ah, ah, with ah, the stories a shade, the week just gone ukraine dominated both the headlines and the minds of nato steaks with lethal arms, ammunition, and military equipment kind of over to care for the u. s. and u. k. prepared to send troops to eastern europe, but not all night. her members agreed to weaponized craig, germany was slammed by allies. the going against the blocks lied about some spanish opposition. party say it's not bad countries war to way. 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 work order in which they are lose an influence. elsewhere this weekend candidates prime

minister is reportedly been rushed to a safe evacuation site as more than 10000 truckers and they supported flood parliament hill in opposition to vaccine mandates with russia. the usual suspect and behind the mass movement. a solution with joe biden caught on my consulting a fox news list, who is just trying to get answers about record inflation plaguing the us. we went shopping in new york city to see how prices that are being affected, us locals, how much it's a, think them in their pockets. you have to, you have to make concessions to, to fit your budget, to, to buy the essential things to our families. 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 know if there was anything.

the i welcome to the weekly i read about the big stories abroad. you here, we're not into national over the last 7 days. my name is kevin up 1st and the week saw nato countries pouring weapons and military equipment into ukraine, didn't it? britain's announced what it's called to its biggest possible offer to nato, a major military deployment into eastern europe, maybe more announcement on that to morrow. the u. k. then following a similar line to washington, with president biden pledging to send war american troops to the region in the near future, the penitent had already put 8500 soldiers on standby for possible deployment or that to deter russia. but now, even kiev is urging com instead of panic, claiming it won't be attacked despite repeated warnings to the country. from the u . s. i were moving us to europe for the nato countries. in the near 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 us. there is no reason for us to panic. no grounds for searching and full scale funds between our country. it is even physically impossible to achieve. i'm not going to, but it turns out not all nato members we ignited and weaponized ukraine. germany is refusing to send arms and is also ruled out evacuating and said bessie stuff. the say it was only bad to the tensions, but also doesn't believe it's any immediate sign of ukraine joining the nato alliance. every one knows that this is not in the agenda at the moment, including russia, the people of ukraine, one to live in peace and security. many have been separated from their families for years due to the conflicts in the dumbass. that's what the matter is about. not an imminent entry into nato. that was nathan mitten in ohio. that war is looming right

now in the middle of europe was about doing everything we can to prevent a military escalation of the situation. of course, we do not deliver weapons to ukraine, is about keeping the peace lasting peace order in europe would not work with our russia, but only with russia. cracks have also merged inside another mit nato member, which is already sent to navy vessels to the black sea spain and has pledged its full support to the block, but some in the opposition and not in favor of the move. no. so don't go more. we is 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 questions 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 in this whole story. neither spain or the e. u has any row our troops should not become cannon fodder for this most enormous machine of genocide in history for nato. on friday, rush has helped him from out spelled out quite clearly that the country does not want war, but a condo. so allow its interest to be ignored for a mississippi leverage, shed his thoughts during a 90 minute interview to russian media. history of the, the 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, ne, 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 a lease something present that was 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 distorting 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 they understand it. i don't think it serves anybody's interests gathers. they're the ones watertight relationship between the u. s. the mainstream media and key have came into question in the week just gone after cnn deleted, then reinstated an art scholars alleging that the ukranian president told joe biden that america was over playing the eminent russian invasion card. saskia taylor covered that for us. on that day the u. s. and ukrainian president had a phone conversation and the major reported the biden was warning the wilma brink of world war 3 pitches waiting for the ground to freeze over in february. and that he'll give the signal for an invasion. so let's keep his part was trying to calm his us counterpart down by stating that it will still and big us is seen then that the 2 leaders was very much at all a call between us president joe biden. ukrainian president, follow them,

or is it wednesday on thursday? did not go well. a senior ukrainian official told cnn amid disagreements over the risk levels of a russian attack to lensky. urge his american counterpart to calm down the messaging, boarding of the economic impact of panic. according to the official, he also said ukrainian intelligence sees the threat differently. so it quickly thought later that on top of all the other disagreements within the e. u. a. nato. now, even washington and kia, who off, quite literally brought this in on, on, on the same page. but then something peculiar happened. less than an hour and a half after the cnn article broke. it just disappeared. there was no trace any more bite and whipping up his theory about him in a wall and the landscape telling him to come down on its pace. what a pit? well, a few of tweets from cnn people on farther afield about how the white house dispute, how the call wasn't a success. in fact, it was all just one big lie. whitehouse on biden's lensky 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 or different than that, are completely false, and hot on the 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 dinners, de lensky 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 stateside, are 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 shot? 180, who gave the order for the story to be taken down. and so probably not a surprise. biden's critics are calling the 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 zalinski was the one telling biden to tone down the hysteria that are a lot of questions. there also seems to be the sense that at best this was poor, unverified journalism. and it was if we're being really cynical, there was something in that article that someone really didn't want to come out. in other developments in the week just gone amid the current simmering tensions than russia agreed to move. planted naval drills further from the coast of island of the irish government, san fishing communities express concern, but potential damage to 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 plan for february said to february 8th, outside the irish exclusive economic zone with 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 iris, 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. now,

as 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 good will, 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 set back concerning this issue. so while tensions do remain high, at least ireland and russia can see i hear elsewhere. a token of high tensions. canadian prime minister just intruder reportedly rushed to a sacred, secure evacuation location for protection this weekend as more than 10000 truckers and their freedom convoy supporters to send on parliament hill in the capital over the national food supply crisis own going of to drive us. we're told no job, no job. what is a drone? pictures is mass crowds and vehicles block key roads around the palm building and protest is great. extreme holdings to vent they're passionate opposition to vaccine

mandates. another pandemic restrictions a moment at our time to take our country back. the researches i've been on for way too long reba me to just do their own thing and have a great day beauty. there's a lot, you know, just one problem with the whole thing. in general, society itself has been overtaken by fear. this convoy is all about freedom. it's not only with the truck drivers, it's actually for every single person you, me, buddy, down the road. it doesn't matter, it's all about your free choice. that's what it should be. like i said, if you're vaccinated, cool, you did it. most people did it because it worked, but you know, you should do it off of free will, off of your choice. me while the countries talk lawmakers are trying to demonize the rallies with trudeau, himself, running them unacceptable, along with the public safety chief dubbing, demonstrate his extremist. and in

a repeat of practically every big north american political story of the past 6 years to with 0 evidence, canada's top state broadcasting, i think the russians fueled and even started the entire mass public movement concerned that russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset a local journey said it's a sad irony that that's canadian protest as a heard more by the u. s. baseball in ela must these days than their own government, which he says really has more about power, not health. so, so you want to ask, has, has supported this protest, and that's more, more support than we've seen from the political leadership in this country. which is really frustrating for the convoy. they told me frequently that they expect to political leadership in this country, both liberals and conservatives to either support them or at least listen to their demands. the mainstream media in canada had convinced canadians that we ourselves

loves the vaccine mandate. but now that we see on the ground, how many people are coming out onto the highway in the bitter cold minus 30 degrees celsius in some cases, to wave flags and support this convoy. it's clear that the what we've been told about the support of vaccine men, it isn't really true, but the government doesn't want to release the authority that they've gained through this pandemic. they're dead set on keeping a minor fisted grip of power over the people. deciding what they're able to do, where they're able to go, depending on their medical status. books hot mike bowman caused a barrister for joe biden. in the week, at a news conference, the president was asked about the record inflation currently blighting the us with one journalist getting, but kept by the 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, but silly moment we will have moments like that. but the issue here is the subject . neither that is inflation because there are, there are 2 explanations for what but, and said the 1st is that perhaps he was kidding. you know, he was angry. this is an outlet, again, again for his stress, for his ag and the 2nd option, which is even scarier is that he actually believes that inflation is a great asset. i'm you felt right. you felt that the inflation that has gripped the world, not, not only of, of the past year, but over the past 2 years of the course of the pandemic. you walk into a shop, lee, you look at the process. this is at the zeppelin 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 when 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, the numbers are absolutely tremendous how much people are using career, isn't 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 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 it is by basic necessities. they, they went for electronics, they went from for luxury things. and what they, steve, is this caused inflation because 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 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 crates 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 a city correspondent there. so it's clear, it's not only joe biden, filling the pressure from the economy, small businesses and households across the u. s. a big crushed under the way to the spiraling inflation. kind of open check towed while it's doing to store prices in

new york city. as the saying goes, a dollar and a dollar any more, an 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. so bottom line, this isn't just about quick winds, is about reversing decades of concentration of hert workers, consumers and small businesses. it didn't happen any one time. it's been over a period of time now a long time. now the average cost of low fred and new york state in 2021 was $0.88 here at 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. so that's

a pretty significant increase in cost for the consumer. i so ridiculous 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 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 is there 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. this is big news. we can excited joe and his son shall winning a bid to ask the u. k. supreme court to review a previous high court decision to expedite him to the united states. he's wanted by washington on charges of espionage, the latest court decision that will hold us on his expedition from the u. k. for now. and this is the latest step, but is extremely long running. baffled to avoid trial after wicking published us

classified documents more than a decade ago. but those close to the whistleblower. all that said say it's still a long way from the result that they were actually 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 of course of the pro long 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'll take contributor richard met her, has been closely following the hearings along the way,

told us he thinks, june, the son has a strong case. now with 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 assurances after its last the case. you know, there, 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 terrific conditions that they're going to put them in are fine. you know, they, they, they were 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 us to an appeals court that were not given that were not provided in a magistrates court. so this isn't just important for 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 we have 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 u. s. as an extradition treaty that good again, start a new thing. i certainly hope that the supreme court will do the right thing for we'll continue to follow the twist in tennessee. this is a snapshot of some of the big stories we talked about over the last 7 days here most go tonight is kevin now in thank you. big. thank you for watching us and check it into us international over the weekend. going good. the, the ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only personally,

i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk with me. hello, welcome to wells of birth, describing diseases to the evil doing of anatomy is an own human habit that can be traced in many historic injustices from that which crock trials to they call upon.

one would think that in this age of science and rationality would have moved beyond cost in unproven recriminations, at least at the state level, but not so fast. take the so called havana syndrome and mysterious condition set to be afflicting. the american diplomatic and military personnel abroad is barely diagnosed and get wide assumed to be an act of aggression. what is it symptomatic off? well, to discuss that i'm not joined by rovers by filling me on every senior last year in the department of psychological medicine at the university of hoffman and also have an a syndrome math psychogenic illness. the real story behind the embassy, mystery, and hysteria. dr. bartholomew's, great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you. it's been more than 300 years since the salem witch trials are, which are now considered to be a one of the most notorious cases of bi massey in colonial america. and what's

striking to me about it is how similar the per perfect systems back dan were to the describe manifestations of the so called havana syndrome. had a loss of balance and hearing peer synchronization, disarranged ation, compromise, mental ability, do you see anything in common there? absolutely. and you know, when i think of this case, what i think of is shakespeare in a midsummer night's dream. and there's a quotation from that that goes like this, or in the night. imagining some fear. how easy is a bush, suppose it a bear. and in this case, we are literally talking about the russian bear and look, i can summarize this entire episode in a single sentence and it goes like this. it comes from an old medical adage. when you hear the sound of speech in the night 1st thank horses,

not zebras. the doctors at the state department went for the most exotic hi, pompous is early on, and people keep attacking me. and they say, you don't know what you're talking about. concussion like symptoms, white matter track changes. hearing loss, brain damage, that's not bad psychogenic illness. but that's just not true. if you look at the 2018 journal of the american medical association study, even before that study was published, information was being leaked to the press that many of the victims had these mysterious white matter track changes in their brains. about a year later, when the study finally came out, they found only 3 patients with white matter track changes. and if you go on the streets of moscow today, and you randomly pick 21 people.