on the headline stories this, our new us president donald trump and threatens russia with economic repercussions to in the ukraine conflict that's after failing to meet his own pledge. the in the price is 24 hours european union fails to reach agreement on extending sanctions on russian l. n. g. south. those figures show record i the purchase is a russian golf and the 1st 2 weeks of the year just pay off to the headmaster. these roles si fi, adult, a brief sense of relief. the west bank is now one choir incidence unlikely. israel self label counter terrorism operation continues in the westbank with at least 10 people killed since tuesday,

depaula sidney and rick present that slammed the idea for obstructing the movements of health workers in the region which are either occupation what it says at the end sheet. what i'll do then, since they even fired, rarely shot out the absences to prevent them from teaching certain streets to the boss. you leave the wounded in the area, the one minute past 10 at night to this wedding stay here in moscow. welcome to the global use run drop in r t. i mean, and donald trump is the modeling russia, bring it in to its operation in ukraine. no, that's after the u. s. president failed to meet his own pledge, the set, and the conflict in 24 hours. remember that know, aiming to ended in a 100 days. the new american leader has threatened moscow with economic repercussions. if it refuses to go along with the ultimatum of sorts. i'm

going to do russia, who's economy's failing, and president bush in a very big favor, settle now and stop this ridiculous war. it's only going to get worse if we don't make it to you. and soon i have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tyrus and sanctions on anything being sold by russia to the united states and various other participating countries. let's get this war, which never would have started if i were president over with. we can do it the easy way or the hard way, and the easy way is always better. it's time to make a deal. no more live should be lost on the campaign trail last day. he's a bit of a show mind he's like, i'm going in this war in 24 hours. i'm going to make everything disappear and now those campaign promises it for really going up in smoke. we heard off the he was in the election a little bit more about oh, you know, if most go doesn't come to the negotiating table. i'm going to come down on them like a pilot break. so i'm going to give careful of the mind of the us,

but now we're hearing even more about these threats of economic sanctions against russian, or if it doesn't come to the negotiating table. but let's not forget donald trump is playing both sides against each other because he's also being telling him, hey, we're not going to give you blanket checks anymore. we don't provide this and you money, funds, weapons, whatever it is you're gonna have to give up territories. so i think really what we're seeing is this young man who is trying to say, well, we won't do this if you don't do that. and he's waiting to see where the gym is full and then try and take credit for whatever happens if something good comes out today. but i think what's really important to show here is he had said this would all be about 24 hours off the he assumed the presidency that has clearly not happened to a well past that deadline. now we're now hearing from his special envoy, keith kellogg, that it's going to be 100 days. that's very different to 24 hours. and even on top of that, we are hearing from others within the trump administration that this could make me 6 months where as tall spies suggesting that we could get plugged into this. and

this could essentially become his vietnam's. remind us what russia's stance has been all impossible. peace talks with kids watches, always being clear. it is open to piece folks in fact as being tweaking with its american allies all the way back in 2021 saying hey, all we want is a guarantee that you claim doesn't join nature. you give us that. we've pretty much okay on this. and yet, despite that, the western governments like no, it's up to you quite, and if it wants to join nato notes, expression is always being clear. it's open for tool when it comes to blackmail like any country, nope, you can react very well. it's awesome. in fact, 2 days ago, president printing was saying, look, the only way we can solve this crisis is if we go back to the route to for the crisis was and this is all way back in 2014. lisa actually was, we also hear his statement about the need to do everything to prevent a 3rd world war. of course,

we welcome this attitude and congratulate the president elect of the united states of america on assuming office. i would like to emphasize that we have never refused to have a dialogue. we have always been ready to maintain smooth cooperative relations with any american administration. i have already said this many times. we're also open to dialogue with a new us administration on the ukrainian conflict with them. the most important thing here is to eliminate the root causes of the crisis, which we have discussed many times so that it was a red line. once again, no attention to ne, to for ukraine, and also for the recognition of the newly incorporated territories into russian of course, climb a fax from a decade ago. those are the things that russia wants that hasn't changed. let me touch upon what you just said. there are nato ukraine's ambitions to join it along . there's lindsey, coming out with some revelations on that. yeah, that's right. so he's been a devil. austin, he's been going around senior ping countries need to spend 5 percent of the gdp on defense on the line that's of donald trump because he's trying to sort of cozy up

the trunk that he's in the white tabs, but we've also been hearing so landscape flashes weston allies, the 1st time he's trash them. we put them trust them several times over the last few years. but he's now basically said the western allies plowed white lie to ukraine, saying that they won't take you quite to join nato. that's just listen to it yet. say shot, that was not a very transparent pulse at 1st, yet some countries did not support our entry into nato. simple and these were seems a lie. so that's yeah, so we'll see. crane will be ne, a decade has passed. so what happened and ukraine is not in nato, and therefore it was designed us towards ukraine and ukrainians. and was also these on us from a leader rush when some of our leaders said not we were promised that we would be made. so if the resource also is honest, and i believe the germany of the united states had a weak position because they had a dialogue, was a rush, great in the gemini and the united states. we know, according to zalinski,

on the side there to that. we also heard from hunger in slovakia, who made a in, brought to solve it. this was open and a seat. so folks saying that that countries weren't supposed to need to say that for ukraine. but i think what we need to look at here is if it's true that western allies who never want to do cranes doing a to live, why we have this who hall last the last 3 years, where we have heard need to leadership and less them. how is saying, well, it's up to you quite and if they want to join nato, we support them if they want to do it. and i think the onset is very clear who has made the money out of a school. and that is the military industrial complex, mainly in the united states and billions and billions and billions of dollars with contracts that have gone into sending weapons to create an hour stage where it's clear that you have call waiting. who's going to win again? and that's going to be those who are going to invest in the reconstruction of the country. and i think we all know with the arrows are pointing in regards to who

makes the money on that. so i think is really interesting. now we're seeing ukraine change, it seems crazy. well, that's delve into some of charlotte points there with our to contribute our thomas penn live from berlin, thomas fruit to see you. so it is a familiar refrain from washington of economic pressure to be placed on russia to end the trained conflict. why has mr. trump decided or at least threatened to go down and not route to think a how you in and it's good to be with you again. yeah, i'm glad we're one guy to be here tonight to talk about this, this, this topic because, i mean, i've written about it extensively. and i basically laid this out. i mean, why trump, with not essentially continue the bite and policy on ukraine. so he's compelled, essentially, by the same forces that the binding was compelled by we're talking about the, the,

the real reason for it, for the warren, your client, the real reason for nato expansion. and that primarily has to do with us to or hang them. russia is a threat to the sovereign with free russia that acts of its own accord its own free will as a threat to the us dollar based system. trump profits from that binding profit from that that would be where the military and the fuel complex in the united states. profit from the washington self prophets from that system, from that mechanism. and whether it's trump or whether it's, it's bite and it really makes no difference. trump is a good showman, that he talks a good game. but at the end of the day, he's going to keep going to continue that the, the same policy that you know, they don't find a pursuit and i just don't see him doing anything else i've, i've talked about this since before the election. many see him as a, as a kind of a but the savior that's going to come and, you know,

fix the entire situation. and i just never saw it that way. and i think it's going to get, you know, a worse. and i'm wondering if it's been put in and the russian federation don't give him what he wants in terms of a deal the i think you're going to see his is true colors come out these. he's really going to pursue it hard there and your current can i put it to you though, that anyone that knows the history of russia knows, attempting to force russians into doing something tends to be in vain. will trump in time come to the realization that diplomacy is the way out of this? i'm not sure that they will cuz he's so used to these is different very american types of transactional and all these transactional relationships in, in this particular instance, i mean putting this, not in the tv and that, you know, the whole thing holds all the cards are most of the cards in this, you know, relationship here,

but i think trump is going to go as long as putting doesn't really end. i think that the trump is going to grow, grow more and more frustrated with, with the, with the situation. and i just don't see the russian president giving after all this exercise, all the effort that's been made on the part of the russian federation in terms of ukraine. i just don't see him relenting and, and getting into a, you know, whatever it demands the trump, they make 50 dollars ation process is beyond it started. clearly, trump wants to reverse that but putting holds the cards now and it's up to him. it's up to him and, and of the leadership of the, of the kremlin as to as to what they're ready to, you know, engage in and, and negotiate over. but yeah, i,

i think trump is going to grow more and more frustrated with the situation because i just don't think they're going to give him what he wants. there's a pun surrounding this as well. the biggest beneficiary from the conflict in ukraine is said to be the american movie tree. industrial complex. will these powerful companies, they're lobbyist, will they be healthy? will they have a say in donald trump attempting to negotiate peace and ukraine? if that's what he wishes to do, i think the clearly all have a say, uh, basically what enables those good firms and then it doesn't as defense contractors to, to profit immensely. is that the system i mentioned before this particular dollar based monitoring system. without that, that ability to, to, to profit. so exorbitantly, it just doesn't exist. this mechanism is what gives washington its power sport enables it to run massive deficits. to maintain that, you know,

military budget. that vastly l. the sizes the, the, didn't the next 1015 nations combine. and if that mechanism goes away, a lot of people, a lot of powerful people in washington and elsewhere in the united states and europe as well. there's a lot for them to lose a lot of power and, you know, i mean there's, there's a, there's a lot on the line here in terms of the d dollarization process. and that's, that's really the key to understanding this whole entire you know, on all the events really associated in ukraine and what the united states is pursuing there. because russia is, as it is a threat to that freedom sovereign, russia is a threat and they will not put up with a free himself or in russia. i mean, any way you look at it that they're going to be, i think they're going to, they're going to be hitting, hitting hard. if they don't,

they don't get what they want. terms of it's the for us, it doesn't kneel down and give them what they want. now they're going to push even are really interesting, the points from thomas pen, artie contributor life on the program. thomas, thanks for your time. thanks for having me guys. thank you. nice and another story to bring you to day surrounding this son related in a way though, the e. u has failed to reach an agreement on expanding sanctions on russian gas. that's uh, some european officials continue to insist the rushes an imminent threat to the buck . nato secretary general mark ruta, and e u. member states intelligent services are warning us if we do nothing. in 5 years time, russia may be ready for a military confrontation with nato in the european union. every day ukraine fights on is a day the european union and nato can grow stronger. first of all, where is this guy get his numbers from? he's just kind of pulling the mother has are out of,

i don't know somewhere out of 5 years for until we're in russia. i'd like to see some receipts for that. maybe while i not one is to, by the way, every day that you print is out there, taking the blows, fighting with russia is one more day that nato and the you definitely have to get his hands dirty is what he's saying. but hey, as long as that's still going on, they can keep using the excuse of a more tax payer cash for the weapons industry. of course, he got that forever war with russia as a pretext for english defense spending idea from nato. he even said so himself bringing up mark, wrote out the secretary general, which is really just at this point. nato being the weapons lobby for the western weapons manufacturing and its wars are essentially used to showcase window in the same way that department stores put mannequins out in the store front window in front of their shots. the eu has really never had a defense commissioner before. and this fellow andreea's pavilion from lithuania,

the former prime minister there is uh, the very 1st one ever. and he's already sounding like he's on track to making it a whole new regrettable experience for europe is we're entirely focused right now on paying for the very high cost of heating and eating as they've lived from paycheck to paycheck. and he's saying, hey, let's take even more of your tax money that we prove. we're up to brussels from those paychecks and transform it into something really useful for them right now. weapons. so on one and you have the, you falling in line with washington's line on prioritizing defense spending, regardless of whether they're even going to really need all those warehouses full of stuff. years from now. i mean, just look at all the old junk weapons that they were dusting off and giving to crane recently. some of that stuff had been sitting around for so long that they were only too happy to have the russians blow it up on the battlefield. so they

could get some shiny new ones made and wash some tax care cash over for that. and on the other end, you have your opinion and officials, like germany's vice chancellor or an economy minister, robert had back saying that, hey, maybe isn't such a great strategy to just follow whatever washington tells us to do in the realm of energy. for example, with all that increased liquefied natural gas of the eu has now been hoover and not from the us. we shouldn't believe that what is happening there can be a model for us that would destroy the foundations of what we have created here in germany. and europe, in a world in which we have to expect energy supply chains to be exploited for power politics. energy dependency is always a problem. so it depends on the u. s. just might be a problem. how should it may be thought about that back when the us was obsessing over killing off your north street pipeline of cheap gas from russia with sanctions,

or by talking about it like it was targeted for a mafia headlight bite and did right beside the german sasser oh, i've sold ended up just uh, trading a cheaper dependence on russia for a much more expensive dependence on the us doesn't really sound like much of a win. maybe that wasn't such a good idea. but guess what? it's not enough yet. for washington, trump still thinks that america is getting royally screwed by you guys in europe. they're very tough and they don't take our cars. they don't take off on products and then take almost anything. and we take their cars and we take their farm product. we take a lot from them so you know, we have like a $300000000.00 deficit with us. well, send it out with either cash or they have to buy our oil. he sounds like you is almost victimizing washington or has been doing so. so what trump is saying is the issue you doesn't increase its dependence on american energy even more,

which have access they want to precisely avoid doing. then here from the terrorists, maybe around 10 percent on european imports to the us. sounds like they're getting backed into a corner here, which should be sure would be nice to have some options. but instead, they're squabbling about whether to extend sanctions on russian energy at the even is they sneak in russian l m g on the down low in record high amounts of the 1st 15 days of this year. kind of like junkies getting their fix on the down low, well bragging about how many days sober. they are off of russian gas. it's not like there are european leaders telling them how stupid they look, doing all this to get the, the you has also isolated itself from russia. european leaders refer to the russo ukrainian war as their own and have eliminated the combination of cheap russian energy in advance, european technology and its economic structure without doing anything to replace it

. they didn't want to be close to russia anymore. now they're scared of being too close to washington. under trump. it looks like the you is quickly headed towards sitting at home, all alone, and grow with no options at all. but at least it might just have some new weapons to play with. maybe by sometime in 2030 donald trump's pick for you in a box that are subscribes to the idea that israel is claim to the westbank. is it defined right? i did ask you whether you subscribe to the views of finance ministers, some of which rich and the former national security minister, ben, you the or who believe that israel has a biblical right to the entire westbank? is that your view today? yes. okay. i think when it comes to this very difficult issue,

if the president is going to succeed at bringing peace and stability to the middle east, it's going to be very difficult to achieve that. if you continue to hold the view that you just expressed. what on tuesday, the idea of finance? the start of it? so call con 3rd terrorism operation in the west bank city of jeanine dumped iron wall, which could last up to 7 days. according to the electron list. these really aren't . we have so far killed 10 palestinians, which it claims were terrorist. the idea of launch raids just hours after president trump rescinded by euro sanctions curbing is really separate the to local media as reporting of the policy and you know, sorry to you. security and services were asked to withdrawal from the earlier earlier while movement, both inside and outside the city is said to be severely restrictive. palestinians

in jeanine are furious with the idea of such that's the many i had surgery 3 days ago when i was returning in the morning for an arabic speaking, soldier came to the hospital door and said, you have from 9 to 5 o'clock and then you have to leave about if one of you is late for that he will sleep inside the hospital. i wasn't looking kind of, i didn't have come to him after $45.00 days of exhaustion without electricity or water. the occupation forces came and stormed, the place we're inside the camp. it was difficult image showing and gunfire. martyrs falling in the streets. in addition to many injuries, there were 10 martyrs and more than 45 injuries. all this came in addition to the exhaustion we suffered for 45 days. well that's the shorter issue. what a ation, hey, the situation is difficult, there is nothing. there is nothing and no medicine, no food. they, the people in the hospital have nothing. has people want to leave the hospital and go home? they risk their lives to go home?

well, since october 2023, the idea of this really settlers have intensified a tax in the west bank. according to the un humanitarian office, at least 870 people have been killed with a palestinian health ministry sitting around the 5th of that number. our children ortiz, middle east bureau chief, maria phenomena has been looking into the timing of the on folding idea of operation. just days off to the head, mouse israel seized by a brought a brief sense of relief. the west, the bank is not on fire. quite incidents unlikely. we're now at the observation point from where we can see d mean a palestinian city. and these really occupied westbank where a major is really military operation has been on the way since tuesday. we tried to get inside which were stopped at the nearest check for and soldiers blocked the road and the entry side and extreme danger images from the ground. so the significant destruction of the infrastructure is really bulldozers have torn up

major roads. a tactic often used by the army to prevent explosives from being planted now is really forces have blocked access to jeanine's government hospital effectively besiege and it ambulances can't enter or leave the facility, the director of the hospital warrant. but this is a very dangerous situation that the red cross is informed about at the death toll who's climbing, where the palace, student, health ministry, confirming multiple fatalities and injuries. while at the check point, we observe this really forces as courting detainees in white uniforms who are believe to be wanted. individuals from jeanine based operation comes less than 48 hours after the gather ceased by raising questions about its timing. multiple reports indicate that the escalation in the west bank was a condition set by hawkish finance, but as a small switch to remain in the call, as soon as you remember, as moultrie, suppose the israel had mazda agreement and threatening to resign. if the deal went

through, but eventually he stayed with no clear reasons. shortly after jeanine operation began, small appreciate the meet at the hays party pushed for the intensified military focus on the west bank or what is ro calls duty. and somalia has them on those advocating for the annexation of these area make it in part of a's role is rosa, as the operation ends at eliminating the terror threat posed by her moss and the palestinian islamic jihad allegedly entrenched in geneva, protecting nearby israeli communities. and ensuring that the west bank no longer poses a threat, least very similar to the objectives of the gas of war. since the war started october 2023. they have been over 2000 attempts to the tax recorded coming from the west bank in 2024 alone, 26 people, both as really and for nationals have been killed in a tax with more than 1200 to one. but again, for palestinians, this is something that these ro, kohl's terror. it is viewed as acts of resistance against is really occupation

solve some the believe this could mark the start on the road to ask for it to bring to westbank on the full is really control. the timing of this operation raises questions again of to months of opposing a deal with him. us. what made benjamin antonia will make a you turn a greeting to the deal that includes the idea of fool withdrawal from the poly student in place. and many know, speculate that this westbank corporation could hold part of the answer to some reaction to this journalist on gallons. a native shoddy of delta, rockland is also have you been, you've been it's in. yeah, i was trying to hold onto power by long certain figures in his coalition government to push their own agenda for the west. like i do believe that it could be a cheap bargain. what missing, you know, is doing is that he's buying because they, in the government. why is still keeping the coalition of the government?

well, as you know, the bank, if you haven't already left with his ministers and only a small kitchen and a small rich leaves, now the government will collapse indignation. so i believe that he is at a trading with small page in state. oh, okay. and we are still being on the zillow and i am giving you a free hand in the west bank. you can also give us the using doesn't we can kill them and there was bank. and maybe we can somebody just give the posting and thing doesn't he gave him already. the problem is that he, the, i'm going to continue the or it just after the 1st phase, finish it to, to continue. this is my own believing. because as i can see, that it was stopped eh, making trouble and making problems all the details for the 2nd phase, maybe. and then we'll be able to like conflict about exactly where it will be. then you bought those with the window. going to install. what would be the new rules, all these details are going to a blog,

and then the end of the day is going to like most of you and the 2nd of those phase . so only the 1st phase is going to happen and this is in the payroll office. i can buy them as something else to tell me about a socrates and jeanine se dozens of wounded people failed to receive treatment of id f. armored vehicles blocked ambulances from reaching those in need video circulating on social media port to show the vehicles trapped on hospital tara trip . earlier is really bulldozers remove rumble from a run. the medical facility for on clear reasons. palestinian red crescent society spokes person to bowl far as not offered her view and the message being employed by the idea a. yesterday off the age, the sergeant engineer refugee can budget in the city. um, is there a the occupation forces that blocked the entry or what i'll do then says the even

fires were new shots out the addresses to prevent them from reaching certain streets to evacuate the wounded in the area. and also since yesterday out to this month there's complete dcs in cost onto the refugee county and surrounding neighborhoods. this includes the emergency medical staff, the display of getting calls from patients who need to be transported into hostages . is there a forces to prevent the teams from entering the, into the perceived or areas? now they are using all the to the nation. that sound spite the international commit you that price to ensure receive access for our teams to me even to transport the, to the hospitals. this is not the 1st time is read as a blocking the n g o, or what ambulances or even obstructing or what word, as has been happened repeatedly. and even in many cases,

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