ah ah, and the stories the shape, the weak ukraine dominates both the headlines and the minds of nato states with lethal arms, ammunition and military equipment handed over to kiev or the west. and you k prepared to send troops to eastern europe. but not all nathan members agree to weapon eyes. ukraine. germany is slams by allies for going against the blokes lined balsam spanish opposition. party say it's not that countries war to wage. spain has no police. you least conflict. we are not interested in any worse. all this is a pro cation of the united states, and later in an attempt to reshape the world order in which they are losing influence. meanwhile, moscow state clearly and simply it's up to russia that will be no war 40 minutes to

say gay love outlined the countries position in a lengthy interview to the russian media and another story a reflection to pursue joe biden, his course on mike insult. think of folks, news journalist here was just trying to get on says about record inflation plague in the us. we go shopping in new york to see how prices are being affected and also locals. how much is hitting them in that pocket? after you have to make concessions to you to fit your budget, to, to buy the essential things to feed your family. it's got 3 kids in the cost, the food is going up. i drive the car almost every day. the cost of gas is going up . i don't think there was anything with

ah, i will welcome you're watching the weekly with a round up of the week that leading stories along with the latest news updates is great to happy with us. now this week has seen nato countries pouring weapons and military equipment into ukraine. britain's announce what it called its biggest possible offer to nato, a major military deployment to eastern europe. the case following a similar line to washington with president biden pledging to send more american troops to the region. in the near future, a pentagon had already put a 1500 soldiers on standby for possible deployments all that to deter russia. but now even care visit, urging com instead of panic, claiming it won't be attacked despite repeated warnings from the u. s. r. when will review for future you're familiar with these would be additional brigade,

combat teams, logistics personnel, medical support, aviation support, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as transportation, and maybe even some additional capabilities after that loser. bohack them to keep a lot of such power, militarism appears in the media. i us to reduce the intensity that exist today. little the situation is quite clear to really there is no reason for support grocery stores, no grounds for searching, full scale funds. the chainsaw country isn't physically pushing through too many of them not symptoms in you. not all 9 members are united in weaponized in ukraine, though. germany is refusing to send arms and has ruled out evacuating its embassy. they're saying to me, food only adds to the tensions. berlin also doesn't believe there's any immediate sign of ukraine joining the nato alliance. everyone knows that this is not on the agenda at the moment, including russia. the people of ukraine want to live in peace and security. many have been separated from their families for years due to the conflict in the don boss. that's what the matter is about. not in imminent entry into nato nap mitten

in wars looming right now in the middle of europe is about doing everything we can to prevent the military escalation of the situation. of course, we do not deliver weapons to ukraine about keeping the peace, lasting peace order in europe would not work without russia. our only with russia cracks have also emerged in find one natal member, which is already sent to navy vessels to the black sea. spain has pledged its full support to the block, but some in the opposition are not in favor of the move when on. so local more we as one of the signatories of this manifest. so and the bulk of those who made the formation of the current government possible, believe that firstly, spain has no place in this conflict. we are not interested in any worse. all this is a pro cation of the united states and nato, in an attempt to reshape the world order in which they are losing influence. the us openly admits this is very important for its national security. so the u. s. and

they to are escalating tensions. the united states and nato want on the one hand to control europe and on the other latin american literally crush and everyone who questioned the hegemony of the united states and the united states. and they to want to direct the resources of control europe and latin america to attack those whom they consider their main threat. wonder in this whole story. neither spain nor the e. u. has any role our troops should not become cannon fodder for this most enormous machine of genocide in history for nato. on find a russia top diplomat found out clearly that the country does not once war, but a continental, it's interesting to be ignored. foreign minister say gayla rob shad his those steering a 90 minute into the to ration media. yes, we have to. so if it's up to russia, there will be no war. we don't want any wars. but ignoring our interest is not

something we can allow either. americans are trying to create a hysteria of the escalation around ukraine, burrell and blink, and repeating it to some kind of a mantra. they say we hope that raja is going to choose the path of diplomacy. and i can tell you that is something we've always stuck to since soviet times. and the outcomes of this diplomacy include the isda and bull and astronaut declarations, stipulating that no one is going to strengthen their security at the expense of others. this is the embodiment of diplomacy. i need mobile, our proposals to nato might seem exceptional only if the experts who assist these proposals assume that the americans have already taken everything around. so why bother put up with that? confine yourself to the bare minimum. but we want them to work with us with honesty, the day before yesterday we received their response and obfuscate things as the west is prone to do. but still there are some responses to our basic questions. in

particular, with regards to intermediate and short range missiles. we also offered to withdraw military exercises further from the border on both sides. there were other measures on de escalation that were ignored for several years. but now nater seems to be willing to talk about that. it's only something presentable. the president has already given an answer to that. if our attempts to agree on mutually acceptable principles of ensuring euro atlantic security fail, we're going to take measures in response with regard to what kind of measures he said that they can be different and will be based on the information provided by our military. if they insist that they would not change their position, we will not do it either because their position is based on distortion of facts. and our position is based on what everyone's put their signature on. i don't see the grounds for reaching the compromise here because nancy still seeing the previous decisions that were commonly adopted. virginia, so as for the sanctions, when our president spoke, in particular,

we told the americans that the package of sanctions, including russia's disconnection from the financial systems, controlled by the west, would be equivalent to the severance of diplomatic ties. we gave a clear message and i think we understand it. i don't think it serves anybody's interests. the ones watertight relationship between the u. s. and the mainstream media and care facing question after sin and delete it. then reinstated an article alleging the ukranian president told joe biden that america was over playing the eminence russian invasion cards. mon, that from saskia taylor. on thursday, the u. s. on ukrainian president had a phone conversation, and the media reported the biden was warning the well the brink of world war 3, hooton's waiting for the ground to freeze over in february. and that he'll give the signal for an invasion, zaleski for his part, was trying to partner to calm his you ask counterpart down by stating that it's all still ambiguous. it seemed then that the 2 leaders would very much at odds. a call

between u. s. president joe biden and ukrainian president followed him, or zalinski on thursday, did not go well. a senior ukrainian official told cnn i met disagreements over the risk levels of a russian attack. cholenski urge his american counterpart to calm down the messaging warning of economic impact of panic. according to the official, he also said ukrainian intelligent seized the threat differently. so quickly saw later that on top of all the other disagreements within the you and nato. now even washington and kia, who off, quite literally rob is in arms on to, on the same page. but then something that cutely happened less than an hour and a half off to the scene. an article broke. it just disappeared. there was no trace any more, a bite and whipping up hysteria about in a wool and zelinski, telling him to calm down on in its place. what a pit? well, a snoo of tweets from cnn people on from her field about how the white house deceives

how the coal wasn't a success. in fact, it was all just one big light white house on biden's zalinski call. anonymous sources are leaking falsehoods. president biden said that there is a distinct possibility that the russians could invade ukraine in february, reports of anything more different than that, are completely false on hot on these heels. he also came out claiming that the original article was riddled with mistakes. dear colleagues, some reports regarding the content of the talks between presidents villa dimmer zalinski and joe biden have appeared on social media. citing the alleged senior ukrainian official. these messages are completely false. so to put it simply, we had an article, citing a senior ukrainian official. now the articles disappeared in a whole army, both in the ukraine on state side, out, doing damage control. what happened behind the scenes? it's still a mystery font, understandably, there are lots of questions and what suspicions? why such a shop? 180 who gave the order for the story to be taken down. and so late, not

a surprise. biden's critics, according to transparency. what they want is a transcript of the phone call. will someone ask press secretary if the white house will release the transcript? when will you release the transcript? what exactly was said in the hour and 20 minute chat between bites and ansolaski is still unclear. what did dynamic between them to lead to says it's still unclear. is it indeed true that zelinski was the one telling bye to tone down the hysteria? there are a lot of questions. there also seems to be the sense that at best this was poor on verify john in ism. and it was, if we're being re cynical, that was something in that article that someone really didn't want to come out from an indian foreign minister congress about believe europe isn't in control of its own fates right now with the us at the will. i think this is playing with

the goal question. is the expansion of nato. do you agree? and if that problem is evolved, everything else falls in place and i'm always surprised why didn't learn, then sweden would remain out of natal during the whole war. then the full with unions very strong and is february the world and continue to be outside the why can't there be an understanding around ukraine? why is the west especially not just is pushing for games membership of natal knife on this? there can be a fundamental in understanding then i think the best of what is happening is talk to the unassisted. and what is surprising is that europe is not in control of his destiny. it is united states, his domestic politics that are pushing for a confrontation of what you claim number fingers that a natural war is inconceivable or will control the yesterday night of the site

and it will be devastating under control. i didn't want all, and i don't think the rest wants want either. so this kind of needless muscle fixing by the european, by needle in venoms the situation makes it more difficult to resolve. ultimately, you have to have political negotiations on the equality and mutual security. and that is the core of the issue, and of course, i mean the current simmering tensions rushes agreed to move planned naval drills further from the coast of islands as after the irish government on fishing communities express concern about potential damage. the exercises could cause to the area in response to the requests, the minister of defense of the russian federation sake, a chicago has made a decision as a gesture of good will to relocate the exercises. but the russian navy plan for

february said to february 8th, outside the irish exclusive economic zone was the aim not to hinder fishing activities by irish vessels in the traditional fishing areas. moscow just announced that it will move its naval drills scheduled for next week, which were originally set to take place in international waters, just about 150 miles off the coast of ireland. now that's after irish fishing authorities said that moscow was well within its rights to carry out these plans, but it would disrupt fishing activities in the area. so they asked if they could be relocated. we also heard from the irish foreign minister who pointed to the recent tensions around the conflict and ukraine. russia and the international law of the sea can of course, undertake military exercises in international waters. this isn't the time to increase military activity, intention in the context of what's happening with ukraine at the moment. i was the iris, foreign minister pointed outright there. there's nothing illegal about russia carrying out military drills in international waters. something that's been in the works for

quite a while now, but moscow sees the decision as a gesture of goodwill, considering the fact that the western media has been hyping up, claims accusing russia, planning to invade ukraine for months now. and that diplomacy has been facing, set back after set back concerning this issue. so while tensions do remain high, at least ireland and russia can see, i hear also among the stories that shaped this weekend. another twist in a seemingly never ending saga, the whistle blow a julian assange winds the right to get his ex tradition ruling reviewed by the u. k. supreme court. this story and more after this short break, stay with us. ah ah, join me every thursday on the alex salmon show, but i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport, business,

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welcome back. a hold to mike. moment course embarassment for joe biden, this week as a news conference, the president was asked about the record inflation currently blighting the us with one journalist getting back more than he expected. oh as 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 was a 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 felt abroad. you felt that the inflation that has gripped the world, not, not only of over 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 at this is everything fuel for our cars, clothes, for food. the price isn't 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 have a fixed income, or even worse, poor people, low income people. they are watching their salaries, they're purchasing power evaporate. 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. 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, on what they wrote because there is, there is no justified in the so the, the says 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 numbers are absolutely tremendous how much. 1 people are using career isn't that this is all happening will part of the reason who there is the pandemic. but there is also the printing press on which the united states to a to, to a greater extent than the european central bank to a less extent. quintin trillions, trillions. they ran these for, for so long. they give our people checks, covered checks, and more people used these co rejects for a is a by basic necessities. they,

they went for electronics, they went for, for luxury things. and what this did is these caused inflation, supplier supply chains already disrupted theory with a combat. all of this is to it for, for central banks we, we've all heard, you know, central banks, high rates or whatever. and we would, so what the hell that mean what it means that by way of increasing the interest from 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 and from the people, and tried to squeeze by an either pleasing, ultimately, no one with both a spine cohen. he was a vice presidential candidate from 2020. he thinks president buyers and is trying to whitewash the economic hardships that are gripping the country right now. that 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 are you going to be more respectful with reporters. and then he acts this way, not only is he acting rattled, he's cheery, 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. so it's clear, it's not only joe biden feeling the pressure from the economy, small businesses and households across the us, being crushed under the weight of the spiraling inflation. kellum open checks out what it's doing to store prices in new york. as the saying goes, a dollar and a dollar any more, and american families are being squeezed by inflation. there has been a 7 percent increase and consumer prices over the past year. that's the fastest increase that we've seen since 982 joe biden has promised that he is going to fight these increasing costs of pretty much everything. and he has already found someone to blame for the crisis. it's a bottom line. this isn't just about quick winds, it's about reversing decades of concentration of her workers,

consumers and small businesses. it didn't happen any one time. it's been over a period of time now a long time. the average cost of red in new york state and 2021 was $0.88 here. and a popular supermarket in manhattan. there's bread for sale for roughly $3.48, or $4.27. now, prices in manhattan are loc, steeper, even in good time. that's a pretty significant increase in cost for the consumer. i feel ridiculous thumb is really going up really quickly, really high on the flu sec. we got a fully going to boise that on just a regular trip to the supermarket, as it is becoming a, becoming more difficult. you have to, you have to make concessions to, to fit your budget, to, to buy the essential things through a feeder families got 3 kids in the cost. the food is going up. i drive the car almost every day, the cost, the gas is going up. i don't think there was anything last january,

the price of gasoline and manhattan was roughly $2.37. but now, here it be p in midtown manhattan. they won $4.79 per gallon to fill up your tank. if i could get this under control, a lot of people would breathe a huge sigh of relief. new survey shows that 76 percent of small firms in the united states have felt the negative impact of inflation over the past 6 months. there's nothing natural about it is the result of political decisions and the result has been vast borrowing of money to speculate in the stock market. and some of that money has now fallen over into the rest of the economy. and so we have an inflation mostly because businesses have wanted to offset profits last in 2012 and the 1st half of 2021 by raising their prices. now,

it is a profit driven decision. wikileaks found julianna's songs want to bid on monday to ask the u. k. supreme court to review a previous high court decision to extradite him to the united states. he's wanted by washington on charges of espionage. the latest cool decision will hold. songs is extradition from the u. k. for now, and the latest step in his long battle to avoid trial of the wikileaks published us classified documents more than a decade ago. but those close to the whistleblowers say it's still a long way from the results fell looking for what happened in court today is precisely what we wanted to happen. but we are far from achieving justice in this case because julian has been incarcerated for so long, and he should not have spent a single day in prison. as long as this case isn't dropped. as long as julian isn't pre, julian continues to suffer. what we need for this case to be dropped entirely letters

. so that is that is the only real victory for journalism. but for julian, this is of course of the pro longed incarceration is already been for more than a 1000 days. and belmont prison. we've always been protesting vigorously, the fact that after the united states lost in the lower court, they were allowed to, to submit the so called up sort of assurances as the contributor which had met her has been closely following the hearings. he thinks julian songs has a strong case that the supreme court we have to be clear, it's not guaranteed that they'll take the case. i personally think that they will because this is a very important point. the wall is basically, is the united states, the requesting state, allowed to provide assurance as after its last the case, you know, there being a sore loser, effectively because julian is on one is extradition battle in january 2021 fair and square. and then the united states provided assurances afterwards,

they spend weeks arguing that, you know, special administrative measures and the terrific conditions that they're going to put them in are fine. you know, they, they, they weren't convinced that this is the right way. it's thing to do. and then once they lost the case there, they started providing these assurances. and this is what needs to be determined by the supreme court. if can a requesting state in an extradition give assurances to an appellate court to, to an appeals court that were not given that were not provided in a magistrate support. so this isn't just important to julian assange. it's important for all extradition. and it is 100 percent relevant to british common law and to the public and the west to keep in mind that even if julian does end up free, he's not safe and other jurisdictions. if he steps foot in france or germany or anywhere else where the us as an extradition treaty, it again start a new thing. so i certainly hope that the supreme court will do the right thing. many things the company here are not into national this sunday will be back at the top of the hour with more,

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