[000:00:00;00] ah, the west winds to fall as the frank in violation of all international obligations and common sense they chose to escalate the situation. brushes foreign minister doesn't hold back during his annual press conference with nato expansion dominate. think go, figure, love rav once again, outline moscow's red lines. the cia has reportedly been training a li, ukrainian special operations teams on you authority, a mid melting tension with russia. also on the program, jo biden's bill on voting rights is effectively blocked by his own party. that's the day after the american supreme court struck down the president's vaccine mandate for businesses

with committee alive from moscow. you're watching out scenes national. it's just gone 3 for a, i'm sorry, here in the russian capital. my name is peter scott and thank you for joining the west went too far. those were the strong words of the russian foreign minister on friday when talking about international security issues. this is on your press conference, sir gil. i've also slammed the u. s. undecided for hypocrisy when it comes to human rights violations. gerberg's rule. so the west went too far. let's be frank in violation of all international obligations and common sense they chose to escalate this situation. well, you see the west condemns violent actions against civilians. they condemn human rights violations. but when bloody codes are carried out by those who swear allegiance to the west, the west embraces them. this is what happened with the ukrainian qu. many people died there, including at the hands of provocateurs,

and this case was approved by the united it's and the europeans just accepted that as fact. and no one is going to investigate the my down atrocities. there's a cause, a stood outside rushes for administer. here with a press conference or with brushes, foreign minister said oliver wrapped up a few hours ago and it did go on for quite a few hours. because leverage, as you heard, they're pulling no punches over the worse than the, the us in a situated 10 situation around ukraine at the moment. and now the presser came at an important time, of course, as regards the situation in ukraine as talks with nato, and talked to the u. s. in geneva, and in brussels earlier this week lets you pretty much a debt. and the u. s. not bending on moscow's demands to provide security and guarantees over that situation with ukraine. of course, the question on everyone's lips has been whether there will be a so called a invasion in ukraine or by russia. of course,

the worst accusing russia of strengthening his forces on the border in ukraine as nato expands eastwards. russia says he has every right to defend is borders. now that question was raised at the very start of the press conference, and we can get circ a lab rose, answer to it right here. american nato seem to have made it very clear that they're not going to. it's a give you the security guarantee. if you don't get the guarantees you've said that you need, that there will be a military response. what does a military response actually mean? could you, could you lay that out? are you ready to use military force to ensure that ukraine never joined native, virtuous mccarthy? now, only western colleagues, gas using tea leaves, they mediately grab the sanctions baton. we are for everything being decided on the basis of mutual respect and a balance of interests. the position of russia presented by nato is based precisely on the balance of interests and is aimed at the security of europe as a whole,

including russia. anita wants to create military footholds around the russian federation to dominate europe. so you now love her. i've also said that even if ukraine isn't drags into nato, as it were, any appearance of nato forces on his borders will be seen as a will constitute a red line of red lines was a buzz words for the geopolitical situation. in the past few months, he said that is not acceptable. russia will not accept that neither will accept us building military bases or placing a strike missiles anywhere in a sea of as of that also constitutes a red line. he outlines those red lines in the press conference, and we can hear just how they constitute a red line for russia in this grab here, we are good to go teach q. you put a human, we categorically do not accept the appearance of nato on our borders. it's

a red line, they know it. even if you crane remains outside nato, there is still a possibility of ukraine in agreements with the u. s. the u. k. and other western countries that a building military facilities and bases on the see of as of there, this is also an acceptable to us. this is enough, a red line that it talks over the past week have also said as a marker of the tensions between us and russia. of course, the u. s. are not bending on any of russia's demands. it seems. and i also was lucky enough to ask a sec, i love rob about the words of the u. s. secretary of state, anthony lincoln, who said that all president putin has done in the past 2 years or so, is there to facilitate what he wanted to present or prevents or rather, and those are kind of strong words from the u. s. i is, oliver said, that really isn't the case. said he was surprised at those words by blinking gossip

latasha anthony b. u. s. produced, i'd lincoln argues that what present putting has done over the past couple of years has only speeded up everything that couldn't would like to prevent on which basis does blink and make such comments. do you think we present putting putin has been devoting all the last years to strengthen russian sovereignty, which is constantly under attack by the west. those are attacks on all fronts. direct military to terrance information attack, soft power mechanism, and others is a shame that someone thinks that russia is in the pocket of the west. much of what is being said to days, connected with escalating tensions around the russian federation. so as you see that saying, i love any press officer pulling up no punches as regards the west and nato, he's called out the hypocrisy of nate. so reporting to stand up for human rights. however, then supporting a bloody cruise until the revolutions, as it were, as regards what happens in ukraine, and instead of calling it acute, fully in said

a diplomatic processor. he also said is up to the west now is that the us he has written to washington as regards those guarantees on safety and security and is up to them now the pool is very much in the us go to find a peaceful resolution with all the cia is reported to have been training, ukrainian special operations teams amid tensions with russia. the program is believed to be launch 6 years ago and archie is dawn quarter. can tell us more about those revelations. according to a recent yahoo news article, basically the cia is training ukrainian special forces units on american soil. and this is to fight in case of an apparent russian invasion of ukraine. again, we said many times in this channel. moscow has said many times this is basically just nonsense, but nevertheless, ukrainian troops are apparently getting some state of the art training from the you know, us government. the program has involve very specific training on skills that would enhance the ukrainians ability to push back against the russians. said the former

senior intelligence official, us base ca program has included training and firearms camouflage techniques, land navigation tactics like cover and move intelligence and other areas. yahoo news of course was not specific about the actual names, but it says that 5 former intelligence and national security officials pass this information along to them. apparently these training programs involve camouflage exercises, lands, navigation, exercises and the like. but all the while washington, the saying that these are not offensively oriented exercises, us officials claim that they're just centered around intelligence gathering us officials deny that the ca, training program is or was ever offensively oriented. but just what intelligence support entails in the paramilitary context can be ambiguous and how this training will be applied by the ukrainians may change rapidly with facts on the ground. now what is exactly intelligence gathering mean? i mean, while in the context of power, military operations,

we don't really know because we don't know what these ukranian special forces are going to be doing with the training they've received on american soil in the future . we at least know that the u. s. military advisors were training ukrainians, ukrainian forces, specifically after the events of euro, my don in 2014, but that was all on ukrainian soil. we also, we for marcia. executive said that going back decades, the ca has provided limited training to ukrainian intelligence units to try and shore up, you know, and i suppose it independent kiev and prevent russian subversion as i saw it. but that cooperation specifically was ramped up after the crimea became a part of russia. now we did reach out to the cia and the defense, the defense department of the united states for comments. so of course we'll bring our viewers any response we get in the news, tennis star novak jock of which has been detained by australian board authorities, that's after his visa was voided. for a 2nd time, i made

a dispute over the vaccine status joke of which is appealing the health and good order grounds used to evoke on this occasion. and the federal court hearing is pending. the 1st challenge to be that was about whether he had a valid vaccine exemption and he wound up the appeal. but no joke of is legal team argue that the latest premise been used to revoke his visa is based on australia's concern. his presence in the country would stoke until voc sentiment if he doesn't win this appeal, it could be 100 a 3 year visa bon, in addition to being deported and not playing just fairly open, present the tennis star. it still shows you to play in the sporting events in melbourne on monday. ah, now joe biden's week has gone from bad to worse after seeing his plan for mandatory vaccines shot down by the supreme court. the u. s. president was then hoping to change voting rules in the senate and pushed through some key bills without been

derailed by members of his own party and ortiz caleb moore's reports. the biden administration is down dealing with the fact that at this point we have one of their own party stepping up, cursed and cinema. stepping up a senator from arizona saying that she will not vote to change the senate rules and enable the repub, republican opposed bill that is going to extend voting rights according to the democrats and tended to protect the rights of voters. ah, she's not going to vote to change the senate rules now kirsten cinema. she did say that that she opposes the republican legislation around the country and she favors of protecting the rights of voters as the joe biden bill intends to do. but she's not okay with changing the st rules in order to do it. this is what she said. where does this descending spiral of division lead and how can we stop it? our country's divisions have now fueled efforts in several states that will make it

more difficult for americans to vote and undermine faith at all american should have in our elections in our democracy. these bills help treat the symptoms of the disease that they do not fully address the disease itself. and while i continue to support these bills, i will not support separate actions that were sent the underlying disease of division infecting our country. now this refers to the filibuster, which is a rule in the u. s. senate that enables the minority party to block legislation by refusing to close debates. i essentially, they continue to have of the minority party speak and continue to make remarks until, until the opposition it is able to stop the bill. it's a way of just kind of prolonging the proceedings, preventing the vote and preventing the bill from passing. it's been used throughout us history for various causes and by various parties, the democrat and the republicans of both use the filibuster,

tactic at different points to stop legislation when they were the minority party. now at this point we have the white house stepping up and accepting defeat on this i. this is what we heard from joe biden. the honest to god answers, i don't know whether we can get this done. as long as i'm in the white house was wrong, as i'm engaged at all, i'm going to be fighting to change the way these legislatures have moved. so kirsten cinema is refusing to enable the democrats to overrule the filibuster in order to pass the bill. now it's quite interesting because joe biden, at one point, was on record saying that he was strongly in favor of keeping the filibuster as a necessary check on the majority parties. power. this nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. it is a fundamental power grab by a majority party. now on tuesday and joe biden went to the us state of georgia to

promote this voting rights bill giving an important speech. but many noted that stacy abrams arising star and the democratic party did not attend the speech. and this led to some interesting speculation on m. s. n. b c. from their commentators about why that may be. politicians don't show up with presidents when their approval ratings may be in the thirty's and the say were there was another reason. so at this point, we're seeing the biding administration continued have its poll numbers dropped as becoming less and less popular. and now we see members of the democratic party increasingly di, railing, efforts led by the white house. this is just the latest example. ah, but we saw the supreme court overturning jo biden's vaccine man dates i. we've seen other moves, joe biden. it seemed came into office promising that he was going to fix many of the problems that he blamed on the previous administration and restore the unity of the country. however, if you look at the results over the past year, that has not exactly panned out. democrats do have

a major problem. it's looking like there's going to be a wave, something like what happened in the i makes $93.00. i think it was a 100 and 3rd sessional congress when newt gingrich came in with the republican revolution in the, in the contract with america where there were well over a 100 seats that changed hands. i suspect that's going to happen in 2020 to mid tubs. the problems that prevalent vital has right now in his own party is he's very unpopular in the only person. less popular him is as vice president and people are floating, hillary clinton as the own possible savior, the democratic party. you have 296 u. s. a. democrats, as governor, senators and congressmen. and you're telling me none of them are going to be look good for 2024. how bad is your party right now? the us diplomats has voice concerns about the rift between moscow and the west over ukraine. arguing the situation is getting increasingly unstable in eastern europe,

the drumbeat of war is sounding loud, and the rhetoric has gotten rather shrill. we have to take this very seriously. we have to prepare for the eventuality that there could be an escalation. the statement comes amid a series of tense talks between the west and russia that were initiated by moscow. president putin is looking for agreements that nature will not expand any further east, but so far folks have stalled. meanwhile, the polish foreign minister warned that the risk of war within the post soviet space was at his highest in 30 years, while his russian counts about said gala rav state of the west has gone too far in escalating tensions. nato, meanwhile, is concerned about the russian military build up on russia's western borders. moscow has been firm in saying that any negotiations about where military personal go on its own land cannot happen, at least not until it receives within guarantees that west and build up in ukraine will stop here being offered memberships, and nato is a major issue for russia 14 years ago,

nato decided ukraine should be allowed to join and the current head of the block install to berg stuns by that decision. i was actually present that to them. natal summit in bucharest, or in 2008 are all allies agree that that ukraine will become a member of natal? and we stand by that decision on the decision. so taking off the book or some it on the issue over your grains or ability to become a member. well, form a u. s. senior security policy analyst michael molig spoke to the program about those tensions. and he said, a less belligerent approach from the west would be a means of de escalation. i've heard from diplomats, russian diplomats and in the past, where they say that the united states diplomatically seems to always be talking down to their, to, to russian diplomats. and there and there,

and this is another example of that, that we will do this and we won't do that, that's off the table. and this is the problem. if you're going to take everything off the table before you even begin discussions than what sort of talk about. and so this is basically my washington through brussels, trying to lead this process. and i think that it, that moscow could reverse that trend and become much more assertive and thereby take over the initiative and actually take control of events rather than always been reacting to events if at any moment that those channels are, are closed off. because of arrogance. or by o, the west in launching these preconditions and not having that honest discussion and looking for that half way medium and understanding moscow's concerns. then that's a problem american consumers are feeling the pain with inflation that is highest in

a generation and supermarket shelves empty and out as covert destruct supply chains for them by doing this is all part of a global problem. but republicans are pointing the finger squarely at his administration under joe biden. everything costs more, storage shells are empty, and small businesses are struggling to hire workers and stay open. this trend is in transitory and it's all happening under democrats when party control. well disgruntled shop is also blaming the presidents hosting images of empty supermarkets isles, under the hashtag best shelves, biden. the american leader recently claim supply chain problems have been sold, and our colleagues of thought to america went to see for themselves. women to reduce downtown washington, the area that we're finding here of the frozen agency, a shelves are empty of beef, chicken, eggs, fruit and vegetables. even non perishable items,

difficult to find and some grocery stores. now in a normal year, 5 to 10 percent of food items may be unavailable. today, nearly 15 percent are out of stock. that according to jeff freeman, president and ceo of the consumer brands association and officials say things may not get better for the next 12 to 18 months. now there are many reasons for this including an increased demand for groceries with families choosing to eat at home during the omicron surge as we saw here in dc metro area last week, winter storms have effected major interstate and a shortage of as many as $80000.00 truck drivers are out nationwide. that's a historic high, according to the american trucking association. and because of this export say to expect price hikes and food shortage is similar to what we saw in 2020. now here's what you're seeing. as a result on tuesday, wal mart kroger and albert's in stocks div albertson's taking the biggest, indicating a trend among major grocers being affected by those supply chain issues. also,

these trips to the grocery store are costing shoppers even more with inflation rates soaring to 7 percent for the 1st time and for decades now, with the united states seeing more than 700000 cases of coven, $1000.00 per day on average during this omicron serge, it's slowing down food manufacturers and causing grocery store workers to call out sick. and we heard reports from companies talking about it had more positive tests in the past 2 weeks when they had, in all 2020. those positive techs tests are taking people off the front lines. it's forcing companies to shut down manufacturing lines preemptively. and it's leading to just simply not enough supply. experts say that things may not return to normal until staffing levels are restored. this hand demik lights up in the global food distribution network is restored. now with the only constraint sweeping across america, few people are donating blood. there's been such

a decline in fights that the country's red cross is declared is 1st of a blood crisis. it says there's now less than one day supply. we spoke to one of the specialists in washington, d. c. red cross supplies, 40 percent of the nation's blood. and we typically strive to keep a 5 day blood supply on hand at all times. what we've been experiencing as it relates to this current blue crisis is that we've had less than a one day supply of critical blood products in recent weeks. so that's what distinguishes this particular blood shortage in terms of a capacity. blood cannot be, may factored or stuck out every 2 seconds. some wine in the us needs blurt as doctors are being forced to make difficult decisions about who receives transfusions and who will need to wait until more products become available. so

covered is definitely a factor in terms of the blood supply. as we're seeing a 3rd in cobit 19 variants that impacts the ability for donors to be able to give as you have to be feeling well. and of course not symptomatic. the situation will continue to become more dire and ongoing, and it will impact patient care tremendously. the un world food program is warning of a su nami, of hunger, enough gun to stung half of the population has been struggling to obtain food this winter. and the situation is seemly be made worse by sanctions. things have even got so, but for some the results at the selling the organs ah, can man $2300.00 equals the price of the kidney or how long that will feed a family is unclear. i couldn't go out and beg for money. i was not able to

back then i decided to go to the hospital and sell my kidney. so i could at least feed my children or some time a welcome to modern afghanistan, where the organ trade is flourishing. amidst a dire economic crisis, 99 percent of the don't is selling kid needs of the people encountering economic problems and only one percent of donors of the ones who donate that kidney to a family member. it needed to most donors come from poor families and may not be aware of the consequences. plus the deaths won't go away by themselves. most of people leave the country, fearing for their lives, but some also leave in search of jobs. and when those people cannot make it to other countries, they come back home and they have to pay the money they had borrowed for their travel calls. and to do that, they sell their household belongings or sell their kidneys and some people even decide to sell their children. john now passed off for the shock. the chaotic

u. s. nato withdrawal and the taliban takeover pushed afghanistan into financial chaos. subsequently aggravated when the west froze afghan assets abroad. and when foreign funding was suspended, the un is now launching k $5000000000.00 a de pale. this is a stop get an absolutely essential stock up measure that we are putting in front of the church. richard bay, without this being funded, there won't be a future. we need this to be done. otherwise they will. they will be outflow. there will be suffering for those who have sold their organs. the suffering has already known be there. that's all for now from me, peter scott, but i'll be back again with another rundown of the world headlines at the top of

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right. what is the starting citizen which comes down with ah, the the the the boom bus, the one business. so you can't afford to mit branja, boring washington. here's what we have coming up. mid turbulent year of coven 19 and geopolitical friction, china thought a record trade surplus in 2021 straight ahead. we'll dig into those figures that will take, it's been around the global. busy bringing the latest performance from international market, and there's

a huge development that could be brewing in the crypto currency sector as jack dorothy lock is waiting further into the industry. we'll discuss got a lot to cover. started. we leave the program with china's growing dominance in exports, the world's 2nd largest economy, trade surplus hit an annual record of $676000000000.00 for 2021. a 26 percent increase from the year prior. according to facial data release, friday, exports came in at $3.00 trillion dollars, up 30 percent for the year. china's export growth was so good. it saw a double digit year on year increase every single month of 2021. the united states remain china's largest trading partner. as the u. s. has been transitioning further into a consumption based economy, china's, the exports of the nation rose more than 25 percent for the year to $576000000000.00. while imports from the us grew more than 30 percent to

$179000000000.00. now giving the u. s. a. nearly $400000000000.00 trade deficit with the nation. china's trade surplus with the world's number one economy has been winding over the last 2 years after narrowing during the trump administration in 20182019. it's that trade or so let's go ahead and take a little deeper into all of this with boom, by the co host script. the i and john quasi. the dean of the miami herbert business school, they both for being here. d quality. i want to start with you on this. what's the takeaway here from all these numbers is this more about increased production out of china or. busy nations elsewhere, just consuming more things brand on the demand side. china has done a very commendable job. but since the start of coven clamping down hard on outbreaks of cove, it and doing its absolute best to maintain production and it's factories and flow through its ports. and the fact of the matter is that other parts of the world did