now a a with the economy, despite the predict the collapse devastation and catastrophe. nothing of the kind just happened here. a russian president of it says the west has failed. it's a me. and he uses washington seeking to divide close to the on 3. i'm a city in the nation of morocco made a series of exposure and the worst gets

a taste of medicine with trying to say it keep its own sanctions against the member state in place to support the blocks attempted to get the world trade organization with good morning, good evening, where ever you are in the world. welcome to ortiz, and i was just going to 5 am here in the russian capital. and as always, it's great to have you with us. i'm more out of army. let's take a look at today's top stories. russian president vladimir put in says the u. s. has long been trying to undermine the post soviet world, including my existing influence over ukraine. earlier, my colleagues, rudy, sushi and don't call to discuss that raw the stock assessment. right, so for to 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 try to divide us and then try 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 had been kept very low, as well as took a 3rd economy capacity economy. despite the predict the claps devastation and catastrophe, nothing of the kind has happened here. moreover, russia's indicate is 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 an unemployment rate for us, it is at a low a 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 thing said, dodge, 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 aisles 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 defense industry wasn't it? right. and it was also discussed alongside one question that another journalist asked regarding the possibility of the us supplying the key regime with patriot

missile systems. this is something that a lot of putin said ok, let the west do that. because the patriot missile systems already 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 of soviet basically, mainly soviets is 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 suitable in january, russia will have a new frigates in combat service with new weapon systems. we are not being provocative for this will strengthen our strategic forces. we, despite these being medium rein systems that need characteristics, give us a new advantage. as for the patriot systems,

they are old and do not work in the same way as our as 300. 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 on the contrary to end this war, we strive for this and will continue to strive for the host of the conflict. now that was another very important moment. we just heard there prudent, 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 at the negotiating table and find a diplomatic solution. was his d d p decline this year?

it only a fraction of what had been produced due to the increase wasn't sanctions. we heard from independent just luke river, who says the ease economy has suffered more from his own sanctions than that of russia. guess what we were told by the germans, by the french, by our leaders in the west and our sanctions when necessary to bring car a russia to which is nice, but we are on our knees and energy wise. it is, the situation is terrible. we have mine a stand last week for us. it's a terrible winter. i mean he brushes minus than is quite frequent. but here people start to realize that we had a huge problem of energy. no fuel, no gas, no, no one, no, no solutions for, for oil are within month on, in long term solutions, not before years from now. our economies in tatters everywhere. i mean factories

closing the cost of life is increasing. we have for 10 percent, 12 percent inflation. we can't get energy, this is terrible and they don't have an answer on so our economies in tatters and rushes seems to do well. what was kidnapped in north west africa. a major gas storage facility near morocco's atlantic coast has burst into flames amid a series of explosions. so far, no casualties have been reported. ah, firefighters are said to have contained the glazed media reports have said a ghastly could have been responsible. there have also been concerns about other from all materials being kept at the facility local, jealous. 2 sarah tar lab said of this report from morocco. oh, i mean he goes up in flames to day, and there is

a lot of footage that wouldn't be shared online shows a huge flames. and the gas storage is in the city near the court, where you guys and other flammable materials are stored this odd storage of it's close to people and even families and citizens living leave in near the facility i have evacuated. the surrounding people are hearing the explosion so far as far away about 10 kilometers. so it's mary to fi in in doll. it's mary anne. it's mary the nurse the current in and went to the you and her said his country will always stuck together with the u. s. as he put off a social media post for a picture of an american flag in the yellow blue of the crane, national bama don't bust residence will a quick to respond with condemnation saying lose play revealed. who really is in

charge and give your body 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. liberalism, this is pure idiocy, in my opinion. this demonstrates complete slavery. no other comment is needed. he recently visited washington, where he met with us, seated joe biden and gave an address to congress, which he pleaded for more weaponry, expressed gratitude to the us for the supplies that said they were enough. the u. s . hasn't meanwhile agreed to provide the patriot missile systems to frame. meanwhile, madison lumens, though i deserve the grains and invest investigative new sites is posted on twitter,

his it changes with diligence representing the cleaning dice for as they made their way to congress is 45000000000. not enough. nope. not enough. how much, how much more should we give to ukraine instead of our own people? do you, do you do support the as of italian? no more than as of the value. there's no more as a value where, where 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, no, not see them, not a minute. so no answer about if crane is a democracy, why did zalinski ban 13 opposition? partial law. we did not know martial law sounds on democratic. why did he band the russian wing of the orthodox church and the russians special wanted extra to serving as a treasonous organization? and with, with found with materials that were legal and financing that the enemy 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. if you oppose that senator, do you know how much we, how many billions we've sent to ukraine, bruce a lot more. do you want to send more? oh, absolutely, amazon. all in all your all india. 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. looked like the days after january 6th, 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. 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 i began questioning them. and you saw the exchange right there. i think it was very revealing. and these are actually significant figures not only in the diaspora, but within the ukrainian government itself. as widens administration continues to shall ukraine with money and weapons. millions of americans are at risk of losing them medical coverage or research report addresses of provision in the new 1.7 trillion us spending bill citing the states could talk terminating people's medicaid coverage in 2033 if they no longer meet certain criteria. the medicaid program was previously boosted off of the u. s. to clear the public health emergency response, the coven pandemic, and that the number of people in rural search to more than a 3000000 media alice lionel says, is unfair to make american citizens suffer for the government's decision to support

other countries. we're looking right now in the united states at a $1.00. think about this trillion dollar omnibus bill. american citizens are say, 1.7, troy trillion for what we're wondering, where are we going to pay for our operation? what get, what is our goal? are you suggesting, does this intimate, that we are involved in a war that we are a participant in this, that, that we are a cold combatant? does? is that what this means? because if it does mean that i don't think a lot of americans will particularly care for that, we never signed on to this. we're getting to the point right now where people don't really understand it. and frankly, maybe common sense may prevail. because the one issue that nobody is talking about is peace ending it. this is sation 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 where we say enough for us senators pulse a motion to use asset sees from a world feed from wealthy russians to finance ukraine's war effort. initiating the lawmakers said it would be a relief to american taxpayers the memo, while the department of justice through the secretary of state to transfer proceeds from seas oligarch, assets, or other sanction entities to the people of ukraine. it will be a godsend to the long suffering people of the ukraine. it'll bear relief to the american taxpayer calls millions of dollars are subject to being seized and transferred. it will be a bad day for all or guards. the says this came just

a day off, the u. s. person announced the fresh $1850000000.00 murphy, a package to achieve a made present semanski visit to washington. the bill is yet to be approved by the house of representatives before it would be signed into law pointer. broaden this course live now to us radio host and little commentary to steve here. steve, i'm, i'm perplexed here. this is almost as if, you know, your, your friends with somebody, i like that friend or you like that for the and i'm from son to steal bits and pieces from you. just to sort of punish you. i mean, what you make of this is more the acceptable for the u. s. a c's russian property. well, 1st of all, if anybody believes that lindsey graham of the u. s. government are going to give american taxpayers a rebate on the billions that we have funded to ukraine. if we collect anything from so called russian oligarchy than the i've got, i've got a bus depot to say you in long island back about 20 miles off shore. that the crazy

thing about this is that the mark twain or american humorous one, said the difference in the right word and the almost right. where is the difference in lightning and lightning bug? it's interesting that they're using the term russian all regards to it, to refer to these russian private business individuals because they call them private business people can some americans might be a little bit more outraged the same way that lindsey grandmothers would be leading the screams and how's about rates? if russia and china and india and other foreign countries were taking private u. s. business assets from individuals? because those countries disagree with the practices and policies of the u. s. government, it is lightly illegal. it is certainly immoral and it is just definitely wrong to think that we're going to somehow repay american taxpayers with money stolen from private individuals who are simply business people tied to russia. well see if he's not, she's saying lindsey graham is actually saying by he saying that, but we cause we need that. we want to give me thea crane. we will kind of run out

of taxpayers money. we need to steal or we need to borrow. i didn't know what the term legally, they gonna use a freeze these assets, as you said, of businessman the not connected to the crime and maybe of you know, for, to talk or as any other businessman as ala must, is connected to, i guess, joe biden. but i mean, these are businessman doing what they do, and here they are, they don't connected politically, is what i'm trying to say. and here they are being, you know, that the boat so that property being what will the, the senate 10 dollars, 10 cents on the dollar and trying to generate money. i mean, how does this work when the where so the praises, it's private property concepts. yeah. because they praise it, but they don't actually follow either our constitutional republic rules and regulations with respect to taking property without due cause or due process. i

think again, the american people like why i was saying, are increasingly focused on what are we getting from what the president zaleski claims is an investment in ukraine. what years ago i better us troops in iraq and couple of times, but i came back, people were asking me what, you know, what are we over there for? we were there for the oil, and i would tell people, i hope so because i didn't see anything else over there that we would want. we didn't get a piece of the oil action, and i don't know what we're going to get in terms of our return on investment. as president to lindsey, he tries to term it for the 1100000000 or so to be put into ukraine. there will be no return on investment for american taxpayers. it will not be repaid. unfortunately, billions of dollars are going into the pockets of either our military establishment or perhaps 10 percent for the big guy like they did 100 by and the oil industry. and ukraine is the most corrupt country in, in the world, certainly in the european theater. and yet we are pouring money in with no accountability,

no justification of where it's on and where it's actually ending up versus just being kind of 40 to a black hole with no return on investment for american taxpayers. is we talk about american taxpayers. i mean, are they becoming frustrated? i mean, do they know what's going on in the governments or, you know, they just being catching up with them on the 9th news of, of whatever, you know, the u. s. government wants to show them. do they know that billions of dollars is going to a country that they may never ever see or see that money again? i don't think much american taxpayers are aware of how much is being spent or what it's going to use. so much of this is place you on the heart strings of all the poor people. if you train when the u. s. media wasn't talking about where people don't ask when they were being ravaged and savage by. and i hate to break it to some of the ukrainian activists in washington, d. c. by the a's offer gave by others in the militia who were brutalizing,

the civilians in eastern ukraine. there was no heart felt sympathy for them then. and now the whole story in the us, it is a one sided story, only one side being told to make it seem that if you're not for a war and you probably not for funding war and ukraine, the us tax dollars, and somehow you're an ally advocate or hostage to the russian government. it is not a fair presentation to the american people and, and they can find the truth. they can find some sources. you got a tucker, carlson, and a few others that are telling the truth. but it is such a rare incident in our media that we can't really blame the american people for not knowing the truth when they're not being told the truth. half of it is a shame. it is sad to say line of time. what was a pleasure to see you and to see so thanks again for joining us here. ok, thanks again. so it seems the west has gotten

a taste of its own medicine of its destructive sanctions. policies now and china has said it will keep its own restrictions against an e member state in place. despite the blocks attempt to get the will trade organization to intervene. i'll take on to 3rd, rachel lawson opinions on the issue. this is a case of play stupid games when stupid prizes. that's what the baltic state of lithuania seems to be doing with china. and it's really costing them big time in exports, about 90 percent of which china has now blocked, including wheat and refined copper from lithuania. so that's bad news, not just for lithuanian economy, but also for the european union's. so what led to china's embargo against lithuanian products? well, it was the combination of a series of acts that would normally be difficult to explain for a country that's part of the european union. the blocks taught trading partner is

china and has an official one china policy that doesn't recognize taiwan as separate from beijing. but lithuania has literally parroted washington's criticisms . a china on everything from anti beijing protests in hong kong to the legit treatment of or miss treatment of muslim wiggers to the promotion of a strong tie one. and it's this last point that was the last straw for beijing when in august 2021. taiwan opened a taiwanese representative office in the lithuanian capital of vilios. by the way, this past august, lithuania did the same thing. opening a representative office in taipei. and here's how china reacted to that. at the time. there is only one china in the world tie. one is an inalienable part of the people's republic of china. china family rejects any form of official interaction with ty,

one by any country. having diplomatic ties with china with family reject any x that contravenes the universal consensus of the international community and basic norms of international relations. so what this means is that twice with the opening of each of these offices in their respective places, lithuania was essentially recognizing and entity taiwan, that even the e u doesn't officially recognize as separate from china, but which go figure the u. s. on the other hand is always trying to promote as defacto independent despite washington. also having a one china policy officially in kind of curious, isn't it? so earlier this year, as this whole charade was playing out, beijing just really had enough of watching with wayne in washington. and play footsie under the table while thinking that no one could actually see them. and china just flat out band, the imports of products from lithuania, and that includes european products that even contain components. from lithuania,

it also downgraded diplomatic ties with the baltic state. we urge the lithuanian site to correct its mistakes immediately and not to underestimate the chinese people's thumb determination. i'm stunned to resolve to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity. but last summer, as you, as house speaker, nancy pelosi was doing her war drum bongo performance. during a visit to taiwan, lithuanian government officials thought it would also be a good idea to do the same thing. china beg to differ and slack sanctions on lithuanian officials. there is a tramples on the one china principal seriously into fees in china's internal affairs and undermines turn a sovereignty and territorial integrity. so now after china refusing to just go along with these western attempts to subvert at sovereignty and even western official policy, either subverting that to the e. u wants to now a wind to the world trade organization. maybe at some point brussels will realize

that if it had defended, it's an lithuania, his own sovereignty from washington's attempt to use it as a proxy to promote its policies. v's ivy china in this case, then perhaps it wouldn't have this whole mess on its hands to senior us lawmakers of acute washington or failing to provide compensation to civilian victims of intimacy campaigns. those congress members, also the pentagon of underreporting, the numbers of civilian casualties in syria. this vast difference between independent reporting and the department of defense investigation raises concerns and undermines defense department credibility on civilian casualty reporting. or avoid visor painted on loss. you said the u. s. was responsible just 12 deaths globally that year. lawmakers and that's a however pains, there were at least 15 such instance instances in syria that year alone and also

highlighted to the missile strike. 3 years ago, the officials have said close the lives of 4 civilians. those congress members, i've had an investigation that said 160 people died, the late that live as a cave of victims and their families. even those of the president has recognized face difficulties getting compensation garcia report to the only one such payment was provided despite a $3000000.00 budget to meet such goals. the u. s. is supposed to provide compensation within 90 days of such incidents. but for many that has not been forthcoming. former president senior security policy on his bike who thinks the u. s. defense department will never acknowledge. the real number of civilians kills off the top of my head. i would say that it's far greater than anything the defense department ever admitted to when you're dropping bombs from aircraft at 20000 feet

on to a heavily populated area. the inevitable is going to happen, you're going to kill a lot of people and they're not all terrorists and fighters, particularly in the, in cities, even in the areas that are in, in, in syria where isis concentrated the heavy concentration of bombing that, that occurred. ready the, the inevitable result was a lots of death that went and reported. there is no way that we could get in the defense department to get to get in to verify. so they just didn't bother. of course, you had these other groups outside groups that were reporting the killings and deaths. but the defense department's argument is, well, we can't verify it, so that's fine. what's going to be the consequence, even if you do reports,

what's the consequence they go on and on and on. we've been through all these wars and who's been punished for it, nobody knows africa. now, rwanda has reiterated is adam and denial of allegations that it has been supporting the m $23.00 inserted group, which is fighting its national for those just over the border and the democratic republic of congo. the choosing rolanda of support to the congolese armed group m 23 is wrong and distracts from the real cause of continued conflict in eastern d r. c. it is a mistake to conflate the measures that rwanda has put in place to guard its borders with support for any particular arm group in d. r. c is had to offer one descript. they have consistently fed that they are not to be blamed for the m $23.00 rebels, and be dissociated themselves from them and deny any accusations of their finding. but of course, this was also further exacerbated by the fact that france has come out to open the

accused. rwanda for what it says is one does roll with the ongoing tases in north kiva. we are witnessing the return of a tragic situation in the east of the d. r. c. it is unbearable and unacceptable. there are responsibilities and france has no difficulty in pointing them out. m 23 must stop fighting, disengage, and return the occupied territories. rwanda, as it must be named, must stop supporting m $23.00. we must put an end to the repetition of history in this region. this comes on the back of both rwanda's accusations towards franz thing that they had a hand in the mains. he maintained for genocide, particularly i choosing the french troops with patients in one day, 1994 of participating in some of the human rights atrocities that we saw during the genocide and facilitating a safe passage in

a safe haven for some of the people who are responsible according to their london government for if we're starting that genocide that we saw in 1994 and on the return of that is that france is also accusing rwanda or openly for the 1st time. at least this follows the american accusation of the theme thing that the to gully government is to be blamed for your support for that you and sanctioned m $23.00 levels. but that relation here are bound to get testy if time goes, because right now, this will not be helping as accusations and contact us asians team of flying and more european nations. i'm more likely to be implicated in this regard. but france did inquire into the role played by troops in rwanda during the genocide but the band and.