this thing was coming for last with a few dawn retreats, not that it suddenly sprung up on one fine day. ah ah, interested me, i'm on the key of authorities and they real monsters in the west to hear me that everyone remembers that the people who live in the domestic and again his phone and that rogia region have become a citizen. a lot of america gives an emotional speech during a ceremony marketing the expression of the dawn about for public appro, she and her san regions into russia. a big event was held on red square and central moscow to mark the occasion. also ahead. ukraine asked for accelerated nato membership, but be alliances. chief says, the main goal of the body is not key as membership. our focus now

is only providing a immediate support to ukraine to health care and defend itself against the russian, brutal innovation and damage to the north. stream gas pipeline that appears to have been caused by direct attacks from western powers. that's the claim from russia. president excuses the west of sabotaging europe energy infrastructure with from last out to the world. this is our can or national, i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this our we begin with the latest as vladimir putin says, the west has violated security agreements by fabricating hypocritical anti democratic rules that russia will not follow. the president made the comments during his speech out

a ceremony to start the process of bringing in for new territories to the russian federation. was ms. dooley, good with smokers, you strategic security agreements, fly into the trash we. here is the west to friends in order based on rules. where did these rules come from use ever seen these rules? solid deception, double already triple standards. it's easy to count on fools. russia is a 1000 year old civilization and it will not live by such false rules. the west uses suppression, exploitation, and enslavement instead of democracy. the unipolar, well that is built is anti democratic, deceitful and hypocritical through and through by the other r t 's maria phenomena takes us through the key points of the russian present and speech. gurley. he story date earlier on friday, wired me potent has signed the truth is that actually make the don't boss republics of denounced bandwagons as well as the 2 regions all kits on and suck marashi

a part of russia and they are now russian regions. it's don wideman has sad, and russia will never betray them. these are, is the president gave very indeed emotional speech before the signing. and he talked a lot about the people of the don bus region and all saw and ends up a rajah that they feel and they are connected to her. russia. we talked about 5 day referendums that were held in all these 4 regions that showed actually that the absolute majority of the people there on the ground are all those who cast the ballads. and i have to say very often risking their lives and go into pauling stations under shall in the situation of beer is fighting one to be with russia. they really are voted in favor of joining our world's biggest countries. and we

called on to come back to a we believe this upon it should still be resolved peacefully. this is what white book and had to say to him, please give me call on the key of regime to immediately cease fire. old hall. still it is the ward on the lease back in 2014 and returned to the negotiating table were ready for this. it's been said more than once, but we will not discuss the choice of the people in the guns to next here on ends up rogia. it's done, russia will not betray them. why? report has talked to law today, and he's speech about the west, and it's a desire to rule the world and he read to rated once again that russia will never leave according to someone. also, let's take a listen up and go to of course is ready to step out of everything to preserve the neo colonial system that allows it to parasite ties upon to the world with the help of the power of the dollar and technological dictate. to collect a real tribute from humanity,

countries have surrendered their sovereignty in favor of the united states as a well correspondent who has been covering the ukrainian conference since 2013. i can tell you that appealed will hold the don laws and i witness that had been waiting for the moment that we are witnessing today for at least 8 long years. no surprise, celebrations are unfolding now in all of these 4 regions. and here on the red square in the heart of moscow as well after the russian president speech on the 2 former ukrainian regions and the don mass republic. joining russia, ukrainian president windermere. zalinski said he will not negotiate with burton. and the g 7 countries also planned to carry out sanctions to impose cost on anyone who supports the results of the referendums. you know, she stays together with our allies and partners renouncing new sanctions to day to impose costs on individuals and entities that provide political or economic support

were legal attempts to change the status of ukrainian territory. and i look forward to assigning legislation from congress that provide an additional $12000000000.00 to support ukraine commenting on the latest political moves by moscow. washington promised to support any attempt by kiev to retake the break away territories. american political scientists, mark sl boda says we can expect to see an escalation of the conflict escalation. that's the word that we then we are now entering a new new phase of the war. all the rhetoric that's coming out of the west right now, that they would perhaps directly intervene in ukraine in the event that russia uses the tactical new trying to paint russians position as very different from the way the russian president has presented. it makes me believe that there is at least the possibility of a false flag of a dirty bomb, or

a tactical nukes being detonated in you cream by western forces. and using this as an opportunity to escalate and send nato forces directly into western ukraine. i do not believe that it is on the table for ukraine to be brought into nato at the point because there is too much disagreement within nato. certainly, hungary, but several other countries as well. certainly are not willing to bring ukraine in when that would auto magically at this point. preclude direct military conflict with russia. nato is of course, completely a political organization, a platform for the u. s. global military hedge him on to project power around the world. it's, it serves both as a physical platform, any political, fig leaf of multilateralism that's, that's what it does. there have been scenes of celebration and the don as the

people's republic after the signing of agreements, 1st entry into russia. nice guys lit up and a blaze of color as a firework display was held at the sar logo memorial complex to mark the occasion. and here's a video finished from live. gosh, where people have been reacting with cheers and tiers. has certain announce the exception of the region into russia with people in her san also took to the streets and celebration, although not for long due to security concerns. our teeth, moran garcia, reports from the region immediately after the end of his speech. during the applause that we heard, at the end of that speech, people began honking their horns. we heard people shouting out of their window suddenly a lot of joy but, but i must say it is muted this morning. there were several rallies in support of

joining russia, people waving russian flags, but this bus again for security reasons, to have sun is a hot spot. there have been multiple strikes to day aimed at the city high mas missiles supplied by the united states, launched by the ukrainian military today, the 1st deputy of the head of shift saud. he's his 2nd in command. i missed the salvo. vladimir salvo saga was next to vladimir putin during that speech at the end of his deputy was here. he was killed earlier this morning by a strike, a ukrainian military strike. there is now an alert across the province. it is believed that ukraine will launch more munitions, that there will be attacks on the city vengeance perhaps. perhaps targeted strikes . and people are being warned not to congregate in big crowds to tell void,

ah, to avoid. we were told to avoid standing all working close to offices, 2 administration officers to the civil military administration that is currently in power here in care of san province. i mean, we saw what ukrainian strikes alike 1st hand just less than a week ago. ukrainian missile impacted our hotel. thankfully over most of the 3rd floor which we are staying on was erased. we managed to get out alive, but the strike was aimed at a civilian activist who had nothing to do with the military, with a conduct of military operations. this a former ukrainian parliamentary, who change sides and who was killed by ukraine for what he did for supporting rush . there is hope. there is optimism that now that your san province is finally about to be part of russia. technically it, it already is de facto. but technically,

at lupin to the russian military might many more avenues for the defense of its people. russia has a lot more. i add in its arsenal, that the nuclear weapons, if moscow what a wish to do so to escalate the situation to lever more weaponry, advanced weapon, destructive weaponry in this conflict to now protect your soul, which is now part of the russian federation in all but name rallies and concerts have been held throughout russia in support of the 4 new ridges. thousands of people flooded the streets to celebrate waving national flags . the biggest event was held in red square in central moscow where president burton addressed the crowd. ah, reuben lugens, let me tell you of one situation that happened while voting in the guns. people

were standing in the queue next to one of the polling stations to cast their ballots. when the shelling began, a shell fell next to the polling station, but not a single person left. the q is fascinating you because throughout decades they tried to destroy these people's historic, conscious to destroy their traditions, prevent them from using their native language to basically ban their culture. but they fail to do so with these people carried love for their history and culture in their hearts. and that is why today we're saying that russia is not only opening the door of the historic motherland for brothers and sisters, but russia is opening its heart. welcome home you. when i was on my way here, i really didn't expect to see so many people. this isn't even the red square. it's a bridge very close to it, but i can see seeds of people everywhere. on the other side of moscow, i caught it, said basil cathedral to now this is by all means a very special day for russia. this is a celebration. this is

a day that these people with smiles on their faces will be telling their children their grandchildren about and up the people are celebrating because the country just gotten a bit bigger because it accepted new territories. these people are cheering because for them the hashtags, we don't let our people down isn't just empty word. this is the hash tag that you can see on billboards all around moscow. and of course it's about the people up on rosier harris song. and god, best for the people of these regions. this is really a chance to feel much more secure, much more safe to join russia for them is a chance to feel that their culture is being respected, their right to speak, their own language is being respected to feel that they're actually love. now make,

don't mistake. similar rallies with the same mood are happening in different parts of russia, but more importantly and the towns of cities of daunted slogans people's republics . and the regions of zapata, georgia and hare saw him in his speech on friday fly, american claimed the west was behind. this week's mysterious damage to the north stream gas pipelines running from russia to europe. oh, video in that ms. little nicholas, would you really see the anglo saxons have not had enough with their sanctions? they've moved on to diversions really unbelievable, but a fact if by organizing explosions on the international gas pipeline, the north stream, which run along the bottom of the baltic sea, in fact, they've begun to destroy the pan european energy infrastructure is obvious to everyone who benefits from it look, usd tighter ship is based on brute force. what your model and in new york, the sabotage of the north stream pipelines, was the focus of the un security council meeting,

where the russian ambassador to the un made it clear who could have had a hand in the incident. the mean question whether, what happened with the nord stream benefits the united states? the answer is undoubtedly american liquefied natural gas suppliers should be celebrating the manifold increase in l. n. g supplies to europe. and from a political standpoint, the last thread, ensuring the energy independence of the e. u has been ruptured. do you that he energy crisis? european production has been hastily transferred to the us. they are receiving top personnel, advanced technologies, production resources, things that europe has been accumulating and developing for decades. the residents of europe have been left to face their problems alone. and across the ocean. no one cares that europe is in for a very dark, cold, and long winter in connection with these very simple and logical questions i want to ask the u. s. representative. can you confirm right now in this room that your

country is not involved and has nothing to do with the sabotage? to find out more or less cross live now to our correspondent caleb mob, been in new york now. kale. have you been following this session closely? so what were some of the key points that were brought to the table? well, we had russia taken to the floor of the un security council and pointing out that at the end of the day, it is the united states and the natural gas companies in the united states with the main beneficiaries of the axes sabotaged against the north stream. to pipeline the russian representative pointed out that earlier we heard from by saying that he would put an end to the north stream to pipeline in response to russia. ready moves and ukraine, the threat was made for the united states to do something like this. furthermore, u. s. military drill that happened in june involved rehearsing activities near the

north stream. 2 sites near the strikes, the places that were struck. in addition to that, we saw a former polish minister, former polish former min. i'm a former foreign minister of poland, actually tweeting out that he sank the united states for the strikes against the nordstrom to pipeline. so at this point, everything seems to indicate that the united states is blank. now the u. s. representative when he talked to the floor of the us security council, he gave a pretty unconvincing denial on the part of united states. you also tried to claim that somehow russian celebrations of the referendum and of the provinces and. ready the regions joining with russia somehow its fascist years. what we heard from the u . s. representative. let me be clear. united states categorically denies any involvement in this incident. and we reject any assertions saying the contrary. i know our russian colleagues have had a bad afternoon say

a bad day. they had to sit and watch that strangely odd fashion nuremberg style rally combined with las vegas, 970 show that happened in moscow this morning to celebrate the illegal annexation of craney and territory. are not the most convincing remarks from the us representative eating on the damage to north stream was held the after the session where the ukraine conflict was discuss. what did we hear there? well, we heard the russian representative point and some of the hypocrisy on the part of the united states when it comes to their criticism of these referendums that happened. for example, the united states seems to be prepared for a military defensive taiwan, even though taiwan is recognized by almost the entire world as being a robins of china. here's what we heard from the russian representative and credible reporting. we want to do what to you referred to when you say russian disinformation in conspiracy theories. we didn't say who is guilty here before an

investigation is carried out. all we did site fact, you can't deny the words of your own president. again, categorically, deny us involvement in this incident. i also, i think we have heard quite categorically both from me and from ours, one of our briefers this morning. but the energy situation in europe. however, one wants to describe it is more effective by rushes, unreliable unreliability, as an energy supply than anything to do with the united states. it's russia that, as i laid out, has a record over the last 7 months of destroying civilian infrastructure, of causing suffering and loss across the ukraine. so the united states denies any involvement and destroying the north stream to pipeline in the attacks that just happen. however, they don't provide any evidence in their defense. ready simply dismissed the evidence put forward by russia as conspiracy theories that is routine us activity

at the united nations security council in recent months. our k course one and kayla mop and thank you for that. update him. as the journalists, edwards all says that the sabotage of the north stream pipelines create their rift inside nato, between germany and the u. s. as europe finds itself any hopeless economical situation. i know how to draw the project probably to justify the thanks and probably also distract away the very real which are occurring inside the reading. that's one of the top 10 in germany. i suggested they should be a break up between america and germany. you think about the origin of what it was medically normally now why we got through that ratified airbus. let's say this is a german german problem right now. a lot of german say we're not going to have heat,

but with our children are literally going to breeze. i think the biggest impact is that you're not going to replace the supply, the milton place, entities that you're going to slowly but surely an accident. so the 1st one is the population. secondly, we write a whole for all production, especially no manufacturing out of germany. i think thirdly, you're not going to see germany wanting to go toward russia. you will see the country as possibly once we get out of this destructive relationship with natal in the united states, i think that our revolution was operating prices and all of this doors that of the terrorist, a united states, the ukraine's now demanding fast track membership to nato, but just hours after making that request, the alliance's chief didn't appear so accommodating. so would you agree?

no, but they have the today, ukraine is applying to do so. de jury following a procedure that suits our importance to protect our entire community in an expedited manner. a decision and membership, of course, has to be taken by all 3rd allies on we take these decisions. boy, a consensus. our focus now is on providing immediate support to ukraine and to help you can defend itself against the russian brutal invasion. the native press conference came hours after russia began the accession process for the new territories, which the secretary general also fully rejected. saying that accepting it would mean consent to nuclear blackmail. benito chief also stated that the alliances main goal is to increase is support to ukraine. but despite that,

he said the block has no intention of being dragged into a direct war. so nato officially remains out of the conflict. there's also risk of escalation beyond, you're creating the evolving old and a dollars. are we able to be medically will not. needless not pocket to the conflict, we support ukraine, but that doesn't make us pointed to the country. they're trying to wash their hands off what, what they've been doing. of course, they're a party to the conflict. they've been sending arms. they've been depleting their own stocks in order to send arms to ukraine. course their party to the conflict. but you know, they want to, like, they want to just kind of weasel out on legal. he's talk saying, well, you know, we haven't declared war on russia. we're not in war. russia, in fact, they aren't war with russia. they're sending all sorts of arms to ukraine. that are killing people that are killing russians that are killing ukrainians. that up the

want to. busy longer the key of regime sunlight, nato, is a party to the war. but, you know, now they're a little bit worried, because russia may just dispense with the niceties and just say, well, yeah, you are who to the war, whatever, you know, no matter what you say. so i think, you know, stole timber wasn't, wasn't acting. he is truly jittery. he's truly nervous, and all those, you know, his real losses, of course, in washington. obviously didn't give good enough instructions because they don't know what to do now either because they're not really anxious to fight russia. ah, top you as officials continue to mix their words as the vice president comma harris praised the importance of washington, the lions with north korea during her recent visit to south korea at the demilitarized zone between the 2 countries. let's have a listen. so the united states chairs

a very important relationship which is going to alliance, but the republic of north korea and it is an alliance that is strong and enduring. and she's not alone. u. s. president joe biden, whose mental acumen is often question due to repeated blunders while speaking during his presidency, has recently done it again. the american leader during a speech in washington called out to congress, woman jackie, will laur ski to stand up and be recognised. but unfortunately, she died in a car crash earlier this year. we'll thank all of you here for including bipartisan, electro patricians, like i presume, governor senator braun sen. booker representative, jackie you here was checking on. think sure, sure. somebody here. joining me now to discuss as ted rall and author columnist and political cartoonist that is great to have you on the program today.

now this is of course not the 1st time we've seen headlines about the mistakes of the u. s. leaders and the white house. and particularly president biden, in a world of such tensions right now, is this a major concern? of course it's a major concern when the president of the united states and his 1st president seemed to be so disconnected from what's going on. you know, the, the, the gulf by vice president harris. i'm inclined, and i think most american voters would be inclined to let past. she's not particularly prone to this sort of thing. and, you know, i think she's got a lot of flaws as a candidate for, for 2024 potentially. but certainly, you know, she made it, made an honest mistake, but which in terms of the remark by president biden,

this has been part of a series of comments that he has made that have just been baffling. and you know, this is a president who's 38 years old in november. there's never been an american president that old before. and. busy although there are a lot of people who are very sharp at 80 bind, not going to be one of them. so it's great cause for concern. and i know this is not the 1st one for either of them. you know, you brought up harris and what she said, and it's notable because confusing or close to ally south korea with one of your arch enemy is north korea. i mean, how embarrassing is that? and i know that this may be one of those cases where foreign policy isn't necessarily her strength, but she's still the representative of the united states is sending. what does that have to say about the white house overall? well it's, it's pretty sad and you know, the vice president has to be able to step into the presidency without any notice whatsoever. it's 4 out of 10 american vice president have become president,

either through election or through the death of the president. so it's very important for her to be sharp and let's face it the, the korean peninsula is a very important place for u. s. foreign policy. the u. a thought a war there, it has many troops stationed there. so it's not exactly an obscure part of the world, so it looks bad that it does. now we all know every one makes slip ups from time to time. but i mean, does this administration seem to be more prone to them than others that we've seen in the past? and what does that say to the american people, especially at such an important time, whether it comes to the u. s. economy foreign policy, you name it, i mean, it's really is an important year all around. well, biden, in particular, is i think off the charts in terms of this kind of thing. i mean,

he goes way back. he, you know, he would use, he's always been sort of called by young, domestic television before he became president. you know, gath prone joe biden and it has only gotten worse in recent years. i don't, i can't think, you know, i'm 59 years old. i can't think of any president who comes close, harris is just sort of somebody who is just sort of unlikable by american standard. so the gap is sort of neither here nor there. her popularity is really in the toilet. you know, it's a lot of democrats do you really do not understand how either of them could really be the more money in 2024, even though the democratic party keeps insisting that bind, we'll run a gun. but let's get serious. he has certainly a lot of questions there. now, given everything we've heard from both biden and harris, i mean, does this raise the question for the average american of who is actually running

the country and if it's and capable hands right now? well, yes, i mean, let's face it, joe biden was elected president from his basement on zoom. i mean, he hardly campaigned at all. and i think it's kind of well understood that there's a cabal of obama era advisors and cabinet members who are actually running the show . i don't think, i mean, look, if president biden is actually running things in a direct day to day our, by our way, that would come as a surprise, i think, to even his most ardent supporters, if there's anything we have learned about the establishment candidates, is that they never seem to leave it even with all of those questions. will comment author, calmness and political cartoonists. ted rall, thank you so much for your time in analysis to me here and that's all for now. be sure to check out our.