the, the head of the newly established in department of government efficiency you on month to says the us agency for international development must be shut down as institutions to crooked, to be fixed. we never received 100000000 out of these ones in 77 or even 200 and some people say, this is important. i don't know where all that money is. the last big claims he has no idea where most of the dollars allocated by dividing government for ukraine have gone that side of the suspension of for an aide by the trump white house has officials worried in keys. one person is confirmed and bad enough to for others injured in the russian capital by an explosion inside an elite residential complex in the northwest of moscow. and despite destroying

most of gaza and internally displaced, thing is people is really prime minister punches to keep pushing. the palestinians as the heads are tossed with his allies, us president trump our decisions and the courage of our soldiers redrawn the map. but i believe that working closely with president trump, which and redrawn even further and for the better the we are watching our to international live in moscow. i'm rachel room over covering the top new stories from around the worlds as questions grow over where us taxpayer money is going head of the newly established department of government efficiency. eli mosque says the us agency of international development must be shut down because it's impossible to fix. the president shutting down here is uh the, the,

the, the, the reason set as opposed to simply, um, you know, trying to doing this. a minor house. cleaning is, is that as good again, sir, usa usa id, it became apparent that what we have here is, is not an apple was a woman. it's, but we have actually just a bowl of ones. and so it's as a point which you don't really like if you go to an apple is go to it, it may even take them out. but if you could actually just a ball of ones, it's as hopeless. and you're savvy as a bowl of want me to right there is no apple and we always know apple does this, you've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. all right, we can discuss this now with our t correspondence. saskia taylor who's in the studio with me assess, gonna give us some context here because you as a id as an organization. i'm sure a lot of people don't really know much about what's behind all these claims that it needs and overall wells far thoughts, the us a id, one's one of washington's most feared foreign policy tools. and now pardon me in need of age itself. why?

because it's found itself in the process of both the us, president honest, we just had the world's richest mind. the trauma really has been building ever since trump took off that sweetie food. hundreds of its employees have being fired . its ability to dispense funds has been frozen for 90 days. its website was put offline at which the page went dark and now apparently muster wants to bury it. so he's really taking his, his new job. serious. see, the fine is full. seems to have been to him when 2 members of his cost cotton team tried to gain access to a part of the agencies headquarters in dc. but they were actually denied entry, apparently because of lots of security clearance as a result to top officials about she's been put on leave. and now we've got all these room is a corruption, even criminality swelling. so it's quite the food, some grace, uh, full usa id, which of course has been long, a daunting of the american police coordinate. it must really is not missing words

when he does, he's discussing usaa, you've talked in broad terms about criminality and corruption. do you have any specifics? well, the one who's talking detail provide to the notice you've been watching on teeth. the last couple of years relates to us a i d 's involvement in and i'm going to be very generous here. global health initiatives. did you know that us aid using your tax dollars funded by a weapon research, including cobit 19 that killed millions of people? well, this is significant why it's significant because often tool now from the us it has been denied. deny to not most famously, but for a new lens, denied at the pentagon. then tonight, 2nd, yes. okay. we do support system lives in ukraine and africa for example. personal for the good of mankind were developing vaccines with ensuring that there's no outbreak of infectious diseases. whereas most was point to something much more fitness stuff, he said, but that research was about creating weapons,

overall of mass destruction. this is something that must go, has been warning about 6 years now, and in fact, it's full. but one of the main reasons that one of russia's top generals was assassinated at the end of last year was precisely because he was at the forefront of exposing this us government sponsored abuse of dangerous pathogens. which if nice, could re total, how the con the world. yeah. can you give us some more background here to us a id. it's an agency agency that really is no stranger to controversy. no, i mean it is a for an age, but he must, it's functions and over a $150.00 countries that's going to punch it of $9050000000000.00. basically it hands out money for dissolves to release the fighting poverty. but also, and this is where it gets the controversial, it channels funds into civil activism. now it claims, of course there's a lot about promoting democracy. it's a empowering the people. but the issue is,

who incidentally, us a id choose is to empower people in nations. what government policies don't align with american interests and co, incidentally, why us cash flows very often most protests and sometimes even crews take place. now the most obvious example of this, it's, you praise us a id, it had been active that's over 2 decades, and it was really culminated in the 2014 my don crew. this was admitted by r s. k junior. the nephew of the very man who actually found at the agency j f k, the usa id, which is the i a front point $5000000000.00 in the funding. those riots, those riots lead to the a to a could a talk against the 1st elect, the democratically elected of the ukraine

a most before that comment is over on victoria new and was, you know, the part of the center piece of the, in the economy. audiology and who is now a high level official and the state department has a secret call with the us and passenger, which is tape record and is now public, which anybody can go and look up where she is picking the new cabinets, the u. k. but ukraine, it really is just the tip of the iceberg. a host of global need does have accused usa idea of really pushing for that. a doubtful. i mean, just to highlight reel by the us and the 2020 mass protest us sponsoring of position groups incentives, way not. it was actually picks out of bolivia by as president morales off the he on carpet. they had been funding set protest groups and some of the nations which just regions lots of listing. but let's not forget, it was also in past song and syria. and i'm actually when the agency is very notorious head samantha power has visited a budapest, hungary,

the suppose is your pin nation, which does not tow the line. we know one issues like l g, b, t or you prayed for to just a rock did thing a kind of resolution incoming last but not least, we had to, which is american tax payers. money cannot be used to organize a revolution in georgia. do you remember the canvas training when representatives of the cultural spear were trained to organize a revolution in georgia? the u. s. a. i d. money was used specifically for this. the trump administration stated that american funding, american tax payer money was being used to destabilize the situation in other countries and to create revolutionary scenarios. so i mean, we can see a time on, again, why usa i t pops up very close behind, very often as in stability and often violence begging. of course, the question, what point this, coincidence become a pattern?

and at what point does a captain become a strategy? yeah, so you mentioned the strategy strategy requires money. what, what are the numbers we're talking about here? let's put it this way. what i'm that i'm going to put in your head. don't put triplet times it by tap. okay. us a id is one of washington's most well funded offices. usaid by laser, $50000000000.00 budget. the entirety of the intelligence community is only 72000000000. so it is as more than the c i a in more than the state department. wow . and 8 is basically as usaid is effectively a switch player to, to assist the pentagon with, with it on the national security front to assist the state department on the national interest front. or to assist the intelligence community on a, on a sort of clandestine operations. now people might accuse me of cynicism, they say love's usa idea, it's just charitable, but we also need to be realistic. the world of great power politics is not one of

selflessness. it is a game of the new frame of looking for weak spot. so investing and then guaranteeing a return on your investment us a id is a norm, as budget is a reflection, possibly the greatest reflection of the sun for roll, but it has played in manifesting some of the white house is great to streams of shape. picking the wild as best suits washington's interest. it isn't on that's scott from you as an office and spreads one around the world. so you top of tom and the power of the for office diminishes. that is why this is such a big story and that is why walks and regime change and fuse yes. in dc up it all. yeah, a lot of outrage there this morning. so i skipped taylor. thank you for the suspension of, for an a to buy the trump white house has riled officials and key of farmers unless he is demanding even more money. however, when asked by american journalists where all the cash dished out during the,

by the presidency has gone, the printing later claimed he hasn't actually seen most of the reported amount. a chuckle, it's julia, i hear i'd have heard before. would you mind today we hear from the us on that america gave ukraine hundreds of billions, allow a 177000000000 to be precise. this was the exact figure that was supported or voted on by congress in various organizations, not look as the president of a war in country. i tell you, so we have received more than 75. that is, we never received 100000000000 out of these ones and 77 for them, or even 200 and some people say, this is important to get the, i don't know where will that money is? it may be true on paper, it may be hundreds of different programs that maybe we don't talk to you or are we are very grateful forever, things of what as president we received. i'm noting this down of a 70000000000 dent, 76 or something like that. yeah, and it's of great help, but it's not 200. let's be honest. it's, it's not 200000000000. my colleague charlotte defense k discussed this with artic

contributor tar read, who says ukraine has been plunged into corruption and zalinski is trying to grab as much money as it can before he eventually leaves. and they've also, you know, um, arrested a few of ukrainian people who were actually embezzling some of the money. that was god. so you just got a $100000000000.00. that's a lot of money. now. some of the money was actual weapons. so they were given the weapons, even those weapons were gone and we've done stories about talking about how, where are those weapons they didn't make it to you crank then they to find out they were sold on the black market and some ended up in europe. so you have a nest of corruption right now, and of course you have zelinski at the top of it. now he knows there's a new sheriff in town. donald trump. and so donald trump's going to be asking some questions about where is that $100000000000.00? and that's going to be an interesting when we get those answers. so is it money

laundered back to some americans? is it among some of the, um, with zalinski and some of his, you know, cronies spent a bottomless pit from the start. and i think that, you know, the way it's been handled, the lack of transparency. and then of course you have on the us side, it's lack of transparency menu of the pentagon, flunking an audit for the 8th time before donald trump came in. so now you have a freeze on the for an aide. he said no more money is going to ukraine, i think is a list. he's accepted that faith for now. i think he's trying to back pedal are trying to shift the blame because, you know, he has been responsible. obviously there's been a lot of corruption there and he has a few villas to show for it doesn't a apparently, so i'm no worries. big business. a lot of the money goes into manufacturing the weapon. so some would say perhaps the money is going directly to us companies who do that, who's definitely be making a killing from this world for the last few years. do you think they're all specific

people outside of those you've already said who are actually benefiting from this us cache? that apparently doesn't get to you quite. i mean, absolutely. you're looking at some of the weapons manufacturers that have, have benefited. i mean, some of their profit showed up, they think it was in 2023. 1 of them showed a profit of like, uh, a trillion dollars since the beginning of all these conflicts. so yes, there is money there. so you're talking about defense contractors. you're talking about n g o's that were funded, you know, that were fueled by the democrats. you're talking about, you know, politicians that personally benefit lindsey graham. many of them sit on the boards of some of these weapons when you've manufacturer. so they personally benefits. they also make trades and the ones that are public, so you're talking a lot of money that's changing hands. and then also there's been money that's gone over to ukraine, that has disappeared and gone into pockets and shown up in the form of like

lamborghini is with some of these ukrainian oligarchy. you have an illegitimate president and ukraine. there's been no elections held. he's obviously, you know, as a tucker, carlson referred to him a little dictator. and so for him, he just wants to get as much money as he possibly can before he has to disappear while a massive ukrainian drone, a salt targeted russia, southern vulgar abroad region overnight. but officials, the air defenses were able to intercept the waves. there were several explosions across the range and the local governor says, no casualties have been reported added the attack did cause a fire and an oil refinery, which has since been localized. this all came is the region mark the 82nd anniversary of victory over the nazis in the battle of stalingrad, the old name from boulder, broad, the decisive for soviet trying their mind,

a turning point in the world war 2. meanwhile, russia is demanding action from the international community over the bombing of a boarding school in a town occupied by ukraine in russia's 1st region on saturday. moscow is called the stripe, a war crime that cannot be ignored of the destruction of a civilian facility. but the most vulnerable people will like hated, is a crime. death cannot be forgiven or forgotten. i appeal to the un high commissioner for human rights, the chairman of the one human rights committee, the director of the office for democratic institutions and human rights of the o. s. c, the secretary general of the console appearance and the counsel of your commissioner for human rights. but it's a moment to condemn the crime against humanity committed by the key of regime. if human rights and most of them to face for you, then you have no right to remain silent. the strike happened on such as a lights on such as a and the key of jumped very quickly to blame russia for carrying out that strike

given well the town of suits, rays still occupied by the ukrainians. this is something that would have been very logical, but according to the russians, they have vehemently denied those claims. the russian defense ministry has essentially said that none of the russian military jets flew within the time window when that strike was carried out. and in fact, they said that they detected the launch of the ukrainian high mas massages from the ukrainian sumi region. and the very thing to understand about the boarding school and not only is it believed to have been a shelter for the civilians. and it's not like they voluntarily went to, to take cover, but rather they will round it up and sent that by the occupying ukrainian force to . but what's also crucial here is that, that body school, it's not the 1st time they did images in the public domain. in fact, last year,

russia mentioned and talked about that particular boarding school on the u. n. stage. when the rush is permanent representative to the un by ceiling, you've been just accused key of over turning the boarding school into quote unquote a concentration camp full severely instead the ukrainians created that in that town over. so jeff and the so that facility that was well known for the russians and it's unclear as to what military purpose they would pursue by bombing that, by bombing that boating school. at the same time, the russians are saying for the ukrainians to carry out a strike that would make a lot of sense to try and to divert attention from a will rod. the rubric revelation made by the russian troops in the town right next to the suits are abolition. what the russian defense ministry had to say. on february, 1st, the craning armed forces committed another work crime. launching

a targeted missile attack on a boarding school in the city of subject. this provocation is aimed a distracting world public opinion from the atrocities of the key regime, which were committed in the village of bruce. great permission to an occurs region . a go just what exactly is the russian ministry defense referring to this specifically? well, they're talking about a discovery again made by the russian troops in this such a mentor, bruce, good. but each of the russians have liberated as recently as they keep creeping towards sewage and the battle for that town is about to begin. uh, well, probably in the upcoming month. uh, all right. or even sooner, but basically and go to script. but each now, as the russian soldiers were image the, the stranded clean up alteration is founded, clean up work when they were going basically basement to basement. and folks holds and folks hold trying to see there are any ukrainian troops who might be the skies,

the civilians who and i'd be still hold up the as they did not have the time or the opportunity to safely flee and retrieve. that's what was there for since, as uh, the ukrainian guys and was kicked out of it was good, but each now i'm doing one of the basements in one of the basements. they discovered the russians discovered something that, while they truly did not expect to go viewer discretion here is advised and well, what do you have that is a bunch of civilian bodies. and you can see that they weren't just random and just i'm lucky to be in the way of a sure every piece of crap. no. from a one of the more to shells. no, they were tied up and before they were executed in cold blood, they were tortured. they were shows in the legs. so i truly resembles a torture and execution style of i didn't know mexican cartels, probably very in so much for that brutality except this was something that the ukrainians did. and what rush, it gives us the ukrainians of doing throughout several months that they have been

in control of the town of the village of those good. but each now and in fact the russians, they managed to capture the, as the, as the round it up those ukrainians who surrendered, who again failed to fleet, one of them a later confess to carrying out those will crimes, to commencing those will crimes. and actually georgia and the mother and executions was not the only atrocity according to him that he and his comm rates committed. it's so that he raped the girl with particular cruelty. then i made her niel and then shot her. we went to another house, there were 2 men and one woman. we cut the veins on one of the men's hands. we decided to mock him just like that. then we killed them both. after that, i raped the woman. what made her niel and shuddered. the russians, they have been calling on the west to pay attention to this and to please try and call for an independent pro,

but as to what happened in their own script. but each now through the western countries both pulled politicians and john, unless they have been very vocal. whenever key of accused rochelle, of anything like that. for instance, back in 2022. when, as the rushes, the russians pulled out until the key region, and the great news accused the russians of uh, committing rule crimes and executing civilians in the town of butcher back, then they would no stops on the train of condemnation and outrage of what was the west and officials and journalists accused russia of committing these will crimes even don't. up until this day, the ukrainian still have a fail to provide as much as a list of names of those civilians that have been executed. and this is something that zalinski has faced uncomfortable questions over this from, even from the european allies. now the russians, well, uh they probably add them and to continue this with,

they will probably continue to cool and try to get at least something out of ukraine's allies as to what's happened as to what russia has discovered, introduced kit, but each now and it is it does not look promising from the humanitarian stand point, as russia still as a subject to liberate and it is known that uh plenty of civilians, dozens of civilians failed to evacuate to russia. and essentially they have been living under the ukraine, you know, to patient the 22 people have died and 3 others were injured in an explosion that hit and a lead to residential complex in the russian capital. one of those killed was the head of a volunteer battalion fighting in ukraine. he has been on caps, notorious online, at kill list mirror torres since 2015. a criminal case for attempted murder has been opened are 2 so my as far as the details. so this explosion occurred that the

scarlet sales residential complex, the northwestern moscow on monday morning, preliminary data indicates that the explosive was designated remotely. there's also reports coming in stating that he might have been brought in by a delivery person to the complex. now this explosion occurred as people walking in the hallway towards the exit. people have been injured, some of which are in intensive care. now reports playing the ottoman sucks. yeah. might have been the primary target in this explosion. he was the head of the, the nest people's republics boxing federation. and he was also the founder of a volunteer battalion and the special military operation. the surgeon happened a while. he was walking down the hallway with his security detail. operational services are also saying that this was carefully planned and ordered and the power

of the device was up to one kilogram in t and t equivalent. the is ready. prime minister has arrived in washington for his 1st meeting with newly inaugurated president trump on tuesday. our team middle east bureau chief, maria from ocean that takes us through what's at stake is really prime minister is in washington dc, taking on a high stakes visit his the 1st for later to be to face to face with newly elected president. donald trump, along side top us officials and team members of congress. and this isn't just a visit as somebody who has a full teams time at the white house more than any other for later in history and the time. and it's crucial, a ticking clock hangs over guys on the right job as far as deal just over 2 weeks old. now expires, march. first. the next round of talks to shape the 2nd phase. well, deadline arrives on monday, but right now we hear that's no clear plan. caught her the key immediate during the

negotiations between israel and her mouth set on sunday that there are still no clear details on how when talks will start. it seems that nothing moves until maybe talks to trump and they see these 4 very differently. trump has made histones loud and clear a long time ago. he won space war 2, and according to the latest figures from gases, communications ministry, over 61000 people have been killed and 15 months old, from a fighting and from one to 2. and also donald trump wants all the hostages back home, off the full rounds of exchanges between israel and from us, 79, now roommate and continued to at least set you full of them, confirmed that by either by the idea. but an engineer who is under tremendous pressure had tone from his father rides, coalition primarily finance minister, smotts ridge, who threatened to leave the government and bring political cares if the war doesn't restore it after the initial phase of the seas far. so what happens in this mixing

between b, b and trunk metters big time, but gala isn't the only flash point before boarding who's lied to us and to the apple hinted at. redrawing the map of the middle list. and these words come when is really forces are pending operations and go to pod was bank with speculation, immersion about panic, sation while the last one on idea of never fully withdrawal despite to deal with his bowl and in syria is really forces now control cost of the ceiling go on highs and decimal places, the country's defense ministers that including the strategic mile and have more. and so the timing is very crucial. the decisions we made in the war of already change the face of the middle east. our decisions and the courage of our soldiers have redrawn the map. but i believe that working closely with president trump, we can redraw it even further and for the better, i believe that we can strengthen security,

broadening the circle of these and achieve a remarkable bureau of these strew spit. i think the yeah, hold drawn gave only a vague description of his upcoming talks with these really prime minister. the discussions are in the middle east. various and sundry other are in fact earlier, trump was much more direct about his mid least plans, especially for guys on his proposal. relocating thousands and thousands of thousands to foreign countries including a japan jordan to quote clean. but how saying, both nations have already flat to rejected the idea, but from has hinted the u. s. financial age could be on the line if they don't comply. and this isn't the 1st time we've heard told flags, says trump, son in law and former top advisor who has previously expressed great interest in

gas as land seen is great potential for waterfront, real estate and gases waterfront property. it could be very valuable to if people would focus on kind of building up, you know, likelihood. so i think that it's a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but i think from israel's perspective, i would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up. but i don't think that israel has stated that they don't want people to move back there afterwards. are these serious about that now some is really asked for believe this whole relocating guys on this thing could be just a bluff and negotiate and tactic to reach a normalization agreement between saudi arabia and a's role from sees peace between tel aviv as we add as paul, to the golden age for the middle east. now trump is making his move using the momentum from gaz or seas 5 but 3. yeah, it has one major condition. no deal without a real past due. probably students stayed home from vision is different. now some

experts assume that he uses the slats clean the whole thing, multiple, the pressure or the salad. it was like in 2019 the last and these will flow to the west bank annexation only to draw faith in exchange for normalization, where the united arab emirates sound, you know, we, we uphold the same playbook well as early to talk about that. we have to wait and see all in all 4 and into the whole, the stakes couldn't be higher and it's still unclear by the way. if he'll return to israel before the next host of release on such a day for now, he remains in you asked preparing for a visit with trump scheduled for tuesday. that's good, really. we shape the region to stay with us here on our to international. i'm back with much more news and half an hour in the meantime. is that our website r t dot com for the very latest breaking news and updates by the .