a false claim, hulu. ah, we don't consider, i was so sick, it was natal unfortunately, and they thought it seems considers itself to be at the what was russian prussia, top diplomat warns that all the weaponry that western powers supplied to care will be considered legitimate. military targets anti aircraft tanks that germany wanted to give that ukraine could be useless as the available ammunition would be enough to cover only 20 minutes of combat. to make a decision to deliver arms to ukraine is fundamentally wrong. they will intensify. and that can be cool with the chief of the you border guard agency front. jackson, resigned after an investigation reveals, migrants were allegedly deported on

a massive scale without their cases being properly considered. bulgarian business men plead for negotiations with russian natural gas, a supplier gas from 2 days after moscow. stop sending the commodity to bulgaria because that country refused to pay in roubles with broadcasting live direct marsh studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us are now russia's top diplomat has said in a recent interview that moscow does not view nato as a direct enemy in the ukraine conflict. but western powers are continuing to press on with their aggressive rhetoric against russia. we don't consider, i was so sick, it was nato, unfortunate in they thought it seems, considers itself to be at the what was russia, nato and the european union leaders. many of them in england,

in the united states. so ball and a france, germany and of course sir european, the union in chief diplomacy was at, but ill, they blankly publicly and persistently, se 14 must fail. russia must be defeated. when you use this terminology, i believe your thing that you at the war was the person whom you want to be defeated. yes, they're supplying arms, the ukraine. we know the roots, ah, which are used for this for this purposes. and as soon as this weapon saw a reaching ukrainian territory, they are fair game, any weapon, any arms shipment on the ukraine in theory, theory is legitimate target. the u. s. congress has approved legislation to

streamline the world war 2 era lend lease program to facilitate increased weaponry supplies, to ukraine, and to other eastern european countries to be used against russia. and the bill was 1st introduced in january a month before the current ukraine conflicts began. washington has said that it's already sent more than $3000000000.00 worth of a t crane. and now joe biden has requested the congressional approval for another 33000000000. but the u. s. president has still insisted america doesn't want to get directly involved in ukraine and is not fighting a proxy war against russia despite the disturb rhetoric coming out of the criminal and the facts are playing for everybody to see. we're not attacking russia, we're helping ukraine defend itself. against russian aggression, as we mentioned earlier, biden wants to send more money abroad in military age to ukraine. that's despite an economic decline at home with the u. s. g d p, displaying its worst performance in years leading some critics of the u. s.

president, to say that he's putting america last instead of 1st joe biden, once another $33000000000.00 for ukraine. when does it end? does he expect the taxpayer to rebuild ukraine to after the war is over? how much will that cost? just in biden wants to send $33000000000.00 to ukraine. i say, hell no, not a dime should go overseas, especially while america's economy is in decline. no more america, last policies. the timing is certainly notable right now because when we look at the data, it's adding to the increasing concerns for the u. s. economy. and yet, it seems as though the u. s. government is more concerned about ukraine. in fact, right now, as president biden calls on congress to approve another $33000000000.00 and funding for ukraine, congress is also calling on by then to sign off on the return of the lend lease act

. now that's a world war 2 era program, which essentially allows us companies to provide new weapons and equipment for allied countries like ukraine, without traditional government oversight, and without any promise or plans to immediately pay for those weapons and equipment . so that seems to be where congress has their focus. but then at the same time here in the united states, the latest data shows that the us economy shrank unexpectedly in the 1st quarter of 2022 with g d p falling 1.4 percent. now the main culprit here has been supply chain shortages, and that's incredibly notable because biden even said when he was announcing unprecedented sanctions against russia earlier this year, that there would be an impact on global supply. however, even though we're not seeing the strong u. s. economy that by then as attempting to sell to the public. he still claims he is not concerned. well, i'm not concerned about recession. i mean,

you're always concerned about recession, but the g, d, p, you know, follow 1.4 percent, but here's the deal. we're also had last quarter consumer spending and business investment residential investment increased in significant rates, both per leisure, as well as harm products. and it's not just bite and taught mainstream media outlets here in the u. s. are also trying to downplay concerns, arguing that americans should be instead, be focusing on how much the economy has grown since 2020, when it essentially came to a standstill. now all of this comes in the majority of americans have said that they are concerned about inflation remaining 40 year hide, and they are concerned about the state of the us economy. we know that we now have the mid term elections coming up in just a few months yet, while americans have made it clear where they want their focus to be. it appears as

though bite and remain focused on making sure that you crane has a host of new weapons. germany has admitted that the anti aircraft tanks it wants to give to ukraine, could be useless due to a lack of ammunition enough to cover only about 20 minutes of combat. now the 50 jeopardy tanks slated for ukraine could require hundreds of thousands of bullets for their twin canons to be effective. if there are only $23000.00 rounds available in germany, only enough for less than half an hour of intense fighting to get more ammunition, germany is in talks with brazil, cutter and jordan, which have bought such tanks in the past. with reports have speculated that the german chancellor of sholtes, he's likely aware of the problem, but still offered the tanks to relieve political pressure on his leadership. as the lack of ammunition means that the tanks might not be effective. some germans have said that the weaponry deliveries could only further inflame tensions. good motion

of the plaza building. that's what we want to convey. a message that the decision to do, we are arms to ukraine is fundamentally wrong. the world will intensify and that can be good. thanks to one of actually i think the sanctions and arms deliveries are completely wrong approach, which is playing with fire. and it will at some point become a real conflagration. because the threat of war war 3 will escalate more and more of actually from the why don't the governments of the western countries you ever seen in their power. all they have to do is to resolve conflicts to a magically instead of supplying weapons, imposing sanctions. and inflame intentionally or less cross live to scott ritter, a former marine corps intelligence officer, author and analyst. thanks for being with us here on our teacher national. now you're one of the people who wanted to talk to you about this, specifically because of your knowledge in the area. germany has now announced that it will ultimately send heavy artillery to give after much hesitation. why do you

think the sudden change right now? well, i think germany, like all other european countries, are under tremendous amount of pressure from the united states to be seen is doing something to, to, to come to the assistance of ukraine or the other. the other thing was going on is that ukrainian army is under a great deal of stress there being rapidly attributed. they're in danger of collapsing, you know, within a matter of days or weeks. and if they collapse in germany is seen as having done nothing that's going to create some political problems for the german leadership. so that's why i think you're seeing right now, a great rush on the part of a variety of nations, including united states to, to be seen is bending over backwards to provide ukraine with weaponry. they need to defend themselves. so some to me that at least that sounds a little bit counter intuitive is that the u. k. armed forces minister said that

this week, ukraine has the right to attack russian territory with native weapons. how surprising is such a rhetoric given that the west is publicly calling for a peaceful resolution? well, i think the less is contra peaceful resolution. i think the west is calling for a lengthy, you know, this conflict for the purpose of defeating russia. i mean, the united states has said that it and remember when we're talking about ukraine, there's only one voice accounts. it's united states, no other voice matters. so when you say the west that you're saying the united states in the united states, you said that the policy is to defeat russia strategically. and that entails making russia suffer such grievous losses that they not only can never again threaten ukraine, but they can't threaten any other european nation in a similar fashion. so that's the true objective of the united states and nato, at this point. kind of a building on your point there. russians of foreign minister says that nato

countries are now fighting, basically a proxy war with russia by sending in their arms. what's your opinion on that? there's no doubt about it. i mean, this is indeed what's, what's happening. i mean again. busy petitions can spend things any way they want, but when the facts are there right in front of you, you know, nato trained ukrainian army. it was, even though ukraine wasn't a member of nato, their military operators, a de facto proxy of nato, and nato is now arming, clipping the ukrainian military for the sole purpose of killing russians. let's be blunt about the job or the training military. from the perspective the united states and nato is to kill. ready russians and believe russia dry, this is a proxy war between nato and russia. an incentive nato troops di, however, it ukrainian troops that are now a tinderbox is probably a very easy way to put it, but there's so much weaponry right now heading into ukraine. do we really need, i mean, we need to be concerned right about where or who's hands. it might ultimately end

up. well, having the heavy weaponry. no, i mean you, you can still a tank on the black market very easily. i've always been very worried about the, the light anti take weapons to javelin. the in laws didn't demand portable anti air weapons like the stingers. you know, these weapons can in art, a valuable commodity on the black market. terrorists would love to get their hands on them and flooding ukraine, which is a nation in chaos where a criminal element has been released from prison literally to be armed with these weapons to, to fight the russians. you know, this criminal element doesn't exist because it's patriotic. ukraine exist because it's a criminal element. and they, they have links to the black market. and i'm very concerned that these light weapons, these man portable weapons, will find their way out of ukraine into the black market. into the hands of terrorists or criminal elements who, who, who will do western society harm. that's got you and i,

we talk about the stuff every single day. it's our job, we follow closely. but we've seen the other day that the biden administration is calling on congress to approve $33000000000.00 in funding for ukraine, saying that most of the money would go for military assistance. he added this kind of interesting point that the american people can do their part to help the people of ukraine on the ground there in the states. do you think regular americans are feeling the same way about the situation? i mean, are they even thinking about the war in ukraine to the lord? ukraine is ever present in the news. ready so the average american who watches the news is definitely aware of the conflict. i don't think they're aware of the, the nuances or the details. but because of the want, very one sided, slanted approach. it's been taken by the media and the government selling this war . they, they bought into the notion of ukraine, good russia, bad. and therefore, are at least theoretically supportive of this provision of luxury. the irony is,

you know, we're actually weakening ukrainians by giving them this weapon, ria, the logistics of sustaining this and maintain it is a nightmare. ukraine won't be able to do this. and i've said this before, and i'll say it again here. now, every ukrainian who operates an american provided weapon system is doomed to die in the united states instead of helping ukrainians is help is murdering ukrainian. just this is the statement that now going from giving to some and taking away from the other. the white house has also asked for congressional approval to have more tools to fees assets from russian individuals and sell them to support ukraine's war effort. is that legal or is it essentially theft staffed? i mean there's no doubt about it it's. it's the step plain simple you say is illegal. look, the united states is a law to itself. we can apparently do anything we want anytime we want to anybody we want. and you know what, these,

these russian citizens don't have recourse to justice. what are they going to do? come the united states and sued the united states. so no it's, it's definitely an illegal act. it violates everything we tend to stand for. and yeah, we're going to do it anyways because that's how we've always operated or had scott ritter, former marine corps intelligence officer, author and analyst. thanks for being with us and arch international. very interesting to hear us. thanks rem. new korean army has allegedly shelled a border checkpoint in russia's western brown sc region and also damaged a nearby towns cemetery. residents have reported dozens of explosions in the border region, but no casualties have been claimed. as of yet, emergency workers have been sifting through the rubble. the governor has said that water and electricity supplies have been restored after being damaged by showing from the ukrainian side. local residents have said that it's unbelievable that a cemetery was shelf design. the shells flew in our direction.

everything exploded here in the direction of the cemetery. the explosions were heard after 9 o'clock from the ukrainian side. cook was but anyways, not a more fine on that issue. of course. well, let out the weapons enough suffering already. don't you agree? well, i think we need to do something. we need to fight the ukrainians, doing things i can't speak of shelling a cemetery. it's unbelievable. it's good. the residential area hasn't been hom, in response to the strikes on the russian border. the russian military has destroyed a ukrainian missile and aerospace factory mtf, moscow's defense ministry, said it used a high precision long range missile to target the facility and prevent unintended casualties. now you can see here that the area around the factory does not appear to be damaged. moscow had earlier warned key of that it would conduct a swift responsive areas within russia are attacked by ukrainian forces.

the u. s. house of representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill legalizing the seizure of russian assets in america to use them as aid to ukraine government. some representatives, however, claims the measure is unconstitutional. giving joe biden unilateral authority to seize property in the united states without any due process sets a dangerous and disturbing precedent. the bill provides essentially no evidentiary standards for assets. seizure contains 0 measures to ensure transparency and accountability. the bill effectively gives the president a blank check to fund poorly defined democracy and human rights programming and monitoring. this vote asked president biden to violate the 4th amendment. sees private property and determine where it would go all without due process. the new legislation allows for the seizure of assets worth more than $2000000.00 belonging

to those supporting russia. the liquidated resources would be then used to help you crane, including for the purchase of weapons. moscow has denounced the move as illegal and vowed response. and the u. s. initiative has found supporters across the atlantic with ireland top diplomat saying dublin could allow the use of a 1000000000 euros in frozen russian assets to rebuild ukraine. war this flip cross live to dr. jack rasmus, a professor of economics and politics at st. mary's college of california. thanks for being with us here in our international. my pleasure. so if we get right down to it, is it justifiable to see the property of russians, most of whom literally have nothing to do with the war? well, we shouldn't be surprised because this isn't totally new. if you remember, the u. s. seized venezuela's oil companies should go and then divvy up the proceeds to whomever in wanted. the u. k. sees the that as well as gold.

and of course, there were seizures of arabian assets a few years back as a minister, just as just politics. as i said, it's not new, but republicans are taking advantage of it, rightly so, because what it amounts to is this one of her century economic piracy. you know, a 100 years ago they would send out their buccaneers and their ships and raid the spanish gold ships and take the gold from the ships. now, well, today's all done electronically, you see, and through the banks and the u. s. control the global currency banking system makes it quite easy to do that. so now there's no justification for the legal or otherwise, but that we should be surprised. this is standard a practice by a u. s. economic empire. here in the 21st century that sees itself under increased a challenge and threat, resorting to direct action. you might say to preserve itself the sanctions being at

the heart of that but other measures as well. and we're going to see a lot more of this as the employer comes under, even greater pressure here in the years to come. but it's certainly not legally justified. even a, i think the sale you came out against it here in the united states. so on. but there, you know, we shouldn't be surprised, and i don't think this is not unrelated to current us politics and to run up to the november elections in which the democrats are probably gonna get slaughtered . so terms of the legal ambiguity of this whole thing. we know about eminent domain that if the government thinks that it's in the greater good they can go ahead and take property. but the u. s. 4th amendment also protects against seizures of property. do you think that it's being properly considered in such a situation? well, in the 4th amendment protects against seizures of property period, it doesn't say against just seizures of american properties is property in general . you know, and that's, that's

a fundamental principle. a capitalist economy here protect private property and legal rights and so forth. but it just shows you that will know, you know, there's geo politics involved. you know, the 4th amendment doesn't really mean very much. and, you know, even free speech show when they declare martial law doesn't mean very much. so, you know, the constitution can be and often is abrogated here when you have this kind of a definite strategy on the part of united states to create brzezinski to point no doctrine with dr. russia in ukraine. that's really what's going on. and there's one end of this war u. s. wants to keep going and debilitate russia economically and hopefully politically. as a result, you know, it sees the strategy use a 19 eighties to help bring down the soviet union, which had some effect in that regard in, you know, they can't come up with something even more creative. so they're trying to

resurrect the brzezinski doctrine. and that's what we got going on there in ukraine . all right, jack rasmus, very interesting to hear thoughts on professor of economics and politics at st. mary's college of california. thanks for being with us here on our tea international. my pleasure. i. i the head of the you border guard agency front tax has announced his resignation after an anti fraud service and covers allegedly unlawfully deport aided asylum seekers on a massive scale with evidence that they are cases are not actually properly considered. that's in stark contrast to the current situation with ukrainian refugees who are being warmly welcomed by the u. r t. shalley davinsky has more. the ear is in full, the agency has been coming on the increasing scrutiny over the past few years. have been allegations that from tax has been involved in illegal pushback of my goods that failed to protect the human rights of asylum seekers and that there has been

mismanagement. a pro was launched in january 2021 by the use anti food office. oh, life. it has been completed, but while the results don't get publicly known, report suggests that it is not a flattering report. it's understood that the report found the agencies boss. this is fabulously gary was dishonest with you and didn't follow procedures. he's now offered to resign. for some though, that isn't enough from text, direct allegory has finally resigned today. it's a scandal that it took so long after countless lies deceptions and human rights violations. the structural problem at the core of front text persists. but jerry has gone, but front x has many senior officials heavily involved in systematic push backs. the european anti fraud office report can tell us who else is guilty, but front x wants to keep it secret. so many the issues it from tex,

don't start and end with it's leadership though. even the gary himself was previously admitted that he doesn't know exactly what the agencies food mission is between the imperative not to allow people to cross a regularly in the other. the principle of non reform and which forbids pushed back so as everyone in need of protection has the right to asylum. how should we act? a german government spokesperson has destroyed his resignation. as offering from tex the possibility of a new start. what is that possible more so as you his own from this food is a free to those fleeing war? in ukraine, there has been for many, an even greater sense of injustice in just how my goodness and refugees from other countries have been treated by foreign tax agents install. the partitioning of europe in which friend text plays a central role is not a solution but

a racist in imperial response. there is also bitterness over the help that has been available to those coming from the ukraine. reception senses with food, clothes medicines, you countries have offered a welcome that has been described as the gold standard. but at what cost, there are now allegations that hundreds of refugees in germany who fled the taliban in afghanistan. and now being displaced in favor of those who crane all of this is reading resentment with you rips refugee policy plunged into accusations of being myatt hypocrisy. charlotte gdc. i'll see paris bulgarian, deputy prime minister has insisted the country should resume negotiations with russian gas export or gas prom to restore supplies. she made that announcement

following a meeting with business leaders. that's after russia cut off gas supplies to bulgaria and poland after they refused to pay for the commodity and roubles. what we discuss and what we suggest according to my employers, is that the government do everything possible to restore talks with guess from and deliver the contract. you leader ursula is underline and foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, have said russia's ultimatum amounts to blackmail they want you to end it's dependence on russian fuel. but most gas problem customers, including the use largest economy, germany, have complied with moscow's request for rouble payments. austria and germany have said that stopping fuel imports from russia could lead to a deep economic recession. those concerns have been echoed by residents of countries that have refused to comply with that, you know, i think it will be extremely bad for us, but what i'm waiting for is the government to resign. i expect new elections and a new normal government because we cannot expect anything good from the current one

. i expect it to have a catastrophic effect. prices will grow up more. that's the way it will be. i think this is the government's job to consider and resolve the problem. that's what they are going to do. in fact, they will resolve it. it has become clear that we can get gas from europe, but at a higher price. so i do not believe it's an appropriate solution if gas is halted from russia. let's not forget that many countries will pay in roubles to get gas from russia despite the imposed sanctions. as i understand it, we will not do so when we say well, it is difficult for me to imagine how we will continue to live with such increases . i think that this will lead to an increase in poverty or the impoverishment of society in general. people it will be a bit harder now because practice will, will increase. yes. i think that the rising prices are worrying a soul,

but we believe that we will deal with it and that these increases will be quite bearable for us. former austrian top diplomat currently can i sell, says bulgaria is still largely dependent on russian gas imports. and occasionally by guerria, it is evident that that's, that has been very strong connection to, to russian gets employed by the area is definitely a case at stake. also given the, the rather low purchase power off the average barbarian citizen. and i remember that in by the area we have seen over the last 15 years, et cetera, instances, social unrest because of high electricity bills because of high utility prices to topic that is very close to the everett i've given citizen, i would say, and i can also imagine that officials are especially sensitive to the topic because of the very, very specific history, recent history. elsewhere in europe,

yet another country, spain is in energy predicament. as algeria, one of its main gas providers threatens to suspend supplies. now, the problem is not only affecting spain, but also algeria is neighbor morocco, one of spain's chief trade partners relations between algeria and morocco. took a dive last year after algeria halted supplies through one of its pipelines and is now spain that's providing algerian gas to morocco. through a reverse flow again, foreign, austrian top ment, diplomat, current crisis says algeria is energy resources are limited. a jimmy a has been a traditional supply of natural gas for spain, much more for spain and italy done. for instance, france writers or sometimes difficult sometimes very strong relations. but a julia has come back on he had chan love from an e u point a few. like if i may be a little bit ironic out,

people are looking on the map and say, well, we don't want to have for gas for russia, so let us look for gas. and whereas, and the rehab, it's not africa. so cheerier has gained some extra activity and everybody is speaking of a jury on once again. but let us also bear in mind, cheery has all its production limits. it's a, it's a country that as an i producing member country of optic, is, is facing it's q, logical limits. i have, i'm at no insight in current potential as a gas producer and gas exporter. but i know that it has been facing the limits in particular when it came to fly production over the last years for the from re this our more news in about 29 minutes. this is our international theories.