the largest and most powerful plan in such a situation. it's remarkable device. no longer a beacon of democracy then and perhaps never was a major international poll, reveal startling thoughts about america's image abroad, especially as most countries question right now, taking part of the democracy summit hosted by the united states us treasury threatens american journalists, hefty fines. if they work for certain publications coming up to that one, author shares his story with us. treasury powers is enormous. every individual freelance journalist, microscopic that some of them are so right, they're unwilling even to give interviews like this one. coming up to more trouble in the u. k. reports claim, members of the ruling conservatives of admitted to hosting one of the parties in

that westminster. h. q during lockdown last year as a raft of similar downing street get together is set to be investigated for reaching covered room. ah . hello low from ortiz world news headquarters. moscow. welcome to a round of 10 pm here, this thursday evening with me, kevin. first, more than a 100 nations out right now, taking part in a democracy some it's happening over the next 2 days, hosted by the us president joe biden. but ahead of the gathering thousands of respondents from us allied nations said they thought america is no longer a good example of democracy. more than 16000 people from 16 advanced economies took part in large scale research about america's image abroad seems more than half of respondents for the u. s. is lost, its credibility as

a leading democracy and facts almost a quarter say it never was one going even further. according to china, america is actually lowering the bar by dividing the world into who it thinks of the good, the bad may finally all the way out. the u. s. claims to be a champion of democracy and human rights, but has hit him. it's past and hypocrisy. today, the u. s. has no moral authority to judge whether the rest of the world is democratic or not, no matter how the u. s. glosses over itself, it's true, face of seeking how many 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 sabotage of democracy. rising corruption levels in the us have also been on people's minds recently. and president biden's own son of course, at the mud in scandals for more about what else is apparently incompatible with democratic values as seen by the public. his artes caleb 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 the of 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 a 100 biden. now you may think that such an exclusive of 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 a hunter bind 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 squeaky 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 is steak. 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 point to his representatives, joe biden just recently gave quite a bit of good publicity to protera electric bus 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 granholm continues to hold and prosper. ink is 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 think you as 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 somebody's a london based a think tank person talks about international affairs. he says the sudden buzzer on corruptions just another tool these days, the control of the countries the southern re occupation with corruption is the

way for. busy the united states to control other countries and particular control. busy financial transactions, and this is the piece with the democracy summit, the united states government is now under the control, joseph biden. and his department of justice is treasury department will take the lead from the president. and then i'm going to investigate from the, by many more than maybe investigator from the bison, all of this time, by national transaction, southern extremes, success as an office. i remember the biden announced what was that 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 a lab and this investigation is obviously going nowhere. meantime,

american journalists have been threatened with massive fines if they work for what are perceived to be wrong, publications, to contributors to a site called the strategic culture, foundation of receive stern warnings from the us treasury. this let, it becomes, was sent to daniela's and michael of who, 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 further that us citizens who engage in transactions with the foundation a liable to find of at least 300000 dollars done. it was a shed his experience with us. it was a warning regarding future articles. so essentially go, if i write for the, for i find gate 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. i was taken aback. i was, you know, concerned certainly, but actually i stopped writing for se 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 f works dreamily frightened fair. they have all stopped writing for 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 is, you know, microscopic that 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 big picture. the threats may come. part of a targeted sanctions campaign announced by the treasury secretary, back in april, treasury will target 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 us campaign against russian line behavior. so the u. s. government claims has fatiguing culture. foundation is in fact controlled by russia's foreign intelligence agency. the s we are that is also linked to the russian foreign ministry. the foundation denies it and calls itself research platform about you ration, global affairs. and of we contacted the c s to get the further response to the claims and we're waiting to hear about 2 from the us treasury as when they do, we'll let you know what they had to say. johnny lazar told this in his view, a dangerous precedent has been set. i think of the that the at the s c f, the foundation hosts honest journalism. even though out i don't, i don't agree with much of it. this is, this is serious work by serious journalists and that as a supporter of a free speech in a free press, i believe that readers should have access to this. ready 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 the search secret police crashing through my door. but now. 2 things may be changing slightly, and it doesn't the order well. senior members of britain's ruling party proposal admitted hosting a westminster get together last year during the strict national locked. and of course, the revelations piling pressure bar as thompson right now. as he denies

a separate similar of an downing street with stuff also apparently disregarded anti cobit measures. in total, 3 locked parties will be looked into for breaking cobra rules. part of a team of the acacia dusty reports. well, things have unfold as much like as much of 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 wanting question is the party, the allegedly took place on december the 18th, even though the restrictions at the time were no end or 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. and they thought it was funny. prime minister has been called right, time too wide, awfully envy investigation right now. but just admitting it, i've been repeatedly assured i probably think big news of the guy who's there is a risk to do a great a grave injustice to people. i want to, frankly, obeying the rules pacifica, the prime minister, the government, spent the week telling the british public. there was no party. 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 ma king about their situation as a leak video, showed a former press secretary to the prime minister, laughing when being asked about this so called downing street party and she recognizes i went home, is fictional policy was a business meeting. 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 yesterday, 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 advised hancock cove at passports. i will be enforced in large scale events, but the timing of this announcement seemed far to all the us as a distraction. but bars, 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. 2 this step were to have been delayed because of a political or events, one kind or another. what would people say? then you got to act to protect public health. we spoke to our former london american livingston on the program. he told us that by announcing fresh pandemic restrictions of prime minister simply trying to deflect attention at the moment from his downing street party scandals. his long stress without a proper planning or pretty consulting as many of the scientist children. and it's

just to distract attention from all the news coverage about the parties going on in downing street. there will be a lot of people who do do that. they'll have their own private little parties in song because they think it's a prime minister can do this. why can't wait? but i think the vast majority of people in britain are aware of just how dangerous this viruses and they don't want to put their lives at risk or the lives of their partners or their parents all over my country. here people are stuck home. i mean, they're isolated and then they see this prime minister organizing all these ridiculous changes. parties i've been told they mustn't do. and of course, that's making a lot of anger. so i do think that there's a real prospect he might be pushed out of office by his own, empties it wrong because some you just coming in but a breaking so you're not quite sure how big this is yet, but getting a handle on it seems the ukranian, the navy war ship, tonight's moving towards the russian border of crimea as could straight the kids

vessel apparently is ignoring demands to change course from the russian border service. what the ramifications of that will be. we don't know yet, but so we'll keep you posted on that development if 5 going to go full hour and you see it in case really more comes in. we want you to be on top of it with us as well . and we'll let you know about that. so focus on the coach straight there tonight, and a russian and a ukrainian military vessel navy vessel. we think not a merchant one that's making its way up to the borderline there were russia so control over it in those what is that considered russian waters and that could be a bit of trouble over that, or maybe not, we'll keep you posted. now next, the governor of the us state of arizona is calling out the by did ministration over its migration policies. he says, border patrols are overwhelmed and national guards have been called up because of what he describes as biden's piecemeal 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 and 80 percent during the biden presidency, according to migration control. think tank the center for immigration studies, analyze data on illegal entry, and notice that the deportation of criminals also fell. the director of policy studies. the groups behind the report explains a bit more, but what's happening with us migration at the moment were 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 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 biden registration to reinstate a trump here, a program where migrant returned to mexico while they away the restore them decisions that an incident of the relaunch sent thousands of desperate people to the us border than to try to get in before it started working again, hence the scramble we heard about in our zone and jessica ball and telling us more should be done to prevent illegal crossing. this is a matter of policy, it's not a matter of resources or 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. a senior said and corresponding his claim to senior white house. officials have been briefing, major american newsrooms about how they should cover the economy. white house quietly trying to reshape economic coverage. the white house, not happy with the news media coverage of the supply chain and economy, has been working behind the scenes trying to receive coverage in its favor. senior warehouse and administration officials have been briefing major news rooms over the past week while as ballooning prices and supply chain problems hits american

consumers, the buyers and team has been getting a rough ride from the public over its current. he can only policies sit on itself as rolled out a few optimistic headlines of late with some going as far as stating that inflation could actually be good for every day americans. although many of finding that optimism difficult to believe this sounds a lot like the start of a state for up again, they're all out and the media is just proud lead meeting. they are part of it. cnn is actually bragging about this, which means cnn n y c m s, and b, c, y po. we're all in attendance. ready to take orders. american journalist and commentator chadwick more claim, say, and i just pretend to give by nor tough time. what does make it strain, does that go proudly reporting on this? i'd ring them trying to reaffirm their commitment to neutrality and to pretend like they've been given by to destroy the time when it's nothing compared to what

they did. the last president here that we're going to be very powerful, forces out of many that worked tirelessly get this president elected and to trash and slander the former president into oblivion or so they taught me. don't forget. during the 2016 election, we had all those email leaks that showed that that the hilary clinton campaign was colluding with reporters and presenters on cnn about what questions to ask during debate and how to frame certain things. and that to be what we're hearing here with abided ministration. they show up to the offices and they explain, you know, they're unhappy with the bad reporting. the for boarding from seattle that i think the real situation is probably much worse. the real like a nomic situation in this country than even seeing that is reporting go into full. alex has been a breaking news coming in and every minute we're getting a bit more on it. so as promised, i'll update you a recap of that break. can you just say read on your screen? ukrainian navy warship tonight apparently is moving towards the russian border of

crimea as could straight campus. military vessel is ignoring apparently, demands to change course from the russian border services. the latest just got in moscow says the ship proves a poses, a threat to navigational safety, and that's a very delicate area, and is no less than 2 dozen nautical miles from russia's border is the latest there . what their own cations. so it will be, we don't know yet whether the ship will change. course we don't know yet, but as soon as we get more on it, we'll let you know here we're not to international. now, some news from around the globe. let me brief you on what's happening elsewhere in los angeles. we're going in no protest has gathered outside the cnn building. we're talking about just the protest, the net coverage of an ongoing civil war in ethiopia, demonstrators in support of ethiopian government claim coverage of the te gray war is promoting fake news, e. c o. p. media authority claims reports on analysis by cnn and others help the rebels who've been fighting the government since last year. london,

no police demonstrated scuffled outside parliament over the government plans to curb the right to public protest the spots and go to them for a while. the home secretary plans to give police power to prevent rallies based on if a cause too much noise or not. the a wide ranging police crime sentencing and courts. bill is described by critics so as draconian bodies in from india, the indian defend chief killed in a helicopter crash in the southern india. 12 others died including members of his family to pretty much showing a crowd trying to extinguish the flames. while soldiers carry the sole survivor away on an improvised stretch in the cause of the crash is not yet known. the you should invest more in its military development to avoid the risk of lagging behind other major powers. that is the warning from the blocks foreign policy chief

who says a significant gap already exists, wheat to repair and union and member to stage. we need to do much more together and we need to to do much more together. right now we cannot wait because they charged for as a symbol. either we invest a lot on defense innovation or we will become defense. irrelevant. the european defense agency is a body responsible for military cooperation and development within the block. it says the you spend the record under 98000000000 euro on defense last year. even despite pandemic, hardships, i've already one percent of that was allocated to the research and development of new technologies. when the goal was to spend double that amount. what's more, it's 7 times less than what america spends among other proposals to strengthen the military. then there's also

a document called strategic compass. it revives the idea of the creation of an independent european army that could be rapidly deployed to tackle any crisis. the paper also stresses the need for common approach to military issues and increase spending on it. german n p we spoke to says the suppose military threat is far from being the use main challenge right now from the beginning of the developing of the european treaty, they will always included the idea to have a own strong military arm that say are most of the european union, now the military thinking it's very much developing and the european union know they are pushing for have, having higher expenditure on military issues and to have more who are in military capacities as well for a policy, the question is protected against tool. i don't think that they are being used at the moment under current stretch from,

from military military terms from anybody we. ready have problems with it and i don't see that anybody is now trying to attack military. the union recap of that news again a year. ukrainian navy war ship, which you can see on the red ticket at the bottom of the screen is currently tonight moving towards the russian border of crime is coach straits skips military vessel is apparently ignoring demands to change course from the russian border service. moscow says the ship poses a threat to navigational safety. it's a delicate area there, and it's no less than 2 dozen nautical miles from russia's border. i keep saying, we'll update you on some more details of this. there isn't any more to tell you at the moment since we do get it. we will do it. next, the number of countries where new coven very omicron is registered is more than doubled. and just over a week will help say,

she says that the strain has been found in 57 countries sofa. a new policies are being introduced over fears that the rate of hospitalizations could rise. we are civil h o special envoy. cove is his perspective on the married people do not understand enough about this paris. nobody knows for sure how nasty ami chrome is that 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 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 act vaccines will work reasonably well. and secondly, that this doesn't prove to be a much nasty virus 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 nasty things. mandates are a last resort and the use of vaccines in children is because that is 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. and this, ah hi, right of, of cases is being driven by the susceptible. secondly, there does seem to be a capacity for the virus 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 doing the spikes, even though it's high vaccination, everything for ro balter spy gadgets, all developed by yet. young scientists said in russia, the, well that out is he goes out of his camera crew. once i get a glimpse of the future them so we are at a young scientists congress which is bank.