[000:00:00;00] ah ah, pas internationals world news on t o one. i am moscow time tonight, the ukrainian navy ship the an approach to russian waters in crime is cut straight without authorization. but eventually changed course of to moscow warned. it poses a threat, navigational safety headlining to the us treasury threatens of american journalists with hefty fines, if they work for certain publications. one author that was target, that daniel issa, shed his story with his powers. this is a normative database. have an individual free last journalist is always microscopic,

but some of them are so frightened, they're unwilling even to give interviews like this one. and in the u. k. reports, clay, members of the running conservatives, are admitted to hosting one of the parties in westminster headquarters during lockdown last year as a raft of civil downing street get together a sense of being investigated for reaching covey rules. ah, where you're watching around the world. brick, a boarding for me, kevin. oh, in here. not t h q in moscow is just 11 i am here now and we've got that big developing story. you've sort of read on the ticket, the bottom of the screen there. so let me recap you. what's happened this last few hours than russia says tonight that a ukrainian navy ship there was approaching its waters without authorization, was posing a threat to navigational safety. it finally changed course around 2 hours ago, but

a lot of tension at the time. and what was happening there is apparently selling away from cry. ms. kurtz straight or seen a car spotted more gaseous thing there with me floss fios as we plotted the course of the ship as you can to talk about it in the 1st hour. it then changed course we heard we wanted to get that confirmed, but it seems that the tension was averted. take us through it. well, as everyone was expecting, the was the last we had seen were, were reports that this command ship of the ukrainian military was approaching the strait of coach a very well guarded, very sensitive area where. busy there's a bridge linking russia and crimea, and very narrow passage with a lot of ships, 80 odd ships when the incident took place, waiting in line, waiting for their turn to pass through through the straight. and you had this ukrainian vessel or a big ship by any measure, making its way towards the,

towards the straight towards the transit area without refusing all hail. so ignoring all hales, they had been contacted by the f as b rushes federal security servers, asking them if they planned the transit to the straight. they said, they said no, but again, just before midnight, the ship changed cause and row was on its way back to its permanent base. we've also heard from the russian f as b, which cooled what the ukranian ship did. how to provocative the command ship dumbass has reversed course away from the coach straight. it is not responding to enquiries. they actually cronyn. ship's crew are regarded as provocative and endangering navigational safety, endangering because there are so many vessels civilian marine vessels lined up waiting again for their todd quite close together for their turn to pass through.

and you had this ukrainian ship barging down the straight while almost the straight, just 1990 miles nautical miles to go. and as you sang earlier, that border is marked by a railway bridge. brand new, pretty much brand new company is old and a, a motor bridge and a railway bridge. they're secure places. the worry is that you know what, what, what, what could have been going on them? well, the, this, this, this incident has happened before. ukraine has come out and said that, you know, where we'll find out who is fine. they didn't send any sensitive areas, although they had, you know, look and look at the news they had were raised hell just by approaching so close. so again, a very sensitive area because it, it strategically import millions of cars are all manner of trains, cargo, passenger passing to and fro across the street. and again, only a very narrow crossing through it. but beneath these are these to these bridges,

there's also much to be said about the timing of the door because it happened as president edwards gave president biden, but holding a phone call, apparently, according to sentence, k biden told him what he talked to putin about the united states also saying that they will provide ukraine with will, the weapons they need to fight back a if what comes to was was comes to worse, whatever, whatever that means. but there was also a un general assembly session in which they cooled on russia. the un general assembly to guarantee the safe passage of all vessels from the black sea to the sea of as up and vice versa. so there's certainly a lot to be said about timing. if we were to speculate perhaps ukraine using the opportunity to say the headlight with that would be the case. there's crested and sent for so before because the similar thing on

a slightly bigger scale up back in 2018 in it. it didn't. we were there the next day i and our film qu, filming those ukranian vessels, which had tried to run through the, through the straight. and we found them and pounded. so there was 2 gun boots and a tug boat. they had again approached the coach straight from the blacks. he from the direction of the black sea. so the other direction they had refused as well. oh hale's. they are only inform the f as b. those guarding the to the strength that they were passing through. and these were that territorial waters, referencing, of course, the fact that ukraine claims crimea is its own as its own territory. that it came out there was an escalation, there was a shoot out. fortunately, no one died, but the gradient sailors aboard those vessels were arrested. the vessels and pounded both the crew and the vessels were later handed over to ukraine. but that was an international incident. and ever since then,

and also before that ukraine has abided by the rules of transit through the trade of coach. they have always filed a notification with russian authorities and for their intent to pass through the street. so any attempt that ukraine makes to pass through the trade without finding the notification, according to russia currently be viewed as a provocation. ok, thanks marie cast. if they, interestingly as well, that ship was cold, dumbass in this conflict and east in ukraine broke out in 2014 has been a source attentions between cuba. moscow ever since sees recently escalated dramatically amid nato drills in the black sea and ramp a media speculation about a possible russian invasion 11 to be put in bold. the current situation ukraine's east resembles genocide. so i should say that, russo phobia as the 1st step towards genocide. so what's going on in on bass now?

very much resembles genocide. we see it and we know about it. all right, let's cross motor tunnel mcadams, executive director, the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity. hey, there are things coming live on the program, in your opinion, what's going on here tonight? does it look like a potential provocation by ukraine, or was it just mistake drifted? of course, last communications. what happened? well, i'm sure that a ship called don bass just coincidentally happened to test russian resolve near the, near the bridge near the sea of kirk. no, i think it was definitely a provocation. we've seen in the media over the past couple of weeks, particularly here in the united states, a lot of coverage about how russia is massing its troops inside of russia. and somehow that's the threat. we know a good deal of the printing army is in on bass. what i think you may be seeing here and maybe too early to tell, but i think you might see the narrative slipping a bit. the spike allowed rhetoric slipping a get a bit against ukraine. president biden for all of his faults, seems to be walking back a little bit from the,

from the brink. and i think that could be good news. and that might be the suggestion why ukraine is desperately trying to provoke some sort of russian reaction. i suppose, given what happened we were talking by just now with the cd corresponded back in 2018 given what happened then the 2 gun ships. so the credit gun ships and the ukranian tug boat did, if this is the same thing that happened to me, we don't know yet not been confirmed. could it just got lost? but russia would have been ready for this. am i supposed to been careful not to overreact to it? yeah. well, that is, that, that is the history of how russia has handle this not to overreact and wait to respond. but of course, as you know, that's not how it's reported in the media in the us, we're still bombarded with the idea that somehow out of the blue russia invaded ukraine because it just felt like it needed a big chunk of territory. we know that's not true. media narratives are much more important in facts on the ground. but other, as i said earlier, you know,

the president, 1st of all, he said, i believe it was today. president biden said, it is not on the table for american troops to go into ukraine, and that's smack down to the hawks in the u. s. and that's very important. that conversation tonight to mrs landscape is to buy it and we did what was said that this happened. we believe shortly afterwards, whatever the nature of the thing that happened on was, was a provocation. we just got lost, was already connection or not. well, i think that's part 2. i mean, i think troops off the table if that is indeed the case is number one, number 2, it is reported. it's been reported by a p of the daily call or another news outlets in here in the u. s. that president biden told so lensky, you need to essentially, you need to think about them. the minsk agreements you need to think about fulfilling your duty to, to provide for more autonomy on dawn, of course it's misreported here in the us by the right wing hawks in the left wing hawks that are there it goes,

president biden again urging ukraine to see territory and evil, russia and evil booth. and well, i don't believe that the case. what i believe is happening. and again, i could be wrong and i'm the last person to congratulate president vide, but i think he's trying to walk it back. i think he's looking for a way out of this. you know, that's the case. he should be applauded for trying to do this or telling to learn, hey, why don't you look at the mint agreement and try to go a little bit further toward filling these nations. you think for the focus on the, on the save us all the entrance to the us recently adopted the resolution. didn't they calling on russia to provide freedom of navigation in the black sea and the sea of us off? could this incident so maybe been linked to that? when do you think tonight? yeah, but according to international law, though they're required to provide safe passage what they are not required to do is provide free passage unlimited passage where russia has done as your viewer as well . no. so at this point is saying yes, you can go through, you can go through the straight,

but you do have to file in advance. and then certainly according to in accordance with international law, i don't review the un move at such a big deal. it's just reaffirming existing us un international law confusing to it's not ukrainian border police saying that they had no information about the naval ships maneuvers or how could that be possible if his naval ship again said notwithstanding, it could've had some major technical blackout or something where the rapiers went and it literally didn't know where it was, but how can the bosses not know where the ship was plausible or no? well, maybe there's a little bit of drinking going on over there. who knows? maybe they've passed out. it's hard, it's hard to know, but ukraine is basically, it's not the, it's not the ideal of a well governed nation. let's just put it that way. so the right hand probably doesn't know what the left hand is doing. we still don't quite know what russia did here. we know warnings sounded verbal warnings. we don't know if anything else happened there. how should russia react?

it depends whether in russia or whether you are on the crazy inside of the western side. i suppose they did the right thing, but the sounds of it. yeah. a light touch. yeah. well i think if there were massive guns off of the done bass, you know, pointing every which way it might be different. there weren't that. but russia has been very clear all along. we do have red lines, this is a red line. we are not backing down. looking at rushes external relations over the past several years, particularly after the u. s. instigated to in 2014 in ukraine, russia foreign policy is not unlike us is not one of lester. it's one of setting down parameters and sticking by them. so i think certainly russia has been consistent with the stated policy all along on ukraine della mcadams, executive director room full institute for peace and prosperity. thanks, bing, on the line police in texas. that was nice to see you. thank you. right, some other news now this morning, more than a 100 nations are taking part, say ne democracy summit 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 think america is no longer a good example. 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 is a leading democracy. almost a court to say it's never been one. china going as far as to say, america these days is actually lowering the bar by dividing the world into who it thinks of the good. and the bad may probably go to the field. oh good. yeah. the u . s. claims to be a champion of democracy and human writers, but has hit him if you don't fall in hypocrisy today. the u. s. has no model to judge whether the rest of the world is democratic or not. no matter how the u. s. lawsuit over itself. of seeking like gemini, under the guise democracy has long been exposed to the world. the so called summit for democracy. let me go down in history as

a manipulator and saboteur of to rise and corruption levels in the u. s. has also been on people's minds recently, and president buttons own southern modern scandal for more on the exactly what else is apparent and compatible with democratic values. is kellum 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. clipped to crafts and others seeking to pock corrupt profits. now the planners say that money laundering the, 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 on that, that 100 binders and 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 100 bind story, it is a bite and family story and it's corrupt. and they're basically thumbing their noses at at everybody because nobody seems to want to hold him 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 i'd point you to his representatives. joe biden just recently gave quite a bit of good publicity to broader 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 grunt home 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 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 just 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 some relief from linda based thing time called international affairs, told us the sudden buzzer and corruptions just another tool to control of the countries. the southern re occupation with correct caution is the way for. busy the united states to control other countries in particular control. busy their 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, his treasury department will take the head of the from the president and then investigate from the by and then he will then maybe investigate the bikes all of this time. he's by national transaction, southern extremes, success as an office. i remember the biden 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 jolissa being threatened with massive fines if a work for what a perceived to be the wrong publications case in point than to contribute to a site called the strategic culture foundation of receive stern warnings for the us treasury. this letter here it is, was sent to tunnels on michael virchow, 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 citizen. so engage in transactions with a foundation, a liable to fines of at least $300000.00. big money dollars share his own experience with us. it was a warning regarding future articles. so essentially, if i write for s e f,

i find gates 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, of 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 fried fare. 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, 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. many 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 u. s. campaign against russian line behavior. while u. s. government claim strategic culture foundation is in fact controlled by russia's foreign intelligence agency, the c r and that is also linked to the russian foreign ministry. the foundation that denies that and calls itself a research platform about eurasian global affairs. we contacted the see to get a further response to the claims and also waiting to hear back from the us treasury to nothing back yet as and when they do will let you know. but donnie lazar again says in his, you, a dangerous precedent has been set. i think of the that the at the s c f, the foundation hosts honest journalism. even though i don't, i don't, don't agree with much of it. this is, this is serious work by serious journalists,

and that is a supporter of a free speech and a free press. i believe that readers should have access to this. ready kind of stuff and, and yet if 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 could say anything we want, you know, i can write 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. 2 things may be changing slightly,

and it doesn't or go well. senior members of britain's ruling party of for forcibly admitted hosting a westminster get together last year during the strict national locked revelations, putting pressure on bras. johnson, as he denies a separate similar event at dunning street with staff, also apparently disregarded on 2 cobit measures. in total, 3 locked parties will be looked into for breaking cobra rules. shudder was dusty report. 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 red handed. 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 handed. why dos me envy investigation right now, but just admitting it, i've been repeatedly assured, oh, i probably can big news, the guy who's, but there is a risk of doing a great a grave injustice to people. i want to, frankly, obeying the rules with 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 milking about this 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 she recognizes, i'm at 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 matter. 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 morris johnson insist, it wasn't one people say that we're sort of making this announcement to, to coincide with events in, in politics. well actually imagine if this. 2 step were to have been delayed because of a political, a event to one kind or another. what would people say? then you got to act to protect public health? formal under medicaid living as folks who,

as see said that by announcing fresh pandemic restriction. so the problem is, is simply trying to deflect attention from his daddy st party scandals. his long stress without a proper planning or pretty consulting, as many of the scientist is 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 policies and so on because i 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 based 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 at home. i mean, they're isolated and then they see this prime minister organizing all these ridiculous changes. parties i've been told that 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 m. p. 's. 10 of his on the program is really wrong. let me just recap our top story tonight. so we will have in the last few hours, are you crazy navy ship was approaching the russian border of crime me as curt, straight with a authorization but 34 hours ago. the last minute it changed its course a couple of hours ago is around 18 kilometers. from said border in nautical miles, it sort of an 18 nautical miles up about 30 kilometers if you're working that way. so you get a handle. if i close it was, it's no sailing away from the straight with ukraine's defense minister saying the ship didn't anyway. break any international laws, its former soviet repair vessel data from 1969. we believe us when it was built, partly didn't send the request to enter russia waters under the ignore demands by the russian boldest service to change. course. moscow said the ship posed a threat to international safety. and that's the way things are looking to night for moscow. my name is kevin owen,

thanks for watching this new edition. john thomas is here in half an hour, but up before max and the team with the latest kaiser report here at arts international. the globe a broadcaster, lie from russia. he was president, joe biden has hosting a virtual global summit on democracy. apparently, washington intends a new crusade to save the world for democracy, at least as the foreign policy blob understands this political term. critics of this study claim, it's all about strategic polarization and an attempt at values based diplomacy. scientific knowledge has never been so readily available to everyone across the globe, but overwhelmed by information. can we distinguish the real science from the one being imposed upon us? we're living in a world where there are many people who have

a vested interest in finding information, finding scientific evidence,