today we are speaking to the head of the innovation center of the russian, the olympic committee, world renown trainer, i would render ah, the head of the russian wagner group. well, 1st humanitarian aid and mediation support for peace talks and sudan counter and claim by the local, her military forces, and their fight against the countries army. by the u. lectures, tunisia on democracy, the countries president lashes out of the west for flagrant interference in his nation national affairs aging lashes out at what it calls washington's desire to try one to the teeth. announcing the plan as acts of international bully with coming to you live from the russian capital. this is our

t international. i marginal beloved here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. and we begin with the latest from sudan where authority say more than 600 people have been killed in the north east african country. and just a week of fighting, a power struggle devolved into a full scale conflict and the capital 7 days ago between government troops and a pair of military group known as the rapid support forces and new humanitarian sees fire has been proposed after the previous one quickly collapsed, these are the latest images from the capital of cartoon or clashes continue, or as of troops have been firing anti aircraft. brown's at air force just overhead . local journalists massage. abraham has the latest on the conflict with our so there's no one here. this token didn't clashing this free, they cannot go out,

they can by way. so that's one of the reasons to let people get out from the city. give them saying, wow, they don't have food people, they do have water problem prices, people say with water and electricity for 4 days. people are not able to go out from their houses to buy. they need people can. i think there, there are sick balances people, the old people in the hospital. a lot of families lost most of their parents that are due to the problem that is not hospital. it's difficult to reach the hospital. and there is a lot of people who don't have problems, and this kind of people are very nice to go to sort of, you need to go to the hospital soon as the free time every week. and you can imagine this is not helping him to raise now came to find the culprit for the unrest and sudan. the western media has turned to its usual game. in russia, reports accused the wagner private military company of supporting local

paramilitaries against the army. wagner's chief has rejected those claims, calling them a provocation, and saying on the contrary, that the group wants to mediate piece if necessary to help resolve the existing conflicts. and for the future prosperity of saddam, i'm ready to act as an intermediary in negotiations between the parties of the conflict. the un and many others want sudanese blood and i want peace for the sudanese people. i also want to ask for the opportunity to send planes with medicines and everything necessary to saddam at my own expense. independent journalists, nixon, good tambo believes is up to africans to decide who has the continence best interest at heart. think leads up to the people that understand that america has never been there to be friends with anyone or that make us out that it's all political and a national interest until

a russia and the russian federation getting there for my usa is known to have a c, c, the menu button momentum according to me. and in this case, once again, it seems coming to off at the say a quote for the people. so that to kind a what they say and have independent employee sit in the country. so whether it be set off from one is going to be accepted by this, the needs of people. i think they have to look beyond that to offer and they look at their long term interest of this menus. people a comes at a time when the americans have been trying to so it is a russian issue as incident. whereas we know that a has been in that particular region and many of us on the continent try to

i don't the say bullish tactics in the national geo political affairs, and america lincoln to many of the african countries in affairs. and while the media are trying to tarnish russia, involvement in sudan independent journalist on the horn of africa, thomas mount points out that one of the current top student is officials. the transitional sovereignty council chair has long been a close friend of washington. he's been speaking with african retrans, the ongoing underground. you can watch the full episode throughout the week starting on saturday. but here's a quick look. terrible, terrible figures coming from sudan in all seriousness. a pulling news coming up. but unlike the ukraine, when a to nation media know exactly everything about that situation about the war again last february. and when it comes to sit on the i,

they look confused. and or they just don't know when the shooting step started. they, they hadn't been told which side to back, you know, this region you lived in this region. what is going on? these air force pilots are bombing civilian populations in the capital, cartoon and elsewhere. welcome. a air force is bombing its own capital city, and the rural is not alarms what's going on really is that there is a cia back pension name. general abraham, whose eat back by a judge is ama cia. and he was trying to eliminate is competition, which is general. hm. it was a by mean, you know, saying that, i mean one didn't get the ok from washington to start using jets warplanes to bomb a really bombard the capital. well, brown is pretty much, dear man, in sudan. i mean, he's, he's in a really an ethiopian,

provide hundreds of tons of weapons to the c i back attempted to against ethiopian government to the t grad people's liberation from. he's been trying to normalize relations with israel, which the u. s. is very supportive. brown is been basically dancing from the cia and the region. ah, you as an inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, john supp is sounding the alarm over potential corruption and ukraine. that's a figure shout, i'll send it. yeah, we'll, since or pass all of the aids spent on afghanistan and 20 years. just look at the amount of money we're spending in ukraine is about a $113000000000.00 of that right. this summer we will surpass all the money we spend for reconstruction, which was the train advise and assist mission in afghanistan for 20 years. this

summer, we will surpass all the money we spend from marshall plan to rebuild all of europe after world war 2. that money is flowing my manor from the sky. if you don't get in there soon, you're going to see pill fridge. since 2001, the u. s. has provided a $151000000000.00 in aid to afghanistan. 73000000000 of that was for military aid and almost 40000000000 for both humanitarian and economic aid. but when it comes to ukraine, the u. s. has already spent almost $78000000000.00 in total, 8 and just one year. washington as provided the country with $4000000000.00 and humanitarian aid, almost $27000000000.00 and financial loans and funding along with $36000000000.00 and security and $47000000000.00 in heavy military support. the u. s. inspector general has also spoken about ghana, stan saying that after 2 decades the lack of monitoring still remains a problem. the 2nd problem is right now we're paying the salaries of all ukrainian

civil servants. ready or most of them and who's paying them us aid and usa is pumping money in giving it to the ukrainians to pay the salaries bus in afghanistan, the department of defense was involved in paying the salaries and over 20 years. it could not come up with a system to guarantee that we've been paying the salaries of real afghans. this cuts as a group of us lawmakers were a joint letter on thursday, calling out president biden's policy towards helping ukraine and saying they will oppose all future aid packages. if the goals are clear. a proxy war with russia and ukraine is not in the strategic interest of the united states. our national and economic security demand and alternative unrestrained us aid for ukraine must come to an end. and we will adamantly oppose all future aid packages unless they are linked to a clear diplomatic strategy designed to bring this war to a rapid conclusion. to go further in depth on this one cross live now to jeffrey

and young, a democratic candidate for the governor of kentucky jeffrey, it's great to have you on the program today. now we have this joint letter from us lawmakers, logging their concerns about the level of us support for ukraine. it's not the 1st time we've heard such complaints, but do you think their voices are getting louder? i do it's, this letter is not particularly radical, but it's basically good common sense. and it's long overdue. right. and now when it comes to, you know, you mentioned as long overdue. we've just talked about how much money the u. s. congress has approved for ukraine just in one year comparing it to 20 years. and i can't stand. so do you think that there are limits to the level of u. s. a ukraine or is this just feeling like a bottomless pit? still, at this point, it seems like a bottomless pit,

but there are real limits based on what's going on in the real world. there couple of limits. one is if the russians managed to conquer or let's say manage to demilitarize, you great. what's the 1st objective fact in february of 2020 to be nobody to give weapons to so that's one limit that you know, basically the russians when off aid to ukraine won't stop except the manage area. the other limit is the ability of the united states government to to pay to come up with enough money. there's a debt ceiling limit vote approaching.

and i don't know if it will pass. so the dollar is getting weaker and weaker. and i think some, you know, the letter that you mentioned describes that the treasury is not bottomless. it's not in senate. we're running out of money here and in the u. s. right. and i know up until this point us lawmakers have at least tried to justify that spending. but i guess the question is, how do they justify it in the face of the american people who point to all of the things that they need at home across the country for all of the issues that they would argue that their tax dollars should be spent on how are those lawmakers justifying spending their money by sending an over to crane with a complete lack of accountability for how it's spent there? well, your question answered itself. as a democratic candidate for governor of kentucky this year,

i am very disappointed that no democrats signed this letter. i'm very sad to, to, to see that. ah, there, i don't know they're being carried along by the mob. emotion. it's shameful for, for my party to be supporting war and supporting unlimited know a cherry weapons being sent to ukraine, which is an extremely corrupt country. and yeah, so there's another saying, the letter made the common assumption common in this country that russia was the aggressor in february 2022. that is false. i researched that in march and april 2022. and it's clear

that the united states is the aggressor, starting in 2014 or before 2014, the us state department, the cia caused a cool new gray violent one. and ever since 2014 grant has not been an independent country, it's been a public totally controlled by washington. so russia is acting in self defense. and we should never have drive me into this mash in the 1st place 9 years ago. right. and unfortunately that context is all too often ignored. now on the topic of concerns about corruption in ukraine, i mean we know that there was the case and ghana, stan were they were paying money to a $150000.00 go civil service is they're concerned that that could happen in new

crane now and is happening now and could the numbers be even, well, yes or in years a former governor. yeah, certainly a lot of the hungary and prime minister said he was surprised by the native chief statement that all members agree on ukraine joining the military alliance, budapest as long given an ultimatum that it will block key as if it continues to violate the rights of ethnic hunger areas in western ukraine. r t contributor rachel mars that gave us her take on the story. nato secretary general. yeah. stilton bert cleared, he shocked hungarian prime minister, victor, or bon with talk of ukraine, joining nato on his trip to kiev. had a meeting with nato ally, defense ministers, bon ukrainian, military ada, the alliances ramstein, airbase and germany oldenburg acknowledged that ukrainian leaders we're set to press nato on joining the alliance at that meeting. now it's a basic principle of nato membership that you can integrate the alliance when

you're in an active state of armed conflict with another country. if only because natives collective defense article 5 would mean that the many, the country at war is brought in huge native bold all of the nato allies of the den have an obligation to defend it overtly in that conflict. which in the case of ukraine would mean that instead of ukraine versus russia, it would be all of nato versus russia overtly. so new membership or ukraine, kind of be like buying a ready made kids for world war 3, which is why or bond is wondering what the heck is going on right now, is still tim burke's head. just have a listen to how stilton burke's position on this issue has evolved on we support ukraine on this. paul's, a boy, a supporting as reforms fights and corruption on mulder noise thing. the security and defense institutions to become a member of nato. you have to meet the natal standards on the has to be

a decision bought 30 alice, and it has been cleared for a long time and membership. ukraine was not something that was imminent or not. so something was relevant in the near future. the sessional membership of course, has been taken by all 3rd allies on the we take these positions, bought a consensus. only dollars have agreed on bumper. ukraine will become an a member, but still tender did temper history in a tweet from chia saying that quote, ukraine's rightful place is in nato and over time, our support will help make this possible. you know, this sounds like the line that someone feeds a partner to whom they don't want to actually commit, but still want them to stick around in the relationship. you know, dear, over time i'm certain that this will blossom into an absolutely wonderful marriage, then to keep them on board the shower them with expensive gifts and cash. just so they hang in there, hoping praying, even if it's killing them,

which is literally the case or ukrainians will. of course there's that old cautionary saying that comes to mind. why would nato buy the whole cow when they're already getting the milk for free? as former us secretary of state, hillary clinton said last december quote, the ukrainians have proven that they are a really good investment for the united states. they're not asking us to be there to fight their war. they're fighting it themselves. yeah. for you to. so the ukrainians are out there fighting russians in nato's interest in the u. s. as interests while nato is able to fulfill its anti russian fantasies from the comfort of bergan amik recliners while pumping $55000000000.00 us dollars into military agency. that figure comes from us defense secretary lloyd austin recently. and of course it's the western military industrial complex. that's a huge beneficiary of that aid. so you have to wonder where exactly the incentive is for nato to move beyond the status of. i don't talk an endless promises and all

this, particularly when the downside risk being nothing less than world war journalist matt t i. e b who has been making plenty of headlines with the twitter files. revelations has now been threatened with jail by a u. s. congress woman for allegedly lying under oath that comes from a leak documented chain by the 0 hedge media outlet. it is come to my attention that information foundational to your testimony that day has since been revealed to be false and misleading. under the federal perjury statute, providing false information is punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment after ill on last took over the social media giant last year. ty evie began to publish documents proving former twitter executives had ties to washington, and the platform moderator showed a bias against opponents of the biden administration. several democrat house

members are now accusing him of lying during his testimony because he later made an error and it's weak that included information he gave in the congressional hearing . but washington reaction has sparked a strong response from the journalism community. it's disturbing the to member of congress who determined to threaten a journalist with imprisonment for summarizing his report and during the congressional hearing, stacy plaskett trying to disprove the notion that the federal government has been weaponized against dissenters by threatening mat tabby with 5 years jail time. reckless behavior by stacy plaskett, disagree with ty, be all you want, but there is no better way to confirm the point of his reporting lentils. frederick henry's imprisonment, foothill and congress, and both his reporting. for more on this list, cross live now to media and legal analyst. lionel lionel is always good to see you, and i know you have an opinion on this one. so why has congress got matt

t i e b in it sites? i don't know if congress has this or if this particular a congressperson. but rachel, let me just go back a couple of things. first of all, under the law, i'm a lawyer, farmer prosecutor. when you talk about perjury it's lighting and you're always regarding a material issue. in fact, not getting agencies confused or misstating letters of the agency. it's a much terry, we'll issue something which is which is absolutely involved in this, not a mistake. and by the way, when people find themselves in the position of being per jerry, if they don't correct it later on, that's the whole purpose. what i'm, i'm lying to you later on. i sit by the way, i change my mind now a couple of things to this may just just remind you, lying in congress was just talking about that for a moment. this is, this is,

this is beyond laughable. if they prosecuted people remember this, but there were a bunch of major league baseball players who appeared before fed under ross. they didn't believe here was the most important jer, fearing with the press what hold the constitution. somebody who was a reporter to the above sources and to basically breach and violate the very foundation upon which we exist. either want to get corny and flag wavy here, but it never ceases to amaze me. i've got to say one more thing and yes, stop me. one run of time. i love the way people use different terms. if you give up, if you give up the wrong, i don't know why people are doing this and when you, when you give up the wrong information. you were told specifically that you are breaking the law sb national. what happens if you give up the good information that people like? then you will whistle blower your luck. if you're, if you are

a julian assange, no good. if you're daniel ellsberg dependent on paper, your hero, it just never ceases to amaze me how we play these games. is there a 1st amendment, rachel, or isn't there? and, and god bless bad to be and others who have come forward to, to basically let us know what the press should be, letting us know what the media, what they are, the media. i mean, i, i don't even know where to start with is the, the hubris of this is inexplicable. right? absolutely. and you know, you talk about this double standard and how they use that terminology to try to condition the public into thinking if they hear the word whistleblower, that must be good. and there must be a reason why they're using it that should just be accepted without questioning. and you know, you bring up this very important principle, which is we hear washington. so often talk about free speech about democracy,

about freedom of the press. but in this case, aren't they essentially saying that that only exist as long as you don't set the current administration or members of congress who could go after you? i mean, is that basically the lesson that they're telling the public? well this is, this goes back from the beginning. let's talk about this daniel ellsberg. daniel ellsberg in the middle of the vietnam war publish, gave to the new york and the washington post. but the new york times have this stolen in formation which people, it was about ending the war. good for you, daniel. it's a fair listen if, if i steal something that you like versus stuff something that you don't, it's still that. so what they did was daniel ellen went and took this information to the new york times and he said, this is news worthy. the new york times not to blame new york times didn't steal

this. he did. ok, fine. then comes julian assange. what did he do? wiki weeks, it was, it was someone else he didn't know this or nicky. again. bob, this is 2001 us supreme court case that absolutely provides that people in the media provided. they don't feel this, they didn't per lowering this information, but they're reporting it for good when julian, a, sorry, i don't understand it. and the best part is where the people in the media, you know, rachel, every other day here in this country. there's some media outlets or web site closing down and shuddering and closing doors of people out of work. you would think they would sit there and say, not only are we under attack by virtue of what we do, but maybe maybe if, if we stood up for something, maybe more people would like us by her process. because media and journalism in this country, it's almost going extinct. and if this is the best part,

when it affects your bottom, why and you don't say anything. think about that reporters journalists don't complain about something which is an existential threat to what they do. it i thought we were to start, it kills me. i hear you. the logic just does not seem to exist there. i know this is a conversation we can have all day long, but unfortunately we're out of time on this one. that's media and legal analyst, lionel, thank you so much for your time and insight. and europe is interfering again into nature's internal affairs with the german foreign minister, claiming the country has undermined the democratic achievements of the arab spring by arresting the country's opposition leader tunisian b. as in we be the arrest of russia gallucci, the leader of the denisia party and mark down with the greatest concern as was the egyptian president statements on various democratic issues in recent past. and the

democratic achievement from 2011 and to nice. yeah. must not be lost. we also discussed this intensively at our last you foreign ministers meeting in brussels from a former speaker of parliament and member of the hot party was arrested on monday for allegedly plotting against the security. and the last 3 months, more than 20 politicians from the opposition was spoken out against the current government has been arrested. teenagers president earlier slim the quote flagrant interference in his country's affairs. after concerns were raised, particularly in europe or not, the blatant interference in our phase is unacceptable. we're an independent, a sovereign state, and we do not accept any interference in our affairs. this is where you will see the weston and governments wanting to interfere with african affairs. it is not necessary for the people of tunisia that interested that they have in

that particular country so that they are not interested in their masters to music or the population of music that insist is mainly one day one to.