a, a, a good floor. so this would invoke it to see where they lab as fighting intensive 5 and then on boss region are to follow the russian army and their relentless artillery jewels on the front lines. as western countries discuss the global food insecurity and the green transition, africa is forced to buy more expensive european fertilizers with russian exports blocked by sanctions, leaving local farmers in desperation. and life may not be so sweet for

many as global sugar prices skyrocket with top producers limiting exports. we visit local sugar cane production site in india to find out more with from lost out of the world. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories this our welcome to the program. we begin with the latest on the front lines of the ukraine, conflicts where key f continues to show residential areas and low goals for public . the village of so boca was hit by high mars long range missiles, leaving several residential buildings and a school damage. no casualties have yet been reported. air defense systems have also been activated in the city of luke gongs, though no details were available in the aftermath of the attacks as ukrainian force as target civilian districts and regions that recently seceded. the country,

the russian army has repelled ukrainian attacks in the login's region where intense artillery battles have been underway. reporting from the guns frontline hears our teeth mariah gosti ev, amid the fields and forests of la, god's countryside, some of the fiercest fighting rages, day and night, mi solves, and shelves crisscross the sky. the these, she silas at this point. but now i had a salvo, a distance in rockets to see where they lab to judge precisely how to correct auxiliary fall. what will follow? he's the artillery does not rest in multiple shifts. batteries of launches and howard. so as far as ukrainian positions,

they are most often the deciding factor a whether an attack fails or succeeds along the kim and miles spot. the what right block is still very much tense. rushing. the defenses here are stable. the frontline has stabilized but nationalist elements as well as the credit military, predominantly, or many sectors. pharmacies haven't stopped. efforts haven't seized efforts to find the weak link to pro ration defenses in order to find a weakling to push their offensive, which is stalled across the la guns for glad with yellow sedation were assigned the task of shelling 8 enemies soldiers. the grad

rocket launcher, did the job and covered them with artillery fire ukraine. you sparing nothing. neither resources, nor lives in an effort to reclaim momentum and break through russian lines. they know they're on the clock. ah, tens of thousands of fresh troops trading across russia. preparing for deployment, military industrial complex is kicked into overdrive and the russian that called me society a gradually preparing for a conflict of scene since the 2nd world war. or i guess d a r t from lucon screech it coming up on the program, former us secretary of state mike pompei says that helping ukraine is in conservative best interest,

a change of heart from his position just 2 years ago. find out what made the politician change his mind and how continued abs benefits ordinary americans later on in the program. harvest or under threat and many parts of africa as rising prices have made fertilizers inaccessible to farmers raising fears of worsening food shortages. anti russians sanctions have under cut, fertilizer supplies, forcing african states to turn to more expensive western alternatives. our teeth corolla has more details as prices continue to go out of input costs like fertilizers. the question for african climate negotiators at the co op $27.00 conference is, can least still advocate for more financial support for the sector in the face of historically low output devices are rising so weekly, by the middle of the year,

or 6 months you, she was totally, you know, like, like, for example, like roger's chemical crisis, it's going up to a killer mom for years. africa has been characterized by law such, eliza used and low crop yields fertilizers, our soil fertility boosters. and generally, the rule is, the more you use per hectare, the mall crop yields. you will have that as the world average is a 147 kilograms per hector of fertilizer. africa mol, particularly sub saharan africa, is below 20 kilogram. the calvin 19 pandemic disrupt the global supply chains and started an upward trend in price jumps and west the nation. the sanctions on russian fertilizer. then fertilizer prices to near record highs and place that

already struggles with food availability. african countries are often pressured by rich western nations to adopt fertilizers, which they say a more organic. but according to local farmers, the industry is already buckling and the price pressure with you do both the larger you like to explain. it's like you want to, you know, you need more like a, a mosquito bites like so you can go out and say ok because of the price to put the like that i'm going to get off so you will lose all your call. you will pick up inputs, most of the fertilizers they use and let me is that to impact of the west, the nation, the sanctions on russia is essentially what had here. 2 african farmers,

farmers have generally used our lower fertilizer. they are farming our point i made that they use about 19 pages per hectare. but if you are to look into south africa, it's 90 cages are per hectare in zambia, 50 cages peptide reduction in that fertilizer consumption from these level would lead to low. why yields and lower yields of course, means that stays less supply for food. but as to how much of that would be, that's something that it's not quite clear, but the point is if we want to improve global food production, we have to ensure that there's a free flow of july and at prices that are fairly affordable by farmers going green often tends to come at a higher cost for african countries, but that has not stopped with the nations from imposing the green agenda on the continent, but perhaps localize in manufacturing and production of fertilizers in resource rich africa would sooner ensure food security than any green venture wood cannibal,

it has a lot of tea in your ideas that ah, 6 people have been killed and more than 80 injured in a glass. that shook turkey is capital isn't verified. video showing the moment of the explosion has been widely shared online. i should warn you in advance, you may find some of the images disturbing o videos circulating on social media show. the moment of the blast, which happened on is took wall street, a crowded tourist area of the city, the turkish president called the exclusion act of terror. assuring the organizers of the attack will be brought to justice. emergency services were quick to get on site to treat the injured with video showing multiple police vehicles heading to the area. the side of the attack has been sealed off with locals, evacuated. no group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast.

and those of us with a sweet tooth could have a bitter pill, the swallow eyes, global sugar prices approach record highs with top producers like india cutting their exports to protect their own food security are to use run. john sharma visited sugar cane production sites in india. to speak to local producers, your in india, sugar cane belt in western or 3rd, reddish. the cane, cutting, crushing and sugar making season has just started. but things have changed this season. india, the world's biggest producer and 2nd largest exposure of sugar, has extended restrictions on exports for another year. back in june, india had imposed gods for the very 1st time. in 6 years. in a recent notification, the indian government announced that sugar mills could export 6000000 dams next year. this compared to an all time high or 11000000 tons last year, india is a main supplier to many asian african and middle eastern countries. so for the

global market, this decision has left a sour taste. traditionally, i think india will be a seller into the oil market under brazil comes in and if there is not supplying the sugar which the lawyer leads that i think that is a very lovely market. so the global surplus under, for sid dinero union is about 3 and a half 1000000 done. but on trade flow point of view, if india is not better than the market is deficit. and if it's india there, i think balances out for prices are rising globally, partially due to anti russian sanctions put in place by the west that have affected input costs, logistics, and exports constraints. another dog producer, brazil has got it 6 boats as well, creating a large void in global sugar supplies. but india like are those is looking to insure its domestic market has what it needs. the 3 to up indian population is expected to consume fun. 27000000 tons of sugar this season. the government sees of

wants to prioritize, domestic availability, 1st and foremost, for it's 1400000000 mouth. the move has been welcomed by many like this sweet shop owner in was offer a nagger who's already struggling with rising inflation. menez, the price of sugar has gone up immensely instead, since i 1st started my sweet business, we hope the new policy will bring us some relief from the cap and exports has been put on all breeds of sugar roll white. i'm to find that the move aims for more than just food security. i'm not a focus. they all of the show go policy is the production of ethanol in the country to reduce dependence on fuel imports and to woof to woods green energy. the plan is to mix but shore with ethanol made from a loss is a byproduct if she, the production and india acid wanted stock. it for 20 percent ethanol blending by 5

years to 2025. india is about to produce about $40000000.00 tons of sugar in which for 4 and a half $1000000.00 will going consumption. also at the non it's a win win situation for the industry, for the government and for the expo does as well. so we expect that india will explode, 6000000 done by the end of march is a great due to the pharmacy as well. because at 18 point coding percent, every minute will be able to sell it still. so it should be able to pay back the farm was as well. well, the move by india would be suite for the country. it will leave the world thirsty for supplies, at least for some time. runjun sharma, r t, missouri for another helping ukraine is in u. s. interests. that's the assessment of former u. s. secretary of state, mike pompeo on continuing 8 to key at the politician claims the policy could even help ordinary americans. conservatives need to make the case. helping ukraine is in

our interest, it will strengthen our national security deter foe and lower costs for americans. that was seen as my compos position over assistance to kiev as had a radical turnaround. i was just 2 years ago in a national public radio interview. he was scathing over u. s. interest in ukraine with a journalist conducting the interview, saying the politicians seemed furious over the topic. being discussed. i was taken to the secretary's private living room where he was waiting and where he shouted at me for about the same amount of time as the interview itself had lasted. he was not happy to have been questioned about ukraine. he asked, do you think americans care about ukraine? he used the f word in that sentence and many others. he asked if i could find ukraine on a mount. i said yes. he called out for his age to bring him a map of the world with no writing, no countries mar tough. i pointed to ukraine,

he put the map away. he said, people will hear about those. and then he turned and said he had things to do, and i thanked him again for his time and left to go further in depth on this. let's bring in radio host carry harrison. carrie. it's great to have you on the program. now my page has stated that helping key in the cranium crisis is quote, in conservative interests. so just 2 years ago he held a radically different position. we know this isn't the 1st time that a politician would flip flop when it comes to their stance on an issue. but what do you think made him change his mind? well, rachel, more than politician, we have to remember. he was the director of b. c. i a and what is happening right now the united states is putting a 4 star general probably going to be running the military operations out of norway . and then the other 3 star general in germany in stuttgart plus $300.00 staff

members. i mean, that kind of feels like war drums to me and if you're the former head of the caea, you also want to run for president as palm paled likely. will. this is perfect. you get to have commanding control once again, and you don't want to be left in the back seat as the former director of the ca, when the guys that you use to operate are now way ahead of you. so does look good or hey, why is it always it all rhodes? seem to lead back to this the i guess when you leave it, you never really leave it. well, there's been a lot of talk about just about everything in the news when it comes to the u. s. right now relating to the recent mid term elections. do you think that has comments have anything to do with that? or do you think that it's more about his political motives down the road, as you mentioned? well, i think in order, let's pretend it's a disney movie to be cast in that disney movie as the pirate, or that this to the, that you have to really have that kind of heart where you can pull that off on peo, is not a guy who was born as a truth teller, he's

a december same as may be the head of a fs, b, or a k g b, or the head of any secret agency. you're not there to tell the truth, you're there to dissemble and might. pompei was a great december. he's also a brutal politician who lies the way a toothpick covered in plaque. slammed in somebody's cheek is going to have that same effect. it's gonna, it's gonna hurt. so this is a guy who has unbelievable political ambitions. he wants to revert the republican party from the trumpet party, back into the old fashioned republican party, which means all war all the time. oddly, we see the democratic party being the all war all the time. that is never pin their flavor. it is now recently, but it belongs to the republicans and that's what he wants to remind them. now when it comes to that political ambition, i guess that raises the question, because we've seen a lot of politicians, especially in recent weeks, all of the sudden start carrying about what americans care about,

which is the u. s. economy inflation, how they're going to survive and be able to pay all of their bills. and it's always interesting how you get a midterm election. and then all of a sudden politicians really start to care about the american people at least for a little bit. but do you see a unified u. s. policy and continued ukraine assistance continuing in the aftermath of them in terms of our pompei us latest comments, an indicator of that? well, that was so well said rachel, i could go on for 17 hours with you going point by point because you'd nailed so much stuff right there. but we'll do the last part of your question. there is so much profit being made by supporting ukraine. $18000000000.00 so far. how much of it is accounted for? we don't know. are we going to ask? probably not. maybe in 10 years we will. it is a cash cow for anyone who makes bullets vests hats, eye glasses, gloves, hats,

winter socks. it doesn't really matter. is that going to be turned off? no, it's big business, and it doesn't matter who's running the show. pompei a wants to run that show. i don't see it going away, especially now that the united states is offering 4 and 3 star generals. let's understand the difference between a one star general and a 4 star general, 3 star generals, run wars generals under that. well, they can run other things, but 3 and 4, that's the finish line that's deaf con one. that's the real deal. so by sending 2 of those one to germany and one, but the other one in germany too, but in wider the wider european theater, you're looking at some kind of war posture or at least letting the other side other side. we know that other side is we're not talking ukraine, the ones north of their east of their west, of they're in many ways letting them know who's about to be boss. so this is a thunderous move and he wants to be part of that. and as president, he would get to command that he would now when it comes to where the american

people stand on this, we're kind of hearing those rumblings that they're frustrated that they want their tax dollars to be spent on their economy. how long do you think that the u. s. government is going to at least try to continue this on if they don't have the full american public support of this narrative of helping ukraine at any cost to the u. s. economy? well, you know, this is pompei o's tweet that somehow by assaulting russia or assaulting anybody. it saves people money. now, undoing something, stopping something saves money, but doing more spending more does not save money unless you know of a math equation. i have never been taught the ancient greeks coming up with geometry and the rest could have imagined how more is less. so this is an orwellian orgasm, like we've never seen before. it's double speak, it makes huxley blush in so many ways. this is just more nonsense,

but the american public, at the end of the day lives paycheck to paycheck, like 7000000000, other people in the world by the way, know, health care that you can truly expect. no social security that you can reliably hope is going to happen some day. people are terrified, but the guys, the politicians, the pompei owes the senators and congress people that have just been re elected or newly elected. they're millionaires. they don't starve to death. they have unlimited, all you can eat health care, they have every meal, every airplane paid for. they live in beautiful places. they don't have to worry about what joe smith worries about, but talking about it. yes, joe smith on the side at least on t v. and when it's on tv, it's on the record and you can point back will look what i said on cnn. nothing is changed. i care about your hunger, and then you do something else and you wish to looking at hunger. so it's a game. right? and that math equation you mentioned may not me when you are,

i can figure out that i'm sure there's someone in washington who can find at least some way to explain it for us. now when it comes to these anti rations sanctions, we're seeing more and more that they will apparently remain even after the war is resolved. do you think that these sanctions were about the war from the start or war they part as a wider plan to weaken russia a long term? oh, we could russia long term, we can china, it's al, a long term united states is withering in its global dominance. it's enjoyed quite a field day since world war 2 and understand i am not pro russia because i'm pointing out history here and i'm not pro china and i'm not pro anyone. i do love my country and i will admit that openly and freely but the united states is enjoyed quite a lot of good times. other powers arising, they're getting powerful, they're unifying, getting together that threatens us. so it is true when you talk about our interests

being threatened, not you. but when one does talks about the united states interest being threatened, and so the united states will respond as would anybody, if it's threatened as what an animal, when corners it will respond. and war is hearing a heavy truncheon clubbing seals to death tends to clear that iceberg. and i'm afraid that's what we're going to see more of, especially when it's profitable. if you didn't make money having a war, nobody would have a war, cause people die. and that's your brother and your sister and kind of sucks. so war as smedley, butler, another famous u. s. general set after world war one. all war is iraq. always always follow them money, radio, her scary, harrison. thank you so much for your time in analysis today. thanks, rachel. ah, as the u. k. braces for a recession, newly appointed finance minister, jeremy hunt claims the crisis is quote, made in russia. however,

the former had of the bank of england pates, it pains a very different picture. and central banks have lost control of inflation. government lost control of the public finance, not surprising that markets respond to that and whose responsibility was it then if both the central bank and the government of control will. i think all shantrel banks in the west interestingly made the same mistake. and during cove it, when the economy was actually contracting because of lacto central banks to south, it was a good trying to print a lot of money. that was a mistake that led to inflation. we had too much money chasing to few goods. and the result was inflation that was predictable, it was predicted, and it happened. former u. k. prime minister les tress is another prominent politician who repeatedly claim to russia is the cause of the country's economic struggles that as she was forced to resign after just $44.00 days an office. having proposed a disastrous economic plan, her mini budget included unrealistic tax cuts that some financial markets,

enjoying nose dive back in september, i trust continued to point the finger at russia. where does media struggle to buy in to her claims? we have a very, very difficult economic global situation because of the war that vladimir putin has perpetrated in ukraine and countries are under pressure around this season. this season posts in this isn't just about pu, said, i mean your chancellor on friday opened up the stable door, inspect the horses so much, he could almost see the economy being dragged behind them. this is about peach in on the ward ukraine. that is why we have the phone killing lens intervention, and i was the photo vladimir pu same was a we spoke to political commentator anthony webber who pointed out the irony in the u. k. a lodge support of democracy in ukraine. we are sold by the government, we the public of the united kingdom that we must suffer for the sake of freedom

when democracy in the ukraine when rubbish. but they don't even know that there is no real freedom. democracy and you crime because opposition, policies are bans. i'm sorry, we're all position media, but ironically, ah, there's no free media in the united kingdom at the moment because the frenzy of voices you want the united kingdom's be neutral. who feel is in the arctic kingdoms besson truss to be neutral? ah, yet there's no voice given as a complete new platform and all of that sort of particular idea. we all know. so with russia, so there's no reason for the media to be restricted, but so that is the past. so biggest problem, we've got the latter for free media. best selling author, james bradley is the guest on the latest episode of ortiz,

new show modus operandi. in an interview with manila chant, the writer discusses the blow back of western sanctions. and the benefits china is reaping from the situation. stay tuned for the episode a little later in the program. and in the meantime, here's a preview of what's to come. despite the economic blow back, the whole world is experiencing this, this blow back from these western sanctions. it appears that u. s. is still doubling down. it's also encouraging germany to tamp down. you know, it's reliance on russian natural gas exports to the harm of its own economy. what do you think china sitting back there and making of all of this, you know, in terms of what is china making of the united states shooting itself and what, what is china making of germany and italy and the e u. a shooting themselves in the head. china,

i can't believe it's good luck. every countries want to good want to good run to china. after seeing the united states steel, steel, the foreign reserve of a sovereign country, russia. it's almost unbelievable to just like the truckers strike up in canada. once you learn that the dictator trudeau could get his hands into your bank account, they were closing bank accounts. so what is china think? i think china, i can't imagine what is wrong with washington. ah and that's all for now. be sure to check out our teen dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour. ah,

what he's got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on, often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very particular time, time down and talk with ah, in the least counter russian state, little narrative. i've studied as i phone and ignore some scheme div, asking him, i'm not getting a booth in a 55 when. okay, so mine is 2000 speedy. when else with we will ban in the european union, the kremlin community up machine. the state aren't russia for date and split our

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