oh and engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground. ah, we're not reacting to imaginary threats in distant countries. we are defending our borders, our homeland, our entire people, from actual genocide, russia's talk, diplomatic comments on the expression of full and new regions into the country. the lower house of parliament just ratifying the muth also ahead for this is one of the places that the ukrainian, when that she had destroyed off to getting an anonymous tip off. he investigates, devastating artillery shelling into guns guns speaks to a detainees and says he was hired by ukraine to identified civilian targets from room one after he gave me the money and left that was shelling at this address

and i heard from people that civilians died. that the financial health of one of the world's big if the bank is called into question with room was credit suisse says, vote you want collapse, it's stoking phase, if it's spock a new type of financial meltdown. ah, i pushing back on the mainstream narratives here at aussie international. it's a pleasure to have you with us for this out was program. so russia hello, house of parliament has ratified the accession of full forma ukrainian regions into the country. it's off to the vast majority of people in those territories did cost that balance and recent referendums, in favor of joining russia. and russia's top different about says they can now count on the nation's military. for protection. we're good room, you know, rhythm and we're not reacting to imaginary threats and distant countries. so we're defending our borders, our home lands our entire people from actual genocide. let's committed by the

descendants and followers of nazi henchmen who have gone into the service of foreign masters. early a full referendums were held in the dawn, yet scan logan's people's republics, as well as in her san as apology. regions, locals were asked whether or not they wanted to join russia. and the results did show that more than 80 percent were in fact, in favor of becoming a part of the russian federation it more now with a correspondent alia katrinka, the votes in the 2 chambers of the russian parliament are the final stage before the territories are being fully accepted into russia and there you have it all the lawmakers that are present in this building on monday voted in favor of the decisions by the russian president. but more importantly in favor of the decisions by the people of dawn and school gods. his song ends up our oars,

you just before the lawmakers pressed their buttons, we heard survey lab or of the russian foreign minister speak. it was an emotional speech in which he explained which horrible mistakes by the government in key of let to the choice of don bass and beyond to be with russia seriously new go the queue, schism in recent years, the camp regime has launched an all out assault on the russian language abolished russian culture across the board. persecute at the orthodox church, falsified russian and ukrainian history, and destroyed books and monuments to those who liberated ukraine from the nazis and forged the glory of the ukrainian republic as part of the soviet union. so we know that certain lab, rob is a big fan of throwing punches when it comes to criticizing the west. and among other things. during his speech, the russian foreign minister silenced the critics of the moves by the russian government in europe and across the atlantic. started severely as the load seward,

the u. s. hypocritical claims the we allegedly cover up our tax on a neighboring country that has allegedly embarked on the path of democracy with the fabricated pretext. meanwhile, washington has never hesitated to use force anywhere in the world justifying itself with the need to protect the people of the united states. so a big day after the washington state duma, the result is a unanimous vote and there's one more baby step to be made. that is a, is the upper house of the russian parliament and the result is very predictable. this one is due on tuesday or less now to some of the latest from the war in ukraine now. and the russian forces are portly, eliminated part of a group of ukrainian soldiers who penetrate to the border into the lou guns republic. according to local officials, the ukrainian soldiers were advancing in the direction of the city of lucy chance with russian forces engaged the group and forced to retreat. the russian defense ministry earlier said several offensive attempts by the ukrainian army were

repelled by russia as strikes. ukrainian troops had staged a push in 3 areas in the hop. so in a region near crimea, our russian forces did retreat from the city of la man in northern done yet due to keeps offensive push. rushes, ministry of defense also said has been discovered that ukrainian forces have been using informants to identify targets, including civilian ones. are equal to down off is in the nearby lugens republic, he can tell us more, but i should add that his piece includes an interview with a person in custody who could possibly be speaking under duress, bribes and brainwashing, are the favorite tools of caves, intelligence agents on the russian home front in the dorm bass, they look for people eager to sell the lives of their neighbors for a thin wood of bills. dennis here is one of those who fell for the temptation.

me a whistle somewhat wrong. i went up for a walk with my dog. i saw a guy, i asked him for cigarettes and he gave it to me. i talked to him and he offered me a job. i asked him what kind of job. he said nothing much. i just need addresses where there are mass gatherings of people. young. i went to look and gave him the address. he went to check when he returned, he said that he was satisfied with everything and offered me the equivalent of $80.00 for one address. but locations of russia's military excuse or supply depos were of no interest for this client. all he wondered, was where mass gatherings of civilians were in a town cut off from water and electricity supply. there can be only a handful of such places, mainly points of humanitarian aid distribution, whole piles of her baby, food, diapers, and medicine. leave no questions as to what this place used to be. this sports

arena was repurposed, it served as a major warehouse for humanitarian aid, where the whole town of several dentist flocked to because that was something that they badly needed and still badly need. but now it stands, whole destroyed and burned down to ashes by the ukrainian military. this is one of the 1st places obliterated by ukraine's artillery. shortly after denise submitted the information by then it had dawned on him already what he was responsible for and who his mysterious contact was. he wasn't phased by the realization though, and stuck to his newly found blood business of m. o. one. after he gave me the money and left, there was shelling at this address and i heard from people that civilians died. that then he asked for more addresses. i found a hostile, where civilians were given water and gave the address to him. and 2 days later, there was shelling there. uh,

he was interested in other addresses and i gave him the address of the hotel where humanitarian aid was given out. a thick stench of ash is still very present in the air here. this is one of the places that the ukrainian military had destroyed off to getting an anonymous tip off. apparently came from someone who relocated to sever the nets from weston ukraine. it came from over there, but the locals here, they don't know why the man the foreman chose this place, because according to them, the military, the russian soldiers, they have never been here. dennis hands tremble now as he faces up to 20 years in jail for state treason. they didn't shake. they didn't slip though when he was providing more coordinates, which entailed another deadly strike organ for you, there was a strike over there. one unexploded shell is still stuck on the roof. then another strike came over there. the guy was sitting here,

it was around 10 p. m. he was killed by a fragment. for the 1st time, dennis has the opportunity to look in the eye of a person. he marked as a target own key of artillery maps. as a play a short message, the victim paused with us. chris walsh, true. those people are scum. what else can be said about them? people rebuild the infrastructure and they keep destroying it. and it looks like the shelling come with help of informers. oh her poor little. it's too late now. there's nothing to return to. the ukrainian command has been systemically, targeting vital civilian infrastructure elements in this war, toontown. a mac is done of reporting from the don boss, our t 9. nato members from central and eastern europe have declared their support for key as the bonds for fast track entry to the alliance. in a joint letter, the 9 at nato countries condemned with a reason referendums and several formal ukrainian regions demand

a complete russian withdrawal from the territories and colon the allies, to again increased military assistance. the key of however, western european members along with the leader of the alliance and the u. s. don't appear quite so keen to be expanding the block right now. we are committed to supporting mayo's open door policy. but how that proceeds is really an issue that's worked out by the claimant. 40 countries the who vote on and made a vote on us in the us at the, at the us foreign country i. and if so, that work go will have to be done in the future. she go to co krajina. of course, ukraine is free to choose the alliance in which it feels comfortable. however, joining nato is subject to certain requirements. the question will now be discussed among the 30 nato countries. you know, she get him was handled the fact that ukraine wants to join nato is understandable

. but this is not a matter of principle at the moment. but other in the program, i spoke with a senior research fellow with the global policy institute of london at georgia zamarelli. he believes ukraine's request to join nato to be foss, track to nato. actually put the alliance on the spot. as always, it's the smallest dogs that make the most noise. i mean these 9 countries comprise the 3 baltic states of mass macedonia, montenegro, romania, to lock in check. republic. these are not serious major military forces. so if there is to be a war between nature and russia, they're not going to be doing very much in it. so what it is, is those countries that would be seriously involved in any conflict between nato, russia that have the most to worry. and they are not at all. it was yes with

zalinski, essentially just going up and sending in a job application. he put him on the spot because now a landscape application this, this glorious figure that nato's been extolling and idolizing. then they jo gonna go on with it, so history of pretending that they're not really a participant while it will be about this because it is essentially, but nature on the spot. you get your brain into nato and they to is obviously apple us has imposed on you package of sanctions on iranian trade partners, but unexpectedly hitting the indian based company a lot cheap. petroleum is the 1st time an indian firm has ever been affected by us restrictions. today, the u. s. department of the treasury's office of foreign asset control sanctioned

an international network of companies. the action targets iranian brokers and several front companies in the u. e. hong kong and india that have facilitated financial transfers in shipping of iranian petroleum and petrochemical products. when did you decide to live and go to buy the u. s. on my beats federal chemical company for floating, so called global or u. s. inspired functions. what does the company do? it essentially imported $1000000.00 worth of better chemical thought. also, iran, an exported then to china, a foot either this is extreme, the watering cost living the u. s. is not singling out indian companies in order to avoid a b confrontation with the indian government. interesting. he was also conceived after a sort of as minister of india. dr. esther chung goes with it to the us where you will to met with the say what you see as the thinker. they shook hands. they're the

mile each other inside what i'm sleeping can say a few days ago. we have made real progress in elevating that partnership bilaterally, that is directly between us. the partnership between our countries, between india, in the united states is simply one of the most consequential in the world. is that right off to dr. andrew shanker, came back to india. us last, the indian company with a sanction. in fact, this is the very 1st time that a private company in india has been sanctioned by the usaa embassy. they also point out here the doctor essay shown god, why that on his to the u. s. recently complete a ball, no oil prices breaking in the us back the way back, but in the account by we certainly are on one of the world's biggest banks, credit suisse is desperately trying to calm investors to meet increasing concerns about his financial health. made fears of collapse. shares of the swiss lender have fallen to a fresh low. they tumbled as much as 12 percent at one point on monday,

but they've lost about 60 percent this year alone. i discussed it earlier with our correspondent caleb martin. we have credit suisse, which is a major global bank, a major financial investment firm, and it's basically having at this point, what is the worst annual sales drop? the biggest annual sales drop in its history just today is down 12 percent. now a, c, e o was on social media urging everyone not to panic, trying to reassure the public about the situation. here's what he said. i know it's not easy to remain focused timothy many stories you read in the media, in particular, given the many factually inaccurate statements being made. that say that trust the you not confusing our day to day stock price performance with a strong capital pace and liquidity position of the bank. now there are comparisons . people are making to layman brothers and the infamous 2000 a crash ah, however,

it'll look you the situation and saying that there's not a reason to predict a full on crass just rather a long and painful recovery for grant credit suisse. now, eyes similar, some say to what happened with deutsche bank in 2016. ah, but it's important to know, credit suisse is in a much stronger position than deutsche bank was in 2016. so that is not exactly a correct comparison. now the organization remains confident. a point of concern for many stake holders, including speculation by the media, continues to be our capitalization and financial strength. our position in this respect as clear. credit suisse has a strong capital and liquidity position and balance sheet. share price developments, do not change this fact. now all of this is combined with the energy concerns and other problems in the united states. you know, we've got the situation with inflation. all of this doesn't look good. if we're wondering how this could impact the mid term elections that are coming up. we're

a new congress will be elected by the u. s. public agile. biden's approval ratings are, sir, we low financial concerns inflation and then the american public being quite unhappy with how things have gone since the pandemic. all of this is going to have a major impact. you know, the economy certainly affects the way people view things when people feel the world isn't getting better. that certainly affects how they choose to vote. just a bit out in the program. i spoke with investor and banker mitchell feinstein, who explained the ways the swiss government may try to save credit suisse from possible failure. the central bank in switzerland. i don't think that they will allow the bank to collapse. it will become a zombie bank like city bank was. i mean, if you bought citibank shares in 2007 at the peak and you held them through to today, all of the, the stock looks like it's healthy. you would have probably lost about 90 percent of your investment in 2 from the 2007 highs. so what'll happen is they'll wipe out

a class of shareholders, which the stock is almost 0 right now, and the government will take over the bank. it won't fail, they might have some bad transactions, but i don't see credit suisse as failing. what i do see is probably they'll need government support, and that's why they're going to the markets because they've been cut off from counterpart transactions. and that is a death knell for any financial institution, when nobody will trade with them any longer. so either a central bank will have to step in and take the other side of transactions, or counter parties will have to start dealing with them and charge them some exorbitant premium. but it's not a viable business entity any longer if they get to a terminal situation like that. there are of course, also financial woes in the u. k. the new chancellor has only been in a job a few weeks, but he's already been forced to make a grumbling apology to the public. quite quiet thing has admitted it was

a mistake to attend a champagne reception with hedge fund managers just hours off the delivering his highly criticized emergency many budget plan. when you went to a party with hedge fund managers after the budget, who invited you and why did you go? i spent, i think, quarter of an hour, maybe a bit longer. and it was a policy event. we have policy events all the time. i think it was, it was a difficult cool, and i take to get how it looks. and i just feel that it was something that i was signed up to do, and i had to do that behind. so you wouldn't get with hindsight, it probably wasn't the best day to go. well, the champagne party came just hours after the chancellor's many budget, which was widely viewed as only benefiting the rich among the proposals was the scrapping of the top rate of income tax. so that, that move spoke public condemnation and market turmoil also sent the pound, plunging to a 37 year low. well, that's why the prime minister on chancellor, defending the policy and saying that definitely wouldn't be any you turn earlier

today. a full you ton was announced with a policy to scrap the top income tax rate, scrapped itself quite, quite and said the unpopular proposal was quote, a massive destruction on a strong package. well, the new prime minister took up her post vowing to turbocharged the economy. so far as resulted in market turmoil and even a warning from the international monetary fund. nevertheless bless, trust is pledging to continue, of course, and it's blaming external factors for all of the current domestic problems. i get up every morning is prime minister thinking how can we make our country more successful? how can we reassure people, how can we help people get through these very difficult times. and we do face difficult times in the war in ukraine who is regrettably continuing. lots of peach in using is continuing with his say, the rustling rhetoric they, we,

we do face very, very difficult circumstances. i talked earlier with journalist often returns who feels their lives trust government doesn't fully understand the economic realities that living in yes, so called mainstream media in britain is gunning for the trust government. because perhaps they're not completely on side in some other elements of policy that is favored by the international monetary fund. and those great are because of circle democracy in britain we go to remind obviously view is around the world. this trust was not voted in by the british government, the other she's prime minister, and i should also say kwasic wanting just finished a speech and he's given to a conference that cruel, went to saying that he was implying he could have been chipping off a big bank is a champagne reception just before he valued the pound, let alone the impact of fuel price increases. despite the 150000000000

pounds that the trust government is basically given to the fossil fuel companies to stave off the harshest elements of the increases in prices drastic was worked michelle oil, which also raised eyebrows. fundamentally what quoting doesn't understand economically, arguably, is debt to debt to g. d p ratio was quoting them in the past hour or so saying look, britton's one is one of the best, not realizing that you as a has not had a good one for ages. the different sort of economy the u. s. has sent its special representative for trade to algeria on a visit to strengthen relations with the north african country remit the diplomatic charm offensive. a bipartisan group of u. s. congressmen in the morning sanctions against the state, citing. it's multi $1000000000.00 arms deal with russia. it is critical that president biden, and his administration prepared to sanction those who attempt to fund the russian government and its war machine through the purchase of military equipment. when the

demand comes as part of washington's policy of launching economic warfare against old major customers of russian, iranian or north, korea and weapons. of the last decade, algeria has been among the biggest clients for russian arms. nato's 2011 intervention in libya believe to have spurred the demand. meanwhile, economic analysts, africa lauren's k. freeman understands us concerns of a growing ties between russia and algeria. but caesar an inconsistency with washington's coal. a sanction. this doesn't surprise me at all. a full full, full court effort, while united states government at this point, to punish russia in every way can. and that they're even attempting to destroy russia. and they basically will use the african, they have used african nation for many years. as a part of the point, you know, geo political game, well obviously this, the contradictory,

the west desperately needs oil and gas and even some call because they don't produce enough energy. and they shut down much of the energy. they're going to reach out to african nations. i area for the necessity, a world gas. at the same time united states and u. s. congress, you're trying to punish african countries for working with russia and having russia is an ally. this is the contradictory nature and insanity are the anglo american policy. moscow says the recent sabotage of an austrian pipelines has played straight into the hands of international gas suppliers. the kremlin at spokespersons finding out exactly who stands to benefit the most to up if you don't use it's clear that amid the suspension of these pipelines, there is one side that has an opportunity to sell more. l n g at

a higher price. we all know who that is the united states. in the meanwhile, the russian energy, john gas, brom says gas leaks from the damage north stream pipes under the baltic sea have finally stopped the statement the company said pressure in the affected lines. those also been stabilized. last week, the network was damaged in a series of under the explosions. russia in europe of both said they believed the incident was an act of sabotage. however, the cause of the damage remains well specifically unknown with both sides trading accusations against each other. now commenting on the incident, the u. s. secretary of state antony blink and stated that a talking russian pipelines was quote, in no one's interest. however, he was happy to welcome european efforts to distance themselves from russian energy . it's a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on russian energy and thus to take away from vladimir putin, the weapon ization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. that's very significant. and that offers

tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come. while the us is trying to see if the opportunity to increase its l. n. j supplies to europe, the economist i spoke to a short time ago, doctor hammer, he's actually afraid yours dependence on washington at the end of the day could be risky. oh, this is of course not only ridiculous. this is, this is totally wrong. and we what change the dependency on a monopoly monopolized on the u. s. l n g with prices who are where we are not compatible in the world. so we would have to rely on us liquid natural gas. we not only rely on the most environmental catastrophic energy sauce. we will be not competitive though in lies in the world anymore. so german companies would have to move out. so this is,

this is just the hopes that are not too many nations who have the possibility and the ability and the aim to blow out the nostra into pipeline, especially not in this area. we had a nato price. this exercise that took place right in this area on 22nd of september where this happened and it was, and we were have see the del fees be fish, were not supposed to be in the about. they see who we, where we know that they are trained by the us army to make some sort of to put some explosives to places where they are let and we know that these, that the us to had with 3 ships. so 45 ships all together was in the major exercise

training expect me to be based what happened now? so this is a pretty big smoking gun. i would say, well, it's always a pleasure having your company for this program for moscow. of course this is archie international. thank you so much for joining us and sharing your time with us here in the russian capital program. return soon with more of your top world. ah, i a fees that is going to be international owner. then international relations must not just be about our interest, but it should also be about certain lucy norms, which can be respected by all parties in

ah ah hello and welcome to cross stock where all things are considered. i'm hearing the bell russians don't bluff. they act with the induction of 4 ukrainian regions into russia. it should be clear to all moscow is determined to achieve all the goals it set out at the start of this conflict. in the meantime, the west is in a panic. they're panic is a rational and dangerous. ah,

to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, martin j america. she's an award winning journalist, and commentator. and in budapest we have sent me well. he is a podcast at the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals, or a gentleman cross that goes in effect. that means you can jump any time you want, and i would appreciate it. right. start out with georgia in budapest, georgia and title in this program, political facts and over the last few days, some political backs have made themselves loud and clear. first, we have the sabotage of the north stream pipelines. it's pretty obvious who did it . i don't want to dwell on it, but we have to dwell on the fact that it is no longer going to be of any practical use for keeping europe warm and keep its industry moving through this winter. also the 2nd important political fact where the, the outcomes of the referendums that were held in ukraine and their induction. all but official right now into russia.