political and corruption scandals. wow. but all that didn't stop mo, google obtaining you can do. the truth is in 2022. ah, with the economy, despite the predict the collapse devastation and catastrophe. nothing of the kind as happened here. russia, president of evidence says the west has failed in service to cripple his country. to me, it uses warfare than to divide those 2 countries with a city in the north african nations of morocco and made a series of explosion. the world trade organization says the us violated international

law by labeling inputs from hong kong as being china, but often to reject that decision saying needs to be with good morning. good afternoon. good evening. whenever you are in the world, welcome to international. it's just 17 i am here in the russian capital and it's great to have you with us. i'm more of a mommy. let's take a look at today's top stories. i can present that it says the u. s. has long been trying to undermine the soviet world, including my influence over ukraine earlier, my colleagues, rory, sushi and don't call to discuss that rather stock assessment by mr. hood, malicious, casella. moore's 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 ponts. nothing new there that 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 stroke assist so you can limit capacity economy despite the predicted claps, devastation and catastrophe. nothing of the kind as happened here. moreover,

rushes 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 an unemployment rate for us. it is at a low a leveled and pre pandemic. but then it was full point, 7 percent. now it is 3.8 percent. you know how labor market is stable. our financial market is a stable. i thought that one of the interesting thing said, don, during this press conference was one of the, one of the questions from a member of the press. what was i? he asked us, is russia running out of miss aisles and the conflict in ukraine, but also, ah, certain western partners and ukraine who are fighting russia they, are they running out of weapons as well? a, quite a lot was said about rushes. 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 a patriot missile systems. this is something that vladimir putin said, okay, 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 halves soviet, basically, mainly soviet 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 we whoo, suitable in january, russia will have a new frigates in combat service with new weapons systems. we are not being provocative with this will strengthen our strategic forces lewis, despite these being medium rain systems, that speed characteristics give as

a new advantage. as for the patriot systems, they all do not work in the same way as our s 3 hundreds. but nevertheless, those who opposes consider the patriots as defensive weapons. well, okay, we'll just keep it in mind and that will always be an antidote. that those who do this, i just prolonging the conflict. our goal is not to prolong the military conflict, but to put on the contrary to end this war. we strive for this come will continue to strive to this, to that, to you, and you can fix that issue. now, that was another very important moment. we just heard, there putin 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 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. as you just heard, grocer's gdp decline this year, only a fraction of what have been predicted due to the increase western sanctions. we spoke with independent journalist luc rebate, who says that easy economy has suffered more from his own sanctions than that of russia. that's what we were told by germans, by the french, by our leaders in the west and our sanctions were necessary to bring car russia to which nice but we are on our knees. energy wise, it to the situation is that we have minus 10 last week for us. it's a terrible winter. i mean he rushes minus 10 is quite frequent, but here people start to realize that we had a huge problem of energy. no, no, no gas, no, no, no, no solutions for oil with mouth and long term solutions, not before years from now. our economy is in tatters. everywhere. i mean factories

closing. the cost of life is increasing. we have 10 percent, 12 percent inflation. we can't get energy, this is terrible and they don't have an answer on so our economy encounters and brushes seems to do well. good to know so. so the worse than meddling could affect whether russia obligated to supply gas to europe under its current contracts. osgood was, wanted to impose price cap for natural gas, rise was saying it would set its own value for the commodity to be sold. that well, still has accused the u. s. and the countries west of the allies of attempting to artificially manipulate the international market. new russian legislation freeze the state gothic sports, a gas pro val filling obligations on the foreign contracts. if been violate, national guidelines. this rest of it of the russian price designation are to be determined by the end of next week. we heard from prominent economy for my son,

jack rasmus, who says the russian that russian move is intended to challenge the west attempted market manipulation, germans, west europeans are, are buying a lot of gas from russia. they're trying to stock up as much as they can before they cut it off altogether after the winter. the artificial price cap is an arbitrary way of trying to set the global price of natural gas, just as they tried to set the global price of, of crude oil, which won't work either. if russia doesn't think it's going to make any money off of red, it's really what it's saying now is we're not going to sell you the gas at whatever price you arbitrarily fixed, rather than i'm world global market price, no less normal for any company, no company decides to sell at the low cost, right? they just don't sell if that's the case and they always live clauses in their contract said that allow them to, to do that for one,

my guess story to another america gas storage facility near morocco's atlantic coast has burst into flames amid a series of explosions. so far, no casualties have been repulsive. ah, 5 is a sense of insane did, lays me miracles, i said. and cathy could have been responsible that both of in concerns about other fumble materials being kept at the facility local jealous sorrow at phillip sent us this report from okay. we all know them. mm hm. maybe i get storage facility goes up in flames today. and there is a lot of footage and couldn't share 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 data storage of it's close

to people and evan families and citizens flame leaving near the facility have evacuated. to surround the people are here in the explosion. so for as far away about 10 kilometers. so it's mary to to fi in in it's mary, it's very dangerous. the old trade organization has ruled the u. s. violated international law by labeling impulse, specifically from hong kong, as being only generally from china. washington has rejected that decision says the w t. o is in desperate need the reform, all teens kelly mo pin has the details. or you're saying is a longstanding pattern of the united states flouting international norms and agreements all well condemning others and pounding the podium about a rules based global order. it's not just the hong kong labeling disagreement last week. the world trade organization found that the steel and aluminum tariffs passed

by the united states were also in violation. the united states shot back that they strongly disagreed with how the treaty was being interpreted. the united states strongly rejects to float interpretation and conclusions in the world trade organization paddle reports. these doubled sale panel reports only reinforced the need to fundamentally reformed the w till this been settled on was system. the bite and administration is committed to preserving you, especially security, by insuring the long term viability of our steel and aluminium industries. and we do not intend to remove the section $232.00 duties as a result of these disputes. so even though it's a longstanding agreement, us officials just say that it needs reform. they go right along with what they're doing, saying they have no intentions of adjusting their policy whenever you don't like the results, just declare that the system is rigged against you and continued doing what you want to do was recall the reaction of u. s. officials,

when they did not like the world health organizations findings in an investigation of woo hon labs, here's how they respond it across the board. the united states believes as a general matter when we're at the table, we can help shape events. and when we're not in the w h o, we don't have any influence that it is functioning the way it's intended to function by re engaging with the w h o. the united states will be in a position to push any necessary and needed reforms. and to be clear, there are necessary and needed reforms, according to the logic of u. s. officials, a system functions the way it's intended to when the united states gets what it wants and when it doesn't, it clearly needs reform. and until then it can be disregarded. it doesn't get any more blatant than the international criminal court. long time war hawk, john bolton, who served in the administrations of both donald trump and george w bush was very angry and outraged at the i. c. c was investigating the actions of

the u. s. troops in afghanistan. he said the i, c, c has got to go. we will not cooperate with the i c. c. we will provide no assistance to the i, c, c. and they certainly will not join the i c, c. we will let the i c, c die on its own. after all, for all intents and purposes, the i, c. c is already dead us, we will ban it's judges and prosecutors from entering the united states. we will sanction their funds in the u. s. financial system, and we will prosecute them in the us criminal system. the president will not allow american citizens to be prosecuted by foreign bureaucrats and he will not allow other nations to dictate our means of self defense. but now after withdrawing from the i, c c and going all in against it, getting it was sanctions. the united states now suddenly loves the i c. c, because it's talking about targeting russia. the i c. c is good if it's targeting

somebody we don't like, but if it dares touch us, it's got to be abolished. the hypocrisy is pretty hard to over look. so when you, as officials talk about a rules based global order, they mean rules for the but not for me or do as we say, but not as we do. it's not about principles are right and wrong, but about making sure that certain entities remain at the top of the food chain. it is dig itself into a corner and we see that country is increasingly isolated on the international stage. right. more and more countries are citing with russia with china be right, says overstepped his bounds. but the u. s. simply does not recognize any bones. it does what it wants when it wants to suit its own interests in. we have to be very clear when we speak about its interest, meaning the government's interest or the interest of major corporations that the u . s. government almost never acts for the benefit of its own citizens. again, i'm speaking to someone who is represented. i've represented americans abroad.

we've had trouble living abroad living in nato countries, even in the u. s. government would never even help them. the fact is that the way in its allies are increasingly isolated. the world has woken up, and they're sick of being bullied. a sick of the scams are sick of allies and we're good. we're now going to reap a bitter harvest of all the horrible things you've done or the past 25 years. ukrainian and lloyd the un has said his country will always stand together with the u. s, as he put a social media post for picture of an american flag in the yellow blue. the korean national banner dumbass residence will quit to respond with condemnation saying that this way revealed who rudy is in charge and keith. but he 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. he grins, the presence of, as he recently visited washington, where he met with usa, the joe biden and gave address to congress, which he put in for more weaponry, express gratitude to the us for the current suppliers were said they weren't enough . the us as meanwhile, agreed to provide involved patriot missile systems ukraine. meanwhile, max blumenthal editor of the gray zone investigative news site has posted on twitter. his, its changes with delegates represent in the queen, dice for as they made their way to congress. is 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 as of italian, so you're more of an as of and 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 are brought into the army. no, no, we are not see them not a minute. so no answer about is in crane is a democracy. why did zalinski ban 13 opposition? party to law? we did have an us know martial law sounds undemocratic. why did he band the russian wing of the orthodox church? right in special wanted extra to serving as the keys in his organization and 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 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 diaspora 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. i'm not only in the diaspora but within the ukrainian government itself. i didn't know they were coming . i didn't know who was coming. i just showed up in 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 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. senator, do you know how much we've, how many billions we've sent to ukraine. we're gonna send a lot more. do you want to send more? oh yeah, absolutely, i'm all in, i'm all, you're all in as us lawmakers and both parties of food sending more money and weapons, you'd find millions of americans are at risk losing their medical coverage. arissa report addresses of provision in the new $1.00 from the us funding bill saying says who's thought so raising people's medicaid coverage next year. maybe, as lionel says, is unfair to make american citizens suffer from a government's decision to support other countries. we're looking right now in the united state at a 1.7. think about this trillion dollar omnibus bill. american citizens are say, 1.7, true 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 re, coal combatant? does? is that what this means? because if it does mean that i don't think a lot of americans were 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 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 on going try mazda victor or by the last, is out over the latest eas scandal saying there's not enough oversight in the block

use. i mean that it will be service. brussels is full of corruption cases hazard. the question is why the checks and balances nor, or the defense mechanisms didn't work. he said, i would like to ask, where were the investigative journalists and brussels? im, i think a lot of people have to do list. but i think the most important thing is to drain the swamp, who, to what extent has the credibility of european parliament been damaged and hungry? it's a non question because it cannot be a negative though out of that. his statement comes on the hills on emerging corruption and bribery, scandal that has rocked the you a vice president. the european parliament has been suspended and she and several other individuals are accused of accepting hefty bribe, reportedly linked to morocco and guitar. those 2 countries have rejected involvement. i think it all one has also tied the easy can i have problems with support for ukraine amid the conflicts. we got a reaction from rain, the roof us

a senior member of the alternative for germany party. he says, many people cheryl burns opinion about the e u. of course there is a fight going on between arbiter or bon and the european union, and he is not really right, but he's also not wrong. and he's not the only one in the world are criticizing brussels for, for always trying to lecture the world about moral standards for doing politics. and now being trapped in a really severe corruption case. damage is really severe and it cannot be overestimated because in the view of the citizen, not only in hungary, but all over europe. of course, one severe corruption case, pains the whole institution in a negative color. and this is maybe not just that it's of course,

the result of what has happened in the european parliament. the year has passed a motion to use assets sees from well, the russians, the financing, korean war effort. despite us laws on property rights, then if anything north lake is said, it will be a relief for american taxpayers and on the shoulders of county. everything is memo would allow that part of justice to 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 be a relief to the american taxpayer cost. billions of dollars are subject to being seized and transfered. it will be a bad day for all regards. the says lou came just a day after the us post amounts of fresh $1850000000.00 movie aid package to keep

amid prisons. events these visit to washington. the bill is yet to be improved by the house of representatives before it would be signed into law by joe biden. fizzle, political commentators, c gill, says washington's asset sees is of so called russian. only goth will do close to nothing. to alleviate the u. s. fire or burden for its support for keith, it is certainly a moral and it is just definite, the wrong to think that we're going to somehow repay american taxpayers with money stolen from private individuals who are simply business people died the rush, the crazy thing about this is that the mark twain, american humorous once that the difference in the right word and the almost right for the difference in whitening mit. but 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. then some americans might be a little bit more outraged the same way that lindsey graham and others would be

leading the screams and howls about rates. if russia and china and india and other foreign countries were taking private us business assets from individuals. because those countries disagree with the practices and policies for the u. s. government. and i don't know what we're going to get in terms of our return on investment. as the president believes, he tries to term it for the years, 100000000 or so to be put into ukraine. there will be no return on investment for american taxpayers. it will not be repaid on taxes now to africa ro, wanda, has reason to i didn't denial of allegations that it has been supported to the m 23 insurgent loop, which is fine. is national forces just over the border in the democratic republic of congo. that using 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 were wanda has put in place to guard its borders with support for any particular arm group in d r. c is proud to offer wanda script. 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 openly accuse rwanda for what it says is the wonders role with the ongoing tases in north cable. 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, of rwanda accusations towards france fame that they had a hand in the main thing maintained for genocide. particularly, i choosing the french truth was stationed in one day, 1994 of participating in some of the human rights atrocities that we saw during the genocide and facilitating a safe passage and a safe haven for some of the people who are responsible according to their london government for it was fighting that genocide than 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 the un sanctioned m 23 levels. but the relations here are bound to get test the if time goes. because right now,

this will not be helping as accusations and contact us asians team flying and more . you repeat nations, i'm more likely to be implicated in this regard. but front bids, inquire into the role played by the troops in rwanda during the genocide but the bend. and that, that inquiry saying that they found no evidence that its troops have participated in any human rights violations. we heard from a foreign affairs alice explain how cute, the problem of national security is for the democratic republic of congo is to just on the security. special obviously has been exceedingly better. but for a very long time, i'm not worried. a lot of us, i mean, look out, people, obviously not the front office. you said, you know,

you security because because the security is one, you know, that does continue to make the people. and of course, we know that that consequences rips and kill it. so that, you know, sense, you know, they have to branch off the security in that data, but they do reach out and it's a very, very unfortunate test. so many attempts have been made to try to stamp that type of just me. i distribution continues to remain sweet for that. well, the news, i was always, it's great, but you're with us here at the international will be back on the top of the hour with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is on. very dramatic

a. i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time to sit down and talk with dosa goose said den by day to day. love him yesterday and love you keep zine proper for nimbly. no man's officer.