ah, a with a c i, a whistle blower is convicted of the biggest leak of classified information in history, shedding lights on the agencies international smartphone hacking software. also coming up a bit. so anchors president resigned from his post following huge public pressure that says the country declares a state of emergency with nationwide curfew in place. much to the continued ongoing processes in the den. yes, republic, an empty kindergarten building takes a direct hit from ukrainian shelling while another missile strike kills 2 civilians

. and jo biden's trip to israel kicks off with the gulf with the u. s. president mistakenly honoring the holocaust. we see if his visits will help a late tensions in the region with july, for my headquarters in moscow, you're watching the international is just going to 6 in moscow moneys peter scott, and wherever you joining us from. welcome to the program. former c, i a program, a joshua, it should say, it was found guilty in watts claim to be the biggest leak of classified se documents in history. and so after he disclosed information about the agencies software used to have smartphones and spiral people worldwide. when shulty began to harbor resentment toward the ca, he covert li, collected those tools and provided them to wiki leeks, making some of our most critical intelligence tools known to the public and

therefore our adversaries. schulty has been convicted for one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in american history. joshua sheltie has been convicted of lying to the f. b. i other charges all stemming from the allegation that he leads classified information. the information was included in the famous wiki leaks vault 7. now this was his re trial. 2 years ago, he was brought to trial and us federal courts. and at his 1st trial, the jury only agreed to convict him on 2 charges. and they were hung about the remaining 6, joshua schulty, at this trial has been convicted on all a charges lying to the f. b i and other charges related to the staff and leaking of classified information that was included in the wiki leaks. ball 7, the biggest intelligence leak in history. ricky leaks, vault 7, contained all kinds of information about these surveillance apparatus of the american intelligence agencies. the mechanisms through which they listen to

people's phone conversations, spy on people on which they hack into people's computers and otherwise violate what many considered to be the civil liberties of americans. it's not surprising that he was convicted because at this point, the conviction rating us federal courts is roughly 95 percent 95 percent of cases that go to trial in u. s. corps that result in conviction. and it's important to note that very few cases actually go to trial. most of them have plea bargains that prevent a trial from taking place. regardless, we can recall the chelsea man. it was convicted of leaking classified information to wiki league. spent 7 years in prison before brock obama, ultimately commuters. and in addition to that, this conviction comes on the heels of julian, a saw the founder of wiki leaks to whom walt 7 information was leaked. it comes on the heels of the decision to extradite julian assigned on the part of u. k. officials. while officials claim the whistle blowers actions put the country

security at risk. independent journalist jo lori or disagrees saying schultz is leaks were beneficial for the public. by reading this material on rekey leaks is released of all 7. you can't use this software to rack somebody, so they protected all my information. what they did was in the public interest to let the public know that she was doing these kinds of things. so it was no national security risk whatsoever, not just hogwash from the government. typical and in fact the materials according to children who represent himself, these materials were out and about for a year before the shy even knew that they were that they were loose, that they didn't loss control of them because they got back doors. i phones, android phones, in fact, this led to most of the big tech companies making changes to their software to close these back doors when they would not have known about that went out this week . so that the user of these songs, at least initially were more secure because of the revelations, whatever,

whoever was guilty i'm the jury said he is, he says he's not, he's a hero because he revealed crimes committed by the united states by the cia and over to shoreline can now where the president has officially stepped down, though that doesn't seem to have stopped the mass unrest in the country despite the nationwide curfew. earlier protested angered at worsening economic and social conditions broke into the prime minister's office. he was appointed as 18 presidents on tuesday, but demonstrates his order money that he's done down as well. o lease used water cannon and tig gus against the protesters, boots were unable to stop them taken over run ill wicker, missing gay's office. at least 30 people were injured in the clutches and a local journalist center. this report the situation and

sri lanka is going from bad to worse to, i'm thinkable does a complete sense of chaos and anarchy. tens of thousands of people are out and about on the streets of bumble, despite a state of emergency being declared. and a go few imposed after president goes by roger buckshot fled from minister donna wickham, a cindy, has been made the acting president. but that has not helped matters. she. duncan's want both the prime minister as what does the president do resign immediately? security forces use tear gas and water cannons at the protest does earlier, but dad did not stop them from breaking through the gates on flooding. the prime minister's office, the taking all the prime minister's office city, i asked all filling the gap between the select reach. i don't want to list everybody else in the country. strangely, though, does a sense of order in this disorder. men, women, children, all take turns to see

a quick look at the prime in the sales office from the inside. these 2 tests have emotional undertones of anger betrayal. but so if you look at the history, appreciate it from all. what did you believe is there actually to mom we have 225 employees that do not represent any model that people. so the go to protesters are jonathan or the other people's movement has just gotten to this point because a o representatives have failed to serve. john failed to do right by the people live in a state in the country where people that are taking me to install it because of me we need justice to be doing stuff. 7 this is not only for it for the next generation who is coming up and you can see how, how long you're suffering for the oil and gas and, you know,

all deleted everything is down now, right? so even some people are losing their job income within the company, i get to get something off, right? everything is going high, the prices are high. so we need a solution. the clock is ticking while we wait the feet of the current government and the future direction of the entire country runs sharma, reporting for r t in colombo island nations. parliament speaker has confirmed the president's got a buyer. raja parker, who's fled to the maldives has now officially resigned while acting president's week remiss singer has announced the creation of a special committee to restore more order in the country. it's includes military and police commanders. now the by job to the chaotic scenes across the country is shank has major economic crisis. most of the countries external debt is owed to western countries. and over the past half a century, the international monetary fund has given the nation 16 lows, which shall anchored going through

a host of what's called economic stabilization programs. thus with the i m f as well. despite huge repayment issues at the trends, 80 world economic forum shall anchors prime minister, expressed hope, was his country would become wealthy within a decade. it's no secret that asia as the economic engine of the future. and in our endeavors to make sri lanka, a rich country by 2025, we aimed to include asia even more and leverage strategic access to emerging markets ranging from india, pakistan, china, japan, and south korea to association of southeast asian nations. under been a journalist, benjamin norton believes the policies of the international monetary fund benefit form corporations are not the people of the country. the u. s. government has complete domination over both the international monetary fund and the world bank. the u. s. government is the only member that has veto power over the decisions of the bodies. and we've seen that throughout the global south in particular, the i m f in the world bank have been involved in imposing structural adjustment

programs. that force countries to cut social spending, privatize their natural resources, and then sell off their assets to western corporations. usually the i m f demands that a country cut, pensions, reduce the minimum wage, basically implement policies that are bad for the people of the country and are good for the interest to foreign corporations. and it's very likely we don't know, of course, what's happening inside the talks between the sri lankan government and the i m f. but it's very likely that the i m f was demanding these conditions that were simply unacceptable for any self respecting sovereign government of sri lanka. we look at the history of the i m f. conditionality is that have been imposed on countries like sri lanka. they have been very arduous and they have been very undemocratic demanding that the country violate its own economic sovereignty in the interests of foreign corporation. so if we can learn anything from history, i think we can conclude that it's very likely that the sri lankan government was

unwilling to given to these unreasonable demands for the 17th time. jo biden's arrived in israel at the starts of the 4 dates whole of the middle east u. s. presence trip however, didn't get off to the best of stops. i will once more return to the hall round of yod chavez, beacham, doner. 6000000 jewish lives were stolen in the genocide and continue which we must through every, every day continue to bear witness to keep alive the truth and honor of the holocaust. horrible, holler, god, honor, those were lost. will that mistake of joe biden has been picked up here by the is way he and palestinian priests, of course, died and has made mistakes in the past. he once mixed up sweden and switzerland. if you remember before that it was south korea. and once he got syria and libya confused,

so that is something that has the social commentators talking about here tonight. at the same time, biden is going to receive a rather reluctant, and i would go as far as to say about the angry response on the palestinian st. they're all banners and packages that have been placed, particularly in cities like bethlehem. way he will be meeting with the palestinian president of math were the best in the coming days and those plaque i'd say mister president, this is a parties. it is in line with the recent publication by a palestinian christian organization who conducted an investigation and reached the conclusion that israeli actions can be classified as a poll taste. at the same time. many people here are waiting for a potentially different response from washington regarding the recent killing of a high profile. i'll just give a journalist shall wean absolutely soaking her family once on says and palestinian officials and palestinian civilians themselves have said that the us says response

and that the soldiers actions were to quote unintentional, is simply white washing the crimes conducted by israel. as for these rainy side, we have heard from the temporary israeli prime minister, yet yell appeared, and he has said that you is the number one topic on the a jane death. there has been criticism against this with many people saying that joe biden is in the region to store up some kind of alliance against he ran. and that, that is his primary focus of this trip than sofi. the iranian president has commented on it more if the goal of the u. s. officials trip to the region is to consolidate the security of israel and normalize israel's relations with regional countries. we are declaring vigorously that their actions would not bring security for israel. and by no means are they peace providers for israel. now biting in the past has also said that he is looking towards some kind of middle east and nato. this has

not gone down well here, particularly with many people pointing fingers as how be common to nato has contributed to the conflict in ukraine. so anger and frustration on the palestinian st. we are bracing ourselves for demonstrations. they have in the coming days. and i would say here in telephone, where i am, although these radio officials will signal to my things and they all speak lined with american in this way the flag talking to his ladies. there's almost a kind of lack left, a mood amongst people here. no one really believes that that's visit by joe biden. the 1st that he's making as president of the united states is going to yield anything already a host on political common say to steve gil told us he's not optimistic that it will be a success as tensions in the region remain high. tensions are high in the region, they remain high in the region. and i don't think that we're looking for any real success coming from this trip in terms of either new treaties, new movement towards piece in the, in the middle east, both between israel,

the palestinians and saudi arabia, or even in the broader region with iran still threatening more threatening, military action, threatening to disrupt thanks. so i would be very surprised if there's anything really positive or substantial that comes from the president's visit. you know, i think the a gap by biden, in confusing honor and har when referencing the holocaust, when the pretty much everybody in the world recognized it was a horrific loss of 6000000 lives. is by biden's standards, a relatively minor gap. but when you're trying to embark on for a visit and you want to put your best foot forward tripping as you get off the plane verbally, is not the way to start your visit. he's trying to thread a needle of being able to meet with the israelis and then meet with the saudis and not appear to be showing a preference for one or the other. i think he's looking desperately for anything that can make him look more presidential, more like a world leader. but again, the fact that he looks fragile, he can't really communicate very effectively whether it's domestically or whether

it's internationally that is not adding any, any stature to this particular president the most brutal winter of the past 60 years. that's what you are p and people will face this year. according to romanian deputy prime minister. he claims the current energy crisis has been brought about by the sanctions imposed on russia. some shanella, somebody merciful within the european union, will pay for sanctions against russia. europe, the european union must say, frankly, like such as unfortunate vehicles, we will pay the prize this winter. god forbid, harsh winter, perhaps that harshness in the last 406060 years for the whole of europe. all i can say to that is that these leaders are just about the worst gamblers ever. if they ended up in las vegas, they b, y, the guys who loses, their sure ends up crying over the free house drinks at the bar and wondering where it all went wrong. they spent the past several months betting everything on cutting

off russian energy revenues. not a day goes by here in europe that we don't hear about this energy crunch, panic, rationing shortages, cut off all this brutality on the people and o for what? if our leaders, we're aiming for russia than he really could use of shooting lessons. he think that they put down the shovel and stopped digging themselves into a hole maybe just long enough to come to their senses. first, they try me, appellate russia, into caving to western demands in ukraine by cutting off rushing gas thinking that russian energy revenues would be cut off entirely. forgetting about the rest of the world, because that all didn't work. russia just ended up finding new customers elsewhere . russian oil has been heading, for example to the middle east and coal to china. meanwhile, it's you citizens who are worried about the future, mainly because it's pretty clear that our leaders have no clue what they're doing. and if they did that, they probably wouldn't have started freaking out over the plan nord stream,

one pipeline maintenance, which is only going to last a few days. and they knew that if their goal was so calm, which was so confidently stated, was to shun russian energy permanently. then why are they in such a panic if russia actually fulfills their stated wish? and while they're firing up coal plants again in europe, out of energy desperation and reclassify fossil fuel, gas and radioactive power, as green. oh, sorry, environmentalists, germany has now decided that it can do without rushing, cool, starting august 1st. and it can do without rush an oil starting december 31st. you know, i felt my hands at this point. yeah, sure guys, why not just set fire to all of the sales while you're sitting there in the middle of the ocean struggling, panicking, and just hope that somehow you'll safely end up back are sure if they have a solution for replacing rushing gas there. sure. being discrete about it and they're not communicating it, but um, it looks like now they're gonna,

they're making sure they're going to be left without any backup plans. all because this seems to be the only leverage they have left against russia. so they're playing that card. they're burning bridge after bridge, after bridge with their scorched earth policy, with reckless disregard for the price that the average you citizen will have to pay . and european commission vice president france temperament is sounding the alarm over all of this and how it might turn out. if all society descends into very, very strong conflict and strife because there is no energy, was certainly not going to make al goals was certainly not going to get where we need to get if the lack of energy leads to strong disruption in all societies. and we need to make sure people are not in the cold in the coming winter. so the leadership there is voicing concern about their own anti russian policies, sparking conflict and strife in europe when they were aiming for russia. hey, at this point, maybe they'll even spark

a coup against themselves if you citizens get fed up enough. almost half a 1000000 italian families in sicily struggle to pay the electricity bills asked you to soaring energy prices in the highest inflation in 36 years. now sicily uses more electricity than any other italian region, meaning the island has been affected the most competitive or the areas of the country with of course, large families on the elderly, being especially at risk. locals now fed that with more sanctions imposed on russia . the situation could become even more difficult to football and to spine viola there has been an incredibly increasing bill and the situation for many families like mine is very difficult for the young. we hope that something will changing the coming months and i am skeptical considering the government to not doing much to help families. and then they go bad. the sanctions will only increase crisis in our country again caught up with on, you know, and you want to get problems. cannot be lazy by the said to them them. you can also

lay pay says, yeah, but the sanction coming back and we will pay them. indeed, in the end of the day, the for a little ways pay for that. we are in great difficulty. we own impoverishing energy crisis is already effects in italian companies as well with thousands now on the verge of shutting down. as mario at enough, see, the president of the italian entrepreneurs confederation in palomo explains was the reason that j. d got this energy crisis is likely to lead to the collapse of thousands of italian companies and also many citizens, electricity and gas bills have increased by 400 percent. it is truly incredible out . many citizens no longer reach the end of the month, but dragging government must intervene. it must immediately do something for all these families who are now in a state of poverty. go sanctions or an added risk. you will see how prices will increase further in the coming months due to these sanctions that are coming back to us. and now to the latest from the dumbass,

russian air defense systems have reportedly shot down a number of aerial targets. launched by the ukranian army of little guns can hurt us on regions. these are the latest pitches captured by eye. witnesses in the guns . no damage was reported after the incident. while in the san region, 5 ukrainian rockets were reportedly shot down with some debris falling on a local factory. this comes 2 days after you couldn't strike that caused a huge explosion leaving 7 people dead. meanwhile, on wednesday, the city of gun lapka in the done yet republic was also shelled by ukrainian forces . according to local authorities, a kindergarten took a direct hit for the building was empty. officials say around 20 strikes from multiple rocky launches were launched. the city 2 civilians were killed while a number of residential buildings were partly destroyed and local infrastructure damaged ortiz roman cost of census. this report. 35 people have been killed and 179 had been wounded here in girl. of course, since the end of february,

1 of the latest tragic events took place are right here. this is a residential area. this is a grad rocket or what? what remains of it is pretty heavy. 122 millimeter rocket landed right here, right next to those shops. there is it is pretty heavy. all around me are a residential buildings. there is a local community center right here. you can see kids are all around us. on the 12th of july, one man died right here just outside of the shop and just several people had been wounded. now, one of those wounded people who works near by his name is vladimir, and i visited him at the hospital here and gall of car. and this is what he told me about what happened there is

a whole process on was unions. i just stopped by at the store to buy a pizza and then the shelling began a. so if we hit in the store and we're after 15 minutes, the shelling stopped and we went out to the street, he's only them, and then immediately there was an explosion. look, there wasn't any sound before it happened. usually there is a whistle because i was with a colleague, he was in front of me to line, he died immediately. it looks like he covered me, receiving my life. this house or what remains of it belongs to luke milan constantino. she is currently in the hospital with very heavy injuries had resulted from shelling by the cranium military. this is her. this used to be her bedroom. she told me that sir. it was about 8 o'clock in the morning. when he crating a rocket hit her house and completely destroyed it. now, ludmilla is an elderly lady and she was meant to spend her golden years taken

care of her garden and meeting with her family and grandchildren. now she lives in the hospital and she has absolutely nowhere to get back to her. but i know it did really. gus, gusty at the shelling was like cluster munitions. everything was torn apart. the shell flew and burst into fragments. well, now i'm here. thank you for the help i get medicine and care that before that they were shelling a lot. a lot of houses were damaged near my home, and my house was completely destroyed. while we were filming the houses of the victims that were injured by ukrainian shelling artillery thrice began, yet again here in goal of course. so we have to leave this area as soon as possible and move deeper into the next people's republic territory from on call for a party girl of the nest people's republic. the us treasury

department has approved a new humanitarian aid package with $1700000000.00 for ukraine, which aims to support the countries essential services. however, recently the defense department in spoke to general released a paper defining the main areas concern in agencies framework of sending 8 key if we identified multiple areas of concern that if not adequately addressed, could reduce the traceability of ukraine. supplemental funds in the transparency in the dad's reporting, as the dod continues to provide support to ukraine, particularly with the $20100000000.00 the dad will receive of the $40000000000.00 provided. addressing these areas of concern will be critical for improve transparency in reporting the use of appropriated funds. after the you noticed a new 1000000000 euro 8 package. the key of the total amount of support from the bought now exceeds $2000000000.00 euros. according to statistics, the united states is the world leader in all types of assistance, including lethal aids to ukraine. tens of billions in financial aid was approved by

the u. s. congress in may. the huge sums have raised a wave of concern from politicians in the country. you are calling for better oversights of the 8 america sending to ukraine. we cannot save you crane by dooming the u. s. economy. americans are feeling the pain. and congress seems intent only on adding to that pain by shoveling more money out the door as fast as they can. president biden has to stop playing politics. president lansky has to stop playing politics and theater. congress has to establish proper oversight of critical infrastructure and delivery of weapons and aid. congress must also fulfill its role as a responsible steward of taxpayer dollars, which this bill seeks to ensure. american taxpayers deserve to know that their money is helping ukraine be back. russia effectively, and congress needs to guarantee that oversight. however, western humanitarian aid ukraine does not always reach its goals. cases of the legal cells online are becoming more frequent in the country. local media,

site corruption and innovative control over how a dispense is the main reasons behind this. this footage shows searches during which police officers expose another instance of the sale of western humanitarian aid. does us make sold food that was intended as aids for the worst effects ukrainian people. as a result of such cases, ukrainian volunteers continue to collect money from normal citizens for the basic needs of the ukrainian army. despite the western multi $1000000000.00 assistance for marcia analyst, laurie johnson told us that western aid ukraine is becoming meaningless due to ukrainian officials, mismanagement aid, whether it's military or economic. there's the underlying assumption that you have an organization at the other end that is both competent and capable of managing that. and on both of those funds, both on the economic and the military. ukraine is incompetent. states announced no, almost at 10 percent rate of inflation. and that's going to get worse here. and so

as the economic part, problems here, pile law, the willingness of the american people to continue to shell out this money to the ukrainians, basically going down a black hole. there is no accountability. and the fact that somebody, when you look at the weapon systems, the weapon systems were sending, they don't have the soldiers to actually use them. so they're, we're really, and we're throwing good money after bad. and i think at some point, that reality will awaken here amongst the american people, and they will be cut off. that's how the world's looking at 6 30 am moscow time. my name is peter scotts, i'll be back again with another look at today's biggest stories in about half an hour's time. i'll see you then the

ah ah hello and welcome to cross stock were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . the u. s. foreign policy head, joseph burrell, lament the west has failed to win the battle of narratives when it comes to ukraine . well, that's not the only battle of narratives. the west is losing. the entire neo liberal project is being called into question. it's legitimacy, quickly eroding ah crush, talking crisis of legitimacy, i'm joined by my guess arthur clear o in toronto.