ah, ah ah, a republican senator blocks, a $40000000000.00 u. s. a package for ukraine saying the american economy will be doomed if washington continues to spend more money than what you have here is a ukranian snipers nest. it has been set up on a roof of one of the military bases, and it has been abandoned. well along with the rest of the base. all correspondence reports from ukrainian military base is the money you pull, which they abandoned, as the russian forces advanced. as russia none done yet, so just continued to fight the hours of steal plans on the outskirts of the city. russia threatens retaliatory stats if neighboring. finland joins nato,

but tell think he insists it must apply without delay. and latvia paves the way to demolish a soviet. there are memorial and lost probes against people who protested against the removal of flowers from the sides, laid dead during victory day commemorations with moscow to the world. this is all the international. i'm peter scott. and we start with the latest on the conflicts in ukraine. according to the russian defense ministry, more than 19000 people were evacuated from high risk areas of ukraine and the dumbass republic. the ministry also claimed the russian army is ready to open. new humanitarian corridors, including for the evacuation of civilians are the countries the supply of electricity has been restored to some parts of matter you. pl and russian air defense systems destroyed 6 ukrainian drones near the russian ukrainian border.

also, according to the ministry, u. s. may counter artillery radar. a car was destroyed. russia has also requested a un security council meeting on us biological activities in ukraine. despite the economic woes at home, the u. s. has been dishing out billions and relief funds to a country on the other side of the globe as much to this may of some heart. it's american citizens misled accusations at washington's putting america last. that's the arguments of republican senator run, paul. he bought a speedy vote on a new $40000000000.00 a package for ukraine. we cannot save ukraine 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. well, total us expenditure on military a to ukraine is now close to $14000000000.00. and they buy the ministration plans

to send you more money to the country. why it sells itself, acknowledges that's according to the plans. the vast majority of the new package will go on the purchase of weaponry and other military assets ortiz. rachel blevins has more 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 and you're crying 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. 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 does this all about? just think about when i was hungry, you fed me in the gospel of matthew ok. but in this case, who is feeding americans, and more specifically, their children, more than 10000 georgia 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 this as prices continue to store with reports from april, showing that inflation in the us remains at 40 your 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 are in crisis and for some americans to move out of major cities in search of more affordable lives. while it was just weeks ago that bitin

warned 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 well, lavishly sitting on a golden throne in a golden room with lots of golden accessories mouths. his 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 boris johnson posting 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 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 prices accelerated further in april, which is part of a broad inflation problem persisting throughout the u. s. economy, the producer price index, which trucks, how much money if i was get for products and their initial sale was 11 percent from a year ago. and thus, according to the bureau of labor statistics on. needless to say, many americans are not happy about it. each distribution, we try to provide $3.00 to $5.00 days worth of food. we're each person that's in the household right now. we're one to 2. sometimes 3 days. less than what we're

able to give people. i've never used to do things before. i didn't have to you know, i leave it for people that needed it more, but now i really almost have to, i mean it's changed very. it helps me out tremendously because i don't work. i'm on disability. i don't have the income anymore. and he can support both of those. it helps in having a whole meal. many americans are still being to meet the basic needs. is the annual inflation rate in the country remains close to 40 year high. and people are pointing the finger of blame, straight president by the nurse over his perceived failings, to get the surging inflation in the control. ortiz kellum 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 $970.00. 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 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 and ukraine. you saw, we saw in march, then 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 faith. 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 default of 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 less 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's widen and his cry down on those voicing

support for russia in the conflicts is, parliament has adopted a new law that will pave the way for forty's to confiscate the property with all the details. his art sees maria phenomena the bill that ukraine's paulman has passed allows seizure of property and 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 chord decision. but in fact, as the rudders speaker put it, it is about all those who sympathize with russia, who support russia, special military operation here on the ground. all these people in our under sanctions and in danger. these 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 countries 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. there is a number of cases when ukrainian intellectuals, writers, bloggers, political, commentators, and singer, is among them god arrested by the countries 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 alarm and, and have been frightening scale civil rights lawyer rober patillo fears that 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 like 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 with the compensation property. it could turn into the rounding up imprisonment of pro russian quote unquote, individuals there 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 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 of the expansion of this in 2019, and even in 2021. so i think that this is 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 when the government to try to direct the russian. i'm much of ukraine,

i think this is was talking much of these tensions. western forces have evacuated a mother and daughter from the done yet republic. that's after the claim. there are typed by the neighbor while hiding in the basement of the house isn't the claim happens. much for my daughter and i were hiding in the basement during the raid by ukrainian forces. and when we started to come out, ho neighbors said fi to our basement, but we didn't know that she was from been dara battalion. my daughter came out 1st . they had through us ask of gasoline, a tough hit, my daughter in the temple with brass knuckles. and me with his foot, i called home on my knees for a long time, probably for 2 hours. 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 citizens. meanwhile, as fighting continues the as of steel pon tomorrow, tupelo correspondent has visited the abundant ministry basis of the ukrainian

forces located in the city. the facilities were cleared of mines just days ago. ready he goes down and 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 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 shelves. either surrender or hole in at as of style steelworks, which catacombs still show to the bleeding out remainder of the mary. you pull neo nazi garrison left at the very end of the rope. i mean, there's done of reporting from are you both see in lynn says this likely to apply for nato membership quote. without delay the neighboring suite and expected to follow suit of decades. the 2 countries followed a non alignments military policy. moscow says he would c finished membership of nato as a threats and his want of retaliatory steps. the statement by the president of finland is a radical change in the country's foreign policy. me the rushes 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 threats to its national security. arising in this regard, the foreign ministry also says that finland, the sessions needs would be a direct violation of the paris peace treaty, which was signed in 1947 and prohibits countries including russia and finland from forming coalitions against each other. nathan expansion was one of the red lines which was emphasized by russia prior to the ukraine conflicts. and despite alleged promises from nato buck in the 1990, that he wouldn't move another inch eastwood. the book has been steadily expanding in recent decades. but it's school analysts and it's a vis miles. her name believes nato expansion is hugely beneficial to the us. 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. lots of years, police chief is accused. his offices are being too soft on people who gathered early this week to oppose the force removal of flowers from monument to soviet soldiers. investigations have now been launched into some of those who gather the memorial, after being outraged by the removal of flowers, lading on a of this week's victory day commemorations. one of the cases was brought against a young man who was seen that with the russian flag and these now apparently being accused of justifying genocide and crimes against humanity. oh i see why yas, along with meanwhile, the latvian parliament has now approved the demolition of a monument to the liberates as a reger a move which was condemned by the russian foreign ministry. dr. levine, lawmakers suspended a bilateral agreements with russia on the handling of soviet era monuments and

another incidents we spoke to, an organizer of the immortal regiments in riga who 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. where don't go this year. we submitted an application for the mortal regiments campaign, but we had to withdraw the application because the events were prohibited. as far as i know that they is the only country in the world this year, where any former for celebrating the 9th of may was banned, but lane flowers was not forbidden. representatives that 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 because lane flowers would be regarded as disloyalty to this state. that is his verification of soviets, symbols and 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 man, the immortal regiment, are absolutely family events. and despite the restrictive measures, more than 50000 people, according to police estimates,

came to the monument during the day and late flowers and with another process expected to take place late on friday, police have been told to show 0 tolerance to the demonstrators. these did unraveled after authorities used bulldozers declare they made the 9th victory de anniversary commemorations. the locals brought the monuments in response. locals brought even more flowers to the sides with police, then completely blocking off the area. now regus being one of the most vocal critics of moscow's actions in ukraine and levine, publicist and political analysts by deem it linda men. these, all these actions are reflection of the russ, a phobia, currently running rampant in the world to just serve you little now in view of the fact that the world is infected with such a virus of the most violent, unbridled bruce, a phobia on this wave. and this beg round the ruined people of 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 has been written by the west, but especially in the baltic countries and in poland with such an attitude that in

general, the russian positive traits 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 even does not exist at all. or it is absolutely negative, villainous. in other news, a huge bites been taken out of apple with it's a giant losing his crown as the world's most valuable firm on this year became the 1st company to hit the 3 trillion dollar mark. but his value has since fallen nearly 20 percent. the oil giant saudi ramco now sits at the top of the tree. ronko shares have jumped almost 30 percent since january with markets capitalization, climbing to $2.00 trillion dollars. in march, the world's largest oil exporting company reported its full year profits last year, more than double due to the soaring oil prices. compare that to the i phone makers, sales, which have been hit by the supply chain crisis, and

u. s. central bank policies. well, earlier we discussed with a panel of guess how market shifting is the world economy grapples with geopolitical changes, inflation on the supply chain crisis. i'm not silicon valley jones. last more than one trillion dollars over the last 3 days. all we seeing a burst of the table or is this just a temperance a temporary glitch? well, it's probably not temporary. a probably intermediate trend going on here. you know, investors go, we're a 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 pump more oil and neither do other countries and new american oil companies. and then you've got the sanctions on top of that and all of that seems not a short term trend. it will be an intermediate term, at least 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 tank is going to be in a recession fairly soon. here as a credit shortage, both through sanctions. if there is an additional shortage crated through infrastructure destroyed in oil, and you can create increasing demand both through for military, non military reason them, of course, the price of 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 had things symbolic, 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, thanks. what you 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 with earnings that aren't very good to some extent is demand related, but it's also supply problems. the sort of forecast that, you know, the earnings are, are going to continue to go in the direction they have been and tech has been in the kind of a bubble during the coven period. so it's already too high of appreciation and price ratios here. so i really think the francs 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 stand 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 shovels, 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 shoveling no, it's

a bangladesh now which has become the 1st country in south asia to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage, as well as the launch of the pirate power plant, which is a joint project with china and a key parts of the belts and road initiative. the prime ministers 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 upon the canadian asia with africa and europe violent maritime networks. it's also aims to improve regional integration, increase trade on the stimulate economic growth. cambodia, meanwhile, has said it's also seeing improvements to people's livelihoods in the country through projects under the belts and road projects is that the aim is to help boost the countries socio economic development and vice the shanghai center for rim park . i needs national studies nelson wong, things china has a completely different approach done the west when it comes to helping other countries. this is very easy to get misunderstood. this is a new colonialism of china. this is

a by lending money to people who are trying to drive that trap for countries that took the los, i think this is totally wrong. what china has been doing is to help those people, those countries to build that infrastructure. what china does is a very business like transactions. basically, if you go to a country and discuss wisdom, whether you like a port or a power plant to be able to lot, then if the terms are agreed, then let's go and do it for. but no other conditions, but what we have heard from other countries, the reasonably like chinese companies to do business with them is that they don't. the chinese do not tell them what to do. the west adopted a different approach when it comes to helping other countries while you're buying

up to date with all the latest from around the world to feel free to it's r t dot com for more stories and in depth analysis minus b to scott on the back again in around 30 minutes time. thank you for watching. ah, with ah ah. hello and welcome to cross stock were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . when thinking about the

e. u. one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. when it says it's united over the issue of ukraine, it is not, it says, it doesn't want to fight russia, but in fact, is a co belligerent on the side of ukraine is determined to deeply damage rushes economy . but in doing so, damage is itself, ah, cross stocking the e u, i'm joined by my guess, marco gas in london. he's an international affairs commentator in prague. we have brad blankenship. he is a columnist at c g t n, a freelance reporter push in law as well as a rti contributor and a mirror cache we custom roster. martin j, he's an award winning journalist and commentator. all right, gentlemen crossed out girls in fact that much. i mean, you can jump in any time you want. now it's appreciate a martin. i start out by saying, i don't know if i should laugh or cry when it comes to the e. u. i think that should be familiar to you because i was a title of an article you wrote a few days ago. why did you write it.