down the possibility that the west is waiting for the right moment to strike the republic with new us defense strategy suggests the pre emptive launch of nuclear weapons against non nuclear threat. contradicting president biden's class just to limit the potential of me. we refused to jeopardize bomb as livelihoods about the message from donna and ivory coast, to avoid crossing a global co production form and protested monthly payments to palmer and germany and frank no of the need to be a you to hit fact that what they call on fat economic competition from american ford reportedly results. transatlantic trade.

ah, it's 6 pm here with the russian capital, because all the international with the latest world news out data variables, welcome to you. now u. s. and nuclear weapons could be used in a 1st strike against non nuclear threats. about, according to the pentagon said new national defense strategy, which goes against president biden's pledges to make the world safer. by restricting the use of nukes, we concluded a thorough review of a broad range of options for nuclear declaratory policy, including both for north, 1st use and sole purpose, policies, and concluded that those approaches would result in an unacceptable level of risk in the light of the range of non nuclear capabilities been developed and fielded by competitors that could inflict strategic level damage to the united states and its allies and partners. the u. s. as new defense strategy, in fact,

does not rule out the use of nuclear weapons against non nuclear threats. it has been tamed a controversial 1st strike policy that biden earlier suggested wouldn't be needed at a more. so apparently, the you, as president, has changed his mind and pentagons new strategy. in fact, looks very similar to i used to be under trump administration. interesting that the publication of this new strategy was expected 6 months ago. it was postponed, and we only saw it now published exactly after weimer putting speaking at val di, discussion club earlier and thursday, explicitly said no to using nuclear weapons. this is what barbara applicant had to say. reach you when you can. you believe we have never said anything about the possible use of nuclear weapons by russia, but only hinted at statements made by the leaders of western countries. back windless truss was prime minister in the u. k. she told the press that britain is

a nuclear power and it is the pm's job to use it. and she would do so. it's not verbatim but close. she said, i'm ready for it. and no one reacted the young woman as a bit out of her mind. how can one see such things in public? the u. s. president though question put in his words, claiming that talking about nuclear weapons actually means that moscow ease ready to use it. and that is an ironic claim, given that that's exactly what we keep hearing from the white house every day, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons and was putting himself explained that moscow had to rise up this issue, fall in the west. push for that. if he has no intention, why she keep talking to mouth, why she talk about the in the use of tactical nuclear, whatever. what nights us on this before your, your previous comments marie, but how does this new strategy, the periods odds with jo bodies, previous statements regarding nukes, it's act as there is actually a contradiction,

a clear one. it's not just a reminder that the u. s. you only country on earth that unprovoked used the nuclear weapons in world history, but it is also a reversal biden's 2020 campaign pledge in which he was saying that nuclear weapons sit online uniquely be ever used in retaliation or as a deterrent their opinion. there was last by progressive democrats and defense hawks. here's what mr. biden had to say, then, this no 1st, we need to know rushes said more than once that he has no plans preemptively. so use nuclear weapons whilst have to receive from the west to de escalate the situation. ironically, peter, we see the opposite and opposite taps. according to us diplomatic cable, washington is now speeding up its plans to upgrade nuclear weapons in europe with even analysts criticizing the move as an unnecessary rush. asked for comment,

pentico spokesperson answered that it is in no way linked to current events in ukraine and it was not set up in any way. but that is not exactly true because we know the delivery was scheduled for next spring and it is happening december. so does look like a push for a raise. the new us defense strategy also focuses on the rising lights of china, the american se beijing poses the greatest challenge to washington global influence . because some reaction on the inside from form a pentagon senior security policy on this, michael maloof. well, china is that has the 2nd largest economy in the world. it is basically from the pentagon's perspective, the, the ultimate quote, threat and quote. and in the, in the, in the years to come, because it has ramped up its military development programs. and it has greater numbers of ships than the united states does right now. and i think that

between now and 2050 it is projected by the mil sussman offsets pentagon, that it's going to be china, that the u. s. is going to have to deal with as the competitive world power. but the chinese are taking a different tat, which is more construction and in under developed countries of the world that by itself is a challenge to you as a dominance in the world. so we're going to see this as a prolonged conflict competitively, at least for years to come. we will not to jeopardize our people's wealth. now the message from africa is top to co produce is gonna and ivory coast there, boy, causing a co sustainability. meet that meeting in brussels after accusing western companies of blocking opportunities to improve farmers incomes, anti correspondent corolla. what happens is no,

this is not the 1st time that god and ivory coast have gone to the low body to be mind a better treatment for they are farmers whose go all around whose hospital every way to make sure that they produce what is expected by with the multinational who rely on the crop to make their chocolate, if a bitter sweet story, it's sweet, if you are a western multinational and profiting from the value chain of making chocolate is very bitter. if you are a farmer in any of the fed countries that have gone out and ivory, quote, because there you have no predictability. back in 2019, the 2 countries put so much price out on the group and the market that the finally relented to an idea of living income differential. this was to help regulate the price of cocoa, at least from the farmers point of view. the agreement was that the,

a ton of cocoa would cost $400.00. now that is not how luko trader saw it. local traders look at it as a different racial which was negative to both countries and insisted on buying that time. the time that was supposed to be $400.00 at $260.00, now beds make $114.00. this a p a in the market, and it only shows up the value chain and never goes down to the farmers. now the farmers themselves, they only receive about 6 percent of the fed, $100.00 and wall of $1000000000.00 in the street. that if the chocolate industry now it's been fed that these with the multinational, i do not really care about african farmers. and they just there for the profits, and that is why the re meg on improving the conditions of that l i v. that is the living in the differential. but if you of the spokes person of the getting a cold call regulatory body, that is mr. sepi, while he did not minister,

was when he spoke about the tendency of western companies to leave a legacy of poor african even though they take from them. clearly someone is ensuring that the farmer continues to stay poor. how to expect someone who is poor all the time to sustain an industry that is always making profit. clearly, there is something that is not right and it's not the 1st time that we're going to talk about it. there is the need for us to find different means of making a point for every one to know that something's wrong. this is a classic story of how western colonialism, particularly capitalism, has left its mark on the african continent. they take the refined, they sell back to the continent at much, much inflated prices end to the world that lodge, and they mean a legacy of poverty and scourge across africa. thousands of

people have again flooded the streets of the check republics capital to protest its role in e u sanctions against russia such while even now in the 2nd month in the country without 2 tens of thousands participating. demonstrators challenges anti government slogans and waved national flags while calling on the prime minister to resign. participants insist the sanctions have exacerbated the country's energy crisis, which has left many dreading a house. winter. i mean soaring gas and food prices. well, let's go live now to bradley blankenship. american journalist column is on political commentator who is currently in prague. and thanks for joining us on the park on bradley. it's nice to see you. so we're into the 2nd month i've rallies in the capital. so does it look like the government is listening to the demonstrators? it's all i went down and then i actually just got done speaking with some business owners here who are very concerned about their situation. and they told me that there's a lot of uncertainty. deposits for energy have gone up,

but they're not sure how much money they're gonna end up paying. and yet it could be to need to be 7 time. i think that the government, while they've, you know, now some aid packages for people. it's not nearly enough to mitigate the prices that a lot of people and businesses are facing. of course, you know, it's not just in the take capital within crows has to take to the streets and across the european capital there with the winter coming, people are crying foul over the failure of that governments to rein in the energy prices. what are your expectations of the next few months? yeah, you know, this check finance minister actually. and now yesterday he's been saying for quite some time that the check public has enough reserves to go through this and enter. but the thing is, is that as the check finance ministry and now their prediction is that, you know, it's russian natural gas is cut off the year a year. if you could see the growth in the economy for several years. so there's

a lot of in their new year and whether or not, you know, you're survive this winter, and by the way, i should say that, you know, europe is actually never gone through an entire winter, jumped on reserved. so there's a lot of uncertainty there. but even if they get the discipline from the uncertainty for years, i don't see the situation get better considering how this please european citizens clearly are, do you think b e u is likely to rethink its approach to sanctions against russia anytime soon? i mean this, this right, you can see just behind me there's about 2030000 people that are very upset with the government. now, i think that you want, and we see, for example, we see even in the united states, that 30 progressive lawmakers sent the letter to joe biden, asking for the most basic negotiation strategy in the conflict. and they've since removed on that letter. and i think that there's a lot of pressure on, on these politicians in europe, in the united states to you know, to, to stay strong and to keep supporting your grand by farming and happens into the

country and to prolong the war. many thanks for joining us on the program. bradley? many thanks bringing us that lives 30. that's probably blankenship journalists columnist on political commentator. and thank you. and the german and french leaders have a posley teamed up to oppose us legislation. aimed at pressuring industries in europe to leading economies. the move could lead to was being called a trans atlantic trade war as asi contribute, it contribute to rachel moss and explain. we're hearing now about what this meeting in paris this week between german chancellor, all schultz and french president emanuel. and that whole was really about despite their various disagreements, they're both now looking at how the counter unfriendly measures coming from washington. the u. s. is already hammering the european union with natural gas prices and really benefiting from the fact that the block has much more dependence on this price. the american energy 2 to 4 times the u. s. domestic market price,

according to president mac whole. now that's because europe cut itself off of the much cheaper russia fuel. but now sholtes and macros are reportedly also both worried that washington is tilting the playing field for the detriment of european exports to america. specifically to bind in ministration, inflation reduction act, which gives energy and tax breaks to companies that invest on american soil, which is an open invitation basically for companies to bail out of europe at a time when they continents energy supplies, basically hinges on europeans worry to sweaters, and taking 2nd showers. you're how the european reaction to that is being reported in the western process. the message from the paras lunch is if the u. s. doesn't scale back then the you will have to strike back. similar incentive schemes for companies will be needed to avoid unfair competition or losing investments that move would risk plunging transatlantic relations into a new trade war by new protection measures also incentivize the purchase of

american electric vehicles with batteries made in america to the detriment of those made in europe with the french and german car industry, being hugely important to both of their economies. mccaul was quick to speak out about the need for the taught to economic powers in europe to wake up and implement something similar. i'm just going to assume it know what we want to do with the batteries and the aid is to have a bi european acts like the we must keep them for your pain produces and for our solutions, the euro pans are still too naive. this is one of the things that i discussed with jim and chancellor. allah show france and germany have to come together because we were to open the need for europe to counter american protectionism with its own. isn't the only point of contention. erlon is also doubling down on its relationship with china at the time when the u. s. has beijing in its cross hairs and really wants the you to follow along with its plans and interests like it did with russia

. the u. s. commerce department published guidelines this month to curb access for china to us micro chips and the biden administration expects allies to just side on that's according to western press reports, but berlin is just green lit, the purchase of a stake in a hamburg and tear fort by a chinese state on shipping giant and is set also to visit president. she's in praying in november. so the question now is whether parents and berlin will actually do something about why she has ever increasing dominance over their own economies and over the u economy. or, well, they just ultimately fall in line with washington's march. orders became a fast as new government is to focus on securing the west african country, which is being ravaged by g hottest violence. early this month. president abraham, a tray or a seas power from lieutenant colonel paul henry sunday. yoga geneva,

who lay to flag to tow go to countries. new prime minister has said the nation remains on a wolf, though. sink and cold on locals to contribute to stabilization. we spoke to some people on the streets of bikini fast as capital to gauge their opinion. we expect the government will be terrorism. we're going to trust them. there is a need for unity with the president who knows the battle ground, who says he's going to fight until his last breath. we trust him and we're going to support him. we need to widen our cooperation to look for other partners. now about him, if you can attend and we love the path of prime minister has chosen, we will end this miserable situation. the decision to look for other partners wanted survival because for a long time, france was our only partner. many of our folks passed away, but france didn't help us away. i believe that this prime minister will combat terrorism. there is no freedom if we have terrorists controlling our country,

security for the priority of the government prime minister holiiday. kyla, would you know, clear? because the security situation was bought, that me by organize at the beginning of the year. it's really cool. and because how would it believe that maybe it was fairly err on $50000.00 going to be the group in the army. auxilary was there we will. odyssey was at the the you have express down wage a tit for tat sanctions from iran, off the to ron, accused of provoking violence and acts of terrorism. and the widespread domestic protests in the country. brussels came to sanctions and nothing more than a politically motivated measure. the european union rejects the sanctions as they appear to be purely politically motivated. when you take the you sanctions, they are adopted on clear legal grounds based on the evidence of human rights

violations in iran. well, iran in return as of the number of european individuals on media outlets to a blacklist issuing these abounds on saving property, that's off the place functions on a number of wrongs. officials and security forces following the death of the girls . so it is not the professor of political communication and the diversity of to ron . it's things that use political motivation, argument failure. we had a terrorist attack just a couple of days ago in the city. oh, she does. 15 people killed the organizations that support these, those cells based in europe. we have a number of european countries engaging in colored revolution tactics in iraq, financing groups, and individuals that use violence. achieve that political force,

number of media that show people how to make the hours of age, why an age which is against european off each other. but in europe, they will be, the owners of channels would be j been violent under the country, the actually get their financial assistance in country. so we have a number of states, responses of terrorism in europe. and it's time for the individuals that are going to nations to answer for their criminal act. and i think that even in government is that, you know, i mean, well, the minute because i'm back to the, to the us code on football is a global governing body to expel iran from the upcoming world cup in casa,

once again, the world is demanding your immediate leadership actions to disqualify iran from the world cup the fif, a world should not be shadowed by negative political news for the billions of fans worldwide. ambassador, 150 to replace the iran in the events following protests into iran over the death of a young girl after she was arrested by the country's morality police. monica joins the u. k. in calling for a wrong to be bonds from the competition, which is accused of supplying weapons to russia, governing body fi, fi has made no public response to either countries demands. meanwhile, the wild cut post country council came under fire from l g b t q activists. who claim their concerned for their safety during the games? in response, the british foreign secretary urged football fans visiting fear, respect the culture of the muslim country for which he has received public backlash

. these are, these are muslim countries. they have very different cultural starting point for us . i think it's important when you are a visitor to a country that you respect the culture of your whole nation, west coast, who after maternity now independent journalist joining us from the by many thanks for joining us. i'm sure what are your thoughts on the demands made by dominie? because i'm back to the, to the you. when are there any legal grounds to expel iran from the world cup? i wonder whether this ambassador for dominic or the united nations really understands the history of dominica. those who don't know, it says somewhere around guadalupe martinique delay does. does this ambassador even understand the colonial history of dominican as for the world cup or in added poland. even qualify for the world cup because it didn't have to play russia because russia is banned from the world cup. so we're actually, it's a kind of shambles. presumably the president of p for is having to having to

carefully navigate this because this her football tournament doesn't have rusher in it because they weren't allowed to play in the play offs. and there was a long history. i mean, you play that clip from england, england or in fan is to them do respect local cultures because and you can look on the internet, the picture of them saluting the nazis in 1038 when they paid a friendly actually, i think they been international match with nazi germany. as a thief was not yet responded to these demands from dominican n 4, do you think the expulsion of iran could actually happen? and it was actually authorized to make such a decision. i mean, oh boy caught sports. boy, courts have a long and great history. it has to be said. the south africa comes to mind when britain and the european union in the united states were backing the fascists apartheid regime in south africa. and of course there were sporting boy gods,

cultural boy, gods, famously the band, queen and the arches elton john broke those boy goods. there is a history to boycott. but here we have the, i very idea of her. are people talking about iran not being able to compete their 1st time a qualifying for the knockout round of the world cup when a just in the past few days as you were just talking about. there was the terrible incident in shiraz or 15 dead. and i, if the authorities there are to be believed, this is the work all the very nations, the united states, the european union countries that have been there trying to destabilize iran for decades. so what do you think some i think countries would like to see iran banned from such events? how would it benefit them? they will benefit you. you know, it could benefit dubai because the u. e might be here, jake,

he runs place as some people say, although others say, italy because it's been widely quoted. it did to some italian official has been trying to say, yeah, do it. i think that's more of a sporting advantage rather than anything political. i think come given the rushers band, given that if iran were, were to be banned from the for world cup, it would start to show that the entire international order is regard sports and culture is fundamentally breaking down. mean why? why should her, why should any country in the global south be accepting terms in the same way as they have to accept or international sanctions and, and authorities from washington. though we're, this is a very serious point in world history. arguably, if iran is indeed throwing off the world cup, it should also be said, the star striker ghost played in russia their answer to leonor messy as they say

that then the than that means and, and the you integrate general as you just add is already intervene to start telling iran what to do about its own security services at the moment this, this would mean that international competitions are breaking down fundamentally when we can't forget that there were olympics in berlin in 1036. how ironic that russia was band and it goes, russia believes it is fighting the scourge of naziism in europe to day. so i already arguably there's a shadow over the entire fee for woke up. i can't, i don't say i had it's fair share, a criticism as well as leader is ever hosting. i'll be a thief at 2022. what are your thoughts on that? i think her has always with her european union nations, making criticisms and protested. i mean, it shall be said of course l g b g q right should be respected. of course women's rights should be respected in

iran. they should be allowed to go to football matches. i remember i was living in toronto in integer the then president was fighting to get women to be allowed to go to football. they're just course those things should be allowed. but as always, is the weapons zation of human rights culture as taken a, a less, less strong stance and say, the you a, or saudi arabia on the conflict currently raging in europe. but nevertheless, cutter has deals with iran and any thing, any country in the developing world in the global. so anything that it does that is not in line with the vast, so states of europe ordered to buy washington will automatically be under the spotlight. and b, m, have their human rights record exaggerated. let's talk about the fact that there is no freedom of expression in europe. this channel is banned in europe. let's talk about the way that black people die earlier than white people in the united states

. let's talk about the human rights abuses within their own countries of the european nations and the united states. i think everyone would say all around the world should be looking inward at the gross ways that it executes predominantly people of color. and there also are also imprisoned. so, so many millions often ask just one more question. before we go, i'd like to know what you think about the backlash against their albertson's foreign secretary. he was urging football fans to respects the culture of cats or if they do pay a trip there. what do you think about that? said the response was a dead justified? yeah, i don't think he checked with the pentagon there. if li, if washington wants to start attacking doha, clearly natural gas is behind again. his statement about human rights, human rights cannot be listened to about, from any european politician, specially during an energy crisis. britain is a country that sanctioned its own energy resources over its support for care of and

the legacy co government in care of, of zalinski, in famous to britain. as i said earlier, england does respect b. it has a history of respecting football, footballing, nations. as i said, all you have to do is look up or not see england salute england football team. and you'll see the match played in england. when mean when team gave nazi salutes except one famous football or actually that scapes my name of the road. one principal said we shouldn't respect the views of german nazi culture. may. thanks for speaking to as independent journalist, ashley mckenzie. and thank you for joining us here in arty international. we're back in the top of the hour with the very latest. see them ah, ah

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