ah, ah, a this hours hope headlines are right now. here we're not you international, the west to rushers up the temperature again over alleged russian plans to evade ukraine. bolstering is military presence in that region that comes out of itself. so there's no reason to panic insisting an attack is next to impossible. a super c biden is called on a hot mike insulting a fox news journalist trying to get answers from the president of a record inflation. also in the program, fighting for transparency, we speak to a lawyer who help force the da to release documents on the authorization of the

pfizer jab explained concerns. the decision with roger very same health authorities that are telling you this product to say, are the same federal health authorities that gave pfizer, missouri, and j complete immunity from any liability for injuries caused by the product. oh, freedom, slavery, ignorance is strength. and now george orwell. to prophecies a peer one step closer to becoming reality as a british university slaps or trigger warning on his anti censorship. nope, old 19. 84 with a new if just keeps on coming here, we're talking international on this tuesday. welcome to the program, laboratories to united states has not put more than 8000 soldiers on a higher lud, as it sounds. the alarm over a supposed russian invasion of ukraine and moscow continues to deny any such plans

. but now, even kiev is urging come saying it won't be attacked at these would be additional brigade, combat teams, logistics personnel, medical support, aviation support, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as transportation and, and maybe even some additional capabilities after that loser. bohack them that you a lot of such param, militarism, appears in the media, and then i asked to reduce the intensity that exist today. little people, the situation is quite clear to us. there is no reason for us to panic, crosses the no grounds for searching a full scale offensive against our country. it is even physically impossible to achieve higher than that. so comes in on monday, a top us diplomat, anthony, blinking met with his e. you count box to discuss the ukraine. tensions is exposed divisions between washington and its allies with countries urging different responses to the situation on that board up the ortiz at peter oliver has more on this now. wild troop deployment sand high alerts are being su. diplomacy remains the number one

goal when it comes to finding a solution to these tensions between russia and nato. on monday we saw a series of meetings between e. u. foreign ministers take place in brussels during that meeting. germany came under an awful lot of pressure. this is over the berlin government's decision not to send weaponry to ukraine. as a di bonus, the gillum at the federal government has not changed its position on the supply of arms to ukraine, including the supply of lethal weapons and in view of the conflict in ukraine, it will not issue a permit for the supply of military weapons ina where there are 2 very different messages coming out of the nato camp when it comes to the situation on the ground in ukraine. on the one hand, you've got the united kingdom and the united states who have both withdrawn some embassy staff and their families from their diplomatic embassies in ukraine. on the other hand, you have the european union embassies, who have said what we heard on monday from the chief, all fair, e u foreign policy,

yoseph burrell, as well as a you foreign ministers, they're saying essentially that could cause more harm than good sector in lincoln. to strollers at her, he was not an evacuation. he was just letting the people to watch when not crucial, the staff are free to decide to leave the country. i nothing theresa and need for us to do any kind of a precautionary measure from define to reorder number of our staff and their than when engine. okay. i'm either very clearly in the counsel at this moment, i see no reason half worse to pull out our diplomatic stuff. and i think your, our presence, our diplomatic presence in cuba is absolutely key because what we're seeing seeking is of diplomatic solutions and diplomas on the ground for quite a while. the u. s. is placed 8 and a half 1000 troops spaced in the united states on standby for potentially being sent to eastern europe. also massive navy war games underway. nato war games with

the u. s. s. at the u. s. s. harry truman, the american aircraft carrier at the center of those underway in the mediterranean . and on monday, we heard from a number of nato nations saying that they would be sending military hardware towards the east of the alliance. what this is seen is the kremlin spokesperson, dmitri pess. gov saying that moscow is paying close attention to what's happening at the reduced in either such nato actions and increase nato activity. now borders cannot be ignored by a military who are responsible for the security of our country. there is a constant process of drills, maneuvers, and military buildup, which has never stopped and will continue. the french president emanuel mac kron is here in berlin. on tuesday, he'll be having meetings with chancellor or laughed sholtes as they get that franco german alliance in line ahead of wednesdays, meeting in paris, between delegations from france, germany, ukraine, and russia. to try and find

a solution, a diplomatic solution to the ongoing tensions in eastern europe was work with anti war activist david swanson, who says that the west is pending russia as an aggressor, but it is a 2 way street. the point is to paint russia as the aggressor unprovoked in gauge or in evil, aggression against innocent bystanders. most people are not in the military have nothing to do with the military pay. very little attention to the news at all, and are horrified of vladimir putin or having nightmares about vladimir boot and have been ward that, that the evil dr. putin is trying to take over the world and something must be done to stop it. building up the hostility, you are increasing the likelihood of war under the pretense of preventing it discouraging its i but it's a vicious cycle. it is in the interest of, of european governments and the european publics. ah, not to go along. oh,

with the madness of war. and that seems to be in the interest of certain individuals in the u. s. government. meanwhile, the american stock exchange experienced one turbulent day and it concerns over u. s. involvement and the ukraine, russia crisis. and this comes after a day of hysteria with a white house ordering officials to leave ukraine of a phase of an imminent conflict with stocks tumbled over 10 percent with a dow jones taking a major hit. though things did recover a little bit by the close of play, a one market export we spoke to says you can blame it all on politics. the drop in the u. s. equity markets today had 3 direct costs. the 1st is the growing tension between united states and russia. ukraine. the 2nd is the u. s. federal reserve. meaning later this week to discuss either going to fight inflation. and the 3rd is of the stock markets have risen extraordinary amount for their march 2020 lows

without a correction, investors are going to generate it. biggest factor, the tension between the u. s. western europe and russia and ukraine. any time to major superpower space off, there worries about the cost of a conflict on the risk that it will spill over job areas plus energy, as, as you job export of russia and western europe has a lot to lose. if trade in energy is hindered or stop by a conflict, and further there's, there's worry among some that the u. s. doesn't look strong in front of the world facing russia. so a hot mike moment is causing embarrassment for joe biden, at a media conference. the president was asked about the record inflation gripping america with a journalist getting a little bit of an insult in reply. oh, with

a little bit other in the program, a neil harvey talked to autism and guys, dia on what spock such a reaction from the u. s, president, well, it was a nasty black baby i'm befitting of the president, but that is imagine he was, he was stressed right. he, he, he needed an outlet was a silly moment. we will have moments like that. but the issue here is the subject neither of that is inflation. because there are, there are 2 explanations for what but, and said the 1st is that perhaps he was kidding. you know, he was angry. this is an outlet, again, again for his stress, for his ag. and the 2nd option, which is even scarier is that he actually believes that inflation is a great asset. i'm you felt abroad. you felt that the inflation of this group, the world, not, not only lose the past year, but over the past 2 years of the course of the pandemic. you walk into a shop, you look at the process. this is, this is everything fuel for our cars,

clothes for food, the prices and in supermarkets, i mean cars, computers, everything's gone up into the stratosphere. nobody's gaining from this. people are literally watching that their salaries, their wages, especially people on fixed income, or even worse, poor people, low income people. they are watching their salaries, their purchase in power, evaporate. that to have, as an example, say you were making $10000.00 just just was of the simplicity sake, $10000.00 a month. right? given this inflation in the united states and of 7 percent over the past year. you effective so so, so what you can buy is worth $9300.00. this is in the, in the span of a year. so again, if, if someone gives you a raise, if you get a raise, well that's just you either getting back lou and back what you've already lost. and so it is incredibly strange reading meeting what some and the media wrote. and i'd

like to note that this is, this is left wing media that inflation is somehow a good thing, why inflation can actually be good for every day americans in bad for rich people. why the inflation we're seeing now is a good thing why inflation might actually be good for the economy the either until the does. so someone telling me why you can afford to put food on your table is a good thing. it's, it doesn't control well well it's essentially the same thing and those headlines that some of them have apologized the authors. they have been ridiculed to such an extent that they had to, they had to go back on what they wrote because there is, there is no justifying this. with the refresher we are seeing in the united states, right, inflation that is an absolute record in 40 years and 40 years. i mean the, the, the numbers are absolutely tremendous how much. 1 people are using now you'll hear some say this is even worse for bill. they're billionaires. they have no problem of

forwarding or buying whatever they want. sure, they made me. they might make in a year 5000000000 dollars instead, instead of $6000000000.00 at they, they are feeling old seeing, this is a catastrophe. that the reason that this is all happening will part of the reason because there is the pandemic. but there is also the printing press on which the united states to it to a greater extent than the european central bank to a lesser extent, quintin trillions, trillions. they ran these for, for so long. they give our people checks, covered checks, and more people used these covered checks for a is a by basic necessities they, they went for electronics, they went for, for, for luxury things. and what they, steve, is this caused inflation been a supplier. supply chains already disrupt that. there's less things for more people, which means higher prices and people are people have raised prices of people are

willing to pay the my not. now we're, we've said all of this, the only way to combat all of this is to, is a for central bank. we, we've all heard, you know, central banks, high rates or whatever. and we'll wait for what the hell that mean. what it me is that by way of increasing the interest on all loans, central banks cool off in economy by making sure there's less money to go around. the problem here is that the united states is now $29.00 trillion dollars in debt. $29.00 trillion dollars in debt and if they hike rates, they, if they hi, grades long term. so for example, for, for 56 years, the issue will be that they're going to make much more payments, many more payments on the existing debt. so for them it would be like, shooting themselves in the foot. so they're trying to balance the needs of the economy versus the, the outcry from the public them from the people. and try to squeeze by are

either pleasing ultimately, no one will learn to discuss all of this. we spoke to the editorial director of the reactionary times, julio rivera and spy cohen, a vice presidential candidate from 20. 20 think he's left himself open to more criticism about being a hypocrite about, you know, how we talked for, you know, during the, during the campaign and, and over the last year about how he was going to be more respectful with reporters . and then he acts this way, i think, frankly, what we saw was frustration, frustration over the fact that his policies have helped lead to this inflation that we're seeing this record inflation frustration over his rhetoric about shutting down the virus meeting up with the reality of the fact that the virus isn't getting shut down frustration or the fact that now he seems to be flirting with a direct conflict with russia. natalie is he acting rattled, he's cherry picking data and trying to whitewash what's happening. he's telling americans not to believe they're lying. eyes and they're lying pocket books and check books, telling them that they have less and less ability to be able to pay for the cost of

living and are relying more and more on subsidies and help from others just to be able to get by in life to, to sit there and tell an american public who is increasingly having a difficult time, being able to afford gas and groceries. and i'm not talking about the poor. i'm talking about the middle class being unable to afford the basic cost of living and telling them, oh no, my experts are telling me everything is fine. they know he's lying, the americans are hurting. and i think an underrated element to all of this is the fact that his energy policy is also contributing to the rising prices of consumer goods. you know, at his 1st day in office, you know, he went ahead and revoke the license for the keystone pipeline. that drove up a man, american energy costs the cost of energy for transportation for creating good for running factories for everything. i mean, that has a direct correlation to deal with the price is that americans pay in terms of at the retail level. so you combine that with the inflation from all the printing of

the money and all the pandemic spending. and we wind up in a very tough situation for working class americans that are just trying to put food on their table. the american economy is suffering. he needs to send a clear cut message to the world that america opening back up for business polled coded, and then we're going to move on, whatever this new normal is. and then america needs to get back to work the us food and drug administration. well, it has no choice now, it will soon have to hand over documents that actually wanted to sit on for 75 years. these relate to its authorization of the pfizer vaccine, which critics say was to hasty information will now be released thanks to a group of scientists. so taking the matter to court and we spoke to the lawyer iron, siri who says transparency is vital. know our representative individuals injured by the fees we've been representing them for years. we do that for all the other

vaccines. we don't do that for the 5 year seen or the during our day for kobe, because you can't see them in any manner. we've got waning immunity. there instead of 80 immunity, got the cdc saying that the vaccine doesn't prevent transmission. and there are obviously some harm to that scene cause as i do in public health officials don't deny. there are totally issues with the vaccine. and we need every independent scientist on board and looking at the data looking information, helping address those issues with the real problem here in my view and view, i think of many is that the very same health authorities that are telling you this is stated are the same federal health authorities that gave pfizer, missouri, and jane j complete immunity from any liability for injuries caused by the product . and they gave them that immunity before the products were even authorized before they were even made and licensed and put on the market. that creates a moral hazard by decoupling the company profit motive from an interest and safety

. and i think that does concern a lot of people, and it shows there are a number of doubts over the foss trunk approval of the fire of shot. the judge, you ordered the f, d a to release the relevant information. so all of this is absolutely in the interest of the public. john f. kennedy, likewise recognised as a nation that is afraid to lead its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. there may not be a more important issue with the food and drug administration than the pandemic. the phase of ac, seen getting every american vaccinated and making sure that the american public is assured that this was not rushed on behalf of the united states. even if it wasn't russ, there's no reason not to have transparency, but certainly in a situation where was rush, transparency is certainly important. it does beg the question, why does the ca want to waive a late initially? why did you want to wait?

as long as it did? it claim doesn't have enough resources, but it has over 18000 employees. a budget of our $6500000000.00. reviewing a few $100000.00 pages for what a claim is, the most important product. it's ever reviewed and put out there presumably. and so we did couple the public health authorities own reputation from the products, right? such that they're just viewed as any other products. and then we can actually address individuals who are injured by these products and get them the treatment that they need for. we are roughly halfway through this tuesday program here on the international. it's good to have with us so far, plenty more stories still to come when we return in about one with ah,

driven adrian shaped by those in ah, there's things we dare to ask in what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even plantation let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development the only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult. time time to sit down and talk

with it's good to have you with us today. so george, all well, to classic 1984. it's a pretty chilling cautionary tale warning of the dangers of censorship. but now one british university here seemingly ignore the message and now set its sites on the novel. slapping 8 trigger warning on the work for its apparently explicit material correspond shot he had was dashed, he takes a closer look. trigger warning. this item discusses trigger warnings. i'm now going to quote george o wells 1984. so if you feel at risk of being offended, please meet your tv now. war is peace, freedom is slavery. ignorance is strength. future where freedom becomes slain.

ah, where privacy is forbidden. the past due for god, his prophecy remains us terrifying. this beverly incentive engaging in individual critical thinking. students at north hampton university studying the dis, stokely and censorship nightmare ah, well receiving trigger. warnings from the institutions very own thought police. while it is not university policy. we may warn students of graphic depictions in relation to violence, sexual violence, domestic abuse on suicide, 1984 centers around a government worker renee totalitarian state. he is followed by the ever present gaze of the ruling party. and it's dictator big brother. but maybe north hampton university is different from the big brother, and simply one that's looking out for as little siblings who might just get upset

or something trigger. warnings can be a spoiler and skew students perception, or was shut down, discussion inquiry, and dare i say it thought there's a certain irony when universities start adding trigger warnings to 1984, there's something very big brother about it. i think 13 year olds might find some of the scenes in the novel disturbing, but i don't think any one of undergraduates age is really shocked by book any more shock that i don't know perhaps by how all well, in his dystopian science fiction depiction of mass media control, censorship and surveillance is becoming airily familiar. in fact, 70 is on it so relevant today that it's still on amazon is best sellers list and sets quite well on north hamptons, academic courses, alongside samuel beckett's play, and game, as well as alan laws. v for vendetta. oh, but they to come a trick of warnings, of course, i mean generations of students are ready with being offended and being able to re

do without any kind of supervision. so i understand why they have to molly card to learn to protect this generation of students. it's rather insulting to the intelligence. on the one hand, you have students trying to cancel controversial views. and on the other, you have academics falling into line behind this kind of nonsense saying that controversial views have to be flagged up in advance. so students must be ready to encounter them. or is it kind of infantile eyes ation or student life university and has to be dis and must be deplored? well, when i was at university, i was reading all sorts of things for my dissertation defending the west, the rise of islamic state. i don't think either of those who made the cut these days to you. but even when i was at school, i was reading to kill a mockingbird and jane at both of which are now on the naughty sap. okay. kids are

reading books these days anyway. they're glued to the t. v screens and maybe that's for the best. i'm every part of it. i get i going to be any was gonna be any i just want to be on law. okay. okay. perhaps not . and her family have come to the library where she wants better, though the way things are going. papa will be deemed biggest pinky and take a throw back some day. it is aunty international, an 8 year old girl was shot and killed while walking with her mother in the us city of chicago. a melissa will take a was hit by stray gun fire during a gang fight with soaring crime rates. a policing in chicago is once again back in the spotlight, and one local pastor was calling for change,

lashing out of the whole to fund the police movement. is there any hope for chicago? the chaos. the lawlessness is sort of glad chicago, but the criminals only mock our police and i city leaders. and even now governor, what makes me so angry and appealing to you that we see our leaders mocking our efforts with their wishy washy id like to fund the police? come on, man. the police are not our enemies. how many more will it take before our leaders wake up? you know what? they'll never wake up. you know why? they don't care. last year, chicago records of its highest a homicide rate in 25 years at $797.00 deaths. meanwhile, the week starting or the 10th of january, so overall crime up nearly a quarter compared to 2021 of instance, carjacking is increased by more than a 3rd inside the city limits. and so we spoke with dominic e z o a former police officer from chicago, who says it's

a short sighted to place the blame squarely on the police sort of freak certain situation. this happens disturbingly repetitively, in chicago is a broken government system we have from our job safe certain kim fox to the mayor and her vilification of all the police officers wanted either to our sheriff tom dark, who's absent at the helm. the define, the police know that is one thing in the next year. it's going to be something else . the police will always be the pawns because they're right in the middle. you've got the elected officials who make the promise, elect me. i'm going to change things. you've got the state attorney who are making deals with the defense attorneys who are also elected position states attorney, you know, elect me. i'm going to do x, y, and z. then you have the, the citizens who are committing the crimes or also the ones you are calling for safer neighborhoods because of the crime. you know, not everyone's committing crimes. and you have the cops, the ones who are right in the middle, and the entire burden of peace and prosperity is put on their shoulders with no

support from communities or the ones who are there to want to back them their, their government. so they're the ones who are taken the worst position, the hits on all side, and they are always going to be taking the it's, it's, it, they're the pons imprisoned kremlin a critic, alexey nev only has just been added to russia's terrorist and extremist blacklist as have a number of other people linked to his outlawed anti corruption foundation policies are the le colter has a good look. the russian authorities have put out political activist alex, seen of only and a number of his associates on this list of extremists and terrorists right now in the, on the, is facing actually a handful of charges, one of which being the creation and leadership of an extremist organization, what they had in mind there, of course, is the anti corruption foundation, that is no volney organization and was labeled to an extremist organization by the authorities just last year. now, to remind our viewers now,

volley was arrested just about a year ago, right after his return to russia from germany, he was receiving medical care, therefore, an alleged poisoning. but shortly after his arrest, moscow court decided to cancel a suspended sentence he had in connection to fraud and the french company shay. and decided to turn that sentence into a 3 and a half year sentence in a penal colony, which has since been reduced to 2 and a half years. the moscow court said that the volley was responsible for repeatedly violating the terms of his probation. now, as for the associates of this organization that have been put on this list as well, we've got new both sobel. she was the former lawyer of the anti corruption foundation. we've got got just love demonte. he's the current lawyer of the organization. and yorkie i'll bore of who was, who's actually currently working in the research division of the anti corruption foundation. so what does it mean to be on this list? well, the main thing is basically that their bank accounts have been for all intents and

purposes frozen, they can only use their bank accounts for personal expenses, eating living expenses, and they can give a maximum of $10000.00 roubles a month. that's around $120.00 a month to family members, and that's basically all they can do with their bank accounts. we're going to have to see how this situation continues to unfold as last year we saw the organization of nevada only being labeled in extremist organization. now the leader of it himself, so we're going to have to see what happens. we're going to learn more about what might happen with election of alley. just check out our t dot com and russia section. well, thanks for joining us. sophia tuesday program with a busy day already here at moscow half off 2 in the afternoon. more news to come when we were to the ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon show.