ah, ah, with ukraine has been turned into a colony of the with forces helping gauge in terror acts. of course, it's on the words of russia's president vladimir put excuses western powers of creating hotspots across the world. with a high level prisoner swapped russia and businessman, victor boots, return. so after more than a decade and us custody in exchange for american basketball player, brittany greiner, and also head on the program. this, our serbia considers sending a 1000 troops into tulsa vote up to hundreds of police officers in the breakaway region to control breast cert. majority district

with 3 am in salt lake city, 5 pm, and bollock on one in the afternoon here in moscow this friday. welcome to the our team use for the russian president has taken aim at western countries for their quote shameless exploitation of ukraine. both historically, unto de la, amir potent remarks, k miles. he addressed top defense, department officials of the shanghai co operation organization, uncommon wealth of independence, things the virginia silhouette as a number of years to west as shamelessly siphoned and exploited. ukraine's resources encouraged genocide and terror in the dumbass and actually turned this country into a colony. and now cynically uses the ukrainian people as cannon fodder as a battering ram against russia. continuing to supply ukraine with weapons and ammunition, sending mercenaries and pushing it on a suicidal path. i'm convinced that the nature and scale of modern threats places

increased, demands on our co operation. it is necessary to work together to form a more flexible and stable system of security cooperation. adequate to the current challenges where it cannot be based on some mythical unwritten rules that no one has seemed not on someone's dominance and monopolies them, but only on international law and respect for each other's interests. will live now to ortiz dall quarter, who's currently incur august. stan, your indeed are in the cap of ish cack at delaware. vladimir putin is all so tell us what's on the agenda there. but 1st of course bring us up to speed. but we just saw that, that earlier, a video addressed by the russian liter either union. well, the supreme council of the eurasian economic union is meeting here in the capital of kurdistan. today we're talking about the leaders of armenia, bell roost, kazakstan, and of course, russia and kirk is stand at the top of the agenda at this meeting is not are

a number of issues, but specifically they're focused around the spheres of energy and trade and also how to increase cooperation and integration between member states of the or asian economic union. as you said, vladimir putin is here. he arrived earlier today to hold bilateral and multilateral talks to that end. but in terms of the video address that vladimir putin gave earlier, and that the kremlin made public, that focused quite a bit more on the kinds of external threats that the west is posing to the region. vladimir putin said that the meeting between defense ministers of the shanghai cooperation organization and the commonwealth of independent states could not have come at a better time. because right now the west is trying to dominate many countries around the world. across all spheres, economic, political, ideology, ideological, et cetera. and according to the russian president, this is because the days of unipolar western dominance over the world are coming to

an end, a multi polar world is emerging. and there's nothing that the west can do to stop it. where you loads a movie. it was new challenges are emerging and powerful. geopolitical shifts are taking place and the shape of a truly multi polar world is being born with new centers of development are being formed in asia, africa, and latin america. we, which are increasingly defending their national interest, protecting their sovereignty and the right to their own path. of development, it is simply impossible to ignore the process of the way history is developing, say it at any rate, the west's attempts to hold on to it's a global position. do present external and for regional, as well as global threats to the ration community. the russian president said that the u. s. and its satellites have chosen to forcibly expand nato, and that's to, and they're actually trying to illegally thwart alternative development strategies

around the world by spreading color revolutions that does stabilize the countries in which they take place. so the main takeaway that vladimir putin wanted, these defense ministers to understand is that russia wants cooperation and integration between these member states to continue on the same basis of mutual respect and cooperation that has existed for many years. taken us through that ortiz dollar quarter in bish keg. ah. all right, let's move on to news of a high level prisoner swap between moscow and washington russian businessmen. victor boots, who had been in the u. s. prison for 11 years, has returned to his homeland. he shared some of his thoughts after landing at an airport in the capitol thurston that i was awoken in the middle of the night and told to get ready. no additional information was provided. the most important thing is that i got their victor page was sentenced by us authorities back in 2012 to a quarter of a century in prison on allegations of arming terrorists and conspiring to kill

american citizen. he denies all those accusations. moscow phases case was politically motivated. mister booth was exchange for american basketball player, brittany greiner, who had been convicted of drug offenses in russia. the swap was conducted in the united arab emirates after months of negotiations. well yeah, let's look at the other participant in the swell professional basketball or brittany greiner, who's been detained at by ma store, report customs officers back in february after police fun. cannabis oil. hot fridge is in her luggage. in july, she pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges despite saying it was an honest mistake. brian was sentenced to 9 years. she filed an appeal which was rejected by a russian courts. another aspect to this i want to show you there is mounting dissatisfaction among us politicians about the prisoner exchange republican

congresswoman, marjorie taylor green, even call for joe biden to be in peach to read with donald trump, former national security advisor, john bolted, both slumming the to the boot for greiner prisoner swap is not a trade. it's an american surrender. this is not what american strength looks like . terrorists and rogue states are smiling. what kind of a deal is that to swore brittany griner a basketball player who openly hated country for them and known as the merchant of death. what a stupid an unpatriotic embarrassment for the usa. the president of the united states and his feeble administration, gave up a russian arms dealer. meanwhile, the marine and good american paul whalen, has sat in the russian prison for 4 years to rot. well for years, the u. s. has been pushing the narrative. victor boots being a so called merchant of death, his lawyer steve saw, spoke to r t about the case hist,

lines release 15 years ago the u. s. government devised a plot, if you will, to create a crime of this retired russian citizens living in moscow. committing no crime against anyone. they target him simply because they didn't like what they thought he had been doing in previous years and, and at victor sentencing. and i don't, it's hard to believe or this talk crime that nothing ever happened with. no one was ever heard, and no one was ever done at the sentencing the u. s. government, prosecutors asked that victor be sentenced to life without rule. meaning he would never be released that's. that's the, that's the insanity. we were fortunate that the judge and victor's trial, a judge gentlemen, made some very important findings at his sentence,

saying that were really strong and supportive. and pointed out several of the things that, that undermined this merchant of death. the narrative that had taken hold in the us . the 1st thing i did was i gave her call. she had been retired at the time. to my great surprise, she, she not only spoke to me, but she stood by her words and was willing to go public with her views that the sentence that she was forced to impose on on victor was way too high and she would have given him a much lower. ready sentence, if she had the ability to do so, i'm surprised the survivors because you know, you don't, it's not like if you look the older you get, the more, the more likely you are to suffer some sort of catastrophic illness. suddenly. and victor was getting up there in years as well as fifty's now and you know, you just don't, you can't interest. so you just don't call 911 there. they don't have actual

physicians. you know, they don't ship you off to a hospital unless you're in a coma. so he had several serious elements. but victor is exceedingly strong. man. he knows how to take care of himself to protect himself. he made sure to, to the extent that he can eat properly. so there were times when i was concerned that he would, he would even survive to make it to the swath. well, both no free prisoners receive presidential pardons before they were released or to correspond to kill up my pen has been looking into the roots of victor or d. after almost 15 years in captivity and half the eyes sting operation frame up a sham trial. and in addition to that, solitary confinement and difficulty even being able to visit his family, victor boot is now free and back home in russia. the negotiations were kept secret and even victory. why had no idea what was coming?

so let's review the details of this high profile case. well, back in the 900 ninety's western leaders started psyching up the public against the british home office labeled him the merchant of death and hollywood movie demonizing, him called lord of war, was even released in reality. victor is the son of a book keeper. he served in the soviet military before starting his own cargo company. u. s. officials alleged that he ran guns for al qaeda and that he was involved in supplying weapons to various sides of african conflicts and across eastern europe. these are allegations he has repeatedly denied while us leaders seem to have no problem supplying weapons to some radical groups. it seems like after this, hollywood movie was released. and after victor's name had been dropped by various officials, they felt it was time to grandstand against him. victor had his assets frozen, but there was no law at that point under which they could prosecute him for his international business dealings. so u. s. officials decided to go to the f

b i. a sting operation was set up and eventually he was entrapped in thailand. so under cover f b i agents pretending that they were members of the fark rebel group and columbia approached him and had a hypothetical conversation about a possible arms deal. no crime actually ever took place. that's what told me when i interviewed him back in 2019. this is a 100 percent qualify as a political prisoner because i'm healed off my nationality. i deny to corporate side and i'm standing up. they didn't do anything else. and we'll fight

for my innocence. i misstated bossman couple years ago. i'm going to keep him as example, as a model was a boy for weeping. father rations would be more politely cooperate with us when we go off. so there are 3 of us leaders clearly had a motive for grabbing him after he was dragged to the united states from thailand due to an extradition agreement. he was then allegedly offered a deal to bring forward dirty laundry about the russian government and president. well, they've been during pre trial during the trial where they've been through a public defender, they approach and said, well, we're going to get to it all your primary, green car and central you there. if you know some dirt about food, you know how car office regime times old. i said, no, you can't do the person for all the deal. that's why i went to the trial. russian authorities offered victor support throughout the lengthy legal proceedings, and they also describe how us officials abducting him and dragging them to the

united states from thailand was an example of how they felt they have license to do whatever they want in the international arena. which time, so i just was, there is no doubt that they have the ducted rushing citizen in the 3rd country. we have a consular convention with the u. s. and we have a treaty on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters under these agreements. the u. s. should inform us of any suspicions they may have about a russian citizen. yet they fail to do so. this was the case and a number of instances with victor boots konstantin yet shall go. and a number of other people who are transferred to the u. s. with the tacit approval of 3rd countries. now, victor is journey home did not come easily. the negotiations took place at a time when relations between the usa and russia are anything but good. needless to say, a lot of hard work has gone in to making sure this russian citizen could finally return home and be with his family, salem up and archie, new york,

a must have blaze has ripped through a sprawling shopping center in moscow. suburban firefighters have been battling to contain the blaze after it's spread across a reported spawn of 7000 square meters, fake smoke billowed into the early morning sky in the city of kim k with the buildings roof collapsing, authority say at least one person has been killed it's unclear what started, the police official said, it may have broken out in a home improvement retailer. i made flammable. aerosol on paints being stored there, the damage including them, all its contents. nearby park cars has been estimated up to half a $1000000000.00 in the story this friday, serbia says it's considering sending a 1000 troops into kosovo after hundreds of police officers in the breakaway region took over parts of a serb majority region. on thursday, i saw that you may,

which you recruit to has continued with the legal actions aimed at occupying the north of kosovo and mentor. here belgrade will consider the return of 1000 members of our security forces to the area of kosovo metal here, in accordance with resolution, 1244. the serbian government allege cost of police have also committed crimes against served majority areas in the brick away providence, including stealing wine stocks from a vineyard, local reporter nuclear. you've sent us this from belgrade. tonight, around 9 o'clock in the evening will be over 200 armed men. came to the north. most was a sort of live we kept over day. also presence of in an army or regular military forces which were present here in court and order court, which is a violation of resolution or 2 or of united nations and of every other agreement

signed by serbia. and this is the 2nd publication of the day, or even 3rd, because during the day we already had the one incident in which one of the 4 municipalities in the north are most terrible. if we had a situation where police forces are also in kindergarten when where children were sleeping and they interrupted the work of this also invalid survey and club near article that they took over 40000 fleet. there's a wind from local producers, wind and they also banned construction workers for, for, from putting on and bathing the road, leading to only you left in the region. the prime minister of so called course of

course, is continuing keys, provocation. and his intentions to violently solve the problem of serbs leaving this deuces of soap, of course a month ago and to try to impose on them due to the fact that he needs to organize your elections, which will boycott as things are for now. now african languages have been receiving a renewed prominence in nigeria with a government setting out an educational policy to promote the study of local dialects in schools. and as a pretty big ramifications. a recently approved bell is aimed at shifting the focus from english to native languages in the west african nation. students are to focus on developing their skills and their mother tongue during elementary school and then combine it with english only later on. however, the initiative has been complicated by the huge number of local languages which

will require the government to adopt school books and other educational materials. we heard from a nigerian school director expressed an overall positive view of the new measures. ah, thus is rochelle from the gulf may trudy official gazette, i was so blood are in us this year. the family as wills, know he's the primary gentle socialization. that is the 1st school that a shide is born into that the side is introduced into school starting i would call it d model. mother language stats in the 1st teach of the education of a child with the use of the mother language that is human bod,

able outside the case may be, is the best that should happen in the education sector. or we also spoke with the head of a nigerian teachers union in lagos, who expressed appreciation for the reform to m u c or t. we do sophomore at home. it is so not dora. dot eats a has understanding on the side of the student. is it we are killing the potentia in our younger generation by boise another language? i see medium of communication. no doubt there must lanet. so does it come favorably compete in tom off, you know, seeking job internationally. that way you understand english or you understand

french or you understand gemma dando, perform your local language. ductwork has your chess, you know, to secure job across the globe. what you cannot give what you don't ah ah, you a secretary of state anthony blank and how said it's basically a dalton deal for sweden, anthony land to join the nato alliance. i'm confident that nato will formally welcome finland sweden's member soon since the nato summit in madrid, ah, both countries had taken significant concrete actions to fulfill their commitments, including those related to the security concerns. on the part of our al i turkey, sweden house refuse to comply with natal member turkeys request for a 2 extra 2 people suspected of ties to a terrorist organization, stock homesafe. it doesn't have sufficient grounds to believe that the men in question committed criminal offenses. no anchor, it is adamant, it won't allow sweden to join the alliance until it conducts those expeditions.

anti war activists, sorry, flounder, says the u. s. housing properly addressed. turkey security concerns sweden us of course we're talking out of both sides of their mouth. they're saying we have a deal. no, we don't have a deal. and no matter how you look at it, they want turkey to acknowledge that there's a deal so that this nato official membership can move forward. certainly, it's the us who is behind this deal. and it's also the united states, it was pledged to be the protector of the kurds. but as we can see, once again, they're just willing to use some as a bargaining chip. whether or not this officially goes forward in a real sense, it is a done deal and it shows that the u. s. is absolutely has no interest in peace and diplomacy. busy negotiation,

they are all about aggressive us war planning. they want nato expansion official or unofficial employees of the european central bank account being left few months after authorities rejected their demands for a pay rise to keep up with inflation. we're not happy with inflation in germany and the euro area likely around 8.5 percent this year. a lack of a pay rise means a substantial loss in purchasing power. this is damaging workers morale and also their trust toward the institution. the workers wanted a pay rise of just over 4 percent, but the current inflation rate in the use largest economy germany has been reported . so we're twice the mind or my colleague peter scott spoke with financial technology. entrepreneur chris n. so noted that the same institutions nimbly bunks, which essentially created inflation in the 1st place or no, the ones suffer. so well the funny thing is, although not for the stuff is the,

you know, the c, b missed its own inflation targets on its employees. now seem to be paying for it. do you think it as a duty of care or the certain geopolitical factors or just out of his control? absolutely, i think that definitely is the duty of care, but there is a great irony that you've just mentioned, the very people that have caused this massive inflation and now paying for it. right. and i think, you know, when we're looking at, when we're looking at these institutions in the way they operate and run, it's really, really morally bankrupt to say, look, pay for something that we ask you to do. and that goes across everything from transport to any kind of public service, right? why should the public service work have to pay for the mistakes made by that employer? that just happens to be a state institution? there is we say not as we do. absolutely. now the c, b a said that he doesn't want to increase the wages of its staff because he's worried, as it says that it would fuel a damaging wage price spiral. do you find the argument convincing? not at all. i think anyone with half

a brain cannot believe that argument. if you've got to a business, an organization, a company, and your employees are struggling due to inflation. it's, you know, in my opinion, it's your moral responsibility to make sure that they can feed themselves and close their children if people can't eat and they can't feed their children. and really, i mean, they're saying that inflation is up. this percentage reality is real times inflation for people is a lot higher. you only just have to ask anyone living in europe right now, as we know a lot of people living in europe coming from there originally and, and the price, the real times price of everything from energy to food, to transport the everything is way higher. it's, you know, some people even saying it's, you know, 20 percent more in real time. so if the c b were to raise the wages of his employees as they are demanding. do you think that was so set some sort of precedent for all the national banks and do you think there will be a full offense where employees are employers? excuse me, would raise the the way just absolutely. that would what we would hope that would

be the effect that surely that's a good thing, right? we're seeing across, across europe, we're seeing, you know, well on the u. k. u. k, right now we've got nurse is about to go on strike. we've got railway is going on strike may not really asking for much pizza, what they're asking is to be paid enough so that they can not be out of pocket to the bad necessities that become way more expensive because of institutions and the decisions that have been made by, by western governments there's no doubt about that. they were saying that they were saying, look, we, we've made decisions over the last year that, of course, these problems and you are going to pay for it. well, that's not fair is it will not unrelated to about this season of goodwill may be foster approaching, but not everyone in italy will enjoy a christmas dinner this year. that's what a major organization which distributes european aid is warning. the fund states increasingly more italian, something descending into poverty. oh,

[000:00:00;00] i thought i meant to not, but you are going to be. there are thousands of requests for help from families who will be suffering greatly over the christmas period due to the increase in energy prices. they find it difficult to eat at lunch and dinner, which is why we are giving them all free groceries at christmas. it's an economic disaster. ah, but i'm interested if you can stop having great difficulties. we make a contribution, but people need much more help. families with children are finding themselves in difficulty. they don't even have the money to pay for milk and diapers.

ah, but since i have a rather difficult life, we also lived on the street iowa and little and therefore i had to ensure the survival of my family in one way or another. i couldn't pay for the house. and so i was reduced to living in a call with my wife for several months. ah, i cannot do it. i mean you're here, we are starving and i'm in georgia. maloney is doing nothing good for us for people that she's actually destroying. we can't even pay the bills. we're desperate and everything is increased and there's very little money ah, debating where europe's decision to cut itself off from russia will leave a consonant politically on a global level. it's cross talk next, peter and gaster. feisty. today?

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