or joe biden, and not have to worry for a moment about a the search secret police crashing through my door. but now things may be changing slightly and doesn't order well. senior members of britain's ruling party, reportedly admitted hosting a westminster party last year during the strict national locked the revelations, putting pressure on porous johnson as he denies a separate similar event at daddy. st wistar also apparently disregarded anti coven

measures. in total, 3 long term parties will be looked into for breaking cobra rules. shot edwards, gusty reports. well, things have unfold as much like as much as the nation would have really expect it to be honest, more and more revelations and allegations of gatherings and christmas parties. now the conservative party has reportedly admitted at least one party took place last december, 1 december. the 14th, when the prime minister was hang the rest of the country to think very carefully about what you do and how you can protect others. obviously though, the big one in question is the party the allegedly took place on december the 18th . even though the restrictions at the time were no endo mixing with any other households. now boys johnson is accused of lying and trying to cover a top. but the leader of the opposition says the prime minister and his party have been caught right hand it. they knew there was a party. they knew it was against the rules. they knew they couldn't admit it. i

thought it was funny. prime minister has been called right time did. why does me envy investigation right now? but just admitting it, i been repeatedly assured, oh, i'll probably be good about that. but there is a risk to do a great, a grave injustice to people who, frankly, obeying the rules with the prime minister, the government spent the week telling the british public. there was no policy. all guidance was followed completely. millions of people now think the prime minister was taking them for fools. well as the prime minister, taking the public for fools because the reality of it really is the very fact that the next day a christmas was cancelled. that was the announcement from the government, meaning that people couldn't even go and visit people they love in the hospitals, was worse though,

for the public with all of this is not just the fact that the government may not been following their own rules, which is bad enough, but the very fact that people in government with law thing and mocking about their situation as a leak video, showed a former press secretary to the prime minister law thing. when being asked about this so called downing street party and you recognize it. i went home is fictional policy was a business means i mean it was not associated well, she has become the 1st casualty of this soccer, but we can easily expect more, especially as the police are now weighing in and potentially will be launching an official investigation into this match up, so this isn't the last. we hear of it by any stretch of the imagination. but as the saga was all unfolding just the essay in the midst of it, the government decided to announce the restrictions, the new restrictions plan. b, meaning mosques are backer, back as being mandatory and public spaces working from home is now advise hancock

cove at passports. i will be enforced in large scale events, but the timing of this announcement seemed far too all v as as a distraction. but doris johnson insist it wasn't one people say that um we're sort of making this announcement to, to coincide with events in, in politics. well actually i imagine if this. 2 step were to have been delayed because of a political or event one kind or another. what would people say? then you got to act to protect public health. we spoke to former london america, livingston new, told us the prime minister looks increasingly out of touch with voters these days. he's alienating more and more people. people want to see a prime minister who's in dialing street, because i want to make life better. the whole country, not just to look after himself and promote, promote himself and get nice and rich in order that he's the most dishonest

politician i've ever come across. he just lives in lies all the time. i don't think he's really a politician. i think he just wants to be a famous celebrity. he should are going to show business. i'm. he said no clear political strategy. we were the last country. you're going to, i locked down. we had thousands more die because we tried to tackle this crisis really early, which is what a good politician should do when he 1st emerged on the political se negus massively popular. but in the 8 years he was maryland, and he did virtually nothing. and he doesn't really do anything as prime minister. i do think i knew that there's a real prostate that he might be pushed out about this by his own m. p. 's. here without international still head for this our present biden's migration policies are in the spotlight after a slump and deportations and the re introduction of a trump. here a policy is led to a search at the border in arizona. we'll tell you more about that. the back story.

i'm kevin now in thanks for checking in tonight to ortiz world news update this thursday evening. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah ah. ah. ah. a ah with

oh, when i was sure thing wrong when i just don't know. i mean, you well, yes to see out disdain because the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. oh i guess the number countries were the new cove it varied on the crumbs been registered as no more than doubled in just over a week. will health organization says that the strain has now been found in $57.00 countries so far. and new policies have been introduced over fears that the rate of hospitalizations could rise. we asked the w h o special envoy on cobra for his

perspective on the varied at the moment. people do not understand enough about this paris. nobody knows for sure how nasty ami chrome is, but there's information coming through that it's, it's not too awful. ready and this is good, but it takes time to sort these things out and we're in a kind of odds on stage at the moment where we're waiting for the results of the research. what i want to say is everybody keep doing the stuff that you know what to do, even if you're bored a bit. and sooner or later we'll find out how bad only cronies, some companies saying they're vaccines will work. other saying they going to need a booster for them to be effective. all this will come clear, it usually takes about 4 weeks and i anticipate that will happen, but privately inside my. so just because you asked me, i'm really hopeful that 1st of all, the acts vaccines will work reasonably well. and secondly, that this doesn't prove to be

a much nastier barris than the earliest trains i've been involved in controlling disease outbreaks and pandemic since 2005. that's quite a few years. the one thing i've learned try never to force people to do things through various incentives like fines or even nastier things. mandates are a last resort and the use of vaccines in children is because they dis, thought that vaccination will help to reduce circulation of the barrison children. but right now, the world health organization sticks with its recommendation that vaccines should be used for people who are at risk of severe illness and death. there are still an awful lot of susceptible people around even when you've got 70

percent vaccination coverage than this high right of, of cases is being driven by the susceptible. secondly, there does seem to be a capacity for the borrower to re infect people, especially if it is some months since they either had their previous infection or had their immunization, the protection doesn't last for life, it wears off. so that's, i think, the reason why we're staying the spikes, even though it's high vaccination, didn't use ukraine's foreign minister says a key abs ready to talk to moscow and make concessions to secure peace, but want to the country will not compromise on fundamental national issues as comments come after russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman said negotiations for the country had stalled and accused of massing troops in its east a correspond. daniel hawkins has got the latest tonight. well, at 7 of the tensions are at their worst points in many months. the conflict in the

mass is a frozen one with the regular flare ups and as a result, casualties both military and civilian on both sides of the mall cation line. it is now a focal point for global attention, especially given the meeting between president suppose and, and board and just yesterday on the subject on today's announcement by the foreign ministry spokesman murray as a kind of a is certainly no cause for optimism. she mentioned, but not only had talks stalled, which implied they could be restarted the word fused were the things had reached a dead end. and that's especially concerning. given these latest announcements about village troop filled up. this is what you have to say. go what if i needed more to you to me or negotiations entered a peaceful settlement? have stolt a special o s, the monitoring mission recourse that keith is transferring troops and heavy arms, including artillery and armored vehicles to the eastern border? well, to put this into context, this is come, i made multiple accusations from both sides and what i say, both sides, i mean,

accusations level that russia, that is a massing troops on its western border and preparation for hostile actions against ukraine, with russian officials denying this saying that any troop movements on its territory on its own borders are simply a response to hostile actions and true bill up from nato on the russian border. and now the quote inside has been accused of the same thing as we said earlier, moving heavy artillery tanks to that key demarcation line between ukraine and those break away regions that while no open conflict or cousin has occurred, this is a call of course, a great cause for concern because the misc agreements diminished protocols prohibits both the presence of foreign troops in the breakaway region and was the presence of heavy weaponry on either side on the location line, which is so fragile to hold both sides of the keys, each other breaching these agreements both politically and militarily and provoking, threatening each other with these troop deployments. and this is of

a concern because a lot here is a state, 1st and foremost in human life civilians. as i said on both sides of that, the medication line face daily danger of skirmishes between rebels and government. troops on 2nd, you politically, of course, because multiple actors and states are involved in this very tended situation. and any sudden movement by either side, which can be chatted as a hostile action, as some sort of thought of a conflict could lead to global ramifications which go well beyond just this region so well be watching very closely what happens overcoming days and weeks the governor of us state of arizona's calling out the bye, didn't ministration over its migration policies at the moment. he says, border controls are overwhelmed. a national gods have been called up because of what he calls biden's peace male policies. the biden administration's mis direction is encouraging migrant families to take

a long and dangerous journey as thousands arrive at the border. local law enforcement is overwhelmed with processing. this search creates a safety and humanitarian crisis for both arizonans and migrants. deportations of drop by around 80 percent during the vital presidency. according to a migration control thing tank, the center for immigration studies, analyze data and on illegal entry. noticed that the deportation of criminals also fell. the direct for policy studies of the group behind the report explain to us what's happened with us migration than lately. we're at a time of historically high, illegal immigration, and historically low enforcement when ice agents are not allowed to make arrests, as they were in the past, under the new policies. that means that the serious criminals that are typically the priority for enforcement are allowed to stay in american communities instead of being sent back to their homes. and when criminals are allowed to stay

here, typically they re offend and create new victims and continue to cause problems in this country. so this is an unnecessary public safety risk and is damaging communities that have to absorb criminals who otherwise would be sent home. nevertheless, the court has ordered the bye, didn't ministration to reinstate a trump. here a program where migrants a return to mexico to await their a silent decisions that announcement of the re launch sent thousands a desperate people into the us border to try to get in before it started working again. and the scramble we heard about in arizona, jessica vol, and telling us more should be done to prevent illegal crossings. this is a matter of policy, it's not a matter of resources. our immigration system is badly in need of reform. we need to have measures in place that result in more enforcement,

more tools for immigration enforcement. more programs that allow state and local law enforcement agencies to help ice do its job. and i think we need more money for enforcement directly at the border as well. more barriers to prevent people to keep, to cross and legally follow christmas coming up. everything from robots to spy gadgets, no developed by young scientists in russia. the world of egos done off when to get a glimpse of the future. so we are at a young scientists congress, which is essentially a very upscale version of a science fan. we all know and well, some of us love. and so we've come here to see would some of the young visionaries have brought to this show and tell, ah,

okay, so this start hair shows off all sorts of, exoskeletons, from full on terminate to like, suits, well, for the lack of a better analogy to some of the move, well rug sac looking types there intended to be utilized in such fields as construction agriculture, basically with any type of a hard manual labor. and well, i'm about to try one of these on. ah. okay, so i'm, i guess some might be looking like a full, but this is very tight. like you can feel that it is very good form. you know, if you need anything to keep your back straight, if you need, if you have any sort of back problems, this is already a solution. and well, let's say a firm. if it's going to be good enough for me, if i, if i find it easier, lifting any sorts of ways. so these are about 5 kilos. and again, i've been told that it doesn't make, it doesn't make stuff lighter for you,

but rather it redistributes the weight that you're holding. so certain contraptions here they are. well, i'd say borderline spyware, this here is a fake base station. so what does it scans the area for the existing cellular towers and then it imitates one of them, pretends to be one of them. so when say your mobile device connects to it, it thinks it is connecting to a legitimate nothing out of the ordinary world base station, but instead and connects to this one. and apparently you can do and manipulate a lot of things using this. i. busy i check out this dude here because this, this is one creepy android. so this device here has been designed forbes

scientist, essentially, whenever they inject a lab animal with anything with sarah, they're studying. it helps them show and helps them see where the substance that they're studying, the substance that they're injected. a mouse in this case where it travels, if it accumulates in the right spot, like here. and if it accumulates in the right amount, the developers, he are telling you that it has great potential for medicine. while this conference that wraps up the official year of science here in russia. but the organizers say that, well, yes, they come and go, but their developments they are here to stay makers done of reporting from sochi. oxy. yeah, that is our team will be used at 8 pm live for moscow reporting for you. my name's kevin owen. thanks so much for checking in the says evening whether you're checking in round the world stand by 2 from these views. here's after this break.