got some of the stuff, some of the the profit headlines. so an all to the national. i've got a celebration that don't have a new day, and that is new president takes the oath of office john mohammed called the entire african continent to be united. and perhaps importantly, ensure its own regional, secure, proud to slab over its accusations. but russia interfered in georgia is elections to police. he says that he, he was late and we trying to move with throw, it's elected to the government. and as thousands police syria from the ruling militants, we speak with a refugee at 11 on who says that the west is trying to re brand the terrorist leader. who took over syria, claiming he's a changed man. they betray him as

a hero globe, or through one of the most oppressive regimes in the middle east. but alger lonnie remains a criminal western. now let's have re branded al giovanni as someone who is changed overnight despite his affiliations with isis and your bottle. new strong pressure has somebody right in the doorstep, but i could understand the feeling about that. yeah, us present deluxe right. that donald trump is set to take back to the oval office and he takes a much bite and his class and go, can you ukraine conflict by giving key of a dream of joining the nature of the just coughing at 9 am here. and most of it with the top stores lined up and the firing off. right now here, we're not the internet. so taken off and use our with africa gone. it has a brand new leader, john muhammad has been sworn in as president. is courtney for the continent to unite now more than ever before, we need to strengthen our ties with our lives. right,

show that we're working together to keep our sub region save the stands is only 19 and west and allows with all on the best in the south region. so on my how my was for in for a sick and tim has got his president data center many a capital of the country across you to remember that the deed, a, one of the december 7 presidential eviction by a wide margin to stage a political come back in the west african nation, he is replacing not alcohol for adult who stoops down off the serving 2 terms and he continues got his democratic tradition in a region group to elsie 5 minutes cruise and hard disk insurgents. in his address, mohammed struck an optimistic co detailing the day as a new turning point, forgot not as it's more up to the start off, he's unprecedented sick and to him in office also shared his vision, forgotten his future calling for click to pay for it to prioritize the country's

development to what a particular focus on the youth. and he's me see it was very clear the future of god. and i can only be realized when all citizens, especially the younger generation, a given the tools to succeed and he stones on youth development and has again team the support and the respect to for young people, have a listen to this, having the same brand and our format and it has all parents to help us move on. we are looking up the hebrew at least yes. find a way to find to stuff and then get past that jobs. so we would also have something to do and make a few ways that that will allow somebody to get us maybe a copy in this information that we saw president abraham trial root of putting a fossil made a star rick and trying for the entry to across to attend to the ceremony of

president my how much he's visit tomorrow to his 1st of is a visit to guy know in the as a country outside this the hollow lions. so it's coming into paula in 20. 22. and the reception was nothing for us to protect you about the visit, read the underscore, the importance of regional cooperation and the deepening relationship between picking up also. and i don't even find that. and as the global solved countries and very important fee as well gotten, the remains the only coastal states not directly impacted by. so how based attacks and that is, thanks to it's the resilience. however, it has absorbed over 15000 refugees from picking a fossil needing to significant economy security places. but it does say that it is managing the school over effects by expanding its military and security operations in the north end. about 2 years ago, you'd remember pertaining to fossil malia, an easy form to be alliance of the health states. the nations announced the

withdrawal from april was noting, do you going to zation had filled them and failed to help them in the fight against terrorism. but as of course see, overall the form achieved, mahatma had a very good plan in mediating and a lot of conflicts in the sub region. and what he's experienced. many believe she will have a critical role to pain, bringing to give the the sub region and helping this a whole a cheese is school and the global. so where you go to share some love with the police. see these days, georgia firing back and from says pending power has to stay in its own lane, offer a manual macro and delivered a slew of allegations against the police. he's saying that nation is beholden to moscow a dealing he has a nice lovely seat. in recent years, russia has intensified its aggression and change the nature of its aggression towards europeans and other countries of the world. we saw it in georgia by destabilizing the electoral process. by stuffing ballot boxes and they tried the

same and moved over, but they did not succeed. let the french president take a look at ukraine, which they have sacrificed to its destruction. i'm talking about what the real problem is. i won't comment on the allies. i'm commenting about the problem that we are all facing today. a devastated ukraine. well as that microns are lots of sparked fists criticism into placing the speaker of george's parliament reminded the french related to look in his own gilded mirror and see how power says lost credibility. not that i intend to interfere in french domestic politics. but given that 61 percent of french people support the resignation of president macro and 50 percent want the dissolution of the national assembly. new elections may be a good way out of the political crisis. but it was just last month that the french president publish a video message for the george and people who supported the european and democratic aspirations of some georgians and then say something you or if it's not trying to

destabilize its neighbors. yeah, but no because wisdom, how is with a troublesome and g o to put a huge pressure on their public of georgia students, the parliamentary elections and october folk about post election meddling. the countries being gripped by fiery protests led by your usual pro e u groups and funded by the usual suspects like george star us and his client event g o. the refuse to recognize the routing parties. victor, we heard from the leader of george an opposition party that supports a more national oriented stones. he said, microns comments that just another example in a long list of what he calls the west hypocritical foreign policy. you know, bonuses so it wasn't. i completely agree with prime minister. cool, but he'd say i want to add to his remarks. let my cron worry about his own country about those tragic results of his own repressions. for example, of the yellow best movements. at that time, the french police arrested 3000 people and they are now serving prison sentences.

we have arrested only 8 people. there was no interference from russia right now, but there was a clear direct intervention, an attempt to over to o be legitimately elective governments by the european union and the outgoing us administration. it wouldn't be good if my crown would worry about his own country and his own ratings. he is a president of a country that doesn't support him. you could even come in 2nd place and then the election. by the way, it's worth comparing. how my crone schultz and the british were outreach by you on must statements when he supported the very popular alternative for germany party. that is, when the situation concerns them. they consider such statements to be interference in internal affairs. but they think that they can do the same, and this trend has been observed for centuries. they're just used to treating other nations that way. they don't know georgia to syria now of

a half a 1000000 people have been displaced from the rooms off of the higher i today. and i'll show him terror group, but through a bunch of a lot of us side on the nation last month, thousands more seeking refuge abroad. open all to of course, will know. steve sweeney is an 11 on with a refugee who recalls the moment the damascus fell. i think, does this stop this test? it took us 3 you were in damascus on the night that the city fell to the jet on these forces. can you tell us what it was like on that night? sort of how i am here. i anticipated at the fall of the regime was near on the night the regime fell in damascus. i returned home at around 11 p. m. at that hour old damascus. and the rest of the city was gripped by significant tensions attention. arose from reports that the army was withdrawing from certain areas in the damascus country side. this withdrawal was accompanied by immense fear among the syrians. i woke up at 2 am to the sound of gunfire. at that point i started

communicating with my friends, both those in damascus and those outside the city. some friends in damascus told me to stay calm and that the groups entering various areas of the damascus countryside weren't causing any harm. there was no immediate danger, but we would hear a chance of a low bar and gunfire. people were understandably scared. no one dared to leave their homes. we knew that arm groups were entering, but we didn't know how they were treating civilians. we stayed inside our homes avoiding any interaction with the former regime for the new groups entering damascus, ultimately as minorities living and bob to my a christian neighborhood. our lives were at risk despite being she a muslims, we were born or both to murder a solve for having our freedoms curtail. as i understand, there were many, many thousands of people that fled syria of to the type of regime to power fuel or among these people. can you just tell us about how and in fact, why you decided to at least area and

a little bit about the people that were, were leaving on the 1st day after the resumes form the groups entering were not extremes like hire to rear alshaun or jump out on those for the 1st group to enter from the damascus country side, the in southern syria was the us backed mega. we're all star. these individuals didn't subscribe to outside as ideology or extreme as long as views they were armed, state supported fighters who entered damascus because of this, people were not as fearful. however, when hired to rear alshaun entered damascus, the next day people began to fear them. they had long hair and no moustaches. they were armed some carrying isis flags and others, displaying sectarian slogans on their vehicles. for instance, there were slogans like we are against christians and we will kill the sheet. of the slogans were visible on the vehicles arriving from ed live while some celebrated the developments. others packed up and left the very next day. among

those who fled were christians, i personally met christian priest at the syria and lebanese border. luckily he made out of sylvia. others have not been so fortunate and we're having these horror stories of the persecution of christians of she are of lights. we're hearing i'm. we've seen footage circulating on social media showing some homes atrocities being carried out against these minority communities . and against those alleged to have been very close to all parts of the assad government. what can you tell us about the fundamental problem is that over 14 years, these groups have committed heinous crimes. when they gain control over most of syria, minorities began feeling deeply anxious. whether christians, she is al white's or drew's all face threats,

even the druids who often oppose decides regime we're now under a greater threat from higher rear alshaun for minorities. the primary concern became their survival. in old, damascus, there were no immediate attacks of minorities. but in areas like the city of homes, there were mass killings targeting, she is, she is, we're just waste from their homes. mosques were looted in churches in the city of homes were ransacked. homes were confiscated, and their rightful owners were expelled. people were subjected to in humane treatment, rounded up and executed for being our wide. portia christians were slightly more protected due to international attention. but she is in our whites were left defenseless. despite promises from the new government to protect minorities, these were dismissed as isolated incidents. the new government claimed they weren't responsible for individual actions. however, under a sons' regime, such actions were suppressed immediately. so this tool that we're hearing lots of in particular in the west, in price of the new regime. the qu,

administration in syria protecting minority seems to be from what you're saying, something of a mist. honestly, western media has been working to rehabilitate the image of of mohammed al gilani since the fall of a sides regime. they portray him as a hero who over through one of the most oppressive regimes in the middle east. but alger lonnie remains a criminal. this fact has been forgotten, thanks to the efforts of western media. western outlets have re branded al giovanni as someone who has changed overnight despite his affiliations with isis and you about on those right. the media has worked to clean his image for the world. both western and syrian audiences they succeeded. i must admit, however, syrians, especially minorities, can not forget 14 years of atrocities. the ongoing attempt to convince the west that al giovanni's group protects minorities has misleading. recently the french foreign minister visited old damascus, and met with christian praise. their primary concern was not just their safety,

but the safety of all syrians. they told the minister, it's not enough for us to live in peace. we want all syrians to live in peace, whether they are, she is sunni's drew's or our whites. the sentiment was express beautifully by a priest. as long as my syrian neighbour is safe, i am said in this profound statement emphasize unity and the collective wellbeing of all syrians. well, some of holding him an economics type of to a, it's off as a landscape, turned off the tops of cheap russian energy flowing into europe. hungary says that ukraine has taken upon itself and others spock a deepening crisis in the european union. and that's put tbs hope of joining the block in jeopardy since the end of ukrainian transit route. the price of natural gas and the european market has increased by 20 percent. thus, while ukraine aspires to join the u as a candidate, another decision has once again put the european economy in a more difficult position. you creams decision to stop. transit shipments will lead

to further price increases and create new competitiveness challenges for central europe and the european union as a whole, as well besides solar energy costs hitting every you consume a pocket book the hold of you or if it's faced with shrinking gas reserves, bluebook reporting is reserves, and now it's 70 percent capacity that is much lower than levels last year. and as when to grips the region, local prices are expected to keep on rising as cheap of pipes of russian gas is replaced by expensive american l. n. g. however, the russian economy, defined western sanctions on sabotage was barely felt the impact and it continues to grow as most ago was turned eastwards and subbing, delivering gas to the power of siberia pipelines, the customers like china. and our next guest says that while you crate and this, you repeat, and sponsors will suffer from kids short sighted decision, the russian economy remains very much into actually even you agree is

losing on this because of the, all the trees, the bits lose in front of the transit, this is what they call the european gas dilemma. actually, europe is trying to divert diversify. it's very energy sources, but it's kind of in the short term because it's still relying on russian energy sources. and uh, you order for it to actually uh say, verse, you fly, he's going to take some time. it's not going to be yours. my going to be a couple years is going to take a big game for the case. and this is problematic for european politicians for of itself, the impact is very low. it's under one percent of the russian g, d p. that's being impacted on this. and the, i think the euro will still be using the russian energy sources. even man,

i'm short term. the stay side we go not here on the program by donald trump is accused the outgoing bite and administrative sion of playing with fire when it comes to ukraine. he said he understands the issues russia face dr. kia was promised the dream of joining the nato. a big part of the problem was russia for many, many years, long before a boot and said, you could never have nato a involved with ukraine. now they've said that that's been like written in stone. and somewhere along the line vitally said, no, they should be able to join nato. well, then russia has somebody right in the doorstep, but i could understand their feeling about that. well that's, you know, a big part of the problems of presidential campaign with the promise to end the ukraine conflict in a single day. a trump appointed a special envoy to talking to the issue however, keith catalog has postponed his trip. the key and also of google archipelago, michael rectinwald's says whatever trump ones might not be enough to overcome the desires of the elite and the american military industrial complex,

who sean promised to end the war in ukraine before he got into office. then of course he found out that's not really possible because he's not allowed to negotiate until he is actually the president. and i would think that the policy better change because we're feeding all of these ukrainians and russians into the mob desks for absolutely nothing. and all of this i think, has to do with the interest in ukraine's resources and not with anything to do with putting that so that you know, the so called hitler and so forth. i think this is really another case of lies issued by the representatives of the military industrial complex to keep this as an add a never ending war. and there's no sense in which we, we, we, united states needs to be involved and we need to get our for our money and our funds

out of this conflict and quit sending arms and, and money to your credit. and this is outrageous. what, what's, what is happening, billions and billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars keep flowing to ukraine to no end and for no reason . well they and i got later and his speech also said to us to take control of greenland before america's national security interest. and well, now less than 2 weeks before his integration with his son travel to the danish territory about the trump force one to take a closer look. a trump julia has insisted his visit as a quote personal day trip, and it hasn't been any plans for any official negotiations of denmark liked to us as a native member of state and has saw frontier over greenland wallets rejected the rhetoric from the trumpet. finally, about a possible acquisition. however, the us president deluxe has left the door open for a different route to gain control. have a listen to this to elaborate while

waiting and waiting for national security purposes. i've been told that for a long time, long before i even ran, i mean people have been talking about it for a long time. you have approximately 45000 people there. people really don't even know if denmark has any legal rights to it. but if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security. that's for the free world. i'm talking about protecting that very well. you look at, you don't even need binoculars. you look outside, you have china ships all over the place. you have russian ships all over the place . we're not letting that happen. it makes no sense at all. i have no idea of what security he could possibly be talking about. there is no threat posed through uh, green uh, greenland to the united states. 7 7 i really think uh, this is kind of uh, an egoistic rhetoric that's being pumped out here through the trump campaign

regarding or the trump team, i should say, with reference to canada and greenland, both of which he hopes to a max or make states or something to this effect, in the case of canada, he wants to make it a state. so this is just crazy. we have real problems in the united states that we made a dress to united, that the voters who voted for trump voted to have a dress. so help and those include of course, our own economic was there is some royal meant with wars including and ukraine and israel on, on gaza. all of these things. and the incredible inflation that we're facing. they should focus on what they promised to deliver. uh, not on these uh, land grabs that they're looking at with reference to greenland and canada. well, hypersonic ms. all seem to be popping up all over the place these days are weather iran. yeah, men, of course, russia,

but now north korea has tested it's new ballistics technology on the report that they've reached the top speed of my 1244 kilometers per 2nd. now, i blasted off from a side outside the nation's capital and flew across the country to a target in the waters of the east coast of the dpi. okay, described the weapon system as a deterrent to any potential aggressive mean? well, south korea tried to downplay its capability, going into john and you and what do you, we believe north korea was exaggerating the capabilities of its missile system, including the flight distance and 2nd peak according to the analysis by south korea, us and japan, the missile flew about 1100 kilometers and there was no 2nd peak. no, it wouldn't be difficult to use such systems in a relatively small territory like the korean peninsula possible they are right. the

missile won't be used in south korea. there's not a reason that using this like us and south korea. north korea has more than enough but to reach sol, which is not far from the border and reach any other point a notice on korean peninsula if whatever comes right. particular send this out. now, on the other hand, as a deterrent as a strategic web, this is a very active, realistic weapon. this is a weapon system that can destroy, for example, the 4 facilities in guam and warm. it gives the main logistics space for the us military and the western pacific. uh long uh it has a marine brigade station there. its got 4 facilities repair facilities of don't, don't forget, the american re doesn't have a lot of to be tenders. in other words, when the rails and the rockets and the fuel start to run out on the ships, there are a lot of ships in the us navy. they can actually refuel to rearm that most of the time they use, we, for lack of a logistics. so on, on water, water all,

and just explore s to go back and forth to some sort. we saw that in the red sea, especially after, uh your ships got hit, they go straight into the gulf because they gotta get repair off. and they do that when they run out of business too. so this is the same thing and one is the biggest strategic for somebody because it's so far away. they've got and they're all more facilities, obviously in japan, but japan's relatively close rate. and these missions can be used against your panels. but now you've got a missile that can go non nuclear warhead. now remember, what are the other significant? now even one, we're going as much 12, you could possibly destroy a very large chunk of not the entire port facility for damage enough that it can service the american ships are before we go over here on the, on americas, the west coast in southern california finds a sweeping the area, a local authorities issuing mandatory

e backorders for tens of thousands of residents of the policy. it's fire just now cold, erupt the tuesday morning. local time is dry. the dries sun to an offshore winds where whipping up last count, the flames of spread through of a 10 square kilometers. i know numbers yet as to how many homes have been destroyed, but there have been a medi residential neighborhood just bond to ashes. the high winds are expected to increase overnight into the region. the threat continues to grow, and now another fire has erupt at north of downtown. the city of elton dana, with fire cruise now baffling to friends and reinforcements are on the way. over $30000.00 residents have been evacuated, but local officials say the worst is yet to come. yeah right now it's not far off at 10 30 pm in los angeles and the surrounding regions are full cost is predicting, the wind storm could stick around for a few days, producing isolated gust up to a 100 miles per hour. that's a 160 kilometers per hour in the mountains and the foot of him fly from moscow. we

will keep you posted. it says on the the, [000:00:00;00] the hello and welcome to cross stock were all things are considered and peter level, it would be nice to see in the new year with some optimism. unfortunately, this is not the case. the accumulation and deepening of many problems from last year are still very much with us. so fucking love brace for impact.

the cross fucking 2025. i'm joined by my guess, george samuel, we in budapest, he's a pod cast where the guy go, which be found on youtube and locals. and here in moscow we crossed to mark football that he's an international relations and security analyst, red building cross lock roles. and in fact, that means it can jump any time you want, and i always appreciate it, mark, i'm going to go to you 1st and i'm going to kind of give vent a little bit here during 2020 for a lot of people. we know in the pod cast world in the alternative media world in the world, we're really kind of obsessed with predictions. and well, there's a lot of a gotten a lot of faces the go around here. and so i would really like to avoid a less program to work on predictions because i think it's a useless endeavor. okay, because most people end up being wrong and they don't always admit to it

unfortunately. so having said that, i would like to look at developing trends. ok, now we've just talked about what happened in 2024. given that conversation. what happened in 2024? what kind of developing trends from the last year? do we feel? what do we see going into this new year mark as well? i, i think that you know, the 1st the elephant row in the room is the conflict in, in ukraine. i, i do not believe that the conflict and ukraine will, will end in the next year. i think the trend of the acceleration and the escalation of the conflict will continue despite you know, uh, you know, but the new us administration of donald trump coming into office in the united states simply because i do not believe that there is. any beal that the u. s. president, whoever that us present it is, can offer

a russia that russian will accept. and, and russia's terms are unacceptable to any us presidents, an attempt by the donald trump administration to, you know, play a role they, oh, he's going to cut a deal between russia and ukraine as if he some kind of neutral outside arbiter is just patently false. this is ultimately a conflict between russia and the united states uh, on the united states. it is a proxy war, but it is a conflict to the us is losing, and trump owns that conflict. as soon as he comes into office and whatever, he may think of the average him and zalinski and in person and whatever, you know, political domestic gripes he has against them justified. he does not want to be known as the president to hand the ukraine over to vladimir pro. no us president wants that on that record. so i predict that the war will continue,