and i fax the entire globe and therefore the entire world has an interest in the south. oh, wow. well, certainly a lot of moving parts there and the western media coverage is very telling. as always our keys docs on a boy go. thank you so much for that update. and earlier we spoke to a political analyst who believes there's no appetite for fact checking if the truth goes against the western narrative. the truth of what we're really trying to spot is a gauge your interest of the west that the truth can go to hell. there's no, i'll put that into actually trying to know what happens from the sources. double checking, screening, verifying that was, has low decided that's. 6 it is,

you can get, it was to defend the projects and therefore it is, you create the decides in whatever happens even in terms of objectively either to ukraine is found to be on the site to be doing things that is not supposed to be doing the west and by extension. it's a corporate media arthritis has no interest in the report to truthfully, on the objective it's the $26.00 annual st. petersburg international economic forum wraps up today in russia's northern capital friday. solved windermere fruit and take to the stage as the main speaker, archie continues its exclusive coverage of russia's biggest economic event. the, the,

the russian president touched upon a wide range of issues from economic cooperation to the situation on the front lines. a new crane here are some of the key points from his speech. this is what the elective to be super slow to despise all the difficulties last year we did not switch to the positive self isolation role that we expanded contacts with all reliable and responsible partners. and those countries in the region that act as the drivers of the world economy as phones now. and i would like to emphasize that these and the markets of the future, everyone understands the full well the status of these countries did not give into the cash, external pressure. or a guy didn't know by someone else is but raw the by the national interest of comstock, i knew the issue is that ukrainians and using cycled strategic reserves which consist of several elements. however, they haven't been successful in any area. indeed, that last was

a huge around $1.00 to $10.00 in comparison to the russian army. in terms of military equipments, they losing more and more everyday. medium longer, i'm going to hear you what it was this childhood. i've always had many jewish friends. they say zalinski is north of june. he is a disgrace of yours, that there and his accomplices. other ones considered heroes of ukraine today. they are those who today's, the crating, the authorities defending both individually and in the audio logy. how can we not fight against this? russia is the country to suffer the most on this. we will never forgive this. if this is not in the of nazi as a, then one is that we have the right to consider that all target to d non spa ukraine is one of our key objectives of it is 40. and you don't know what those are business loan for. sure with the use of nuclear weapons is theoretically possible, but 1st of all, we don't have such a need. and secondly, the very fact of raising these issues reduce the possibility of lowering the threshold for the use of weapons. at the same time,

we have many more weapons and that's of nato countries. they know this and all the time they try to persuade us to stop negotiations on the reduction, screwed them. so it was was cross live now the art sales union o'neill, who's hosting our exclusive coverage, all the way from st. petersburg union is good to see you. we have made it to the final day of this forum and what is always a big week in the russian calendar. now you've been there throughout having a lot of important in depth conversations. so take us through some of the key developments from this week. good afternoon, indeed. yes. the 26th and petersburg international economic forum is into it's final day at through the boss at doors here because it is a huge f facility over the last number of days have stepped. diplomats, scientists, public figures and on presidents as well. a total of some,

$17000.00 participants from the over a $130.00 countries were here. and that is a figure that if you're looking at some of the headlines in the west, leading up to the event should not have happened. rusher was supposed to be isolated, not open for business. if anything this adventure was that is the complete opposite at because people have been here thinking business deals at trying to find where the world fits at. currently rushes place in the, in the global economy, as well as all coming in search of deepening ties and, and making those contacts at which key hubs like this bring together the, the creative, the entrepreneurs to people who want to make a spark happen. and that's what we're seeing. it is an energy here, right? right. these dates that going from one side of the spectrum, the other so many small and medium sized enterprises. russian businesses f, finding an opening in the market. the props watson there. when that western

problems where here they've got a chance to show their worth and what they can bring to at the market as well. of course, the big issues, the key themes, global things being spoken about as well. i just and one of my walked around and i always noticed there was a pavilion, absolutely at fault. every time i went there and that was a bite, the at arctic exploration, visually northern, at sea roots. not it's a very exciting development because that would shorten in half the amount of time it takes for goods from asia to get to europe and vice versa, opening up a whole lot of problem, vacations that are queued in. not going forward that we heard as well. they're not a mere pollutant. speaking out the plenary session, the main event of space every year speaking on friday at delving into those issues

all that, that finance world. and also of course, what is happening in terms of the printing conflict. just to summarize briefly, have ukrainian culture offensive yielding heavy losses. no gains, very direct enough. the russian leader on the western military aid will not help ukraine saying rushes. the defense industry is growing day by at day and just to touch as well on the financial points, because that is what this for him is all about. he pointed out that russia has its lowest the ever unemployment rate at, but more has to be done in smaller regions to boost the the ip puts as well. saying that the rest of was quitting oil dependency, looking more towards the technological modern aspects of things. give a lot of examples on that, which you can read an r t dot com by the way, a lot on not seeing the western currency at. we're losing their grip on russia. now that appears to be a global trends as well,

assuming the dollar eyes ation by loft road trade from country the country at being done with thought, the global reserve currency that of the dollar saying that we can do a trade without the behemoth. and it will lead to a bigger profits for all. well, just in terms of the audience, here are the people that are coming from the global sized asia, africa sites in central america. the, there is a crossing i, as i said, of energy and perhaps putting it into context for us was an interview i did yesterday with per name. i'm on admonishing director of the bricks organization. let's take a listen to what she had to say on how the world is looking going forward on high speed. the st. petersburg, international economic for him is playing a role in the very important that the c a o many countries come here for the investment inside their share. because they show open

the new policies. part of a send me money effect today inside that issue in different regions. hyper bring them kind of part of the interesting part for the mentor, but also suddenly i these are new shows. so for reloads with us today, president allowed me to put the inside the fix a for the last part of the development. and all of our agents are doing it for an investment side of coming. and please read that in just to be mark, not also to share the out here to stand, not only to get an energy for them, but they're interested to invest in this. yeah, so this is very good success and this is new opportunity for they shouldn't agents and they shouldn't be fun to participate with the funding investments. and part of the business. it is really a very big success. russian residency aggression,

business community that they overcome in under all 3 of of which they faced from the sanctions. ready i'm from many countries, and this is the success of russian is paige and russian efforts. it is a new operation, a new model for the next flight. these one part, the countries are present stations throughout today here on our t as we continue our coverage of the 26th st. petersburg international economic forum. during the event, archie sat down with the russian foreign minister survey lobrado. you can watch the interview throughout the day right here on our t. the . the president over ron is back on home soil following a tour of latin america. the trip saw dozens of agreement signed with 3 allies who

shared a wrong defiant stance against the western powers, as are to use use of july explains president praising his back from his $4.00 to $3.00 latin american country whose historic trans, that digits of as well. nick argue on cuba, they want to do those countries definitely have a lot in common as though along there you want to sanctions and all have been targeted by region change attempts by washington. so it really is, it tries to build on this common ground to most of all sorts ties with like minded nations that are the same time are geographically close to the u. s. something which american officials have reacted to saying that grace is trip. dennis trace the failure of presidential light is not an american policy. so now he was trying to create a unified funds comprise of the sanctions his nations, to define washington as pressures during his for the last american trade appraisal . assign dozens of economic capital agreements at different feels from energy to id

and mining to power plants to pay the way for a future cooperation with that as well. the drives your i q us, you ranges with signs 35 agreements and member on judge suff understandings with these 3 countries in the fields of energy, industry, mining, power plants and the subject. the have good capabilities in latin america, like biotechnology to, to and you go just in carriages. this besides voucher boost by that old trade from the car to $3000000.00 to $20000000000.00. and we're also 86 major corporation deals with obama. have several other agreements with the one the president said to confront the us. i still he, there's no way to resist if sometimes it's want to be our enemy. naturally, we will conduct a resistance, dawn through gold and such an adversary have declared that an rags nation has acted on it. and now this resistance has been taken for mont countries was interest

are completely aligned when he was in 2 hours. he said that at one i have, i had a comment was here, including there's trouble for independence. they want to present. i said that he was a so called maxima, pressure campaign, against the wrong, has failed in the face of resistance. he said, this is thanks to constructive relations with independent property such as that as well. do you are and i need to write us a really believes that the last times with those lot, the american countries are not normal, but strategic census election as it was president raising said that it was nice to avoid tying gets economy to the 2015 deal with the way i send that debt rush, it finds new destinations to interact with our partner with to neutralize the sanctions. and this seems to be perfectly matching the multiple order. it was looking to brag about with the half of its partners, like russia and china,

in latin america enter ron or not the only global actors trying to shift away from western who gemini. this area in finance minister says that damascus is planning to apply to join both the brooks plus group, along with the shanghai cooperation organization, syria and authorities have long referred to bricks as a just force and an organization that brings mutual prosperity, especially to those countries targeted by western sanctions, to go further in depth on this thoughts cross live now to middle east expert and see riana analysis founder could work on last it to get more on this topic. thanks so much for joining me on the program today. now what do you make of syria's plans to join the bricks plus organization? and of course, what do you make of the timing of it all? so thank you very much for having me. first of all, if you put the test part of the global geopolitics, we see that the national position of syria is on the side of the developing

economies, especially the brakes. congress, syria as being a target for several attempts of who did tests since it's independence and also made an engage domestic efforts which led in to the to 2011 instead of age. you know, change we're on serious. serious economy is devastated. unfortunately, due to the score, however, there is hope with the change in the middle east and politics that we can see that the dynamics are being changed nowadays. restaurant in china are playing increasing increasing goals in the region, especially in terms of stabilizing the region and striking deals between conflicting clark is which in the past they were fighting each other due to the u. s. a. divide and concourse. throughout that, you know that syria is coming out of the work and trying to liberate it's a gas pipelines, for example, or gas fuels on the eastern shore of, of the you, frankly, is that the americans are okay. buying it as an opportunity for us to have to present itself on the ground to support of, of towards that. it can play a role in,

in changing the balance of power from a pump, which is in favor of the united states. students into the other side. that can bring into good can bring the bus to a month to pull the words so we have to give some credit to syria because in my opinion, after the 2000 entry invasion of iraq and then the gym change were in libya. for example. see me, it was a 1st place where the us hybrid war has failed. and this was, of course, thanks to syria and the allies of syria. but up onto this moment because the economy of syria is offering a lot. i think the priority should be from the brakes, countryside to invest in syria and stabilize the country and hope syria gets rid of the american occupational forces crews that are hope you're buying the gas fields. as i mentioned on the eastern shore of the freight is. so that's both syria and the greeks countries kind of mutual benefits from the candidacy or, or the syrian attempt or wish to join the brakes congress. we have to see this a also put this in a broader context. now the brakes countries consist of 42 percent of the global

population around 27 percent of the word scores, products and uh, the economies are predicting or forcing that the brakes might be the living economy by 2050, in my opinion of what likes the brakes right now, is it come on currency to come and currency will be the last, the nail in the coffin of the american empire because the dollar is or isaac global reserve. currency is the one of the most important guns in the hands of the united states. we have to, it's can nowadays bully and target other countries and try to impose sanctions on other congress because everything is connected to the dollar about tomorrow. so it's under loses its status as a global use of currency. no country with the freight of the united states because of onto this moment the united states is imposing sanctions on syria on it, on other left in american countries,

because everything is connected to the daughter. and let's remember, for example, what happened in libya, my mother cannot be had the plan to bring and present unified goals and courtesy before the african continent. and what's happened to kentucky. they killed him. so you might opinion, when do united states feels that it's a huge them on you over to work or group or the work is being diminished, the united states will become more previous and with become more brutal. and i suspect that the united states would escalate in the coming months because the people who are in charge of the united states, i met this politicians that we see on tv channels that are a big military industrial complex. there are big people who are, who have a financial interest around the world. and this people are not ready to give up the people they just that they have enjoyed at least active woodward short and especially after the fall of the soviet union. yeah, those are great points now when it comes to that fighting back from the countries

that have been targeted by the west, we just saw that the president of iran has signed a number of agreements with latin american allies to calendar western had gemini, do you think that they will succeed and could this really effective global power distribution. and also do think that this is just the beginning of the sort of that fight back against the was that as one by the countries that have been targeted the most to despite the, let's say that you are perfectly approximate. the end that you're on is very far away from the lot the american spots about, in my opinion, in the past decades when experts into opponents excited because we're trying to see our eyes, the international relations. they missed one of the key factors and that is mutual suffering or similar suffering between, between different countries can combined him and bring them in the same basket. and this is what's happening with a lot in american countries. and even on both sides were targeted by american bullying attempts of age and change. wars included thoughts and into

a few minutes into have domestic affairs. this brings this contest together because of the one of the countries they have to unites right now in terms of the economic affairs and also politically, in order to bring down an empire. that was that people who really missed this point, that the united states as an empire, and it has to be an expanding over and over again over it has over 800 military base and sit down to work. so this countries are coming together in order to, to, to destroy the huge and when you have the united states. because the, the basis and the printer is, of the american empire in the past decades was not based on corporation coordination and trying much with benefits for, for everyone. it was very selfish. it was based on bullying. and they only tried to benefit themselves even in for the allies and see what's happening now in europe. for example, the united states policy and ukraine, the damages, the interest of the european court in an entirely open content is suffering because of the united states. but as henry kissinger started to be america's and it'd be, can be the insurance, but to be

a friend is faithful. and this is what we can see nowadays. and all these countries, where is this the american history of money in the past decades? they are now surviving and who's suffering right now. germany, france, poland, and other european economies. because they have to put all their x in the baskets of the united states, instead of diversifying their relationships just like the gods countries have done . so the you, they have signing to united states nowadays, and at the same time they want to have good relations, both read the restaurant china and united states, which is a healthy, in my opinion, equation for all sides to get the benefits for the benefits. the best inch best benefits of their own people. and to the unfortunate through the politicians in europe that they can, they don't see this or they are unable to act independently in, in ukraine and in terms of also we dresser. yeah, certainly a lot at stake here and we appreciate your journey as to one of your insights to work on last the on seriana analysis fonder. thank you so much for your time. thank

you. molly is called for un peacekeeping forces to leave the country without delay, with a foreign minister saying they failed to deal with the current security challenges . he was speaking during a un session which was discussing prolonging the mission for another year. newton's law. let me the government of molly goals for the withdrawal from a nice know without delay. when these mist seems to have become part of the problem by few and community tensions, excessive, baited by extremely serious allegations, which are highly to to mental peace, reconciliation and national confusion. in molly, the un mission was deployed tamale a decade ago, taught the country maintain security following a crew in 2012. although report shows the country's long been struggling with revel uprisings and attacks by tara groups in the last 15 years. there's a whole region that molly as a part of, has seen a 2000 percent increase in terrorism and molly itself, the number of deaths as

a result of terror attacks was up by 56 percent frustration. about the declining security situation has seen protest in the streets and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour. the, [000:00:00;00] the sometimes we come across whistleblower stories that just make us angry. they're

emblematic of everything that's wrong with the way whistle blowers are treated. today we have that kind of a story. we're going to talk about the airline industry and industry where safety is absolutely paramount. after all, if a plane is unsafe, if it falls out of the sky, god forbid, there's literally nothing that anybody can do about it. passengers are at the mercy of the reliability of the aircraft and of the ability of the people operating it and maintaining it. so what happens when a pilot blows the whistle on potential safety violations? the airline is supposed to investigate. and if necessary, take the plane out of service, maybe even ground, the fleet, change the policy, making the repairs, do everything else necessary to maintain safety and security. but what delta airlines did instead was to go after the whistle blower? i'm john kerry. aku and welcome to the whistle blowers

the . 2 2 2 2 today we're going to tell you the story of captain carlene petted. she's a veteran pilot with delta airlines, one of the largest carriers in the world. in 2016 carlene raised concerns about potential safety violations at delta and its almost cost or her career. that's not the way it's supposed to work. as i said in the u. s. department of labor complaint, she said after she brought her safety concerns to like that she was subject to the psychological exams and a phony diagnosis that had the potential to end. her career and administrative judge sided with her ended december 20 the 20 order. but the airline drag did speed to implement the decision. the complaints with carly made were that delta had falsified training. records had conducted retaliatory line checks. and the airline treated employees unfairly and outside auditor hired by the airline found that the allegations were true. and delta eventually made changes to its policies and its

training manuals. but in the meantime, carlene was suspended with pay. a doctor chosen by delta said that she suffered with bipolar disorder, but the airline couldn't fire her because every time she was examined by a psychiatrist, she was deemed to be mentally healthy. there was no bipolar disorder or any other mental health disorder. the airline's goal was to have her declared mentally unfit to fly, so that they could fire her and she couldn't then be hired by another airline. in the end, carleen was examined by a panel of doctors at the esteemed mayo clinic, as well as by a neutral doctor. they all found that she had no mental health issues whatsoever. in 2022 carlene won a complete and total legal victory labor department tribunal award. her $500000.00 in damages, and she now flies a $330.00 between seattle and european destinations. currently,

pettit joins us today. thank you so much for being with us. hi, thank you for having me, john. oh, thank you. and well, wow, is all i can say every article i read about your case made me angrier than the previous one. you conducted your whistle blowing exactly the way we're all trained to do it. you presented a 43 page report with your concerns to to delta pilots, who are also company executives and who are responsible for this kind of information. so walk us through what happened next. you made your revelations and then what a well was an interesting because we learned so much in discovery during through the trial. but we learned that this was a pre meditated plan back in 2015. we're captain james graham, who is now delta c e o at uh, endeavor, they're holy on subsidiary. he actually had planned it and said he was gonna do it if i came forward with my report. and so that was 4 months before they created the

pre test for this, we learned, did they pay the doctor $74000.00? um, it took me 3 years to get him in illinois medical the word to take action against him and he forwarded forfeited his medical license. yet the company before on has never been held accountable. the union was not there for me at all. we learned that i learned that the union was actually working with a company and fortunately, and, and many union representatives after the fact, apologize to me and said that they hadn't been there at the time, but they couldn't do anything anyway. it was quite a battle because from beginning to end it was over 7 years and yeah, 7 years i was 6 years of litigation. i was to. ringback but they did engage in war of attrition. i'm actively trying to change this uh the air 21 statute, which is the airline was a blur statute because it has the shortest statute limitations only 90 days. i

looked out because i knew immediately my union wasn't helping me and i began researching. i didn't know about this and found out and i was able to file and time . it's a key factor. we also were challenged after the judge already me $500000.00. the they appealed and the pump where it said, wait a minute, delta you're bad. you still is. but they went after the judge why he could awards so much because it's all compensatory damages. typically 50000, we were headed back to trial to support the order that the judge had given. they ordered me to go back to court and we all know that the current was almost more painful than what delta did. i have to tell you a 6 years of trial. so yeah, and we weren't opposing them and going back and at the end of the day, delta finally came in and said, okay, will you settle? will give you what the judge ordered. we won't take this any further, you don't have to go back to court and we'll give you all your attorney fees,

which was huge value to me because typically that's another problem with the law. you only get reasonable attorney fees. typically that's about 90 percent of what you spend. so could you imagine spending 7 years in a little. ready ocean and receiving $50000.00, but your attorney bills are 1000000 and a half you. you only get 90 percent of that back so you can't win even if you win. so it's kind of, yeah, it was a no brainer to settle. i actually retired on january 31st. i yeah, sure. here's the biggest problem. delta has not changed really changed much of anything. they're still putting pilots on duty for up to 25 hours to as a nose. they are looking the other way. they called it a loophole in a workaround, but when you work around the federal regulations such as fatigue,