[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, lies this hour, the u. s. congress to reject the initiative increased oversight of the massive funding for ukraine. this quite concerns by regular americans about why billions of taxpayer dollars are being sent overseas for form australian sold it, charged with a war crime is granted failed. as the court believes his life could be in danger. if he is sent to jail, he is accused of murdering and our camp pharma. kenya is engulfed by a wave of protest with building sets on fire. businesses shut down and made is

a new thing and the survival needs this person crowd. french police officers are accused of looking paramedics from tending to the injured protest of math. i'm think government rallies and violence with from las go to the world. this is all to get to have, you know, company today. my name's right. i mean, let's take a look at the top stories. this, our, the u. s. congress has rejected an initiative to more closely monitor the billions of dollars in men. she aid being sent to ukraine. that is, that this slight demands for the us to make sure that the weapons actually end up where they are intended. this body has spent to date $113000000000.00 on the warn you crank and counting. and yet we do not

have any direct oversight of any of the money that is being spent. listen, we learned this the hard way in afghanistan. yes, media repose have said the only 30 percent of the american weaponry center. great. seen gone the front lines. meanwhile, the eas border control agency a, sounded the alarm about a substantial increase in gun smuggling, that have been rising concerns among regular americans about why that government is sending more than $100000000000.00 in 8th grade. while those funds might be better spent on domestic needs, plenty to be a candidate for. we need to know where the money is being spent and not, not fraud, it would feel better if we used our resources to support and aid

people. and those people within our borders ran outside to, to a foreign country can make it better to spend it. only obvious, one of the main beneficiaries of the u. s. defense funding is actually private contractors. there are estimates of over the policy. independent recipients got more than half of washington national security budget. the you are, has spent a general on afghanistan has warned that this could signal corruption during the government and the military industrial complex. you're bound to get corrupt elements of not only the ukrainian o, the host government, but also of u. s. government contractors or other 3rd party contractors to try to steal the money. there is just so much money going in and it's hard to keep track off. i'm not super optimistic that we're going to learn a lesson. i've been in washington since 92 and learning lessons is not in our dna

in the united states. unfortunately, let's now look how cost for ukraine's war effort. compare with those of other major conflicts waged by washington. so anyhow, missy aid to cave have actually supposed the annual us funding of his previous war in afghanistan. u. s. is also estimated are spent on nuclear, about half of the money did on average per year. in vietnam, both the vietnam, an offense on, was ended in a reserve sounding failure for the us, despite the massive tolls on the economy and public sentiments about the government . there is still no clear indication of a potential limits to the u. s. commitment to ukraine, conflicts, the reference vectors office has received nearly 200 complaints about a legit miss spending of washington funds for ukraine. but despite the numerous

allegations, the u. s. inspectors office has insisted that it didn't find any proof of corruption that has only added to concerns about the assistance being sent to ukraine with many unsettled questions about a lack of transparency. we heard from a retired us air force left tenant girl who says there's bipartisan support for ramping up ukraine's war effort. as congress, when are often directly funded by the military industrial complex. i know how the u. s. senate gets reelected and they get re elected through their relationships and the donors that they have in this country. and how many of those are from the defense sector. and so, you know, it's not in their interest to reduce spending. it's not in their interest to ask hard questions that may lead to the reduction in that sweat. that's exactly what

would happen if we actually looked at this. there is by bipartisan support to continue to spend, as we saw with the senate, the senate vote just recently. i think we'll hear more talk about it as they, as the various candidates, some try to lay the waste in the fraud and the destruction. on the other side, we know from viet nam and from afghanistan and many other places that we don't care about democracy. in fact, the only kind of democracy, the united states really likes is the kind that is allied with its current political interest. even though congress doesn't seem to have learned its lessons on afghanistan, i think the american people kind of have, and i do see a more popular pushback against what the congress is doing. the americans are tired of this very tired of it, and they don't see it is productive. they don't understand what it's about, and they don't even know the full history. and as some of that truth comes out on how long that this government, united states government has stoked this war, has tried to really sacrifice ukraine at this altar as they find these things out

and they are beginning to they become angry. and so i don't, the support in this country is not there for increasing the only support i see is support to end the war this year for her in the program will also learn new scheme . you for a caching in the massive on flippancy, going from the other side of the atlantic to a former offering, a soldier charles with the war crime of murdering him off down below your house. been granted as the court believes his life could be in danger. if he is sent to jail, helmet camera footage appears to show the soldier whatever jordan. so shooting the unarmed farmer several times during the 2012 incident. a warning you may find the following. images disturbing i

ah, ah, quite now that the case was initially exposed in the australian media 3 years ago with footage of the killing shown to the public. the defense team for shills, who is currently 41 years old, has all viewed that he does not pose a flight risk because he has so far abided by all the restrictions imposed by the court. the court also noted that the incident occurred a decade ago during the war in afghanistan, and the defendant is not considered a threat to australian society. host of the whistle blows, john curiosity says, that's nonsense used as an excuse for the public. i think that the reason why

justice hasn't been served in australia is there is the same reason the justice hasn't been served in the united states. there's a tendency by our governments to cover up the crime and to punish the whistleblowers. this case is another one of those crimes in a long line of crimes against civilians carried out in australia where it appears that the perpetrator is going to get away with it. i think that is utter nonsense that was used just as an excuse for the public. if this were in the united states, this soldier would be put in solitary confinement for his own protection. even if the australians don't do that, they can certainly put him in a local jail, out in the middle of nowhere, to keep him safe or in a low or minimum security prison to await trial where everybody is on his best behavior. and he wouldn't be in any danger at all. then i have, he has said,

i'll say i saw this has been implicated in the elected mud as of 39 on, on prisoners will civilians in afghanistan around half of those cases of been referred to investigative, to determine whether there is sufficient evidence for trials 39000 australian should fools in afghanistan, i with 2 decades. they were paul's of the nato led international falls, but trained local security forces. most of the whistle blows, don't carry. okay. again, says the australian government itself must in show that justice prevails. it's up to the australian government to ensure that justice is carried out, show the world that they're serious about the rule of law and about human rights. i'm not surprised, but i am disappointed. i'm not surprised because, you know, using the united states as an example. well, the united states was the major power in afghanistan for the entire period that the

australian military was there. so presumably the united states would have to assist in the prosecution. in the i, c. c of a soldier, even from australia and the u. s. is never going to, to cooperate in something like that. so it just seems to me that the i, c, c's hands are tied and dead. they would not a, they would not be able to carry out a successful prosecution. thousands of protesters fagan to the things all kenya's capital to protest against rising cost of living in the east african nation. a local reporter gave us the details about the demonstrations as well as the international response. the blood, the aftermath of the anti government protest caught the attention of the international community with africa now pulling please, and pretty stream in the 1st round of the monday protest. so people killed their home set ablaze. what are the looted from businesses and destroyed private property

incubator and it'll be applied not to be the bedrock of the opposition supported? the police never showed up and you had to issue any press the statement. now this comes after the opposition leader being declared monday on the day for mike actually in. can you check with a fucking bahama breath, a deep concern with the appropriate calling on the stakeholders who engage in dialogue to address any differences between the government and the opposition. for the sake of national unity, the chairperson of the african union commission, mussa fucking ma express his deep concern at violence following public protests in kenya since the 21st of march 2023. which has resulted in loss of life damage to property and the interruption of certain economic activities in the capital nairobi . now religious leaders, i've also come from the economy, the i've been calling on the government and the opposition to have done no peace to prevail in the country. these comes up to

a charge and almost set ablaze night after they brought in. we are calling for leticia 33 to see a decision from using implement the language in political, which is a social media both hard to follow up with just a button lead to the unfortunate events of last night here because of you caught up on you can call the demos with abuse, alternative approaches to hard to say, well, he thought you fucked into political vision, but the thing that was called the knob, atlanta, the data and national security advocacy. i don't people to attack the property of the opposition leader. mr. dean got under for president, looking at her can at her from was toward us goons. looted his life though and cut down trees. things also seem to get down for the journalist,

asked the faithful city from hooligans and police in different parts of the country . i want you to know harton you, natalie? no, sir, i sent you out a year of where french police have been accused of stopping emergency services from helping live bodily injured and reach the attic gum raney's turned violent. an audio recording published in the french media, purports to show a doctor's request for immediate help for an indian demonstrator being refused. and on what we have a doctor present. and we have explained the situation to him. we will not send helicopters and emergency services because we have an order from law enforcement not to send them. local official say, any claims that police have been preventing those injured from getting treatment are entirely false. assail raunchy though the emergency services are there to

assist in times of need. meanwhile, french police are being, i've also been making for the headlines all for a woman was arrested for using derogatory terms to this who i present micron. s social media post. a local prosecutor says she is to be put on trial for insulting the president. she was detained last week. i'm questioned, offered government office, filed a complaint about the post. if found guilty, the woman could face a fine of up to 12000 years. meanwhile, present micron keeps on making headlines with a hashtags going viral on social networks. independent journalist, new group a says the french police may have created obstruction to impede access of other emergency services to the processes is fairly possible, but actually the police forbade, made it impossible for the,

for the social services, the ambulances to reach the front line off the demonstration, so that's very possible and it's the case and parents, you know, france for the moment goes through a cycle of violent demonstrations. it is the 10 day of demonstrations bringing some 700001 1000000 people on the streets of the main cities. mostly embarrassed. and, and it's john, you know, violence and flyers everywhere. and of course that is that the garbage, thousands of tons of garbage and industries, products in big cities, that it's only starting to be taken away. so it's not the time to just film emily in paris for a moment, you know, or anywhere else in france. so my point is arkansas is of course, the pension law and he wants to pass because he has nothing to show 456 years now

in power. and he wants to perform to be passed and the union say no. and they continue to demonstrate. so that's the key for them. so really your officials are outraged that the bolting state of the stone is saying it has been abusing a reimbursement scheme for our suppliers. the claim they say is still there has been charging for the price of completely new weaponry. while other countries usually get compensated for why about one or 2 thirds of those costs all to contribute? rachel muslim picks up the story if someone offered to pay you to give your current wardrobe away to charity and then replaced the items that you gave away, would you seize the opportunity to purge it all in favor of a new upgrade? because that's what at least one european union country is now accused of doing with weapons for ukraine. the european union set up a fund to reimburse member states that donate weapons to kiev based on the

estimated cost of the old weapons compared to a brand new version of the same one. for example, sweden estimated it's really old weapons to be worth about 26 percent of the value of the new ones. france figured there's, we're worth about 71 percent of a new version. but latvia figured it's weapons were worth 90. 9 percent of the full value of a new version, lithuanian 93 percent, and estonia, 91 percent. that's according to the western press. citing european diplomatic sources and singling out as stonier in particular the core part of the other countries complaint is that a stoney a has been particularly skilled, a getting very high reimbursements for old gear. in absolute numbers, estonia put in a claim for a 160500000 euros of new weapons under the 1st trench for which it was then reimbursed,

a 134200000 euros. it's kind of like selling old stuff on ebay for absolutely no discount, just putting it on there for full price. surely there are some solid criteria being used to calculate reimbursement though, right? after all, we're talking about you taxpayer funds here and not an open bar or a shopping spree. generally speaking, there are 3 different values. countries can claim the replacement value based on the price of new material, the actual cash value based on the estimated price at which the gear could be result and the original procurement value based on the price originally paid to plymouth said the debate over his tony as reimbursement has exposed the fact that there is no clear methodology over which system to use for payback. so brussels set up a big pot of free money set vag parameters for accessing it. and now the countries involved are all running to the press, the stabbing each other in the back with allegations of cheating. how totally

shocking for an institution that is currently caught up in a corruption scandal that turned the european parliament into a giant crime scene. last december with authority, seizing data and equipment relating to shady foreign lobbying allegations, directly touching high ranking darlings of the e u establishment. apparently it still hasn't mouse yet, act together to prevent even more potential corruption, european commission, prisoner or so vander line, proposed back then an independent ethics body, and quote, very clear rules in the wake of that scandal. it is a question of confidence of people into our institutions and this confidence and trust into our institutions needs highest standards and of independence and integrity. and yet here we are very 3 months later. and the rules for accessing a big part of you cache are so unclear that the blocks on officials are complaining

about it as stony responded to the new allegations in a statement. acknowledging that some of the weapons that the sent to ukraine were apparently so old that they aren't even produced any more. the aim of the european piece font system is to restore the member states on defense capabilities. the declaration of european peace funding donations on the by to self recovery value is completely in accordance with the rules and apply in the event that the production of the donated equipment has been terminated and the restoration of its capacity is important. from the point of view of national defense, estonia added that this is not quote, an e u compensation scheme, but the stakes are much higher to beat back russian aggression. the biggest challenge to our security architecture since the 2nd world war. now actually it is literally an e u compensation scheme that we're dealing with here. but apparently now any and all shady ness is supposed to be just swept under the rug if it's related to

ukraine. massena, u. s. official says the american movie has been severely hand an immense ability to gather intelligence on the black sea following a recent incident with a rough and fight agent. the u. s. decision to fly surveillance drones further south over the black sea. after russia, jack collided with us drone early this month. definitely limits our ability to gather intelligence that into evolved the u. s. hunter could draw known as a ring per russian officials have denied the 2 aircraft actually collided. they said that the drone crashed off to an abrupt maneuver. the u. s. military has reported the started flying is survey across further from the coast of crimea and at a high altitude, avoid a direct military confrontation with russia and international consultant and retired

u. s. army left turn and colonel earl robinson says it's going to be difficult for washington to continue gathering intelligence in the region if it wants to avoid a direct confrontation with russia. this is a, it's a warning sign. they step back. we've got southern lights, it pulls them out of the direct con conflict known it has injured intelligence gathering information. you know, it's going to be an internal struggle in the political side. probably one thing to try to get engaged closer. 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 incident as well, the gathering information and assisting in a targeting of, of target, basically on crimea. i mean, russia, russia is actually being very generous,

and that recognizes the direct essentially to put the u. s. and the direct party of the property, they know they've been notified where the flood zone is, where the, where the air space they've, they've been notified through, through proper channels on that. they're just testing testing the waters and pushing it as much further. but if they go inside that zone, they expect to have the grown shut down. i mean it's just how it is. the deputies 1st of the us says the general is grilled by a c g t n correspondent of the he said there are no us armed forces in syria at this. what's the, what's the difference is related to it and syria is no attrition in syria and the situation you're crying there is no us armed forces inside of syria. and so at a, so i don't have a, it's not a parallel situation. you're sure there's no, there's no u. s. u s. military personnel, i believe is military activity. yeah. but a but

a but in terms of ground presence in syria, i'm not aware of that. okay. 5 us service members were injured in that attack. if there is no, there were no us soldier service members in syria. how could they got injured at? that's weird, right? should you as well as you base is in syria, warren time, just last week, demoss was a q u. s. of stating oil from the country under the guise of a supposed to terrorism operation. the u. s. which is the believe of had a full says in syria for navy decade as openly called for regime change in the country. the news is that of the cradle media outlet, esteban korea says the u. s. military presence in syria violates international law . sounds like he was misinformed, but it also raised a question of whether this was a un official or, or you as state department as spokesperson trying to defend

a defensible the president of the u. s. army syria, illegal by international law. so, and he said that you are watching the un form after the 2nd world war 2 to the fan international law into it, to prevent conflicts like these from iraq, the but now it seems that un has been turned to simply another tool to, to justify these illegal invasions, and these are the plundering of a, of this theory as resources. and these are strategies to where to regime change. it's about controlling, being loyal, producing areas of syria. what he does allow them to do is to, to pressure the government damascus to, to pressure the people which on top of economic sanctions, the government cannot, cannot use their own resources that can be in the strategies to start these warren, syria has been to oust and the government of

us republican congress person has injured use this asian to for president biden to withdraw troops. busy from the east african nation of somal, they're saying that midfield operation has largely been a failure. the american people have extremely low confidence in our military leaders and their ability to assess their own efficacy. how do they expect americans to believe their justification for occupying somalia? when they can't even determine who in their own training programs will lead a violent crew. afterwards, the u. s. a mercy has been operating in somalia is a combat regional terrorist groups for the past 60 years. it has conducted $276.00 airstrikes and spent 2 and a half $1000000000.00 on the campaign. however, regional security is still at risk amid deadly attacks by the else above terrorist group, for example, in october and terrace act it in semis capital left

a $121.00 dead. at that time the u. s. decided to redeploy 500 ground troops to the country, saying it is crucial to help counter. i'll shabba rose's in somali, his capital say the united states is not sincere. in his bid to fight. also barb saying, washington is followed only by its own interest. they demand america to leave their country. hello, that will do that man in the u. s. or in somalia for their own interest, but not to help. so malia they always bomb 4 people and farmers, we, somalis are not enemies to any other country. the only enemy we have as america. i want to tell president hassan shake mohammed to cut ties with the u. e and the u. s . mr. president, we love you as our leader, but please cut ties with arab nations in america. we beg you, our brother, my americans are in somalia for their own national interests because if they were

really serious about fighting al chabarise, they would have ended that menace a long time ago. and they are not helping us at all. i want them to leave our country. yes, they should just leave our country. several arab countries, saudi arabia, jordan and the u. e. have condemned a decision by the israeli government issued construction permits for a 1000 new homes on palestinian land. media report. say that is where he authorities have even bigger piles, to build more than 7000 jewish homes across the west bank resident of one past. in village in the west, i have decided to take masses into their own hands as they have moved into ancestral caves. instead of allowing the area to be taken over by israeli settlers, mo goose have been suffering from a lack of the basic necessities, such as walter uncertainty and even furniture in their caves. they also face continuous attacks by israelis in the area. they've described the hardship of the

living conditions to us. i see valeca, although lights in the cave is difficult. we are holding on to our land. we inherited this land from our fathers and our grandfathers, and we will not give up this legacy because we love this place. even though we do not have water, electricity, or other necessities for life. in addition to the fact that the settlements are surrounding us, settlers continue attacking us and they prevent us from reaching our land. we are in need of assistance and financial and political support in order to continue our confrontation with all the israeli plans that aim to displace us go on gun and land kisses me. we live in this case because he was inherited generation after generation. we live in this place and assemble way that because of the settlers we suffer a lot. we expect settlers to attack our homes and our children all the time them.