on the alex silent, sure. but i'll be speaking the guess when the world of politics spoke. business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. ah. ah, this hour is headline stories. the head of nato vall is to keep expanding the western military alliance and out, yet more countries, many of which neighbor russia as global concerns spread over the army. kron kobe very, and the w h. o europe, director, it tells are etc, it's vital to deliver vaccines where they're needed, including rushes,

but nick shocks house, including vaccines, go beyond to politics. we should never take into account the country of origin just hours after it launches its 1st televised broadcast in germany. our new sister channel r t d is blocked by huge awe around the clock across the world. this is our t pleasure to have you with us today. i'm, you know, the secretary general of nato has said there can be no compromise on expanding the trans atlantic defense alliance. that's despite calls from president putin, for guarantees that nato will. busy not add new members near or on rushes borders.

charlotte dubin ski picks up the story quite a lot to digest for that press conference with the nato secretary general. but he talked about what he sees as being a patent of aggression coming from russia. and he said natal will continue to do all it's necessary to ensure that the rights of its allies, its members are protected. but nature supporting his opinion. does not mean that it's a threat to russia recently moved from macedonia and also montenegro, both eastern european countries, very near the russian border. have both been accepted into the nato, a life that is, despite protests from the russian government about that. let's have a listen to what else yen stilton burke had to say. nato has proven over the last years that are open door policy is not only something we are support in words for those in deeds party by inviting to new countries. montenegro north

muscle. now to become a member, so we have enlarged the line so that all spheres with 2 new members, despite protests from, from russia. and also we are supporting ukraine in ukraine's efforts to come closer to natal membership. so he went on to talk about what he sees as russia substantial and military builds up on the border areas with ukraine . and he said that that build up is a provocation. and that it could destabilize europe as well as russia's point of view. it has repeatedly denied that there is any intention i any build up that is looking to invade into ukraine at, we know that russia's foreign ministry spokesperson has slammed this sort of talk. and she said that such statements just will not help deescalate tensions in the

region. if a tional laws, this is it is information campaign to amy to crate. firstly, the image of russia as an aggressor. and secondly, additional tension of the region, including the black sea, the russia crane border, and se ukraine. this will not bring stability and security either in international relations or the regional agenda. it will undoubtedly complicate everything. meanwhile, journalists, primarily of course, western journalists freely use the word aggressor, referring to our country. what right do they have to do this? i tried to understand this every time. when was the last time rush attacked? anyone? people need to back up this claim with arguments. and how many times have native countries attack to sovereign states in the last 20 years? how many special operations were carried out by the nato countries? kenny show me something, im close to that from the russian site. no, there is nothing that you need to figure out where there are facts and where there is a propaganda here that it's not just russia that saying, look, we north intending to invade ukraine. we're also hearing similar views from

some of europe, sleet, as for example, the prime minister of italy. this is mary a druggie, a said that he's been talking to president putin over the last few weeks and months and as far as he's concerned invading ukraine. this idea isn't based on any fact. we've also heard warnings from the french president about this kind of talk, the hoops, who is suggesting that this war is brewing between russia and ukraine could pull in other countries as well. president mack, on saying at such talk doesn't help and actually could end up being a self fulfilling prophecy. well, i'm delighted to welcome on to the program now former pentagon security analysts, michael maloof for his talk. michael, good to see you today. i do literally, should we take all this talk a further nato expansion. is it a negotiating ploy from un stolen burg or,

or do you expect significant new additions on, on rushes borders or near them? well that's, that's a lot lot to unpack there. of 1st of 1st of all, a student burge, i think he has to look out for nato interests and he's not going to try to at this point to try to, ah, discourage ukraine. and because nate, because nato wants to, can do more military exercises than i think stolen bergen natal generally is under so very serious pressure behind the scenes from the biden administration, particularly it's neocons and in most, especially victoria newland in pushing that narrative and out victoria newland is, is, is a very hostile toward russia and she's very, and she was very much involved in the overthrow of a legitimate government in ukraine, along with then vice president biden. and it's to,

it's to their interest to try and push they, the nato alliance up to the border. and you've got to keep in mind who victoria newlands married to and that that's robert kagan and he is the nea con. nia cons, nia cobb. as far as i'm concerned and is in their interest to push nato it up to the border for containment purposes of russia proper. now, pub, ukraine has its own internal problems. it really is not eligible to join nato, even if it wanted to. because it has internal strife under the, under the rules of the alliance. and you don't see, and, and stoughton burgess pushing the same narrative along with deputy or long with us . secretary defense, lloyd austin, of pushing a ga, into nato. and add both of those are considered to be red lines for, for moscow. so if you do, the united states is coming half way around the world to,

to assert this kind of action. when you have moscow, are alarmed by the activity, assertiveness by ukraine, meal and native generally and, and thereby they have every right to arm their, their western flight. as far as i'm concerned, it the big picture i'd like to touch in as well. michael russia has always claimed on it, received a promise back in 1999 if it allowed germany to reunify nieto would stop expanding . i think a secret state team speaker said that nato would not move one inch to the east. that was a quote. so if that walter promise, no doubt, of course it was broken before that, but it looks to be really edging towards being smashed apart. now, how can moscow ever expect to trust washington? you can't. especially with this near con, this near conservative group. the, the,

the 1st promise was actually made by bill clinton and, and, and, and jim, jim baker was also with george h. w bush. so those promises are supposed to hold and a, the in that and, and the russia took the united states at its word and they have broken that and in, and you, those us, those former u. s. officials will acknowledge that they made that promise. and, and i think today, just as with iran, with the j. c, p. o, a can't trust any agreement that the united states might sign. and, and moscow is in the same same boat as a consequence because it cannot trust what the united states says that the only thing that i can see that can come out of this is if i biden can intervene directly and say ok, let's set up a buffer zoning out of nato activity, you may be up to the black sea. no strategic bombers fly in over the year because

you don't see strategic bomb and, and the russian mila naval vessels that do in military exercises in the gulf of mexico. so i think, i think they, there has to be a respect for spheres of influence. and frankly, a donald trump was a, was edging in that direction before he a before he lost his election. so i think there has to be a recognition and a respect for that. and if they, if, if they're supposed to be some kind of hostility and military assertiveness, the united states is threatening to move its own troops in and move missiles in. this only accelerates and heightens tensions as far as i am personally concerned. and i think that the and once you get that going and it'll spiral out of control in no time, it only takes one incident. and then we have to and turned about, well,

that's maybe what i want to just speak about. now. what do you think nato is hoping to achieve it in ukraine? because russia's foreign ministry claims it's sending and militants under the guise of military advisors. is it beyond the realm of possibility that nato actually wants to sparked some, some kind of conflict while there's that possibility? and i think that we saw it. we saw this when did with the overthrow the you're out of its government and it was a, legitimately, it was a legitimate government course. he was looking more eastward than, than westward. and, and it was right after that, that the west moved in and even got it in germany, was very instrumental in that, by the way. and i think that this is something that i needs to be concerning it. i think mr. brewton needs to talk to other general nato alliance members and say,

really, is it really in your interest to, to have a confrontation with, with russia and to agitate? because the, the agitation can come from the ukraine very easily. they could, they could easily, ah launched, but launch rockets and, and everything and, and it could hit in to the federation because are so close. i think that what he needs to be done and bite needs to do this is, is to push on is zelinski, the president of ukraine, to gree 2 o. 2 follow the mense agreement, which they all it in principle had agreed to at one time and in an effort to try and lessen those tensions and create these buffer zones that with that i spoke about earlier. i and i think that can have with the effective lesson intentions, michael all was a pleasure to have you on the program. thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and expertise with us for pentagon security analyst, michael maloof,

thinking in moving the program all now the u. k has reported that record cobit search with 88000 cases registered in the past 24 hours. testing being ramped up amid fears over the new army kron strain its so far being registered in 77 countries. but despite the rapid spread, early studies from south africa, hong kong suggest micron is less likely to cause severe. in this down, the delta vary and very few debts of also been linked to the new strength. nevertheless, countries worldwide are ramping up. their faxing campaigns are correspondent alia tranq o spoke to the w h o z regional director for europe, hans luge. how much more do we know about on the chron at this point? we know much more and we have the doors and about omicron, it's true, it's the latest valiant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell. we're not in the business of fighting one variant when the

business of fighting all variance and stu, delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement when they call fife bon demik stabilizers. number one. increase vaccination coverage. number 2, boost boost. boost number city. double the number of people voting marks. indorse number for ventilate, particularly in classrooms. keep the schools open and fife, implement. new treatment protocols, how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove ineffective against all micron, where we know as of to date, that vaccines are still effective for the 1st or the 2nd dose may be little bit less, but it covers with a cert dorsey? well, on the european union, specifically, we've seen a range of different approaches. why aren't we seeing a more uniformity from the block? in particular,

the uniform has been growing over time. but i think the point that is still really aleck off uniformity, with a cold political here is and it's confuses the people. that's right. dublin was advocating to establish a bond european health senate council at the high level to half uniformed in policy, but ultimately still health is a national competency. it's a decision by the country of speaking of sputnik v, a r t. we've heard from a number of experts that the issue has been politicized. is that true anyhow? house including vaccines. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of origin. i shared the optimism of the present alteration for the nation. that this deb ritual emergency use listing for sputnik will be there soon. germany's government is facing a furious backlash against plans for mandatory covered vaccines on tough new

restrictions. cities including unit comp, seen mass on rest, and unofficial and dressed, and has received death threats or your correspond. peter oliver reports munich was the latest city in germany to see demonstrations by anti vax groups, as well as those that are opposed to the measures that have been put in place to try and stop the spread of cove at 19 place. there are 4000 people, turned up at the demonstration in bavaria. it was all relatively peaceful until a group of around $4.00 to $500.00 of them decided they were going to go to march around the city that resulted in some captain. mouse with the police said, bit of pushing and shoving and ultimately according to the police $28.00 arrests being made. they ranged from people refusing to wear masks to those that had assaulted police officers. what we have seen at these type of demonstrations though, is an increase in the, the speed at which it, and choose and the amounts of people who are getting involved in violence,

ah, ah, when we're talking about these demonstrations, they are groups that serve anti vaccine as they said also opposed to those a covert measures, but a lot of them are lumped under the umbrella of a group called the lateral think is now they have be roundly marked a here in germany in society as well as on t v. in satirical tv programs and, and elsewhere, but things have taken a much darker turn. in fact, on wednesday morning, dawn rates were carried out across the state of saxony, in the east of germany. in connection with a plot to assassinate the, the leader of the government of the states of saxony, that michael coachman also to launch a tax against for the politicians in that state. now saxony has some of the lowest

rates of vaccination in germany. it also has some of the highest rates of covert infection as well, while following those rates. 5 men and one woman were taken into custody. what is seen is a number of politicians turning on the messaging application telegram with then saying that it was all about messaging application that this type of plot was able to be finessed and, and the message being spread. they are extremely dangerous because they're not only talking, chatting and inciting each other, but also taking action very worth while pointing out. they seem natural thing because the anti faxes, the, the anti cove measure, people are a small percentage of the population than the those at large. what we have seen is a large number of people coming forward for the vaccinations here in germany. in fact, on wednesday, they broke records with 1500000 jobs being handed out across the whole of the

country. now, 1300000 of those were the vaccines. what we have those the read, the rest were the 1st or 2nd doses all of vaccine. now what we have is around 70 percent of the population fully vaccinated, but there is a group of around 20 percent of the population that all be mentally anti vaccine here in germany. and they just so absolutely no interest in guessing that vaccine whatsoever. in fact, that's why we've seen or laugh sholtes the german chancellor talking about the possibilities of potentially in the future. seeing mandatory vaccination countries like austria on greece have already said that from next year they will be implementing mandatory vaccination. it's still on the discussion phase here. in germany though, this is art international still ahead the us could be approaching a tipping point with democrat and republican voters becoming ever more hostile to each other according to

a new study story and more short ah, should be noted that we also see the us dollar going up at the same time and other currencies around the world falling and entering into hyde park in the play store in collapse. that's by design to us by supporting bankrupt companies like brooks can buy, supporting stock by bags and crowds like warren buffett. they arg driving that we're all t global complex, which is unconscionable, because you know, just because bill gates wants to make a few more $1000000.00, we're going to go to war the rest of the world. it's so sad, but this is america today. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be in arms, race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to

resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk with oh hello again. our sister channel in germany r t d has been taken off you trip. it comes on the day at launched its 1st televised broadcast in the country. the reason given for the bomb is that our t d e's previous youtube account was removed, and apparently the owner of any block channel is forbidden from starting a new one. however, ortiz new channel actually is a different owner. and in any case you can always watch the brand new channel i. d

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those who worked for odyssey have said good bye to critical and independent journalism, and whether they want it or not on the employees are part of the destabilization of democracy. this is not about the approval of a profane entertainment channel, but about e. u wide access for putin propaganda on target disinformation under the guise of alternative journalism. and what goes up must come down arte deutsche his ascent was yank back down to earth. when you chew band, the channel from is platform with it, wiping out 600000 subscribers. now, despite rumors that the band was barely backed, former chancellor angle, a miracle denied that germany had influence you chief's decision. as for r t, germany did not put any pressure in brussels, of the decisions it made in germany. neither the federal government nor the state governments engaging meadows like that. so this fight will, the people's best efforts are t deutsch is primed and ready for action. launching on air and launching

a fresh assault on those old ratings and views, rankings. mainstream media beware and irreversible divide knots. the point american society is reaching according to a new academic study. it found that polarization in the u. s. is close to tipping point. if polarization is to extreme, people become divided even on the shock issue. if we reach that point, we cannot unites even in the face of war. climate change pandemic, or of the challenges to the survival of our society. earlier former pennsylvania state senator bruce marx join my colleague, rory so shay here in the studio to share his perspective on the growing rift in american politics. the a and b. c. accommodate of nvc was saying, he said there was 30000000 people right now, ready to take off palms to for donald trump, back in the office. that's somewhere between 20 and 30000000 people. that's

a mass movement in america, in favor of political violence, which is a new thing. does that sound accurate to you? well, i don't think that you're gonna see anybody taking up arms in the literal sense of, you know, having, you know, weapons. but i think that maybe there's a 120000000 or 130000000, or maybe more people who be willing to vote for donald trump. we had the tobacco and afghanistan, which was poorly handled, and then maybe united states look weak on the international. you know, a platform where they didn't get the americans out before the troops, laughter. that's number one. and number 2, with all of the spending that were happening because of these, you know, bills that the democrats just won't throw money at. we, we, for the 1st time, i mean, in a long time, we have inflation so that, so this is, this is not just the media fe mongering about inflation and america. because we've been reporting that it's nearly at a full decade high inflation in the united states, just about everything across the board now is more expensive than it was even just a year ago. is that, is that true? what's absolutely it's, it's absolutely true. i'm just,

i grew up in the 70s so i can remember when we had inflation, then we really haven't had inflation since i'd say that's the late 19 eighties has been fairly stable. absolutely young. you go to you, listen, you can't fully american public. we have the whole problem, you know, with the transport and getting kids goods into the country. i wanted to ask you just briefly, going back to biden's approval ratings and the inflation crisis cove. it afghanistan, the list goes on it yet. he says, he says the following about mid times have a quick listen to this. if you would, in 2021 as a unified democratic party, more unified than ever. now we look at 2020. do i want to tell my republican friend get ready bell? you're going in for a problem. he seems certainly out and made and optimistic. the how do you think is ratings right now will affect the mid tons. i think they've already effected the elections, the united states. we had a republican when governor and virginia completely unexpected. ah,

and that was in part because of the lack of popularity of president biden. it's typical that the party that's out of power does well in the mid years, but with biden. and his lack of popularity is really even his inability to campaign could didn't even campaign for himself when he was running for president. i don't think that we're going to see him going around the country and supporting very many democrat candidates. and republicans, i think you're gonna feel very good slight of, of candidates. now was the investigation into january's capital hill, riots in washington, us fer, unbalanced as it could. and should have been use, use, use delves deeper moment. ah ah right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to sell food that he's fancy and sugary and salty and

addicted. it's not at the individual level, it's not individual willpower. and if we go on believing that never change is obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment. mm hm. and what's driving the obesity epidemic? it's corporate with order for you guys that was president biden on his way to kentucky to tor storm damage on wednesday tire porter mark meadows was worthy of being held in contempt.

acura. failing to appear in front of the january 5th committee to.