[000:00:00;00] a ukrainian navy ship approaches russian waters in crimea is carried to straight without authorization, but eventually changes course after mosque a warrant that poses a threat to navigational safety no longer a beacon of democracy and perhaps never was the major international poll reveals struggling thoughts about america's image abroad, especially as most countries question, are taking part in a democracy summit hosted by united states and in the u. k. reports claim, members of the ruling conservatives have admitted to hosting one of the parties in their westminster headquarters during lockdown last year as a raft. of similar downing street get together are set to be investigated for allegedly breaching quoted rules.

ah broadcast more direct from our studios, moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. susan, glad to have you with us. right now. russia says that a ukrainian maybe ship was approaching its waters without authorization and posed a threat to the navigational safety of other vessels in the area. finally, the ship, which is named the dumbass. it changed its course and sailed away from crimea scared straight. ne august, you have talked to my colleague, kevin, no one about the latest developments. well, as every one i was expecting, it 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 there's a bridge linking russia and crimea, and a 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 woods, the transit area without refusing all hail. so ignoring all holes, they had been contacted by the f. s. b rushes, federal security servers, asking them if they planned that 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 called what the ukranian shipped. it had a provocative. the comanche 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 have this ukranian ship barging down the straight. well, almost the straight, just 1990 miles nautical miles to go. and as you sang, alia that border is marked by a railway bridge. brand new, pretty much brand new company is old and a, a merchant, bridget railway bridge. they're secure places. the worry is, you know what, what, what, what could be going on there? 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 enter any sensitive areas whether that 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's strategically important. 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 adult because it happened as president salads gave president biden by 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 work, 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 se 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. we thought would be the case. there's question and

sent for 2 before, because a similar thing on a slightly bigger scale up back in 2018, didn't 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 boats and a tug boat. they had again approached the current straight from the black sea from the direction of the black sea. so the other direction they had refused as well. oh hales, they are only inform the f has be those guarding which is the strength that they were passing through. and that these were their territorial waters, referencing, of course, the fact that ukraine claims crimea is its own as its own territory. it came out there was an escalation, there was a shoot out. unfortunately, 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 to the trade of coach. they have always filed a notification with russian authorities and for their intend to pass through the street. so any attempt that ukraine makes to pass through the trade without finding a notification, according to russia currently be viewed as a provocation. the conflict can eastern ukraine broke out in 2014, and has been a source of tension between kevin moscow ever since these recently escalated dramatically. amid nato drills in the black sea and rapid media speculation about a possible russian invasion earlier, vladimir putin warned to the current situation in ukraine's east resembles genocide . so, some way i should say the router phobia. so 1st step towards genocidal. so we're

going on and on bath now very much resembles genocide. we see it earlier, we spoke with a panel of guests who unanimously said the incident appeared to be the provocation by ukraine's military general assembly, quoting russia because of the common maritime security of the coach. straits and was better for the gradient to do the same day than to send their own ship through the straight and make the point in their opinion. then we get that place in the store. well, from the great point it really results because they don't want to increase tension . it's been so much talk about rushing the troops on the border or the ukraine. but ukraine say that the russians we invaded song. and this is the type of thing that you created a new one. so that is the question, what, what is this? you know, it will be seen as a mistake by the grading shouldn't be engaging in the frequency of provoking the

russians and say, roads. we can do this, let's see where the russians will of the rush of react, where strong they went. when knows that the russian navy is much stronger than ukrainian or russian army, much stronger than the green army. to the 1st one is david and goliath is to cause an unequal contest. so therefore, it's up to ukraine not to revoke russia, not to produce a situation where the russians might use force. well, i'm sure that a ship called dawn bass just coincidentally, happened to test russian resolve near the near the bridge. 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 a threat. russia has gone as your viewers well, no, to this point and saying yes you can go through. you can go through the straight, but you do have to file in advance. and that's certainly according to, in accordance with international law,

the last person to congratulate president by 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 for telling the landscape, hey, why don't you look at the mens agreement and try to go a little bit further towards fulfilling these obligations you've taken on take a look at some other stories. now this, our more than 100 nations are taking part in a democracy summit over the next 2 days hosted by the us presidential bud. but ahead of the gathering thousands of respondents from us allied nations said that they think america is no longer a good example. more than 16000 people from 16 advanced economies to part in a large scale research about america's image abroad seems more than half of respondents think the u. s. has lost its credibility as a leading democracy. almost a quarter say it's never been one and according to china and america is actually

lowering the bar by dividing the world into who it thinks are good and the bad may finally on the feeder, puts out the u. s. claim to be a champion of democracy and human writers, but has hidden it, policy and hypocrisy. today, the u. s. has no model to judge whether the rest of the world is democratic or no matter how the u. s. lawsuit over itself, of seeking like em any under the going 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 rising corruption levels in the us have also been on people's minds recently. and president biden's own son has been mired in scandals for commentary about what else is apparently incompatible with democratic values. here is our teeth, kill them up, and 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 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 that, that 100 binders 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 is 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 them into account. hunter biden is a jack of all trades. it would seem, he got paid $50000.00 a month, vibrant, ma holdings, a company and 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 prouder 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 run home continues to hold him prosser inc. his position to increase in lights for personal, unsubstantial involvement in an aggressive, wide ranging untie this public relation 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. us 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 interests 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 m willey from a london based to think tank on international fair says the sudden buzz around corruption is just another tool to control other countries. the southern re occupation with corruption is the way for. busy 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 is treasury department all take the lead from the president and then investigate from the by many more than maybe investigated by all of this time by national transaction, southern extremes, success as an office. and remember on the biden they announced what was the sometime in the fall of. busy 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. the popular twitter account posting news about accused child sex traffic design. maxwell has been abruptly banned raining,

speculation about the future of free speech on the platform. according to twitter rules, apparently the account was artificially amplifying information. i'm not sure what i was amplifying and how i was doing that. the account got insane engagement, which by the way, was all organic. all we did was report information from the trial that the mainstream media was failing to do hate to, to support why you so concerned with protecting child sex traffic is on their accomplices. is it not censorship? when the most powerful people in the well, the room placated in a child's sex trafficking ring and the reporter was silenced? what are the trying to hide? we know platforms providing cover for evil pianos. isn't you shameless? slow? pretty incredible. the lense, these big tech companies go to to hide the truth and the name of saving the people from misinformation. right, the account had more than half

a 1000000 followers before the social network bandit for allegedly manipulating people's user experience. the account owner has launched an appeal against the ban maxwell, a long time companion of convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein has pleaded not guilty to charges of trafficking teenage girls for him. some say the account was removed because it regularly brought up. epstein reported connections with global leads, now it's cross live for more on this to nico house, an election integrity activist and independent journalist. thanks for being with us here on our international days, we're having me. so was it surprising that twitter suspended this account? unfortunately, it wasn't surprising, seems like any account on twitter that actually reveals information about the elite, whether it be about the set seen situation or about electro integrity or anything of the sort. they seem to be removed. i feel like this is somewhat agreed is i do find it peculiar to the mass removal of accounts because it wasn't just this. a

nancy pelosi account dedicated to exposing her portfolio was remove as well. and all this happened quickly after jack dorsey stepped down and a new theo was brought into power, who basically admitted that twitter had no obligation to uphold the 2nd or the 1st amendment. excuse me, which is ironic, considering that corporations use that just they use justification to interfere in our elections all the time via load the money. so i did find that a little bit ironic, but i'm not surprised at all about this is just another example of big tech overreach and censorship, where you just mentioned there is this censorship here. talk to me a little bit more about that. why so yet i a 100 percent believe that this is century censorship the this, this claim that there are manipulating people. last, i'd check if you didn't want to follow an account, you don't have to follow them. and in fact, you can actually block them. if you don't like the information that's being put out there, the freedom of movement of information is so pivotal in today's world,

especially more finding out people like f, like, like bill clinton, like prince philip, prince andrew, bill gates and others are being even queen elizabeth the 2nd has been implicated now with this epstein scandal and we have twitter more concerned about the fact that we twitter. but twitter politicians and other people other people, the media are more concerned about like kyle written house in censoring people who disagree with them. and getting rid of accounts, then they are about the fact that none of the names of the people that have been brought up in a case involving a man who was prosecuted for 6 trafficking, none of which had been brought up on charges. but sure, let's pretend as if this account that just merely kept track of a trial is actually the problem. like it doesn't, honest, it doesn't make any sense. it only makes sense if you're trying to protect those people who are being charged right now. you just touch on something i was going to ask you about the big names. do you think that this silence in could be linked to up? seems alleged connections with elite officials, a couple to name

a few. britain's prince andrew, former us president bill clinton as you touched on. yeah, i, i so we believe that because the question has to become, why haven't we seen any one brought up on charges? there's not been a single bit of discussion. in fact, that account one of the last piece they put out was an article that they written, linking back to a miami herald article where the f b, i found photos that were leaked actually are that were put out by the court a couple of days ago. were a bunch of the, the leads were implicated, but we'll have even more interesting with the other information which the f, b, i tape was still on the evidence when the f b, i went to go recover that, that evidence from at these former home. now that could possibly be at the f, b i itself is now implicated in the, the scandal and it just rolls downhill from there we, this should be the loudest story in the world when you had the queen literally

epson in galway maxwell sitting at the queen's cabin yeah, princes and presidents involve twitters main concern. is that in a count that's just reporting the facts. how is that manipulated? if anything, twitter is doing the very thing is in cute it is accusing this account of doing which if manipulating and deceiving people. i didn't see any problem when i asked the twitter having any problem with comp harrigan found out having 50 percent of her followers being bots and artificially amplifying her message to make it seem as if she was more popular. does she actually was to influence the outcome of the election? but now of the reporting facts as they are, is manipulating people, as, as utter nonsense. it is just another excuse for twitter to sensor people that are actually exposing the truth and expose them to the least doing nothing but revealing what's being said in court. which by the way, a lot of blue check mark deut, but they haven't gotten the traction. that this other account did in my guess because this account was solely dedicated to that when it was created. but now that account has been removed, although there have been some replacements,

it should be remembered, right? it always starts with one, but usually ends with many. i wish we had time to talk about this indefinitely and you go house an election, integrity activists and independent journal. thanks for being with us here on our international. no problem. thanks for having me. all right, and in another case that has been making headlines in the u. s. a chicago jury found after just a small it guilty of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report. he had been accused of staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself and misguided attempts to bruce his career. you've been convicted but has yet to be sentenced to check out the latest development on this story. much more on our website, r t dot com right now. senior members of britain's ruling party have reportedly admitted to hosting a westminster get together last year. during the strict national lockdown. the revelation is piling pressure on board johnson, as he denies a separate, similar event, downing street where staff also apparently disregarded anti coven measures. in

total, 3 lockdown parties will be looked into for breaking covered rules, shot edwards dusting 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 reported me 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 did. why does me envy investigation right now, but just admitting it, i been repeatedly assured, oh, i'll probably say indignation, that there is a risk of doing a great grave injustice to people unwilling 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 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 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 advised 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 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 this step were to have been delayed because of political or events, one kind or another, what would people say then you got to act to protect public health? all right, we spoke to former london mayor ken livingstone, he says that by announcing fresh pandemic restrictions, the prime minister is simply trying to deflect attention from his downing straight party skills, 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 home, i mean they are isolated and then they see this prime minister organizing all these ridiculous changes, policies 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 employees. finally, with christmas coming up everything from robots to spy, gadgets, and all developed by young scientists here in russian. the world and ortiz, you go to john of have been getting a glimpse of the future. take

a look. 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? ooh, ah, okay, so this stat here shows off all sorts of, exoskeletons from fallen, 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 just, 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 source weight. so these are about 5 kilos. and again, i've been told that it doesn't make, it does 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 vice.

ah, 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 are 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 me that it has great potential for medicine. while this conference said wraps up the official year of science here in russia,