a with they should know that our response will follow at lightning speed. we have all the tools which no one else can now post all, what vladimir putin declares will be the response to any outside interference against russia's offensive in your brain. also coming off on the program, no gas from poland, down bulgaria until they pay for their imports. and rubles such, russia turns off the top. but the commission chief slums down position is on justified and all except with the united states continues to send thousands of its weapons to ukraine, some defense contractors. there are a warning of shortages ahead, but that's as they clock off. huge profit with

global news from the russian capital. i'm, you know, neil and you're welcome to r t international towards help story. russia will retaliate, lightning fast on decisively to any outside interference targeting its own going military operation in ukraine. now this was latin america told russian legislators today during a working trip to st. petersburg is list auto was named it. it's a if someone from outside decides to interfere in the ongoing operation and will post strategic threats unacceptable to russia. they should know that our response will follow at a lightening speed. we have all the tools which no one else can now boast. ult. i'd like to stress that all the toss of our military operation in don't bus and ukraine will be successfully tackled for sure. our soldiers have managed to avert a real danger looming over russia. the russian president, vladimir putin certainly shed a lot of light on the current state of the conflict in ukraine at this meeting with legislators in st. petersburg. most importantly,

he said that all of the objectives of russia's special operation are going to be accomplished. he said that russia was always in favor of ukraine as an independent, neutral country. and that moscow cannot be blamed for the failure of diplomacy to work things out in response to economic sanctions. putin said that russia has the potential to become a world leader in the field of technology. and that all measures possible will be taken to defy attempts to isolate the country. now we also heard from the russian president on a plans by the ukrainians to attack crimea and on boss. let's take a listen. the boom news. as a friend, russia favored the establishment of an independent ukraine. back them, we expected ukraine to become friendly, that we will move forward together, bolstering each other, and the new historical context. suddenly, nobody expected an anti russian nation to spring up on historical russian lands. then ukraine was pushed towards a direct confrontation with russia. i'll remind you unfortunately,

the plans including a military attack on crimea and dumbass were enshrined in ukraine's doctrine documents and the cranium people were destined to become a consumable material. now it's important to note that russian president vladimir putin statements come as we're seeing more and more attacks on russian territory that moscow is blaming here for just last night. and this morning. explosions were heard throughout russian border regions, including belgrade course varone. as these, nobody was killed or injured, but these are far from the 1st such attacks actually, and we've been seeing them happen more and more often as of late even back at the beginning of the military operation. when i was reporting in russia's border region of our staff, we saw a lot of shelling there as well. but what's different right now is it, western officials are now openly calling for ukrainian troops to attack russian territory. let's take a listen. it's completely legitimate for ukraine to be targeting in russia's depths in order to disrupt the logistics officer already reacted to that statement. it

said that if you craniums were to attack russian territory with u. k. provided weapons that russian forces would retaliate by attacking decision making centers in kiev. but this all really looks, these attacks are just one theater of what looks to be a larger confrontation between russia and the west. in fact, prudent said that this is all actually happening on the backdrop of long waged economic war by the west, against russia, to isolate russia's economy, and that the west has shown little willingness to sit down at the negotiating table . russia shut the tops on its gas supplies to poland on bulgaria, the energy giant gas problems cited the country's failure to pay for their imports in roubles on time down to any on ortho rise, use of transit gas destined for other buyers could result in further cuts but the u chief of slammed the decision was unjustified the announcement by guess from that

its unilaterally stopping delivery of gas to customers in europe is yet another attempt by russia to use gas as an instrument of blackmail. this is unjustified and unacceptable. and it shows once again and reliability of russia as a guest supplier, you are, was quick, took your moscow blackmailing the to you countries that are almost completely dependent on russian guys. the president of the european commission now says that the work should be intensified to bring as much so direct with the union as possible to minimize the negative impact from this decision. and also she says, a very interesting thing that right now, poland and bulgaria are receiving energy from their neighbors. so they are continuing to receiving russian gas. but just someone else is paying for that. and gas prices, of course, are much higher which sounds a little bit like absurd. various european politicians and experts claimed repeatedly that europe is not capable of giving oppression gas. and this is why

understanding that many countries have already accepted pain in the way russia once among them, hungary, austria, germany, here is austria and a chancellor explaining that items we'd be doing for the wheel. i mean, the ostrich mineral oil administration stock company accepted the payment term as the german government and the payment conditions were found adequate to comply with the conditions of the sanctions. it was important for us and, and this is very important for you to make it clear. the states can still pay in your is or dollars or any other currency. they just have to open accounts in russia's gas from bank, so that later their payments are converted into roubles. so it doesn't make a big difference. actually was gas from claims. they notified both poland and bulgaria in advance about the suspension of the ration. guess if the payment is not made. so this is actually what happened. they were warned, not frat and right. the russian presidents spokesperson also stresses that this decision is rush reaction to numerous unfriendly step stores. morsbow, you know,

that the country's economy has been heed dramatically because of numerous packages of extinction. so who's black mainly? who does the question? real ready? seeing, of course, a huge cost of living crisis in europe. is there a disconnect between what officials and seeing how people are actually dealing on a day to day basis is going to make the, the current situation worse. while europe is dependent on russian energy and of course, given adopt would fail immediately. and everybody knew that, and everybody was aware about the consequences and they have been talking about that. now we see that the market is in turbulence. clearly european gas prices rose by as much as a fees. but a sad thing is that ordinary people are those paying the highest price we hear right now, for example, that some people in europe now have to choose between paying their energy bills or buying food because it's getting hotter and hotter everyday to afford was

take london has stated, it'll be russia about suffers the most over it's gas payments rules claiming the turning the top. so often bulgaria and poland will only lead to greater global isolation. holding gas supplies will have a very damaging effect on russia as well because it is becoming further and further more and more, not just a political pariah, but any comic brian. the article very clearly needs to be drawn down because this is a very serious problem. there is a real yes and by the relationship that has existed between europe and russia. if you look at the shadow of russia, gash, and you're going to be just, i don't, 14250. be see him. you know, the crashes of europe is actually 5 times out of shima. so i would rather have, you know, want to see me goes making it is having that judgment and actually trying to solve the current crisis. i think you went over to the very sorry, jewish. well,

that's turned to the bustle grinds. russian air forces have reportedly destroyed, hungers in the southeastern and up erosion region which were said to contain weapons delivered from ukraine's western lines. the strikes were carried out by cruise missiles, the russian m. o. d claims 59 military targets were hayton ukraine overnight. in areas where national groups were located. while the city of modern upa, one of the main front lines, was a key topic of discussion during talks in moscow and choosing between the united nations chief on russia's president on foreign minister. antonio good terry is said, the agreement had been reached to use un resources to help civilians lead the as of south steel factory where some people are believed to be sheltering. the industrial zone remains a hold on for far right. nationalists fighters who have refused to lay down their arms a martyr. you are resident that we spoke to claims locals were being used as human shields since they were hiding in

a 70 fat house in the basement on the 1st floor. who is hiding there? not teeth nazis, whereas off i do not know which one of them it was sure did. they have chevrons, some kind of symbols. well, only craning military, have these ribbons and everything else. i do not know the answer for the national guard or someone else did. they offer you the chance to evacuated where you used as a human shield for them. well, of course they were high. do you know, house entrance had artillery there. can know the story that bring you to day a russian pilot serving jail time in the u. s. sounds been released in a prison exchange between moscow and washington, not as, according to the russian foreign ministry constantino gotta shanker, was sentenced to 20 years in prison back in 2011 for hoses, involvement, and drug smuggling. he's now being swapped for american students. and at former u. s. ring travel who was jailed in russia for resisting arrest, striking

a police officer, russian pilot yada shank was stealing spark this spot between the nations with moscow, claiming the arrest broke the vienna convention on the malik relations, russian, politician and rehabilitation. and who also served time in the american jail safety u. s. would prefer to keep the darker parts of its prison system, locked off to the united states. they didn't care about, they all citizens, they just didn't want russians to go home because it was me and dad. they have been unjustly serving time in the us prison. also they, as i did when i return, they could tell the truth that american prisons are not like they show movies. and they actually do taught for people psychologically physically and they do or keep them in a very hard condition. there is a big difference between what the medic i'm say and what they actually do. and obviously the gesture makes change. gesture means that russian diplomats found

words and found an offer to the united states that they, they couldn't reject. and it just means that this is incredible victory of russian diplomats, who despite all the hard situation of the world's andrews before they're in the united states, they found ways to successfully finish the negotiations on the us will face a shortage of stringer sting or excuse me, anti or crop systems in 2023 because so many of them have been sent to key to arm ukraine. not as the wording from the manufacturer and major u. s. defense contractor raytheon. however, the war has been a good news for raphael. according to the company's recent report, i clocked up sales have almost $16000000000.00 in the 1st quarter of this year.

that's up 3 percent over 2021. and the financial boost comes stinger missiles have been one of the major weapons delivered to ukraine as well. as javelin anti tank missiles, since the conflict began 1400 onto your crop systems have been sent a key of forces with some officials estimating washington has given away nearly a quarter of it stalks on to curb. the shortage, the u. s. defense department is seeking more military equipment to be distributed by other organizations, the departments asking for or defend 70 armor on other systems from across the military industry, and is exploring ways to ramp up the production. well, let's go live now to former c. i a analyst and see you national business, consulting firm burg associates, laurie c johnson for his take. laurie, good to see you. is this shortage of weapons being exaggerated, just how bad is the situation as you see it? surely the u. s. couldn't find itself lacking and potentially vulnerable unit. the

stinger missile was 1st built in 1981. this is the equivalent of sending 1981 lot to somebody. it's a new audible. this last number to it is a weapon system that frankly was designed for technology in the 1980s. and over the last 30 years, the united states has never fought a country that actually had a real error. so now there's weapons system is being used in ukraine and it has not been used affectively. it's not been down in russian jets right. there may have been one or what it is. it is just, this is a ploy. able just to get more money pumped into raytheon there, you know, they're basically the united states is giving away a weapon system that's not effective against the 1st world military. and russia is a 1st world military. so it's, i found a sort of, i laugh. so headline,

raytheon has blame the rush to arm ukraine for the depletion. i suppose the washington would argue when a conflict begins, it has to be in a rush. there's no other way. oh yes, this is. listen, these, these boys are belling up to the bar asking for, you know, run up their taps, they get free rains. united states congress is poised to what i saw to up the defense budget to 800000000000. not more. so these companies are not hurting at all. this is that, you know, they love this trying to think because it gives them a rationale to justify expenditures on weapons systems. that candidly, why spend a dime on stayers when we were, when i was being stingers in 1986 was not the central intelligence agency. we were dealing with it in terms of arming the router. enough can stand to shoot down the

soviet helicopters. it was effective back in the 1980s, but it had a still have limited effect. we're now in 2020 to this business technology. it's. it's 41 years old. i don't care how much they've updated the foundation of it is it's a 41 year old weapon. so that's like, you know, trying to or cavalry back into. ready modern army, right? i suppose as you've been seeing there, it's pretty transparent that you've got the seal, the major arms on your fracture or warning that there aren't enough farms. essentially telling the government give us more money. we need to build more to keep you in the way become accustomed to be defended. will it work so well? no. but what they're doing is there's, they're sending not around sending 1st generation or even 2nd generation weapons to crank up sending their best for sending the, you know, the stuff that they don't really need never to. where is it going if getting into a western ukraine and russia is blowing up the storage depots, the warehouses,

the training bases where the stuff is arriving. so it's either getting destroyed in route or up. it does happen to make it to the front. russia is capturing boatloads and so, you know, nothing else over serving to do is army russia with technology that sort of i think now 2nd great, but what, what, what are your chest and the business to say, look, as you say, the old stuff, get it out of the way, then at frighten people with headlines, but we don't have enough to to defend the american people. and then it works out that they'll get more money. it is not how it's going to work in essence and in and practical terms. i've always, my business careers been spent investigating money laundry. we always say follow the money, all the money here. that's what this is about. well, despite the warning as you've been going through, the conflict hasn't exactly been bad news for refill on. you know,

they're going to come up with profits here and without in mind what, what to do with the military complex, just get bigger and bigger after this. well, no, i know this is part of the game. sure. that the cranium conflict poses to the fantasy district. they've been telling all these great technologies. and here we find that russia is the down there being used in the field. in effect, ukraine has become the back way to fight the war. so nature wants that having to fight itself is using ukraine as a proxy. and yet they're not really being able to field test their top white weaponry. and we've seen attendance a trend in the industrial military industrial complex to move more expensive weapon systems. and those systems have not been really tested in combat against 1st world nations like russia and china. so there's, you know,

they've got to wait with it up to this point. as you know, i stated, spent the last 30 years getting up on their great countries since washington's promising to deliver even more arms to ukraine. how much pressure lori is the defense department under to deliver? well, i don't think they're under a lot of pressure. i draw the line between what they're saying publicly and what they're actually do. you don't see them rushing to bring their top flight. you know, patriot batteries, for example, into ukraine. up to this point, russia's been able to hit military bases and key warehouse installations at will. and there's been nothing done to stop there. instead, talking about sandy lockets and cindy stay or missiles again 41 year old technology is, is not bringing out your best. so we're sending the 2nd, right, so,

but we're pretending that we're making it 1st rate up. it's very cynical actually, and that's, and the weaponry that gets sent, laurie if it goes into the wrong hands, which it has dawn on occasion before this, do they care? well, they may not cure now, but the care of the future if you have some, some radical islamic, say, and syria who manages to get his hands on a stinger and takes out some airport in the least. so that is definitely, you know, then we'll get into the situation crying. you know, i've seen this before. remember that was the fear of what happened after the united states provided stinger missiles to the merger, dean in afghanistan in the 1980s that when that whole things last fall, yvonne rose up. we were very concerned that there are roach to hear a missiles running around the world. this is just the further illustration. united

states learned nothing from history. sadly. laurie, thank you so much for your time and your thoughts on the program today. we do appreciate it, laurie c johnson, former c i. e l. last well on the points laurie was just making their global military spending has nicer past 2 trillion dollars with the u. s. sitting firmly at the top of the table, the latest figures show it spends more on its military than the next 9 nations combined. but some are increasingly questioning if the nation's got its priorities in the right order. that comes as president biden's approval rating hits, a new law was 37 percent strongly disapproving of his performance nationwide. the survey shows people want the government to focus more inflation and soaring gas prices at the pumps, as well as surging crime rates, immigration on election. integrity was also of concern to americans. is businesses raising their prices? but getting ever bigger profits, you know, paper saying how does that work?

a recent study has shown an average profit growth is currently 50 percent. some big names though, like the retailer motel they've clocked in. an incredible $100.00 on 11000 percent . increase political analyst garlan nixon leads the us government's priorities or not. so the population of large wants them to be. what we're looking at is a country that has its priorities upside down and inside out. and here's what i mean. you know, the, the duty, the 1st duty of a government is to take care of the needs of the people. our government now takes care of the needs of a very small group of very powerful wealth, the oligarchy. so the military spending, interestingly enough, is partially about maintaining world hedge money. well, that's falling apart, but trying, trying to maintain world edge of a gemini. but the other big part of it is, it's about enriching

a small group of very wealthy people. our government has been wholly captured by the powerful oligarchy. i mean, we always use the term oligarchy. we're referring to russia, crane, or other countries. but none of those oligarchy are nearly as wealthy as the jeff bezos in the line mosques and the coke brothers in america. and they have wholly captured the u. s. government. so if you look at the priorities of the u. s. government in who they're representing, one could argue that yes, they've got their priorities in order because the people that they are representing are getting in rich as far as the other 330000000 of us, we no longer rank, very high and their list of priorities ukraine is important to the of the neo cards, to the beltway insiders, the pro war. and i'll use this term, fascist pro war beltway insiders in washington, d. c. they c ukraine as the top priority. but the people on the street are

concerned with, you know, feeding their children and keeping a roof over there. it s u. s. military spending. so where's the country secretary of state anthony blinking says it will support tie one's efforts to boost its military strength to repel, while they label chinese aggression. the biden administration is determined to make sure that taiwan has all necessary means to defend it, including unilateral action by china to disrupt the status quo. that's been in place now for many decades. but in response, the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said the country rejects blink and quote, deplorable statements. he also emphasized the importance of maintaining peace and stability in the taiwan strait. chinese financial analyst frances lun blazed washington's plans for taiwan or simply about the turing beijing us. we couldn't kill you to fly to taiwan, to try to china in,

based on taking over my lawn. that is, that your policy, you know, can be applied to taiwan. that case is going to be selling more, but still not be selling the most advantage. what everybody want to see if they will make this quote, nothing changes. i think that will be the will be best for everybody. ready that you and said, trying to economy a so much so in, in the fund that china we're about that you as the us china. so they will, they will have to talk to each other. russia has cold of provocative statements from ukraine, promising to occupy the brick, where trans,

nice to republic, if more, dover, requests it kiev, and turn house accuse ma school destabilizing the situation in the area. we should call me unless we clearly understand that these are the steps made by russia. she special forces are working there. it's not about fake news anymore. and we understand the goal is to destabilize the region to threaten moldova, moldova should call ukraine and romania for help due to the deteriorated situation in trans, in easter. if moldova asks ukraine, we can take trans nice or under control. ukrainian armed forces have enough strength for that. just some quick background on the area. trust nature is a break we're region of most over, which is russian peacekeeping forces station there it also was a long border with ukraine. the situation deteriorated on monday, after a local government office was shelves with a grenade launcher, a radio must on military bases, were also targeted. this morning,

firing reportedly from ukrainian territory, was heard near a huge arms deco. reacting to ukraine statements, val dover said the only solution concerning the trans, nicer issue is a political one, but the head of the republic claimed efforts. rhonda way to drive the region into the wider conflict local parliament member unrest. the phone of believes the statements from ukraine are simply a provocation. you're pretty much, we need to view the interview of our stove. it shows what are some other statements by such characters as bodacious in a deliberate provocation. and at the same time, an attempt to force trans nice did to make statements that can be used against us. so we have to keep the powder dry, how security forces do that. but at the same time, when to stand that both way and the russians can be provoked to do some unreasonable steps, ukrainian leadership is now trying to provoke russia in different areas. it seems trans needs to become a hostage of this situation to some ukrainian politicians look at it as rushes ally,

relying strictly on facts we can assess accordingly. the attack on tourist paul as well as the explosion that the radio mos transmitting russian radio to ukrainian territory, as well as some other actions. in any case, it can be seen as a provocation. we proceed from the premise that as our president said, those attacking the state security ministry building hate in ukrainian territory. another visit to the cross talk studios next. sit tight, peter, i guess get going in moments. this is ah ah

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