ah ah, republican senator blocks a $40000000000.00 usaid package for ukraine thing the american economy will be doomed if washington continues to spend more money. that is by jo biden's pledge to curb spiraling inflation in the us. consumer prices continue to rise. so that's not stopping washington from spending big on ukraine. what you have here is a ukranian snipers nest. it has been set up on the roof of one of the military bases, and it has been abandoned, along with the rest of the basin, or corresponded reports from ukrainian military base doesn't matter. you full, which they abandoned, as russian forces advanced as russian and yet soldiers continue to fight to the as of steel plans on the outskirts the city proceeded. threatens with tell you

a few steps if neighboring finland joins. ne, so well tell, think he insisted must apply without delay after moscow went to wal ukraine. a welcome to audience and now she's just going to 70 in moscow time this friday morning. my name is peter scott and will be joining us from welcome to the program . and we start with the latest on the conflicts in ukraine, according to the russian defense ministry, more than $19000.00 people were evacuated from high risk areas of ukraine in the dumbass republic. the ministry also claimed the russian army is ready to open new humanitarian corridors, including for the evacuation of civilians till the countries the supply of electricity has been restored to some parts of matter you pull and russian air defense system destroyed 6 ukrainian drones near the russian ukrainian border also, according to that defense ministry,

us made counter artillery re dying hawk of was destroyed versus also requested a un security council meeting on us biological activities in ukraine. and now on with the news, despite the economic woes, its home, the u. s. has been dishing out billions of relief funds to a country on the other side of the globe. most of this may of some hard hits american citizens. i was led to accusations that washington's putting america last . that's the argument of republican sentence. a run poll, who bought a speedy votes on a new $14000000000.00 a package for ukraine. we cannot save you crane by doing 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 of the budget administration plans to send yet more money to ukraine in the white house itself. a knowledge is that according to the plans, the vast majority of the new package will go on the purchase of weaponry under the

military assets ortiz, racial blevins, has more. politicians are supposed to represent the people who elect them and put their interest 1st. but many, you as lawmakers appear to be promoting the interest of an entirely different countries. i'm all agree, the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war and you're crying. well, americans may not be taking the streets to protest, they are voicing their frustrations on social media with questioning why us politicians are voting with americans in mine. 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 america and more specifically, their children, more than 10000 shores across the country are reporting shortages of baby formula. which 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 u. s. remains at 40 year high. domestically in the u. s. the mos 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 storing prices that for some americans to move out of major cities and search of more affordable lives. while i was just weeks ago that bite in warren 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 price is 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 in 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 a feel 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. wholesale price is accelerated further in april, which is part of a broad inflation problem persisting throughout the u. s. economy. the producer price index, which strikes how much manufactures get for products and their initial sale rose 11 percent from a year ago. and that's according to the bureau of labor statistics. and many americans are not happy about it. so as food prices are higher, as more people are in need of our services, we're seeing decreases in some places that are really impact, chill, decrease donations. i leave it for people that needed it more, but now i really almost have to come. i mean,

it seems very helps me out tremendously because i don't work. i'm on disability. i don't have all the income anymore. and it helps in having told me many americans are still going to meet the basic needs is the annual inflation rates in the country remains close to a 40 year high. and people are pointing the finger of blame straight at the president's overs, proceed. failings to get the surging inflation under control our teeth, kennimore 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 of inflation were seen today. the 1st cause of inflation is a once in a century pandemic. in this year 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 devolve 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 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. those mid term elections set for november when a new congress will be elected for washington, d. c. ready ukraine is why did in his cried down on those voicing support for russia in the conflicts is, parliament has adopted a new law that will pave the way for thirty's to confiscate the property with all

the details, his art, the maria phenomena, the build up ukraine's parliament has passed allows seizure of property in assets of all those individuals or legal entities whose actions the bill says, pose a threat to ukraine's national security sovereignty or territorial integrity based only on court decision. but in fact, as their read as speaker put it, it is about all those who sympathize with russia, who support russia's special military ration here on the ground. all these people in our, under sanctions and in danger. this bill is yet another step in a series of efforts by key of aimed at suppress, in any form of support for russia and e 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 ain, 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, writers, bloggers, political, commentators, and singer, is among them god arrested by the country security council and reportedly tortured . so this which haunt has been in ukraine for years. but we can say that in the last months, 8 has reached an alarming and even frightening scale civil rights lawyer roberts

patillo phase. 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 official 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 as starts the conversation on property. it could turn into the rounding up imprisonment of pro russian quote unquote, individuals, their new 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 at the house to the west, to remove russian. any russian connection from the ukraine, which on 2012, the russian language law went into effect that ought to take away to be used the russian language and official documents with all the expansion of this in 2019 and even in 2021. so i think that this is a part of the continued whenever, by the premium government,

to expand this conflict in the hopes of drawing in western nations to make this a broader conflict. but it's been clear. policy is a government to try to direct the russian eyes much of ukraine. and i think this is, was talking much of these tensions and forces evacuated, a mother and daughter from the don units republic out to the claim. they were typed by the neighbor while hiding in the basement of the house. here's what they claim up and but really, this is my daughter and i were hiding in the basement during the rain by ukrainian forces. and when we started to come out, hello neighbor said fi to our basement, but we didn't know that she was from been dara battalion. my daughter came out 1st and he threw us ask of gasoline at us. he hit my daughter in the temple of brass knuckles, and me with his foot. i called home and my niece for a long time, probably for to alice. and this is because we are russians. he kept asking if we were russian, he didn't even get medicine in the hospitals. we would like to get to russia. there will be no such thing. i know that russia will when russia is always for its

citizens. meanwhile, as fighting continues of the as office steel punch in murder, you pull, our correspondent has visited the abandon military bases of the ukrainian forces located in the city facilities that were clear minds just days ago as he could have done reports this military base. it has housed all sorts of troops including a tank unit. there has left tons of armaments like this one, for example, in a rubber while 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 cosy, 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 officers tossed with reconnaissance or a sputter. that's of course, before the hail of homes made them flee the place, abandoning weapons equipment, vehicles, metals, and documents. and this is yet a nother 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, are 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 shelves, either surrender or hole in at as of stalls steelworks, which catacombs still shell, to the bleeding out remainder of the merry who pl, neo nazi garrison, left at the very end of the rope. amish dawn of reporting from marie opal. archie finland says is likely to apply for nato membership quotes without delay with neighboring sweden expected to follow suit of decades. the 2 countries followed a non alignment's miniature policy. moscow says it would c finished membership of nato as a threats and has warned 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 succession 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, the pharmacy also says finland's a session to nate, so would be a direct violation of the paris peace treaty signed in 1947, which prohibits countries including russia and finland from forming coalitions against each other. now nathan was expansion was one of the red lines which is emphasized by russia prior to the ukraine conflicts. and despite a legit promises from nato back in the 1009 says that he wouldn't move another inch eastwood. the blog has been steadily expanding in recent decades. let's go on

a list and i'd say based miles, her name believes that the nato expansion is hugely beneficial to the u. s. u. s. is a military, empire, and partner for 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 and when after afghanistan and there was no legitimate reason for either those wars. but there were plenty of natural resources that the u . s. one and part of an 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, destroy 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 is an economic reason . there is no more reason. there's no humanitarian reason for any of this. it is pure economics. let's be as police chief, as accused is offices of being too soft on people who got that earlier this week to oppose the for, for moving flowers from a monument to soviet soldiers. investigations have now been launched into those who gathered up the memorial after being outraged by the removal of flowers, lady owner of this week's victory day commemorations of the cases was brought against a young man who was seen that with the russian flag. and he's now apparently accused of justifying genocide and crimes against humanity. a meanwhile, the lobby in parliament is now approved the demolition of

a monument to the liberators of riga, a move this being condemned by the russian foreign ministry. that's after love in law makers suspended a bilateral agreements with russia on the handling of soviets era monuments. and in another incidents, we spoke to an organizer the multiple regiments in reger. he told us how they were forbidden to hold an event this year dedicated to the memory of those that liberated the city from nazi germany. wasn't the door this year we submitted an application for the mortal regiments campaigns. but we had to withdraw the application because the events were prohibited. as far as i know that they're the only country in the world this year where any format for celebrate on the 9th of may was banned, but lane flowers was not forbidden. representatives of the authorities said that they could not forbid lane flowers, but at the speech of the head of the state police on the eve of the 9th of may, it was said that he urged not to come to the monument and lay flowers gaz lane flowers would be regarded as disloyalty to this state that his verification of soviet symbols in russian aggression to day. but at the same time, the people clearly cher today's events in the history of their family. so the 9th

of may and the immortal regiment are absolutely family events. and despite their restrictive measures, more than 50000 people, according to police estimates came to the monument during the day and late flowers with another protest expected to take place late on friday, police have been sold to show 0 tolerance to the demonstrators. the incident unravelled after authorities used bulldozers to clear the may, the 9th victory day anniversary commemorations. the locals brought the monuments in response to locals, brought even more flowers to the sides with police than completely blocking off the area. or regus been one of the most vocal critics of moscow's actions in ukraine. we spoke with a lot of in public and political figure who thinks that these actions are reflection of the current worlds was a phobia just served a little now in view of the fact that the world is infected with such a virus, of the most violent, unbridled rosa phobia on this wave and this background to the ruined people have lots of it, have realized that this is their chance when they can do more than one

a month. this is a step towards rewriting history. in general, history is being written by the west, but especially in the bull to countries and in poland with such an attitude that in general, the russian positive trade in history is simply raised to a state of 0 below the plan. and if it does not exist, this is the task. the task is to depict the role of russian civilization and history in such a way as if it either does not exist at all. or it is absolutely negative, villainous. moving on to other news and a huge bites been taken out of apple with its own giant losing his crown as the world's most valuable firm. only this year became the 1st company to hit the 3 trillion dollar mark with his value has since fallen nearly 20 percent. the argent saudi aramco now sits at the top of the tree. ramco shares have jumped almost 30 percent since january with market capitalization climbing to $2.00 trillion dollars in march, or in march. the world's largest oil exporting company reported its full year

profits last year. more than doubled due to soaring oil prices. i'll compare that to the eiffel maker sales, which have been hit by the supply chain crisis and u. s. central bank policies. earlier, we discussed with a panel of guess how markets the shifting as the world economy grapples with geopolitical changes, inflation and the supply chain. crisis, am not silicon valley jones have lost more than one trillion dollars over the last 3 days? are we seeing a burst of the table, or is this just a template, a temporary glitch? well, it's probably not temporary. a probably intermediate trend going on here. you know, investors go, we're prices and profits are rising and with the global supply contraction or the stabilization of supply in oil prices will keep rising. you know, saudi doesn't want to, i pump more oil. neither do other countries in new american oil companies. and then you've got the sanctions on top of that, and all of that seems a not

a short term trend. it will be an intermediate term lease. so profits and prices keep going up in oil. then you compare it to what's going on with tech which is contracting. now i think tech is going to be in a recession fairly soon here as if credit shortage, both through sanctions. if there's an additional shortage created through infrastructure destroyed in oil, and you can create increasing demand both through for military, non military reason them of course, the price. so something's going to go up. i don't think that that tech is going to as a, as a sector itself, be an immediate medium turn to term shrink. i think what you're going to see is a lot of rearranging climate change is something that the people of earth are very concerned about. and now we have oil taking over where exxon, i mean, beating out netflix is down 73 percent. why? because exactly as you point out, these tensions geopolitical tensions have forced oil to go way up while all of us

are looking to survive simultaneously in the us with inflation being as high as it is. people can't afford and won't be able to afford luxury items like i phones i pads even apple plus streaming. netflix isn't keep raising the price as inflation keeps going up. so what are people forced to do? food, water, shelter, milk, and gasoline also known as oil and petroleum. is that that kind of thing, symbolic that the toilers overtaken technology or do you think it's just a temp regression? we will see a re shuffling of the deck. you want to define it as big things. what you've got is look at the nasdaq market. i mean, it's contracting dramatically here. it's almost bare territory. a lot of these companies are coming in will earnings that are very good to some extent is demand related, but it's also supplier problems. the sort of forecast that, you know, the earnings are going to continue to go in the direction they have been and tech has been in the kind of

a bubble during the covered period. so it's already too high of appreciation and pressure ratios here. so i don't really think the frames are going to contract here . well, not negative, maybe slower growth, but they're not going to be the high flyers that they were. so what i sent to be the current financial and economic crisis has been caused by russia going to war with ukraine, or was it bounce up and anyway, at some point, one of roches main exports is oil. and when you make it a limited supply in europe is desperately requiring every drop it can get, the price goes way up. well, the stuff becomes valuable, it's exciting to be in the oil business, no matter what country you are. so it's a golden days for the moment, especially if you have the oil. i think that the war and ukraine has certainly increased the price of oil. and there's no question about that. but in terms of timing tack constantly re shuffles, messing nature of tech, it changes the data, re, shuffles, there might be some acceleration,

but i think when you see social changes happening at the same time as new technologies, you're just going to see a lot of re shuffling and while we're talking about oil, the country of a man says he doesn't intend to increase its oil supplies, despite pressure coming from the west. that's according to the country's foreign minister who held a meeting with his russian counterparts. on wednesday, the country apparently incense to remain committed to limits, agreed by opec plus economist mom do g a selma believes the oil producer group has no reason to given some pressure coming from the u. s. on the you all think last watches the amount of kids very carefully and try to ensure that the global market is balance and shame. and so they are not going to change their policies because of pressure by the united states or the european union. the only change that shim policies

is that there might have to be done. i would say, well, or i'm balance, they have limited as a production capacity. so they want to keep it for a time when i can come in balance. when i say your bank up to date with all the latest from around the world, do you feel free to with the r t dot com for more stories and in depth analysis? when it's peter scott on the back again at the top of the hour. ah, a

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goes to what was wrong. so home like, will you be for me like that? it with all she, she knew me. yes. oh, the russian speaking, se ukraine refused to accept the cruise outcome. people took to the streets of ukraine's largest cities. that had been protest in krakow a desa, mario pope, and zap our osha mash protest broke out in the crimean autonomous republic. and overwhelming majority of crimean citizens voted at the for random to break away from ukraine. i did march 2014 crimea, rejoined russia. or chester carmine splitting your mas was ms. corgal, which is all there is a d, a g, or is it that you're doing as of yet or the last few to prophecies? kid is, ryan, you. anybody is allowed.