ah ah, a year has passed since joe biden became us president and wild bulls show anger at his cove in economic policies by disease. his work in a different life. i used to look, i didn't know were promised it would i have probably, you know, outperformed would anybody? what would happen? western media ramps up of the rhetoric over russia supposedly planning to invade ukraine. it's a claim 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, with silly, irresponsible, and unfit for the job. those are just some of the accusations launched against the

british prime minister boys johnson in parliament. after he apparently tried to feign ignorance about flooding. coven rolls with booty party, and a former guantanamo detainees who was released without being charged is taking legal action against the 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 and one or more that hasn't gone away. the harassment continues over these past 2 decades with kathy logged to recommend studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have it in a year has passed since joe biden became us president. but despite rising inflation, a drop in the polls and problems related to the pandemic. he has stayed positive

with mid term elections that 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 proven well was not 3 times. not long ago. 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, on 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 see, saints is 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 as 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. richard becker and activist out the answer coalition, anti war movement thinks one of biden's problems was that instead of going for popular support, he hosted a bunch of meetings that just went nowhere. he's trying to today to prove somehow to people that he succeeded. and in fact, was the 1st year of his ministration has been, has been crisis after crisis. and those crisis not been south and is promising. the possibility of new hostilities with russia is trying to divert attention from the problems. as you suggest, by depicting russia as the aggressor, it's not a russia that's moving westward to surround the united states, is that they can possibly do that or western europe instead of reaching out to the

public and trying to invoke popular support for legislation. instead, just repeatedly, are carried out these meetings, but lead to nowhere. 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 a conflict, but has laid out red lines against nato's eastward expansion towards its borders. here's ortiz don quarter with more. over the past several months, hysteria surrounding up reported russian invasion of ukraine has spread across the west. like wild fire 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, uncut 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 was 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 ukraine. and 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. recall for an end to the exterior. so is not to pile on tensions around the darkness 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 u. s. secretary of state, anthony blink and touched 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 have 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, doesn't exactly seem like rushes. the aggressor here guess we spoke to said that the movers by the west were bound to backfire is very understandable. but i must go, might be feeling frustrated by the development, say, the recent, i think the very act of pointing out that having a west and military alliance that companies basically all countries except russia, is the stabilizer, is always been stabilizing the expansion of nato. in the 992, thousands has not been helpful to building trust and, and we do need to be pressing the reset button to coordinate fries. unfortunately, nato members have seen much more focus and emphasis on,

on nato and military preparations, rather than the palm common cooperative security mechanisms that are crucial to your speech. and those things, as course, that isn't going to be a russian invasion. this is a sauce 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 them popularity. but notice when level plums before accept the donald trump. so a fun distraction, sabre, 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 western government.

ah, british prime minister boys johnson faces an escalating backlash on accusations. he hosted boozy parties during a cold lockdown. even some of his own party members took part in grilling him in parliament and insisting he resigned opposition and peace lead that onslaught to speak. when a prime minister is spending his time trying to convince the great british public that he's actually stupid. rather than disowning a time that he's gone now, this week was supposed to be open ation. see big dog as quickly become more petition dogs don't know why can the u. k. government find billions of pounds for property or some fraudsters, but they can't find compassion. why is it so hard for this prime minister to it meant that he made the rules so he should notable. yeah. and he should fall intervals while forest 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 and alleged one was in fact a work event. and that he wasn't warned that he was breaking any rules well near. 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 with government this country. just while we were sitting out plans to keep bills down, the was planning parties a while we were sitting out plans to save jobs in the steel industry. he was, he was trying to fight just one job. his own johnson, the country is up so much better than the other. i don't believe continuing to argue series of questions which, you know, will be fully addressed a, 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've isolated, mister speaker. well, of course kissed alma hasn't gotten off scot free either. as in the heights as a pandemic, he too was photographed eating and drinking 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 is 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 public suggest the one in 6 people want to see this vote of no confidence come. however, in an attempt to distract from all of this, florence 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 that will soon come a time where we can remove the legal requirement to so quite slaten together justice we don't place legal obligations on people to why. so if they have clue, well, that hasn't gone down to well,

where the public has 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. but a former torri m. p, actually decided to defect 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 su grand. in fact, some may say that bars don't 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 and shabby. i mentioned there, johnson's scrapping of restrictions comes despite a disturbing rise. and coven related deaths with over $438.00 reported in the last 24 hours alone. this is brittany highest since last february,

a fellow at the bow group thing tank says the move won't help be increasingly unpopular pm. 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 random forest measures to try regains and public support. i don't think that will suede or make opinion. i think they've been lied to too many times, and some honesty at this stage could probably have been a good thing, maybe regains national trust. i think if the p m to have the honesty, sort of remit wholeheartedly that he was wrong rather than try and scan from the issue. i think he may have regained one of those and i have to wait for the results of commission using the restrictions. maybe it's a cover from, from the main story, which is that there's a lack of confidence in administer. that's not going to do any good with the fact that it shouldn't be sure or repelling. 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 the u. 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 the e. u to british shores this month alone. now 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 2021. 28000 and migrants are believed to have crossed the channel to england. more than 3 times the number just a year before. now you can officials believe that $65000.00 individuals could try this year. the united kingdom's independence parties, former spokesperson on immigration, says johnson's pledges on the issue are a bid to distract him from the party gates scandal, but people will not be fools 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 our illegal immigrants over there. that rightly replying and telling us that they don't want them. this has been a problem ever since so soon into power back in 2019. theresa may was little bit weak or miss she famously saw in the us 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 local subarus 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, mar them, beg, who, who spent nearly 2 years in the infamous us prison without being charged is now taking legal action for the u. k. to restore his passport. beg, a british,

pakistani has been initially detained 2 decades ago on allegations of involvement. and 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 provoked just 4 weeks later, beg believes his passport troubles are connected to his previous imprisonment and montana. the passport was when i received it, 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 would show the 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. nonetheless, the letter sort of rece regurgitate and reiterated the reason when my passport has been revoked. back in 2013, it was they said, based upon a trip that i did to turkey and to 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 off the 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 over 20 years. this is, this is all connected to the initial imprisonment in guantanamo that hasn't gone away. the, the harassment continues over these past 2 decades, and this is evidently a part of that bag was held at guantanamo for just under 2 years, almost $600.00 days of which were spent in solitary confinement. he said he and other detainees faced what the wes brands enhanced interrogation and called the conditions their quote tortuous. here's a short history of the 2 decades of the notorious prison camp that continues to

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was him beg says his previous incarceration at guantanamo is continuing to disrupt his life even now i do believe that the 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 former guantanamo prisoners, that i've documented and worked with all around the world. clearly, i think the majority of not all of them are actually put on some kind of a list of the united states that, that has stopped them or prevents them from opening bank accounts. it stops them from travelling properly harassing them. so the, essentially the, the imprisonment of guantanamo may end when you're freed. but the, the connection to guantanamo and the targeting and disruption of your life does not

end. this episode for me is one of the proofs of that though there are others. the number of daily covered cases are surging in europe with the micron variance spreading across the continent. but so to our waves of unrest due to tough your restrictions being imposed in some countries. now, what of a warning you might find the following images a bit disturbing. now there have been violent crashes in northern germany, where hundreds protested against the possible vaccine mandate that would prevent people from entering indoor venues without a negative cover test or a job. people set up firecrackers and at least a dozen were reportedly arrested. officers stops in the protest due to demonstrated bobbing math mandates there. meanwhile, in italy, 1000 and sorts of the street in protest over the weekend, it is now mandatory there for everybody over 50 to get a cold job. and it essentially banned the unvaccinated from using public transport or entering bars and restaurants, even with a negative cover test. amnesty international believes the cramped down amounts to

discrimination and demands that the government rethinks its policies recently approved. reinforce green pass must be a time limited arrangement, and the government must continue to ensure that the entire population can enjoy their funded mental rights. amnesty international italy asked for alternative measures to allow the non vaccinated population to continue to carry out their work and to use means of transport without discrimination across the atlantic, the number of daily cobra cases has reached almost 547000. that's while a recent poll shows that 59 percent of democratic voters would support a government policy that would confine unvaccinated americans to their homes left in an emergency. one of the most popular newspapers in the state of utah even published an editorial asking for such measures to be brought it were utah a truly civilized place? the governor's next move will be to find a way to mandate mass vaccination. going as far as to deploy the national guard to

ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed. well, anyway, we discussed this issue with a panel of guests to think that if such a policy was introduced, it would create inequality and still not stop the virus from spreading. we are witnessing a major action of discrimination and people are divided into clusters. and what we are witnessing is sort of cold, the ceiling, the war. i mean, we call it the civil war because we put him bother against brother, friends against friend all your bucks in a to you are not today to think it's right for any qualities. people standing in line of the us for 4 hours just to get a job, people having to travel and other parts of the world when they don't have disposable income to do so, all the time to take off from work because most people want to return to normal, that's creating a lot of inequality, is that go beyond just notions of ologies about whether people want to participate

in the vaccine drive or not. we already know that the vaccination doesn't. so from having kobinie and i will say, doesn't stop me from spreading the wires further. so i think that's where it does con, the seems to be very, this proportion and actually taken away the choice of, you know, at those who have, you know, particularly over 50 who's got lots of life experience. and i'm pretty sure they are quite responsible people. and they should be given the choice, the we protect the constitution, the right to move would provide to movement is one of the fundamental why to in the constitution, which is a document a positive, right? but it's also natural why to also natural law if you believe in the existence of natural law. there is a why to free movement. well, i think we should be really worried about the effect of the public and having these types of movements, particularly when government start to bring policing into it or military into it. that means that they've given some thought to what may or may not be legal and what

may or may not be necessary. but again, i think that if we're for this concerned about coban and listen, i've had 4 shots myself. so it's not that i'm opposed personally to this boat. i am opposed to it is that we don't start talking about keeping other people who are drunk drivers, people who are part of intimate partner violence, those and there are, there are other things in society where we seem to be pretty lenient. you all health organization continues to stress that getting vaccinated is important and is a vital tool and fighting the pandemic. most of the people in the hospital, any country you take, or any city are unvaccinated. so let's just remember that we have very good vaccines now, and we need to use them. we need to vaccinate more people. that does it for me. and just over 31 minutes, i will be back with a look at your headlines. this is our international, my bag with blue

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 lane finger on you. you are doing it to yourself. and we started adopting those techniques when i was station in mosul, among them wordpress position, sleep deprivation, and type of thermo. there's already beginning to be evidence that these old techniques are now being used on immigrants and children,

whatever you do or more comes home. nobody has been held accountable for the torture that happened in the past. the moral authority, the made america awarded sucker fudge. of the shimmer of effective interrogation. ah, a ah. i'm african retired say we're going underground on election day in barbados, the caribbean islands 1st general elections removing as head of state the british queen who in the past few days.