ah ah ah, yes, present, joe biden blames vladimir putin for the highest inflation in the us more than 4 decades. but us, senator says it's the budget ministration itself that can't handle the crisis. i'm talk to them to lose your door. and in that moment there was an explosion here just one route later and all aligned with me. so different 19 civilians die and dozens are wounded in dumbass in the latest ukrainian army. shelley, not according to local authorities and china claims the u. s. arms package to taiwan undermines peace in the region and threatens all our war if the island declared independence with

go to the world. this is kathy international. i am pizza, scott. these, the top stories. this our with us consumer inflation hitting its highest level a more than 4 decades and a point 6 percent increase in bite. and as once again blamed vladimir putin for surge and energy and a few costs is currently rocking america. the days of pleasure report, confirm what america's already know. prudent price, i consider america hard. gas prices at the pump, energy and food prices, confir half of the monthly price increases since may my ministration. going to continue everything we can to lower the prices american people. and the congress has to act and they have been of late by didn't comments come despite us inflation rising sharply since his term began in january 2021 soaring from an average of 1.4 percent in december 2020 to 7 percent in december 2021 that's 2 months before the

war and ukraine begun. and despite biden's helping his officers efforts to deal with a problem. us, senator john kennedy says, it looks like the administration has simply given up. it's just strong in the american drain. and, and we have to address it which to make like a bad administration has just given up biden's comments, comb, liquified natural gas prices, also skyrockets in the u. that's often explosion is an export terminal over in texas, which i've been sending the fuel to europe. both prices for the fuel in the earth actually gone down since then is more of the l n. g is now expected to be used domestically instead of going abroad. earlier, washington said it would help you to reduce it dependence on brushing data import to take the funds shut down. will cookies output by around 8 percent, which could further threaten europe's energy security. most of the fuel form that had been shipped to the u. r. u. s. corresponding caleb and picks up the story.

well, it was report, texas residents are 3 very loud bangs. and essentially what they were hearing was a liquefied natural gas terminal exploding. now this explosion has been widely decried as an indicator of the possible threats of public health fumes, but it's also going to have a pretty big impact on the international market. so we've heard analysis about the ability of the united states, the import and export natural gas about the crisis and the rising costs. here's some of what we've heard in the aftermath of this dramatic explosion in texas. this is going to take supply out of the market when it's badly needed. we were already moving into a very precarious set of market dynamics. this is going to tide and prompts supply, particularly in the atlantic. as a majority of the cargoes have been destined for europe. so it's important to note that as a result of this explosion, the l. n g hub in freeport,

texas is going to be shut down for 3 weeks, 3 weeks. it will not be operating in the aftermath of this rather large explosion. in addition to that 20 percent of all us natural gas exports are going to be affected by the explosion that took place and the shutting down of the hub. in addition to that, it's also important to point out that 75 percent of us, natural gas exports have been going to europe. now, there has been some relief for domestic natural gas perfect purchasers in the united states. because the fact that biden instituted some action and basically required domestic producers to get priority to the u. s. market before exporting that resulted in price is going down in the united states. but it had a negative effect on the international market and basically forced the european markets to pick up the birds. and now we have a situation where we have countries and you saying they want to completely go off of russian gap. they completely shut down russian gas. but now,

as the aftermath of this explosion is showing their confidence in american markets and the ability of the united states to supply gas to europe is a little bit shaken. europe is seeing a rise in its natural gas prices. and at this point, the ability of europe to import natural gas from the united states is at this point in a little bit of question. now there's explosion, and the impact of having on the global market seems to fly in the face of a lot of what joe biden and other us leaders have said over the past few months, reassuring everyone that america has enough gas to supply the world. when moving forward, this band, understanding that many of our european allies in partners may not be in a position to join us. the united states produces far more oil domestically than all of europe. can all the european countries combined? in fact, we're a net export of energy so we can take this step when others cannot. but we're

working closely with europe and our partners to develop a long term strategy to reduce their dependence on russian energy as well. first of all, we are looking at opportunities to make up for lost cash l n g from russia were on your way to see what we can do to do that dealing with our friends around the world as well. we think we can make up a significant portion of it. now if the situation is really as dark as some of the pessimistic forecasts we're currently seeing from analysts, then this will be a major blow to the ability of europe to import natural gas from the united states . people look at what was done by finland and that recent 10 year contract that they signed in order to win off of russian gas and import american gas in the next 10 years. we were wondering about decision made by pin one was a bit to a stick and while intense fighting continues on the front lines of the don bus

region done yet, under guns officials accused ukrainian army of shunning residential areas of cities across republics. 19 civilians died and $23.00 have been wounded as a result of the latest shelling of a number of done yet under gun cities that is, according to local authorities on bus 4th, this claim, the kid is using western made heavy weapons in those attacks. we spoke to some local to witness for showing mother you see what they can do. i was sitting near the window on the balcony door with each other. there was a bank on the wall and part of the balcony. a lot. just one room was damaged. you haven't been entered. i've heard an explosion today, but continue shooting. i was here, look you with the but even though they were shooting all day, a project, tyler flew into the room and then flew all it out into the back of your one time and close the door. and in that moment there was an explosion in just one military

time and all alive was, would have been so different than just one minute. and that's for all child. yes. all babies just 3 years. so. sure. meanwhile, in the ds, port city of murray, you pull, which was recently taken by russian forces under the allies reconstruction is underway. we spoke to russian emergency services personnel who are currently working in the city is received, but it's a beautiful, vulnerable. we started work in the city immediately after the end of the hostility level portal as russian and are network emergency services began to perform their duties of the city gradually began to come back to lighting a little notice. but we also have a large group of sappers who diffuse mind, buildings, ukrainian troops, mind everything here as they were, retreated washer little was then you're calling. this is a school building. it is almost completely destroying as a group of ukrainian military. we're here store, we found equipment, personal belongings, weapons and a case from a night vision device, new vision, or on sunday ortiz documentary on the siege of maria paul will be released and in

its witnesses share some of their her own experiences that so placed her in that siege, here's a quick teaser. ah, 3 of you. i knew enough of some guy, leonor console. me my do you know from star ma, knowledgeable tooth? i knew probably charlotte for small did them up for you. thank you, buddy. or the one up with new too much anyways, i've got a question, get with him or seen them actually be children with iep was kind enough to learn to see you soon enough. you're going to be hurting witness. i filled out at least 5 years when you were prescribed before the

president's volume is zelinski has praised london's assistance took care of during the ukrainian war as his british defend, sexy ben wallace arrived in the capital to discuss the urgent needs of ukraine's troops. and during the trib, zalinski once again emphasized the importance of the west, applying heavy weapons. krinski school, the roblis, sam, so ukrainian troops are doing everything they can using the artillery. they have to drop the occupiers, as well as much as the heavy weapons in modern artillery and all that about and continue to ask our partners to provide the allow them to separate. i have met the machine, secretary of cd for a while. i remember on the we discussed how does russian member and how to stop it . now, one attentional events and what supplies are meeting or our arm ration, the british troops leadership event will matter. no, but in the case without confirmed the donation of long range multiple rocket systems, that's in addition to the thousands of miles on the vehicles on defense system,

it's already supplied. head of ukraine's military intelligence has recently said that the country's troops and most of our musicians now rely on western supplies. there were some but the u. k. andre kellen says the pouring money and arms into crane will only prolong the conflict government for a long gates that it makes ukraine. and so just continue fight. and it is a cynical, i should say, because it is providing money, not much money. it is, it is for why i think it's going for says kind of just in the army to continue for i think, and no single knowledge about or seagly about the future, or if you great what's going to happen after that. it's an interesting question whether you will be interested after the one in the building you're putting in continuing voting can run it to the sort of this in key if that brought it to be

inefficient in building up the country and handling countries. economy once again in doing something. so i'm afraid the interest will be lost in some, some sort of if, if there will be a letter to continue to make such a project as, and i to rational out of your brain and then to rational a state. and it will be a no more capabilities and no more should be able to do that than most probably it will be less interest at the moment. i think that they are preventing any kind of been war looking for negotiation before they will or they are continuing to to push ukraine in the of these along the same way to continue waiting not to think about the future is i have said are the more military aid you quinn receives on the west,

the more will defense joins continue to earn. you can see how the share prices of some defense giants have risen as investors anticipate increasing profits. us contractor, ero vironment is expected to be one of the biggest beneficiaries. that's along with european companies, ryan miss allan leonardo, who shared vision by a 120 and 67 percent, respectively. scott, with the former marine corps intelligence officer, believes that western weapon supplies won't change the outcome of the conflict. the, the, the situation is the period of the best the supply of western arms to do is reduce the rate of, to your ation. it will never reverse the outcome of no amount of web western weaponry will enable ukraine to gain the upper hand. all it will do is length into conflict and more importantly, from the western perspective, kill more russians because that's all this is about. we heard that from void austin, the american secretary said, you said that the goal here is to make russia pay

a cost to inflict aim on russia. that means dead russians. and so that's what the west is trying to accomplish here. and it's very cynical because it's not just russians that are dying, as we said, for every one russian that goes down, you know, maybe 20 ukrainians are going down. so it's about dead ukrainians as well. maybe it's time ukraine wakes up and understands that the way seeking to extend this conflict that to help you frame what to her russia that's drawing in the process. meanwhile, a recent intelligence of all by both kid and west and officials reveals that ukrainian troops are facing significant losses, which does raise the question as to why ukraine's commanders still seem reluctant to negotiate. with the russian side, the intelligence officials say that russia's military maintains the open hand with 40 times more ammunition and 20 times more artillery than ukrainian forces. more than $5600.00 ukrainian ships are said to be prisoners of war and nearly half of them having surrendered at the as of stolid steel factory. multiple kids also

believed to be facing a growing desertion problem. ukraine stuff. officials, those still strongly oppose any possibility of surrender. scott ritter again says the war is becoming unsustainable for ukraine. and so i started fighting, you know, the wars are ratios of one to one point to one to 1.3 casualties. and you can grow that out, but eventually you're going to get a culminating point where the differential just goes up exponentially. and we're at that point right now, which is no longer russian. there's 3 claim casualties. it's more like for everyone, russian, there's 20 ukraine casualties. and as the situation to period further on the front, this ratio is just going to you to spin out pro until it's unsustainable by the gradients. the question is, how much pain is ukraine able to absorb? you know, their, their ministry of defense said they have 700000 men under arms right now. so what

percentage of that, are they willing to sacrifice before it becomes obvious that not only can they not win this conflict, but the longer they continue to resist, the larger the humanity because human lives will be a territorial loss as well. which is foreign minister says that europe is making all the wrong moves when it comes to negotiations with moscow. my body is new. as always, we are open to dialogue, but it takes 2 to tango. and at the moment, our western partners are engaged in break dancing by themselves. like comments by said gay lover of comes after the polish president slammed the leaders of france and germany over the phone calls with the russian president, vladimir putin, as our drinker explains. in response to how the polish president blamed the german and the french leadership for dealing with the russian government. foreign

minister surg elaborate accused him of a growing historical ignorance and also pointed at poland. o moves against ukraine's sovereignty. the government in which cellular through its perhaps they should be advised to study history, so their own history and those events that underlie polish history. so far, we see that behind the talk about the in admissibility of any dialogue with russia polish colleagues are beginning to actively assimilate ukrainian territory issue. and then le decisions vice president zalinski and the ukranian government on the special rights. all the polls. ladies who are essentially being made equal to the ukrainians in everything except the rights to vote russell, just to give you some background a little earlier this week, the polish leader went as far as drawing parallels between vladimir putin and adult hitler. and also pretty much coal on the entire international community to forget

any ideas of trying to make contact with the russian officials of to print our guest them. though i am amazed at all these conversations, the chancellor shows in president micron are having with these conversations are useless. what are they doing? they legitimize the person responsible for the crimes committed by the russian army that he is responsible for this monkey decided to send troops there. what if some one spoke like this to adolf hitler during world war 2? did anyone say that adolf hitler must say face, keep that we should proceed. i such a way that it is not humiliating. for adolf hitler, i have not heard such voices. in response to my question about these latest comments by polish president duda, the russian foreign minister, sir gay lab, rav reminded how the likes of germany and france, and also other you countries were always in favor of leaving door open for talks with russia and stressed that moscow is always ready for talks no matter what the russian viewpoint is, that diplomacy should always have a chance. however,

in the current circumstances, when all western leaders keep talking about is isolating russia, this scenario doesn't seem very likely. author and journalist thomas roper shared his thoughts on the issue. bullen is one of the real hawks in europe, which wants to escalate the situation. and having in mind how poland is now trying, well, maybe you can call it an ex parts of ukraine when you treat it with key. if poland has an interest in escalating the situation. when i put all this together, i have the feeling that russia doesn't really take europe, european union, and the states for serious anymore. they are really just for filling commands from, from the u. s. and from my feeling just russia, right, know, understands and says quite openly when there's something to discuss, we have to discuss with the people who make the decisions and they are not and brussels, they have washed. meanwhile, a suspect to the slip, all in

a mainstream news article has shown a local residence of ukraine city of hark, of with a large tattoo of a swastika on his arm. now we have asked reuters to comment on that issue, but we're yet to receive a response. the photo does appear to undermine some western diet of far, right. i timothy in ukraine on some social media uses on our question, how big the issue of nationalists is in the country. do you think western media would have learned to come through every picture from ukraine? they consider posting to make sure there isn't any swastikas or other nazi symbolism big swastika tattooed on his arm? yup. for sure. there are no not sees in ukraine. how hard can it be to take a picture of a random person and not have them with a swastika tattoo? i was 4 times in the budget. i have seen all this myself. i was the headquarters of the as of a battalion. there is no doubt that this the country is ruled by people with really not see ideology. and this is also in the command of the of the armed forces. the

western media doesn't want to see it when you report. this is fake news, but i've been there, i've seen it so we have, we have to ask western media why they denied that, but, but it's obvious. in the news, china's defense minister has slammed his american counterparts following use of the latest u. s. arms package for ty, one warning of possible conflicts of the island, the beijing claims as his own. if any one dares to split taiwan from china, the chinese military has no choice but to fight at all costs and take all necessary measures to crush any attempt by taiwanese separatists to split taiwan from the motherland. the chinese military will resolutely safeguard national security and territorial integrity. chinese defense minister has also laid out a list of conditions. the u. s. must meet for easing tensions, including not interfering in china's internal affairs or harming china's interests . china and taiwan splits during a civil war in 949 and the country has been following the one china policy ever

since. then. the latest arms package sees the u. s. provides parts for taiwanese naval ships as estimate the cost of a $120000000.00. washington has been known as ty ones, maine ally in its compensation with china for some time. well area. we spoke to nelson wong, vice chairman of the shanghai center for international cities under ball di club experts. and he says that the u. s. is using taiwan as it's cod against china. i think the u. s. government has always been using the tie one issue as it's one of the measures to contain china in its relations, which china, taiwan, the pie, one card is always in their hands to play with from time to time. and i think this is, they believe this is the time to create trouble for china to, to mess around with the internal affairs of china. so it's nothing new,

it's nothing new to china. but if they play it too hard, i think the chinese government will take some actions and in terms of any upcoming threat to separate to taiwan from the motherland. and then the chinese government is going to take actions and announcement has already been made. what china has been expressing itself quite clearly over the years over the decades is that this is an internal affairs of china. and taiwan issue is left over issue from china's civil war way back when and the international committee has all recognized the one china policy. even including the united states government, it has also recognized the one china policy. so based on this understanding,

china, its government has always been trying to seek a national re unification through peaceful polos and moving on. no, algeria has frozen foreign trade in products and services with spain. nothing but an escalating dispute of the status of western sahara and announcement which was on thursday, came a day after the african nation suspended a 20 year old friendship treaty with spain, which committed the country to jointly controlling the mutual flow of migrants. the youth called on jimmy to reverse that decision with brussels urging dialogue to resolve the dispute. meanwhile, this punish. busy ministers called them neutral states between all countries in the region. that's another little for quality of states, non interference in internal affairs. mutual respect being that mutual benefit for our 2 countries. it is under these premises that we want to have the best relationship as possible without area, like we have with the rest of our neighbors has been with the former colonial power

in western sahara. and so the area was unexplained morocco back in 1975. since then, i'll jerry a neighbor, morocco have had 10 discussions over the status of the region, the diplomatic standoff continued until 91. when the 2 countries reached an agreement for a referendum to be held on the implementation of a un bites buffer zone. but since that agreement, morocco has controlled the majority of western sahara spain box morocco's autonomy plan for the region. while all jerry opposes it and says, the region should be completely independent. aaliyah and can so he ain official for a western sahara independence movement. how the keys, morocco of replacing spain as the colonial power in the region has taken a position. citing completely with the aggression fan of the colonial power. and everybody will fix, take to spain, to be an almost broker has the solution,

the coast to spain in then the response of the entire process model is house independent tomorrow, who has substituted a new colonial leafy behavior in a classic colonial power. they have him baited western sahara since 975. it was happening going on for many years between this people defending the free and independent they're going to show of moral and they all that had some additional support to benefit ation. movement during the entire part of the, of the variation enough they ought to take in this position because of their, their own study. jerry, a, fall the so for the british and movement. and finally, cash drops. pakistan is counting on chinese loans to help raise its foreign reserve

within the, within the next few days. i assure you that by tuesday, next week, the issue of foreign exchange reserves will be resolved as the expected $2400000000.00 of dollars will be transferred from china. our for ex reserves will reach $12000000000.00 of dollars. another country is facing a balance of payment crisis and that's caused by a growing decline informed current services, as well as a whitening account on fiscal deficit. that's along with the recall to your high inflation, which is mainly affecting prices of food and fuel. pakistan's also continue negotiations with the international monetary fund as the government hopes to resume payments on a 6000000000 dollar package load agreed back in 2019 and that was suspended due to non compliance with certain conditions. the current authorities, blame, ousted prime minister in my car for the crisis, which is an accusation. of course, he's always denied if the i m f agreed to review is decision pakistan will then receive $900000000.00, which will help access the source of external financing. pakistan's already

fulfilled one of the funds requirements by removing fuel subsidies, move this lead to 40 percent growth in prices. the government also intends to raise taxes on the rich cook tax leagues private science agreement assets, unbound officials from buying cars, as it continues to struggle with spiraling costs on energy shortfalls. we spoke to a professor and research fellow who believes that i am f negotiations have been severely hampered by difficulties in relations with the united states. it is very difficult for the current government to overcome this crisis, which is quite disturbing for the i'm a founder boss. this is why we are not reaching to what the us, you know, contributes at least 117000000 to the i'm a quarter. and it's part of that has to, you know, make a deal with the i am, it is very important for pakistan to have consent from the united states and have also the confidence that we are going to do the job that is expected from us. busy

but so far, the problem that arose during the last is of fans administration, our bilateral relations with the united states, but really disturb, in the international monetary system about the sun is depended upon the flexible exchange rate, international market in which it has just like any of the country back, it's thrown c b u. s. dollar. and any lacrisha in the value of the us dollar is going to affect the entire currencies around the world. and bike is on house to you to make reserves of the us dollars. and if there is more macro level economic policies, that is going to affect a positively bike as an economy, why his own reserves are going to get down or up for now, whatever you're up to this weekend, i hope you're having a good one. my name is peter scott and thank you very much for watching them. ah

ah ah . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic or development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. very critical.