a with comes to the i was so, so it was made to unfortunately, nate or it seems, considers itself to be at the what was the rush, precious top diplomat warned is that all the weapon rate, that western power supply to give will be considered legitimate. military targets anti aircraft tanks that germany wanted to give ukraine could be useless as the available ammunition would be enough to cover only 20 minutes of come back. it makes a decision to deliver arms to ukraine is fundamentally wrong. there will intensify, in fact, can't de la ukrainian refugees are warmly welcomed in the you and the anti fraud investigation claims that asylum seekers from other countries were deported from

the block on a massive scale for years. without due process, the border guard agencies chief resigned over the scandal. bulgarian business men plead for negotiations with russian natural gas supplier gas from 2 days after moscow. stop sending the commodity to bulgaria because that country refused to pay in room with broadcasting lever to retro studios. most of this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. 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 ourselves at war. was nato unfortunate. the nato, it seems, considers itself to be at war with russia,

nato and the european union leaders are many of them in england, in the united states. so ball and a france, germany. and of course, sir, european union and chief diplomacy was at, but ill. they blankly publicly and persistently, se portion 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 are supplying arms through ukraine. we know the roots, ah, which are used for this, for this purposes. and as soon as this weapon saw reaching ukrainian territory, they are fair game, any weapon, any arms shipment on ukrainian secretary is legitimate

target. the u. s. congress has approved legislation to streamline the world war 2 era lend lease program to facilitate increased weapon race applies to ukraine and other eastern european countries to be used against russia. the bill was 1st introduced in january a month before the current ukraine conflicts began. washington has said that it has already sent more than $3000000000.00 worth of aid to ukraine. and now joe biden has requested congressional approval for another 33000000000 for the u. s. president has still insisted america does not want to get directly involved in ukraine. and is not fighting a proxy war against russia. despite the disturbing rhetoric coming out of the criminal facts are playing for everybody to see. we're not attacking russia, we're helping ukraine defend itself against russian aggression. as we mentioned, buyer wants to send more money to ukraine in military aid. that is,

despite an economic decline at home with the u. s. g d p, just playing 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. 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 shrink 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 bite and even stud 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 us economy,

that by then as attempting to sell to the public, he still claim p 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 measure, as well as our products. and it's not just by that and taught mainstream media outlets here in the u. s. are also trying to downplay concerns, arguing that americans should been stead be focusing on how much the economy has grown since 2020. when it essentially came to a standstill, now, all of this comes as the majority of americans have said that they are concerned about inflation remaining at 40 year highs. and they are concerned about the state of the u. s. 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 remains focused on making sure that ukraine has a host of new weapons. the, the average american who watches the news is definitely aware of the conflict because of the want. very one sided, slanted approach. it's been taken by the media, the government, and showing this war they, they bought into the notion of ukraine. good russia, bad. and therefore, are at least theoretically supportive of this provision of weaponry. the irony is, you know, we're actually weakening ukrainians by giving them this weaponry of the logistics, of sustaining this to maintain it is a nightmare. ukraine won't be able to do this. and i've said this before, and i'll say 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, just a statement that germany has admitted 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, kevin's to be active. but 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 and talks with brazil, cutter and jordan, which have bought such change from the past. media reports have speculated the german chancellor of schultz is likely aware of the problem, but still off the tanks. truly 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 themselves could only inflame tensions further dimension of the building. that's what we want to convey. a message that the decision to deliver arms to ukraine is fundamentally wrong. the world will

intensify. and that can be good. one of actually i think the sanctions in 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, why don't the governments of the western countries do everything in their power. all they have to do is to resolve conflicts to, to magically, instead of supplying weapons, imposing sanctions and inflame intention. scott ritter again, says you officials are supplying weapons to ukraine because otherwise they would be under extensive pressure from their constituencies. germany, like all other european countries, are under a tremendous amount of pressure from the united states to be seen is doing something to, to come to the assistance of ukraine. the other, the other thing that's 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 the united states to, to be seen is bending over backwards to ride ukraine with the weaponry they need to defend themselves. i've always been very worried about the, the light anti tank weapons to javelins the in laws, and then the mand, portable and here weapons like the stingers. 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. ukrainian army has allegedly shelled a border checkpoint and russia western brown's region and also damage to

a nearby towns cemetery. residents have reported dozens of explosions in the border region, but no casualties have been claimed. emergency workers have been sifting through the rubble and the governor has said that water and electricity supplies have been restored after being damaged by shelling from the creamy inside local residence. to have said that it is unbelievable really that the cemetery was what was shelled. hello, 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, there's not a more fine with that issue. of course. well, let's hand out the weapons. enough suffering already, don't you agree? so you know, if we need to do something, we need to fight the ukrainians. doing things i can't speak of the shelling

a cemetery. it's unbelievable. it's good. the residential area hasn't been harmed in response to the strengths on the russian border. the russian military has destroyed a ukrainian missile and aerospace factory and key of so they say moscow's defense minister said it is used. i high precision long range missile to target the facility and prevent unintended casualties. and as you can see here, it seems that the area around the factory was not damaged. moscow had earlier warned that it would conduct a swift response if areas within russia are attacked by ukrainian forces. the head of the e u. border guard agency front acts has announced his resignation after an anti fraud service uncovers allegedly unlawfully deportations of asylum seekers on the massive scale with evidence that they are cases are not actually being properly considered. that's in stark contrast to the current situation with ukrainian

refugees who are being warmly welcomed by the u. r. t. show different sky reports, the ears and pool. the agency has been coming under increasing scrutiny over the past few years. they have been allegations that foreign tax has been involved in illegal push backs of my grants that it's 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. the 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 tax don't start and end with it's leadership though. even the gary himself has 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 push backs as every one in need of protection. has the right to asylum, how should we act? a german government spokes person has destroyed his resignation as offering from texas the possibility of a new start. is that possible more so as you his open this,

who does say freely to those fleeing war in ukraine? there has been for many, an even greater sense of injustice in just how my grants and refugees from other countries have been treated by foreign tax agents install. the partitioning of europe in which fran text plays a central role is not a solution, but a racist. and imperial response. there is also britain this over the help that has been available to those coming from ukraine. reception centers 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 in reading was benjamin's with you rips refugee policy plunged into

accusations of being my it hypocrisy charlotte gibbons case all see paris the u. s. house of representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill legislative legalizing, excuse me, the seizure of russian assets in america to use them as aid to the ukraine government. some representatives, however, claimed that 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 as 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 then be used to help you crane, including for the purchase of weapons. moscow has denounced the move as illegal invalid response. the u. s. initiative has found supporters across the atlantic, though with irelands top people that saying dublin could allow the use of a 1000000000 euros in the frozen russian assets to rebuild the ukraine. we heard from international political expert dr. jack restless, who says the seizures would basically amount to economic piracy and would unfortunately not be a new phenomenon. this is a totally new, if you remember, the usaa seized venezuela's oil companies should go and then divvied up the proceeds to whomever and wandered. ah, the u. k sees the that as well as gold. ah,

and of course there were seizures of iranian assets a few years back as some illnesses just as just politics, as i said, is not new. but the republicans are taking advantage of it, rightly so. because what it bounced here is just 21st century economic piracy. you know, a 100 years ago they would send out their buccaneers under ships and raid the spanish gold ships in take the gold from the ships. 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 shouldn't be surprised. this is standard a practice by a u. s. economic empire. here in the 21st century, berlin's popular donor bob stands have also been impacted by the sanctions as increasing energy costs have driven them to raise the prices of their meals. when

popular bob stand at marrying dan station still has lines of customers, even with a 20 percent markup on their bob's to over 5 years of peace. but local say it is a significant different thing. it's got often do. i think there are many homeless people who probably would like to eat a doner kubat because they don't have many other options. if they're asking for spare change, maybe they can get one euro in an hour if they're lucky from 3 or 4 people. so the one euro price rise really makes a lot of difference in the it depends on the donner you could spend more for quality one, but not for a bad one. the sellers have to make ends meet, so it's justified, i think, but it should be only to a certain extent. it's definitely going to be a problem in the long run model. it's a topic that will concern us for years. it can't be compensated for so quickly. bulgaria, the deputy prime minister has insisted that the country should resume negotiations

with russian graphics. puerto gas prom to restore supplies. she made that announcement following a meeting with business leaders. that's after russia has cut off gas supplies to bulgaria and poland after they refused to pay for the commodity in roubles. what we discuss and what we suggest according to my employers, is that the government do everything possible to restore talks with guests from and deliver the contract. you leader ursula vander, line and foreign policy chief just a barrel. have said that russia's ultimatum amounts to blackmail they want the you to end its dependence on russian of fuel, but most gas problem customers, including the use largest economy. germany have complied with. mark goes request for ruble 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. nice to know, well,

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. let me say 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. and i think that the rising prices of 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 current, can i, sol, says bulgaria is still largely dependent on russian gas inputs. and occasionally by guerria, it is evident that that's, that has been this very strong connection to the russian gets employed by various, definitely a case at stake. also given the on 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, at several 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 an energy predicament. as algeria, one of its main gas providers threatens to suspend supplies, 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 it's now spain that is providing algerian gas to morocco, through a reverse flow. again, former austrian top diplomat, carrington, i sal, says algeria is energy resources are limited. a jerry a has been a traditional supply of natural gas for spain, much more for spain and italy done. for instance, france right, is old. ah, sometimes difficult sometimes very strong relations. but julia has come back on. he

had chan looks from an e u point a few like effect me 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 you 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 old bear in mind, cheery has all its production limits. it's a, it's a country that was as an i producing member country of optic is, is facing its geological limits. i have, i've no insight in its current potential as a gas produce and gas exporter. but i know that it has been facing the limits in particular, and it's kendall toys production on with the last years. as u. s. strategic relations with saudi arabia reach, new lowes, american tv,

news channel. cbs has released footage of 2911 hijackers with a saudi national, who allegedly have connections with rod intelligence. this comes a week after a bombshell, a few report said that the 3rd man might have had advanced knowledge of the attack or to kill them up and examined the details times in the united states. and saudi arabia seemed to be going a bit sour, and that gives the united states chance to play a car that particularly hurts 9. 11. cbs is now dropped a video of one of the hijackers partying with a saudi national back in 2000 early released video turned over to family members of 911 victims last month. along with more than 14000 pages of documents, the evidence obtain from british authorities raises new questions, actually renews an old one. did the saudi government assist the hijackers on 911?

the saudis have always deny that explosive question. saudi arabia is now repairing its relationship with iran. embassies should soon be reopening and their respective capitals. that's a move that cannot be favored by the united states. a month ago, we found out about a long suppressed f. b. i report that is saudi national was spying on the united states, on behalf of prince bandar, the information albert you, me obtained on persons of interest in the saudi community in los angeles, in san diego, and other issues which met certain general intelligence presidency requirements would be forwarded to vander vander would then inform the general intelligence presidency of items of interest to the general intelligence presidency for further investigation, vetting or follow up the report concluded that this spy couldn't actually known of the terrorist deadly plans that the f b i kept this hidden for years now that report dropped a month ago when the white house was going ahead to head with re odd over oil price

negotiations. in then there was some expectation of a phone call, but it didn't happen. it was part of turning on the spigot of saudi oil. it's not bad that more information about a deadly terrorist attack that killed thousands of americans and the perpetrators and some of their shady connections is being released. but what is concerning is that it seems like the deaths of thousands americans and finding out the truth about how it happened is turning into a bargaining chip. why was this information not released a long time ago in order to help prosecute those responsible for a deadly crime? why is it now being released as a point of political pressure? now let's be fair. i think if we had an honest government, this material should have been out in the open a long time before. this is not so much. why are they releasing it? but why haven't they reduced it up till now? if they're looking for a way to alienate reality, even further, this is a very short way to do it. the saudis are brutally realistic when looking out for

their own interest in the current context. they can see that with the weakening of american global power that russia is strengthening. china is strengthening u. s. relationship with saudi arabia and particularly between the biden ministration and saudi arabia. is that a record flow? if they think they're going to force your saudi arabia to get back on the american reservation, i think this is actually going to alienate them. further. nato troops have been seen traveling in huge columns through romania and poland. but both governments have said that there is nothing to worry about as they are pre scheduled trainings that were just not announced to the public. meanwhile, the bell, russian military has also conducted join to training exercises in russia to strengthen the already robust relationship between those 2 neighboring countries. r t c was john of comments. they may look like ordinary drills, but the 1st glance is deceptive. here. this is the 1st detachment of bel russian

troops to receive military training from russia. so a unit with the, by the russian up forces has spent whole month here, absorbing the knowledge and expertise of its russian colleagues. and now here they're showing off what they've learned. moskowitz minsk, are key strategic partners in these trying times. given that bella rose has long been concerned over the impenetrable, etc of its borders, bolstering security tops. it's to do list. this is where russia stepped in to help and share its combat experience. in the 1st move of its kind, litchell's, he thought the training of the bella ruffian tank company has just been completed. at 1st, we checked the personnel preparation level based on this training programs for every service, man, crew and platoon were drawn up. the main emphasis was put on the interaction between various types of troops in the future will such joint military training of the country's armed forces will be continued logwood. upon to day,

the 1st training of the belushi and division was accomplished. it is already possible to say that their level of training is quite good. excellent. conditions were created for the personnel. this event helps the countries armed forces to get to know each other better and learn. they did that at least it's during a month of joint drills, we were trained to coordinate our work with various types of troops. we've gained a lot of experience from the russian federation officers and got acquainted with new types of weapons that will soon appear in the republic of belarus. for the last course and award ceremony, best marksman, get honorary diplomas and watches. and the clear message has been sent, russia and belarus are in it together. and both nations fire power is ready to be fused together too. if need be. i'm a guest on of reporting for r t that those are for me this hour of back in 29 minutes.