is actually the trickle since we're not, i'm not a people for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do for the child. the said committee to return back home. there is no support from the nomination. high commissioner, again, united miss, i don't care about chug or send people ah, in the latest i have sent the ship against the media, the you targets are these parent company with another round of sanctions. ordering a freeze of the company's assets in europe. united nations condemns the terror attacks on russia's humanitarian offices in the central african republic. but the head of mission was seriously wounded. on dorothy saw thursday that us manufactured and supplied drones were used in ukraine in recent strikes on russian territory. this is quite russians inside the u. s. weapons have not been used to hit targets inside russia with

10 am on saturday morning here in the russian capital, peter scott and his how the world is looking as we had in the week and welcome to the program. the you is tightening the screws on media freedoms sanctions package has frozen arts these european assets in an effort to censor the voice of the russian media fiorella. isabel discussed the developments with ortiz, marina crossover. all this is now the nines package of sanctions and they are supposed to be hard hitting as the european union has called them. and basically what we're seeing with our sees that there sanction in our power company and also the policy in europe. so basically brussels is season funds and assets belonging to r t, as well as some other over panels. and not only that, they also want to make sure that there are no funds or economic resources made available to them whether it's directly or indirectly. and not only if i entities,

but also people associated with the company. this is what's interesting. and also another aspect to this is that there are more russian channels being sanctioned as well. some of them have just one news broadcast every day, for example. and what else do we know about this latest round of e u sanctions? well, it's a huge list of not only people being sanctioned, but also different industries. so for example, we have now the latest, the number is up there. 1386 people who are sanctions in total and 171 organizations and they're really wants to make sure that it, it hits rush out where it hurts according to them. so for example, there are really target thing, the rosters military industrial complex. they're looking at export restriction when it comes to technologies that contributes rushes, military takes abilities and also its ability to work on certain technologies they're trying to, we can rush. so when it comes to it's military,

there is also and other and the energy sector, for example, no new investments can be made by a foreign companies within roches energy sector. there's also a v, a sion and for example, more banks have been added. and what's interesting, they're cutting rushes access to drones. so not only is the direct exports of drone engines now forbidden to russia. so to other countries that may circumvent this. and then for example, through other countries, exports it to ross so, so that's also not allowed. so this is a multifaceted attack on russia. absolutely, and through different industries, but particularly the military and dust real complex. this is what they're really focusing on. and they want to make sure that russia is weekends on the battle ground. and some experts have already come out and set it, for example, with the freezing of the assets when it comes to our table. clearly what they've done so far by binding the channel on to for example,

that hasn't worked. we know that there was a pole in germany recently where people that still wants to watch and still find ways to watch it and you and i know that you can watch a r t not just on satellite cd, but you can go online and the people have been posting lots of videos, so that's what they're not happy with. and they're trying to make sure that it's found by cutting any funds that are made available to r t or any ways in which russia concert convent the sanctions and is remaining up and running that. and also the military aspect is very important. that's what they're trying to do to weaken. it's also the same time. this is what we're talking about. the european union has been saying all along that it's all for freedom of speech. while this doesn't look very much like freedom of speech when you're trying to completely shut down the other angle of the story, labor and human rights load done. kabbalists believes it's in the west. people have become fatigued with the conflict and ukraine of media outlets. conflict can narrative different to their own. i mean, honestly, i'm flabbergasted. i mean, how,

how do you countries freeze all these assets of different countries, right? the, you know, the claims to be a capitalist system. and yet what is more against the free market than freezing people's assets and basically stealing other people's money? and that's exactly what's happening here. but the other thing is it shows how brittle the narrative of the west is that they could not broker any descent like that from r t. i mean that that's what this really shows, i think because in the west, people are now suffering incredible. you crane fatigue. they are not supporting this war. like they did at the outset. they're not supporting zalinski like they did at the outset. and so, you know, the ease getting desperate there. so now they're trying to shut down any

alternative sources of news about ukraine. because they know that their narrative is now die. on the same day, the u. targeted russian media, the german foreign minister said that freedom of the press congress switched off as commenting on the suspension of the twitter accounts of several us journalists. freedom of the press must not be switched on and off at will. as of today, the journalist below can no longer follow comment or criticize us. we have a problem with that or twitter has suspended the accounts of around half a dozen journalists, including repulses from the new york times, the washington post, and cnn, or the companies c o l. a mosque, accused them of safety regulation violations. yes, media off fuming of the move to not suspension of the twitter account of a number of prominent journalists including the new york times. ryan mac is questionable at unfortunate neither at times nor ryan have received any explanation

about why this occurred. we hope that all of these journalists accounts are reinstated, and the twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action. last night, gar, carrying little externally was followed by crazy stalker thinking. it was me who later, blocked car from moving and climbed on to hood. any account docs in real time location, the info or any one will be suspended as it is a physical safety violation. this includes posting links to sites with real time location and full. well, if you look into the details, there is a lot of outrage coming from democrats, mostly at this point, and they are upset about the fact that these accounts have been suspended. these journalists have had their accounts taken down. they say this is simply a case of retaliation. this is an attempt to silence critics of the law must unmask . on the other hand says that a car that his child was in was stalked out. he's concerned about his personal

safety and doc sing. what's worth noting is the hypocrisy that we're seeing here, some voices that have been quite in favor of tech censorship before are now speaking up in pretty loud terms. take a o. c, for example. you're a public figure and extremely controversial. i'm powerful one. i get feeding unsafe, but descending into abuse of power plus erratically. banning gen less only increases the intensity around. you take a beat and nail, the protestation maybe try pitting down your phone. that's quite heated language. we're hearing from a o. c. they're pro tow fascism. she's quite fired up, but in the past we've heard a o. c herself calling for more media censorship. and in addition to that, i o. c has been sued for blocking her critics and preventing her critics from being able to challenge her on social media. now it's also worth reviewing of the role played by brian stouter. he's been a voice that is very outspoken. now again,

still on month. here's what he said. who knows? i think that's a, that's a, that's an example of a broader question for twitter, which is if you, if you get invited to something where there are no rules, worthers total freedom ever, ever, everybody do you actually want to go to that party for or you decide to stay home. so that was brian stell dirt, talking about his concern that alon last would not engage in enough censorship. there wouldn't be enough shutting down of certain views. but now that certain views have been shut down in these journalists have been suspended. he's speaking up and referring to a lot mosque as a tyrant, and that seems to be the way these voices are framing this. they're seeing alon mosque as a tyrant. he's a tyrannical ceo using his power to shut down critics. but they didn't speak the same way about jack dorsey. and jack dorsey was running twitter and silencing many conservatives and other critics of the status quo. as they defended him,

they didn't speak of him in the same language in terms of let's review how they spoke of jack dorsey compared to how they now speak of a law mosque is relevant there. a private company can make the own independent decisions in line with a published terms of service. i don't know what happened to him, but if he'll a muscle doesn't fix this within the hour with an explanation by morning. i'll be on capitol hill to morrow to monday. that he behold in front of congress. now let's recall when donald trump was still the president of the united states, after the january 6th events was banned from social media. there didn't seem to be a huge flurry of outrage about that. the fact that a sitting president was being silenced by a major social media app. ah, however, this recent round of the dance is got the european union wang and getting it's opinion. here's what we heard from the european union news about arbitrary

suspension of journalists and twitter is worrying. ease, digital services act requires respective media, freedom and from mental rights. this is reinforced under are media freedom act. elan mosque should be aware of that. the red lines and sanction soon, the media of freedom act. talk about freedom of speech and suppression of freedom of the press. what about the fact, what your opinion has blocked and shut down? russian media outlets are t has been silent by the european union for quite a few months. we've seen suppression of russian media outlets across the country and by the you itself. so the hypocrisy of all of the very, very easy to detect here are very selected outrage. these folks were calling for all kinds of tech censorship. but now that alon my, someone doesn't seem to be in there. camp is the one making the rules. they're

crying foul and screaming about tyranny and suppression. it's worth noting how these things are playing out. maybe now the united nations has condemned a terror attack on the head of the russian humanitarian mission in the central african republic. the official is currently being treated in hospital to a possible exploded and his hands on that particular incident. oh, we obviously very much hope. oh, that is germany mixer recovery oh, we have not been asked or in any way to assist with the with the investigation. we obviously condemn these types of for, of attach the local police in the central african republic. continue to comb through the scene of the incident that injured her, the head of the russian mission in central africa. mister dmitri city, if understood from what we know, that the local police have found pieces of evidence,

things like notes that were part of the package that exploded in the hands of mister cta. and they are right now, as far as we know, the only authorities that are investigating this and the russian foreign ministry has re aged some that some speed with regards to finding out who is behind those and gathering some of the evidence. but missed the cta. evidence to have been a person of, of great influence, especially with regards to warming relations between bang ye and moscow of recent years. russia has really been a partner of choice for many of the conflict laden countries that are former french colonies that have really decided to turn their back coin on france. because of the way paris has treated the government. and they, in the way they felt that they haven't been listened to over decades following this attack unless that dimitry city, a quick statement was issued by

a russian business, lynn and co founder of the private military group. wagner, on november 11th, dmitri city received a package from togo with a photograph of a son who lives in france. it contained a note saying that next time he would get the head of his son. if the russians do not get out of the can continent and open the doors for the french today, he got another package. despite all the instructions for observing security measures. dmitri city, being in an emotional state, open to the parcel. there was an explosion before using consciousness. dmitri sitting managed to say that he saw a note saying, this is for you from all the french, the russians will get out of africa. the russian foreign ministry has come out with a favor. and then going further to say that this was not only an attempt to to, so other relations within the central african republic, but to do so with,

with that malicious intent by those that do not wish for peace in the region and the warm relations that bang ye and moscow now enjoy, we strongly condemn this criminal act, which is clearly ain't against activities of the russian house in bungie. and more broadly, i guess, a successful development of friendly relations between our 2 countries. lest the city were fed to be a moderate of sand side between some of the local revo groups and government forces . and this is the role that he has said to have played in 20 lane team for a manually averse with the current situation in central african republic and never has led to. so my speculation as to who could be involved. but a man who knew mister city well is his colleague in the russian house who also told as the following thing about bonham. so there isn't any good in what happened. i know, dmitri,

he works for the benefit of peace in the central african republic. he works around the clock for the betterment of our society, those who want to bring chaos and make our country vulnerable to everything, to stop our society, achieving peace locals. no, dmitri, everybody knows him. people ask us how dmitri feels, and i can assure you that our hearts and thoughts on our with him. we hope it gets better, so we need his help in our way to bring peace to the country. we hope state and law enforcement will conduct a proper investigation and punish those responsible for the attack. these people are enemies of the central african republic and we count on our governments and those ready to assist us to pay the way of peace. many thanks to those who have been asking about demetrius condition, we hope he will recover as soon as possible. what we know so far is that the police continue to gather evidence of the russian house that security has been ramped up at the particular facility. and the investigation is ongoing,

but doctors have fed that mr. city remains in critical condition in the hospital, in the central african republic. and he is now facing a fight for his life. us says produced on supply jones to ukraine to target russian infrastructure. that's at least is according to some off the sources. the fight washington is claims that weapon supplied. the kids have not been used to hit motion territory. it's been determined that the ab onyx and control stations of the drones were manufactured by american company scepter works. which performed their initial calibration and testing at scottsdale airport . and there were zona analysis of the electronic units of interest up to drones, showed that the ukrainian military also used these a, these 2 attack infrastructure facilities in some stop all as well as the belgrade curse can verona regions, saucers, familiar with the story, told us the final drone assembly and test flights were conducted near

a polish ports, which was used as the main nato hope for supplying weapons to keep. these are said to be a loan from the ukranian cities of a death increase rogue. the revelation contradicts washington's claims. that weapons applied to key if have not been used to bomb sites inside russia. we have not provided ukraine with weapons that is to use inside of russia. we've been very clear that these are defensive supplies. we are, the president said very clearly some time ago. we're not enabling ukraine to strike behind beyond its borders outside usaa for the tenant colonel carn krakowski says that jones could be a dangerous step in the wrong direction. it is concerning and alarming, and it is consistent with some of the other things we've seen leading up to this point. you know, the intelligence sharing that has been going on us intelligence and that kind of

thing. i certainly the assistance with some of the american weapon systems that are being sent to ukraine along with american operators and trainers for that equipment concerns about special forces being forward being forward located to india surrounding countries including colon, but also the latter lithuania lapierre. those guys are allies there. so this is just one more step in a very dangerous direction. providers of arms and making a lot of money. their stock is growing. it's, it's doing well. there are they have guaranteed contracts well into the future. in part because of conflicts around the world, and specifically in due to the kind of money that's been spent on their company's products, going into crane and going into this war effort relating to ukraine to them. this is good business. we requested the pentagon comments on those reports,

but have yet to receive a response. china's last health, the japanese government, accusing them of high paying off the so called chinese threats, chinese officials. so the tokyo assessments of china as an unprecedented strategic challenge is groundless. to go goes out and the japanese side ignores facts, deviates from its commitment to china, japan relations and grantly, discredit. china. we once again urged the japanese side to adhere to the principle that the 2 countries are cooperative partners and do not pose a threat to each other. i bring up the china threat to find an excuse for its mil to rebuild up. is them to fail? this comes amid a new japanese security scheme that's violates the demilitarization policy imposed of the 2nd world war funds constitution does not recognize these military limits though, and it's adopted a 315000000000 dollar merchant built upon allowing tokyo to acquire new american london c based miss our systems defense spending will double within 5 years,

making japan the world's 3rd largest military spend up the u. s. and china, the country's prime minister said the changes are due to the destructive activities of his neighbors as another worker. unfortunately, in the vicinity of our country, there are countries carrying out activities such as enhancement of nuclear capabilities. a rapid military build up an unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force in the next 5 years. in order to fundamentally reinforce our defense capabilities. we will implemented defense build up program worth about $315000000000.00 in 2027 with reinforced defense capabilities and complimentary initiatives. we will secure a defense budget of 2 percent of gdp. according to japan's constitution, after world war 2, the country renounced war on the use of offensive weapons. since the end of the occupation of the country in the 1950s,

the u. s. has pushed upon to revise this article of their constitution encouraging the islands to upgrade its merger capabilities. however, in 2014 change of policy, the japanese government allowed their military to fight in support of allies under attack. well as cross live now to our guest nelson wong, who's vice chairman of the shanghai center for impacts strategic and international studies. now the grades have you with us today. thanks to finding the time to speak to us. i know you, well, what do you make of this? the chinese position that he sees basing as a threats and as one of the justifications for ramping up its spending on military were think the chinese government has already made a response towards the recent announcement of japan as upcoming defense strategy and the spending increase in spending there is apparently a lack of logic,

but it's all. so that's something that can be expected from japan. but i think what is important for everyone to, to be noticed for everyone to note is that changing in japan's defense policy? what they have being saying is they are concerned about the threat to the read, you know, secure to tell you about the fact is quite to the contrary. because 1st of all, we all are quite aware that the region, the asia pacific region and the region surrounding jump pan has been peace. there is no emerging for ep other than vows. so that's that as being crated by forces from outside the region.

when you look at the japanese repulse about to support its increase of defense budget that he's referring to, to china as a strategic challenge about the, the potential tension. all the pi was trying to, but this is china. domestic affair is always speak so. okay. so, and i think the rest of the world world will really need to watch this closely because it's a major breakthrough of japan in terms of its constitution to remain as a country that is not supposed to have offensive weapons. it's yet certainly is unprecedented change for, for depart, department in particular. but what do you say about north korea? now? some one could argue that north korea is sort of been saber rattling in

a little bit recently with it's ramping off of missile tests, a number of which have been flown in the direction of japan would not be a justification to bruce military defense funding. well, the last korea situation has, has been remaining like this for, for decades. and it is something that i believe it's always been under control to some extent and neighboring countries in the region that are concerned about the security of the korean peninsula. likes japan, like south korea, like china, the us and also russia. there's been a lot of told, this is not something new. it's not something that has just come out of japan or have to increase its defense. but i don't think this is an argument for what do

you, what do you say that we live in a different world now? i mean, it was over 75 years since the end of world war 2. and obviously the world has changed significantly since then. we're seeing a war in europe, which was for germany, which was one of the, the defeated countries, obviously in the 2nd world war, there's also shifted its position and he's now supplying ukraine with arms. does a lot of encouragement from nato, you know, think the japan's response is just to the shifting dynamics of the world at the moment. it's quite, quite apparent that things are changing, but the 2nd world war is not that far away. when you look at history, we still remember what has happened and for germany, for japan has to defeated countries. everybody understands that they're supposed to do this. they're not supposed to do that, but people on now pushing the envelope and they are using,

excuse it is that are actually not relevant. they don't form the basis of particularly japan to increase the defense spending or nelson, long vice chairman of the shanghai since foreign parts, strategic and international studies. always a pleasure to have you on the program has been fascinating to get your thoughts today on japan issue. thank you. thank you. thank you. yes, markets have been wrought by the federal reserve decision to further raise interest rates and record inflation on escalating fears. the recession of the central bank claims is trying to stabilize the economy, shifted up minutes, that there's no telling if the measures will actually work. i don't think anyone knows whether we're going to have a recession or not. and if we do, whether it's going to be a deep one or not, we understand the hardship that high inflation is causing. and that we are strongly committed to bringing inflation back down to our 2 percent goal. what we're doing now is, you know, it's raising interest rates for people and so people are paying higher rates on

mortgages and that kind of thing. i wish there were a completely painless way to restore price stability. there isn't, and this is the best we can do. the us inflation rate is measured by the so called consumer price index, but the method has long raised some concerns. originally, it was based on the price of a fixed selection of gods, but the u. s. congress changed the method of calculation to reflect the average cost of living. critics say that this system allows washington to downplay the really inflation rates in the country. well, yeah, we spoke with our to contribute to chris, and he was also skeptical of the measure. noted to stabilize him sites and you have to get people to go out and buy things if you take away someone's job, but then they're not going to be out there to go out and buy so many things that also talk about the other problems of the u. s. that there isn't really an adequate in ocoee. that's a british perspective, an adequate welfare states. so without money, people can't pay them insurance without insurance,

they can't get access to health care. that's just gonna create a written. we've seen this in the us before a night. it creates massive, massive problems within society, in an economy where people can go and receive medical treatment for the most basic things. so i don't think it's sort of a tool. i think we're already seeing that by just the price that things are costing for anyone in the west right now. you know, we're seeing that in every country and you're saying i'm massive effects where we'll turn inflation because what we're looking at here, we're looking at a macro version, but a realtor inflation is already higher than it's ever been in particular. my generation of the way things are costing right now even more than 2009 if you're able to basically not project what i would say, truthful figures about your economy and then send that into the world. well, that's just got ripple effects and one could argue if russia or india or even china did the same thing, there would be huge consequences in terms of criticism. but it seems, in this case,

the u. s. just seem to get away with it up for now. whatever you want to this weekend, i hope you having a good one on pizza. scott's be back again in around 30 minutes time, but to stay tuned from all grade programs. right. say ah ah ah ah.