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[000:00:00;00] the turkey has reportedly blogs, finland, and sweden from joining nato off the nordic countries. honda did that official applications on career demand, the handover of what it calls terrorist group topic by helsinki and almost a 1000 ukranian troops have rendered it be out of sole factory in the dawn by city of mario pulse with captured neo nazi from the as of battalion due to stand trial for war crimes. so the us government comes on the criticism for seeking to impose this legal system abroad, despite washington's own reco, preventing americans from being prosecuted at the hey, whose the,
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whose very welcome. this is not the international with the latest world news update is a pleasure to have the company with turkey has reportedly blocked the official process of accepting finland and sweden into nato just hours after the nordic countries handed in the applications at the headquarters of the military block and tourist says it's against seeing the 2 countries joined the lines unless they stopped supporting rebel groups including cuts and hand over suspects that turkey calls terrorists. swedish finish officials were reportedly planning to visit encore for talks, but turkey's president said they shouldn't bother trying to woo him. we typically miss our only expectation from nato allies is for them to 1st understand our sensitivity respect and finally support it. so what is our sensitivity is protecting our borders from terror attacks. you won't give us back terrorists, but you ask us for nato membership. nato is an entity for security and organization
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for security. therefore, we cannot say yes to the security organization being deprived of security. make session of the to nordic countries require the approval of all 30 nato members with that decision then requiring modification by national parliaments and that process is expected to take up to one year. we gauged opinions on the streets of the swedish capital where some local have mixed feelings about ditching their countries neutrality. i think it's part of our country within nato, also through military exercises of different kinds. but it's still, i think it's a big shift for our identity. i think it's a bad one because we have always been free from such associations. and we would be a part that can,
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that can discount people together if that over being different using hon. laurie. and so i think it's the right decision to make right now. but that doesn't mean that we abandon our, our foreign or defense politics because we can change not the problem with in i think. and chris move has led to fresh tensions within nato with the us. and it's our lives pushing for sweden and finland to join the blog. it's not the only points of tension between the nato member states as greece is prime minister has asked us congress to nick the deal to sell advanced weaponry to turkey. did not think ankara as a source of instability. the last thing that made on each, at a time one, our focus is on helping ukraine defeat russia's. aggression is another source of instability on nato's south eastern flag. and ask you
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to take this into account. when you make defense procurement decisions concerning the eastern mediterranean the great leader has express concern about biden's proposal to approve the $400000000.00 worth of weapons. including modern missiles and equipment for anchors sheets of american made and 165 to one grease itself is processing a, deals by the lake is located mostly as 35 did the same time, the turkish foreign minister is company awaiting a meeting with his american count, assault a 30 year we spoke to a former turkish island basset to the you say, grace is in a position to buy expensive weapons from the united states. the degree got to choose your own. so there are several reasons. so that if for the, for example, grease increases its territorial waters or water. so to one of mars a,
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it would be internal c for grease and it's hard to ship. so what us permission to trust it agrees, you know, the army gets on the record, leave it behind the scene again, the united states, our friends are playing a major role. and other point, greece is bankrupt country and they're buying from united states for $13000000000.00 worth of claims for example. what does this mean? whoa, who is financing the and to if you consider to be and a country und dash deeply. and then the whole of this financing is gaming. go to sure. i think the latest pictures when he's by russian is defense ministry from the dumbass city of mario paul. when will you
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create incompetence surrendered at the as of stuff factory on wednesday, at least 959 trips. i said 200 themselves over to russian. net force is that over the past 3 days, he's on these ecos donna with well, the fight is from the as of style. steve works, they keep surrendering again. the processes are going on rather slowly, but not because the militia that, and that's people's republic or russia, are reluctant to take in these prisoners of war. but rather because there were so many of them, in fact, the commanders of the next people's militia, they have said that they estimated that there were maybe hundreds of neo nazi fighters and ukrainian soldiers hiding in the catacombs underneath the as of south steel works. but in fact, the actual number turned out to be around 2500. so more than 2000. now again, people are surrendering neo nazis. us rendering soldiers are surrendering surprisingly, a lot of women among them. but the top brass,
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the top command of the as of neo nazi battalion, the ones that were making statements that were appealing to the pope, to the authorities, to the international community publicly. they are still down there in the bunkers and it is unclear as to when they will surrender. and in fact, what they are planning to do next. now those who are injured because there are quite a few of those they are, they receive medical care, they are in a very poor state. many have burns all over their bodies. many have lost limbs, or in general their, their wounds are infected. and in fact, it would have made all the difference if they had received order to surrender earlier because well, quite a few even lives may have been saved by the doctors have that in that people's republic. so, but again, they did not receive that order. they received orders to stay put the ukrainian authorities, the ukrainian command and made the decision to keep all those very,
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very badly injured people without. 9 access to the proper medicine, again to keep surrendering and those who are healthy, they aren't being placed in a hotel or anything like that. they're being placed role in the penitentiary for letty's again, not because they have received any sentence already, but rather this is how the authorities here are sending a message that these people have been captured, that they have surrendered and they are prisoners of war u. k. inflation and consumer prices have hit a 40 year rec, hold reaching 9 percent last month, according to the latest data. the cost of essentially, like food on transport, arising at a record pace, jeopardizing low and middle income families, many of whom are forced to spend their whole salaries on energy bills and rely on food banks to feed their families. household costs and now up by more than 50 percent and more increases and not rules out by the official regulator. right now the u. k. has the highest inflation rate among the strongest european economies,
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and the g 7 group or to reduce expense as many have given up heating homes and decided to go out less 44 percent of those surveyed have switched to cheaper food and public transport. and some people even have to skip meals to tackle economic challenges. the government has allocated 22000000000 pounds to help, but admitted that it can't fully protect people in the country. safeguarding minister has proposed people work extra hours or find a better job. make sure that people are able to protect themselves better, whether that is by taking or more hours or moving to a better paid job on people. they may be able to access additional hours. but of course it's, it's not going to work for people who are already working in 3 jobs, and that's why we need to have the other measures in place such as the all the help that we're putting into the schools that help with the local authorities more or less cost life to award winning journalist editor and on our pundit martin
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j. thank you for joining us on the program. it's nice to see monson. some expose have one that if the crisis gets any worse, it could increase the number of homeless people. do you think this is a real danger? it's a real danger or so, so you wouldn't want to be issues with the situation now looming in the next few months and certainly not before winter kicks in towards the end of this year where people are not just facing homelessness. but the ones who can can stay in the us from them are going to freeze it when you talk about very poor people on the unemployed. how will they heat the home? when by october, already economists are suggesting that eating costs will go up again by $40.00 or $0.50. you're looking at basically a 100 percent double heating cost from about 6 months ago. so that's the problem. but politically, this just turns out the pressure bar as johnson or
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a interest going to house to too many scandals. i mean, there's a huge, any character, dodge, so many bullets in the last few months. the last one being part of it. but i can't see how we can stay in power with the number of not only 5 inches, but ministers who are beginning of the end. now it's basically done the job that he was asked to do, get it done like churchill, the leader to the most. so these wasn't able to follow through on any other important points of making the country wrong. governance is not a strong point. so to answer your question. yeah, it's gonna be tough times ahead, but i think for the very poor it's going to be a diabolical winter head towards the end of the tough times i had like you say, and people giving up the thing, people skipping meals even how long do you think this will go on
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a lot because the, the problem we've got in britain is that the press is so core is just so much sloppy reporting going on. i mean, even when you look at this debate, which is a merge today, it's come about because of the bank of england announcing new interest rates today is created based on talk radio on print media, online platforms right across the country. but, you know, we don't have a very strong pressing button at the long run. ask in the right questions, you know, what's being repeated again to get notice of these talking points, which i suppose have been fed to the germans from either back benches who are anxious to take a swipe forest or from the labor party in the same talking points with keep coming up again, perhaps you should lower it tax on income for
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a receipt increase on the insurance. and the most favorite one which is being done about it was to say that so it should be a winful tax on some of the big energy companies, b, p a, c, i was bragging, they've got so much money that i didn't know what to do with it so i think the last $1.00 seems to be indications the room for them will be some sort of a one shot, one off tax on some of the big profit companies are making it. how long can this all hold together? you know, how long before people, if it's not the press and people themselves on social media start asking really difficult questions, you know, in the last year or so we've had this issue of immigration getting out of hand with so many times it was coming across in the day running to thousands now and people have been asking, how can that go wrong when the country has such a huge housing problem that sells more more people becoming homeless?
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i'm going to rise. i think when, when these new economic factors kick in the next couple months, you now take that to the next level. you know, when are people going to start asking questions on a debate which will happen about the subject of how much money was spending elsewhere? the governments on the 22000000000 pounds of spending, but really when is something much more radical and much more disciplined? the key thing about this, as johnson government has been marked by corruption, corruption that we've never seen before on the scale. and i think when some more difficult question start getting asked about government spending about ukraine. war for example, coming really afford to keep this money to ukrainians to this government here for this links to near nancy creek. i think that isn't in the public demand, but i think this when you drive public to down people's throats now,
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dose such bostic low as stopping the eating bills. rents rising gasoline rising. cost of living generally suits dawson. she wants to like talk. people will start asking questions and you know, one of those will be, you know, how much money do we really need to spend? what should you spend? we should be spending 1300000000 pounds. yeah. on minute 8 to credit which could be spent on creating jobs and use training. yeah. but it could have to leave it than we're out of time, but award winning to unless that it's and on a monday my son j. thank you very much for your time now, the european commission has presented a plan called re power aimed at ending the reliance on russian fossil fuels. wes, this is called most energy sources. the total of economic and political warfare would, ins, war is as we all see, heavily disrupting the global energy market. and therefore,
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we must now review with our as soon as possible our dependency on russian fossil fuels. brussels is now proposed a falls to roll out of renewable energy resources while drastically cutting down on imports on consumption. usa. so say they expect that process to require some $210000000000.00 euros an extra investments. this comes to some european countries are still refusing to pay for russian gas imposing roubles on several e members, including italy have already agreed to moscow's terms, as deadlines for the payment of gas supplies are scheduled for the next few days. and he has begun the process of opening to current accounts at desk prom bank. the decision has been shared with the italian institutions. it was taken in compliance with the current international sanctions framework. that says, italy's prime minister has emphasized that the country's trade with russia remains in a gray area and does not current a violating sanctions. while he usually does debate, complying with russia's terms for gas payments in rubles, price is perhaps surged,
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and it has hits regular europeans. in that pole case is left some italians questioning decision making by both brussels and run but only go i am not a politician. i am an entrepreneur, but in my opinion, a different solution could have been found and we could have talked before and not sanction. it is now a disaster. we take gas and oil from russia to make glass. and obviously, after all that is happening, the price has definitely increased, causing us great problems. us, europe is doing nothing to control prices which have risen significantly. the governments have done nothing to keep the prices of raw materials from rising from there is a great deal of speculation on these prices. they do what they want, and we entrepreneurs, on the other hand, are full of debt because we no longer know how to pay our workers sold on anything . so. so let me grab the italian government, had to do more well, but the prices of gas and electricity are rising, causing severe economic damage to all factories. it is a very complicated and difficult situation,
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but i do not really know how to resolve this. dramatic story is alvin construction in italy. the engine of the economy is coming to a halt. many companies have dense loss, even as an entrepreneur in distributor. i have many debts and i do not know what to do. the chain is freezing. it's not a good situation and i see an even darker future for all of us. who are senators, are working to expand the authority of american law to handle international war crimes cases. washington state. the move is a response to russia's operation in ukraine, but the u. s. is now coming under criticism for protecting its own troops from prosecution abroad, as ortiz right to blevins reports. the united states congress is considering a new bill that would get an american court powers to pursue individuals over allegations of war crimes committed in other countries. and they don't even have to be us citizens, perpetrators committing, unspeakable war crimes, such as those unfolding before our very eyes in ukraine must be held to account. we
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have the power and responsibility to ensure that the united states will not be used as a safe haven by the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. the new powers would expand the 1996 war crimes act was one really important distinction. americans no longer have to be involved as a victim or the offender, but if the suspect steps that on us soil, they can be tried in court and there is no statute of limitations, meaning that the charges can never expire. while this change has been proposed before, it was always struck down in the past, over concerns that it would allow us to get a little too involved in other countries affairs. domestic prosecution based on universal jurisdiction could draw the united states into conflicts in which this country has no place and where our national interests are. slight. however, you as lawmakers appear to have had a change of heart, and they say it's all because of ukraine. well, american politicians on the freedom to target anyone in the world,
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they still don't want the world to put their soldiers on trial. any attempts to do so by the international criminal court have been met with severe back last year. over the years with the bush administration, even signing a bill into law, to allow the use of military force in order for us personnel who are detained by the a c. c. while the u. s. isn't party to the court anyway. the trump administration actually went as far as to run out sanctions against i. c. c officials back in 2020 all because they plan to investigate the u. s. and its allies of or allegations of war crimes. and i can't stand. so what justification did they give for those things? the president will not allow american citizens to be prosecuted by foreign bureaucrats. and he will not allow other nations to dictate our means of self defense. so it's ok for america to pursue and prosecute foreign citizens around the world as they see fit. but if america is alleged means of self defense,
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violate international law. and accountability is strictly off limits. american exceptionalism at its finest. in washington, rachel blevins, r t be proposed legit. inflation comes of the us state department of launch the new programs who analyze evidence of what caused russian war crimes in ukraine. washington says the campaign will examine satellite imagery as well as information on social media. most get denies western accusations against its forces in ukraine and say, some supported atrocities were in fact, staged by his wealth into national law. professor francis boil for his take on why the us is seeking to export its legal authority. so public relations. so exercise a part of what we are law professors called warfare using the law as a tool for her. i'm not denying of war crimes might have been committed there by ukrainian forces and russia forces. this happens all the time in war,
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but this is not a good faith investigation by the united states. no, this is, this is law affair using law as a tool of warfare against the russian federation. certainly, that's the way i interpret. and of course, there's nothing objective about united states government investigating work crimes . went to the united states government, investigate a war crimes in iraq, where under bush senior, they are killed about 200000 iraqis or in the iraq war 2 by bush junior, where they exterminated may be one point. $5000000.00 iraqis and bush and all the rest of his neocons are running around here. scott, free me. mon officially, u. s. investigation has found that his troops did not deliberately caused civilian casualties and as strike they kill the dozens of people in syria in 20. 19 the probe was launched off to
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a new york times reporter keeps the u. s. military of deliberately covering up the deadly attack, the u. n. had also urged washington to investigate the killings. previously, the u. s. has been accused of shutting down attempts to investigate its alleged atrocities. in 2016 washington declared that an international criminal court investigation into reported war crimes in afghanistan posed a threat to us national security administration that issued an order effectively criminalizing any american cooperates with the hate investigative journalist that madiba madiba believes the u. s. it shouldn't come clean about it's i mistakes before accusing other countries. the u. n. isn't any of america, you know, the u. n has never stood against united states of america. you know, and i simply does nothing but p. o is public relations, is that? yes, she does statements to say the address just so that america must come and subject themselves to the america must come to investigate themselves. but nothing is going to be done. they just leave politics with us,
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just plain i just want to be seen as do something or saying something, but nothing fairly has there been done against united states of america or providence 0. and rather than leave another done, india and numerous other countries across the world for many years hasn't enough. the states of america tried to blog anyone, was soon to investigate the war crimes and then commented how many times they stopped. and then they stopped. um, investigative jose have they saw other countries and other organizations to investigate don't crimes, you know, why don't they investigate themselves? issues spoke themselves as little before we go out running, just a good russia listen, instigate also, what have you done? how you manage as a nation, what have we done to contribute to be a society? what have you done? contribution better was, you know, is a lot of people, but nobody wants to make noise and they want to focus on russian
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with cookers rwanda's president wants the u. k. to extradite 5 suspects for alleged roles in the east african countries, 994 genocide. that's off the british judge is blocked the extradition on the grounds, the suspects will not receive a fair trial. the request comes weeks off to a controversial deal between the 2 countries. that was the british asylum seekers relocated to rwanda. from why the applications where we processed when the u. k, is sending us these migrants, they should send us some people they have accommodated for over 15 years, who committed crimes. in rwanda, we sent case files to the u. k. and investigated. these are clear case files instead of being accommodated there in that beautiful place of the u. k. they should be in jail either in the u. k. are here. between april and june 1994, an estimated 800000 rwandans were killed in the space of a 100 days. most of the dead were from the tootsie tribe,
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and most of those who perpetrated to violence were hutus. the genocide has been an irritant to relations between the 2 countries. for many years, let's close life now to florida. got a bouquet, rwandan, genocide, survivor and the executive director for the african great lakes action network or atlanta. thank you very much for joining us on the program. we appreciate your time as a survey. thank you for having me. you're welcome. as a survivor of the tragedy. and what do you think about the extradition of these genocide suspects from the u. k? as a survivor of the genocide, i would actually like to see justice served against the perpetrators of the genocide that includes members of the r p f which is the ruling party in rwanda that was delayed by a guy who also had a role in the genocide starting with the shooting down of the president's plan in 1094 that actually started the genocide. also, i would rather see the suspects trade in the u. k. given how they're one of the government treats survivors of that genocide and uses the channels out as
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a tool of repression inside of a wander and as black male against the international community. i want to give a quick example. there is a man named a university profession professor, a musician, he is, he and his brother, the loan survivors from the general side and also of atrocities that took place after the general site. he spoke about the killing of his family after the general side, but the r p f. and now he's been arrested. it's been about a year now since he was arrested in since last fall. he has been disappeared. no one has seen him anywhere in court or in public, but he has not been sentenced. so the treatment of genocide survivors shows me that the government for one that is not interested in polk a gummy is not interested in justice for on the general side. but also because they are p f itself has some responsibilities in that genocide, so i would rather see them trade in the u. k. and do you expect the u. k to arrange
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a trial on its own soil for those 5 people? i hope so. i hope they will do that because i think is important in order for not only rwandans, but the international community to continue moving forward and actually building a more lasting a peaceful region in the great lakes region of africa. justice must be served in the truth must come to light and if there is a trial which there is a much higher chance of a fair trial in the u. k, than there is in wonder, i think that would help in contributing to the truth. it would help in for those of us who survived the genocide and many people who lost their families in figuring out what happened to their families in also just this is really the foundation to lasting piece. there is no other way. truth in just is have to be at the forefront of last think these are the latest one, the u. k. is that there's,
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there's nothing that ties the current migration partnership deal and the extradition together. do you see the rwandan president statement affecting the implementation of the current asylum deal? the i think so. gum is a statement will serve as a pressure point. he's, you know, becoming the president for one that is excellent at black mailing the international community using the genocide. so now that he has this, i call it a human trafficking deal with the u. k. where wonder is serving as basically a dumping ground for people. the u. k is not wanting on their soul, on their soil and is selling them to wonder government. we use this as leverage to go after the people that he wants extradited. not because he cares about justice, but because it serves his political interest. and so under the deal, the everyone to be paid a 120000000 pounds initially to receive refugees arrival legally in the u. k. did they not? that's
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a big enough amount to provide all that's necessary for the refugees. you know, i don't think we even get there as far as this money being enough to provide the necessary for the refugees. because this deal should not even happen. people should not be moved to countries that they are not wanting to go to in considering what's happened. other refugees who either fleet or one to or center wonder, there is no amount of money that can justify this human trafficking deal. there was a deal between wanda and israel to sand. refugees in israel, a chance and sort of nice to or wanda. it was supposed to be $20000000.00. the deal fell through. but what happened there was a pilot of actually sending those refugees to wonder when they got there. they were extorted of their money, they never received any papers to resettle, they never got any jobs. no schools, the women were raped, the children were abused and impregnated in some of those refugees, ended up dumped at the border of uganda. they flayed again. they ended up in
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