the, the headlines right now, one off the international as the night sky of israel erupt into a blaze of light is a huge new wave of miss hall stripes is lost against gaza. 21 people have been killed at least 42 wounded in just the past. 48, the army has been deployed in pucca stone as a protest tons violent over the must, the intentions of opposition leaders and the rest of the former prime minister in bronze level. according to our data, the americans have began to create a so called the syrian army as, as the goal is to use these militants against the legitimate authorities. mysterious arrows, public entity stay the life of the country. pressure is foreign minister warns of

external attempts to undermine the authorities in damascus. the host is counterparts from syria and iran for peace. also in the program, india christ file all over the world press freedom writings off in the countries place below. even a scanner stop the right, spending the world life problem most coast time for you and use on the international . it's a great to have your company for this. the, it's really a military is continuing. it's a shield on our operation with strikes. the said to be targeting palestinian weapons making facilities. the attacks on gaza started 2 days ago and have killed 21 people and wounded 42 that's according to the palestinian, the health ministry. we understand each is also trying to broker a cease 5 between both sides. now, footage from the israeli defense forces reportedly shouting earlier, astride think asa fighter jets and headache helped us have had more than 40 sites

that television says we're used by a tyra group. the footage also shows on hospitals in gaza, taking in the dead and wounded while under rock and file. the sirens sounding across the region and retaliation testing and forces of launched rockets at tennessee with more than $400.00 fired according to his rail. people to fleeing the coast, immediate report, say a residential building was fit. these ran the city of ash cologne near the casa board. it was also a top footage of defenses, intercepting the rockets. let's get more details down with the correspondent, his riff and ocean of the attacks are escalating. these real thing to use is large scale offensive against gauze all more precisely. and against islamic jihad, palestinian militant group based industry, dozens of fine to s, and helicopters are involved in shield and error. operation, move and 50 targets have already been heat, including tara tunnels,

militant spaces, and the rocket launch side to id. if latest report is real early or eliminated 3 top military commanders of palestinian islamic jihad, including the one responsible for northern regions and the one in charge of directing operations in the west bank, that's a very, very important person. and a truly dramatic escalation on the ground. i have to say these really for administrative, cultural change visit to india and to return back home due to security situation earlier, prime minister and defense minister of israel. how does security assessment praising united efforts of the country's military and intelligence? and they both dress up and go off. this operation is to counter terrorism. adding again, both that it is not to yet over israel is in the middle of shows, an arrow ration is really will do whatever it has to do to protect our state. and

to protect our people, israel's policy is clear and our message to the terrace is also clear. you can run, you can hide. but in the end is well, we'll get you. a total of $21.00. people have been killed in guys with rarely operation including civilians, women and children, among them, dozens of others were injured. that's according to a family scene. in house ministry, the international community condemns these rarely actions that lead to civilian casualties. the u. s. cold on all sides to come down with stress that israel had, it's right to protect itself. china, russia and the united arab emirates, a car into they reportedly calling on the un security council to convene. but note that information on that whatsoever. this is what residents of gaza who have been living hunger strikes in the last 48 hours. i said in a minute, we in the goals a strip of trying to survive despite the coast and bombardments and we have to go

to accept the most is what killed the situation. the goals are is very difficult. there is fair enough hair and a lot of mixed feelings. there are no longer the way things will guide because that depends on what's happening on the ground. as long as we do not get on writes, we will continue to live in such was real time outside a bottle unenroll. that sounds as though of the situation in gauze, and he's very tragic and confusing. and especially since the children and women all terrified by the aggression and bumping up because of strips children leaving the state of terror and apprehension because of this c d regression. and we have gotten that this address and, and the resistance in gaza will not stop just because be israel bombs, the buildings in garza. and we have to them that resistance, the weapon and the struggle of the policy and people was less than 24 hours after these really operations started. so they came and response from guys. i'm heidi ad says that to move in full 100 rockets were fired. 2 e's real, but a lot of them accidentally fell on the territory altogether as 3 and 90 percent of

them were intercepted by ireland. hacker defense system by israel, that's all. according to the idea of sources. sirens were heard all throughout space, really southern communities and in the central parts of the country, including in and tell i b, there were several direct seats in the cities office that old and asheville on north. bob from you guys are no casualties. have been so far reprinted from these really side. we heard that several people were injured. those rushing to shelters, palestinians have earlier we pulled at that time us the major milton face and god, and ruling gaza joined the fighting. but this information was not confirmed, neither by him as old by as rarely sources. we know also that the you, egypt and college are currently leading them in the ation process to ease the tensions between israel and palestine and is lubbock j hod. even they were reports

that there was a kind of ceasefire agreed between besides, but we were able to reach out to the diction inside close to the mediation process . and they said that no sign of tours so far, so we may expect more escalation on the ground in the coming hours. the pocket stones army has been deployed and the capital limited escalating protests. it's all over the mass, the pensions, of opposition leaders. and of course, the rest of the former prime minister in wrong con, supporters have denounced the corruption allegations against them, saying they were fabricated to stuff is returned to power one level john was sent us this report about how the products continue to them and they can use that the right now supporters of the pack. so moving for justice are attacking government property. they've set vehicles on fire. they've completely punch a monument to the countries nuclear testing program. surrounded the radio, practiced on building, then they forced themselves inside the whole setting finds the offices,

the civilian authorities have pulled military troops and putting jap and k. b k programs. and in the federal capital is i'm about to control the protests. it's to major development as we've witnessed that police were completely unable to control the violence. the situation is tense. standing here, the lady reading hospital where an emergency has been declared. hospital authority said the treating 77 injury protest this will say receive the bodies or at least 3 of those who was shot dead during the process. the situation is getting worse each hour because the practice i'm moving for justice supporters are unwilling to return home at any cost that targeting or government properties. i mean to damage them is the issue is corruption, and then why don't they arrest the rulings for re family? what wrong has aren't them wrong condo? if they don't release him, i believe i'm ready to stand for him here in the face bowl. it's at my chance that i would, we're here for our legitimate try to protest, but they used to your guess then tell it guns followed by fire and straight to

probably just says, and this is barbara, is they have arrested. they were on con without any crime and will continue protest in industry its support for the us department if that has also been seen in new york for hundreds of people gathered in times square and holding flags and shouting slogans. meantime, black and black a strong, i'm sorry, he's have restricted access to twitter, facebook and other social media. and the government says it intends to punish those causing trouble, saying you run con support isn't al, quote, exposing the country to another key with their unlawful actions. it also stressed the rest of the former 5 minutes to was carried out legally and was not politically motivated. this is and it is which is not motivated by any political demonization as a sportsman. he ought to be championing sportsmen, spit, sullivan's, and respect things a little slow. but instead he is chosen

a box of spreading in all the key chaos and destruction in the country, only to protect to himself from accountability which your political expert booked us. a huge show have ok man believes the case against emerald con actually strengthens to destabilize the entire country. i think the timing is very crucial because because the board had already issued the orders that the elections in 2 of the key preventive, especially in the punjab for wednesday would be organized within 90 days of when that assembly was does or that has been named on cons in a part of the worker they all resign from not only the national assembly but also from the assembly and job. and i think the political calculation back then was that that would professionalize the current government to going forward and on the election. but that did not happen. so the timing, in this case,

a forces to show that this is not the 1st time the good. the government has tried to estimate on and march, we saw the fed and police was sent to his house in level. and then of course i went on phones, bar the workers, they came in the way and it was a force, a lot of woodlands and collections back then as well. but eventually the police been to capture him on their division for you. and if he needs to be involved in domestic politics focused on has been directly to the by military indicators for more than 30 years. and even when there are some indiana domains, let's see. oh, yeah, you helped joe biden brand his son's laptop scandal as russian misinformation that revelation was made by the us house of representatives judiciary committee, which that a c, i, a official even helped with the wording to make the narrative stronger. i think

mike morello on the i think it was the 17th have wrote me a text asking me if i thought there was any kind of any russian involvement in this . i said, i thought that that was based on my professional background. he asked if i would be willing to write something with him on this, and that's how this began. well, the committee hearings assembled and there's quite a bit of new information at the judiciary committee meeting. we heard testimony about emails from the former director of national intelligence. james clapper, where he advised on the verbiage, you see in the messages put out by former intelligence officials. here's what we heard. i have wanted to turn real suggestion for the latter. i think it was the strength and the verbiage. if you say this has all the classic earmarks of a soviet or russian information that the ration rather than the feel of a russian of duration. so anthony blanket and who is at that point, working with the binding campaign and s c. i a cheese, michel morel,

decided to declare the 100 by laptops, to read, to be russian, this information. and they went ahead with this. and they claimed that this was the case, and they said this, the mainstream media, despite not having the evidence to back it up and main screen media ran with it. here's what they said to me, this is a, this classic textbook, the soviet russian trade crass it work. we do know that it's a very active russian campaign that's according to the us intelligence community. who do you think is behind this? well, the russians would be my number one guess if i had to guess cnn reported on friday, the us authorities are seeing if those emails we just talked about are connected to an ongoing rushing this information effort. well, james radcliffe, who was currently serving at that point as the director of national intelligence and had access to classified information didn't match what these intelligence officials who were out of office these former intel officials, had to say,

here's what he said at the time hunter, biden's laptop and the e mails on there are part of some russian, this information campaign. i mean, be clear. the intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that. despite the official spokesperson, the office of the director of the national intelligence of the united states coming forward in saying this was not the position of american intelligence, the former intelligence officials, mike morel, others of anthony blank, and they continued with their story. and mainstream u. s. media continued to echoed the, well, the latest development is the, the emails found in the laptop shows a more interesting scandals. it appears that it's not only hunter by but 8 other members of the buying family who received for an income. and now the house judiciary committee is asking whether or not this makes them in violation of the for an agents registration act. they are receiving money from other countries. and

if that's possibly having an impact on policy. now when the committee had their press conference this morning to come forward with these findings based on the contents of the emails and a 100 biden's laptop, it's worth noting that the only major news network in the united states to cover it was fox news. and that's nbc and cnn boycotted the congressional press conference to describe possible criminal activities and the need for investigation into the crimes allegedly and international connections of the biting family. so the media bias seems to continue here while the media of us continues. but let's take this problem here on ology international try to shed some light on this with the former n y u professor and author of google ocoee pedagogy. as michael rectinwald's, michael is always great to see you, a big fan of your work. thanks for joining us. here on the program tonight. what do you think? how does this revelation change the laptop scandal? now i'm do you, do you think the people ever suspected the see i had his hand in this and i think

it changes that materially because the c i a, as we see now, they actually coordinated the, the, the signing of this letter by these various x intelligence agents and they, um, they use their pre publication uh arm to effectively reach out to possible signatories of this letter. so what we're seeing here is the total politicize ation of the intelligence apparatuses. and likewise, we're looking at possibly cover up of crime or they knew very well what the laptop contained to the f. b. i had held it for many months before the story broke. and so they effectively papered over criminal activities on purpose from the highest echelons of the intelligence community. what about what about the complicity of the media? well, maybe i shouldn't say that. should i just ask you this, michael?

how about this revelation? is it getting the level of media attention that you might expect? and i have some of the not, i mean there's almost a complete us silence regarding this. it's a complete blackout beside a few uh, besides fox news and a few other outlets. we're not getting any coverage of this at all because this strikes to the heart of the deep state here in the us. and the fact that it's completely, it's been completely infiltrated by this a group of subversive. it leads, running the democratic party and running the country. they effectively have infiltrated every agency in the government. all these not supposedly, non partisan agencies are under their control. so this, this would be a tremendous revelation not to speak to say nothing of the biden family's total criminality which is really on display here. there has been

a new revelation that some $10000000.00 went to various bite and family members from various foreign companies, including those from china. so it's, it's just a scandal that won't won't percolate here because of the backup. i did safari, i think it's a great what pups you like. i liked that michael is a very good way of describing it because, you know, we've got a real problem when it comes to the media over the us. when i spend 10 years working for cnn, and i know how the machine works, but russian misinformation and propaganda, that's what they said about the hunt, the bottom, the laptop, the whole russian collusion thing that the bob trump from being president told him to give him a hell, i mean, you know, all of this stuff is come to light is being, will be yes. i mean, yet with the media coverage in america. and where's the public waking up? i'm saying hold on a 2nd. something's not right to. well, i think the question about the public to the public knows that there's a great percentage of the public that is very well aware of the criminality of,

of this regime and of the media is complicity and covering up their crimes. the thing is that we can't get our, our word out at edge wise because it's being squelched by the main stream media by uh, by the segments of the, you know, the political class and by, uh, you know, effectively the whole establishment. so no matter how much we clamor or cry about what's happening we, we have no voice, and likewise, nothing happens. alright, michael reckoned well, the format and why you professor an ulta or fantastic book called a google archipelago. i'm a big fan of you. welcome. thanks. so much for joining us. cheers. michael. we'll see you another time. thanks for having me. thank you. thank you so rough. it was a top diplomatic claims that us just try to be stabilized syria by creating a revised so called free syrian ami was mostly made up of tyra groups. so got left

off with speaking as he hosted as counterparts from syria and iran to discuss space . a good just as the, when you for good i can't help a comment on the information we received that the us is no longer satisfied with supporting the self proclaimed curtis authorities and pumping weapons in the legal arms groups they created according to our data, the americans have begun to create a so called free syrian army, with the participation of local aram tribes, isis militants, and other terrible organizations. the goal is to use these militants against the legitimate authorities of the syrian arrow republic. and to destabilize the country that they may think took place in the building. right behind me on board. grabbed the spotlight was the security situation in the region. so naturally, the topic of syria dominated the agenda and mostly the relations between turkey and damascus. lately, they have been taking baby steps,

the diplomats of these countries to revive the relations that have been well tonners by the years of conflict in syria and will war under. so here this meeting, it was aiming to lament that and to build up on the progress previously made so naturally the security situation in syria. that was, that's what was discussed on the as circuit lab. real rush is still diplomatic. used washington of trying to destabilize the situation in syria, in the country by what you've just had by creating this by well, reviving this for you, siri anatomy and well feeding it with a terrorist and all sorts of fringe groups and militants. here the diplomats, they tried to do something on the contrary to will help syria become parts of the big regional family. and of course, to each has a lengthy border with the country and a big chunk of series under the control defacto on to the control of the kids whose

military wing is considered terrorist by encourage. so there's plenty of hot spots to sort out. but well, it seems that the diplomats that they have a progress on that they vowed to continue to do the work and to bring anchor and damascus closer to each other up to the countries they share. so many of the same problems and delays as being of course, the tragedy. uh that happens right after that was caused by a massive a quake. tens of thousands of people were killed the in the into can does if it goes up smaller, but still absolutely horrific. in syria and as the international community rushed to help to key, well, the kind, a new serial though, again to thousands of people go thousands of people died. and this is something that was mentioned at the meeting today as well as the lead, as they pointed out, the well, even this tragedy, even this massive loss of life, it did not prompt the united states not to know even to lift the sanctions,

but to even ease them just a little bit and those sanctions let me just remind you. well, if they do affect the shipment, the shipments of medicine and well humanitarian, cargo and humanitarian goods as well. and now internal tech is relations. they will . so we're on the table, the russian for administer. he wished luck to his attack, his counterpart be so plenty of plenty of things on the table, plenty to discuss. and this was just a small step towards a bigger, a bigger goal. the tool for administer sitting behind the same table seemed to be pursuing so good to have your company pull this program from moscow. have a look at this uh, the real us defense budget for 2024 totals molding $1.00 trillion dollars. so much double the official request of 842000000000. now that's the claim being made in a new report by a us foreign policy think tank,

which argues officials manipulate public perception of what's considered as defense . and the report by responsible state crossed claims the budget control act passed in 2011, gave rise to several gimmicks to escape the budget controls among those as the term base budget, which includes only peace time expenses. as for all related costs, the defense department on congress repeatedly low tens of billions into the so called overseas contingency operations fund, which is not reflected in the official budget. let's try to shed some light on this across the lot, not a form, a pen to go on senior security policy unless the michael maloof joining us here on this program. michael, as always a great pleasure to see you today. what do you make of this? i mean, look, michael, you used to work independently and i mean, do you, do you, do you believe the real level of spending is being shielded from the public? oh yes, uh, thanks for having me. yes, a very much. so it's, um, it's just, uh it's, it's only a fraction of what actually is uh, is spent. the oversee, uh,

the overseas contingency plan is, is a, is another hidden, boone dog or for special operations. and, and it doesn't have to be reported to the congress. and as a cause, and that, that, that in itself is tens of billions of dollars, not to mention the fact that the pentagon, every quarter goes back for the so called supplements. and by the time it's all said and done, the, it's well over a $1000000.00. and frankly, this is why procurement and the budget people have never been able to get their hands around what the actual costs are or to delineate in any way to congress. how much is being spent? let's say, for example, in, in uh, afghanistan to this day, we don't know how much of the spent, michael, though, i mean, you know, what's this about? i mean, like i get what you're saying that there are ways to devote money for something

special projects here and there. what's just about shielding the public perhaps from bad news because they don't wanna let the public know how much you're going to be paying in taxes, or is there something more on the hand to play, perhaps a deliberate intent to deceive, to well, it's, it's meant to hide funding in case they needed for anything that for any war or, or, or breakout that might occur. and again, nobody in congress really knows the full extent of how much there really is and, and nor, nor does our own procurement people. and they can always and, and when you have cost overruns on a lot of this technology that they're trying to put in, for example, the f 35, the, the, the bottom line for that today, it was just a fraction of what it originally was supposed to cost because of all the technologies and the, and everything else that goes into it and you have to and out of that comes your,

your a payrolls. you've got, we have what, $800.00 basis overseas that we have to pay. and they're dilapidated, the, they're falling apart, there's the complaints of mold and, and, and, and reconstruction that needs to be done on them. so this is, it's a, in the industry cottage industry all to itself. and it is by far the largest single us expenditure in the, in the us budget today. why did you say what of $800.00 us military bases around the world as you say, some of them are in a pretty bad set of that application. we also know that the america is building another phase in the philippines. i believe another base in japan as well. so as the older base is get more definitely that it's okay, we're going to build new ones anyway. mike, let me ask you this, the um, the 2020 for the defense budget proposal published in march excludes additional requests for ukraine. why do you think they have not yet made it into the request to uh they, they have uh, made that a separate item uh for 23 for f y 23. it was already appropriated. that the

issue is going to become a of a rather pointed one when they have to come back and ask for more uh, more money. and we're already seeing a hearing of potential opposition to that, particularly in the us house of representatives. so that, that 5 is you have to be for what you're seeing today. what that one point for that was just allocated to ukraine, came out of a, came out of the previous bunch of that. so there was no way to challenge that. and so there there's, but uh, when they come back in next year for, for, for f y, $24.00 is i have funded for ukraine. i think we might see some fireworks and the michael belief or full my panic on senior security policy analyst. it's always so good to see you, michael. thanks for joining us. thank you. all right, thank you. the india has hit out at the latest weld press freedom rankings,

operate, place the country below afghanistan. it depends upon who does the ranking . it depends upon the person i can have my own report and give india the 1st place . so i guess read thing in a 2023 south wald press freedom index health flipped even for the 2161, all the one in the countries. and i'd say that in does not shocked, it's become rather predictable. these readings of course, have done all by the photos of the photo that is a non for profit organization. also a global, a watchdog. so to say, but in dallas, i'm shocked for you're off to you always seeing that in down the readings are only going down on that list and does need to ship, has shopped. me, reacted to it. i was amazed that our number in the ranking. i thought we had the most uncontrollable press. somebody is getting something fundamentally wrong. now, what could have gone wrong?

i'll for this for those clips. the slip which is even below huge green below, focused on below, gone us on. it is essentially because, remember, earlier this your, in the, i haven't gotten into a conflict with the bbc. what happened was, bbc had really is a documentary on mr. movie and dropped the riots that took place in 2002. and now in the band with that document for you to be screen from india and subsequently with india. i also did was they were read that were conducted on a bbc offices in new delhi in, in room by as well. of course, what india said was that they were simply just wondering the law of the land and is that it needed to be done. also, india has been pushed behind you. great. and then of course, ukraine's a member has a long history of silencing voices of defense. what we saw recently was that ukraine federal authorities, they had strong.