ah ah, are you a secretary of state posts about promoting freedom of speech in america? just by criticism for banning up opposing narratives? india is prime minister continues his to of europe and that ongoing western pressure on you daily to drop its neutrality over the war. new crane and join the cooking functions against russia. cracks appear in european society over military support for kids as hundreds of vulgarians protest against weapons supplies to ukraine. if you know us is that we want to ban approved the bulgarian territory be used for hitting either of both countries of the war. one of the government's favorite phrases as they cannot stand active against the injustice. but nowadays, they are ready to introduce the bulgarian people to

a war with hello and welcome to international arm. your host, leslie, and i'll be with you for the next 30 minutes. thanks for joining us. well, moving to the one ukraine in the mo, met at the main event there in the city of mario poll, fighting has intensified as at the besieged as av still still works it follow 2 days of sci fi at the factory when hundreds of civilians were evacuated, meanwhile, in little guns, could public russian forces say they are almost in full control of the city of business. the areas witness fighting since the very start of rushes offensive, and civil hotspots still remain. your secretary of state antony blinkin has praised america as a haven for freedom of speech. but that's despite much criticism. states, side of the pressure applied in the media of abuse, opposing official,

and mainstream narratives. unsafe, has the more in the right to free, lose brushing, voting for brush or and also for work. i mean, while dividing administration has announced the formation of a so called ministry of truth to fight the spread of disinformation on the internet . the critics claim, it's a way to control the narrative and an effective means to silence to send. you can delve more into that story at r t dot com. but critics have slammed the idea of free press. in the u. s. the world free free the world press freedom index, which assesses the state of journalism in a 180 countries, currently ranks america 42nd place globally. the european federation of journalist cause are the case of the wiki league, found a gillian assange. he's wanted in the u. s. for publishing classified fowls and

faces up to 175 years in jail. the us justice department continued pursuit of the extradition of weekly, found a jeweler and a sons from the u. k to the u. s. set of dangerous legal precedent. they moved to prosecute him under the u. s. espionage undermined press freedom globally. the extra territorial application of the u. s. espionage act could also threaten any journalist anywhere for publishing classified us information in his tirade. the arguing that the united states is a champion of freedom, criticized in countries that are critical of united states or opponents of the united states and the political stage and the name of opposing in the name of freedom and promoted freedom. anthony blank and relied heavily on the world press freedom index, published by reporters without borders and that world press freedom index that it was published actually did highlight a big polarization in media and talk about how the media is viewing divisions that are taking place. now it's also important to know that an opposition network,

an outlet is critical, of the russian govern, was invited to that press conference. however r t and other networks that are more sympathetic, they were not allowed to participate yet. anthony blank and continued to maintain that it's the united states as the champion of freedom of the press. now, it's also important to note that he seems to think in addition to believing that somehow the states is promoting free braswell. it tries to shut down criticism of its foreign policy. he also seems to believe that us officials know better. what's best for russia better than russians do the policies of the united states over the past few months. they've been doing everything they can to shut down and silence media that fruits forward. any perspective critical of the nato perspective, when it comes to the situation in ukraine, they are working to try and shut down tv networks and shut down dissident viewpoints. they're encouraging censorship on social media outlets. so i mean,

they were ever words laced with utter hypocrisy. there was those words we just heard from anthony blank and claiming that the united states is promoting free press and freedom of speech, which is the opposite of what u. s. foreign policy has been about in the last few months. jonas daniel lazar believes the us government has politicized the price and uses it for its own interest. us has a double standard that's just glaring. the u. s. a shut down r t america. it essentially has threatened with fines. anybody who writes for other russian websites, it has a very important journalist name julian sonjee, languishing in a, in a british prison awaiting extradition to the u. s. presses politicize. the press has been as being used by the american government to advantage the own interest. it's just completely appalling, completely corrupt and, and completely anti intellectual as well. americans need both sides of the argument

. they need the russian point of view. they need the american point of view and they need critical opinion in between. busy an order to judge what's going on in the world, and especially in the ukraine and freedom of the press is not covering up the political nature of the ass off battalion in mary a pool. because we know they're neo nazis. no matter how much antony blinkin tries to, to deny it the ceo of the parlor micro blogging network. george farmer shared his views on freedom of speech as well as the dominance of lift. when politicians on social networks i think that free speech is an absolute and that free speech needs to be held equally applicable to all organizations. if you start putting yourself into a position where your subject could be judging organizations upon the merits of

something that you will having to decide, i think that that ends up in a very slippery slope. how long before you decide that there are other organizations or news companies or whatever it is that you don't want to hear that the points are soon as you start shutting down the conversations. as soon as you start coming to judge yourself, then that's a very dangerous position to be and it is an absolute right to free speech is an absolute on twitter has been the flag barris of the work crowd. and that i think is something that very frightened of losing the the left has not respected the principle of free speech for a long time. this is part of the problem. part of the problem is that they don't perceive free speech to be a right. they don't receive free speech to be something that should be respected. in many ways actually want to shut down speech. they want to control speech. they don't want to give freedom of opinion. they don't want to give freedom of the press . they don't want to get freedom of dialogue and so you're seeing it right now.

you're seeing it today, you're seeing it in the past year, you saw donald trump removed from twitter. they would lose the ability to do things like that. that would be very concerning for them, and this is why it's in the city such a harsh reaction from the left. i'm a nerd, so this is such a dangerous a backlash against 40 on the lamasta's trying to do the indian prime minister in new england mode. he is on a diplomatic to of europe. it's his 3rd and final day, he's already visited germany and denmark and is due next in france. it's his 1st visit to the waste since the start of the conflict in ukraine, coming against a backdrop, up diplomatic in fighting and pressure on your daily to join the sanctions regime against russia. with all the details he has article sing, dry minister, not in the mo, the on his 2nd day of the tour in europe met danish prime minister,

met frederickson. and in their bilateral talks, they talked about several issues, including by nature, trade on technology, innovation in r g, especially if you knew, i believe, are g as well as ukraine. in fact, prime minister, not in the movie called for beef in your brain and an end to war. you couldn't hear some good at the start of the wall. we immediately called for a cease fire and reiterated that dialogue is the only way to find a solution that we know when is at the end of this wall. everyone will suffer losses. and that's why we want peace. energy prices skyrocketing food shortages, the spreading. this affects the every family in the world from yesterday, braden's turn it into more be met german chancellor or lock shows. and in there by electric agreement, they in fact agreed to set up

a green hydrogen da spores. apart from that, germany yesterday had demonstrations for and against india in the context of ukraine i've ever times to movie to these tours has refused to criticize or condemn russia. in fact, even today, in his meeting with the danish prime minister, there was no mention of russia whatsoever. the law stopped off rims to moody in this visit. we'll be in fattest, where he will meet present emanuel macro after his recent re election. in fact, to the store that has been, have been attempts by the european leaders to pressure dies ramen's to moby to condemn russia. but that ramps are more has so far not, not only, not mentioned russia, buddy has continued just to bite the russian crude oil by the discount

prices. policy expert on indian affairs commission cold. but he's russia has always been an important strategic partner for new denny. and says, wisdom politicians, one change that i don't think so in didn't, i mean, it's still really laid into condemning. but if you go back, russia has been strong ally then india. mm hm. but it's not in the past. maybe few stairs and it hasn't been russia that has come forward and supported india. so today, if you look at, i'm just, i'm not in the movie underwood. mr. not it is one of the school yesterday. and it seemed our when it came to cord back to mission, when it came to over to soft gosh, looking forward. india has strategic dia for energy, for telecom. and when it comes to the oil market, a stronger lines that russia, and do you see that,

that one is not going to get broken down. a bunch of that d 7 group is also amendment of bricks read russia. he's a strategic partner, you know, all the time. i think peace because india is one country which is suffering the maximum because of this war. if you got to be the engine oil prices in india, those massive b and that stuff like that got good because 90 percent of that y comes from russia . if you look at prices that i don't, particularly in india, our ecosystem is often the most. so in there wants peace between russia and ukraine and debate. i missed those. i get the best to sling. i don't know. i don't know any one time they're talking about these. and the 2nd time we are sending weapons, how can you have peace negotiations? why you're sending weapons to ukraine diet. so i think indian by mr. understand that far and it didn't by mr. is that who ensure that there may be more

partners in europe who can support you? great. not to wage war, but get into the negotiation with fighting has intensified at the besieged itself, still still works in the city of my real pull explosions with her count the day on tuesday. the one machine officials is around a $150.00 civilians are still sheltering in the factories basements. over the weekend, the fire was announced in the area for several days, allowing more than $100.00 civilians to be evacuated to safety. during that time, the order the russian voted evacuation of civilian from the adults still factory. mario paul also involved the you and the red cross. during an online press conference, the red cross representative to ukraine confirmed to r t that the organization was aware of both russia and cranes previous in numerous

attempts to open humanitarian car doors and the obstacle faced in completing the evacuations. i know that there were many attempts on both sides to open inquiry doors, and we were always ready to facilitate that and to undo, participate in those corridors. we managed to go one, almost somebody, but i think it was a month ago. we need constantly to ensure that everybody on the ground was aware of the agreement that the, that was, that was taken at the capital level. in other words, it's transforming it, secrete guarantees for us, for the civilians into practical working modalities. they cannot be an agreement middle of the night for an operation that is taking place next day in the morning. and then the security situation. i don't know whether the that there is.

but after several days you can imagine with a fire fragile fire. the security conditions or the, the government for the sake of easy conditions were not met anymore. and that's why we were told that the operation was to, you know, to, to be put to an end. and that's why we came back and again, if tomorrow such conditions are met, we are ready to go. since the end of april, russian forces say they are almost in full control of the city of bethany in the guns republic. the areas witness fighting since the very start of russia offensive and civil hotspots still remain ortiz maria phenomena sent this report from the field as to weeks. so fears fighting the town of business, he is now completely under the control of russian forces, together with units from the people's republic of la guns and supported by chechen fighters. they are now focused on the local zed. yeah. gunpowder factory. located

in the industrial zone on the outskirts of the city, it is heavily fortified, ukraine's military, together with a nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries occupying it. they could tough a position, shows them at the moment, was the task is to capture and completely liberate the zari of plan from the enemy . then we will wait for further instructions. for june, it was the goal is difficult, but not impossible. the fighter se with optimism, we go with them on their nightly patrol. the why the aim of the operation is to secure a further progress towards elicit chance and 7 than he asked the last 2 strongholds of the ukrainian forces and the republic. the army continues their relentless advance had night. fighter is move without flies, and we use infrared camrys so that we are not located and targeted by ukrainian drones, silent fast, and deadly weapons. russian force is also used drones,

political with the help of a quad copter, we can figure out the enemy's positions and carry out surgical strikes. using the quad comforter offensively helps to find out the enemy's positions in. it's a big help. over the last hours, the joint forces have managed to take control of the 1st line of defense around visit our planned old counter attacks where repelled venom mental at the moment we're about 100 people have been eliminated in about 10 units of heavy equipment have been destroyed, there is resistance, we have a task and we are carrying it out all. there are quite a lot of foreign made weapons and we have clashes with these on a daily basis. we are confiscating them afterwards will follow cut in supplies to ukrainian forces on the dunbar for is now a priority control over the entire industrial zone will not only pave the way towards least a chance can say that of enhanced but also help gain control over the entire territory of the republic, or if notional, how t from to the engine,

and the cia ones russians to contact them to the doc. net, and nicholas, which is often used for legal and criminal activities. this my agency went as far as publishing and instruction in russian on its social media channels on how to weeks them. there are concerned russians who are desperately trying to reach cia. it's not safe to directly engage americans, physically or virtually in russia. for those people that want to engage with securely, this is the way to do it. first, i think that they expect to perhaps encourage someone in the russian government with access to sensitive information or classified information, perhaps in the russian intelligence services or the russian ministry of defense, or ministry of foreign affairs, to maybe reach out to them with sensitive information. this is

a way for them to develop a spy to develop a source that can report back to them. but then on the other hand, i think that they also expect to worry the russian government a little bit. maybe you throw this out there. you throw this information out there and you hope that the russians then clamped down on their own people that they become a. ready suspicious of their employees and it makes working on a day to day basis, a little more difficult. the ca created a darknet site in 2019 that has the same features as its regular home page. however, its only accessible to the top internet browser, which has encryption features, not available on most regular browsers. again into this form, a, c, i, a analysts, john kerr, yackel who thinks the move by the c. i a, is yet another way for us to interfere in the russia ukraine conflict. i think what this was meant to do was to disrupt the russian government to make the russians

think that they have spies among them. that there are spies in the russian government working for american intelligence. even if there aren't any. this at least allows the cia to disrupt, to upset the russians to, to make their job a little bit harder. i think the american government has made it clear in a 100 different ways that they, that they want to interfere and the russian ukrainian conflict. it's not just trying to recruit spies to steal secrets, it's providing weaponry. it's providing ammunition, it's providing international political support. it's kind of cutting off russian access to international banking. it's cutting off russian energy supplies. so there are a 100 different ways in which the united states is working against russia in patients, that gas prices up, the cost of living stuff. in fact,

the only thing that isn't going up in the u. s. is joe biden's approval rating down another 9 percent in recent polls. it's even mid to one tv host, calling for his impeachment, claiming the destiny of the nation is at stake. but is by the really the one calling the shots of america. future ortiz, rachel blevins, takes a closer look. president joe biden approval ratings remain near all time low with the majority of americans. again, expressing concerns over the weekends administration has handled everything from soaring inflation to an increase in crime across the country. in fact, even speakers at the white house correspondents dinner had to note that the approval of the american people may be the only thing that isn't increasing for the buying and ministration ever since you've come into office. things are really looking up, you know, gases up rent is up, food is up, everything. know, it really has been a tough 1st year for you, mister president. and that's not even mentioning the increasing tension between the

us and russia as bite and calls on congress to approve an additional $33000000000.00 and funding for ukraine, while the president and i'll do policies that could impact the world for decades to come. he continues to struggle giving basic speeches as another reason paul shows the majority of americans are concerned about his age and the doubt whether he is mentally fit for office. we're going to accommodate the re to caesar yards, luxury homes and other got engaged of prudence cryptography. yeah. cryptography, the club, the guys who are the club, ta chrissy. so if biden isn't the one making the decisions for his own administration then who is? well, it certainly does not appear to be vice president cromwell harris who has managed, haven't even lower approval rating than by himself. she has stayed out of the spotlight so much that when the white house and now she tested positive for koby 19

last week they said the vice president had not been anywhere near bite it. today, vice president harris tested positive for cove at 19 on rapid and p. c. r test. she has exhibited no symptoms, will isolate and continue to work from the vice president's residence. she has not been a close contact to the president, our 1st lady due to their respective recent track schedule. what about house speaker nancy pelosi? she was behind harris in the line of presidential succession, but she was the one to pay a visit to kiev last week. and becoming the highest ranking you as the official from this administration to meet with president can ukraine during the talk? hello c. thanks phil and ski for his work and promised that his country would have unwavering support from the us with

the weekend in ukraine can just days after a similar visit from secretary of state antony blinking, and defense secretary lloyd austin, making biden and harris. the only top us officials who haven't made the trip to yet, however, the rhetoric from the administration as a whole appears to be on the same page. or the policy is rally allies and partners around the world to join us in supporting ukraine militarily. economically and with humanitarian assistance to impose massive cost on the kremlin and when it comes to influence just how much of it is coming from retired government officials. as former congressman tools, he gathered noted the vine administration announced plans for the department of homeland security to create its own dis, information board. just days after former president obama said the government needs to get more involved encountering dis, information online, talking to people at these companies. i believe they are some fear in trying to limit content the gauges in hate, speech encourages violence or poses

a threat to public safety. so if it isn't the president or even the vice president who is calling the shots, the question then becomes, who is and what does that entail for about the you as an it standing on the world stage bite in never really got the honeymoon that many presidents again, in their 1st 100 days, i think it's because of a bad policy, right from the door trying to on do a lot of the things trump did, which were actually working, you know, into the failure there. shockingly obvious, you know, americans are having a hard time putting food on their table. americans are being faced with a difficult decision of whether or not to pay a utility bill or buy food. this is the reality, unfortunately, for americans right now and for joe biden as an elitist government official that spent the last 50 plus years in washington d. c. that's the last thing that he should be doing right now is laughing at the situation that he's putting his constituents through, you know,

because he worked for americans. whether they're republicans, democrats, independence, libertarians, or socialists. they are all americans. hundreds of bulgarians gathered in front of the parliament and sophia on tuesday, but testing against plans to send military help to ukraine. people from 7 bulgarian cities organized as so called march hopkins and neutrality via social networks. less to pittsburgh carried state flags and numerous posters called for all carriers that constitute trinity in the ukrainian crisis. demonstrations began after the countries parliament announced on wednesday that a vote would be held on sending military supplies to ukraine. those against him, ruth, are calling for another colon on dispatching either trips or weapons and on setting up a miniature basis in the country. no one moment. one of the government's favorite phrases is they cannot stay inactive against the injustice. but nowadays they are ready to

introduce the bulgarian when you pull to a local guy this a no aussie so, but we want a ban approved a bulgarian territory be used for hitting either of both countries of the war. the neutrality in this madness is the most important thing. and another european country is showing signs of division of military support for ukraine. german intellectuals and artists have written an open letter to chancellor schultz making an urgent appeal not to escalate a 3rd world war by supplying heavy weapons to the country. charlotte to pinsky has the details. it's a decision that's divided germany, a country that for so long held firm on a policy of not supplying legal weapons to a crisis. so it made a major, you turn at the end of april, off the mounting pressure. but that dramatic shift in policy has now come under a barrage of criticism around 30 intellectuals and artists have led the appeal to

the chancellor to stop the weapons supply and to prevent a 3rd world war. we are convinced that 2 such divided lies have now been reached. first, the categorical prohibition known, accepted and manifest risk of this war, escalades and into a nuclear conflict. the delivery of large quantities of heavy weapons, however, could make germany itself. it brought it to the war, and the russian counter attack could then trigger the case for assistance under the ne to treaty, and with it the immediate danger of a world war. the 2nd line of demarcation is the level of destruction and human suffering among ukrainian civilians. even legitimate resistance to an aggressor is at some point in an intolerable disproportion. the latter also urges olaf sholtes to do all he can to ensure that a sci fi is reached with germany making a decisive contribution to a solution that they say will stand up to the judgment of history. yet this stones

seems to have landed the magazine in hot water, ukraine's ambassador to germany went on the attack targeting the editor. hi alice schwartz, are your call for ukraine. surrender means that your celebrated feminism was just a front, a fake, to accept the mass, rape of ukrainian women by russian soldiers as pure cynicism. i don't want anyone in their right mind buying your shoddy emma on the politicians has hey town to one green party politician wondering if the letters support is would have advised fighters in the war, so ghetto to give up in order to prevent unnecessary victims. while the deputy chairman of the free democrats in the buddhist dog suggested that their position was one of madness, the letter states, we hope that a compromise can be reached as soon as possible that both sides can accept. if that

were the german attitude, then violent border shifts in war crimes would be the new european normality. this position is insane. how of up north for laura against this cool frog pacifist blowing from germany. important call for artists and intellectuals. the praise for shoals is unfortunately outdated due to his buckling under pressure from union free democratic party and grown and to deliver tanks to ukraine. but the demands to prevent world war 3 are all the more urgent voices against the move to supply. heavy weapons to ukraine are getting louder. already on the petition side, change total hundreds of thousands of selling to signals. they are against such deliveries while public sentiment in germany is split poll showing that an equal number off for and against that decision by berlin. their support for sending such weapons is.