him time to sit down and talk a with us voters care up for the key mid term elections, labeling the economy and domestic issues as their top concerns that those washington approved the latest multi $1000000.00 aid package to ukraine. pakistan these a 4th executive day, a protest after an assassination attempt on former prime minister and ran cod as russia becomes new delhi is top oil supplier. india's foreign minister is on a visit to moscow to further improve bilateral relations. and demonstrators was the streets of donna's capital, demanding the president's resignation and opposing negotiations with the guy in

math that the mid rising inflation and weakening currency in the country with from moscow to the world. this is our to international. i'm rachel blevins, and these are the top stories this hour. more than 42000000 americans have cast early ballads ahead of tuesday's mid term elections as 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, 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 said their voting decision will be driven by economic issues, naming domestic problems as their biggest concern, while many democratic politicians named government. she was your focus on foreign affairs. ukraine, ukraine, united states will never, never, never recognize russia's claims on the ukraine. we demonstrated the united states commitment to the government and to the people of ukraine. club, ha, crana in washington, and 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 tame what seems like relentless inflation and raises 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 janet yelling. we never saw this on november, nancy, or even alan greens, when you actually 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 raytheon, another military contractors are making a killing. but the american people are suffering. is anyone now shocked that the public is fuming? is given by money to ukraine? i have every way, disrespect to you because you're the 1000 equation with 80000000 to ukraine. i'm sorry, a 1000000000. my mistake that you're a fraud. now some 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? how concerned about with i'm concerned about

with when the people you elected 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, ukraine in particular, but unlike their rivals, 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 and 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 is a problem with ukraine and everywhere. right now,

our country for our border is out of control human trafficking. now we have 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 your 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 term

elections, 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. and so while biting 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 predecessors sad about america 1st failed mop and artsy, new york to a political strategist and us state department consultant john said levy's believes that despite heed for ukraine, the american public still puts its own needs 1st. most americans are being pulled as being concerned, primarily about inflation, hudson gasoline prices, runaway crime, illegal aliens and the rest of the ukraine war does not register very high for most americans because they're concerned about the wrong well being and economic

hardship right now. i believe most americans are still very concerned about the well being of the ukrainian peoples, but ultimately every country and every citizen is going to be concerned with his own well being. first, the republican party is going to come in with a very robust agenda that will be promoting economic growth. i think we'll see a number of issues that also help provide freakonomics relief for every day americans because they're entering a period of great anxiety. and they think the republican party will look to see how we best alleviate that anxiety, quite promoting job growth, economic growth, energy production, safety for our citizens and ceiling, the border and providing for control of our sovereign territory as the united states of america. meanwhile, moscow has once again been accused of interfering in us election. speculation is swirling in western media that russia is allegedly using, bought to target democratic mid term candidates. here is some reaction to those

allegations from the us with a luminous auction the, you know what this means, aaron, that's a, is activated to take ripples of russian interference and turned in upside down into narratives that oppose america. been aware of russian interference by employee and it's all fake. they must really love him in moscow. as a recent campaign events, i ags republican tom marino's key. if the bill he sponsored to designate russia a state sponsor of terrorism would abra gates, the prospect of any future diplomatic relations with russia. he replied by accusing me of working for the russian goblins. western media has been flooded with headlines describing russian bots and trolls for the vote. was some analyst 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 or ron and russia may all seek to

interfere with us democratic processes. we discussed the issue with journalist daniel is our, who says that the american public doesn't my, in to the governments boys games as the company is coming to ritual of american politics or a liberal american politics. but things go wrong, blame it on russia. it's never the fault of the democratic party. joe biden is doing a great job. and if american voters disagree, the only possible explanation is that it's due to a kremlin interfere. i mean, it's gotten, gotten ridiculous. totally silly. no one believes this anymore. that the card has been over played and i think that democrats are worried because they very well may be facing a real blood back tomorrow. among those endorsing republicans in the mid term is the world's richest man. you on mother who has taken a twitter, which she 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 millionaire also says that his mission is to make twitter the most accurate information source. but the platforms, co founder and former ceo jack dorothy has question the integrity of moderation. under mosque, legal and media analysts, lionel says mosque is merely endorsing the so called republican red title wave, which will happen even without his support. eli musk loves to drive people nuts. and if you go back and pars that particular tweet carefully, i don't even know what it means. independent minded vote. democratic, he loves this. he loves every thing about this, this twitter. this put it this way. he is the social media. what donald trump is to

politics, he gets into by fights with everyone, including a o c. so he is to day one of the most important voice is ever by the way, we are on the brink of a red wave, a republican wave. so the fact that he's coming in now and inc, i endorse of republican, is like, at the last moment, you know, of in endorsing the title way that is going to take place. but it is critical what he is saying right now the democrats have policies, they may be insane or inane, but they have something to say. republicans run on not being the democrat. and if you listen carefully instead of elan must sing republicans have this, this, this and this as a world view as the future as important precepts and concept. no, it's always, they're not the democrats. so while this is an endorsement,

i respectfully submit. it's tepid. it's not as important as people think, and you should never use an election on not being the opponent proto as have raged across pakistan for 4 consecutive days after an assassination attempt on former prime minister emron con. last week. this comes as the countries supreme court ordered police to investigate the shooting. a local journalist gave us the details. the 4 days went farmer 5 miss to have him down convers at acting vizier. but then he was leaning the lat long back towards capitelli slammer. but today the supreme court, i like his plan has ordered the police sieve off be largest virus off one job, probably just had a case against the attackers with in front before bob's in the meanwhile, in 4 days, the protested and support has up here. but i'm con and they protested across the country in on major cities. he went to, they had their own streets. there was anger that they were at had food,

i guess the government and the military or body in please go. you will take revenge for him on kong. it doesn't matter if the march continue serrano you film on com this year or not all children will answer their houses and will fly them like they did a tell many more. will you kill? how many more will you burn alive? we are here, come and kill us. we will die for our country. we will step forward for him. ron con, we will march for him. ron con. audio, man, i want to warn all federal institutions in the government. stop this one day, you will have to answer for this. they will be running the rest of the 4th. please, ma'am, suspects one is the primary. so one is the, into their melissa, not that he's be hot seen that on me off. he said had implant cameras are raising serious quest housing in his press conference yesterday when he was asking, the judicial system will fight justice. so that today the supreme court has ordered

the case. muscular dystrophy been burned before that's been long. marshville again stalked from our visit. i brought on post bay and it will go to the festival. and then it will come back to islamabad into league se so. inbound counties recovering . he has been shifted to his home. but the other liters, i've repeated there david lynbrook s. and later in life finally joined them. i mean the luck on our tv, it's lauer but pakistan. russia has become india, top oil supplier overtaking the usual major ex borders like saudi arabia and iraq. the new trade figures emerged prior to the indian foreign ministers visit to moscow on monday for talks with his russian counterpart, dr. j. shank, ours, today's trip speaks to expand cooperation between the countries during a period of key global challenges. energy is a major topic on the agenda, especially after the g 7 confirm plans to push for a price count,

one russian oil. but new delhi and moscow share more than just energy. both are members of brick and beyond economics and cultural partnerships. they have also cooperated heavily in defense. recent polls also show a majority of indians. consider russia the country's most reliable partner. since new delhi gained independence back in 1947 with defense relations with moscow also viewed as crucial by most the director of the united service institution of india. thing take says that new delhi is moving to boost relations with russia, which is always had a strong relationship with india. this is a very important visit taking place at a very, very critical juncture. we hope that the leadership of the 2 countries will discuss the regional and the global security environment, particularly the secretion in ukraine. other areas,

a population would be energy sector, terrorism, particularly the situation in afghanistan. they would also be a discussion on, you know, nuclear is, our relationship is really one of the people they structured partnership. right on the very beginning of the soviet union, india in more stuff. it started to program and i should never been india. i think that russia is a key and part of the strategy, part of the tensions are on the rise in west africa as anti government protest erected and gone. i made a fuel and food prices hitting record highs. here's what people of the stories had to say. i just have to high, we have a good,

we have the most expensive a truth just received that we have to come out and put those, gotten in and have had to know it has been 30 years of mismanaging of a nation. we have been all land resources, everything that we have has been misappropriated, is appropriate to buy up a book that you have seen that what should belong to the people has been taken away from the people. we're not like, well we don't see that bread picked up. well, i queued with people out talking. we're talking about with crowd stricter, the streets to rally against the governments. miss management. i made a worsening economic crisis calling for the president's resignation. protesters also demanded an end to ongoing talks with the i m f, which the president seats as an opportunity to overcome the downturn and clashes

with his earlier pledge of no aid policy. winston taki diane broadcast journalist and the business news anchor says the i m f. 's alone will not save the country from a full blown recession. currently, the gunner's economy has so far as significantly cease the eli this year i was trying to do it to there's been a plunging plant in the country to a full blown economic recession. inflation ross from 10 to point 9 percent in january to 27.2 percent in september. and some of the analysts believe the actual level is more than twice or fisher, it possibly as high as 98 percent. our debt level has increased so astronomically compared to 2022 to $1.00. and for that reason, our inability to meet our debt repayment at lies has brought a lot of pressure on the economy. the salacious possibly damn if will give us

a boost, but it will not basically take away what we need to do in the country domestically by reviving our domestic industries and companies and also focused on our records. as the african parliamentary union calls to fight against extremism and terrorism, molly and burkina faso have agreed to take measures into their own hands. that's our fear. the western troops involvement failed the pay off prompting the countries to act to stabilize the region. archie correspond corolla has a story. african countries in the hell are cooperating in the common type host of security. for years, the region has been and f p center for conflict and critic. i saying that this is largely due to the actions and in actions of western governments 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 the check that itself out of a conflict. it promised to quell a decade ago. the situation remains in some of the most brutal fighting in the region. and now many of these countries, i rejecting cooperation with, from an, a painting their hope and the new alliance with russia. perhaps with the new security situation, we will reexamine our relations with russia to see if it should be strengthened in one sector or not. and i'm a former french colonies in the hell are cooperating with each other for the security of the nations. as stated by became as far as kept in brett and co waters was 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 population. 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 relative as they pro function at some of the poorest nations in the world. i am taking this step because i have determined that the government of became a fast so has not established or is not making continual progress toward establishing the protection of the rule of law in the political pluralism. that hell have become a byword for conflict. following years of unceasing fighting and for the millions of displaced people in the region to endure the brutality of that conflict. hopeful peace seems untenable. got apologize for t enjoying this new england university scholar eunice abra. you says that western

attempts to secure peace in this a how actually we have the situation on the ground, much worse since 2014, when the bar can operations 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. i think this whole countries, it's high time that they get organized and look full ways to cooperate among each other, to serve their own interests. and interests of their population. i think what happened in molly when what's happening? i'm booking a parcel is, has some sort of postcolonial reflects isn't to say 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 french, brian and minister bruno and there has all lashed out at a multi $1000000000.00 u. s. investment and it's clean energy companies saying the move makes europe in companies last competitive with the overseas firms. the official even threatened to meet washington in the world trade organizations chords some large foreign companies that wanted to set up in europe and now hesitating between european and american sites on calling for united, strong and coordinated response from the e. u to our american allies. either they will be resolved there and we hope they will. that's why we have the task force to discuss this. we will have go to the w t o and in visits. retaliatory measures the know called the inflation reduction act,

creeks tax preferences for american green companies, giving them significant investments worth tens of billions of dollars, as well as tax credits for components produced in u. s. factory, which could learn potential investors and businesses away from europe. but it's not only the u. s. clean energy firms that could stand to benefit from the global crisis is also the fossil fuel firms. so let's take a closer look here at the profits of us oil producers who benefited from soaring prices and making over $200000000000.00 since the start of the war and ukraine and in doing sanctions on russia. this is twice the amount compared to the same period last year. now, according to experts, the cash flow is a record breaking amount of for the oil firms. and the use concerns are not unfounded. as the u. s. government subsidies and firms hi earnings for better

conditions for doing business in the us. now, as you can see here on the screen, natural gas prices in the european union are over 4 times higher than in the united states and europe select tricity. prices are almost twice as much as in the us university, financial and banking professor at the u. k. a month for university, richard warner says that the e u response to american attempts to undermine europe. p and business is expected. it is high time. it is long overdue because essentially the us has been acting very much against the interest of its allies in europe. and this is almost been efficient policy to bring down the european economy. the u. s. has been exploiting its allies for its own benefit and at the moment it seems to be one consideration as to the ports, the us dollar, which has been crumbling and ensure that the us dollar remain strong. so by

knocking down the european economy, the euro has been falling and that his boosted to us dollar, the u. s. has been the biggest beneficiary of all the sanctions imposed on russia since 2014 already. ready it was that perhaps even will be as in those days, because these were very, very one sided sanctions on europe, while american companies didn't have those sanctions. and so german companies were told, no, you can't deal with russia, you can't export. well, anything agricultural products or anything else and they stopped and then american company stepped right in and supplied the same thing to russia. the european leaders should break free from that and admit that the sanctions are clearly not working. they us face for us, has published a timeline for their rapid response launch experiment scheduled for 2023, leaving many asking whether washington is militarized 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 victor knox. the vixen knox project is aimed at testing the commercial space industries 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. established a space force responsible for military operations in space. it's 2020 defense based strategy names comprehensive military advantage as its purpose. just last week he was secretary of defense, lloyd austin said the u. s. will rely on integrated deterrence across all domains including space. the pentagon also recently signed agreements with private space companies for military,

cargo and personnel deliveries. be on earth orbit. michael maloof or former pentagon officials says that the u. s. stepping up is space. military presence is a reaction to china, developing its own space technology. i think it perceives of threat from the chinese because of some of the most recent tests that the chinese have conducted. and also the extent to which the chinese are moving ahead in space technologies are increasing very rapidly. we're so broke. our own military itself is highly deficient compared to what the chinese are developing. i don't know where in the pecking order this is going to fit because of the expense. and i think it's, it's a, it's a hype by the pentagon and especially space force

to 1st of all, talk of talk in terms of this being a threat in order to justify their existence and to gain more more, more funding in their budgets for next year. and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour. i read a cation of love. it was also conceived by hitler who formed the general plan aust, for the colonization of german is ation of eastern europe. the plan involved about 80 percent been killed or relocated with those we're of the i busy usually history procedure. me your story up when you put your drawing him. yes because we're still new. we don't live absolutely. unions.