ah, tonight made speculation of the situation in ukraine and accusations toward russia with him a potent house, a telephone conversation with britain's prime minister barak johnson, urging for immediate talks to stop further nato expansion towards russia's borders . up to a 100 feet dead after tornadoes rip across american states over the weekend. but the disaster also underlines the countries the political divide to with some politicians already trying to score points from the tragedy. and the sudanese who say they've been betrayed and had their dreams destroyed with a special report coming up into the 1000 strong protest gripping the capital there since october's qu, ah,

wife smart international will these h q this monday? even just to 9 pm here. now, my name's kevin owen, will welcome to the program 1st and let him have pets in his held a telephone conversation with britain's prime minister boris johnson with the current global hot topic, the crane situation to highlight more to that. the present also words for media talks to create a global legal framework to stop further nato expansion towards russia's borders. party correspondent, daniel hawkins report from the heart of moscow. well, he talks between the u. k. prominence and russian president follow similar discussions between the presidents of russia and the united states just a few days ago. and the focus was very much the same ukraine and the tensions on the ukraine, russian border. and after this conversation, it is clear that differences do remain in terms of threat perception, ideas on where exactly the threat is coming from and where the problems lie. the

russian president pointed out, ukraine's use of heavy weaponry and combat drones on de more cation line. so i think that as a violation of them is protocols which of course should bid the presence of foreign troops in the break away by region and the use of heavy military weaponry on that location line of lottery. putin pointed out that this use of the weaponry as well as discrimination of russian speakers in ukraine or violations of the main protocols. indeed, the biggest concern for the russian president was increasing presence of nato military nato troops in ukraine, and indeed nato expansion. eastwards that is something that has been a concern for the russian president for russia, for a number of years and has often been a spinal in the works on improving relations between russia and the west for quite some time. this is the suggestion that bloody me putin brought to the table in some of the resolving those concerns from both sides. fly them are put in stated the

need to immediately begin negotiations with the aim of working out precise international legal agreements that it would exclude. and if further, nate expansion east and the deployment of weapons threatened in russia, neighboring states, primarily in ukraine. now, the crime prime minister came up, things of the thought, a different approach cooler in russia to reduce tensions from their own side. citing the importance of respecting ukraine's sovereignty and integrity. that, of course, comes as a reference to the, let's build up a russian troops on ukraine is border. he did call for long and respectful to miss protocols from both sides though, but it is clear from this meeting, differences do remain. and between how to resolve this ongoing crisis in terms of the good news, supposedly it is that agree that progress had been made on climate change issues that the, the cop 26 in glasgow didn't agree. that collaboration between moscow in london is crucial to make progress on international issues. so at least some good news pops

there. in the run up to christmas, the cold between the 2 comes as moscow criticizes the group of g 7 countries for a statement warning, russia severe consequences if it pursues it's supposed military aggression against ukraine. russia should be, in no doubt that the military aggression against ukraine would have massive consequences and severe costs in response to cause. as for the of a round of threats towards russia, warnings or threats, we absolutely understand the position and there is no need to repeat it. 10 times we would like that position to be more balanced. if we're talking about the need for the escalation, ukraine, we want to see coal secure to stop the provocative activities on the d, ma cation line, western media and high ranking senior officials have recently been alleging that most goes planning and offensive on its navy ukraine, citing russian troop movements near the cranium, board, and bucket that the criminal consistently denied those claims and notes. it could

move its troops wherever it wants to on its own territory. with a foreign ministry spokesman, ukraine is being militarized. but going even further, germany's foreign minister stated that rushes nearly completed gas pipeline, nordstrom to might not be given the green light in case of any escalation earlier we spoke to current connect was come into the studio here. she's the former foreign minister of austria. oh, you spoke to her about many issues, including threats to block that pipeline. now. oh, there is a text that was written by the american and by the german government in july, in my reading. it's a rather unreadable text because it's very complex. and inter alia, it's mentioned if there is some sort of military sation of to your grain conflict, then the china government could 3 consider sanctions. so it's very r and vigorous, the whole thing, and nobody has a real definition. what is such

a situation that the germans will go back to car to sanctions, or that are the u. s. government? what you sanctions there's a lot of our unilateral roberts threats around and or the situation is very ambiguous. effect is that contract treaties have to be kept, have to be preserved. and, and if ever the, what now start tool impedes the consortium of companies to make this pipeline operate it, which is the expansion of an already existing pipeline than that would yield tremendous problems. and, and has had, have a tremendous impact on german economy in general because it will mean a complete loss of credibility in general. this always seems to be here a political will to block it this politic a blow to pluck it has been rising, was for president trump 20172018 because it had less to do with russian supply of

gas to the europeans. that has always been the case, it had more to do with grating market for north american alan, she, again, it's more a politic a game and it's a risky game than it really has to do with a fundamental laws of market economy. supply and demand demand ultimately comes from the consumer, which would be the voter. i mean, why would they want to spend more money on american gas when they can get it from russia? bought 3 times as cheap. exactly. this is one aspect and the other one is our gas storage is very tight. it's much below where it should be at this time of the year . there's even talk about temporary capt downs, of gas provision, or even the risk of, of something like a blackout. would you expect this nord stream to gas pipeline to go ahead sooner rather than later? because it sounds like it's needed, but politically, it's all quit. you're full, you're right. and if the terminal regulator, the abundance that's again tour would have continued its procedures as calculated.

still in september at the deadline was 8th of january, 2022 than to regulate a set knoll. that's a problem. that means that instead of meeting the deadline of eights of 10, or it might be if everything works smoothly than april, may by april, may we don't have to same pressure on, on the gas provision. as we do have right now, it's most probably going to be a cold winter. we see as sequence of unit at rows statements by different protagonists. whether it's mrs on the line with president biden, whether it's different voices in the german of parliament, and all that is, is not very helpful to say the least because all doors unit as well as statements feeding the media. you have some drama media which even publish a crash and planned attacks. lance, even which day the,

the russian army is going to invade. i mean it's, it's really getting sarielle such a language was not present in the cold war days in the seventy's eighty's. maybe because we still had people in office who knew what war meant. unfortunately, we are in times of a decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. if we are in a world of unilateral statements, 1st of all, this looked at this arm amount of worse. i mean, this terminology is kick cannot be continued as, as it has been the case of the last few weeks. and the media should act in a more responsible way of quoting our, this, this german paper, the bills which, which had as effect planets on still days. and many people are required to act in a, in, in, in a, in a more responsible way. because the stakes are simply too high, i believe that those president put, and president biden are aware of the stakes. but there are many,

many otherwise this. and when it's inside, nate, or whether it's inside ukraine and prices who are making this unhelpful unit, actual statements. devastating storms ripped through central and southern parts of america over the weekend. the state of kentucky suffer the worse damage the governor. now saying 64 died while more than a 100 remained missing. president biden's declared a major federal disaster in the states. chuck, these sir satellite images from before and after. in the city mayfield more than a 100 people were trapped inside a collapse factory building a died and the same number is still missing. destruction was also reported in arkansas, missouri, tennessee, and illinois were at least 6 died in an amazon warehouse. president biden saying, his administration's ready to do whatever is needed to help those reeling from the devastation. a

worst. most devastating, most deadly tornado event in kentucky's history. there's our home town and just noticing everybody's all there was were shaking house collapsing against you can see where the whole house is buckled, the well back side of that house is off total devastation for our town. most of our historic buildings are now gone with, [000:00:00;00]

with, with likely to be one of the largest terminated operational history. this aust, his holiday shoppe rift between republicans and democrats to with some politicians seemingly trying to take advantage of the tragedy. nikki evans got moreland and higher towns were destroyed, as some 30 powerful tornadoes, ravaged across 6 us dates. the worst affected can saki, and needs help support and relief aid. and so it turns to the governments on fellow americans. but politics is politics, and it seems not even a monumental disaster like this one can bridge america's political divide. and some believe it's a perfect opportunity to show that you reap what you sow. when hurricane harvey hit

in 2017, the 17 senators who voted against a bill to provide billions of dollars in relief. all republicans among them, kentucky's sen, round pole. once again thousands are suffering, but there is no time like the present for political punches. we should do what we can to help our kentucky neighbors. good. be with them 1st person, but do not for one second focus. that run poll has voted against hope and most americans, most times fair in need. we know, rand paul is a heartless hypocrite. the people in kentucky deserved the relief regardless of the buffoon, his leadership, much of the dems, dont use this against him and his part in the future. it is a mr. but unity for some, it's not even off limits to suggest that if you vote read, then you had it coming, vote for climate change, denial, and see what happens. tornadoes in december of red, but weather climate change, while the fact is not clear at this point,

still is the country real than shock and concerns over climate change peak. it could also play into the democrats hands as they bid to push a $1.00 trillion dollar climate package through the senate. all i know is that the intensity of the weather across the board has some impacts as a consequence of the warming plan. and the climate change. and so it seems something as devastating as this can only wet the appetite for those looking to score political points. there is nothing that a politician ever does or says that surprises me. there is nothing that is above them or below them. i think that they're going to any time that any bad thing happens, that they think that they can use as a justification to push for more control. they're going to, i don't think it's appropriate. i think it's a political posturing for the worst of reason. a disaster is a disaster and it was going to happen regardless. it was gonna happen whether or not we had cap and trade or the new green deal or anything else. i think it also

shows the increasing homer is ation and partisanship and division in the us. instead of looking at people as human beings, we look at them as red or blue or independent. we look at them as some abstraction instead of what they are human beings, that in this case are suffering terribly right now. i don't care how they voted, and i don't think anyone else should care how they voted. either this is alex international today. thank. thanks for checking in this monday evening. it's $915.00. moscow time on the way. the u. s. state of florida shows surprising results with the number of republicans registered to vote overtaking democrats for the 1st time in the state. and the ramifications of that coming up ah, join me every thursday on the alex salmon show. i'll be speaking to guess of the world of politics, sport, business,

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theirs. sinks. we dare to ask oh, you are the envoy to sedan says military leaders must rebuild trust with the opposition, especially younger people. when he said, i feel betrayed, bob toby's co, rejecting any negotiations with the military artist, senior correspondent, broadcast have witnessed a 1000 strong protests in the capital car too. and talked to people who say their dreams of a better life have been destroyed lately. the full version of an exclusive reports available our youtube channel, but is a cut down. ah, she's cooled mina, like countless others. she's a beggar. she doesn't play with her friends or go to school. she spends her days begging outside the hotel. mina is just one of millions and saddam

forced to beg to help feed herself and her family in these desperate times. and saddam, so he is sick wounded in disease by years of strife and disappointment. these wasn't what democracy promised. the fool of the dictator law by sheer in 2019, was supposed to harold, a new age for, for god, a transition to a democracy. but the democratic age of prosperity that millions hopeful has turned into an age of hunger. i'm not mad. i don't know, there is still hope to be honest. my only concern now is finding something to eat and so much sleep as to everything that's happening, i just don't know. i don't care anymore. i just try saying something against the

government. they'll label you and islamists of a former regime, sympathizer, or a military supporter. in reality, all we want is to tell the government that we're hungry, that we have huge problems. people can't even go to school because of roadblocks or protests. after the revolution that people put their faith, the demand called abdullah ham dock, korea bureaucrats, who promised as prime minister to lead the country to democracy. he won the hearts of millions only to break them in if though, but the military intervene and what some have called a to it arrest that prime minister ham duncan, his cabinet. the argument was that they were running the country into the ground and the transition to democracy needed a correction, handled cabinet of ministers included many with foreign citizenship. allegations of corruption were rife, ministers were accused of enriching themselves while spouting platitudes. about democracy. the prime minister has since struck a deal with the military,

and they now ruled jointly to the displeasure of the revolutionaries and lash at none of those. here, we'll go to these protests. we protested then and we were betrayed. why would we protest again for him, for what, what will change? nothing. we will like to once and life only got where we will sit and wait for our deaths here. yet every week, hundreds, sometimes thousands gather across. so don and chancellor dimansky of freedom food or to meet him. what traditional thursday protest. i now underway, ties a burning and said drop at all. this is how these protest happen. people gather and group several 1000 several 100. in this case, abs, i've written, 50 people here, burning ties are the major intersection. their objective is to put this rupture. they're charging now against the military government who they see as being

responsible for their school. ah, the crowd, these in the thousands. and we had seen many small columns, swarming in various neighborhoods before converging here, and what they all want for power to be handed over by the military toy civilian government. properly this time, without any acceptance, they bought the military. the step down, many people here field, but trade by prime minister ham dot, who signed an agreement with the military, giving up a lot of civilian bower to the military. the resistance committees, abala, c, a groups across many neighborhoods which nominally help organized protests and run civilian life. in practice, they increasingly hassle businesses or denied people. water will cooking gas if they so want asking them about it only got us the answer they have in their booklets. so we've, we've spoken to people on some support, the resistance committees,

other people say that resistance committees intimidate bullying, scare people. but you would, you have to say about that. i, can they scan whatever ice people i just ordinary civilians. they're not related to the military or intelligence agencies. all they do is how quick who can i say sion and dialogue, no matter who we ost, of people weren't about to speak about the resistance committees on camera. they were fearful like this hard enough at ease, tragically ironic democracy activists have morphed into what they so hated. ham dogs. army. some pulled themselves twisted version of the secret police, but once enforced. a dictator's rule ah, here on the outskirts of cut to leave some of the most impoverished and the city people who survive 11 meal every 23 days who drink water that is barely fit for

capital. who were on the front lines of the revolution and who the revolution i'm tightly passed by. and so said dawn remains in wretched stasis chain didn't hunger frozen by corrupt and self serve in elite, and held together by a military bed on preventing collapse, ah, democratic party, alarm bells ringing in the key state of florida, after republicans overtook them for the 1st time in modern history, the number of registered voters, ann with next year's crunch midterm elections looming. then democrats now wondering how best to try to reverse their historic slide. let's get across a go to new york city. calum opened the survey, so much of a shocker is this news than from the sunshine state. caleb was simply a matter of mathematical calculations. at this point,

there are more registered republicans in the state of florida. then there are registered democrats now. it's the 1st time in modern history. this has been the case and many democrats are starting to realize something seems to be wrong. of course, despite will not be easy, but it's about so much more than any one of us and the florida democrats. we have lost so many times that donors and ponders have given up on us. now, governor de santis from the republican party in florida came forward and celebrated the results. he said this is due to the fact that quote, we value freedom and liberty and reject democrat lead government control. now there is much concern in the democratic party of florida that due to these numbers, there will become a situation where the national leadership of the democratic party as well as donors to the democratic party on a national level,

will simply right off the state of florida. as a red state, as republican territory, it's not as if floridians can't be swayed one way or the other. we need more coordination with the national party. now it's important to know this comes in the context of sinking approval ratings for joe biden. us present, joe biden is simply not being loved by the american people as he continues to deal with a number of crises, a number of situations facing the country. at this point, just 28 percent of us. that adults believe he's doing an adequate job handling the issue of inflation and even within his own party, the democratic party, those numbers are low, it's only 54 percent, a slim majority in his own party who think he's doing an adequate job handling the situation regarding inflation now he's still does have a majority of the country saying that he's been handling cobit 19 in an adequate way, at this point to others,

54 percent of the public se he's handled cobit 19. ok, but it's important to know that that number is a 10 percent decrease, that's a 10 percent decrease and from july and july there was 10 percent more thought he was doing better now. his polling numbers continue to go down. and at this point, joe biden numbers have dropped 20 percent since march. there's been a 20 percent decrease in jo biden's approval ratings among the us public. so as we look at the new results in florida, and the political establishment of the country is reacting to those numbers. as we look ahead to the mid term elections. we're a new house of representatives and a new us senate will be elected and a new, you know, us, congress will take power. many are looking ahead at these results and wondering how things will pan out with these shifts taking place across the country. yeah, it will help us follow to some terms. there is evan from new york city callup open things for now. now this is a story. it's been going on for a long time,

hugely controversial low. and the wife of the us diplomat is turbo face criminal proceedings. of the u. k. of being charged with the death of a british teenager in august 2019 a car driven by an schoolers lighted with motorcycle hurry done outside of us military base. hurry done, died later, and hospital and the america was granted diplomatic immunity and returned home pretty soon afterwards. let's get some assistance with this shot. it was dusty as i was saying, this has been a hugely controversial case in them. well, it's been 10 years now since harry dunn lost his wife. and this moment today is huge, step in the right direction towards justice for harry's on family. that says unsecured, as the woman who's accused of killing hurry done is to face criminal proceedings right here in the united kingdom early next year. so the 44 year old wife of the us diplomat, fled to the united states, claiming this diplomatic community. shortly after the incident that occurred on

august the 27th of 2019, she was late to charge by causing death by dangerous driving, an extradition request to face the justice system here in the united kingdom was refused. now the initial refusal was made final by president trump and then reaffirms later on by president show fight. and so today really is a monumental moment for the family who say they are feeling incredibly overwhelmed and emotional. when hearing this news, of course, we know that charlotte done the mother of harry donaldson, relentlessly, pleading for this moment, saying all she wanted was to see on the coolest face. the justice system here in the united kingdom to that day will now come that case will be had at westminster magistrates court on january the 18th, we believe the answer clearly will be appearing via video links. we actually have a statement from the crown prosecution service saying with all the challenges and complexities of this case,

a well known we remain committed to securing justice in this matter. but of course it's certainly been a long time coming. there's been many twists and time to this story earlier this year and even emerge that unsecured has worked for the intelligence. and that actually fundamentally changes the principles of claiming that diplomatic immunity also on the basis of diplomatic community itself. it's hugely controversial as it was a legal loophole that's not being close under a revise agreement between the united kingdom and the united right answer coolest herself, her latest position, her latest public. a position is that she is currently on upon an apologetic and has accepted responsibility for the accident. as i say though, this is a huge moment for harry dunn's family. they've wanted this moment since the very day that he died and have long said that till justice is served, it's only then that they will be able to grieve,

shar there was dusty. thank you for that. now. i'm not so rough. what we're talking about tonight from the rest of the team. good evening. ah! now it shows the wrong one. 03. just don't hold. any new rules, the easiest to shape out. disdain becomes the advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground, opposed to weight. so again, the scale today between po you thought life was like what is sacred as the breaking