ah ah, with the economy, despite the predicted collapsed devastation and catastrophe. nothing of the kind has happened here. president vladimir po here on the lines the west failed efforts to crush the russian economy. but also he slams washington for dividing and setting post soviet states against most to right now we're following in the footsteps of the advance of the vitamin group. basically, we're going to the south west and out of the city of tome of school. it's because of a following the wagner group 5 is that the bonds through internet republic city. it

is one of the many a hot spots of the conflict with ready probably just a benjamin netanyahu announces the formation of a new coalition, though it is fueling speculation that the countries politics on merging further and further to the right. with it from all the international headquarters here at moscow. i'm growers to share with you a very, i guess, well headlines. it's a pleasure to have you with quote, the u. s. has long been trying to divide the post soviet world and influence ukraine. and that's what president vladimir putin had to say at a press conference off the today's state council meeting, malicious causality, morris. can we now say that the u. s. is directly involved in the conflict? the u. s. has been dealing with this for a long time. it's been involved and trying to undermine has an influence ukraine since soviet times our opponent civil was trying to divide us and then tried to

manage the separate ponce. nothing new there. the idea of ukrainian separatism was born a long time ago, while the russian president of course, spoke a lot about how the a west was trying to stoke the flames of nationalism and ukraine long before the soviet union even collapsed. but the russian president also spoke a lot about the russian economy. of course, he said that it's fair to a lot better than many people in the west had predicted back in march in february of this year, despite predictions that russian g d. p would fall by double digits. it's only actually fallen by 2.5 percent. and on top of that, indicators connected to unemployment and inflation have been kept very low as well . a spook us, if you can limit capacity economy despite the predicted claps, devastation and catastrophe. nothing of the kind has happened here. moreover, riches indicate as a much better than many g 20 countries. this applies to the main macroeconomic indicators like g d p. yes, there was

a slight drop. i said earlier that the drop is 2.9 percent according to international experts, but it's now less 2.5 percent. one of the main indicators around the world is the unemployment rate for us. it is at a lower level than pre pandemic. but then it was full point 7 percent. now it is 3.8 percent. our labor market is stable, our financial market is stable. i thought that one of the interesting things said, don, during this press conference was i one of the, one of the questions from a member of the press. what was i? he asked, is russia running out of miss isles in the conflict in ukraine, but also, ah, certain western partners and ukraine who are fighting russia there? are they running out of weapons as well? a, quite a lot was said about russia's defense industry, wasn't it? right? and it was also discussed alongside one question that another journalist asked regarding the possibility of the u. s. supplying the key of regime with patriot missile systems. this is something that vladimir putin said, okay,

let the west do that. because the patriot missile systems are ready, outdated, and it would take such a long amount of time for american troops or whoever to train ukrainian troops on how to use that. but in terms of the weapons stockpiles, like you were talking about before vladimir putin said, there is a huge difference between the ukrainian defense industry and the russian one. because while key abs soviet, basically mainly soviet and weapons stockpiles, they're actually already on the brink of running out while moscow has plans to actually increase its own stockpiles in the near future. we just know where he was suitable in january. russia will have a new frigates and combat service with new weapon systems. we are not being provocative for this will strengthen our strategic forces. despite these being medium rein systems that speed characteristics give as a new advantage. as for the patriot systems, they are old and do not work in the same way as our as 3 hundreds. but nevertheless,

those who oppose us consider the patriots as defensive weapons. well, okay, we'll just keep in mind, and there will always be an antidote. those who do this just prolonging the conflict, our goal is not to prolong the military conflict, but if on the contrary to end this war, we strive for this and will continue to strive for this conflict. now that was another very important moment. we just heard there put an emphasizing once again that russia wants to see an end to this war. this is something we've heard reiterated by russian officials for a long time. now they say that the west is to blame for this conflict being drawn out because it's given a blank check when it comes to weapons and munitions to the key of regime put. and also said that this policy basically directed directly contradicts what the russian government wants for both sides to sit down and negotiate a table and find a diplomatic solution the time to learn more. let's go live to look. we have a right now there is independent journalist joining us live here on this program.

when are you into national look, always good to see you. i know you've been keeping your thumbs on the top here with regarding the putin today, making a lot of speeches today. at all a q and a with a press as well. he spent some time addressing the youth in the future generations of russia. as you well know, luc, he talked about the russian economy, saying that the russian economy is doing far better than anyone expected. in fact, saying that most indicators show russia is now doing better than most g 20 countries these days when it comes to the economy. luke, in the wake of western sanctions, how was that possible? shouldn't the ruble be rubble by now? i was biden promised. that's what we were told by germans, by the french, by our leaders in the west, at our sanctions, when necessary to branca, a russia to which is nice, but we are on our knees and energy wise. it is the situation. instead of all, we have mine a stand last week for us. it's a terrible winter. i mean he brushes minus then is quite frequent,

but here people start to realize that we had a huge problem of energy. no, no fuel, no gas, no, no one, no, no solutions for oil are within months in long term solutions, not before years from now. so it's not this went to that will be the worse. it's nice little on our economy in tatters everywhere. i mean factories closing, even the bakeries, you know, my bake around the corner, having to close because he can't bay for his gas. so this is terrible and they don't have an answer on so our economy, things out us and rushes seems to do. we'll look there are some that say that that some money is behind some sort of di, industrialization of europe when you look at the north stream, sabotaged, for example, cutting off the lifeline of russian energy to the european economy. the backbone of the european economy. are we talking here? you mentioned

a moment ago about your baker around the corner. he can afford to run his operations because energy is so expensive these days. lucas, is there any sense of resentment in europe? i know you're in brussels, but is there any sense of resentment across europe to politicians, that politicians who will give billions to a war effort, but not billions to help with the energy crisis affecting everyday people like you and me. it's building up. it's building up really in all our countries slowly because people come in on people. i use the word they know they asked of the scholar t their look at christmas coming christmas new year. so they're by their presence even saying at the shop that may be the last time we can afford nice christmas and things like that. but the risk management resentment is building up and what happened that european polymer last week? i mean, the fact that one of the vice presidents was put to jail for corruption and many members of, of the european bolivar are all on the list of the people that the police is after

. this is incredible and it, it worsens. the situation because of the cost of life is increasing. we have for 10 percent, 12 percent inflation. we can't get energy, so it's getting worse. and the reaction will the reactions will increase humphrey luke let. so let's turn our attention to some of the comments from the russian president vladimir putin today. he did a couple of speeches today. he did some big extensive q and a with a press as well. he really wasn't holding back when it comes to you. cray, in it, with the issue was brought up, but the french liter, emanuel micron is in some way, trying to corral some sort of piece talks to end the conflict in ukraine. but micron apparently doesn't want china and turkey leading the mediation. why do you think that is luke? well, i think he's fixed personally for the 1st thing, because so you thought, you know that france was the gold between bar x the laws. and when turkey became

the place where negotiations between russia and am jo, ukraine took place and that there were some results. remember, the brain deal and things, i mean, michael felt vexed personally as simple as that. but of course, on his reaction saying that he doesn't want china or, or, or turkey playing the role of go between between the 2 different are factions generally between america and europe. on one hand rush on the other end. it's allison and china, india and africa. friends on the rest of the world. so um, he would like to get a role and he says things. i mean yesterday, i mean, it was really silly saying that ukraine, that he wasn't sure that ukraine would become a member of nato. i mean, you know, if he thinks and he should think that never should your grand become a member of nato, he can say that, and there will be no membership because it's unanimity, ruling nato. so this is, this is very bad political on the part of monsieur mac,

or he has lost his touch. look of a independent journalist joining us here on arty international. always great to see you. thanks for your time. thank you. ah. so the cities, although donnette square, public had become some of the main hot spots of the ongoing conflict with fighting even spilling out onto the streets. arthur correspondent, eager to dine off, exclusive ne lauer following the hardened wagner group fighters as they advance on ukrainian frontline ah, so right now we're following in the footsteps of the advance of the wagner group. basically we're going to the south western outskirts of the city of our charm of sco obama. basically the fighting has already been taken to the city streets. but the point where we're going to is basically where the wagner fighters ah, flanking the main garrison, the main ukrainian garrison in bermuda from southwest,

in the not so far distance, the skyline of bah, moot stairs at us through crispy december air. i'm a small portion of the homes. how dangerous is this road? if you could rate it from one to 10 of them, i give it a full your apostrophe. is it often shelled with? yes, he can get caught under artillery. fire the path towards her thomas callback mode is paved with trenches, mazes like this, and with dead ukrainian soldiers left in them. this handheld rocket launcher is still armed. it's still dangerous. it still has the cool sign of the soldier that it belong to. it translates as quiet. so this is what it looks like here. and the ambience of war can be clearly heard behind and all around me.

were at the small village of han, grave k. and this is the closest that the wagner forces have managed to get to the city of buck moved when it comes to the south, west and direction. basically it's about 7 kilometers to the city itself and may be 600 meters to a kilometer to the point where the wagner troops are clashing with their ukrainian enemy. largest to learn as they were attempting to resist. but this is our job. we are advancing and we took control of this village rather swiftly. still, there were some difficulties afterwards. this drone footage was shot, a few days ago wagner's artillery crew spotted a ukrainian unit heavy shilling put the enemy to flight. they fled, abandoning their dead and wounded brothers and arms, whose bodies were left for us to discover. these positions are the ones that the ukrainian forces abandoned. most recently behind me,

you can see 2 dead bodies left here, left behind. along with the fortifications though, soldiers who are accompanying us here, they are telling us it is not safe to stand out because just yesterday, a ukrainian sniper was working and firing in this direction from less than a kilometer away with the right. now the soldiers of the vote for attacking the positions of ukrainian forces just outside of the city. but most ukrainian forces don't leave attempts to retake lost positions. but so far, everyone who tried didn't make it back with logical usually our positions were located at 50 meters

away. first we fired artillery. glenn in like 20 minutes, we came here ourselves. 5 enemy troops were killed, including their commander, his bodies, the 1st on the way they're going to all this action is only part of russia's complex operation to take the town of blackmore and objective, they hope to complete by the end of this year already. i'm august done of reporting from the dumbass frontline r t. ah. so zalinski visits, washington, his 1st apparent trip overseas since the south of the conflict in ukraine. it's a journey that shows ukraine's later is perhaps more interested in securing lethal arms than securing peace. although that sentiment is, according to some top russian officials become okay to, it's really, we know with regret that neither biden nor zalinski have spoken words that could be perceived as a potential willingness to listen to. russia's concerns. no words have been heard. warnings zalinski against the shelling of residential buildings and dumb boss,

and no calls for peace have been made. the shows that the united states is de facto and indirectly fighting to the last ukranian zalinski visit to washington and his conversations. he has shown that neither the u. s. administration nor zalinski is ready for peace. the focus was on the conflict, the death of ordinary soldiers, and the further into connection of the ukrainian regime with the needs of washington during the present, as well as his visit. he addressed the u. s. congress expressing gratitude for the weapons and money already provided, but then asked for more after the meeting, it was agreed that us patriot missile system would soon be delivered to you. pray. meanwhile, max blumenthal, the editor of the grey zone, investigative journalism side, has posted on twitter, his exchanges with delicates, representing the ukrainian diaspora, as they made their way up the stairs to the u. s. congress. as 45000000000. not enough. not enough. got that. how much,

how much more should we give to ukraine instead of our own people? do you, do you do support the i love italian, so you're more of an add on to tell you there's no more as a values where we're train and recruited that into a former professional army over the last 8 years. so the neo nazis were brought into the army? no, no, we are not season not, i mean, so no answer about is in crane is a democracy. why did zalinski ban 13 opposition? party to law? we didn't have enough snow martial law. sounds undemocratic. why did he band the russian wing of the orthodox church? russian special wanted extra to serving as the keys in his organization and with found, with materials that were legal and financing the enemy of war against innocent people. i oppose the assault on don. yes. do you the shelling of the people have done? yes. do you oppose that? no, no. are you wired? wired civilians been killed and done yet. lugens and you oppose that. why didn't

know they were coming? i didn't know who was coming. i just showed up at the capital was actually hoping to be the one reporter who actually asked critical questions of our representatives here in the u. s. on why they were going to authorize another $45000000000.00 to continue this dangerous proxy war throughout 2023. and what i found was a completely locked down capital, like the days after january 6 except the fences were lower, there were no members of congress, although i did catch a last sen. joe mansion who basically refused to speak to me. but there was a small anti war protests on east capitol right at the front of the capitol. and as i was standing there, i ukrainian diaz per delegations just rolled up, started taking pictures and sign of. and i began questioning them and you saw the exchange right there. i think it was very revealing. and these are actually significant figures and not only in the diaspora but within the ukrainian government itself. quote,

we stand together for as long as it takes. those are the words of the ukrainian and avoid the un who used social media to convey the message alongside that pitch. you see there a picture of the american flag painted in ukrainian flag colors. while this did spoke a bit of a reaction, people in don yet were quick to respond saying this goes to show who's really and cha ching t. and you got a must for themselves, understand that they can no longer continue like this. we are on the side of russia, no matter what, we are russia, we were russians, and we will stay russians. north america already said this will go on for as long as it needs and who needs it. it is america itself. that's the whole definition of what's going on in a nutshell. america will continue this as long as they can benefit from it. given this is pure idiocy, in my opinion, this demonstrates complete slavery. no other comment is needed. i left him on the story right now crossing live to a legal and media analyst line. oh,

joining us from the big apple. it's about 20 pos one of the off the new. there are new york line. i'll appreciate you jumping on with us here at archie. international in moscow, what do you think when we see a we see such images shared by government officials online, for example, the american flag dressed up in the ukranian colors line of what does it tell us about the role of social media in the ongoing ukraine conflict while the role of social media very simply is a, is an obfuscate her read, confuses, you know, during that piece you just of stated or played with mister blumenthal. if you presented that to anybody in conventional heritage media and said, please check off any of the terms, any of the names you are familiar with, nobody would do it. this is completely alien. if you walked over to most to say, here's a map, a globe point to ukraine, roughly, they wouldn't know what you're talking about. i can't emphasize this enough. we're

talking about what, what appears to be this. this raw ross says, boom by let's go and support without li vegas, understanding of what the goal is, what the role is. what are we going to do? we're looking right now in the united states at a $1.00. think about this trillion dollar omnibus bill. american citizen are saying 1.7 truck trillion for what we're wondering, where are we going to pay for our operation? what get, what is our goal? we always say, whenever you have any kind of military operation, whether ridge to assist, to actively engage, what is the goal, what is the the end result? when do you leave? when do you declare victory? who is the and then me,

all of the usual rules that we have learnt. i thought we learn from everything from vietnam to iraq, to whatever. and we can even answer it, but we clap and we applied and we show this. and let me also say that me, before i forget, there is absolutely no daylight between left and right. democrat republican, everybody is on board with it. there is no descent. there's nothing lying over you talk about. there's no to sign him that this is, you know, part of a thing that people say, well, the slumbering masses, they just keep moseying down the street. they're almost wearing a horse, you know, st. blind as they're just not aware of the surroundings. i mean, you know, you've got a potential political crisis in america, you've got inflation. people can afford a gas out there. big su v's. and yet zelinski comes to washington. he speaks to all the politicians there in the congress. he, he gets awarded $45000000000.00. he's getting the u. s. patriot systems as well. tucker carlson. stoppers center on fox news seems to say that zalinski is

ungrateful. zelinski keeps asking for more money. 45000000000 is not enough. is tucker carlson. the only person there who seemingly is wor, fatigued or economically frustrated with the state of affairs of heritage, big, big time, platform media. oh absolutely. he is an outlier. and if, if i put it this way, as we say in the business, don't buy the green bananas. i mean, this is, if ever there is something that it will absolutely get you destroyed. ultimately it is this because there is no room for descent. i can't explain this enough whether this is a clock, grassy mob behavior. i don't know what it is, but social media, you ask the question very, very artfully. there's something about the scrum that social media provides. and if it is a, i'm going to use these terms, a cool looking mean, a trope, ism, an idea, something that can be provided,

something that can be just passed on. something. do you know the number of people in this country who have and in terms of their, their, i guess there some print or whatever. it's called the ukrainian fly upside down. they don't even know it was like when, when we were yes, we surely during the surely have don't, they had no idea. i had people thinking it was jesus because they couldn't refresh . i'm used to that. you're not. i've seen this. and what's gonna happen is, it's going to be forgotten before you know it, because there's something about war and military, and the trope isms of a valiant of warriors. and let us not forget, if you think for one minute that his parents, his garb, his uniform, was just randomly concocted. if you don't think that is a part of the message,

you're missing the point. there is something that adds to this. i know people good people who mean well, who are taken by dare i say the romantic chivalry us. ah, image is the visage. this has all the trappings of not only a social media move, but a but a, but a major media, multi media. i don't want to say propaganda, that's a very dangerous word, but 8 betty, an orchestrated message, an image that people are loving and they feel good about it and they don't want tucker carlson, ruining that. that particular that that, that a fall give elation law. i wanted to just bring you up before i run out of time here, there was an article, i don't know if you saw it in the past couple of days in political where they allegedly got their hands on a leads conversation from the biden white house where apparently the conversation went as follows. we're going to start whistling down the amount of funding in aid we're giving to ukraine because we want to drop the ukraine story down the news

cycle. why do you think that might be the case? why would they want to drop the ukraine story further down the news cycle in america? ah, i can only get her, i say, the risk of a waxing conspiratorial. give you a couple of ideas. but i think we're getting to the point right now where people don't really understand it and frankly, may be common sense may prevail because the one issue that nobody is talking about is peace ending it. this is say sion of hostility, that said it is somehow absent and void from the, from the rubric of conversation. maybe i hope we're getting to that point. we say enough or as our friends the italian say, but that enough, lionel legal and media analyst always enjoy getting you on the program. thanks for your time. thank you sir. lodge protests are taking place in ethnic

sub populated areas of the self proclaimed republic of kosovo. off the pristine era . peter threatened demonstrate as manning barricades. now the move came off to sir protest was blocked rhodes, following at night time, exchange of fire with police ultimately angry at the arrest of a former. so policeman suspected by children of involvement and attacks on local offices, the cause of vice prime minister alban courtesy stretched the barricades would not be tolerated with much longer. adding that he could not be sure that removal would not quote cause victims. ah, so one of the most ultra right of governments and israel's history is about to get up and running as incoming prime minister. benjamin netanyahu announces a new coalition with moral and who forms the coal of the new government. is maria phenomena in jerusalem. and as before, the midnight deadline, benjamin netanyahu cold days rally president and informed him that he has managed 7

weeks after he won the election to form a government that everybody now already agreed is going to become the most far right government in the country history, they had overthrows, alter nationalist, jewish power of faction, ben greer, reason among the most controversial politicians in the new college and known as a devoted follower l days, rarely influential robbie, whose polity wanted to establish a pure jewish society, been very subtler himself who is living now. if you will comply west bank, he's famous for his promises to change the long agreed status quart in the whole list for all muslims, all oxer malls, the jewish hire right now not allowed to pray there though, stay low to enter rate. the policy had been through already called racist, vowing to change it to ended, very alarm and faith and then career. he's going to become the country's national security minister, responsible for all police. and this is what he earlier said about the methods to

achieve the security. he'll be responsible for troops should get out stuff and shoot, and not use rubber bullets as punch tipped bullets lie fire that will be the law precise action. he early fulfilled an owner of all of us and did what was assigned to the situation in the occupied westbank has recently been very tens and very turbulent. these railey army intensified its military raids and the northern part of it. and very often it led to fatalities including among civilian population. according to the palestinian authority. dozens of police did in kids have been killed as a result, this is how and other member of been groups party common to them that earlier. so i will tell you something that is very unpleasant to say if it is one israeli mother crying or a 1000 palestinian mothers crying, then the 1000 palestinian mothers. you're too merciful. it's time for us to stop being so it has nothing to do with racism. that you will,

as well as numerous local and international human rights organizations have already informed that alarm the international community, about numerous violations, invalid crimes, committed by israel in the occupied west bank, another a controversial figure, and then you call lucian. they had their religious sign is through politics. who is going to become responsible for the territories of fairies. mr. small courage fads that these organizations is a pure threat for israel. it started small and today we understand the magnitude of the threat just like the nationalist extremism of the arabs in the state of israel who also started small. but the threat has evolved at 1st. you think it's mosquito and then you understand it's a swarm. many israeli politicians have already expressed their concerns that then you government will be able to spark a wide range confrontation with palestinians and barry along the way to 2 state solution. and they rarely policy.