[000:00:00;00] a year has passed and since joe biden became us president, and while polls show anger at is covered in economic policies by the fees is work in a different light. i used to look, i didn't know were promised it would i have probably a performer to anybody. what would happen? western media ramp up the rhetoric over russia supposedly planning to invade you crank. it's claimed that moscow has consistently denied when a prime minister is spending his time trying to convince the great british public that he's actually stupid robot, with philly, irresponsible and unfit for the job. those are just some of the accusations wants against the british prime minister. both johnson in parliament,

after he apparently tried to feign ignorance about the flooding code rules with the boozy party. and the former guantanamo detainees who was released without being charged is taking legal action against a government to restore his british passport after the case against him collapse. they issued my passport eventually after 8 years of waiting and then took it away 3 weeks later. this is all connected to the initial imprisonment in guantanamo that hasn't gone away. the harassment continues over these past 2 decades with broadcasting live direct from a studio in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us are now a year has passed since joe biden became us president. but despite rising inflation drop in the bowls and problems related to the pandemic, he stated relatively positive with mid term elections later this year. he claims to

be doing better than any other president haven't been able to get some of these big legislative. i'm john real big was bigger than any president who's ever gotten in the 1st. but currently, mister president, despite the fact that americans are deeply concerned about issues like inflation and the rising cobit cases and the situation of the us economy, joe biden seems to have assessed himself as doing a decent job. furthermore, even among his own party, we're seeing many democrats who say they disapprove of how joe biden has been doing over the past year. but regardless, joe biden thinks he's off to a good start and then he's making progress. did you over promised to the american public what you could achieve in your 1st year in office and how do you plan to course direct going forward? i used to not just look, i didn't know or promise it, but i have probably, you know, i perform when anybody felt what happened amid the inflation rising coven cases and

troubling economic news. many americans feel joe biden isn't doing such a good job. a recent poll came out showing that 40 percent of americans believe that joe biden's presidency makes them nervous. throughout his speech, biden insisted that progress was taking place and that americans should be looking to the future with optimism. here's what he said. we have made enormous progress. you mentioned the number of deaths from cove it. well, it was not 3 times, not longer. it's coming down, everything's changed. it's getting better biden. and said that if there is an escalation of the situation in ukraine, that he will essentially impose dramatic sanctions on russia. russia will not be able to conduct transactions with the us dollar. serious, serious sanctions against russia are apparently on the table. but it's been pointed out that these sanctions would also have a negative impact on the u. s. economy, not simply on russia. now, the united states apparently is talking of increasing its military presence in

eastern europe in the advance of some kind of armed conflict between russia and ukraine. here's what joe biden said when taking a question from reporters about russia and ukraine. it is going to be a disaster for russia. if they further grades you invade ukraine and that our allies and partners are ready to impose severe cost and significant harm on russia in the russian economy. well, because she's never seen sanction, like the ones i promised will be imposed. now there's been a dramatic shift in voter registration. united states with 14 percent increase in the number of voters registered as republicans and things don't look good for joe biden. and the lead up to the november mid term elections where members of congress will be elected. at this point, demik had to have some very serious concerns and even members of biden's own party, the democratic party are starting to somewhat distance themselves from him. however, biden use this address, marking the one year anniversary of his presidency to try to defend his record and

argue that things are getting better despite the perception of most americans that it's otherwise or less cross live to rec, sterling, who is an investigative journalist to talk about this a little bit, rick, it has been the end of a very turbulent 1st year. president biden is claiming to be bigger than any other president when it comes to passing legislation. given everything that we have experienced in the past 12 months. how can we see this as a positive year with great difficulty, and even joe biden, in the later in the, in the press conference, he was talking about the republicans obstruction as i'm how everything that they are doing. they are, they are obstructing and even put it. mitch mcconnell is hell bent on never, never allowing him to have a positive moment. so the,

and the obstruction of them is, is real to, to a great extent and to, to the detriment of the american people. washington in congress is significantly dysfunctional. and you mentioned the obstruction ism israel. mitch mcconnell is actually come on record and stated that that is his goal. but why does biden appear to be trying to ramp up the pressure on russia at this point? is this possibly a smoke screen for his problems at home? well, possibly, but looking at some of the, the media reports. and just after the press conference, the, the media is stoking this. there was, you know, some people are saying that joe biden is giving a green light tour to a russian invasion, all sorts of exaggeration like that. he didn't say anything of the sort. so if we're in the unfortunate situation where the, the, the mainstream media in the us is a driving force and, you know,

even when one person, it's make some comments that are not sufficiently antagonistic to russia. are they are, you know, they are put on their criticized. there is a certain amount of the media kind of driving this force behind that. what it, let's take a look at some of the things back home. some of his initiatives that he's been wanting to put forward voting rights to that important one, immigration, and also affordable health care bills. for instance, do you think that popularity is going to have to mean that he's going to have to give up some of these initiatives yet, he is going to have to make some accomplishments. as he said, he's going to take some chunks out of his is the, the very large program, the bill back better. and he's gonna have to get those through. that significantly improved a lot of, of millions,

if not tens of millions of citizenship. if he's going to turn, turn things around, some of the, some of the, the elements of the program would, would significantly make a difference for many, many americans, for example, the program to, to, or the proposal to find community colleges that would have wide support one or another of those he has to get through in time for the to, to have it be an impact in the, in the coming coming election. all right. rick sterling investigative journalist, eyes interesting to hear thoughts. thanks for being with us. you're not interested our western media are stepping up their attacks on moscow trumpeting what the kremlin calls, unsubstantiated warnings of rushes, imminent invasion of ukraine. the russian government has strenuously denied any move towards the conflict, but has laid out red lines against plato's eastward expansion towards its borders. his r t is don quarter with more over the past several months,

hysteria surrounding up reported russian invasion of ukraine had spread across the west like wildfire, and to top it all off a number of media outlets specifically you see, and then are continuing to show reports proport accusing russia basically of provoking the conflict in don boss. russia is preparing what's known as a false flag operation to create a pretext for another invasion of ukraine in the view of american intelligence. that could be an impending attack of some kind on the current territory, move up from the crimea and join all his territory up. so your buffer zone is bigger. one level up from that annex the whole of the coastline, and cut ukraine off from the black sea. now, as you can see there, cnn even gave us a geography lesson claiming to prove why russia was intending to invade ukraine, apparently. but to be fair, though not everyone in the western media was failed to see this double double standard of accusing russia of some sort of aggression. well, actually, nato is arming

a hostile government right on its doorstep. imagine if mexico fell under the direct military control of china, we would see that as a threat. of course. well, that's how russia views nato control. if you credit, why wouldn't they? these accusations of m and an eminent invasion by russia. ukraine have been going around for several months now and time and time again. moscow has repeated that it is not planning any saw, any sort of invasion and that having its own troops within its own territory is not a threat to anyone. we stress once again, russia is not going to attack in the practice of moving troops on our own soil is a sovereign right. we call for an end to the serious. so is not to pile on tensions around the down this problem. and most importantly, not to push hot has in key of towards new provocations. and it's also important to note that moscow has made it clear that it's trying to find a diplomatic solution to the de escalation of the conflict and ukraine rushes made a number of proposals for security guarantees between itself and nato to prevent

the further eastern expansion of the western military alliance, but unfortunately, washington has shot down those proposals as what they called nonstarter negotiating points. so there still is a lot of work to be done in the sphere of diplomacy here. what's interesting is that just on wednesday, the us secretary of state anthony blink and touch down in ukraine for talks for, to quote, deter russia from further aggression. and at the very same time and entire shipment of n law anti tank missile systems from the u. k. also touched down in the ukraine, so that might not seem like a very diplomatic move, but london says there are only intended for defensive purposes. i can today confirmed to the house that enlighten the increasingly threatening behavior from russia. and in addition to our current support, the u. k is providing a new security assistance package to increase ukraine's defensive capabilities. we have taken the decision to supply ukraine with light anti armor defensive weapon systems. now the u. k says that these weapons are for defensive purposes,

but it can't exactly control what he does with these weapons once it's in its own hands. right. and we're also seeing ukraine becoming much more dependent on western governments, both for armaments and military training. back in 2021. the u. s. also supplied with a large array of javelle and anti tank weapon systems. the pentagon recently confirmed that u. s. military advisors will be staying in ukraine and they're also been reports that ukrainian special forces are actually being trained to fight the russian military on us soil. that's something that was unprecedented. and this is all, while nato countries are actually reinforcing their military positions right. against the border of russia. so if you look at the overall picture, it doesn't exactly seem like rushes. the aggressor here, guess we spoke to said that the moves by the west we're bound to backfire, is very understandable, but i must go, might be frustrated by the development say the recent. yes. i think the very act of pointing out that having

a west and military alliance that covers basically all countries except russia is the stabilizer, is always been destabilizing, the expansion of nato. in the 990, somebody to thousands has not been helpful to building trust. and, and we do need to be pressing a reset to coordinate fries. unfortunately, nato members have seen much more focus and emphasis on, on nato, and on military preparations, rather than upon common cooperative security mechanisms that are crucial to your future. the course that isn't going to be a russian invasion. this is a foss concocted. i said nothing in the united kingdom. you have a government in deep trouble and very unpopular. you have the same of joe biden. joe biden is up plumbing debts one popularity. but notice will deliver plums before

accept the donald trump is so fond is jackson say by that name, war mongering is always something which politicians turn to and which generally they can, they can rely on their media to, to deflect and take up. so we're seeing this doesn't phobic war mongering propaganda. largely i think is a distraction from the internal weakness of the key western government. ah, british prime minister boys johnson faces an escalating backlash on accusations he hosted boozy parties during uncovered lockdown. even some of his own party members took part in grilling him in parliament and insisting he resigned opposition and peace. led the onslaught to speak when a prime minister is spending his i'm trying to convince the great british public that he's actually stupid, rather than disowning

a time that he go now. this week was supposed to be open ation. see big dog. i as quickly become more petition dogs don't know. why can you kid government point billions of pounds for property years of fraudsters, but they can't find compassion. why it's so hard for this prime minister to admit that he made the bill so he should notable and he should follow intervals while bar johnson has faced the toughest prime minister's question since he was elected. and it also comes the day after he claimed that a downing street party, an alleged one, was in fact a work event. and that he wasn't warned that he was breaking any rules. while nan, no one is buying that in the house of commons today as dozens of m. p 's, including some back bench tories have said his time is up and he needs to go. and that argument was spearheaded by the leader of the opposition. the prime minister, the conservative party of showed themselves incapable of offering the leadership

and government this country just while we were sitting out plans to keep bills down . the was planning parties while we were sitting out plans to save jobs in the steel industry. he was, he was trying to say just one job. yeah. he's own dawson, the country is up so much better than this other i don't believe continuing to offer series of questions which he knows will be fully addressed. oh boy, he's wasting, he's wasting new time. he's wasting people's time. this is because he continues to be completely irrelevant to be delivered while they did that and we, we vaccinated. well, they vacillated, mister speaker. well, of course kissed alma hasn't gotten off scot free either. as back in the heights of the pandemic, he too was photographed eating and ranking in a constituency office. in darville, though, he is refusing to apologize saying there's nothing wrong with having a drink with your dinner and says,

this is boris johnson's attempt to sort of shift the focus away from his own political scandal. which of course, or as johnson really is embroiled in, obviously this comes as pressure is mounting on the prime minister to resign. but he can also be forced out as well by members of parliament. in fact, 20 tory m p 's. they all met up just yesterday to discuss the future of boris johnson and several now have publicly come forward to submit these letters. all they vote of no confidence in boris johnson. although in an official capacity, the 1922 committee needs 54 letters to trigger a leadership contest. now, rumor has it. there are plenty, plenty more. in fact, an official poll it sophomore, a pool pole of the publics a just the one in 6 people want to see this vote of no confidence come. however, in an attempt to distract from all of this forest, johnson chose to day to announce new cove. it measures,

in fact he is ditching all covered restrictions including mandatory face mos, including the vaccine certificates. and of course are working from home guidance from next week. on monday, we reduce the isolation period to find full days with to negative tests, and it will soon come a time where we can remove the legal requirement to so closely together just as we don't place legal obligations on people to isolate. if they have a clue, well, that hasn't gone down to well with the public as back in 2020. when boris johnson was displaying cove its symptoms minutes before he actually tested positive, he actually was refusing to even isolate. but that isn't even the worst news of the day in a monumental move. what we saw minutes before prime ministers questions this afternoon . christian wake for the former tory tempe actually decided to effects to the labor party. but let's see how all this goes and how it all unravels over the next few days. of course, we're waiting for the investigation led by 2 grand. in fact,

some may say that bars jones is indeed hiding behind those conclusions. could they be the final now in the coffin? well, some say politically speaking, bars, johnson is already a dead man walking. last shot you just mentioned there. johnson's scrapping of restrictions comes despite a disturbing rise and covered related deaths with was in $438.00 reported in the last 24 hours alone. that's britain's highest since last february, a fellow at the bo group think tank says the move won't held the increasingly unpopular p. m. i think johnson came out swinging today in an attempt to go on the offensive and went back some public support. and he used the repeating of certain preventive measures to try regains and public support. i don't think that will have swayed public opinion. i think they've been lied to too many times. and some honesty at this stage could probably have been saying maybe regains national trust

. i think the pm to have the honesty, sort of mich wholeheartedly, that he was wrong. rog, insurance goes from the issue. i think he may have regained some rules. one doesn't have to wait for the results of commission using the restrictions maybe to cover from, from the main story, which is that there's a lack of confidence in him and it's not going to do any good with the fact that it shouldn't be all ready. rebelling, but the scandal that has become known as party gate is only one of the lingering problems. dragging down public opinion of the british prime minister as few k trades blame with france over a drastic rise in the illegal migrant crossings in the english channel. with more than a 1000, migrants believed to have made the journey from you to british shores. this month alone of the number of migrants attempting the journey has been growing exponentially in recent years and dozens died or went missing last year, while attempting to cross in 202128000 migrants are believed to have crossed the channel to england more than 3 times the number just a year before. now,

u. k. officials believe that $65000.00 individuals could try this year. the united kingdom independence parties, former spokesperson on the immigration, says johnson's pledges on the issue are a bid to distract from the party gates candle, but people won't be fort is ridiculous. ideas use the navy. the british navy has been cut to the bone anyway. and its purpose is not to repel illegal immigrant boats. we are without countries like governor oregon, the actually knowing about it, saying that we are going to transport illegal immigrants over there. that rightly replying and telling us that they don't want them. this has been a problem ever since into power back in 2019. theresa may was little bit weak or miss she famously saw in the un migration compact or show some has come out with big words, which is very convenient, but only now as the illegal immigrant crisis reaches

a crescendo. and at the same time, the recalls of ours johnson to go that this, these firm promises a being made. we've been fool too many times by pretty to tell him, the conservatives are not going to do anything about it. former guantanamo detainees, more of them beg, who spent nearly 2 years in the infamous us prison without being charged now taking legal action for the u. k. to restore his passport. beg, a british, pakistani had been initially detained to 2 decades ago on allegations of involvement in terrorist activities and was released from guantanamo in 2005. he was detained again by u. k. police a decade later, but the case against him collapsed. he applied for a passport in 2019 and even received one in september, 2021. but it was remote, just 4 weeks later, beg believes his passport troubles are connected to his previous imprisonment. at one time them the possible was when i received that i was overjoyed i, i tweeted out that i'm finally be able to travel. and then within 3 weeks i was,

i received a letter, an ironically this letter i received which showed a great deal of incompetence, was actually primarily the cover letter was addressed to a person who'd been convicted in the north of england for passport fraud. and it was dated 2017, and i left the letter sort of rece regurgitate and reiterated the reason why my passport has been revoked. back in 2013. it was, they said, based upon a trip that i did to turkey at the syria, again, i was in investigation investigating the role of the british government in working with various regime. i have no doubt in my mind that this has to do with holding the british government to account the fact that they issued my passport eventually after 8 years of waiting and then took it away 3 weeks later with absolutely no explanation at all shows. 2 things to me, one is a great deal of incompetence and to is just vindictive vindictiveness that has lost it over 20 years. this is, this is all connected to the initial impressions and in guantanamo that hasn't gone

away. the, the harassment continues over these past 2 decades, and this is evidently a part that big was held at guantanamo for just under 2 years, almost 600 days of which were spent in solitary confinement. he said the he and other detainees face what the u. s. brands is enhanced interrogation and called the conditions their quote, taurus here is a short history of the 2 decades of the notorious prison camp that continues to old detainees today.

ah mas am beg goes on to tell us his previous incarceration at guantanamo is continuing to disrupt his life even now i do believe that my, my passport has been revoked initially back in when i came back from guantanamo. because primary for evidence that came out of guantanamo the formal guantanamo prisoners, that i have

a documented and worked with are all around the world. clearly, i think the majority, if not all of the mirage put on some kind of a list of united states that, that has their stopped them or prevents them from opening bank accounts. it stops them from travelling properly harasses them. so the, essentially the imprisonment of guantanamo may and when you're freed, but the, the connection to guantanamo and the targeting and disruption of your life does not end for this episode. for me is one of the proofs of that though there are others. 33 and a half minutes, i will, i will be back with another fallen fresh look at, you know, stay with the so called enhanced interrogation techniques used by the u. s. officials were basically designed as techniques to break down the human mind. if you

force a human being to stay in a certain position doesn't take very long to the pain involved to become absolutely excruciating. but nobody's lean finger on you. you are doing it to yourself. and we started adopting those techniques when i was station and mosul among them. wordpress positions sleep deprivation, confusion of therm. yeah. there's already beginning to be evidence that these old techniques are now being used on immigrant children. whatever you do in war comes home. nobody has been held accountable for the torture that happened in the past. the moral authority, the made america awarded sacrifice affective interrogation.

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