behaves like monopoly, amazon essentially controlled the market place. it's not really a market, it's a private arena, a wild where a single company controls the distribution of all day, the products and the infrastructure of our economy. is this the world according to amazon? ah, the president of croatia claims his country will withdraw from nate. so if there's a conflict between russia and ukraine, it comes as the west crying stamp. it's military presence in the region over a legit blum's buying moscow to invade its neighbor with tear gas 2nd clashes where police in the ukrainian capital as people take to the streets, all have to demand economic reforms. also ahead with

joe biden, if calling on a ha, my consulting a journalist who have been trying to get answers from the president, we're record inflation and also a head on the program this hour. try ministerial party belief in the u. k. launch an investigation into potential loc done breached by forest johnson's government following a series of revelations, the bi position. dig into an industry. a 247 use live from moscow. this is our t pleasure to have you on board today. my name's unit number to our top story. probation say to each will withdraw its forces from nato in the event of a conflict between rush and ukraine. the statement from the country's president

came just hours after the us put more than 8000 troops on high alert. over water, it claim would be a russian invasion of its neighbour. moscow continues to deny any such plans. corporation, president, thought milan of ich making so many century comments on tuesday. he said that if there is a conflict between ukraine and russia, he would order the croatian troops to pull out of deployments that they're involved in with nato. now this was a statement that not only unlikely to have gone down particularly well in nato headquarters. it's also unlikely to gone down particularly well in ukraine either because mr. milan, which also went on to say that the 2014 might done revolution in ukraine, was a coo. and he said that ukraine had absolutely no business in joining ne, so not only will we not send trips, but if there is an escalation,

we will withdraw every last creation soldier. everything is happening on moscow's doorstep. so it is necessary for an arrangement to be found that will take into account russia, security interests. i worked in the european council when the democratically elected president unicode, which a scoundrel who sat on 3 chairs was overthrown and a cup. it was encouraged primarily by the you and the united states. it was a lot more diplomatic here in berlin on tuesday evening and money will micron was welcomed by chancellor all ab sholtes, the french president and the german chancellor essentially emphasizing the importance of dialogue when it comes to taking the heat out of tensions between russia and nato over ukraine. what we heard from the french president was saying that he would never give up on dialogue when it came to sorting out this particular problem. he did say that the costs would be high if there was any aggression boy from the german chancellor. what we heard was him repeat again, and again his message that there would be no sending of german weapons into ukraine

after all boast. looking ahead to a big meeting of representatives of the norman defore in paris on wednesday. also talking about ukraine in europe on tuesday was the british prime minister boris johnson. he address parliament in westminster. he said that he would be speaking further with the russian president vladimir putin, that it was important to continue to seek a diplomatic solution to listen to the concerns of the russian side. he did say though, that an invasion of ukraine would result, potentially in the worst bloodshed that had been seen in europe since world war 2. and could end incredibly badly for the russian side. there is a, a stand point that britain has taken in. it won't be shaken from it. there is nothing new about large and powerful nations using the threat of brute force to terrify reasonable people into giving way to otherwise completely unacceptable

demands or so far this week we have seen a stepping up of nato forces either in europe or prepared, potentially to be sent to europe 8 and a half 1000 us troops placed on high alert that could be sent over here. should the situation get any worse? that's according to the pentagon in washington. we've also are seeing the continuation of giant nate. so navy war games that are going on in the mediterranean, the u. s. s. s. harry truman, the american aircraft carrier at the center of those while the netherlands and denmark in spain, all promised that they would be sending military hardware to the east of nato at some time in the future. all of this, according to the me, 3 best. gov the kremlin spokesperson is being watched very closely by moscow a session, nato actions and increased 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 build up, which has never stopped and will continue on the search for a diplomatic solution to what's going on in eastern europe concerning russia, ukraine and nato goes into while moves on to paris and those normandy, 4 talks it's the 1st time the talks in this format will have taken place in 2019 that involves representatives of the russian, ukrainian, german, and french governments. keeping you up to date on those. here on our tea, of course, the veteran empty and r t host, george galloway believes we are seeing the law of unintended consequences coming true unsafe the alliance could see some very challenging times ahead. there's a splintering of the european side of the nato alliance. germany has made it plain that it does not support the build off of war materiel in ukraine, and does not want a confrontation with russia to turn into

a war. they want a new european security architecture that is not led by the nose a by a senile american president, that most people wouldn't send out to the shops for a low for bread, but may well lead his european allies into war with the hypersonic. they're more nuclear superpower, called russia. so it's all beginning to break apart the law of unintended consequence that they don't hate russia. you know, i made this point you before, they hear putin's russia because putin has dragged russia up from the floor where it was lying, having its pocket picked, and restored prestige and respect, self respect to russia. that's not the kind of russia they want on. while the world

worries about how you train is being threatened from the outside, ukrainians themselves have got concerns. a little closer to home. the scenes in the center key, a small business owners among others clashing with police. there are one person was reportedly in the violence. protesters attempted to enter the country's parliament . the raja police resorted to tear gas to stop the media report stream. m p. 's helping us lucky wages from the building. demonstrators are demanding tax breaks and mandatory cash pills. be polished in stores so that a good tax doesn't have to be paid. ah, okay, moving the program. all know a hot mike moment has caused embarrassment for joe biden to a media conference. the president was asked about the record inflation gripping the u. s. with the journalists to ask the question,

getting an insult in reply the greatest super whenever the are my colleagues needle harvey and rough gosti of talk through what sparks such a strong reaction from the u. s. president. well, it was a nasty boost baby and befitting the president, but that is imagine he was, he was stressed right he, he needed an outlet, but silly moment we will have moments like that. but the issue here is the subject . neither not 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, the 2nd option which is even scarier is that he actually believes that inflation is a great asset. i'm, you felt right. you felt that the inflation that has ripped the world, not,

not only of, of the past year, but of the past 2 years of the course of the pandemic. you walk into a shop, you look at the process. this is, this is evelyn 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, they're purchasing power evaporate. that say, as an example, say you were making $10000.00 just just for suppliers, simplicity sake, $10000.00 a month, right? given this inflation in the united states and of 7 percent over the past year, your 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 know, getting back clue and back what you've already lost. and so it is incredibly strange reading, reading 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. jain enter, that is, so someone telling me why you can afford to put food on your table is a good thing. it's, it doesn't contrast well. well, it's essentially the same thing and those headlines that some of them have apologize, the office, 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 isn't of justifying this with the reflection we are seeing in the united states, right, inflation, that is an absolute record in 40 years and 40 years. i mean, the,

the numbers are absolutely tremendous how much people are using. now you'll hear some say this is even worse for bill. they're billionaires, they have no problem affording or buying whatever they want. sure, they made me. they might make in a year 5000000000 dollars instead, instead of $6000000000.00. 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, to a greater extent than the european central bank to a lesser extent, quintin trillions, trillions. they ran these for, for so long that give our people checks, covered checks, and more people used these covered checks for it is a by basic necessities. they, they went for electronics, they went from for luxury things. and what they, steve,

is these caused inflation been a supplier supply chains, all ready 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, but 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 an 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. meanwhile, biden's crude words after the press conference caused out ridge online, but people seeing that the insult was directed at anyone who's concerned about rising inflation levels, joe biden may think it stupid to care about inflation. but a whole lot of americans disagree and they are going to vote this november working families are being crushed by this white house and their solution is to curse out anyone who questions them totally out of control. biden's message to americans concerned about inflation. very stupid son of a think he's left himself open to more criticism about being a hypocrite about, you know, how we talk for, you know, during the, during the campaign and over the last year about how he was gonna 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 over the fact that now he seems to be flirting with a direct conflict with russia. not only is he acting rattled, he's cherry picking data and trying to whitewash what's happening. 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 good. you know, at his 1st day in office, you know, he went ahead and revoke the license for the keystone pipeline that drove up and then american energy costs the cost of energy for transportation for creating goods for running factories for everything. i mean, that has a direct correlation to the prices 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 paying them expanding. and we wind up in a very tough situation. still ahead in the program, fighting for transparency, group of scientists for the u. s. government to show it over what the claim was. it's 2 pasty approach to a proven cobra. thank seems we get stuck in 10 ah ah, hell driven by drink, shaped by thinkers and those with

dares sinks. we dare to ask in for what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk with

things are ramping up on dining street. you case police hobb launched a formal probe into parties held at the prime minister's residence in a parent violation of cobit locked on restrictions. parallel to that, the results of an internal government inquiry are expected to be released this week piling further pressure and bars. johnson r t shantia ed bridge dusty has been following developments. well, what to say in westminster? it's been an old kicked off earlier today when the metropolitan police chief was off. whether or not the police are covering up for those in power and she hit back announcing officially the launch of the investigation into the downing street party allegations as a result, firstly of the information provided by the cabinet office inquiry team. and secondly, my officers own assessment. i can confirm that the matt is now investigating a number of events that took place at downing street and whitehall in the last 2

years in relation to potential breaches of covet 19 regulations. this is a really big move for the metropolitan police, as we've always had that they don't normally investigate retrospectively. but many people say this really goes to show just how much evidence there must be and at least an element of criminality. but bar is johnson. the prime minister, he's actually welcomed this investigation and says it will help a draw a line under all of these issues. and finally, the government can move on. but that's pretty bold words from a man, a prime minister, who many people including politicians think as time is up per much more or less embarrassing. so of course his colleagues, a v i to remove that mind from office government, a success the prime minister's or 40 is in tatters. really, he advised his boss to do the right thing in the national interest and to resign

is the prime minister, not simply compounding his previous terrible mistakes by continuing to deny culpability leading to on necessary and expensive police inquiry when he could do a decent thing. and resign. well this week, of course we were expecting the investigation led by stu, gray and her findings to be published. but in light of all of this news today, many people thought it be kicked into the long grass. however, the metropolitan police has said it looks forward to the whole thing being published. so now it really feels like it's just a matter of time. but for boys johnson, it's a very, very sketchy time. indeed, because downing street, they've said the prime minister did not believe he had ever broken the law. and of course, last week we had from bars johnson himself say that he actually thought a party was indeed a work event. and in regards to the latest birthday party allegations,

many people are simply playing that down saying it was just a bit of cake during the working day. although at the time the rules were that you could only have 2 people mingling indoors together. where is this part? at least the allegations suggest around 30 people were mixing indoors together. so all eyes now are really on su, gray and have report. we could expect that investigations findings to come out even as early as tomorrow. it could be any minute now, but as one tori and p allegedly had said today in response to one of this news, it feels like it's another nail in the coffin which bore as johnson is lying in already. well, the director of the u. k. center from migration and economic prosperity steven roles believes that the police investigation of the tipping point in the party gave scandal. this is a critical part of the campaign for those who have been seeking to oust horace johnson as the prime minister of the united kingdom is very clear that has been

a strategy of leaks and other stories to damage his credibility and to ensure that he feels on the pressure consistently, so an apology has not seem good enough and the brand is damaged. and so there is a feeling with the new piece on the old hand that by protecting the conservative party requires the removal of forest johnson. and that is why they are now leaking more information. there is so much going on there. now that i think more revelations about to come tech jain spent a record amount on lobbying in 2021 according to filing submitted to congress. the top 7 firms spent a combined $70000000.00 while fighting legislation name, dental, limiting their market power. interesting, isn't it up the top of the list where amazon, facebook now known as meta, they spent around $20000000.00 each persuading law makers not to adopt tough new

regulations. and in the process, they used dozens of intermediate 3 firms. the boeing professional lobby as were close ties to members of congress and biden administration. officials sued but not all of those efforts succeeded last thursday. the u. s. senate judiciary approved the bill preventing tech john from giving preference to their own businesses on their websites. although the innovation and choice online act has to pass a full senate vote to become law, it's unclear whether or not it's gonna up. and i spoke with ben swan presenter of our business show ben bus. remember, there are about 5 different laws that have been suggested in terms of being able to rein in these tech companies. in this particular case, this, this freedom of choice app. essentially what it's saying is, if you're amazon, you can create your own product on your own marketplace and then compete directly

with the other sellers who are on there, especially since amazon is constantly deriving information and data from those sellers. so they're essentially utilizing someone else's research, someone else's market position, someone else's understanding of price points to basically copy all of that and then compete directly for a lot of years. companies like facebook and amazon and twitter and google didn't have to spend a lot of money to lobby lawmakers because they were essentially left alone. so you could throw a little money here and there in key positions. i don't think what we're seeing now is a much wider swath of congress, receiving donations and receiving money from those tech companies because they recognize what they really have to do as muddy the waters. you don't want one party to be on your side because when the other party gets into power, then you have problems. instead, you wanna as white of a swath of both democrats and republicans in order to influence them. and then you can't really get legislation passed. you can't get it in front of committees and

you can't get the votes that you need. because as you know, we have a very divided congress here. if an ordinary citizen tried to buy that much influence for their own gain, it might be considered bribery. how much of a difference is there in reality, between lobbying and bribery? i think there's very, very little difference, especially when you consider the fact that not only do these lawmakers receive money directly from these companies in order to push their agendas. many of the lobbying firms that do this, this bidding also right. the bills that go before congress, many lawmakers don't write the bills themselves. it's a lobbyist on behalf of those companies that write the bills that ultimately become law. would you dictate the laws that govern and regulate the companies if that makes sense? so it's such a backward system that you've created here in this country where there is very little accountability and very little ability for the average person to actually have a representative. that's what we're supposed to have in this democratic republic

representatives who stand up for our interest, not the interests of these companies. get another interesting use on coming out of the u. s. the food and drug administration will soon have to hand over documents it had wanted to sit on for 75 years. they relate to its authorization of the pfizer vaccine, which critics say was carried out to hastily the info will not be released thanks to a group of scientists taking the matter to court. we spoke to the lawyer who said, transparency is michael. you know, our representative individuals injured by their fees. we've been representing them for years. we do that for all the other vaccines. we don't do that for the pfizer, that scene with me during our j. j for kobe, because you can't see them in any manner. we've got waning immunity there instead of eating unity got the cdc saying that the vaccine doesn't prevent transmission. and there are obviously some harm to that scene causes that you 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 a real problem here in my view and view, i think of many is that the very same house authorities that are telling you this is stated are the same federal health authorities that gave pfizer mcdonough and jane j complete immunity from any liability for injury caused by the product. and they gave them that immunity before the products were even authorized before they were even made in life since then and put on the market. that creates a moral hazard by decoupling the company profit motive from its interest and safety . and i think that does concern a lot of people and it shows the development comes as the world health organization recommended giving a reduced dosage of the funds are vaccinated. children age 5 to 11,

the drug has already been approved for that age group in the us, canada, on the new, or wherever there are a number of diets over the fast track approval of the shot. the judge, you order the f d a to release the relevant info stays, it's in the public interest. john f kennedy likewise recognised the 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 of the food and drug administration than the pandemic. the phase of ac seen getting every can 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 way you not to have transparency, but certainly in a situation where. busy was rush, transparency is certainly important. it does beg the question, why does the f b a one away ally initially? why did you want to wait as long as it did? it claim it doesn't have enough resources,

but it has over 18000 employees. a budget of $6500000000.00 reviewing a few $100000.00 pages for what he claims is the most important product is ever reviewed and put out there presumably. and so we did couple the public health authorities own reputation from these 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. violent crime rates are rising in the u. s. which may be why some leading democrats have stopped calling for the funding of the police. but has the damage already been done? news views hughes offers the perspective. ah.

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