that they still rule the world, but in fact, every, especially against russia, if the sanction they have imposed has shown as on the line, how much they don't with ah, millions of americans have already voted in the mid term elections was, may shift the balance of power in the united states congress with africa takes the whole situation into its own hands. after western forces failed to bring security to the region. molly and burkina faso agree to work together to capital the crisis. as russia becomes you, dolly is top oil supplier. india's foreign minister is on a visit to moscow to further bilateral relations with

from last out of the world. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins, and these are the top stories this hour. more than 42000000 americans have cast early ballots. i had to choose days mid term elections, as do us citizens prepared to determine the next makeup of the countries congress. we ask the public about the main issues impacting their voting decisions. always drives everything. i think that that is probably the factor that most directly influences people's day to day lives. so definitely a prominent decision in voting. i think the economy is an issue, but i think abortion is a huge issue, especially in this city. i think the economy is definitely a big issue right now. i think a lot of people will be motivated, motivated by it, but i don't think the economy is like the biggest issue that is happening in our society right now. well, one you could take a look at the condition of everything,

the jobs, the unemployment, people are struggling. i can't even get so security and the benefits that they offered me when i was paying taxes. i don't get. so there are hundreds of thousands of people that are really crushed under false economy. according to recent poll, 79 percent of americans say their voting decision will be driven by economic issues, naming domestic problems as their biggest concern. while many democratic politicians and government choose to focus on foreign affairs crane ukraine, ukraine, united states rule never, never, never recognized russia's claims on ukraine. we demonstrated the united states commitment to the government and to the people of ukraine. pla, crana guy in washington. it's all ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, 7 days a week, 24 hours

a day. and it's not just costing time. it's also costing money over $18000000000.00 already spent. no surprise that with washington's big names, all focus overseas, many americans are feeling left behind. it seems ukraine 1st america last, according to the latest polls, at least when it comes to the issues that americans are concerned about. ukraine is nowhere near the top of the list. america's working families are getting crushed by inflation. the high gas prices are squeezing them dry, the cost of living keeps going up and up. mortgages are also rising. but yet the government of the united states continues writing checks to kia with prices, surgeon and american. struggling to keep up. the federal reserve takes a bold step to chain what seems like relentless inflation and races interest rates by 3 quarters of a percentage point. it's biggest hike in nearly 3 decades. food prices, up, 13 percent rent up more than 6 percent. if you're in the market for a car,

new or used, you're paying more about 9 percent more than this time. last year. we've never seen drastic actions like this under of janet yelling. we never saw this under member nancy, or even allen greens when you actually to go back to the early 19 eighties under paul volcker. and i think this says a lot about not just how high inflation is, but how stubborn did raytheon and other military contractors are making a killing. but the american people are suffering. is anyone now shocked that the public is fuming? it's not getting my money to ukraine. i have every way to disrespect you because you're the one pause inflation with 80000000 to you again. i'm sorry, bill, in my mistake that your fraud. now, sam would say that heckling public officials is certainly not the way out. but what exactly does one do when the president himself seems to be somewhat out of touch with reality? not concerned about with i'm concerned about with when the people you, a lack did are focused on a country overseas,

while things in your community just keep getting worse and worse. you might think that it's time to be a little bit less polite. maybe it's time for some unconventional politics. the polls are now swinging to the right, regardless of any shouting at town halls. my republicans aren't exactly peace does either. and no one's expecting that if they come into office, they'll pull a complete 180 and reverse u. s. foreign policy in europe, the grant in particular, but unlike their arrivals, they seem to have at least picked up on the widespread public opposition to prolonging a foreign war at the expense of the american people. nation building didn't work out too well in iraq, afghanistan, i don't think we should be doing it in ukraine. so targeted military assistance. one thing i favorite that, but yeah, this kind of nation building where it's less about our national security. it's more about nation building. i think it's a problem with ukraine everywhere, right? our country for our borders out of control human trafficking, we've inflation,

gas prices out of control. i mean, that's our with now. such words from republicans have sent the democrats into a tizzy. joe biden is now talking about nuclear arm again and saying he's not interested in any talk of the escalation or negotiation. biden is declaring roughly half the electorate to be gear redeemable right wing extremists, and he's also taken actions to cause an energy crisis. that is certainly not unrelated to u. s. foreign policy. now it's little wonder that even for some long time democrats, this is all gotten to be a little bit much. now i believe in a government that's of the people by the people and for the people. unfortunately, today's democratic party does not. instead it stands for a government that is of by and for the powerful elite. now in the mid jermel actions, americans don't vote for a president. they vote for representatives in the house and the senate. but these

mid term elections are turning into a referendum on one man, a man who is not on the ballot, but does live in the white house. so i'll bite and goes on with his democracy, is at stake mantra, it looks like a lot of americans are just not thrilled with his performance. and they may be recalling a few things that his predecessor said about america 1st fail bobbin r t new york. among those endorsing republicans in the mid term is the world's richest man, elan mass who has taken the twitter, which he now owns to give his take on the elections to independent minded voters, shared power curves, the war successes of both parties. therefore, i recommend voting for republican congress given that the presidency democratic. meanwhile, moscow has once again been accused of interfering and us elections. speculation is swirling in western media that russia is allegedly using bots to target democratic

mid term candidates. here's some reaction to those allegations from the us. with the luminous action, you know what this means, aaron, that's a, is activated to take reports of russian interference and turned an upside down into narratives that oppose america been aware of russian interference by implying it's all fake. they must really love him in moscow. as a recent campaign events, i acts republican tom marino's key. if the bill he sponsored to designate russia a state sponsored terrorism would abra gates, the prospect of any future diplomatic relations with russia. he replied by accusing me of worked for the russian government. western media has been flooded with headlines describing russian bots and trolls for the boat with some analyse analysts even alleging that russian actors are attempting to undermine support for democratic candidates. the u. s. cyber security and infrastructure security

agency has also jumped on the bandwagon saying that china, iran and russia may all seek to influence or interfere with us democratic processes . so it was cross live now it to a former republican virginia senator richard black. richard, as great, have you on the program today? now we've seen the democrats using the russia card when losing to republicans back in 2016. i claim that they later failed to back up. so how can the public trust their narrative about russian interference this time around? we're going to for having real. i think that the public is, is kind of tired of this old russia narrative. the russia hubs really had a great deal to do with the overthrow of president trump. it was surprised when it was listed. it relied on on the board documents produced by the f

b i and i think people are just tired. i don't think no one gets real my, the russian narrative, one way or the relevant when you mentioned the american people being tired. i mean, do you think it's gotten to the point where they are just tuning this out, right. they hear those establishment media candidates like the new york times like cnn, talking about some sort of alleged russian interference. do they just completely tune out at that point and focus more on the issues that they believe are important? i think this is true. they, the issues are, are monumental in this race and they boil down to crime inflation in schools. i say schools because our schools have just become

a moral session. we, we have these transgendered, strange people come in and h 2 children, it's really very immoral ration. so that concerns a lot of people who are not diverted by all these betty issues in our nation. another thing i will point out is that there is increasing understanding of what is happening, how, how the war in ukraine needs to be in that has gotten to sort of muddy the waters where the democrats initially number one. 0, there's more famous or wrong or had been on for 7 or 8 years before russia ever got wall and it was, it was

a war ukraine against against there. and so we think there's less enthusiasm or the green one and not certainly, dave, but it's really why we washer doing this over to the public and prior to that whole buying, why every day they see really terrible crimes the climate making ways people were going to this upgrade, right? people, people are st wires being where the kinds of things that they need. and then it doesn't matter whether you're number for mobile care written. when you see the inflation, you see the prices more no more,

no one. and so it needs to rush into a geisha. some of these are just the fact one of the things that is proving to be a real burden or the number they have. they have admitted they've totally lost working class in the country. people who are sort of short of your ordinary worker and labor and so forth. you never know the represented they will also put a lot of faith. in fact, in white suburban, those women, white women, suburban, others, would support and they have ration much whatever. in the last few months, these same women voters while i do

upper class, they have shifted by 27 points, awards, the republicans, and now they become a strong republican voting. so there are lots of things go very long for the democrats. you know, i think your response just looking pretty good for too much when well, you know, you mentioned the working class and i want to get into that a little bit. how big of a role do you think that the u. s. economy is playing in this boat, specifically when it comes to inflation and those skyrocketing prices that affect the entire country, regardless of their political affiliation. well, you know, inflation inflation is a powerful political issue. in every country, in every age. inflation played a huge role in the outbreak of the french revolution, for example,

and it is politically the stabilizing issue. now we're not to imply that somehow it's to the point where it's undermining the stability of the american government. not doing that at all. what is bothering people to want to lash out to change whoever's in our vendor republicans and they had been way more creating the inflation republicans would be out. but i just think that it is never grads under president biden. they have been renting running without any back and he doesn't have gold backing. it doesn't have anything i can bring to the last 4 days and through our history, you can see whenever government written money,

we do need women station in water bosses. and there's always, you know, why sometimes it's a year sometimes just a year now when you asked for money, it was inflation. yeah. my wife, she comes to go. yes. you know, i just, i just paid next year 50 percent or 70 percent. and my daughter will give the same, she won't believe what i had to pay for this or that. and i need these prices back to everyone. doesn't matter which one you're in the wealthy, very wealthy. they're not affected with them such as water income or for the great middle class, great working classes, american and gasoline prices

are mine and over food prices are right. rental prices are the people who don't know their own homes there should do do races. so it's one way and it's going to be summer greater and greater problem in the coming year. also. yeah. they're certainly as a lot of daycare and will continue to follow as we started to get those mid term election result. former republican virginia senator richard black. thank you so much for your time and insight. thank you very much. ah. as the african parliamentary union calls to fight against extremism and terrorism, molly, in burkina faso have agreed to take measures against terrorism into their own hands . that's after the western troops involvement failed to pay off prompting the

countries to act to stabilize the reagan r g correspondent corolla has the story in countries in this a hell are cooperating in the common typos of security. for years, the region has been an at p center for conflict. and critics, i saying that this is largely due to the actions and in actions of western governments. there are currently not enough funds to meet people's ever increasing needs, which compromises the humanitarian relief that can be provided. more than 400000 people are now internally displaced in molly, forced to leave their homes, livestock, and livelihoods behind. and france in particular, has he checked that itself out of a conflict? it promised to quell a decade ago. the situation remains dia, i'm in some of the most brutal fighting in the region. and now many of these countries, i rejecting cooperation with france and painting their hopes on

a new alliance with russia. perhaps with the new security situation, we will re examine our relations with russia to see if it should be strengthened in one sector or not. a number of former friends colonies in the hell are cooperating with each other for the security of the nations. as stated by burkina, faso kept an abraham toward his 1st visit abroad to money. the most important thing for us in the current situation as the security challenge, we came here to share experience on how to strengthen our military cooperation and how to conduct our operations better and to secure the populations. this is the main objective of the visit. and while the influence of the west diminishes, countries like the united states, a being accused of hiding behind the veil of democracy and pluralism as they throw sanctions at some of the poorest nations in the world. i am taking this step

because i have determined that the government of burkina faso has not established or is not making continual progress toward establishing the protection of the rule of law and of political pluralism. this a hell as become a by word for conflict, following years of unceasing fighting and for the millions of displaced people in the region of ed to enjoy the brutality of that conflict. hope for peace seems untenable. gonzalez had 40 in jonathan to go further in depth on this last cross live. now to visiting scholar at new england university and main ph. d. political socialist, eunice, avo. you, eunice, it's great to have you on the program to day. now, what is the situation in this? how like right now, are we seeing any improvement yet, or is security further disintegrating? while he's heard to say that since 2014,

when the bar can operation started, things have gone from bad to worse. and then we realized today that this, the way this whole situation has been handled, has led to further stages integration terrorism chaos. and now it's hunger and increasing poverty with the climate change in all the other is that the population of a head are suffering from. so to answer your question, things are getting actually worse. yeah, it does seem like a very story we hear from the region. there's a lot of frustration there. so what do you make of sol countries working more closely with russia? do you think this could help foster stability and security in the region moving forward? i think the whole country is it's high time. did they get organized and look for ways to cooperate among each other, to serve their own interest in the interest of their population? i think what happened in molly when, what's happening in booking a fossil is,

has some sort of postcolonial reflexive in the sense that these countries have, are tied from the, the former colonial powers. you haven't seen any positive things coming from all these interventions. and now this switch in size to new partners, maybe they can get better security and better development through these new policies. so it is understandable. now speaking, i'm sort of looking within focusing on their own region. do you think that the countries of this a how can create a long term common security system is their hope for that right now? well, of course, because there's always a possibility. now it's the with is probable or not. that's another issue because now you have tension between molly and its neighbors. you have issues within each country themselves. i mean, this issue legitimacy issue and the development and problem is security that is

increasing the and if they don't get their act together and decide once and for all to look for the common goals and look for the interests of their own population. i don't think we'll get out of the situation, but the possibility of succeeding is always there. but you need political. will you try to g in the common vision? that's what's blocking. now when it comes to the response from the west, they have criticize some of the whole countries rather than engaging constructively . what do you think is the western motivation for doing so? well, the little forget that some of the, the actors there from the west, like friends and other countries that our former colonial powers friends have been losing ground in africa for some time now. and it's fighting as much as we can to keep control of what's left of its influence, that you have new comers, new immersion powers,

the entry in that field in africa. and it does not please the form of colonial power. so that's why you have this kind of reaction you have actions you have with this is a so it's a game of our a lot of moving parts of their ph. d political sociologist unit up to you. thank you so much for your time and analysis. thank you. the u. s. space for us has published a timeline for their rapid response launch experiment scheduled for 2023, leaving many asking whether washington is militarize in space. we think the war fighter really needs this in a time of conflict. if you can't respond to a threat or augment your capabilities within the 24 hour period, it might be too late. so that's really what we're trying to get after and demonstrate with victim knox. the victim knox project is aimed at testing the

commercial space industry's ability to deploy a payload with 24 hours. notice with the u. s. training to launch space operations quickly in case of armed conflict. now back in 2019 the u. s. establish a space force responsible for military operations and space. it's 2020 defense based strategy names comprehensive military advantage as its purpose. just last week, u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin, said the u. s. will quote, rely on integrated deterrence across all domains including an outer space. the pentagon also recently signed agreements with private space companies for military cargo and personnel deliveries beyond earth orbit. so to discuss this issue further in depth, we are joined now live by michael maloof, a former senior security policy analyst, and the office of the secretary of defense. mike, it's great to have you on the program today. now,

why is the u. s. increasingly focusing on space as a key aspect of its defense policy. well, they see a, b, o, primarily the chinese as the major space threat for the future. even for the 1st time, we heard nato gentle secretary stolen bird say that nato was even going to be focusing more and more on space perhaps as a new area of concern. so it's it to me that's just a, a way of saying they're looking for a new lifeline to, to, to continue existing. but in, in reality the technologies that they're talking about probably haven't even been developed yet. and the space forced this, trying to also appear to be relevant since it's a relatively new agency. so it's

a high pin up all of these. and conjuring up all of these g with new toys and concepts, i think to show that they're on top of things that they're way ahead of development . but for what, the 1st time a ballistic missile goes up and shoots down a satellite, or any kind of planning, pre planning is over. this is going to be, it would be a very serious publication on either side. and i, it's, it's almost like star wars. it or s d, eyes, this strategic defense initiative. it was all a hoax. and it, but it was convincing enough to gorbachev to basically throw in the towel. but it was it that technologies were not even developed then. and many of them haven't been developed now. so what they're talking about trying to react within a 24 hour period. that's really spine pie in the sky. talk as far

as i can see at this, at this juncture, my wish were so broke. we don't, we have our own military itself is highly deficient compared to what the chinese are developing based based on the, the defense department. so that kind of reports. so i don't know where in the, in the pecking order, this is going to fit because of the expense because of, of what, what their intentions are. the original s, the concept was actually to put space lasers and what have you in, in the, in, in orbit to knock down satellites and, and maybe launch missiles and what have you at a back back down to earth. but again, if anything like that even begins,

it's going to be really felt here on the ground. and i think that this is all the space for trying to justify its existence. right, and i know a lot of this is still a long way off, but hypothetically, when it comes to the u. s. space fours. what could that provoke from countries like russia and china? can we expect these countries to step up their military presence in space as well? well, they already are, and they have a capability of shooting down satellites already. the, the chinese have already demonstrated this in some very recent tests. so you know that, that capability is there and, but if you do that, that is probably going to be considered by anybody, a war provocation. and because the, the satellites set her up there are for your telecommunications, your internet, your world wide internet. and those kinds of essential means of,

for modern or modern communication and technologies that we, that we enjoy today is around the world. and if those, those are knocked out, it's going to send this back to the 19th century. so it's a, it's a very serious, it would be a very serious provocation. right. and just when you think that there's not enough going on here on earth, they take it to space like home, former us pentagon official. thank you so much for your time minutes. i my pleasure . thank you. and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t v dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour. ah ah.