[000:00:00;00] a hulu benjamin netanyahu would say, is, israel is still the best of friends with america, despite a number of israeli officials suggesting washington involvement in the nationwide protest of his weapon. the country over for co, judicial reform with the prime minister of poland, takes aim at the ease failing to deliver on the key points of the western back ukrainian grain deal, resulting in european farmers struggling to keep their livelihoods afloat as over supply forces local prices to us all makers overseeing a to ukraine receive almost $200.00 complaints on a legit financial misconduct about some officials claim only

a 5th felt that designated help actually reaches the conflict court in country with a full 60 percent. never even leaving you. s sure. also i don't want to stop firing at the nuclear power plant that's intimidating and black mailing out officials these up arrows. yeah. nuclear power plant claim, if you crane keep shelling that facilitate, it could lead to a global disaster response as a team from the u. n. a watchdog visits with broadcasting from moscow. this is our take pleasure to help you with this for the news our. let's get to our top story. the really prime minister has slammed what he calls the country's closest friends,

stating israel will define its path independently. that comes on the heels of us criticism of benjamin netanyahu. judicial reforms that have sparked nationwide protest. israel is the sovereign country, which makes is decisions by the will of its people and not based on precious from abroad, including from the best of friends. these rarely prime minister was talking about the us israel's closest friend and ally, and it's very active interference in israel's internal affairs. but choking often and yahoo express his concerns about external pressure and interference into israel's internal affairs from abroad. he came out and said that these railey us friendship is unshakable, even though the 2 countries might have certain disagreements. and they certainly do for months in yahoo's block has been very actively pushing for a controversial judicial reform that saw huge public disapproval, including in the military ranks on tuesday. americans, president biden,

criticized the path, is ro toast to follow what also remains to be seen is when newton yahoo will be invited to washington in the same speed to bind and made it clear that for now these really prime minister, whose government came to power 3 months ago, and he already traveled to a number of european countries with official visits, is not welcomed in the white house. like many, or i'm very concerned with that. they get history cannot continued on go to made for fun to rule with yes indeed, this trade a very harsh words between best friends, israel and the u. s. comes and made claims from inside israel, from some israeli officials that washington may be involved,

maybe behind or even sponsoring massive anti government protests that have been shaking the country for 30 weeks in a row. on saturday evening netanyahu son shared an article on his social media about the report that reveals with the state department allocate a lot of money for in the recitation, supporting demonstrators here in israel. some israeli officials started asking legitimate questions. this protest is financed and organized with millions of dollars. we're following what is happening. this is a very high level organization. there is an organized center from which all the demonstrators branch out in an orderly manner who finances, the transportation to flags, the stages. it's clear to us the u. s. has been denying all accusations or any involvement in the protest movement. any notion that we are popping up or supporting these protests, or the initiators of them is completely and demonstrably false. so is honeymoon over or israel and the u. s,

muffins and yahoo's most recent statements. it seems they are good for now, but certainly there rassam clouds in the clear skies of this friendship. and as biden said, it remains to be seen k to another over a headline stories that prime minister of poland down to his romanian country parts have taken a swipe out. the e u for failing to deliver on the key points of the western back ukrainian green deal, an oversupply, how seen prices in europe tank hitting local farmers in particular hard. here's the take of our t contributor rachel marston. well, polish prime minister mateus mar. wiki is usually busy, browbeating germany, france and the u. s. and the rest of the west for not doing enough for ukraine. now poland is always leading the charge and demanding higher powered weapons for ukraine, and is quick to rummaged through its closet for fighter jets and tanks when it can easily replace them with better weapons for itself. with all that defense assistant cash from washington. and it just reportedly billed the

e u. 2000000000 euros for sending hand me down. weapons that it had to ukraine. yeah. why sell for h m? when you can get rid of it from your closet and replace it with chanel? right. it's like giving away your whole wardrobe to a friend and then billing your parents for it. so of course, you're not walking around naked from a national security perspective. so poland has really been generous with ukraine when others are footing the bill. but when it comes to sacrificing its own economic competitiveness to ukraine, well, in that case, not so generous. and the same goes for its neighbor romania, judging by statements made by the countries prime ministers and a joint press conference. have a listen here to we speak with one voice. this grain, as promised by the european commission, was supposed to go to africa in the middle east. meanwhile, procedural imperfections and tardiness in certain areas led to the fact that some of the screen and other agricultural produce has remained in the eastern part of europe, thereby driving down prices for farmers. together we are engaged in the process to discuss with the european commission,

where the mechanism should be to enforce the trust ability, if your credit exports to final destinations. so now they want brussels to trace the grain because it's impacting their country's any interest in tracing all the weapons. the poland is dumping into grain while demanding that others do likewise at the risk of it blowing back into europe. or no, it was just last november that european commission, president ursula vander line, announced the grain from ukraine initiative alongside zalinski and another 1000000000 euros to fund so called solidarity lanes for the grain and quote, coming together to avert hunger around the world. but apparently, a 1000000000 bucks can't buy competence since the grain is swerving out of the solidarity lanes and crash landing right on polish and romanian farmers as they're pretty quick to say themselves. it affect prices in local regional markets have dropped, causing a significant impact on farmers income. the commission is not reacting swiftly

enough. our members had already flagged the concerns about market disruptions last year. if poland and romania don't watch, oh, they'll be accused of peddling fake news, which is exactly how the west has routinely qualified. any suggestion that the ukrainian grain programs like drained from ukraine and the black sea grain initiative are not actually feeding the world's poor? now, turkish president regime air to one pointed out earlier this year, that 44 percent of ukrainian grain is actually going to europe and just 14 percent african countries. now if you crane just needs to make a buck, then why not just say so. instead, the went out of their way to sell it as a world hunger program to get the ball rolling, only than to use it to stock up its own pantry at the expense of its local producers. good thing, the u has more cash to toss at this new problem that it created. 56.3000000 euros to be exact, for bulgarian polish and romanian farmers impacted by its latest active,

self owning. and how did brussels frame that hand out? by blaming russia, of course, explaining that quote, the trade disruptions incurred by the russian aggression should not take place at the expense of farm hearst from neighboring countries. now, moscow is clearly no match for the ease own special brand of home grown incompetence. a trio of inspectors general who look after a usa to ukraine have received 189 complaints of a legit financial misconduct. as of march, the 1st 20233 o g 's had received 189 ukraine response related hotline complaints, including allegations submitted by ukrainian citizens regarding alleged misconduct within ukraine. i y g investigations resulted from these and other allegations have not yet substantiated significant waste, fraud or abuse. very interesting,

isn't it quite a dramatic shift? well, you'll recall that back in january, or there was a big scandal involving corruption that led to a number of ukrainian lawmakers being given the boot. and in addition to that, it's important to point out that the idea of auditing the money being given to ukraine kind of caught on and gain steam when republicans took back control of the u. s. house of representatives. it's republicans that are a little bit more critical of aid to ukraine. now that i'm an administration has been pouring on quite a bit of now. and it's interesting to note that we have a situation here where it appears. some members of congress are saying that a number of the a large amounts of the aid designated for ukraine actually stays in the united states. here's what we've heard of the 100. $13000000000.00 appropriated across 4

supplementals approximately 60 percent is going to american troops. american workers and a modernizing american stockpiles. in fact, only 20 percent of the funding is going directly to the craning government in the form of direct budgetary assistance. so you can imagine that a number of americans now have serious questions about where all this money that's been designated as a to ukraine, is really going well, the key of government has been raising the concern that they say they want patriot missile, and they are complaining about the fact that they have not received them yet. this was the landscape. we have great decisions about patriots, but we don't have them for real. now, zalinski, it appears also went on to say that they had received an air defense system from another european country. he did not specify which country it was, but that it didn't work that it, they had to change it again and again, name the country. so

a lot of serious went to being raised about all these billions and billions of dollars that have been sent. you great question about corruption are being raised and also people are raising questions about where exactly the money is going. i think people are gonna be very interested to hear the results of the audits and investigations that are taking place. now that we hear about all these complaints wrongdoing, or rewriting of us drones over the black sea, following a recent incidents with the russian or for some seriously hindered the west suitability to gather intelligence related to the conflict in ukraine bouts, reportedly, according to a senior american official, the u. s. decision to fire surveillance drones further south over the black sea after a russian jet collided with us drone early this month, definitely limits our ability to gather intelligence. will earlier this month, the us did to all of it's drones in the black sea, claiming

a russian fighter jets had collided with it. moscow denied the allegations since then. however, the american military started flying it surveillance aircraft further saw, found out a higher altitude done before. the new roots are part of an effort by the by administration to avoid any instance that could escalate into a direct conflict with russian forces. however, officials admit there's pressure to return to the roots closer to russian territory. let's get the thoughts and all this from international consulted on retired us army, lieutenant colonel earl ross mason earlier most. welcome to the program. what do you think will be the impact then of the, the new drone roots on intelligence gallery? well, i think there, you know, it's a wise mood. but as far as the us concern the,

we all know what the actual mission there was actually probably gathering close and they can get together intelligence on the, on different russian initiative, perhaps troop movement defenses within crimea. and then the forwarding that information to you craney and then basically assisting the targeting. so this is actually, this is the, you know, with the incident with the grown and i personally don't do not think that there was any type of contact. but, but i think it, if you've got intelligence, it's going to be recovered from one through the drones recovered, which i'm sure the russians will do when i think they are progressing with that they've got very capability to go down a 1000 meters without a problem. so i think this is a, it's a warning thing, except fact, we've got southern light,

it pulled them out of the direct conflict zone. but as the mentioned, it has, it has endured intelligence gathering information. you know, it's going to be an internal struggle. the political side, probably one thing to try to get engaged closer to the defense side is probably still wanting to keep that distance and limit any type of conflict. and as well as whatever intelligence could be gathered from another drone and then as well. so it's going to be very difficult to be with directly. i think we'll see a little bit more hesitation and they'll think think twice before they send it to the defense secretary lloyd austin stated that the u. s. would quote, continue to fly and operate wherever international law permits early is the use of drones to gather civilians outside of the u. s. could that be seen as

a provocation? is there a danger that they could exacerbate tensions? oh, absolutely. i mean, the gathering of being were, let's face the gathering information and assisting in the targeting of, of, of target basically on crimea, especially, is a direct in, you know, i mean, russia, russia is actually being very generous and not recognizing the direct to the centrally to put the u. s. as a direct party, other conversation i think it's wide for everyone to avoid direct conflict because it could easily escalade even more, more and to an area that we do not want to go. but yeah, i think you know, secretary often is exactly like like the big one is the general in iraq. exactly whatever. who's higher up one of the year. you know, and yeah,

they're going to say that court and the rhetoric side on the side this the everyone wants to hear within the us. the media absolutely will day from the mission perspective. actually fly anywhere they want to. i think they're going to be more cautious on where they actually fly and that they do, it just makes sense that makes no sense to just kind of ignore. they know they've been notified where they don't is where the, where the air space they've, they've been notified through the proper channels on that. they're just testing testing the water and pushing it as much further. but if they go inside that bone, they have the drone shut down. i mean, how it is just the point i perhaps walked the russian embosser to the united states has said after that incident with the u. s. grown said that moscow does not want a confrontation with us, but quote, american aircraft have no business being near the russian border. that's the

take from moscow. but it seems to be a different one on the other side. yeah, it's, i mean, he's absolutely correct. i mean, we're technically not, we're supplying arm we're supplying intelligence, you know, should we are providing technical advice and training outside the borders of the brain? maybe there's some stuff going undercover, overtly inside the borders as well. but he's absolutely correct on that. i mean, we have no business in that area. and if we, if we do flight closer and kinda, just like we do in the, in the south china sea going reclaim of the voyage or whatever. i mean we're, we're provoking the other side and like, you can imagine you can imagine neural count, you rushing drones, flying over all to r a montreal and what, what's up and then oh absolutely. are the great lake, any played like that?

it's any they go preserve. absolutely. earl, thanks so much for your time to always good to hear what you're thinking. international. consulted earle rasmussen on our team. traditional thank you. ah, no. the head of the international atomic energy agency has said he's fine. no evidence that any russian weapons are stationed up these up a routine nuclear power plant on this, despite for many months, repeated claims to the country from western media and o facials. the head of the u. n. nuclear watchdog arrived with his team to the city of america dar on weddings stay where the plants by the way europe's largest such site is located. he was met by representatives of the russian power company, rosner go awesome. man, the i, a, a delegation was shown the latest traces of shelling by ukrainian forces. officials from the nuclear plant out line to raphael. good. i'll see the constant pressure

and block meal. they say they're facing from keeps authority of us still green now because the family, the ukrainian authorities, exert constant pressure enough and on our loved ones, unfair, we constantly receive anonymous calls and s m. s. messages with the threats were being blackmailed as they lose our loved ones who remained on the territory of ukraine are practically taken hostage thought the calls and movements. all our loved ones are constantly monitored. we were working at a strategically important facility as the security of not only the cities of america down in the financial and also the whole of europe depends on our work. see euro. we don't want the 2nd check knowledge to happened here. nobody stop firing at nuclear power plants stop intimidating and black mailing us please explain to savanski that we want to work quietly, biesen goodness for ourselves, and our loved ones. see that the approach in nuclear power plant is currently under control over the russian forces, and it comes under ukrainian shilling constantly. now this is just the latest. what

happened here and the head of the international atomic agency, inspected this place of li schilling and others, as well. this armored personnel carrier has been turned into a lab told by the russian armed forces. now the commands are all for this group. is that coal sign is liquidator and that he says they're ready to liquidate any disasters that might take place as the result of ukrainian artillery, shelley. the echoing that other look, my detachment arrived here on the instructions of the chief of the general stuff of the chemical environmental protection of the military forces of the russian federation. our task is to ensure safety and prevent accidents at his approach in nuclear power plant. our detachment is able to provide evacuation of personnel by several routes to contamination of the facilities and sen, treatment of personnel and equipment. the safety of the station is insured by the

forces of the detachment provided that the ukrainian forces will not, shall the nuclear power plant. the head of the i a last visit. it says up origin nuclear power plants last year. and that just before his visits, ukrainian army shelter, the nuclear power plants creating quite a lot of damage. however, you clear disaster was narrowly avoided at this moment said the nuclear power plant is controlled by the russian military. and during this particular visit, it wasn't shelled by ukraine from on call for have r t now our runs foreign minister as hell talks with his russian counterpart in moscow by plans for a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty between the 2 countries and indeed at further regional cooperation as well, my colleagues, roy, sushi and steve sweeney spoke on that earlier. and also the calling were just about to see of circle of raw for washington to lift that sanctions against

a ran mute population in the world is still waiting for the us to resume its obligations in the iranian new killer deal and live all sanctions imposed on iraq, when we sunk food saga lab was very critical of the sanctions that have been imposed on air and by the united states. of course, they were imposed after the way a collapse of the joint companionship agreement. this was the iran nuclear deal, and that the bar, the trump administration, all the trudy i pulled out of now he's and said that the sanctions must there be brought to an end. now, talks have been continuing to air in vienna, not face to face, have been done through a mediator, but progress has been very slowly in the area. i am of course, and surprisingly, the 2 men spoke about the situation in ukraine lab. rob said that the west can emily conflict at any minute, but it decide to flood care with arms. instead, he said the end of last week, he said that the usa, you say anthony blinking vote against a ceasefire,

saying that it would be in roches. he had benefit, but also the radium foreign minister lambasted the western approach. he as well call for dialogue through notice you talk. so discussing the situation in ukraine, we highlighted nato's undermining line of behavior than her with both feet standing in the ukrainian conflict and her being sucked deeper and deeper into it. honestly, i don't know if i can go any deeper. adequate to sell our home. the fact that the west is supplying ukraine with weapons in our opinion, and he listens the situation in ukraine. we need to solve it by diplomatic me, sorta. now both men said that they supported initiative for a peaceful resolution. they welcomed her chinese president, changing things, roadmap to peace that was outlined again during his recent visit with him to moscow, where he met with president putin, but certain level said that they thought must be based on what he does. fibers, indivisible, security that no country can then strengthen it, security at the expense of another. of course,

he was at and most likely referring to nato's genuine expansion eastward, despite promising not one more inch. but he said that this was enshrined in the un charter and shrine didn't international law. it is, it is fascinating though the, the moving and shaking. we're seeing these day, steve, on the geopolitical transport, him in his iran visiting moscow, right. as the foreign ministers of iran in all these other countries around the world that working overtime. because okay, laughter off is working double over time. these days. i mean, iran is poised to join the seo the shanghai cooperation organization. iran is poised to join bricks, brazil, russia, india, china, south africa. i've heard there are 22 other countries who will want to join britain . you can call them the d dollarization coalition, steve. because these are countries with china's contemporary silk road. we're all going to be doing international trade in national currents. this is hugely important. and the formulas, if they said that 49 documents that were required to join the shanghai cooperation organization have now been ratified by the arraignment parliament. they've also

spoken about, as you said, joining the bricks, bricks alive, places to come fees. and we just heard as well, the and saudi arabia is now looking to join the shanghai cooperation organization that has not been agreed. i must say was the sort jumping, but it was china that brought saudi arabia and iran together recently bought in it, of course and, and the raining foreign minister mentioned this. he, in fact, her thanked china for their efforts in mediating this a hugely significant piece deal, which not only brings em saudi arabian iran together, but it's also warmed relations between saudi arabia and syria. so these are the, the, the u. s. is main strategic ally in the region. reality is now looking to opening embassies again in both of those countries, syria of causing welcome back into the to the arab league. and of course, next week as the reigning 4 minutes to set those. these quad lateral talks between russia and around, but looking to bring syria and turkey close together. so this the normalization of

relations between those 2, again, use the important for the, the 12 year conflicting cereal. i've been on the opposing sides of president af, out of course, again, also recently in russia. so russia played a very important role in the, in this respect. but also again, you mentioned the soup road, felton road initiative, china's, i get this a hugely expensive project, which we'll see a countries trading in a local currency for the shift away from the dollar. massively important because if the u. s. loses the dollar was the well currency it loses its ability to dominate well financial market. yet big issue is firmly on the table there under runs. foreign minister also spoke with determine of the russian international, a 1st committee and hailed than the rapid development of relations between the 2 countries. mommy, 8 on behalf of the relative relations between the islamic republic of iran and the russian federation. a going in the right direction or contact between high ranking

officials of all countries at various levels have been accelerated. these meetings are happening more and both are relations of developing on the latest of all countries are regularly in touch with each other. we're very happy about this into a parliamentary diplomacy also plays a significant role in the development of relations between our countries to that, as well as where we leave the news for now. but do you stay close? as our programs are just getting started, this is our t international. ah oh, need to come to russian state to little? never. i've stayed as on the northland scheme div, asking him the american house that for

a week within the 55 would be the key. so mine is 2000 speedy, one else with will ban in the european union, the kremlin jeff machine, the state aunt, rush up to date and split our tea spoon that given our video agency, roughly all band to on youtube and pinterest and with ah,

[000:00:00;00] with hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle. camp is made it abundantly clear. it cannot wage a counter offensive without more weapons and ammunition from the west to west, particularly washington. they show no interest in indigo shaded and to the conflict . in the meantime, ukraine becomes smaller and smaller. ah. crossed out to the conflict in ukraine. i'm joined by my guess. nick bron in washington. he's the chair of the people's party, the united states in raleigh. we have ray mcgovern, he is a former cia analyst and false church. we cross lawrence wilkerson, he's a former chief of staff to colin powell or a gentleman cross our girls and a fact that means you can jump in time you want. and i always appreciated lawrence so we can go to you 1st in