you need to descend, ah, join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah ah, and his story, the shape, the weak hue crane, dominates both the headlines and the minds of nato, staves with leaf alonzo munition and military equipment handed over to kiss for the u. s. and u. k. prepared to send troops to eastern europe in north all nato members agree to weaponized ukraine. germany is slammed by allies the going against the blocks line while some spanish opposition parties say it's not bad countries. war to wait. spain has no police 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 lose an influence. while

moscow say it's clearly and simply, it's, if it's up to russia, that will be no war. foreign minister again love outlines the countries position and a lengthy interview to the russian media and another stories a merchant to pursue bite and his course on my consulting of folks, news journalist who was just trying to get answers about record inflation plaguing the u. s. we go shopping in new york to see how prices are being affected and dos locals. how much is hitting been in that pocket? you have to, you have to make concessions to, to fit your budget, to, to buy the essential things, to feed your family, to got 3 kids in the cost. the food is going up. i drive the car almost every day, the cost, the gas going up. i don't think there was anything ah,

i very well welcome to my team hearing most go. this is off the international with the weekly around the got some of the top stories of the week along with all the latest news is quite happy with us this now. this week has seen nato countries pouring weapons and military equipment into ukraine. britain's announced what it called its biggest possible offer to ne, so a major military deployment to eastern europe, the case following a similar line to washington with president vine and pledging to send more american troops to the region. in the near future, the pentagon had already put a 1500 soldiers on standby for possible deployment all that to deter russia. but now even tia is urging com instead of panic, claiming it won't be attacked despite repeated warnings from the us. we're moving through europe for the nato countries in the year term. these would be additional

brigade, combat teams, logistics personnel, medical support, a variation support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as transportation. and maybe even some additional capabilities after that that you know, lots of such power, militarism appears in the media and i asked to reduce the intensity that exist today. little the situation is quite clear to it. there is no reason for us to panic, no grounds for searching and folk tales under james, our country. it is even physically impossible to achieve or not. so we're not all nathan members, all united in weapon isaac ukraine, though germany is refusing to send alms, aren't as rules out evacuating. it's embassy. they're saying that we would only add to the tensions, but then also doesn't believe there's any immediate fine 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 even attempting to nato was snapping

mitten in. wars looming right now in the middle of europe is about doing everything we can to prevent a 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, but only with russia. cracks have also emerged inside one nato member, which is already sent to navy vessels to the black sea, spain that has pledged its full support to the blog, but some in the opposition all not in favor of the local law. 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 the pro cation of the united states and nato, in an attempt to reshape the world order in which they are lose an influence. the us openly admits this is very important for its national security. so the u. s. and

they to our escalate intentions. the united states and nato want on the one hand to control europe and on the other latin american literally crushing everyone who questions the hegemony of the united states and the united states. and they to want to direct the resources of control europe and let in america to attack those whom they consider their main threat. one in this whole story. neither spain or the e. u. has any role our troops should not become cannon fodder for this most enormous machine of genocide in history for nater, joe, on friday, russia's top diplomat, spelled out clearly that the country does not want war, but they can't allow his interests to be ignored. foreign ministers, they gayla rob, set his those during a 90 minute interview to ration media. use for your facility. 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 eastern 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 proposal 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 as simple as 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 they are, you 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 once water tight relationship between the u. s. the mainstream media and k ever is in question after sin and delete it, then reinstate it. an article alleging the ukranian president told j biden that america was over playing the eminent russian invasion cars. more on that from saskia taylor. on thursday, the u. s. on ukrainian president had a phone conversation, and the media reported the biden with warning the well, the brink of wild wall, 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 asked 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 us president joe biden and ukrainian president followed him, or zalinski on thursday, did not go well. the 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, boarding of economic impact of panic. according to the official, he also said ukrainian intelligent seized the threat differently. so quickly such later that on top of all the other disagreements within the you and nato. now even washington and keith, who off quite literally rob is in arms on to, on the same page. but then something, but hewlett 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 disputes,

how the coal wasn't a success. in fact, it was all just one big lie. 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 and 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?

one, a teeth who gave the order for the story to be taken down. and so probably the, 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 bite and, and soon as he 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 bite and to tongue down the hysteria that are a lot of questions that also seems to be the sense that at best this was poor on verify john in ism. and it was, if we're being ready, cynical, that was something in that article that someone really didn't want to come out before my indian foreign minister camels, sabelle, but he was, europe isn't in control of its own fate right now with the us at the wheel. 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 am always surprised why finland and sweden would remain out of the needle during the whole war. when the 4 with william, very strong and is february the front of the world and continue to be outside the why can't there be an understanding of ukraine? why is the west, especially the united states pushing for you against 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 unnecessary. 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, not the thing is that in actual war is inconceivable. all will control the

escalation that night, the side gap and it'll be devastating. under insure, rush, i don't want to war, and i don't think the west don't want 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 basis of equality and mutual security, and that is the core of the issue. and for the food i made the current simmering tensions, rushes agreed to move planned naval drills further from the coast of ireland. and so after the irish government on fishing communities express concern about potential damage, the exercises could cause to the area in response to the request and 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 plans 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 in 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 of planning to invade ukraine for months now. and that diplomacy has been facing set back after setback concerning this issue. so while tensions do remain high, at least ireland and russia can see, i hear also among the stories, the shapes, the weak in another twist in a seemingly never ending saga. the whistleblower julian, a songs wind, the wind to get his expedition rolling, reviewed by the u. k. supreme court. this story and more after this short break. ah oh, driven by dreamer shapes bankers and those with

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ah, welcome back, a hot mike name and cause embarrassment for joe biden. this week, the news conference, the president was asked about the record inflation currently blighting the us with one journalist jason baton more than he expected. oh as well. it was a nasty booster baby and befitting the president. but that is the imagine he was. he was stressed right he, 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 abroad. you felt that the inflation that has gripped 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 that 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 have a fixed income, or even worse for 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 pseudo that 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 people are using. 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 toward to, 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 co reject for a is a by basic necessities. they, they went for electronics, they went from 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 is for, for central banks we, we've all heard, you know, central banks, high rates or whatever. and we will wait for what the hell that mean. what it means 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 a 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 tried to squeeze by a e. e. o. pleasing ultimately, no one. we spoke to spine cohen, who was a vice presidential candidate from 2020. he thinks president biden is trying to whitewash the economic hardships that are gripping the country right now. 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, 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 book 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 are being crushed under the weight of the spiraling inflation. caleb moore pin, check out what it's doing to store prices in new york. as the saying goes, a dollar and a dollar anymore, 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. 1982 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. the 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, 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 food thickly thumb is really going up really quickly, really high on the flu sec. we got a phone going to boise that on just a regular trip to the supermarket as it is becoming, becoming more difficult. you have to, you have to make concessions to, to fit your budget, to, to buy the essential things to

a feeder. families got 3 kids and 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 where kelley found the julian as songs won a 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 late his court decision will hold the sanchez extradition from the u. k. from now. and it's 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. then looking for what happened in court today is precisely what we want it 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

freed, julian continues to suffer. what we need for this case to be dropped entirely. that is that is that is the only real victory for or for journalism. for julian, this is a force of the problem. 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 submit the so called up. so sort of assurances, i say, contributor richard met her has been closely following the hearings. he thinks julian, a song has a strong case out, 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 of law, 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 these horrific 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 is can a requesting state in an extradition give assurances to an appellate court to us 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, to a 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.

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