infrastructure of our economy is loose the world according to amazon. ah, ah, the president of croatia that his country will withdraw troops of nato in eastern europe. that if there's a conflict between russia and ukraine, it comes as a west crank. so fits military presence in the region over a legit plans by moscow to invade its neighbor. u. s. has delivered a 3rd batch of military 8th ukraine and is mulling over sending troops to eastern european washington has $8500.00 troops already on standby. for the pentagon says more could be added a solution to pursue

jo biden's court on a hot, mike insulting a journalist who had been trying to get answers from the president over record inflation and prime ministerial partying police in the u. k. launch the investigation into potential locked down breeches by forest johnson's government. it follows a series of revelations about the shindig in downing street with coming to you lie from i had quarter terry moscow, you're watching r t international. my name's peter scott. and here are the top stories this, our croatia says it will withdraw its forces from nato units in eastern europe, in the event of a conflict between russia, ukraine. the statement from the countries president came just hours ahead after the us for more than $8000.00 troops on high alert of a what he claimed would be

a russian invasion of its neighbour moscow, as always as denied having any such plans. corporation, president, thought milan of ich making so many century comments on tuesday. he said 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 is a statement, it's 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 the 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 in a cup. it was encouraged primarily by the you and the united states, not i didn't when you go to the hedge morning, the u. s. has been striving to, to profess 20 years has not disappeared. we know that on european natal members, there are those who oppose military involvement and potential conflicts in or even against providing ukraine with lethal weapons. germany is the main one. we can also speak of hungary and some central and southern european countries. it was a lot more diplomatic here in berlin on tuesday evening, and manuel micron was welcomed by chancellor all at schultz. the french president on 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 at all, both. and looking ahead to a big meeting of representatives of the norman d for 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 and 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. are 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 dmitri best gov, the kremlin spokesperson is being watched very closely by moscow,

a dog reduced such a nato actions and increase nato activity. now, our 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 well moves on to paris and those normandy, 4 talks it's the 1st time the talks in this format will have taken place since 2019 that involves representatives of the russian, ukrainian, german, and french governments keeping you up to date on those here on our t. of course. now ukraine has summoned the croatian ambassador in protest that announcement from president milan of each stating his country would not get involved in any potential nato conflicts in the region. in addition, the creation presence names appeared on a notorious ukrainian alter nationalist website. it lists thousands of people

branded enemies of ukraine, including journalists, and in the past, those on the sites have been physically attacked. well, veteran british m p and our t host. george galloway believes that the deep split between european nato members on how to deal with ukrainian crisis does 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, 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 hypersonic,

or more nuclear superpower, called russia, so it's all beginning to break apart the law of unintended consequences. they don't hate russia. you know, i made this point you before they put in russia, because putin has dragged russia up from the floor where it was lying, having it pocket picked, and restored prestige and respect, self respect to russia. that's not the kind of russia they want. meanwhile, with the u. s, having sent a 3rd installment of military to ukraine, the white house pointed out that no u. s. troops will be deployed to the country itself, but washington has said its considering increasing the number of us forces in neighboring eastern european countries, which are also members of nato. but as also said, he's willing sanctions against that he may put in, in the event of an invasion by russia. i may be moving some of those troops in the

near term. i feel obliged to beef up our presence nato's presence in an eastern current for remaining, etc. would you ever see yourself personally sanctioning him if he didn't? they do current. yes. you would. i would see that we've heard from john kirby that these troops that would be deployed in the event of some kind of russian invasion would include brigade combat teams, logistical personnel, medical support, asian support, intelligence, surveillance, recognizance as well as transportation. and these forces would only be deployed in the inventive in the event of russia invading ukraine. plus, it's important to note that they are also making statements to the effect of the current economic problems. russia is facing being nothing in comparison to what would happen if russia were to dare to invade ukraine. now, there's been some other strange development to this point. russia is still waiting

for word from the united states regarding the recent security issues they've discussed. you know, russia, security guarantees that they have raised. however, ukraine seems to have already been informed about key ideas, etc. now, when biden spoke of a possible russian invasion of the ukraine use some rather dramatic terms. here's what he said. enormous consequences worldwide. this would be the largest if you were to move in to all those forced to be largest evasion. since world war 2 would change the world. now that is just factually in accurate when the united states invaded iraq and the us led coalition invaded iraq in 2003, the invasion involved, 177000 troops being moved into the country. 177000. and 130000 of those were us troops. so this latest statement from biden, about in the,

of the biggest mobilization since world war 2 fits in with a string of inaccurate and unproven allegations. we've heard from western leaders over the course the last several weeks as they continue to play up this idea that somehow russia is on the brink of invading ukraine on staying with joe biden. a hot mike moments is caused embarrassments for the american president. it's a media conference. the president was asked about the record inflation gripping the us with a journalist to ask the question, getting more than he bargained for. good reason. peter spoke to this, the president called him and he conveyed to him that it was nothing personal man and also acknowledged that all of you are going to ask him a range of questions asked. so i think that speaks for itself earlier. neil javion rod goes, dia thought through what spots such an on diplomatic response from the u. s.

president's? well, it was a nasty booster baby. i'm befitting the president, but that is imagine he was. he was stressed rides. 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 2nd option which is even scarier is that he actually believes that inflation is a great asset. i'm you fall to brought, 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 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, 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 sales of so which 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 lou 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. the either 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 come across well well it's essentially the same thing and those headlines that some of them have apologize. 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, 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, the numbers are absolutely tremendous how much people are using. now you'll hear some say this is even worse for bill there, 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, seamless as 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 towards 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 a is a by basic necessities. they, they went for electronics, they went from 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, to pay the my not. now we're, we've said all of this dealing with

a combat. all of this is to is a for, for central bank. we will heard, you know, central banks, high rates or whatever, and we'll wait for what the hell that me more 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, minimal 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 outrage on line with people saying the insults was directed at anyone who is concerned about rising inflation. joe biden may think it's 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 the 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 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 over the fact that now he seems to be flirting with a direct conflict with russia. not only is the acting rattled, he's cheery 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, you know, 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. meanwhile, across the pond in the u. k,

a police of launched a formal probe into parties held the prime minister's residence in apparent violation of koby lockdown restrictions parallel to that the result from internal government inquiry expected to be released this week filing yet further pressure on boris johnson ortiz, shoddy, was dusty, has been following the latest developments. well, what to say in westminster. it's been all kicked off earlier today when the metropolitan police chief was asked whether or not the police are covering up for those in power. and she had 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 of his inquiry team. and secondly, my officers own assessment. i can confirm that the mat 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 list. have ready to

take me for the metropolitan police as we've always had it. they don't normally investigate retrospectively, but many people say this really goes to show just how much evidence there must be in at least an element of criminality. but bar is johnson. the prime minister, he's actually welcomed this investigation and says it will help 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 of this embarrassing suckers. his colleagues, a v i to remove of mine from office, got them in a success. the prime minister's or 40 is in tatters. will he advise his boss to do the right thing in the national interest and resign the prime

minister? not supreme compounding his previous termite states by continuing to deny culpability leading to on necessary and expensive police inquiry when he could do the decent thing and resign. well, this week, of course, we were expecting the investigation led by stu, gray, and have 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 as 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 barnes 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 her 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 boris johnson is lying in. already. we heard from limb bits, opaque broadcast and former british and p, and he thinks, even if boys johnson does managed to avoid formal charges his days as prime minister numbered i think it's inevitable, but he'll be strapped aside by this for a few weeks. i've been up to view that his position is simply untenable. now, 2 reasons. trustable. it's quite obvious. he's broken the regulations as far as the

public's concerned in the court of public opinion, he's already being found guilty. secondly, this police investigation stalls the outcome of the investigation by su gray, but it's, it's legal investigation. the prime minister is being investigated for breaking the law. that's not a good look. i think it's $5050.00 whether there will be charges, if it in some way charged. a lot of people are going to insist their own lines that they pay for breaking these rules should be returned to the he has violated respect when it comes to matters of life and death across the country. and he looks like i have and in the united kingdom, when you cross a line, there's no way back. and i think he's got the us food and drug administration will soon have to hand over documents. it wanted to sits on 1st 75 years. they relate to

its authorization of the 5, the vaccine, which critics say was carried out to hastily. the info will now be released. the thanks to a group of sciences, taking the math of the course. when we spoke to the lawyer who said that transparency is vital, no, our firm represents individuals injured by vaccines. we've been representing them for years. we do that for all the other vaccines. we don't do that for the 5 vaccine or the modern r j j for cove it because you can't see them in any manner. we've got waning immunity there into our, of 80 immunity that the cdc same as the vaccine does prevent transmission. and there are obviously some harm to vaccine causes that even public health officials don't deny. there are clearly issues with the vaccine. and we need every independent scientist on board looking at the data looking information, helping address those issues with the real problem here in my view. and you, i think of many is at the very same health authorities that are telling you this product to say are the same federal health authorities that gave pfizer madonna and

jane j complete immunity from any liability for injuries cause others products. and they gave them that immunity before the products were even authorized before they were even made and license and put on the market. that creates a moral hazard by decoupling the companies profit motive from its interest and safety. and i think that does concern a lot of people and it shows the development combs as the world health organization recommended giving a reduced dosage of defies of vaccine to children, aged 5 to 11. the drugs already been approved for that age group in the us, canada, and the you. but there are a number of doubts over the fast track approval of the shot. the judge, you ordered the f. d, a to release the relevance info says 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 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 f b a one way alley, 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 over $6500000000.00 revealing a few $100000.00 pages for what a claim is. the most important product is ever reviewed and put out there presumably. and so we decouple 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. well that say you're buying god today with all the latest from around the world. my name is peter scott and i'll be back again at the top of the hour. but if you can't wait till then feel free to head over to our social media pages for more stories and analysis. ah, what else shows seemed wrong when i'll prove just don't hold any world? yes, to shape out disdain becomes the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah,

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