ah, a with the economy, despite the predict the collapse devastation and catastrophe, nothing of the kind is happening here right in front of it. but it says the words just failed and it's f, as the cripple is confusing kind of a heated washington of seeking to divide it countries and put them against moscow. a nation of a series of with the u. s. denies violating international law after the world trade organization rules in favor of

hong kong and a commercial dispute between washington and then chinese region with good morning. good afternoon. good evening. wherever you are the world, welcome to 8 pm here in the russian capital. and as always, it's great that you can join us. i'm runtime army. let's take a look at that. today's top stories, russian president ready to put in says the u. s. has long been trying to undermine the post the world, including by exerting influence over ukraine earlier my colleagues research, i am the don't call to discuss that rather stock assessment by mr. lacrisha scarcely more. 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 effect for you can limited loss for the economy. despite the predict the claps devastation and catastrophe, nothing of the kind has 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 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 don dirt 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 that 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 b, u. s. supplying the key of 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 cubes soviet basically mainly soviets, 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 were 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 lead 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 considered 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, the end this war we strive for this and we'll continue to strive for this 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 and go shading table and find a diplomatic solution. as he just heard russia's g, d p declined this year, only

a fraction of what had been predicted due to the increased western sanctions. we spoke with independent journalist luke review, 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 russia to we sneezed. but we are on our knees and energy wise. it to the situation is terrible. we have mine a stand 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 fuel, no gas, no, no, no, no solutions for oil. within months, in long term solutions, not be 4 years from now,

our economy is 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 economy is in tatters and rushes seems to do well. because it also says the western meddling could offend to whether russia is obligated to supply gas to europe under its current contracts. moscow has responded to a western imposed price cap for natural gas supplies by saying it would set its own value for the commodity to be sold. well, it's good the kids, the us. i'm that i couldn't confuse western allies of attempting to artificially manipulate the international market. new russian legislation fees, the state gas exports a gas from, from fulfilling obligations on the foreign contracts. if they violate national guidelines,

the specifics of the russian points designation ought to be determined by the end of next week we heard from prominent economic professor jack rasmus, who says the russian move is it's 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 a 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 from them. 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 and clauses in their

contracts so that allow them to to do that. what now to north africa made gas storage facility near merrill close at atlantic coast has burst into flames amid a series of explosions, sofa, no casualties have been reported. ah, 5 sizes are said served in saying that the blaze media reports house that a gas leak could have been responsible. i've also been concerns about of the frontal materials been kept at the facility. local journalist. sorry i philip santos. this report from morocco. we all know them. 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

a gas and other flammable materials are stored. this storage, it's close to people and evans, families, and citizens floating leave in near the facility, have evacuated to surround the people are here in the explosion. so far as far away about 10 kilometers. so it's very to defy in india, it's mary anne. it's very dangerous. the world trade organization has ruled at the u. s. violated international law by the labeling impulse, specifically from hong kong as being only generally from china, beijing, welcome the rule. now said the u. s. was politicizing trade issues, washington and his turn has rejected that decision and says that w t o is in desperate need of reform hypocrisy at its finest. ortiz kaden moping as the details. oh, you're saying is a longstanding pattern of the united states flouting international norms and

agreements all wow, 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 the conclusions in the world trade organization paddle reports. these doubled sale panel reports, emily reinforced the need to fundamentally reformed the dub with hilde this been settled on with 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, u. s. 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. let's 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 a 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 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 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 we 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 the us. we will ban its 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 u. s. 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 asked 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 national stage. more and more countries are citing with russia with china be right, says overstepped its bounds. but the u. s. simply does not recognize any bones. it

does what it wants when it wants to suit its own interests. and we have to be very clear here when we speak about its interest, meaning the government's interests 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 you 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 the lies and we're good. we're now going to reap a bitter harvest of all the horrible things you done or the past 25 years. ah! the great and way to the you and has said his country will always stand together with the us as he put up a social media post the picture of an american fly in the yellow and blue, the quine national banner don bathrooms,

were quick to respond with condemnation sailor display revealed who rudy is in charge in cave and you will slater misty. they will stand together for as long as it takes. we all understand that a charade. what ukraine wants from the west is money and weapons. this is all just ridiculous. no, america, american, already sanders will go on for as long as it needs and who needs it. it is american itself. it will continue these for very long time as long as they can benefit from it. who do you believe this is pure idiocy? in my opinion, this demonstrates complete slavery. no other comment is needed. graham's further, the less he recently visited washington, where he met with us either joe biden, and gave an address to congress, in which he pleaded for more weaponry, expressed gratitude to the us for the current supplies, but said they weren't enough for us. as meanwhile, agreed to provide involved patriot missile systems to ukraine. meanwhile,

mikes blumenthal editor of the grey zone and basically the new site has posted on twitter. his exchanges with delegates representing new queen bias bora, 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 we're train and recruited back into a former professional army over the last 8 years. so the neo nazis were brought into the army. no, no, no nazi for not being. so no answer about if crane is a democracy, why did zalinski ban 13 opposition? partial law. we think that the national marshal law sounds on democratic. why did he band the russian wing of the orthodox church and the russians?

that's the one that starts with serving as a craziness organization 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, does shelling of the people have done yet? do you oppose that? no, no. are you why, why are civilians being killed and done yet? lugens, 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 ukranian 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. it looked like the days after january 6th, except the offenses 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 going to send a lot more. do you want to send more? oh, absolutely, amazon. all in all, we're all in yes, law bankers on those policies of truth. suddenly more money, iowa has the ukraine. millions of americans are at risk of losing their medical coverage. or recent report addresses of provision in the new 1700000 us funding mil saying states could strong terminating people's medicaid coverage next year. maybe i'll is, lionel says it's unfair to make american citizens suffer from the goals decisions

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 who are 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, the earth said has false to motion to use us as sees for wealthy russians in order to finance ukraine's war effort. then is a thing lawmaker said, it would be a relief for american taxpayers. this amendment would allow the department 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 bear relief to the american taxpayer cost billions of dollars are subject to being seized and transferred. it will be a bad day for all regards. the size, lou came just

a day after the us prison analysis. fresh $1850000000.00 maggie aid package to keep them in presence of his visit to washington. the bill is yet to be approved by the house of representatives before it would be signed into law by joe biden. political commentator, c gill, says washington's assets easier from so called russian oligarchs will do close to nothing. to alleviate the u. s. financial burden for its support. for keith, it is certainly a moral 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 died the rush. the crazy thing about this is that the mark twain, american humorous one said 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 how's about rates? if russia and china and india and other foreign country were taking private us business assets from individuals? because those countries disagree with the practices and policies of 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 billions of 100000000 or so to be put into the ukraine . there will be no return on investment for american taxpayers. it will not be repaid now, so africa ro, wanda, has re, did, is adamant denial of allegations that has been supposing the $23.30 room, which is fighting against national forces 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. it's hard to offer one descriptor. 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 one does roll with the ongoing cases 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 both runners accusations towards france. thing that they had a hand in the main thing maintained for genocide, particularly i choosing the french troops with fish and in one day 1994 of participating in some of the human rights atrocities than 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 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 galley

government is to be blamed for your support for the un sanctioned m. 23 levels. but the relations here are bound to get testy, i as time goes, because right now this will not be helping as accusations and contacts asians. cheap flying and more european nations are more likely to be implicated in this regard. but franz did inquire into the rolled laid by its troops in rwanda during the genocide, but they abandoned that. that enquiry saying that they found no evidence that its troops have participated in any human rights violations. we heard from a foreign affairs, alice explained how acute, the progress of national security is with the democratic republic of congo is still on the securities. fission obviously has been exceedingly very bad for a very long time and that has worried a lot of us. i mean,

look out of the pool. obviously, you're not the front office. you said, you know, i insecurity code in chicago insecurity is one that has continued to make to people . and of course, we know that turned out consequences rips and dec killing innocent civilians. you know, they have to be pointed broncho, say the insecurity in their data batch of the region and it's all or you go out actually makes it in the very, very unfortunate test. so many attempts have been made to try to stand that type of don't just me i the situation continues to remain for building thighs. india has stood resolute. this wide lesson pressure against trade with russia, a business forum to strengthen economic ties within those 2 countries was recently held in moscow with a new molten polo world order. high on the agenda. i'll tease as soon as the

details. the i am, i have announced in september that india had become the world's 5th largest economy, speeding up from 11th place in just a decade, and judging by the congress current policies, it has no intention of slowing down. india's growth potential has not gone unnoticed with other global international player, such as russia, eager to join it. you can hear from you, my india is one of the world's leading countries in terms of economic growth. its population will soon be bigger than that of any country. new delhi has vast diplomatic experience in settling various kinds of problems, and it has authority and a strong reputation in its region. in the wake of the ukraine conflict, india rejected the western notion that trading with russia somehow immoral new daily has insisted that it would shop whatever it gets a good deal for its people. following through on that pledge, india has increased its emperors of discount at rush and crude oil becoming it stop

by for the 2nd month in a row in december. and now new dell is decision to embrace the concept of self determination is reaping the benefits in dis, inflation. has he, the year low? well profit from fuel experts keep getting higher. but the mutual beneficial relations between russian india don't stop with oil, russian and engine business, political and public sector leaders have gathered at the 13 russian indian business forum in moscow this week. the theme of this year's meeting reads as an integral partnership between india and russia in the new world order with a focus on health care information technology, logistic banking, and the oil and gas industry, as well as other national projects. we are taking oil gays, coal fertilizers, right. but india has got a lot of products and best products are very expensive. it did come in order during the cold, wade, and after this go with the transported them become very expensive. so indian

products had no physically ready, really expensive. so these are right then once it happens it, this will start the whole ania yoga. you know, iowa will be in the russian market, lately, indian spices, iowa, in, in florida. so many things without coming once the good is cheaper desperation participants also discussed further economic cooperation between the 2 countries. as well as what can be done legislatively to create a more favourable business climate finance. so it was russian financial authorities are making great efforts, not only to do price quotes for the repair as soon as possible, but also to make it a full fledged trading parties on the moscow exchange, which this would reflect in demand among russian import is next porters i think this is one of the most important elements to accelerate a mutual settlements in national currencies. negotiations are actively under way to accelerate the development of the logistics route between.