the, the a christmas tree and a lot that old syrian city is set on 5 or pull to me by h t. s affiliated instead of us lab sparks last outrage among christians to get reaction from a syria and modest re official poseurs. the nation hasn't been guessing and no support. probably the ever never received the from the west. we have always faith, especially if you would aim towards us. that it was fun for the be done for us to talk about the persecution of cushions targeting teams. the ukranian parliament is for both of these set to approve

controversial plans to draw 18 year old. as keeps poll says continue to suffer lopez on the possible loss of natural gas prices. sky brought rocket in europe as kia, refuses to allow russia to keep on thing it's fuel to west and consumers through your price. the good morning. good day. good evening to bunch of away your joining us from we're here and most of them are very happy to help you with them. well, that's the start. so in syria why a christmas tree has been assessed on fire and a greek orthodox majority of town, sparking outrage among the christian community for video online, so demanded to sing the holidays. simple. local media have pointed the finger at it

says links to the higher up. i've talked to this, i left some terrorist organizations that recently seized power. for this coming just a week off, the government opened fire on it. we don't charge in the nearby city of alma for saying the significant damage to the building. christians have responded by staging must protest in the last hundreds of demonstrates as much to the streets of the capital, taunting slogans in carrying crosses. assets toppling government had previous and soar to protect christians and all the minorities in the country. section c, h t, s militants to pay for that has been adopted in limits of my country. and you know, neil spoke with mother superior of the want to see of some james and mutilated and syria at this. mariam deluxe was said it's, it's a dock time for the nation's christian community. a lucille, it says there is

a security, at least that we can say is if there is in security and this guy in the, of the, is attempt to of aggression. you know, he's not the only 2 but the material and the 3 it is burdening i would agree that i suppose it's a burning of a face. it's burning with joy. it's broadening, you know, the fees of the christmas to me is the key of a lot of these guys. is it less for me for the us? it's an incentive. so i would have the, you know, hope that someone is in control of the situation. really the give a statement and as always, my, my experience in celia is this. see the and the p is

always for good. in the media. the speak with the one wishes to show is it would be, you know, the testing. i am talking to about the master the media. what these interesting for them, with what the people of the lee and celia are leaving mean doesn't matter. it's not on the, for the condition that have been a lot of dilutes against other minorities. you see what, how does the christian community currently receive from the west might be, uh, we have never received the people from the west to the contrary . we have always faith, especially during those years. is that the, it was the run for the be done for us to,

to talk about the secure send of cushions. are you wonder how euro is it was not helping to secure the life of christian in the past is how now i find it, they going to secure it when they are treating we use a, you know, h t s which is to cost you the as a total risk organization. you know it's, it's a situation like to ski suffering, the situation. and we, we, we don't rely on the truck dixon from the west. and it'd be good to say it a hose and to moscow, see, and trimmed off monday, is busy trying to get things in order to may just yes. need to. and the nations to factor rule, i'll let,

i'll shut it off previously known as album. how that alter nani, has met with the representatives of militant fractions. what does ragtag groups have agreed to despond and reform? now taking what is directv from the syrian ministry? the accent prime ministers also said that a new ami will reintegrate some food, not members of assets troops. nod swathes of syria, however, remain under the control of all the groups, including the top cushion packed militants in the north and us supportive cubs. so the east, but also the is right, the military has occupied a box, a zone in southern serious citing security concerns. let's discuss this with john smotts and j, and i've set my grubby don't. i'm lots and obviously i understand security is for most from those nations. so the need for an army, i understand that. on the other hand, anyone who comes to power, especially a unconstitutional means knows that the loyalty of the army is absolutely essential

to the resumes success. is that what we're seeing while we genuinely saying that attempt just rebuilt the nation? that was the only thing is public. i think the americans use riley's words that if we don't bills, if they don't build a state of functioning states very, very quickly, then the worry is that some of these minority groups might form resistance and services within a very, very short space of time. most almost like a bush for you will have a divided country with various groups, selecting one of the i mean, let's get if, if it costs a month by the 2000 to 3, i'm one of the biggest would be the biggest mistake. the push ministration made when american british soldiers enter the rug, is they refused to pay the but pay most of them soldiers because they didn't. those soldiers weren't been paid for right on time. literally just had an a k 47 on a couple of shackles in that pockets and basically fled to us the rock and creates

what was laser cooled outright or isis in the rack. i seem to worry now is that if something isn't done very quickly to pass together, i'm the functioning state to know that there was a real risk that history repeats itself. what mean you told that? and here's why it's like patch to get the does that, i mean, not suggest to me, but you think it's going to be very difficult for the new authorities in damascus to kind of move to consolidate what remains of the syrian state and centralized control is that right, you know, he's, i mean, you know, should only selling a dream. he's that he's in a dream factory. now. he's taking the country. he must have told his people for a long time. you know, they're going to be a matter of time before the sanctions are relieved. and the in the company can come in and we can rebuild this country because they've inherited nothing they've been haven't, it's, you know, the government ministries don't even have furniture. and the literally inherited being a book is a focus of them. boxes of paper clips and the problem is we've got now is syria,

is that when the country is so desperately pull as that, you know, the risk of insurgency is very, very real. so he has to move quite quickly. one of the, you know, the easiest and simplest ways that you do that in a minute. country i'm off, the origin is folding is you create a huge ami, a civil service on police forces and you know, so you give them lots and lots of people, thousands of people job this almost every night uniforms. and that does take off the edge that creates a certain amount of security. but either he'd have to go much further. he, he's, he's doing a jumping act of, you know, he has to be seen to be hauled on the form side of people. but the st telling me has to present as and serve as a sort of the rates, a modernist, to keep the west and i'm the leads happy. what's happening right now is you go america and you're looking at serious saying we have to get in. we have to get in as quickly as possible with restructuring 8. and then of course, the restructuring 8 is linked to the sanctions because of restructuring, a dozen that's going to be spent in syria is going to be spent in american. you

won't actually leave those countries, you know, it'll be every cultural equipment, menissi uniforms, you know, you name and everything like that, that can't happen and still be the best from the spaces of the new stuff. i mean is that the, obviously he needs to be seen to be hard, especially of this. i understand the assets people and he hasn't been particularly hot though on as well. in fact, we've seen quite a tepid, almost in dalton tone coming out of damascus to the idea of the sea off to us up. so very quick launched. hundreds of us strikes on the country, most of the military power. that was, that was just to know, i like to know if that's an additional problem that it's going to have to face wherever is it going to be on that? so it's a problem because he's, he's literally walk outside, right? you know, it was these relatives the ways where his little friends mean these randy support and disrupt the break away group of vices from 2014 onwards. you know,

and so it was on this in the south of syria, which was supported by israel. israel gave it, gave them ministry equipment is really important and they gave them free health care. so a lot of of august the soldiers had operations which would cost $20000.00 in some cases, you know, when they came on the battlefield. so there's no relationship set which we shouldn't forget, but then he also he has a relationship with him, with the next american ministration. and trump is incredibly unpredictable. trump may well dislike to support the the codes more and then create further tensions for him. and then you have the further relationship close with edward kentucky and he's trying to balance. will these relations hoping that these 3 pallets on going to collide with one another? and then we'll have a sort of a, a common objective. so for the coming objective has been to get to break the range and access. and that's happened. but now they have to make sure that the country

can function them was. groups can be taken care of and controlled in a certain amount of which suits everybody's geopolitical purposes. you know, it's, if you look at those 3 policy, the question we, we need to be also was, which is the one that's going to crack, which one is the key is here, which one is the leader that's going to, um, back out this. and of course, the other thing to consider, which is more worried and my view in my experience as a journalist covering the region, is that when you support terrace groups like this, are they all terrorists? let's not make any mistake about this. that's don't last as long for like the new york times. we'll see you then these people kind people's heads off. these people gilani came from okay to interact. you know, he was a bucket of like a got his deputy, the terrorist when you deal with them. and you for that with them, which is inevitable that always happens at some why. and then there's blue black on the globe that usually comes in the form of terrorist acts on viewer being so. so we need to always keep that in mind, that in one on one hand, gilani is in a very powerful position a moment,

but he needs to be controlled. he needs to be kept in order level. ready was seeing signs from him in a recalcitrant statement where he's um, because of going against what obviously america and israel wants to to, to show that he's more of an independent leader. and i think that this is a learning thing now. you know, so, so these are very, very delicate days, very delicate. it's a new york times a week ago. and one of his article said, you know, it's very unclear how long is going to go about bringing about piece of dissolving all these groups. and they don't know, and you know, they must be as close to the state department who are close to him as anybody. then seventies. your learning doesn't know you're going to, but this is planning. the short term is to move employees. many people in the all make this on these groups, create a new police force and get the government ministries working so that he can look to europeans, moved to america, say look, you know, i've got a function states, you know, can we talk about sanctions relief while talking about creating the frankenstein and then wondering, you know, how to deal with it. the i got this done,

which if it didn't, you know, washington sponsored them, then of course it came to bite them a couple of decades later on in the name of course of toppling the soviet union. john this undergrad be don't oh god, most and j. as always, we appreciate your time in the program. much more a major mountain loss is on the battlefield of ukraine is looking for ways to feed it's sending military ranks. and i also reported the lawmakers in cube, or in the final stages of making a decision on whether to send 18 year olds to the front line. it was took long story. the news that the draft law on lowering the mobilization age to 18 has already been developed and is being kept within the walls of the very club. nevada is true that the this initiative has been in the presidential office for a long time. it has been in the work of nevada for a long time. it's just waiting to be implemented. you and i have already seen how the mobilization is going. it's breaking into a person's house, workplace,

or killing people in a conscription center for it is already the norm. so mobilization from the age of 18 will simply be another of zalinski is tools aimed at destroying the ukrainian people to really well. there's quite a bit of mixed messages coming out of ukraine. first, most media in the country. first, they have once again sounded the alarm that this mobilization age could be and is about to be lowered to 18 years of age. and that the bill that don't introduce it is already valid, it has already been drafted, it is within the walls of the ukrainian parliament. and it is only up to a political decision as to be to put it up for the vote and to introduce it publicly. at 1st. the great and media of a site, as a representative would be 17 to pull top a brigade on them. it could be just wishful thinking of a competent who has found himself on the front lines amid a massive shortage of manpower in the trenches, but then a ukrainian m p a has confirmed these free is basically corroborating that claim

and his voice message you've already, you've already listened to a boss of it, the voice message that he has posted on his official telegram channel. at the same time that had been voice is coming from an other ukrainian m. p a like segan gillian, who has been quick to jump to basically refuse to claim that any such a bill of this kind to exist so that this is a fake news, essentially his old on ukrainians to to verify sources that they are using in this like say can get in guy has a code and basically reiterated the message that has been repeatedly sent to view gradients by use. and then there's a lot of discussion in the media about lowering the draft age for ukrainians to go to the front lines. we must focus on equipping existing brigades and training personnel to use this equipment. we must not compensate the lack of equipment and training with the youth of soldiers,

but all these denials they didn't come out of nowhere because the ukraine ends the landscape. personally, his retinue has been pushed quite vigorously towards the lowering that age of obligation to 18 years of age. first and foremost by the united states defense secretary has been pushing ukraine to do that. or america secretary of state has been also very well pursue a very pursuit until this idea that ukraine should send well high school graduates to the front lines under the u. k. while it did not explicitly suggest that ukraine should lower its drop date, it has uh, hopefully said that the food, the support ukraine. and of course, the decision to lower the age of mobilizations that would be met by london was quite favorably getting younger people into the fight. we think many of us think is necessary right now. 18 to 25 year olds unlocked in the fight. harvey was banned, that there's not one weapon system that makes

a difference in this battle. it's about manpower and ukraine needs to do for and are due to firm up its lines in terms of the number of forces it has on the front lines. we need to make it easier for the ukrainians to access, and we need to work with the ukrainians to help them motivate and mobilize more recruits. now key of a has being repeatedly trying to sweep under the rug, the uncomfortable fruits about the forceful mobilization. because people are quite outraged at the draft officials that they dropped offices who roam the streets in their vans. they pursue people. these 2 people, even in one of the videos that hasn't most lately, a young male arrived in a taxi to his house and it was on one of the cctv cameras. it showed a van, well, creeping up behind about the taxi, and as soon as the young male exited the cart and tried to wells with please, uh, he was, uh well, he had a quite foss pays towards the door towards uh,

into his apartment below building well uh you could see dropped, office is chasing him and well mobilizing it was clear that that man was not to sadly a volunteer. and that have been ever such a videos emerge every day and sometimes, and quite often they all violent drop the offices the use for the beat people up. they have even lately gotten the approval to shoot people on site in case the life is in danger. the, the that video does not suggest in any way that the life over that particular dropped office. it was in danger and still a one life was through all that man in the video he was killed now. so it does

suggest that the excessive food, so that sadly some of these dropped off is that they are happy to use excessive fluids and basically do everything in the power to welcome script as many males now as possible. because according to some reports, many of them are threatened that if they do not meet a certain criteria, if they do not meet a certain number of cost groups, uh they are threatened that they themselves would be sent to the front line ukraine right now. basically, script of any sorts of advantage and any sort of leverage when it comes to when it comes to negotiations. ukraine could potentially try and dropped in cost scripts as well as tens of thousands, if not hundreds, of thousands of new people, of a new of new conscripts to basically try and do something akin to what they did in russians could, is region because definitely they did hope that that's foothold that they had

initially gained and brushes cool course grades and that that was the upper hand that they had during these negotiations. but since then they have already lost move and a half of the territory that they had that they initially uh took uh to control of and they keep losing more and more every day. so that this could be the lowering of this age of the dropped age, could be ukraine's way to they're basically final attempt to, to do something big and to try and get at least some leverage on russia. well, rush a better be ready. the u. s. government has wasted a trillion dollars in spending this year alone, as a bump show claim from republican sentence around pull. he's published his annual report on wes tax pay, as cash has been used to blame for our crushing national debt every body this year . members of both political parties in congress voted for massive spending bills filled with the subsidies for under performing industries,

continued military aids to crane and controversial climate initiatives. as congress spends to reward its favor to pet projects, the american taxpayers are forced to pay through high prices and crippling interest rates. the same big spenders teamed up yet again to continue sending americans hard earned money to foreign countries, funding and list wars all while still ignoring our wide open southern border and our mountain, the debt will continue to pile even higher as well. let's dig deeper into the numbers now. so the sentence just as the one trillion government waste housing to things like 13000000 on a sesame street. so in iraq, 12000000 on a hipaa. blue sports complex in las vegas are about $10000000.00 on experiments that involved infecting caps with cove it and then telling them, plus maybe $5000000.00 fi ukrainian influences to promote so called public

a fast. well, bank street us taxpayers didn't get to say on how that cash was spent. we discussed the prospect. so the count to been to see for the with americans. i'm going to columbus found financial expert thomas pen. this is the site type of monitoring system that we have this dis, dollar based system. uh, with the united states at the center as the issuer of the, you know, one reserve currency derrick. all accounts, all he gets lost is just so much more as it gets induced under such as, you know, what type of monetary regime, where the money can be essentially printed. it will then hand it out. but you know, it's why we got the growth companies like, like, amazon, these, these, these, these big gigantic google american multinationals. they're able to take over the entire american market and you know, other markets as well because they have easy access to this printed up funding money. and it leaves its kind of like a if everybody's, if it's like

a big party and everybody's at the bar. but it's getting trucks that have federal reserve is the, is the, is the really the bartender hand and have all this free money and everybody's getting liquored up on it. and it doesn't matter where you spend that because for all truck is having a good time. but the party is slowly coming to an end and it's going to be a big problem for the united states. the platinum is a lot of state has confirmed that he has some she tried to bride the survive prime minister to fax you. queens bid to join nato. what would the fee? so i told the media that they also put on the tables $500000000.00 yours? well, the 2 nations mccartney understand also for the future of the wash and gas supplies, which currently transit through ukrainian territory. so that he tried to frame the deal as compensation for timing of the tops at the end of this month. we've brought this all this energy security risk feed. so travel to most go for meeting with documentation of the weekend. the to need is we have farms that commitment to energy co operation, sparking is syria from one of the boxes,

naples it was the check government that secured independence from russian energy supplies so that we wouldn't have to crawl in front of a mass murderer. and it was the pet or fee all a government that decided to postpone government consultations, which is proving more prudent with every step. the slow back government takes for public data the seems to contradict stop statement. the check for public is still dependent on russian energy supplies, according to figures for me, your pin based sense of the study of democracy. since the start of the ukraine conflict product, the spend over $7000000000.00 oil for most of the crude comes through the drawers about pipeline which remains partially untouched by sanctions. while comparing not to check republics financial support to ukraine pales in comparison. standing at $1300000000.00. in the meantime, natural gas prices

a surging on european markets ahead of that expected shutdown of imports via ukraine. but despite cubes refusal to that move russian fuel flow to west and consumers, moscow says it's ready to keep pumping. and as you are putting gas as opposite reported me being drained of the false just rate since 2022 or the contributor rachel watson crunch has been on this for us. for the last couple of years, the us been relying on filling up its gas reserves, heading into the winter time bragging about it, how they have so much and then applying the bullying strategy and just pray that the weather won't be too cold and resulting too much withdraw, so e u countries i've been battling the block on this trying to get it to their washed brains. that purchased signaling for zalinski won't actually keep their countries economically afloat ends with ease neither by the way, um, he has a really sweet gig where all the really has to do is sit there and watch russian

gas flow through the pipes across you crate and get paid by moscow to do it, guess who doesn't want to stick it to put in by taking his money for transferring gas to europe. so now he's going to just stick it to the you by making them pay more of his this. sure, sure. this will watch one more thing about slovakia. there's been many questions from journalists about fits those trip to moscow. in fact, after our conversation in brussels, in the presence of all european leaders, nothing surprises me anymore and we are fighting for our lives on board. it fits so is fighting for money and hardly for slovakia is money saying these are shadow agreements with poor continues either a trait of state interests or working for personal gain fits so mean did not want compensation for the slovaks, and he does not want to cooperate with the european commission side for some reason, he finds moscow more profitable, everyone in europe understands why there is no one who doesn't understand. we the world bank estimates this month of this, that russian pipeline gas is cut off, which is expected to be early in the new year. then the entire block will have to

figure out a way to compensate for the loss of about 5 percent more of its total supply. and they'll have to get it from liquefied natural gas suppliers like the us, which of proven comparatively much more expensive. and that's the kind of thing that feed, so says he's like zelinski to try to grasp instead of his magic mass of 0 gas plus 0 gas equals well, who really cares? because the tax payers will pay for whatever mess has to be cleaned up anyway, in my meeting today was a response to ukrainian president zalinski who answering my personal question on thursday, said that he was against any transit of gas through ukraine to our territory. the ukrainian president is also in favor of sanctions against russia's nuclear program . such attitudes, financially harm slovakia and threatened the electricity production in nuclear power plants in slovakia, which is unacceptable. so hungry is one country that is not in the same kind of a bind because it gets it's russian gas transit through turkey and has resisted

committing on that front and active cell harm. and cutting itself off as proof of love for zalinski. and on top of having refused to renounce on russian gas for hungry through turkey, through turk, stream, or bonds. also trying to make a deal with moscow, n t f to keep the gas flowing through you, crated to and this fruits and said last week, he's not the one shipping these you countries off and economic cliff. oh, great. and it be a crew of ukraine has cut off our guest supplies to european consumers. on the one hand, it picks from their hands because only with the support of the west, including from europe, can it exist, not only to fight, but to exist. and at the same time, it creates problems for them by cutting off the supply of our relatively cheap gas to europe, there would be no such contract to, to go everything is already clear. so well then, all right, we will survive and guess problem with somebody of this. well hey, maybe the you at worse can just turn even more to places like talk to her to make

up the shortfall and gas supply. oh, but only if they're willing to pay carbon emissions fines on that gas to the u as a sort, as you virtu, signaling tax, which cut are, will probably be totally cool about right. if the case is that i lose 5 percent of my generated revenue by going to europe, i will not go to europe. i'm not bluffing. 5 percent of generated revenue of guitar . energy means 5 percent of generated revenue of the guitar state. this is the people's money, so i cannot lose that kind of money and nobody would accept losing that kind of money. excuse you also excuse you for the fact that the you wants to know whether your gas is climate friendly and how big exactly it's carbon footprint is. and whether that carbon footprint is, may be big enough to beat your behind and shake loose some spare change from your pockets. right now the you is desperate and hitting everyone out for gas have those

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