[000:00:00;00] ah, a republican senator blocks, a $40000000000.00 usa package for ukraine american economy will be doomed if washington continues to spend more money than this by jo barton's pledge to curb spiraling inflation, the u. s. consumer prices continue to rise. that's not stopping washington from spending big on the grade book you have here is a ukrainian snipers nest. it has been set up on the roof of one of the military bases and it has been abandoned. well, how long with the rest of the base of corresponded reports from ukrainian military base is the matter you pull, which they abandoned, as russian forces advanced, that says russian under yet. so just continue to fight the as of steel plant on the

outskirts of the city. and russia threatens vitale for steps if neighboring finland joins. nato don't think, he insisted, must apply without delay after moscow went to avoid ukraine with watching the international 60 at moscow time. on friday morning, my name is peter scott and where i'll be joining us from welcome to 30 minutes of news analysis. and we start with the latest on the ukraine conflict. according to the russian defense ministry, more than 100000 people were evacuated from high risk areas of ukraine in the dumbass republic. ministry also claims the russian army is ready to open new humanitarian car doors, including for the evacuations of civilians to other countries. the supply of electricity has been restored to some parts of matter. you pull, the russian defense systems destroyed 6 ukrainian drones near the russian ukrainian border. and also, according to the ministry, u. s. made

a counter artillery. baydar and harker was destroyed were says, requested a un security council meeting on us biological light services in ukraine. despite economic woes at home, the u. s. has been dissing our billions in relief on the 2 countries on the other side of the globe. much to the dismay of some hearted american citizens and his lead occupation that washington's putting america last night. the arguments of republican senator run, paul, who bought a speedy votes on the new $40000000000.00 a package for ukraine. we cannot save ukraine by dooming the u. s. economy. americans are feeling the pain. and congress seems intent only on adding to that pain by shoveling more money out the door as fast as they can. the biden administration plans to send yet more money to ukraine and the white se, so i knowledge is, according to the plan, the vast majority of the new package will go on the purchase of weaponry under the military assets on these. rachel blevins has more nuts. 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. i think all agree the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war in ukraine. while americans may not be taking 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. 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. 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 $10000.00 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 the prices continue to store with reports from april, showing that inflation in the us remains at 40 year high. domestically in the us, the march inflation reports 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 are in crisis and for some americas to move out of major cities and search of more affordable lives. while i was just weeks ago that 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 store with even the bank of england predicting that inflation will hit 10 percent this year. meanwhile, prince charles, adjust the crisis while lavishly sitting on a golden throne in a golden room with lots of golden accessories. her majesty's government's priority is to grow and strength from the economy and hope ease the cost of living for families. the u. k is also following in the footsteps of its american allies with prime minister, boers, johnson boasting about sending 450000000 pounds of taxpayers money to ukraine. the opposition was quick to call him out, to out of the talks to meet the challenges of the moment i'm too tired to draw. steal, put unit 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 also price, as a seller, it said further in april, which is part of a broader inflation problem, persisting through the u. s. economy, the producer price index, which tracks how much money if i choose get full product. so the initial sale was 11 percent from a year ago. that's according to the bureau of labor statistics on the list to say many americans are not happy about that. so as prices are higher, as more people are in need of our services, we're seeing decreases in 2 places that are really impact, chill, decrease donations. i've never used this before. i leave it for people that needed it more. but now i really almost have to come,

i mean it's changed very helps me out tremendously because i don't work. i'm on disability. i don't have the income anymore, and he can support those. and it helps in having told me, joe biden spacing increasing flight gets home over his perceived failings to get surging inflation, the control across the country. and with the average americans feeling the pinch in their pockets. they're pointing the finger of blame, straight to the president. are these kind of open reports from new york? 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 . this is a 40 year high. in addition to that, we also have the rate of household debt in the united states, increasing 16 trillion dollars are owed. then 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 inflation we're seeing today. the 1st cause of inflation is once in a century, pandemic an issue. we have a 2nd cause a 2nd cause, mr. prudence war and 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 jo biden's client. this is all just simply default to the

pandemic. 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 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. ukraine is widen and it's cry down on those voicing supports for russia and the conflicts parliament has adopted a new law that will pave the way for 30 to confiscate the property with all the details. here is our theme maria phenomena, the bill that ukraine's parliament has passed allows seizure of property and assets

of all those individuals or legal entities whose actions the bill says poses a threat to ukraine's national security sovereignty or territorial integrity based only on chord decision. but in fact, as the read as speaker put it, it is about all those who sympathize with russia, who support russia's special military operation here on the ground. all these people are now under sanctions and in danger. these bills, yet another step in a series of efforts by key of aimed at suppress in any form of support for russia, and is a direct attack on freedom of speech and thought earlier in march, the country's national security and defense council suspended the activities of all pro russian political parties, at least 10 of them with the countries rado parliament later in may, banning their activities completely. plus, there is a number of cases when those who have ever expressed any pro russian sentiment or

criticism against kiev have mysteriously disappeared, got arrested, or even found dead, like a mayor of one town here in people's republic of lu ganske, who, when the town was under the ukrainian control called on negotiating with the russian military. he was found dead shortly after he initiated these talks order. participant in the russian ukrainian peace talks on key of side. he was also killed . and there is a number of cases when you create an intellectuals writer, is blogger, is political commentators, and singer is among them, got arrested by the country security council and reportedly tortured. so this which honda has been in ukraine for years, but we can say that in the last months, 8 has reached an alarm. and, and even frightening scale, while civil rights lawyer, robert patillo fears the such, actions will only prolong the conflicts of your ukrainian, the you, for as far as any pro russian or any,

something's or even understanding what the russian special operation is. they are in the eastern part of ukraine. any, any disagreement? what the 1st in line from the government is, can result you losing every part of you, of everything that you work for. and we don't know how far this will go. it starts the conversational property. it could turn into the rounding up imprisonment of pro russian quote unquote, individuals they are in the ukraine military tribunals or even concentration camps . but what we've seen over the course of the past decade have been efforts by the ukranian government and the house to the west. to remove russian. any russian connection from the ukraine, which on 2012, the russian language law, which went into effect that ought to take away to be used the russian language and official documents with all of the expansion of this in 2019 and even in 2021. so i think that is a part of the continued whenever, by the premium government to spam this conflict in the hopes of a drawing in western nations to make this a broader conflict. but it's been to clear policy. there's

a few government to try to direct the russian. i much of ukraine, and i think this is was talking lots of these tensions. meanwhile, as fighting continues of the steel punch multiple, our correspondence has visited the abandon military basis of the ukraine. your forces located in the city, the facilities were creative minds just days ago. as a good is done reports. this military base, it has housed all sorts of troops including a tank unit that has left tons of armaments like this one, for example, in a rather well di, a condition also there was a special forces union housed in a building over there. again, tanks and even priests and many, many rooms here they bare insignia and flags of the as of battalion and the right sect am to most notorious neo nazi wings of the ukrainian forces. the base resides in a strategic location. it provided ukranian troops with an excellent fortified shelter overseeing the key road towards moore. you pull from the east, along with

a good portion of the city. and what you have here is a ukrainian snipers nest. it has been set up on a roof of one of them military bases, and it has been abandoned well along with the rest of the base. but here you can see it up close and personal and have a glimpse as to how it all works. it looks very cozy like for example, here you have a whole sofa. that looks that way. later we were explained that this position was more likely to be used by offices tasked with reconnaissance or a sputter. that's of course, before the hail of bombs made them flee the place, abandoning weapons equipment, vehicles, metals, and documents. and this is yet another military base that was abandoned by ukrainian forces. they've left behind quite a lot as military vehicles here. some of them have been quite badly damaged because while they were shelled quite extensively here you can see, for example, the wool over there has been completely destroyed and dismantled, obviously as

a result of some sort of a strike, maybe of a tank strike. this whole area has been made available for journalists, for example, or not so long ago, because as they were leaving hastily they were still, they still had time to rig the place. but now, well, just dogs are roaming around here. they didn't have many options as to where to run from the shells. either surrender or hole in at as of style steelworks, which catacombs still show to the bleeding out remainder of the mary hugh pal, neo nazi garrison, left at the very end of the rope. i'm a good done of reporting from are you both? see i'll finland says it's likely to apply for nato membership without delay with neighboring suite and expected to follow suits. decades the 2 countries followed a non alignment military policy and finland for its partial long border with russia . moscow says it was the finished membership of nato as

a threat and as want of retaliatory steps. 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, now, nathan was expansion was one of the red lines which was emphasized by russia prior to the ukraine conflicts. thus, despite a ledger promises from nato in the 1990 s, that it wouldn't move another inch eastward. the block has been steadily expanding in recent decades, but to go unless the knights of his mild furnished believes nato expansion is

usually beneficial to the u. s. us is a military empire. and part of the needs of an empire is to expand and take resources that it may not have on its own. we look at the middle east, how the u. s. invaded iraq, how and when, after afghanistan. and there was no legitimate reason for either of those wars, but there were plenty of natural resources that the u. s. one and part of the empire is to take the resources that it can, i think is really a bottom line reason for that. so the u. s is in, was in libya, took over that, destroyed the country. it's throughout africa and there are believe 20 more than 20 us basis in africa right now for nato. it's clearly an attempt to re colonial ised africa and other parts of the world. so really isn't economic reason

. there is no more reason there's no humanitarian reason for any of this. it is pure economics. so the news now and bangladesh has become the 1st country in south asia to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage. it follows the launch of the payroll power plants, which is a joint project with china and a key part of the belt and road initiative, the prime minister that it means every house in the country now has electricity. the belts and road initiative is a strategy launched by china back in 2013 and they plans to connect to asia with africa in europe via london maritime networks. it's also aims to improve regional integration, increased trade on stimulate economic growth. cambodia, meanwhile, has said this also seeing improvements to people's livelihoods in the country through projects under the belts and road projects. it said the aim is to help boost the country social economic development. let's cross alive now to nelson wong,

vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact on international studies. welcome to the program. and it's been less than 10 years since the belt road initiative was launched and it's already boasting a few achievements. how would you assess? is successes so far? well the, you said it is very likely that the belgian road initiative was started 1st the 2020 by chinese leadership. and one thing that people were have to understand is, this is the results of an actual pulls up economic development. well, the social wells, economic wealth that has been accumulated over of foster economic development, china has also accumulated humongous amount of industrial production capability for that a country large china needs to definitely bind markets overseas. and there's,

i believe, is why the administrative was 1st promoted. and so if you can see what you should just out of our blog to even thought about dash, and also i'm the infrastructure project and also in africa. some other countries about some new york in countries as well as a center asia, they're all infrastructure related. mostly the whole idea has been very much welcomed in the countries that china has been talking to. so please do not miss understand that i think this is very easy to get understood. and i've also heard a lot of comments about this as well. this is a new phone, a live off china. this is

a by lending money to people. you're trying to great credit traps for the countries the lows. i think this is totally wrong. we're trying to have been doing is to help those be those countries to build the infrastructure, including like the power, long roads, bridges or sometimes even airports as well. but these are the countries that need those projects to improve the likelihood of their people. and when it comes to the countries, it doesn't have enough existing cash to pay for it. or they don't have enough financial mechanisms to facilitate the investments. and china would be happy to learn somebody to structure a deal with these countries or something. yeah, paula. apologies for, for intro to yes, here was a problem to critics. that the building initiative is

a move by china to burst its influence on dominance in those countries. it is quite clear. do you think that the same can be said of the west? obviously, beijing says this initiative. so the foreign policy focus on investment um, in development of building stronger regional allies, allies. what would you say about the west in the light of this? well, i think different countries tend to evolve that economic development in different stages. and china as a late comma is actually learning from other countries, mostly the west. then it's starting to go global in the 1st place for many decades, or even 100 years before china. so when you said, what do i think about the west? i think are you referring to the comments from the west or the experience of the expansion of the west? well, the,

the way the west goes about boosting relationships with countries and also it, you know, some people in the west have criticized beijing method to do that. in 20 seconds, if you could please nelson, we are running out of time. yeah. okay. no, i think is what different actually because the west adopted a different approach when it comes to helping other countries what china does is a very business like transaction is basically you go to a country and discuss was that whether you like a portal or a blog to be able to log in, then if the terms are agreed, then let's go and do it. but no other conditions. but what we have heard from other countries is because i'm running, i think time goes of that. so i've also come across many abundance from other

countries as well. what they have commented is the reasonably like chinese companies to do business with them is that they go out the chinese do not tell them what to do going around. yeah, you've made your point very clearly now that i'm really sorry to interrupt. we have quite, we're not, i know some one vice chairman of the song i sense if over impact on international studies. thank you very much. in fact, on ton of belts and road initiative thinking, lufthansa has been accused of antecedent domestic behavior comes up. the german airline refused to lead any members of a large group of orthodox jewish passengers on a flight to some of them refused to wear mass. their line says the instant is not consistent with this policies or values. love tanza regrets the circumstances surrounding the decision to exclude passengers from flight el hage, 1334 on may. the 4th. lufthansa,

sincerely apologize. hello lufthansa. do you regret the circumstances surrounding the decision? don't you regret the decision itself and your staff's behavior and their attitude and statements? this is not in apology. we expect you to do better. not too late. well, it comes up to some of the passengers had reportedly refused to comply with rules requiring to wear face must what's on the stuff, allegedly blow to all passengers who were visibly identifiable as jewish from boarding to flight. the anti defamation league blasted lufthansa statement and called on the line to investigate the incidents frames or off from the human rights organization. the simon, with full center things people should be compensated. this is such a sad thing to happen in the 21st century. i had a country that should know better in the country that that is a sense that we're trying to,

to talk for. it's fast and nice in like this has been very little is changed. and that's a very, very sad thing. i have to say not only for the jews but to the country, 1st of all, i apologize, but just to the just for the circumstances, something didn't apologize to the people. so i think that the days people should be compensated is that i would say a certain deep anti semitism in germany in certain quarters. i mean, it's totally outrageous. it's, they never would have done anything like that against black people or against asian people. but they didn't, the jews that said they sent it isn't ah, the wives of 2 hours of battalion fights is in the besieged steel works in mo. you pull, i've met with po francis. they pleaded with the pontiff to intervene and help arrange for the evacuation of the troops. speaking to reporters, afterwards, the wives said,

pope francis made no commitments but said he was praying for them. the women have been in italy for more than 2 weeks, seeking to rally international support for resolution to the stand off as of style you and red cross of organize a series of occupations of civilians from the factory would not soldiers a loaf or some unverified images have since circulated online, apparently showing one of the wives of the rifle and another giving a nazi solution just to repeat, these images are verified at the moment. let's discuss this with steve gill, radio host and political common say to see welcome to the program. now, generally speaking, would be normal to expect to wife, to worry about their partner, whose traps in a war is this case, any difference? well, you can certainly understand their concerns with their husbands, but their husbands are soldiers. they are part of the a's of militia that does have ties and has had long ties to, to the nazis. you know, the pope understandably, is supposed to pray for everybody,

but either somebody at the vatican didn't vent who the folk was meeting with, where they did and they didn't care. and i've tried to give a propaganda again to these wives and their cause, which i think is a misstep. i think what we see in this war so far is that the ukrainians have have definitely been far ahead in terms of the success of their propaganda in terms of they are pushing their agenda in the media in the west. i think this is the 1st major misstep that they've had, because this will draw attention to the fact that the age of militia does have a long history of brutalizing people in eastern ukraine, particularly those of russian allegiance. and it may raise more questions about their, their logos that tied to the ss from, from world war 2. i think for the 1st time, you may actually get some scrutiny about this militia and you've had president put use this is a justification for the d, not if a cation of ukraine, this may actually cost of journals to take another look to see if there is a basis for it, i think use these wives may have done more harm to their cause than good. so if you would say that this, this is more of a p all move than

a genuine coal for help. i think they definitely want to help, but, but keep in mind that you're having an evacuation of civilians. these are military personnel. these are soldiers. and again, they are part of a of a militia that has a long history of at least 8 or 10 years of brutalizing civilians in the spring ukraine. so again, if you're going to try to justify protect military personnel, these are the exact wrong military personnel to try and, and somehow paint a sympathetic after what they've done for 8 to 10 years. now how much stall could do you think we should pull in these images on the internet is apparently show one of the women performing and not cease to leave. i mean, anything can be faith these days, all taken out of context. obviously, there are numerous cases of people who i've been cancelled on twitter for for historic suite thomas, don't you think we should put into these images? you know, i think in the fog, for you want to always be skeptical of what you see, what you hear, maybe what you experience we've seen in this war on both sides aggressive

propaganda efforts. you know, whether we're told that a hospital full of people got bonded later you understand that there were 8 or 10 casualties. there weren't hundreds or, or nearly a 1000 that, that you were being told in the early moment. so it's going to be months and maybe years until we really get the truth of what happened, how it happened in this war. this is probably been the most propagandized war in the history of mankind. and the truth is out there somewhere. we just may not see it for a while. it's certainly difficult and age of social media to really work out what is going on now than otherwise did tell the pope that he was the last hope to save the lives of their husbands. what powerful influence do you think the pope actually has here? i think the fact that he was apparently non committal of what he would do or could do, may show the somebody the vatican took a harder look at what exactly they were being asked to do. i think that the, the last hope argument that they're making is really on deaf ears because there is