ah, ah, ah, the pentagon has announced a new multi $1000000000.00 military, a package for claiming it's the largest military delivery since the ukrainian conflict began. ukraine shells, a number of western russians that he's on orthodox christmas eve injuring multiple civilians. that's this fight moscow. calling for a truce on the christian festival, ukraine has ordered almost 17000000 tons of grain intended for those most affected by food insecurity in africa. but reports show that europe has received the majority of those deliveries with

. hello, good morning from austin for wherever you may be watching. welcome to the hour's top news stories from around the world. i'm purely the u. s. has announced it to new military aid package for ukraine worth almost $4000000000.00 claiming it's the largest military deliveries since the ukranian conflict began. the war in ukraine is at a critical point right now, and we have to do everything we can to help the ukrainians continue to resist russian aggression. today's announcement, the largest security assistance package in total value that we have committed so far reflects our enduring commitment to support ukraine. the pentagon says the package will include 50 bradley, infantry fighting vehicles, $100.00 armored personnel carriers, hundreds of anti armor rockets and more ammunition for high margins,

rocket systems, and that's just a fraction of the lethal aid washington is set to spend in total, the u. s. has provided ukraine with almost $25000000000.00 and military assistance . sarah flounders, co director of the international action center, does a rapidly growing spending on the military means. other sectors of the economy will be affected. republicans and democrats support military appropriation to they cannot reach an agreement on health care months that never happened. but on the military budget. ringback yes, military bunch, it grows. they reach an agreement and it happens so fast that dupes without real debate, but it can mean devastating cuts in education funding schools, housing infrastructure in the us, which is decaying rapidly, things like that they will do again and again. meanwhile,

the republican leader of the u. s. house of representatives. kevin mccarthy, has proposed a cut of $75000000000.00 to the defense budget. the proposal came shortly before he was elected as the speaker of the house, and is believed by many to have been a move to secure his victory amid divisions among g o. p. lawmakers, who for years have push for increases in military spending. sarah flounder again, says mccarthy has always voted in favor of boosting defense spending and change a stance in order to become the speaker of the house. every year they make promises that they're going to cut military bunch of them every here graph. and yet it doesn't happen. so it certainly will not happen under kevin mccarthy who has always voted for the defense budget and is a complete, typical, actually called in march of 2022. the fighting was to song

frame wasn't doing enough, should give more and more and more work. and that was what he said. and it's not much different now except that he is maneuvering in order to become the speaker of the house. as the u. s. the size on a new, a package for ukraine, he was using already supplied weapons to show its former territories. as orthodox christmas began ukraine, reportedly far dozens of nato shells at the russian city, a quarter of cough, wounding a civilian. he have also shelled another western russian city of marquis. you can see the moment of the strike on christmas eve captured on tv footage. locals reported air defense systems activating to intercept the attack and no casualties were recorded. also unorthodox christmas eve, celebrated by both russians and ukrainians, have security service agents rated multiple churches across the country, saying that pro russian materials were found there. at the same time,

ukrainian or officials claimed to be impartial towards religious denominations. ukraine also rejected russia christmas truth proposal to let christians across visit churches to worship journalists, sondra vanden, and this is the ukrainian government, is trying to provoke a new armed response from russia. i think it was to be expected because yesterday in the western mainstream media, they already said that ukraine didn't agree to add to the to so yeah, i think it was totally expected. of course it's you, it's provocation that they do. it's deuced afternoon 12 noon because then the seats for be started. it's for sure, a big sign that the shoes matter between the ukranian church and their russian tourists is not respect. and it shows from the ukrainian side and also to western side that they don't want a truth. they don't one negotiations at all because otherwise they would have said, okay to at least respect and holy moly day like christmas. and it is meaningful for

russians and ukrainians. date, like they do in the west when it was christmas to respected russian military personnel serving in ukraine have joined orthodox christmas celebrations. the festive service was organized for the service men and women with the russian and mo de emphasizing the importance of holy festivals. the service was also attended by those mobilized and auto who have now completed their military training. earlier the head of the russian orthodox church. patriarchy carol called for unity urging to pray for russian orthodox believers who are being persecuted in ukraine during his traditional address ahead of the festive service and moscow's main cathedral view. you see sulu christmas is celebrated on the 7th of january and russia in accordance with the old julian calendar. millions have attended traditional midnight services throughout

the country that began in the late hours on friday and continued into this morning . archie steve sweeney will take us further through moscow celebration of this winter holiday season. ah, per year. or as we say here in russia. no, them go them. britain for time prime minister winston churchill famously describe russia as a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside in an enigma. in many ways he was right. russia spans 11 time zones. bouldering europe to the west. and as far as china in the east were here in the russian capital, moscow, which is my home for the last 6 months. and i'm going to show you some of my favorite sports in it. fantastic city. we're in. so sky square, where vladimir elliott, you will, you know, better known as lenin, made many thunderous speeches. but today is transformed into

a winter wonderland with many fantastic crystal small kids. ah, we're here in all of us, moscow's main tourist st. roughly the equivalent to london docks of 3, it is full of pub balls, restaurants and shops, setting souvenirs. and today is a bustling and lively stream as russians celebrate the winter. holidays is moscow's oldest surviving thoroughfare. we are here in patriarch, poland. my favorite place in the whole of moscow during the night to know 5 revolution, it was held by student militia. the many spacious apartments surrounding the park were taken from their wealthy owners following the 917 revolution and turned into communal living spaces. but today is a haven for romantics, young and old,

who are often seen rolling hand in hand or sitting on the many port benches casing . of course, no trip to moscow would be complete without visiting the well famous portia theater is most associated with chikavsky swan lake, which i have been lucky to see myself. here you can see performances of many of russia's most famous, composes and right to include in pro coffee ab shostakovich, and doff the ascii pushkin. i most favor all the author mikhail vulgar cough with now move to red square with the iconic some puzzles cathedral in the background. close to hare, the leader of the $917.00 revolution is buried with lenin's tune. still attracting thousands of visitors every year to day russians of fucking hairs. they celebrate the winter holidays. taking in the many christmas stores, sampling the food and of course the obligatory mode why. of course,

i couldn't come here without something the good to myself. here i'm talking into a russian new year favorite, which is pancakes with red caviar. ah, i have to say it's absolutely delicious. which is so good. really takes the absolutely delicious. it's not every day that you got to eat caviar, but i could certainly talk in today's everyday. i can tell you this is goon, moscow's most exclusive department store. here you can find many of the world leading fashion. brands is wrong with shoppers and you can see the christmas decorations adorning the department store. and many people taking cell fees at a christmas tree, which is at the center of many russian glove ice skating. i

want, i'm here. i'm going to give it a go myself. but bearing in mind, i struggle to stand on my own 2 feet of the best of times. let's just hope that i make out with hey, in one p ah, where outside, another of moscow department stores zoom. and i have to admit that this one's my favorite, and you could probably see why, hey, we are surrounded by what our designer christmas tree brigand maci can sparkle to the capital city. hello? sure, you'd agree with me that this really does some of the magic of moscow. ah,

egypt pound has dropped to record lows against the us dollar is come to just weeks after the international monetary fund agreed to throw cairo a lifeline with a $3000000000.00 aid package. each of national currency has tumble to unprecedented los since the countries central bank, the value the pound, to meet the i m f. loans requirements, the $3000000000.00 bail out for the cash strapped country was approved after cairo's pledge to make its currency more flexible, allowing for easier foreign financial involvement. each of the economy has also been experiencing the impact of storing fuel prices. the country's inflation rate jumped to a 5 year high late last year. as banks limited the withdrawal of foreign currency, which egypt is in dire need of. amid the economic challenges,

the countries authorities launched a larger privatization plan seeking to attract more foreign investment. the director of the agent center for studies and translation says the western financial establishment is seeking to subjugate egyptian economy. this is, i, fortunately, the full submission to the prescriptions of the international font and wall bank. we have a lot of economic mistakes because after the dilution of 20112013, unfortunately, the same economic group backed giving the advisory services for the presidency and there the financial and wanted to be authorities, even if i still belongs to america, i'm relaxed with this anglo sex soon, banking and federal leader. and they find that if we are not following such the prescriptions of the liberalization, privatization and making, you know, the inflation lola to is pacific extent. they think that the economy will be

bad and no investors will come in and a lot of back things with tech based. unfortunately, they didn't give, for example, but gyptian falling to some sort of demand, as we've requested before. and of course of the are the only galks and the menial dares in egypt all over the above, the keys off the people and the raising the rates of the prices every day without any control from the government. because the having, you know, the upper hand, unfortunately turkey has reported that around 17000000 tons of grain have been export it via the ukraine grain deal corridor. since the deal came into force in july for comparison, ukraine annually harvest 32000000 tons of wheat initiative is supposed to soften the global food crisis, especially for the countries worst affected. but the majority of the green exports

end up in europe's hands. instead. our teeth corolla taught love brings us the story, already facing struggles with mazda se flayson and stroud and resurgence of jihad. his groups, africa is now in the grip of a major food crisis. the world food programs 2022 global report on food crisis. estimate the close to a 193000000 people on the continent face achieved food and security, and that one in 5 go to bed hungry where scaling up our operations in countries lay . so malia kenya nigeria and became a foster as well as many others to try and help as many people as we can. but the number of people going without food on water is staggering. factors behind the food crisis, very, from conflicts leading to miles displacement to climate shocks, including drugs and floods. acute food insecurity has by dramatically at the same time, rich western nations including the united states and it's in you, partner countries have turned their attention and deep wallace to ukraine at

africa's expense. green shipments were also affected and able to depart the black sea due to this conflict, but things to the mediation by turkey and the united nations. a deal was struck between russia and ukraine, allowing for shipments to resume. the question has not been what is good for one side or the other. the fork was, has been, or north america is most for the people of all worlds. and let there be no doubt. this is an agreement for the wolves. but as it turns out, most of the 14000000 tons of gray was not delivered to the african continent. 11, just 11. out of the $615.00 ships. that left ukrainian ports between august and december would dock in sub saharan africa. but i did give you a hearing over was the, almost all of the green exported from ukraine is being sent to the e. you instead of to the world's poorest developing countries. many european

countries are now acting as colonizers once again, just like they did for decades. and centuries and the passion for, for the of simply deceives the developing countries once more and are still deceiving them. at this very moment, very short western powers down played the accusations, claiming that 47 percent of ukraine's grain was central asia, with 36 presents and to europe and 17 percent to africa. and they also promised to buy more of ukraine's grain to reduce prices. since the inception of the solidarity lanes, more than 15000000 tons of ukrainian agriculture, goods, grain, oil, seeds, and related products have been exported by roads of rail and through black sea and the new pores. in addition, since august, the black sea green initiative has helped relaunch grain shipments from ukraine's black seaports, thereby further reducing foot price is globally. but what is the solidarity of these lanes end up shipping to you countries?

why, if africa not part of the soul, quote, fully varied as a result muzzle ended up with grain and fertilizers, it couldn't even sell due to you, an american sanction to luxor, or as far as access to russian products is concerned. the african union members are facing swift related sanction problems, as well as most of our banks have ties with european bunks. the usual payment procedures are no longer available to them on upper pull up babs in an effort to college. the impact of each sanctions i having on rising from crisis, the block exempted russian weed and fertilizers from restrictions. it even lifted sanctions on chemical and fertilizer company under the guise that africa needs them, but must go, went further and donated food so vulnerable african countries, as well as fertilizers, say in put in, in my phone call with ludovic putin. he sat, let's send these grain to countries such as djibouti, somalia,

and to don for free. and we agreed to the immediate situation in the world. today's really bad. unfortunately, africa has been storming and will continue to stop. we as a company, have decided to supply fertilizer to africa for free as we are part of a global supply chain, or she needs to produce food issue. when president vladimir putin said that russia had made the donation to african states to support in efforts the west responded in its usual manner. african societies continue to suffer from russia's weapons, evasion of food and fertilizers, exports. many of the state, including south africa, have voice confirmed that humanitarian aid is being politicized with the threat of food being used to pressure countries to support ukraine in the conflict. got a bill is that for out of he enjoys them. bower is taking action to

limit foreign exploitation of its natural resources. the african countries government has suspended the processing of permits for the extraction of strategically important minerals. it has thus become necessary that in our nation's interests, we will temporarily stop accepting and processing applications for mining licenses for the following minerals until further notice, diamonds, copper, lithium, nickel, and rare earth minerals. the above directives are to go into effect immediately. the move comes after some local miners fail to declare their discoveries of certain minerals. the new restrictions are also aimed at providing more oversight on the activity of foreign mining operators. and by the way, the country holds the largest lithium reserves in africa with the metal in high demand for high tech production lines in many countries than boulware earlier reported billions of dollars and losses due to the illegal extraction of its

lithium by multinational companies. to put all this into perspective, lithium, known as white gold, is a valuable component of electronic batteries used in cars, mobile phones, and computers. it's price has shot up by 1100 percent in the past 2 years alone. and it won't stop there with demand projected to see a 750 percent increase by 2030 with the world looking to shift to cleaner energy. many countries will be seeking to secure a supplies of the metal. them by way, is the 6 world's largest lithium exporter with the government, hoping to meet one 5th of the world's total demand when it fully developed as the lithium mining capacity. we heard from some of the local politicians about the significance of the new restrictions. the country had been losing billions of dollars in export of lithium, which is on very high demand globally because lithium is used for electric, but trees solar but trees smart phones, et cetera, et cetera. and i think that was

a very positive, double move that was made by the government was above, which, because we're at a stage where we are supposed to be issuing that we makes about which low de la economy. and we can only do that when we are preserving what we have into to mining the prices of what we have and how we're going to betray do with other countries that we know is sources that we have in our country. they've been a lotto for all the time, exported the country and as a country, we have benefited little as much. we every one of the biggest jump to posing the world we've been interested in federally. so we kim, i bought a would be so oh, policy to buy the export over only come to where you encourage shadow. come punish to comradeship bishop, the crunchy. ah, the frenchman history of ecology has become the latest target of so called eco activists. campaigners spray painted the facade with orange to denounce the french

governments perceived an action on climate change. and while this acts of vandalism only had a minor impact. some of the activists as options have threatened people's lives are to contributor rachel marson has more therapy in union has long wanted to turbocharged its green energy agenda. 2022 was a year. they realized that their tank was on empty because while they sanctioned their own gas supply from russia. so after years of banging on about the found to see of fueling the european industrial economy by praying for solar powered, sunny days and sufficient when to turn landscape destroying windmills. europe relies this year that that plan is far from ready for prime time. and they were desperate, so the blocks industrial engine, germany started firing back up cold plants, france scramble to blow the rust off of its decommissioned nuclear power plants, both casualties of the blocks green energy obsession,

newly appointed prime minister of britain. re she soon arc preached to the climate change faithful. ahead of the top 27 climate summit. he said he was going to turn the u. k, into a green energy superpower. but apparently he didn't get the memo that britain was on the verge of opening its 1st coal mine in decades. or that coal was so badly needed in the you, as people faced exploding energy costs due to the use own anti russian sanctions. that citizens and poland were trying to dig around in their own gardens, in the hope of striking pool, which is illegal by the way. so desperate times mean desperate measures. the european union simply reclassified gas and nuclear energy as green power tossing environmental activists overboard. busy to face the icy waters of pragmatic reality . elsewhere in australia leaked documents blew the lid off the scam of so called

clean hole, suggesting that it was little more than a roost to justify selling it at a higher price, which the customer can then ostensibly recoup by claiming lower carbon taxes for burning it face with frustration and disappointment, cultured and intellectually sophisticated environmental activists of the let's stay generation or last generation took matters into their own hands by running around europe and physically attacking priceless works of art, which obviously weren't just exposed in such a way that any toddler with the marker, just scribble all over them. during the course, 27 summit in egypt, these activists glued their own hands to john constables. the hey wayne, in london's national gallery. then they tossed mashed potatoes at french impressionist clod, monet's lay mud on display in germany's potsdam barbara rainy museum. when

taught, they were told to crouch, with their hands pressed against the wall below the masterpiece. now in both cases, perhaps they should have just been left there with their hands stuck and made a permanent part of the exhibit that would have been fund. i'm satisfied with the impact of their efforts on actual environmental policy. they then took to super glueing themselves to the tarmac at munich airport. now this town term meant that airplanes trying to land how to blow through even more earth killing fuel as they were forced to circle around above while trying to figure out where to land until they could ultimately be it. meanwhile, down below police work to literally dig up the road in order to remove the activists from the pavement. there is also just stock oil movement that took center stage this year with a message for government to stop all new exploration development and production of british fossil fuels. as british citizens grappled with skyrocketing energy prices,

these economics divides. we're defining a quote, livable future as one with no fossil fuel. yes, scott livable future doesn't include be able to afford a roof over your head or heating or reasonably priced food, or anything else that factors in the availability dependent cost of energy. ha ah nor to sketch a livable future apparently include the ability to get to work to earn a living as politicians took as she with the protestors. disruption we recognize the right in the united kingdom under our democracy for peaceful protest. however, we are vehemently against protest that include wilful vandalism. the disruption of individuals attempting to earn a lawful living. the blocking of roads that impedes parents from taking their children to hospital for life saving appointments and the utterly selfish act of

depriving a son attending his own father's funeral by stopping the flow of traffic on the nation's highways with the har realities of the european energy crisis coming up against opponents like these mother, earth could be waiting an awfully long time for some truly capable white knights to come to her rescue. amid the rising power of multinational corporations, india is fighting to break free from the grip of pesticide angie mo, companies african returns. he speaks to environmental as dr. vandana shiva on this week's going underground. watch the program later, the sour or visit our website at r t dot com for the latest. the soils are being destroyed every single day across the global south. how exactly do you tie up? this incredible network of you and agencies will be going to make for the i'm f, e u, multinational corporations. all these different interconnected elements are somehow

connected to that. so such a basic thing on life, on the soil. the process of making nitrogen fertilizers through blending fossil fuels at high temperature to fix atmospheric nitrogen is the same process that need explosives. when you apply ammonium nitrate to the saw aleria to the saw it all living organisms assault, that song is living is fungi. bacteria, it is what creates the fertility and create life in the soil. this toxic substance starts to kill life in the side. so increase desert, one kilogram of nitrogen fertilizer uses 2 meters of diesel. it emits carbon dioxide plus nitrous of sex, which is $300.00 times more damaging to the planet than carbon dioxide. and the atomic change that makes it worse and the side of the vicious cycle of deserted vacation of this. interestingly, my research a bad, i'm sure that the same crop has to be did. chemically use is 10

times more water than the crop cultivated, organic key. so that is not the scarce element on the, on the planet want to reach a that's are up on the top stories for this our, for more up to the minute updates had over to r t dot com. and up next thousands of serbs were executed until during the bosnian, more the full story of the conflict coming right up on our t. c. a back next hour. for what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on, often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resume.