the relationship maybe beneficial economic rates, but also because this regression has to be a part in maintaining the international or the this is a residential area around me or a palmer broke. there was no military presence here. many of the children that use this playground would've been born off the 2014, so they would know nothing but was another mess solid side by playing forces on the box with the civilian areas. including a hospital pod to report from the scene in the center of the city. also, i had the engines are on the rise in georgia as the 1st claim from i'm also land into police

the all through a full year absence to move spa seeds of actions in the apartment for the opposition acts of is taking to the streets on an f b i with the low tubs of homeless, an undercover agents on assets were present the come to rights in 2021. and that's the reason the agencies are refusing to release savanna footage, controversial day. the live for almost go, this is see, my name's eyes have i. and so the minutes of use of use stop. now. we start with the very uncomfort in bottles along with done best phone lines, russian falls is on dealing with you, put any attempts to offensive boxing has been to one. so this one positioned on the flags of the case of the, of, onto most a k,

a backwards where heavy fighting has been taking place. so many months now the most the same thing every day. there are about 5 or 6 attacks in our positions. they're all back and strike us with their tillery and then attack us again. we fund them off, they retreat, and then everything were peace with artillery strikes. we're not fighting against ukraine or as people were fighting against western implants. now there is a lot of mercenaries among the ranks big numbers of poles, maybe even more than ukrainians. you can understand from their speech a lot of english man you can tell by the language as well. both of us are now at the location off from the, from russia, the private movie company, which is the heading of the operation. basically, the science held, my vanilla ran full of the soldiers from the russian army in order for the full month to concentrate on securing the city. according to the lights of statements from the head of the group, including forces now control less than

a squared kilometer of the area. meanwhile, the deisel palm beach capital city came on to fully for any attack on friday with one of us and killed the formal wounded. according to local officials, a hospital several upon them blocks and a supermarket was among the says, begin. infrastructure hit, sees steve sweeney sold damage. fact is this susan locating dot net city center remains open despite being shell by ukrainian force. these are the nights is believe that it was struck by a grad, nissan, causing damage to the front and side of the shop. we spoke to a number of the workers and shoppers here. what are your thoughts? she is a warrant, but the more steps with very words about showing because on peaceful area here, shell de, every day, the civilian population has been destroyed, houses, people, children. there was a cluster of people caused values. why would you shoot at the store only to destroy civilians? how long will the zone go on?

the strike of peaceful houses of civilians? how do we experience all this? we move on, we have no other choice because we are the land of real men, the land of real women. we just won't give up. we want to live, we want our children, our parents to live. we continue to work despite the showing because so few shots remain. this is part of the rocket that struck in the early hours of the morning, damaging the show and also impacting here, leaving this crate to in this apartment was also damaged and shedding over nights. and we've met some of the distress residents and see the damage caused inside. as you can see above me, the windows here have been blown out as broken glass everywhere on the floor here. a number of calls were a so damaged and the bloss during the shell and i was in the kitchen when the 1st drug took place. it was very loud and scary. they hit the gas pipe with shells, with a gas went out in the lodge street. i went to the kitchen,

but there was no way to go. there was gas at the exit. it was terrible. there are no miniature installations here. the just intimate dates, civilians, they're probably having fun. apparently they know where they're shooting the as much as we barely survive, the showing the worst thing was the gas leak. all the glasses broken, the cleaning army is shooting it civilians and they started their rule in this way . in 2014, we were sitting here in the basement. they fired at the city. there are no forces anymore. this is inappropriate behavior. a normal person would not shoot old people, women, children who are left there. it's just a crime. terrorism. as this children's playground was struck by you quite new shelling over nights this slide is you can see it has been damaged by shrapnel. this is a residential area around me or a palmer brooks. there's no military presence here. many of the children that use these playground would've been born off to 2014. so they will know nothing but war

jewel slid out the balls a projectile and we got scared started to lift up the children and hide them and then it begin to fly around inside here we lay down on the floor, made it on time last started to fly out its covering the ground scary. at least a rocket struck this residential area in done yet, so he said to causing the damage in the destruction that you can see all around me . clean up operations are underway, as residents express a mixture of the a and or the daily setting that has become part of everyday life. this is steve sweetie, don't yet said he center for all to those who know the oppression ways against what it is in the u. k. no risk in the same persecutions funding in their own country. now that's the message from father side guy of the russian orthodox church, the protection of the holy budget in berlin. odds he spoke to the priest who says

his church says the pain of his brother's emphasis. thank you. a typical for the gun used to be orthodox churches, one organism, it's the body of christ. what is openly happening in ukraine right now? started right after the might on and the government. cool. after that, these terrorist acts by the government aimed at its own citizens, began. i think that the attack on our brothers of the cube, pierce guy loved it. i was just a signal for the open destruction of the church in ukraine. these threats and attacks and churches can only be properly understood as a tax on our home, on our hearts. because these are our brothers and sisters, our family. if you think that it's just a new crane and then it's far away, i'll tell you, you'll be surprised leader. just how easily a fire like this can start. what is the difference between the orthodox churches there and kids in between iris here? there is none. we see that this fire in this organizational destruction of the

church is already spreading to lafayette. it's already happening in the baltic states. you have to be naive cor. i'm educated, not to understand this. therefore we consider this a very big threats. this is a very big pain for us. we are worried and we pray as the members of the village impala representing the people, add a note and taking orders from outside pals, and they wouldn't be against direct flights with russian. but as a comment from the russian for ministry on the rising tensions and to receive the new direct endings between the nations. if you represent your people and not an old, are paid by someone who can be against a direct flight given the number of citizens and families leaving in 2 countries at the same time. so you have never helped people with infants very seriously ill or in trouble to get home. if at least one someone who's now screaming had to go on 3, something like this. there would be a shame to participate in this frenzy now as

a village and a m. p. 's a beta the merit. so the direct flight is resuming was a pit and sufficient to settle the dispute. the one of the lumen codes which the into the sea though, so making a speech on the mass of with a rival bullet vision test of a job, but to the trade of insults. quickly escalated the anatomy. the colleagues separated the 2 from the landing. any will blows, protested, ruptured at vote this week, off of the 1st positive pay and direct felt most go landed in georgia for the 1st time since 2019 to the position. and so this happens with outrage of any improvement in relations with russia through the airport demonstrations for these blogs access to the middle in an attempt to calm the situation. so this is inter assumed all right. the ad traffic with the roster has been criticized by the door

to present the european union and the us with watching to threatening to impose sanctions on georgia. the nation is 5 minutes or however has a re establishing slice was the right decision. we have funding george's intention to continue trade and economic relations with his neighbor. sometimes also showed that things on the return of direct trips before that i was throwing you another airline armenian. so it would be a flight. it's not good isn't spending several hours such close distance. so traveling here would be much fast. it's very good. it's essentially a decision. is there a decision for people at the blog might be able to apply a flu here to georgia with a layover and then back to moscow on a direct flight. i am very glad that there's no direct flights from 2 police see to moscow. this is a great opportunity because there's some, oh, should i have to put in?

we're very happy now the 3rd direct flights. we bought our tickets in the 1st 10 minutes. of course it is more convenient. we drove here through the logic of cos, then took a car, and now it is become much easier and faster. most of the way side to physical scientists from the center for globalization problems. think 5 cases, the breaking bilateral relations as cost students over the years. i'm believe the government was doing the bidding of his western partners. a fuzzy f. well, beautiful pressure ranks 1st in terms of volume is money transfers in georgia. why immigrants from georgia left due to the lack of work of which in season the republic itself? this money makes up a significant part of george's turnover. these people were deprived of the opportunity to see the families of for us. there was a strict visit regime and getting a visa was a major problem. so people did not see each other for years. secondly, there was no direct flights. people had to fly through,

the countries was expensive and inconvenient and their phone. a vast majority of the population perceived the resumption of ad traffic as a blessing to americans and europeans. treasures costly demonte that georgia fulfill the requirements in return they gave empty promises about joining nato and the european union. so group a 7 summit and since off on friday in japan and run out the gate new initiatives to try and at most good, we discussed among them the u. k. l for watching diamonds august the brilliant anymore and would be sanctioned. the impulse of nature's hobb this material on t comfortably to reach a mazda and told us more british prime minister re she soon after arrived at the g 7 summit. and here oshima japan, and properly treated what looked like an invitation to a destination wedding. there between himself and you for any and present buyers and lensky, that one of his kids hooked up with an app on their smartphone or something. but

there will be no diamonds involved in this particular love affair. soon ex, specifically announced alongside the our work were banning all in birds of russian diamonds. copper, l. a medium, a nickel sanctions are having a clear impact. integrating prudence. war effort. the g 7 stands united with ukraine. degrading is a more app description for what's happening to your opinions quality of life and purchasing power as sanctions are. having such a quote, clear impact on russia that the west is still having to pump up you frame with weapons and cash at the expense of their own citizens. so it looks like soon as rummaged around is couch cushions and found something russian that was still left a sanction russian diamonds, which represent a drop in the proverbial pocket of british diamond imports. despite russia being one of the largest dining producers in the entire world. now the u. k, mainly imports these gems from belgium, israel,

the us hong kong in india. although after the onset of the ukraine conflict, the u. k. did really ramp up. it's russian diamond buying from around a $188000.00 in 2021 to $4100000.00 worth in 2022. that's it for you to western press reports. so that means that the same time, that's due, next tory government colleagues were all obsessing over the idea of depriving russian president vladimir putin personally of lunch money and fantasizing that it would make him a band and strategic national security object is involving ukraine at the same time the u. k was buying up russian diamonds like they were b pies on sale. it sainsbury's and of the diamonds coming into the u. k. through these talks to play nations. it's pretty much impossible to know which of those are actually sourced from russia. belgium, for example, said the imported $1200000000.00 euros worth of russian diamonds in the 1st 8

months of 2022, which is about on par with the $1800000000.00 euros in port in 2021. what about a quarter of diamonds being sold out as the world's biggest diamond trading hub in antwerp, belgium came from russia. so this all is starting to look like the same sort of game that the europeans have been playing with their russian energy sections. they make a big show of purchasing like their bands, but then they just end up buying russian energy anyway after it integrates to 3rd countries like india for example. and now the european union is even angry about that. like, what did they expect for india to break up the microscope? and parts of the russian molecules from the indian heart use. indian officials are basically say, hey, look guys, you're buying indian fuel and who are you take issue with russian fuel that may

have come over at some point. and now self identifies has indeed. so now the same western obsession of separating out the citizenship of energy in attempt to stick it to russia. now risk playing out with diamonds as well, and western alice, or se that could end up backfiring on them. the debate has been going on for some time because there was a clear risk that russia could simply divert, as i suppose, to not participate in countries. if sanctions were implemented in a way that my so convention difficult though, then we can see less russian supply coming onto the market. and high prices. therapy in union has been resisting a bad on russian diamond so far. but when they're all now over there at the g 7 summit with zalinski expected to attend, it's not a given that common sense will actually prevail. it risk being like a bunch of boys trying to impress that one girl at a frat party by doing back flips off the roof. and obviously nothing good can come

of that and i feel i whistle blow testify as a us congressional hearing is claim that i'm been cover offices. i'm the abuse assets web presence truly january 2021 from congress rights. the extent of the involvement, though, is still to be clarified. more than a 1000 people have been charged with the federal crimes folder and they did rolled in gaining access to the attempt to building supporters of joe biden. transitive day as an insurrection aimed looking liptrot's. the power of the full of present donald trump next defeats method, trump was subsequently in page, but not convincing. allegedly. and so i think we have right now see if we eyes refusing through these large parts of veterans. but they told me that they think it would expose the identities of agents. i'm in fulman. how's priorities

conversations firsthand? why can you show us? why can't you just send us the back, give us access to the 11000 hours of video. this is a bill because there may be may. ready the to use these undercover officers. ready or c h s is confidential or cleaning. ready confidential human sources on those videos whose identity we need to protest while we have a former f b i employees coming forward and testifying about what they see as polluters is ation of these investigations. the 2 man tested by the they had their security clearances revoked by the the i in response to their political view is about the january 6th is that the i whistle blower of oil has previously testified about how he and his family were made temporarily homeless. when he received an indefinite suspension from the f

b i. how do you think that solves being able to shine light on corruption, weatherization, any kind of mist dr. misconduct that exists with the americans? it doesn't solve it, but the guy will crush you. this government will crush you and your family. if you try to expose the truth about things that they are doing that are wrong, and we are all examples of that. details also works shed uh, in the testimony we heard about the extent to which the i surveillance escalated in the aftermath of the january. 6th of that. so it was heard some outrage about the privacy of americans and the extent to which the f b, i was acquiring information about banking transactions. here's some of what we've heard on capitol hill. bank of america turned over the credit card transactions, whether for an aircraft or a lodging, or the purchase of a cup of coffee for everyone who decided to come to wash and to be in washington

area. the northern virginia area, which one of the things that you asked questions about are there are victims all over the place. all of the people who suffered when the f, b. i and the department of homeland security got involved in censorship with social media platforms, millions and millions of tweets and narratives being taken down, that is victimization at scale. the we now have further confirmation that among those who perpetrated the events on january 6th, there were under cover f, b i, informant, possibly others involved with different security services and different intelligence agencies. this raises many questions and well one version of the january, 6, the dance was certainly all over the media and it's direct after map. more details are coming to the surface about how exactly the days of that land as they did with

more questions being raised. then answers being provided so essentially down to the middle east where the is really parliament has the balls to bill that would make it a crime with a year behind boss for group, for 3, and people flying the policy and flag to protest. in addition, the legislation would give is really a thought as easily right to criminalize us in valleys. the bill was approved is 1st reading and will now be turned over for further. and that is that the process is before potentially becoming little a few that kinda set floated another controversial proposal that bind raising the policy and flag i state funded institutions. the really how must have minutes and group in gaza has condemned the current bill cooling. it acts of really just full on passing and people tensions remain extremely high in the region as boston is crashed with israel ladies during the controversial flagged march in jerusalem this

week marking israel's cabbage of the city in $196.00 and $7.00 about for the fate of strikes between the size of ok, so let's side some dollars in response to i. d. f, and strikes on the 25 or this and combined is what killed as would thousands of civilians in the bombardment on apartment adults including a russian citizen. so as a medic in gaza, that is what i must admit other and it says a fall right. policy behind that legislation has pushed similar ideas in the past. one cannot comment of one visa issue without the very broad green or even a smile because it's just a clownish gesture on the part of the most extreme right. member of the coalition who always uh, come up with some outland beach ideas. it has nothing to do. we

realized in the israel now and uh, you know, a 2 people stand 20 feet about waving the flag and the 3rd president comes over. but stand, zip up, use the policeman. we're going to arrest them. obviously, this is not enforceable. just drug patient just and now they're speaking the face of peace loving people. um, either police geniune always rarely. but nevertheless, what is riley's can do is booked up the to flex together if they had the sort of an emblem where the police geniune and these really flags offline who's going to take down this double leg, which includes these rally? well, so there are many ways to bypass base mockery of legislation. the

100 is available in offset. i've taken to the c as in sydney to protest the government's policies and this relationship with the nato alliance. the site is modest with a headline final readings. if laws could be started by lies peace could be solved by true. russian flags was seen to as well as the size of support for the founder of which he meets australian. citizen julian assigned these comments sitting in a mine similar security prison in the u. k. i'm facing expedition to the us on the charges for the espionage is all the 1st time that australians have voice, the discontent with western policies in march. people also hitting the states charging mt. nathan southern suggesting they shouldn't be. that was paying the price for quotes us. i'm vision all that rob a saw this news out the whistle blows like some bots. watson next will be back with the top of the out with more in special is

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a unique organization in the history of the world. what they were trying to do was to simply do nothing short and build the most powerful and most deadly biological weapons program that the world had every now through you know, to production with it. so it gives you or show the great deal to the youth. suddenly, a little bit through here. keep on my mazda thought this minute. no more. and if i'm doing my got the sale, i stuff on monday, i wish eventually go home. you know, you gave him some more or less than a j o side with this kind of them of the a party bill because you cannot push the couch. so for those people to go to 00,

want this on this to should buy a new on it. hold on site can send me 71 k to the yo, yo. now i'm gonna put them out that they give us the to. 2 2 almost everybody grows up wanting to do something they love to be successful at it and to be happy in life. that was how our next guest felt. she was at the top of her professional game. she was respected in her field and she enjoyed what she was doing. but then she saw problems. the corporate numbers didn't add up. she did the right thing, but nobody would listen. things didn't go well. and all of a sudden she was famous. i'm john kerry. aku welcome to the whistle blowers. the

sharon watkins is the kind of person that we all should aspire to be like. she's educated, honest and successful. she graduated from the university of texas for been honors degree and business administration, and then are the master's degree and accounting from the school. and soon after that, she became a certified public accountant. sharon went on to work for the professional services firm, arthur anderson as an auditor. and then she spent several years on wall street managing a portfolio of commodity backed financial assets. she joined the energy giant enron in 1993 and became it's vice president of corporate development there in 2001 share and realized that everyone's financial numbers just didn't add up. she investigated and then warned chief executive officer carefully about the accounting irregularities that she found in the company's financial statements. but late as it turned out was up to his neck in the scandal. 5 years later he was convicted on 10 counts of securities fraud, although he died of a heart attack before he could be imprisoned. sharon watkins for her part assumed

a place in the pantheon of the most important whistle blowers in modern american history. she found evidence of illegality, and she reported that she testified on capitol hill. she wrote a book about her experiences and she was named time magazines person of the year in 2002, along with 2 other whistle blowers sharing. watkins is now a highly sought after speaker on whistle blowing and business ethics. and we're happy to welcome her to the show sharing. it's good to have you. thanks for being with us as well. thank you, john, and thank you for all the flattering comments and it's nice to be on your program. they're all true and thanks for joining us. there are so many things that i want to ask you about, but let's begin with the fundamentals. for those of our viewers who are not familiar with your work, you are a senior executive at enron, one of the biggest energy commodities and services companies in the world. you found accounting irregularities,