oh mm hm. with the new you have different strategy, suggest the preemptive launch of nuclear weapons against non nuclear threat. contradicting president biden's ledges to limit the potential use of weapons of mass destruction as billionaire you on last becomes the new owner, twitter. if the users have already and go through the platform with testing the limits of free speech, any price copies not really only being dependent, a top lower region under here warns against limiting russian gas and boards. you calling it a counterproductive loop, as the block continues to face, are raging energy crisis.

a mock out to the world. this is our to international. i'm rachel blevins and these are the top stories this our u. s. nuclear weapons could be used in a 1st strike against non nuclear threats. that's according to the pentagon, 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 non 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 surprisingly, 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 on thursday, explicitly said no to using nuclear weapons. this is what library applicant had to say, which you, when you go, then you go any. 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 windlass trust 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 putin's 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 put in 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 my why she talk about the in the use of tactical nuclear weapon. what nights us on this before your, your previous comments marie? but how does this new strategy, the periods odds with joe? but his previous statements regarding nukes, it talks, there is actually a contradiction, a clear one. it's not just

a reminder that the u. s. u. 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 should online, uniquely be ever used in retaliation or as a deterrent. their opinion that was west by progressive democrats and defense hawks . here's what mr. biden had to say them with no rushes said more than one city has no plans preemptively to use nuclear weapons, was steps to receive from the west to deescalate the situation. ironically, peter, we see the opposite and opposite stabs according to air you ass diplomatic cable. washington is now speeding up its plans to upgrade nuclear weapons in europe with evan analysts criticizing the move as an unnecessary rush. asked for common 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 shadowed for next spring, and it is happening this december. so does look like a push for a race. the new u. s. defense strategy also focuses on the rising might of china, the american say beijing poses the greatest challenge. washington's global influence. we got some reaction and insight from former pentagon official, michael maloof. well, china is that has the 2nd largest economy in the world and it, it, it, 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 that is between now and 2050 it is projected by the myths estimate 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 like construction and in under developed countries of the world that by itself is a challenge to you as dominance in the world. so we're going to see this as a prolonged conflict competitively, at least for years to come now to the latest and conflict, a mosque was caught under fire, falling ukrainian shelling of the russian city of done. net that's according to the local mer. here you can see footage from the city that was under continuous shelling on friday evening. earlier in the day an oil terminal and eastern part of the gun as republic caught fire due to shelling by ukrainian forces according to

local emergency services. and in on ask again, ukrainian shell exploded near our newest crew, damaging their vehicle. their van was passing near residential buildings at the time of the attack. the exact moment of the strike was caught on camera with feel like a group about voting. you know, one of the work i would love to do it is done and you good enough that when our field group finished working and we had just to leave a shall explode to some 10 to 15 meters away from us to repel hid the driver's side and broke the glass, but the bullet proof lay resisted and saved alive. one fragment also hid the car when my colleague was sitting, but all of us survived. we're going to pull out the broken glass and then keep doing our work to her son. now where a cancer hospital has been struck on a rocket attack by ukrainian forces, according to the regions health ministry,

no casualties have been reported. the ministry issued a statement accusing key of indiscriminately targeting civilian object washington as coughing up another, $275000000.00 and weapons, and other atm aimed at restocking thousands of rounds of ammunition. that the commissioner for homeless. there's admits the black market of weapons is already supplied. ukraine is driving, adding though that she is full trust in the way key as manages the weapons. see from the europe hall, soft of report that the organized criminal groups are being more and more violent. this is the threat, so as i was security and we have to address this elicit firearms. we know from experience from the foremost boy and you, slave, we can still see weapons coming from from this area course. i trust ukrainian military. they are really using their weapons in the right way. only 30 percent of

weapons already sent to crane ended up on the battlefield according to a partially retracted cbs report. the binding ministration alone has provided with more than 1400 anti aircraft systems over 10000 grenade launchers and 60000 rounds of ammunition and investigation back in april a europe whole b use. law enforcement agency shows alyssa weapons from ukraine have been falling into the hands of european organized crime groups, posing a potential security threat the european union earlier. and now it's the creation of a hub in moldova, to tackle weapons smuggling. with the block security specialists assisting local law enforcement, moldova which borders ukraine is not an e member, but is the front line in the fight against elicit arms trafficking. chris announced statistical data, however, shows the 40 cases of smuggling were recorded earlier this year. where doesn't

increase in weapons detected. the kremlin has repeatedly warned the western arm supplies to kiev would endanger other regions to use me was also the black market of weapons operating in ukraine poses serious challenges. international criminal groups are actively involved in a smuggling to other regions. it's not just about small arms. there is still risks of more powerful weapons falling into the hands of criminals, including man pads and high precision weapons. that as not only firearms, but advanced weaponry, such as javelins and switch blade explosive drones become widely available on the dark net at low prices as our t investigators were able to find out. thus, despite earlier pledges by the pentagon to look into weapons shipments, to prevent them ending up in the hands of black market sellers, retired us air force, lieutenant colonel karen cry. cowski says that washington is well aware of the arms trafficking from ukraine, but it's still ready to jeopardize europeans security. they say they trust kia

because that's what you have to say in the west. you cannot criticize zalinski and you cannot criticize key f. that's just not allowed over here. ukraine was well known as a center of corruption, black market dealings. and that kind of thing that has a head start that's been happening. it's going to continue to happen. it's something that the united states certainly is, is aware of. and they're concerned about it, and i'm even pointing the finger at russia in advance because i think they do expect that quite a bit of this flow is going to continue by didn't ministration has been risking the safety of europe for quite a while. weapons flow that the united states is supporting in by far where the largest supporter of kids with weapons. i think that is totally dependent, not on european security, but on what goes on politically in the united states. flopping a price camp on russian gas and forth to the

e. u is the wrong way to go about solving the blocks fuel crisis. that's according to the chief of one of norway's biggest energy companies and the price cup is not really solid being dependent. the problem day kind of to, to kind of really give. ready more supply, in fact, it can become too productive, increasing the demand while the supply is not increasing. the u. s. proposed price cap is fanning uncertainty on the energy market, but the situation with oil exports is also unclear. earlier. saudi arabia's energy minister criticize countries which manipulate energy markets that says joe biden announced the release of a final $15000000.00 barrels of us strategic oil reserve. the saudi energy minister says that the measures negatively affect the energy market. people out of the things that emergency stocks, yes, had depleted, used it as a mechanism to renew for that market. while it is

profound purpose waste to mitigate shortages of supply, us officials are frustrated over saudi arabia decision to cut oil alpha by $2000000.00 barrels per day from november as part of the opec plus group plan. the u. s. was strongly opposed to the measure. the white house has called the move, a violation of previous agreements with riata washington has now been forced to scale back its plan to impose a cap on russia. oil prices due to financial concerns, us secretary of state antony, blinking said the saudi arabia support of the un resolution condemning russia doesn't compensate the production cut. we spoke to the former senior advisor to the minister of energy of saudi arabia. mohammed also bond, who said that attempts to impose a price cap lead to a lose lose scenario. the more i think the drive will

sit by the problem in the united states. gov, me, your domestic water in the usa and also toward the domestic reduce that which is cutting a lot of we can easily be got really more oil and gas in the united states. the problem is is more than just sitting our cooking upright. i'm just relax prices, we're good. now with that, why do we see one? they have not calculated this european union where just basically wondering what the, what this,

what this cannot make sense is when i heard about and now the stuff i don't know the, i'm not picking just one of the major with that would be brought them that the that quote and live it is absolutely right. why should i data and who you can union? where did they let them know that they have no unanimous decision yet. the binding ministration is facing fresh criticism over its failure to curb. the shortage of diesel fuel was supplied, shrinking to their lowest level, and more than a decade, authority is reportedly have no solution insight as our teeth. caleb mob reports while we're in the middle of this diesel crisis. now at this point from what we understand, there are only 3 weeks left in the supply of diesel fuel. and now we have

mansfield energy speaking up because conditions are rapidly devolving at times. carriers are having to visit multiple terminals to find supply which delays deliveries and strains, local trucking capacity, bryan b, who's from the white house economic council. the national economic council director has said that all options are on the table in order to deal with the crisis of diesel fuel and the shortage. now, at this point, we have the american automobile association. they've given numbers to show that roughly the price of diesel fuel and united states is around $5.32. now, that's a 50 percent increase from what it was last year at this time. now the crisis related to digital diesel fuel cannot be separated from the situation internationally. and the, specifically, the situation regarding russia, thanks to the, by the ministrations religious war in ukraine. this country is about to run out of

diesel fuel. according to data from the energy information administration, by the monday of thanksgiving week, that's 25 days from now. there will be more no more diesel. so what's gonna happen that? well, everything will stop that means trucks and trains and barges, all unable to move farm equipment will shut down. there'll be no deliveries because there'll be no trucks. they'll be no diesel generators. and then inevitably, our economy will crash because everything runs on diesel fuel. not a solar panels on a wind farms and diesel fuel. diesel is not a negotiable commodity. you have to have diesel. now this is yet another situation that has americans and a happy with the, by the ministration and its ability to handle things related to the economy. now the mid term elections is set to take place november a many polls indicate this could be a moment of serious losses for the white house and the democratic party. so we'll

be waiting to see how this plays out. but this is quite a serious situation regarding the diesel fuel to go further in depth on the cross live now to economics. and paul is politics, professor at st. mary's college of california, jack rasmus professor is great to have you on the program today. now the u. s is estimated to have just 25 days of diesel supply. why has the country found itself in this situation? oh, the problem is a refining capacity, a u. s. u l, a u s. the cit, not a massive glut of oil and gas, but that has to be refined. and the u. s. is also one of the major exporters of refined oil products. so that takes up some of the refining capacity over the summer. as we know, gasoline prices spike terribly at the beginning of the summer time, lot of public and the government, the complain snellville companies and then took some of that refining capacity and

started refining more gasoline price come down a little bit and gasoline but that caused shortages of diesel fuel refining a. so now they gotta have to switch back and produce laura diesel fuel. and that will mean less gasoline and prices will go up. there are the problem is the refining capacity in u. s. in oil companies have refused to increased refining capacity f for decades now. and that's the bottleneck in the u. s. in the meantime, they're going to use the awareness that there is a shortage of diesel and home heating oil by the way, and they're going to jack up those prices. and we're going to have the same phenomena with natural gas in a winter. so inflation, energy driven inflation, which is over half of the inflation, which the federal serve, can't do anything about why raising interest rates is going to continue. and we're going to have a recession here, deeper at the same time,

we're gonna still have the prices up around 45 percent, which is half of the, the current price problem here in the u. s. so it's refining capacity. is the oil companies and some who are playing i wanted against the other. and in the meantime, a biden is say, any opening up the petroleum reserve, while that sounds, nothing is the problems of refining problem or an it certainly seems like if it's not one thing, it's another at this point. now, how seriously could a diesel shortage and soaring prices impact other sectors of the u. s. economy? just how far would this shortage rate when it comes to that impact? well, we don't know how fast the oil companies can, you know, pump up their refining of diesel switching from the coil. i mean, from gasoline, the diesel. we don't know if they can do it by the end of the month. they, they probably can, but they're going to raise prices. but as one of your other commentators said,

you know, diesel is the fuel in which you all transport more conscious gasoline, about trucking and railroads and, you know, home heating and everything. you know, this is, this is not gasoline prices or this is diesel. so the economy really runs on diesel or speaking as the economy running on diesel. i mean, do you think that this shortage could have an influence on the upcoming mid term elections? and is this something that you think the american people are actually aware of right now? no, i don't think they're not aware of it. they're going to be aware of that in a month or so here, especially natural gas as well. i think the election is locked in, i don't think what happens in one more week with diesel or anything else is going to change it. and i really think the republicans are going to really take away congress from the democrats because biden's economic policy has been a really pretty much a disaster here for the past year. and he hasn't done and really anything about

inflation. because he can't, the most of the inflation is a supply problem. sanctions included global supply chains, monopolistic companies, price gouging everybody. he can do, it won't do anything about that. and deferred can't do anything about that. and you overlay on that, the fact that the, you know, the economy really opened in, you got a little demand side inflation on top of that. but it's mostly a supply side problem. and everything that he's done, he biden hasn't really addressed that supply side problem. so he's got an inflation problem, domestic, he can't do anything about that. he's running a foreign policy problem, a sanctions and of messing up global supply chains and commodity prices and everything. so he's creating his own problem. i was going to say, i didn't hear one problem after another there. now when it comes to the average

american, i mean, they continue to say that they're concerned about inflation. they're concerned about the u. s. economy. now they're concerned about energy prices skyrocketing. how much of an effect do you think that is having right now and how far reaching of an effect are the shortage is going to continue to had, even if it, whether it be the president, the federal reserve, even if they are able to make some different changes that bring medley some temporary relief. yeah, well the number one issue in this mid term election is inflation, india economy. i mean, everything else, all the polls show that it dwarfs all the other issues. you know, and a democrats are running around trying to whip up this january 6th thing. and trump thing, i, the average american doesn't really give a damn about that very much, you know, and then they're using, you know, reproductive rights. and so for, that's a very small kind of the population concerned about that. the pocket book inflation hits everybody. and as i said, the fed, you know, they're relying on the federal reserve to create a recession. and if it's doing it very well, i, we're going to be in

a deep recession by the end of the year early next year. but the, the fed raising interest rates can only have an impact on the demand side of inflation. and the fed can do nothing about supply side and that's really the core of the supply and inflation. ron them on the supply side, the fed will keep raising rates until it looks like it's going to provoke some sort of a global financial instability event. and we see it already, the rate increases drive up the dollar, the dollar results in driving down other currencies. you know, the, the end, the euro, the pound are all 20 percent the down in other merging markets even more. you know, that causes inflation in the rest of the world. they raise their interest rate, causes recession. all this doable problem, most of it is made in the usa. it's a made in the usa, in a monetary policy. and the fiscal policy in a foreign policy,

the u. s, but the u. s. really doesn't care any more. it's going to go its own way, solve its own thinking. so he, so problems. now unlike in 2013, it started raising rates and across the problems in emerging markets. currencies in the fed stop will affect not stopping this time. if that is going to drive those rapes up. but what i predicted over year ago that it cannot raise the benchmark rate more than 5 percent. if it does that, you start having financial instability problems and watch the european banks and the u. k. pension funds and investment banks. they're already in trouble here. so i predict the fed cannot go much more here and it's going to have to stop. and that means, you know, we're already in a recession and we still have at least 4 or 5 percent in place next year. yeah, certainly a lot of daycare, especially when it feels like we're dealing with more problems and distractions and

actual answers. but as always, professor jack ross, miss, thank you so much for your time and insight. i pleasure. you on mass has become the new owner of twitter as speculation about the future of tweet, speech and gulf. the platform, the european commissioner for the internal market, even warn that twitter must abide by the laws of the union, but users see this situation differently. elan musk followed through on more promises in one night than democrats have kept the past 60 years suspended accounts coming back after twitter take over by eli musk. i'm back test test test butcher was a war crime. ukraine. did it test test test, and this is how it's ended. someone give me some popcorn. this will be interesting . the 1st or 4th of the social platform take over appeared yesterday, after the billionaire posted a video of himself entering the company's headquarters, carrying

a think must paid $44000000000.00 for the company. tutors and ceo for rog, agro all and other top executives were immediately fired. but before being fired, the staff reportedly wrote an open letter protesting against the titans acquisition . the employees are also said devin admitted to trying to uplift independent journalism and ukraine and iran while empowering different social movements around the globe. and some us media are also getting nervous about the future of free speech on twitter. he had flag that he would relax some of twitter content moderation world. and that is what had a lot of critics worried that this could open the door to more hate and disinformation on the platform. you might see most reversing the permanent bands of people like the former president donald trump mosque has already fired the head of legal policy trust and safety. so we will see about that free for all health k

promise, and whether a certain twitter account that one's coined the term co. chevy is coming back. legal and media expert lionel says that even under new ownership, twitter should retain the core principles of social media, platform of free speech, under constitutional laws to something really ghoulish about people. all of a sudden ringing their hand. you know, we have about, you know, 8 or so days, 11 days until the mid term elections. i think that's important. but instead people will say, look at these people being forced out of their jobs, fired with their cardboard boxes. what is that about? now, if, if you think or anybody thinks that something drastic is going to happen, ok, we get some new people. here's the most important thing. did you hear the voices of the and let's call them for shorthand purposes. the left, the left,

which used to be associated with free speech. actually worried about misinformation disinformation dad information hate. i've got news for you. those are constitutionally protected. i can, hey, anything i want, as long as i don't hurt anybody. and there's another thing too. we have in this country, section 230 of the communications decency act. that is what should have been acted upon by these asleep at the switch, republican legislatures, legislators who rather go on fox news than actually do their job. twitter should be like a new stand twitter under section 230 doesn't take responsibility. it's held civilly immune from liability. so while i am happy, don't expect us to last a long time. ah, was here in defense, ministry has acute israel of carrying out a 3rd air strike this week on sites near damascus. the latest attack happened just

after midnight local time with most missiles, reportedly intercepted by syrian air defenses. no casualties were reported. although 2 prior attacks, left one soldier wounded various syrian state sources, say israel as it targets and syria hundreds of times over the last few years. the most prominent attack struck the damascus airport back in september, killing 3 people and rendering the runway unusable. israel has said it targets any sites with connection to iranian military fighters and syria. vanessa bailey and independent journalists based in damascus shared her take on the apparent reasons for such airstrikes. israel at the moment is trying to effectively take out what it perceives as serious capability, both defense and offense. syria is working on a precision message program on suicide drone.