ah, with headline stories this, our rushes foreign ministry say the country will be forced to retaliate with military measures if finland follows through with this plan to join nato. also ahead with sunflower, the western sanctions are provoking a global crisis. in many ways, we are already seeing a sharp rise of inflation rates, which have reached 20 percent in some countries like america in phase the west is heading for an economic disaster due to the boss to loss of sanctions against moscow. while ukraine managed to europe was by suspending russian gallon drums it through a key of a former french soldier, ruffled western media by claiming he saw ukraine's rather kill

a self battalion. torture on murder captured russian troops. he's off fighters who are happen were displaying naughty symbols. do you know what they talked about in front of me when they laugh, saying that if they see jews or black people they would skin them. unlock here authorizes the demolition of a prominent world war 2 year, a memorial to soviet soldiers. amid a conflict between luffy and authorities and residents, over commemorations with loss go to the world. this is our t, my names, you know neil on 30 minutes of news and views started on the russian foreign ministry say it will take steps to eliminate any threats caused by nato expansion and couldn't quote, military technical measures. that's after finished leaders call for natural membership without delay. the statement by the president of finland is

a radical change in the country's foreign policy. either russia's assurances about the absence of any hostile intentions towards finland, nor the long history of good neighborly and mutually beneficial cooperation between our countries have convinced helsinki of the advantages of maintaining a course of military non alignment. finland's, accession to nato will cause serious damage to bilateral russian finish relations and also the stability and security of the northern european region. russia will be forced to take retaliatory steps both military, technical and other in order to stop the threats to its national security. arising in this regard, le foreign ministry also say finland. this session to nato will be a direct violation of the poorest peace treaty signed in 1947, which prohibits countries including russia and finan from forming coalitions against each other. while moscow also adds helsinki joining the alliance would violate in 1992 treaty between russian, finland,

which states that both countries will refrain from threatening each other's territorial integrity or political independence. we got reaction from european studies professor stephan cartridge. democracy is a bonus and finland there was no referendum on the issue. the only things that we heard and that the finish public heard was that somehow all the sudden popularity of nato has skyrocketed since february 24th. and will most definitely be joining nato and of course this. busy will increase the insecurity of europe. we are talking about the world war unfolding before our eyes. because salem and sweden, perhaps joining nato is. 2 an act of escalation, if the finish authorities are ready to violate their own traditions, constitution and identity or fin as neutral country. of course,

we can expect that international agreements, such as pairs agreement will be violated. international law, as such, has been repeatedly violated by western countries, and it means that we'll live in a vacuum of international law, the old order, the order that has been established. now with the end of world war 2 is over, we can argue where it started to. it certainly did start to crumble in the period between 989 and 1991 with the social. so it union. but it continues to deteriorate. all nato expansion was one of the red lines, which was emphasized by russia prior to the ukraine conflict. the spines alleged promises from ne, 2, in the 1900. not. it wouldn't move another inch east where the blog counts been steadily expanding in recent years. picking up the story here. shorties charlotte

to ben ski. moscow has been clear that any further need to expansion is a red line. viewing the blocks, increasing encroachment eastward as being a threat to russian national security. but despite that, there is plenty of encouragement for both sweden. i'm fin then to don't even to be alliance. the war in ukraine is forcing our school to make difficult decisions. but sovereign nations must be free to make those decisions without fear or influence, or threat of retaliation for food. in particular, the worry is centered on the fact that it has an 800 of so my long border that it shares with russia. helsinki fears that asking nato for membership could see an immediate reprisal from moscow. so why does russia see this is being a threat? both sweden and finland have greatly increased their defense spending in response

to the war. as countries with high levels of per capita income, they could make a net contribution to nato's military capabilities over time. it makes sense that they might take on a leading role in defending the whole baltic region, for example, by adding enhanced air and missile defenses. making contributions to nato ground forces currently in estonia, latvia and lithuania. but considering the situation in ukraine's nordic nations a wondering if it may be better to be in rather than on the periphery of the nato block. even if the kremlin believes it will not bring greater security for europe. and it's a gamble that finland and sweden look increasingly likely to take charlotte. even ski artie, paris russian president vladimir putin has said that relentless sanctions against russia have led to the global economic crisis. we're currently witnessing. so

essentially, the western sanctions are provoking a global crisis. in many ways, the rockers guided by short sighted, loaded political ambitions, and was supposed to be, are mostly damaging their own national interest in america and their own economy to use them and the well being of their own citizens. we are already seeing a sharp rise of inflation rates there have regions 20 percent in some countries. the extension of the sanction policy will inevitably lead to even more serious and irreversible consequence for the european union handed citizens. and it will also have an impact on the world's countries, which are already facing a risk of famine, even if he's gonna blame for this situation. why is entirely on western countries which are prepared to sacrifice the rest of the world for the sake of preserving their own global dominance with them. so you won't be foolish while it is gearing up to be an expensive summer and beyond months with natural gas prices in europe,

surging 20 percent since the start of the month to $1200.00 per 1000 cubic meters. that's after ukraine's trans had operator and unsaid will stopping a 3rd of the russian gas that travels through the country from getting to europe. i discussed the ramifications of such a move by ukraine with our correspondent don quarter. while this whole situation is obviously causing a supply problem for european countries, because just since tuesday there the, there is actually a tremendous reduction of russian gas going through ukraine into the rest of europe by 50 percent. actually, that's talk, that's actually around 100. that's from 100000000 metric cubic meters a day to around 50000000. now that all started of course, after ukraine state gas companies said it was going to stop sending, right. it was going to stop pumping russian gas from 2 out of 3 distribution stations along that pipeline. and it's because they basically side into a force, missouri. they said that the conflict there was obstructing the regular operation

of these facilities. but russia's state energy company gas pro actually said that there's no evidence of that goes from nipple which you gas problem has not received any confirmation of the circumstance to the force michelle clause. we do not see any obstacles for continuing to work in the previous mode. transit has been provided in full, there would be no complaints from the counts parties. the transfer of volumes to subset based on the russian flow scheme is technologically impossible. so that's a 3rd of the tops off for european countries. how does this affect the, the situation then on the continent, while, like you said, it means significantly less gas going to europe. i'm at a time where we're already seeing skyrocketing energy prices with record breaking inflation rate. i mean, germany, of course, for example, is a big consumer, russian gas, and it's had to replace what it's lost by buying gas from norway and the netherlands as well. and because of their, that's because of these reductions,

of course, and on top of that, the use of policy is pretty vague. in terms of whether or not a new member state will be violating the sanctions regime if it decides to pay for russian gas with rubles it confused. a lot of officials across the europe, ian union like the italian prime minister, for example. nobody ever said anything about whether rubles payments, breach sanctions or not, or how these payments are organized. so it's such a gray zone here. as a matter of fact, most gas importers have already opened an account in roubles with gas problem. in all fairness to ursula on the land though, and she did say that it was indeed a violation to pay for russian gas in rubles. but that brings up another question. actually, it brings up whether or not the leadership is going to be ready to risk splitting the member states into those that are going to follow the rules against their own self interest. and those who are going to basically take any measures necessary to provide their people with affordable energy, whatever the case these recent decisions by ukraine are making it already tense

situation. a lot more tense. another of a headline stories today, a retired french marina said he observed war crimes committed by ukrainian troops while in the country on a recent humanitarian mission. all you guys, she misses. i take full responsibility for what i say. i witness war crimes and ukraine. all of them were committed by the ukranian army, not the russian army. this does not mean that there haven't been any war crimes by the russian side, but we don't talk about ukrainian war crimes and france. when i returned to france from ukraine, i was shocked. tv channels are inviting people indiscriminately as expert, 80 percent of whom haven't been in the war and ukraine, and don't know anything about what is happening there right now. i find it disgusting that they're the ones talking about the war is off. fighters were everywhere displaying. nazi symbol city. the shocks me the europe supplies weapons to the military has in my opinion, they are neo nazis. the symbols of neo nazis are embroider to everywhere on their

uniforms. no one talks about it, but it's easy to see. this is the former symbolism of the ss, and you can find it everywhere in ukraine. but for some reason, no one cares about it. i worked with these people and gave some medicine, you know, what they talked about in front of me. they left saying that if they see jews or black people, they would skin them. well vasa, the u. n. as released the report saying, it has, quote, credible information of torture, of russian soldiers by ukrainian forces, while also mentioning, allege war crimes by moscow, lead troops again, years french aid volunteer. adrian bouquet, describing what he said, captured russian soldiers were put through a note. the accuracy of the claims had not been verified by our t. you don't, didn't. i saw captured russian soldiers beaten and tied up. we were in some kind of barn where they were brought ukrainian troops from the off battalion were asking who the officers were. every russian soldier got a bullet in the need from a kalashnikov, although they were defenceless. i have videos confirming this,

otherwise i would not dare to say such a thing. people who confessed that they were officers were shot dead in the forehead. this is the system, at least in a's off lot. vienna authorities have a law, the demolition of a prominent memorial to soviet soldiers who liberated the baltic country from nazi forces during world war 2. that's after laughing, lawmakers suspended a bilateral agreement with russia on the handling of soviet iran monuments earlier protest broke out in the capital rica, the north police moved in to detain demonstrators after people protested the removal of flowers been brought to the monument for the may. 9th victory de anniversary authorities had used bold dozers to cleanse the commemorations of the sun. well, in response, locals brought even more flowers to the monuments with police,

then reacting by completely blocking off the scene. according to luxury and law enforcement officials, any gatherings near the memorial will be considered an act of support for russia. rigor has been one of the most vocal critics of moscow actions in your brain. we heard from some local who say they're outraged by the actions of the authorities. if you don't mind, if i go to my father's grave, i put flowers and someone will come and drag them away because i think it's just vandalism. it's terrible. we collected money for this monument donations beckoned in line to native. each resident of re guys i know donated his own funds for the creation of the monument. and today this is what they're doing. yes, look, let's wait. flowers had this morning in victor day. the victory of the whole people, the whole world. and now someone gave the order to lead me to go to this monument today and lay flowers. this is absurd. neither democracy in our freedom. and i am sorry that i now live in such a state of political idleness. nicholas mercury said,

attempting to address such issues by removing monuments as futile this. there is like some sort of a desire to rewrite history of european nations and destroying monuments is tantamount to fascism and it looks funny. mm. it was about, it was, was about strong fascism. and this is crazy because it's going all across western europe today as a for destroying monuments would solve the situation in ukraine. it's ridiculous, this is exactly why we fought against fascism in our system. this is what happened right before the 2nd world war were in germany early and other places in europe and even the world people are putting jews because they were jews and they were supposed to be responsible for all of the everything. sure, going back we're experiencing the same scenario except that the jews have been replaced by russian. it's to hatred behind this and it's still that is extremely bad. and we have to contend this. you cannot say that one person is responsible for

all the bad deeds on this earth, and this is what the destroying monuments. and this is what the current narrative in the west is going to lead to joe biden is facing increasing pressure in the u. s. over what's been called his failure to stop the rise and rise of inflation and consumer prices across the nation, ortiz kill them up and is in new york with the latest the economic data. this point is not good. the numbers indicate that the consumer price index shows that inflation moved to had at the rate of 8.3 percent in april. now that is the highest rate of inflation the united states has had since the 1970 the 40 year high. in addition to that, we also have to rate of household debt in the united states, increasing 16 trillion dollars are owed, and the new york federal reserve says that consumer demand is decreasing. people simply don't have the money to keep buying at the rate they're buying. even if they

continue to go into debt, so these numbers are quite bad. here's what joe biden has to say about what's to blame. there are 2 leading causes of inflation we're seeing today. the 1st cause of inflation is a once in a century pandemic. an issue, we have a 2nd cause a 2nd cause. mr. prudence war in ukraine. you saw we saw in march that 60 percent of inflation that month was due to price increases at the pump for gasoline. well, some americans are looking for yet another cause they say that it's joe biden himself, that is responsible, and that mismanagement from his administration is causing american families to face this squeeze of rising gas prices. ready rising food prices rising rates of debt, et cetera. now the polls indicate that joe biden's client. this is all just simply devolved with a pan damage. simply the fault of russia has nothing to do with him. that actually

doesn't seem to be bought very widely in the united states. 39 percent of americans approve of joe by far less than half or less than 40 percent, where it's at 39 percent approval rating for joe biden. quite low numbers. joe biden seems to insist that these hard economic times are just the things americans have to accept because of the confrontation with russia. but a lot of americans just don't seem to be buying it. not a good day for the biden administration, rising unrest among americans and people are looking ahead to those mid term elections set for november when a new congress will be elected for washington. d. c. ready despite the economic course at home, the u. s. has been dishing out billions in relief funds to a country on the other side of the globe. much to the dismay of hard it's american citizens, is they'd some to accuse washington not putting america last as ortiz, rachel blevins reports. politicians are supposed to represent the people who elect them and put their interest 1st. but many us lawmakers appear to be promoting the

interest of an entirely different country. 1000 representatives has approved nearly $40000000000.00 and funding for ukraine, with just $57.00 out of the $435.00 members voting against the measure. that says, congress refused to approve around $10000000.00 in cobit 19 relief funding for americans. previously, i had recommended the congress take over due action on much needed funding for coal, the treatments vaccines, and tests as part of the ukraine supplemental bill. however, i have been informed by congressional leaders in both parties, that such an addition would slow down action on the urgently needed ukrainian aid. so congress is making it clear that it's funding for ukraine. first in coven, really for american 2nd, was done more makers, openly saying that ukraine is their top priority. i think we all agree. the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war and ukraine. while americans may not be taking to the streets to approach as they are voicing their

frustrations on social media with some questioning why us politicians are voting with americans in mind. they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. you can't find baby formula in the united states right now, but congress is voting today to send $40000000000.00 to ukraine. let's put america 1st for a change. no matter how bad things may seem, we can always count on our government to have an extra multi 1000000000 dollar check laying around to prolong a war on the other side of the planet. food prices, skyrocketing, energy prices, skyrocketing, a literal baby formula. shortage, rent, skyrocketing, americans are in a bad situation in our congress just gave $40000000000.00 to ukraine for those who are concerned about the actions of their elected representatives. how figure nancy pelosi suggest taking a sort of biblical approach. so when you're home thinking, what is this all about? just think about when i was hungry,

you fed me in the gospel of matthew. okay, but in this case, who is feeding americans and more specifically, their children more than 10000 george across the country are reporting shortages of baby formula with 6 states saying that more than half of their supply is out of stock. all of this as prices continue to store with reports from april, showing that inflation in the us remains at 40 year high. domestically in the u. s. the mosh inflation report showed that food prices for home consumption were up 10 percent year over year. that's the largest increase. we've seen an over a 40 year period. those storing price it for some americans to move out of major cities and search of more affordable lives. while i was just weeks ago, the bite and warrant of a global food crisis, he announced new sanctions against russia. here in the u. s. food shortages have started to become a reality. as food banks across the country report increased demand from the

americans who can't afford the prices at the grocery store, and it's not just the u. s. in the u. k. a recent study found them more than 2000000 adult say they can't afford to eat every day. this is prices continue to sore with even the bank of england predicting that inflation will hit 10 percent this year. meanwhile, prince charles addressed the crisis while lavishly sitting on a golden throne in a golden room with lots of golden accessories. her majesty's government priority is to grow and strength from the economy. and hope is the cost of living for families . the u. k is also following in the footsteps of its american allies with prime minister boris johnson, boasting about sending 450000000 pounds of taxpayers money to ukraine. the opposition was quick to call him out to out of talk to meet the challenges of the moment i'm too tired to draw. feel fortunate is of the future. that time has passed

. so as western politicians continue to go above and beyond for ukraine, while their own people sing deeper into crisis, they're making it crystal clear, just what their top priorities are and what they think they can get away with. while still keeping their coveted political titles. in washington, rachel blevins, r t us republican say the lend lease act, which was accepted by a majority in congress this week and signed off by president biden to expedite military aid to kiev. will just lead to more people dying and ukraine. every vote to provide military assistance to ukraine, drug us, closer to a war with russia. this is not our fight. i reiterate my hope for immediate peace talks and resolution of hostilities tending more weapons of war is counter to peace and will extend the death and destruction. washington has no worth arise to transfer any weapon of war, other than those with nuclear capability to ukraine. the act is also exempt from

laws that normally govern such a lease, such as a 5 year duration requirement to pay all costs of loaning me equipment. lethally comes in addition to jo biden's request to approve another $33000000000.00 and assistance to ukraine. geopolitical commented or in the near act may say such support will drive the country and we're dead for generations because if you go through the act, it is basic the activation of world war 2. c act f, britain has to take 6 decades to pale will do or true that then technically ukraine may take like another $200.00 or maybe 300 years to pay off a may be not able to cope with the challenge of the debt. the natural membership will not going to help you crane or other countries. as you have seen already, the natural countries always suffer because they have to pay the bill of the u. s.

a wrong decision, for example, $911.00 and report that a var that was in offline is the 40 years in of one is on. the u. s. sees it will allow foreign investment in a part of syria and not controlled by the country's government. washington out about issuing such licenses for companies to operate in the countries northeast won't contravene american sanctioned the united states intends in the next few days to issue a general license to facilitate private economic investment activity and non regime held areas liberated from isis in syria. north east, syria which borders turkey and rock contain significant all reserves and agricultural land. the country has been in the state of civil war since 2011 with washington pushing for the removal of president bashar assad government. the u. s. has also imposed sanctions on damascus,

which is blocked investment in syria. crippling the rebuilding of the country. independent journalist and writer vanessa bailey say the u. s. is plunging syria into her words. a lot of this you know, the us things 1011 has done nothing good. far international or in the unilateral sanctions in them, folks are legal. they are a war crime because they are stripping very billions of the dignity that is a war crime. you know, the us has become a lawless faith about rules based governance. but in reality, this is what they are doing. it's plunging this world into a law or a bit. they functions and not against the mask, and they are against all the syrian people that are now living in a state of salvation or energy and fuel that probation because of the occupation of the know. so you know, this is an extraordinary level of paperwork receive even from the us. it's

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crimean autonomous republic and overwhelming majority of crimean citizens voted as a referendum to break away from ukraine. i did march 2014 crimea, rejoined russia. oh, trust me, the splitting your one can see how much was ms quarter goes, which is, oh, there is a dear good year or is it clear which one is with us from to prophecies. can you any belittled, overlay criminal, russell or chess from crackers? elbows are never petrosky or dish, or is deborah flores mentors, sports or orange golf. amos almost nationalist tried to suppress bro russian public sentiment with extreme violence. on may. the 2nd far right is organized a march named for united ukraine. the march ends in a bloodbath.