me oh, the top headlines right now. one off to international. there is a wall street journal correspondence facing 20 years in prison. i think the arrested by russian authority to say he's or us by that a court read the u. s. congress rejects legislation to increase the oversight of the billions being sent to ukraine despite the concerns of regular everyday americans about why that dollars continue to be sent so far away from the formal australian soldier charged with a war crime is granted. vale that the court says his life could be endangered if he goes to jail. is accused of murdering an unarmed afghan father, kenya is engulfed by a wave of protest with building stuff on fire. the business is shut down and made

for free of looting and police violently as person crow the an awful lot to fill you in on today. it's a busy program for you. this one here on off to you and me to kick off the, our with breaking news for you here as rational authorities have detained a wall street journal reporter on suspicion of conducting espionage activities for the us government. just a very short time ago, i got the latest details with ortiz, marina cost, according to the statement released by russia federal security service, he was detained in the city of euclid, in bulwark. while he was trying to obtain secret information relating to all one of russia's military industrial complexes with not more details regarding that. and after that, a criminal case was opened against them on espionage charges. and like i said, he faces 20 years in prison. if he is convicted now,

wall street journal has since come out saying that they vehemently deny all accusations against their dedicated journalist and they're afraid for his safety. and they of course, demand his urgent release. now, who is this guy? so even a girl ko, it's a he, a 32 years old. he is a correspondent for the moscow bureau of the world streets, odd journal, previously who worked for the moscow times agent. so france press and his main topic seemed to have been russia, ukraine, and former soviet union states. so this is what he's been in. he was in the credits a journalist. he got his accreditation from roches defense ministry. and obviously, somewhere along the lines, something went wrong. this is what the russian foreign ministry had to say regarding this case. what this employee of the american publication, the wall street journal was doing in the exeter and berg has nothing to do with journalism. unfortunately, this is not the 1st time that the status of a foreign correspondent along with a journalistic visit. the quinta, taishan,

was used by a foreigner in our country to cover up activities that were not journalism. this is not the 1st time that such a westerner has been caught red handed and latimer puts a spokesperson was also asked to comment on this. and he said, well, this is enough. his be matter. but as far as he's concerned, ah, the man was caught red handed, basically with evidence points into the fact that he was a spy working on behalf of the american government. and once again, the wall street journal denies it. but if indeed this man is a spy, the wall street journal's course of what i know because this something that, as we've seen in the past, the cold war, for example, this is all public information. when several american journalist, dozens, others put it into 100 journalists, were used as spies the gathering intelligence. this is exactly what they're talking about. this is something that the wall street journal wouldn't necessarily know, because this would be a contact that would be maintained between the journalists and the cia. for example,

just a bit earlier, we discussed these allegations over american report, spying on the russian defense industry with independent journalist, mike jones and former us marine john duke. it's no secret, especially in this day and age that the american journalistic structure. all of them just about are working for the united states government. it really depends on what this individual was trying to get. but if you're trying to get military secrets related to like weapons, like how much they're producing or anything like this, that's very detrimental to russian security. and you know, they can't just let something like that go, unfortunately, trying to gather a secret information is not a normal thing that journalists do. i mean, they report on the ground in different countries. but you're, you're not really supposed to be going to weapons manufacturers and trying to obtain state secrets. i would expect

a lot of spin on it and down playing his role and why he was there, were speculating at the moment, but i wouldn't be surprised if it were to do with perhaps even the production of ammunition and levels. because we know that the west is very concerned, you can't seem to ramp up the supply. so perhaps he's trying to attain just how capable russian industry is. if indeed this is, as is claimed to be. again, it's another level of desperation. i feel of the u. s. and the collective west as they desperately try to scramble to gain some advantage in a huge blunder and mistake that they've made and they're desperately trying to trying to back pedal the u. s. congress has rejected an initiative to closely monitor the billions of dollars and overall aid being shipped to ukraine. a supply demand that the u. s. make sure that the weapons being sent actually end up

where they are intended. this body has spent to date $113000000000.00 on the war and ukraine and county. 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. and if dana stan was pretty shocking us, media reports have said that only 30 percent of the american weapons sent to ukraine actually get to the front lines. meanwhile, the use border control agency, his sound to be alarm about a substantial increase in guns smuggling. there been rising concerns among regular americans as well. what about why the government is sending more than a $100000000000.00 in a to ukraine, while those funds might perhaps be better spent on domestic needs? money to be accounted for. we need to know where the money things and not not fraud, it would feel better if we used our resources to support and aid our own

people. and those people within our borders rather outside our borders to, to a foreign country to make it better than that here instead of the other only obvious. so one of the main beneficiaries of the us defense funding is actually that of private contractors or even estimates that over the past year independent recipients got more than half of washington's national security budget. and the u. s. inspector general and dentist on has warned the biscuits signal corruption between the government and what the military industrial complex you are bound to get corrupt elements of not only the ukrainian or the whole government, but also of us government contractures 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 d. n a. in the united states, on fortunately, i just remembered the program. let's take a look at how the cost for ukraine's war effort compared with those of other major conflicts waged by washington. so, spending on military a to kia and actually surpass the annual us funding of its previous war in afghanistan. the u. s. is also estimated to have spent on ukraine, about half of the money they had on average per year in vietnam. of course, both vietnam and they got us on war as well. they all while they were a big failure for washington, despite the enormous tolls on the economy and public sentiments about the government, there's still no clear indication of a potential limit to the u. s. commitment to the conflict in ukraine up here and i see we did hear from a retired u. s. air force, lieutenant colonel, who says, as bipartisan support for ramping up ukraine's war effort. as congressmen 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 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 and that's, 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 try to lay the waste in the fraud and the destruction. on the other side, we know from viet nam and from afghanistan in many other places that we don't care about democracy. in fact, the only kind of democracy, the united states really like this, the kind that is allied with its current political interest, even though congress doesn't seem to have learned it's less than on afghan. it's

dan, i think the american people kind of have and i do see 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 some of that truth comes out on how long that this government on united states government has doped 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 support to end the war this year. a former australian soldier charged with motoring and scan. villager has been granted bale. the court believed that his life could be endanger if he sent to prison. a helmet camera footage appears to show oliver jordan sholtes, shooting an unarmed farmer several times during the 2012 alleged war crime. a

warning the following video you may find disturbing. ah, i ah, ah right now, right up my leg and the case was initially exposed in the australian media 3 years ago with footage of the killing going public at the defense team for schoultz who is currently 41 years old. has argued 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. though of course the victims fought father abdul malik, is still suffering from the loss of his loved one. do you have the spice head wound

with covered his face and told them to take him to the graveyard. mother said 15 burials that i came back to see the place. i saw the wheat field where he was killed. the week was flattened. my whole around the host of the whistle blowers programmer, john curiosity. now he says the course decision is based on our nonsensical idea that the authorities just wanting to feed to the australian public. why? 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. or the minister said that australian soldiers have been implicated in the alleged motives of 39 unarmed prisoners all civilians in afghanistan. around half of those cases were referred to investigators to determine whether there was sufficient evidence for trials and back to john curiosity, one more time here he says, the australian government itself must ensure 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 try to cooperate in something like that. so it just seems to me that the ice he sees hands are tied and dead. they would not a they would not be able to carry out a successful prosecution. thousands of protesters of hit the streets of kenya's capital to protest against rise and costs of living upon local reporter brought us details about the demonstrations and that of the international response. the bloody aftermath of the gum in protest. the attention of the international community with africa now political faith and restraint. in kenya, the 1st round of the month,

protest, people killed their home, that ablaze was looted on businesses and destroyed private property, incubate and it'll be known to be the better off of that position. the name of the anything didn't commit to the position you really trying to fight 3 election been use medicaid to try and create some of it for them. but actually you will be to wait for the community for that. but you are wondering when the police is coming and think that they are just wondering how can he doesn't have a st demonstration. but the only thing that he has to do is to wait for the

security of the police never showed up why not a year to issue any press the statement. now this comes after the opposition leader, right? being declared, monday on the day. so much actually in case they show up on the phone with a fucking, how much the bread deep was on the with the appropriate calling on the stakeholders, 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 fuck emma mod 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 have also come out from the office, 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 ablaze night after they were calling for leticia $33.00 to see this is from using implement every language in political, which is a social media both how to follow us. we just abundantly lead to the unfortunate events of last night here because of you caught up on you can call the demos, region abuse, alternative approaches to say, well, so that the organization he thought being thought into political progression. but really think that was all the government and national security unknown people to talk the property of the opposition leader mr. dean got on the for president can can ever from was towards the lives of the cut down trees. things also seem to get down for the journalist as

a whole city from holy guns and police in different parts of the country. ammonia are 2 new night over a train, caring ethanol has derailed in minnesota with its cargo catching fire. i never residents have been forced to evacuate as a precaution. local authorities say the rail line is now closed and investigation is underway. now, ethanol is poisonous. it's not a cause toxic anemia and cardiac arrest comes after a string of other accidents on america's cargo backbone. last month, the train carrying dangerous chemical substances derailed and caught fire in ohio, causing serious damage to the environment. and anyone who was caught in the toxic cloud a deputy spokesman for the un secretary general was grilled by a c g t n correspondent of the he said there are no us armed forces in syria

at this stage. sure. what's the difference that is related to in syria is no attrition, sir. and the situation you're crying, there's no us armed forces inside of syria. and so i'd, as i don't have a it's, it's not a very low situation. you're sure there's no, there's no u. s. u. s. military personnel, i believe this military activity. yeah. but a but of 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 i, le u. s. military bases and syria were attacked just last week. damascus has accused us of stealing oil from the country under the guise of a supposedly anti terrorism operation. the u. s. which is believed to have had forces in syria for nearly a decade as openly called for regime change in that country. and the news editor of

the cradle media outlet, esteban korea, he says the us military presence in syria does violate international law. sounds like he was making foreign, but it also raised the question of whether it was a you an official or us state department spokesperson, trying to, to defend a defensible the president of the us army syria, illegal by international law. so and he said the us was in the us form after the 2nd world war 2 to the fan international law into it to prevent the conflict like these from iraq, the but now it seems to us has to be an attorney for simply another 2 or 2 to justify these illegal invasions and these, the plundering of the, of the theory as resources. and these are structured to where the region change is about controlling the oil, producing areas of syria. what he does allow them to do is to pressure the government in damascus to pressure the people which on top of the economic

sanctions, the government cannot, cannot use their own resources. that has been the strategy to start this war and syria has been to oust and the government of bash had left. so just to give you a reminder on some updates your naughty international, a wall street journal correspondent facing up to 20 years in prison as he's been arrested by rational authorities for well as they say, he's a u. s. spy, that's being caught. red handed. let's learn more right now and cross live to ortiz, marine culture epa, who's now outside the moscow courthouse, where this reporter is essentially being taken to marina. good to see you. what do we know so far? what's happening? ah, yes, where there's a lot of thrust here at the moment, waiting to catch any glimpse of the american journalists and any time the black car behind me makes any sort of noise like right now we believe that the american journalist is in that car right now the black car that is deporting this courtroom,

he can see there we go. and we believe that even girl school, which is now leaving the moscow court. and as we can see, there's not only lots of thrust here, but some heavy duty armed guards. and that's because earlier in the day this court received a bomb threat that had to be evacuated. this is shortly right before even gaskets actually made it here. but since then they checked everything, everything was okay. and the preceding returned back to normal. and we heard that the chief investigator asked for even girl courts to receive espionage charges. now, once again, this all comes after the f as be released, the statements where they said that they detained the american journalists in the city of you got it in book while he was receiving the secret information. now, 32 year old reporter, ah, he's been working for the moscow bureau of the wall street journal. previously he

worked for the moscow times, or he worked for agency france price. he was in accredited a journalist. he had an accreditation from russia's foreign ministry. and this is what the foreign ministry had to say about this case today. what this employee of the american publication, the wall street journal was doing in the exeter and berg has nothing to do with journalism. unfortunately, this is not the 1st time that the status of a foreign correspondent along with a journalistic visa accreditation was used by a foreigner in our country to cover up activities that were not journalism. this is not the 1st time that such a westerner has been caught red handed i believe we lost the sound o at ortiz marina cause her over there, start out right outside the court house, downtown moscow. you've got me that marina over to you. can you give us any more updates on this developing that already so on. so one second where we will just do

it a little bit louder. yes. can you repeat that, rory? one or 2? i we, we saw the car leaving just there behind you. now, what are your expectations for today? can you give us any more detail? i could barely hear you, but what can we can expect? well right now they'll be looking into his activities here in russia were heard from ah, the crumb and spokesperson with his scott earlier said that he was caught red handed, meaning that they have the evidence to charge him. i would assume. so right now will be waiting to see what the outcome is after this hearing and will no doubt, we've given you more information as soon as we have it. yep, sounds good. all right, march 8th. marina calls are ever thank you. the british military has started training ukrainian soldiers on the use of depleted uranium ammunition in combat. the weapons appeared and a recent documentary film presented by the u. k. defense ministry of footage shows

ukrainian soldiers undergoing training on challenger to tanks in britain to the u. k. recently, and alistair would provide key f with 14 of those vehicles. and the video shows a black, a needle like a rounds with a tanks as well. we'll get these pictures here. these are depleted uranium shelves . you environment program has described depleted uranium as a quote, chemically in a radio logically toxic heavy metal yellow and the u. k confirmed that it would send the controversial weapons soon to the conflict in ukraine. alongside our granting of a squadron of challenger to mean battle tanks to ukraine will be providing ammunition including armor piercing rounds, which contain depleted uranium. if the shock, this is a step towards a serious build up of escalations statements by western colleagues that it's ok, nothing is forbidden. we don't violate in the conventions, but we all remember what consequences the use of depleted uranium supplies lead to

in yugoslavia, iraq were tens of thousands of civilians and military personnel suffered from the use of this ammunition. the u. k isn't alone and providing training to ukrainian troops. of course, us personnel also clearly up here in the video, a soldier bearing an american flag, purchasing teaching ukrainian fight, is explaining that latest arms from the west, including depleted uranium. munitions are sent by the u. k. a u. s though does have a history of using shells, notably during nato's 999 and plumbing campaign in yugoslavia. and during the 2003 iraqi war, the us fired more than 300000 depleted uranium rounds. some in civilian areas have had deadly consequences or the off them off fluids are following to massive u. s. military seizures source sharp rise and birth defects, cancers, and other illnesses. the meantime, washington said it's up to london. what kind of ammunition it sent to ukraine? we would let the u. k speak for itself in terms of what solver,

decisions are going to make about providing ammunition. this kind of ammunition is fairly commonplace. been in use for, for decades. but i, for my senior security policy analyst at the office of the us defense secretary michael maloof, he says that sending depleted uranium munitions as military 8 to may very well actually end up hurting ukrainians them. so the u. s. does have a closer arrangement with the u. k. they work very closely to get in fact, those 2 countries were the ones who, who developed the, the d u or the depleted uranium rounds. and they've been using them for years and years and years has had consequences. i know the u. n. has tried to play down the toxic effects, but nobody knows what it's like over time, but this also puts the ukrainians in jeopardy in terms of health. and well this whole thing is just maddening. the whole point about this uranium is that it

diluted version of it, but it still has radiation impact over time. nobody knows what that impact is. well, hello, multi polar world. brazil and china have struck a deal to ditch the american dollar in favor of their own currencies, but bilateral trade transactions. an agreement and setting payments in one has been signed with brazil, which greatly facilitates our trait. we are planning to expand cooperation in the field of food and mineral extraction, and to search for a possibility of exporting goods with high added value from china to brazil and from brazil to china. well, the deal enables china and the biggest economy in latin america to conduct financial transactions directly without converting their currencies into us dollars . the new arrangement is expected to reduce costs and facilitate bilateral try trade and investments. i should say

a china remains. brazil is largest trading partner accounting for more than a 5th of all of its imports, followed by the u. s. a. china is also brazil largest export market economy for more than a 3rd of all of its exports. now there's all come just days off the china completed its 1st l. n. g trade paid for in its national u and currency as an imported around $65000.00 tons of liquefied natural gas. and while the commodity originated in the u. e was actually a french company, the total energy is to fulfill the contract. a china has been increasingly stepping up its oil and gas fields and new one. and it bid to establish its currency on a more global level, but also weakens the u. s. dollars traditional dominance in world trade trade a national currencies is also expected to grow between india and egypt, which are discussing currently discussing the purchase over one and a half 1000000 tons of rice and rupees. if the deal is agreed upon, egypt will join 18 countries doing business and rupees for cross border

transactions in a bit to what is the dollar rising global south trade with the indian currency becoming more international we heard from a professor of political science at hell, one university who says it's an important trend, as a dollar has always been used by the us as a tool. the economic crisis now is how to get the dollar. and the u. s. is trying to exercise control on countries on the supply of dollars. and they have to submit to their economic and political conditions. why? when you deal with the euro b, as in india or the rabble in russia, there are no political conditions set on the developing countries. the 18 countries club dealing with will be the indian rubia. some of them are western countries like germany.