ah ah ah, us voters gear up for the key mid term elections labeling the economy and domestic issues as their talk concerns that those washington approved the latest buying $1000000.00 package to crate pakistan sees a 4th consecutive day of protest after an assassination attempt on former prime minister in brand cod with demonstrators for the streets have gone as capital demanding the president's resignation and opposing negotiations with the math that the rising inflation and weakening currency in the country with

from moscow to the world. this is our international. i'm rachel blevins and these are the top stories. the style were more than 40. 2000000 americans have cast early ballots ahead of tuesdays, mid term elections, as us citizens prepared to determine the next make up 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 can take a look at the condition of everything,

the jobs, the unemployment and 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 a false economy. according to recent polls, 79 percent of americans said their voting decision will be driven by economic issues, naming domestic problems as their biggest concern. that's as washington recently approved a $400000000.00 aid package to ukraine, remaining firmly focused on events abroad. crane 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 chain 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 greenspan. 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 raytheon another military contractors are making a killing. but the american people are suffering. is anyone now shocked that the public is fuming? is argued by money to ukraine. i have every way, disrespect to you because you're the 1000 equation with 80000000. craig, dan, i'm sorry, bill, in my mistake that you are 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, the grant 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. our country for our border is 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 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 r t new york geopolitical strategies and us state department console that john said. levy's believes that despite heed for ukraine. the american public still puts its own needs 1st a most americans are being pulled as being concerned, primarily about inflation, hudson gasoline prices, runaway crime, illegal aliens and the russia 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 provide for you can make relief for every day americans because they're entering a period of great anxiety. and i think the republican party will look to see how we best alleviate that anxiety by 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. among those endorsing republicans in the mid terms as the world's richest man, you on 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 the other presidencies democratic . the billionaire has also said his mission is to make twitter the most accurate information source. but the platforms co founder and former ceo jack dorsey has question the integrity of moderation. under mosque, legal and media analyst, lionel says that mosque is merely endorsing the so called republican red tidal wave, which will happen even without his support. eli musk loves to drive people not. 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 this way. he is the social media. what donald trump is to politics. he get tend to buy 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 was inc, i endorse our republican, is like, at the last moment, you know, of in endorsing the tidal 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 isla 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. protests have ranged across pakistan for 4 consecutive days after an assassination attempt on former prime minister emerson calling last week. this comes as the countries supreme court ordered police to investigate the shooting. a local journalist gave us the details. after 4 days when former prime minister emmett, i'm con vase that active visit. i bought them. he was leaning the lat long back towards capitelli slammer brought to bed. the supreme court of pakistan has ordered the police seats of the largest paris off one job to we just had a case against the attack as with in front default ops. in the meanwhile, into an for days, the protested and support has up here, but i'm con rod, they protested across the country in on major cities. he went today and they were out on the streets. there was anger that they were had for it. i guess the government and the new military or body in fiscal, you will take revenge for him on kong. it doesn't matter the march continue, sir,

and you firm on con this he'll not all children will answer their houses and apply them like they did tell many more. will you kill, how many more will you burned alive? we are here coming, kill us. we will die for our country. we will step forward for him. ron con, we will march for him. run con audio man. i want to warn all federal institutions and the government stop this one day. you will have to answer for this. you will be winding. the rest of the port please. man, suspects one is the primary. so one is the into them of the site and not that he's be hot. see that out of me off he said had implant cameras are raising cedar crest hesitantly in his press conference yesterday when he was asking the judicial system for the justice. sort of today the supreme court has ordered the case. muscular dystrophy been 24 hours. been long march will, again stalked from over 0 brought on plus b,

and it will go to the 1st law. and then it will come back to islamabad in 2 weeks out, 3 weeks. so inbound counties recovering. he has been shifter to his home. but the other leaders of the p t there david, lead the broadcast, and later in montgomery joined them. i mean, the luck on our tv is slower, but pakistan ah, tensions are on the rise in west africa as anti government protest are wrapped in garner. i made fuel and food prices hitting record high. here's what people on the street had to say. this are too high. we are barbara. we have left up with a book on by medicine cannot be right. we have the most expensive a new. we have to come out and put those gun units have had enough. it has been 30th of mismanaging, of a nation. we have been land our resources,

everything that we have has been misappropriated. smith, appropriate the bio politically. if you have seen that, what should belong to the people has been taken away from the people. we are not happy or we don't see a and people are talking we are talking about, i mean i don't want him to get crowds, church of the streets to rally against the government mismanagement emitter, worsening economic crisis, calling for the president resignation. rochester is also demanded and then to ongoing talks of the i m math, which the president sees as an opportunity to overcome the downturn and clashes with it's earlier applied of no aid policy. got an journalist when sin take, it says that the i m f. 's alone will not save the country from a full blown recession. currently, the gun is economy has so fe significantly ceased the early this year i was trained

to, to, there's been a plotting plant in the country to a full blown economic recession. inflation ross from 2.9 percent in january to 27.2 percent in september. and some of us to believe the actual level is more than twice or be sure it possibly as high 98 percent our death level as increase. so astronomically compared to 2022 to $1.00. and for that reason, our inability to meet our death payment at lighthouse brought a lot of pressure on the economy. the delicious possibly dam 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 deliver industries and companies and also for sooner. another quarter, as the african parliamentary unit calls to fight against extremism and terrorism, molly and burkina faso have agreed to take measures into their own hands. that's

after the western troops involve failed, the payoff prompting the countries to act, to stabilize the region r t. corresponding corolla has the story african countries in the hell are cooperating in the common pebbles of security. for years, the region has been an epicenter for conflict. and critics, i saying that this is largely due to the actions and in actions of western government. 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 pinning 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 french 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 population. this is the main objective of the visit. and while the influence of the west diminishes, countries like the united states, a being like choose of hiding behind the veil of democracy and relative as they

throw function at some of the poorest nations in the world. i am taking this step because i have determined that the government of became faso has not established or is not making continual progress toward establishing the protection of the rule of law in the political pluralism. that hell has become a byword for conflict following years of unceasing fighting and for the millions of displaced people in the region of had to endure the brutality of that conflict. hopeful peace seems untenable. got about 5 p enjoying this. new england university scholar eunice abra. you says that western attempts to secure peace in this a how actually made the situation on the ground much worse 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. i think this whole countries, 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, i'm booking a parcel is, has some sort of postcolonial reflexive in the sense that these countries have, are tied from the, the former colonial powers. they 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. the western media has slammed the uganda tanza near joint crude oil pipeline project,

which could really be impacted the energy prices on africa with the e. u accusing uganda. and he has a need of human rights violations and climate pollution. the pipeline at around 1500 kilometers long would help utilize you got the massive oil reserve and also supply other countries through the port in neighboring tanza, nea hoping to return oil prices in the region to stable levels. back in september, the european parliament voted to issue a resolution condemning uganda and trans india parking a backlash in the country, which accused the you of a fun thing independent as a result of european parliament resolve this approach and overturned its decision green lining the project. we spoke earlier to a journalist from the exchange newspaper who says the pipeline can benefit all parties, but the e. u doesn't want to have a constructive dialogue to, to its own business interests. and the apathy to me means it is

a barely bibs or mission of attention validation, but also support when it comes to energy ambitions in the developing economies. i found it to be much of business in the matter of economy monopoly because we all know that one of the most biggest import that africa, but also kind of in this case is on oil. and if you got in touch with me, i would bring the soccer pipeline projects on board and really functioning well. we'll see that number dwindling. and if that, and number 2, we could see now it has a net becoming if you've been, you got any of the stuff can look at. so becoming independent. and i think it's time right now for their york can unit itself to have a kind of composition with africa on proper ways. going how we can explore fossil

fuels, but also sustainably from, from that standpoint, to clean energy. this decision was made just 2 days before the start of the united nation climate change conference with open in europe. on monday, our t spoke to a local correspondent for the latest compton to 7 is actually under way here in sherman chic, egypt, where more than 190 countries are attending the conference of parties. but the continent of africa is having a hard push for they developed countries to give the $100000000000.00, which they had promised to give to african countries, especially to fight climate and adapt to climate change and mitigation measures, especially in a transfer of technology capacity building and a more other issues which will have helped african countries to fight climate change. also the president of egypt, other fertile cc. her spoke today and called for more action on climate change on

the executive director at the pan african climate. justice alliance says that western states are playing a game of musical chairs with their african counterparts when it comes to climate change. their, their point here is, are both implementation of the commitment. and that's why we was saying this is applicable implementation. there are lots of put me to means we could the admin fee or up the yeah. the mandate in glasgow. the mandate in there since copenhagen. i've never met. what we are saying is, as long as we are not doing this in would to feed as long as we are, we are, we are trying, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're playing hide. and if you would never activated this quote, this will be like an endless game of musical chairs. come here, come this, the other got my decision that jeff we come down to see that as that next year. i

need to midway. tanf is telling us that we are, we are missing the tim dipping point. we didn't mean to be cd us, odd that future generations when doug vent ashley, these people, the lead us who are here, but he said that they are taking action without that is nothing that doing french finance minister, we're an all america has lashed out at a multi $1000000000.00 u, as in fast men and it's clean energy companies saying the move makes european companies less competitive with the overseas firms. the official even threatened to meet washington and the world trade organizations court some large foreign companies that wanted to set up in europe and now hesitating between european and american sites on calling for a 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. or we

will have go to the w t o and in visits, retaliatory measures. the move called the inflation reduction act creates tax preferences for green american companies, giving them significant investments worth tens of billions of dollars, as well as tax credits for components produced in us factories which could alert potential investors and businesses away from europe. but it's not the only clean energy firms that could stand to benefit from the global crisis. it's also fossil fuel firms. so let's take a closer look at the profits of us oil producers who benefit from soaring prices, making over $200000000000.00 since the start of the war and ukraine, and the ensuing sanctions against russia. this is twice the amount compared to the same period last year, according to exports. the cash flow is a record breaking amount for the oil firms, and the ease concerns are not unfounded. as the u. s. government subsidies and the

firm tie earnings create better conditions for doing business in the us. 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. the electricity prices are almost twice as much as in the us financial and making. professor richard warner says the response to american attempts to undermine business in europe 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 official 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 is through 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 has boosted the 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. that's it for our new stories. this our station throughout november as we have for brand new shows, launching this month, join us on tuesday for scotty. now hughes with her global culture show the 360 view where shall cover some of the biggest stories and scandals on the cultural battles

raging in the west. the 1st episode explores the controversies in arguments around abortion laws in the us. here's a quick sneak peak companies almost immediately are now offering to pay for travel. all this to other states for their employees to get abortions. i have to tell you as a working female, my red flags went up on their from because obviously is this because they just feel bad. they want to take care of their employees. or is it actually because it's cheaper for a government, for a, an employee to, for an employer to actually pay for the employee to have an abortion, rather than actually offer decent maternity paternity leave or any sort of program that makes it a better working environment for working mothers like yourself. well, i think we could certainly have another conversation about what adequate maternity leave looks like. we can do a whole other show about that. so i, well, i get bogged down in the details. there are, well, economics are probably a factor for some companies. i think the bigger factor is we've really seen over

the past couple years companies waiting into the culture war in a way that they have not in the years previously. and you look at what happened with, with disney in florida. and whereas before, companies didn't want to offend any potential customers regardless of, of issues that social climate has changed. the culture wars have escalated in. there is next dictation i think, particularly with the younger gen, see that companies take a stance on some of these issues. and so i think we're seeing that more and more. i mean, really, i think that the death of george floyd was a turning point in terms of companies waiting into the culture war. so i think that this is just, you know, not no exception, that they're continuing to make statements on cultural issues where they would not have before. and, and this is companies, i think, particularly companies who perhaps are operating in blue or states and want to appeal to a population in the workforce there. that's, that's

a stance that they're, they're going to take. so, i mean, again, i think the economics certainly play a factor. we think bigger pictures just of corporate landscape has changed. and we now see business take stances on controversial issues when that's not something that they did even just a few years ago. so ah, [000:00:00;00] with oh, russia is the growth is, are much about, we have any quality for russians. we are actual racism, bigotry,