the, the are some of the same priorities that, that organization has been spending money on. 47000 for a transgender opera in columbia. 32000 for a transgender comic book in peru. as the white house cracked down on usa id, we look at how the income is agency has been spending billions to so k us around the world under the guides of humanitarian health. and finally, official, the us lawns, ukraine's natural riches in exchange for ongoing supports. as the president trump announces plans for a new deal with the following up on an idea from a senior republican senator. so we're looking to do a deal with your brain where they're going to secure what we're giving them with

their wearers and other things. and it's china, his washington risk for tally. a tory tear of minutes after us levies on chinese goods come into effect as the trade dispute between the world. the top economies enters a new stage the your watching r t international. i'm rachel ruble live in moscow with a look at the top. new stories recovering from around the world's for the white house is overhauling mandatory s usa id that's known for sponsoring multiple regime change programs in other countries. since it's formation in 1961, the head of president thomas government efficiency along musket claims the grant making agency will be shut down for now, secretary of state, marco rubio has assumed control over the beleaguered organization, which he says has been failing to serve us national interest on the acting director

of usa, i. d, i've, i've delegated that authority with someone, but i stay in touch with him. and again, our goal was to go in and align our foreign aid to the national interest. there are a lot of functions of usa id that are going to continue to are going to be part of american foreign policy. but it has to be aligned with american foreign policy. the attitude, the usa idea is adopted over the years is know, we are independent of the national interest. we fund programs, irrespective of whether it's aligned or not aligned with the foreign policy. that's ridiculous. these are tax payer dollars. you look at the waste and abuse that has run through usa id over the past several years. these are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on. $1500000.00 to advance the at the d, i in serbia's workplace is $70000.00 for production of a d. i musical and ireland. $47000.00 for a transgender offer out in columbia. 32000 for a transgender comic book in peru. i don't know about you,

but as an american taxpayer, i don't want my dollars going towards this crap. and i know the american people don't either. and that's exactly what you on must, has been passed by president trump to do, to get the fraud waste and abuse out of our federal government to amend the bureau . chronic re shuffling the agencies office in washington. dc has been sealed off and staffers told it to keep out. that's after usa i these websites and the social media channels were taking down more than $600.00 employees have reportedly been locked out of the agencies computer system or to correspondence us, get taylor del, was into the mercury history of usa. i do use for and meddling behind the scenes as an old hand and the biggest play in the game, usa i, they really should have seen it coming. how often movies, decades, could they not have smelt a president shutting down here? is that the, the, the reason is that as opposed to simply because you're trying to do is do some

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 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, you can 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 when there is no apple does this, you just gotta basically get rid of the whole thing. nothing but a crop with the gang of criminals, apparently spread thing on types pass. honda and cash samantha powers a. she had a worthy goal, although it was a stupid goal. she said she was hoping to get the amount of for an a us $8.00 that and go to actual aid up to $0.30 on the dollar from $0.10 on the dollar. that's a major problem that we have this agency that that's all that goes abroad. i think

your time american workers dollar, i think now you're talking about the, the usa. i d at the a just, yes you had. right. oh us a i days always to $15000000000.00 annual budget. it's estimated only 10 to 30 percent of it actually goes on aid. so what about the rest? well, has a hit washington beloved agency employees, a lot of regime change in foods? yes. so, but a lot for our preschools and old things who's starting close to home in america's back yard. if you happen to be in cuba, in the mid to thousands, for example, maybe you attempted to sign up to the local fashion of puts up, bought surprise, surprise, as soon as i knew it wasn't no cool. it was a usa, i d, lead co, but all peroration the goal to dine gold political messages in front of the cuban. you've got some wild up, get them onto the streets on top of castro, but us,

let's make it seem close routes and panic. that will be absolutely no mention of united states government involvement. this is absolutely crucial for the long term success of the service. and to ensure the success of the mission, which is strange because that website pulls that on for lots about transparency in palo. they were running another project on the car, been island. this one off line documents and interviews make clear that the program was aimed at recruiting a younger generation of opponents to cuba. us castro government documents prepared for the us a id sponsored program called the h. i the workshop, the perfect excuse to conduct political activity. yes, usa, i do think the offering health services to slip around a scale down some potential spies, fingers crossed and store them out on the inside, just like they installed quite, quite low over in practice. you know, the,

the mine who was briefly considered venezuela's president by everyone about the venezuelans themselves. a $120000000.00, well spent. in addition, usa id has committed $128000000.00 to support the venezuelan human rights defenders civil society organizations, independent media and elect oral oversight. when the material regime is gone, the funding will support the recovery efforts led by a democratically elected venezuelan administration. well, last few 1000000 on a few months of spontaneous protests, maita nicholas madura was still. busy in office, so the d. c leads to the day the grants. but the person that you recognize as the leader of democratic leader in minnesota is not here. what do you think about themselves?

one way though, here by home. one way though, the, the answering precedent, the venezuela, that you recognize quite a bit farther south usa, our day was also called red handed supporting set protests and blyth is east region . i'm sure it's a coincidence, but some to cruise is very, very results rich. all the highlights and sold to job better us because it's don syria, the solomon islands, and the recipients of generous usa i. d. gifts. and then woke, spied financing and dependency with governments laughed too badly, clinging on to power. but hey, maybe that's just a coincidence. then that was you crate usa id, which is the 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 month before that comment is over on victoria new and was, you know, the part of the center piece of the economy audiology and who is now a high level official and the state department has a secret call with the u as in passenger, which is tape record and is now public, which anybody can go and look up where she is picking the new cabinets the you okay, the good news here though is the agency is reading it to accounts every single time . the other one is my efforts. and this began years ago when we were trying to figure out what they were doing with our american taxpayer dollars. there were going to support humanitarian efforts and, and ukraine. so i wanted to know exactly how those dollars were being spent and not really a reasonable request. yes. oh my gosh,

and i share this with you earlier alon um, just privately, but we got all kinds of threats from usa id because i was trying to exercise my oversight capacity in congress. um, so this, this is shocking. i mean, is it? oh, how i mean obviously it's, it's outrages that it a tax payer funded organization which threaten us senator, who's simply trying to figure out if merican tax per money is being spent correctly and, and not fraudulently. yes. but for one thing on rest and topping need is, isn't usa. our days only bred them off to kind of resume phrasal star named for 90 days, has left 90 percent of ukrainian media at risk of gutting dog. because yes, the agency is big on sponsoring independent journalism. and the child is proud to

solve the o. c. c op a. not unless investigative organization responding 6 continents with a team, but just one of the whole power in check. except interestingly, you don't get many times into us corruption because that wouldn't be causing off the hand that feeds that somehow that sometimes gives it a split pull to that end up bringing about real change. you know, i think as donors have realized, this is really important. this is having impact. we've probably been responsible for about 5 or 6 countries changing over from one government to another government . you know, because and getting, you know, of, and people, you know, prime ministers indicted or thrown out. that's the most important investigative reporting organization you've never heard of. so as las hand tightens it squared

from the, from a to this self appointed going to him of freedom and justice. how i want to act that every now democracy can finally freeze free. emmy award winning investigative journalist spends one says the documented on accountability of usa i. d, 's global operations should have been called into question much sooner. this is an organization that has operated in the shadows when it's supposed to be an organization that's operating on full transparency. and so like, we know that it's not. and for years, if not decades, there are been american journalists and american citizens who have struggled to get answers as to what the usb id really does. what is this mission around the world? why does it have such a massive budget and why is there no accountability for what it does around the world? and we heard sen, julie bonds there who was specifically talking about this issue and said, when she has tried in her congressional oversight authority to get an answer from

us, a id, she was threatened by the organization out there. you ask us questions congresswoman out there you ask questions of this organization? we should do whatever we want. sen. let's just delve into one of the big recipients for a moment. ukraine, because lot of yours. lensky says he doesn't know. we're around a $100000000000.00 of us money at when. where did it go? i'm sure american taxpayers would like to know. we have been in the process of this ukraine war now almost 3 years. and all this time zalinski hasn't questioned where the money is. because he knows that the united states has dedicated almost $300000000.00 to him. there's almost 300000000000 us back here. dollars into your cause and only now in the last week, did you come out and say, no, no, i just realized something. we didn't get the money. where did it go out? it was, it was, he hasn't said anything until this moment,

but he doesn't know where the money is. because the truth is, he knows exactly what you crate has been. i tried to answer the money laundering scheme, and those are as reporters who have covered it for the last 3 years, who will actually told the truth about what's happening, your brain. i've been trying to tell the world that this is what's going on. it's a huge money laundering. steam. the weapons aren't going to ukraine. they're going all over the world, including to middle eastern and african countries. these stabilize governments there. we know the money is not going there. is going to defense contractors is going to companies like black rock that are now going to rebuild ukraine in their own image. that's what's really happening right now. the president from business is business and he wants to crane the hand over its natural riches to the us and exchange for continued support under a lucrative new deal with going the ukraine. they have very valuable, rarer, and we won what we put up to go in terms of the guarantee we want to guarantee one

. we're handing a money hand over fist. we're giving them equipment. so we're looking to do a deal with your brain where they're going to secure what we're giving them with a rare are as and other things. right, we can bring in our to correspond that you guys down of to discuss this further eagle or explain to us why donald trump is pushing hard for these rare ukrainian resources now. well, rachel, the message from donald trump is quite clear. nothing in this world comes free and he's being very upfront and honest about us is unlike many politicians. but basically donald trump is saying that, well, if you have once that stream of support of a to keep flowing from the united states to ukraine, then well keep that a chip in. and since the ukranian in this economy does not have good old hard cash to offer, then well, the united states and donald trump,

they seem to be good and ready to bought, or ukraine's rare minerals and exchange for full. well, you, for america's a military machines from america's weapons and american age. and it is not the 1st time, but this idea is floated zalinski was offered a similar plan by the, by the end of the to just sign that deal. now it could be because you wanted to guarantee that that deal is not notified when trump comes in office and inevitably. but it also could be because, well, it would put the ukrainian army in a rather peculiar position when, if they would realize if they want a new bradley instead of the one that the russian, if pv drone just blew up uh, on the front lines. if they want to move those m a m sixteens, if they want more of those, um, or, you know, traveling missile launcher complex systems. if they want anti tank missiles been,

well they better have fights and they fight for the resources. they fight for the rights and for the ability to fight to be able to wage this war. and it is entirely dependent on how much resources ukraine has under, excuse me, ukraine has under its control. so there you have it. essentially, every mobilized every mobiles ukrainian, every fights on the front lines. they won't be fighting for any, for, for the big was of course they will be sold and they will sold on the ideal fighting for the independence for democracy. but in reality, it would all boil down to, to just cash to just to just resources and against the landscape. he wasn't really opposed to the idea there sitting on korean dollars worth of minerals are to be good. our economy, they're sitting on $10.00 to $12000.00 of critical minerals and, and you train, i don't want to give that money and those assets to put into a share with china. now that 10 to 12 trillion of resources of

minerals might be in uh, a bit of in the overestimation to, by uh, by the, by lindsey graham over there. because, well, most of those rare, uh, minerals uh, either in the guns or in the den that's region of russia, which russia considers its own tattoo roster, has proclaimed to the world that it says now so well do to get their hands on those pools of minerals the well ukraine would have to, would have to actually advance, we would have, would have to actually be launch and expensive. but oh, well it's so far it doesn't look like they have the capabilities and even just the, with just the manpower, even with all the support that the united states can give them, in terms of the weapons and the military machines. under, indeed, the nonprofit, their own region of ukraine does share vast pools of minerals, but that's the only region out of money. so again, i also another thing of the ukrainian, these ukranian uh will pools. they are very much on the developed and they need

massive investments just to get the operation up and going. and again, that would be on the shoulders of the united states to provide those investments. and given that again, these mining operations, they often come up with them. so we're woodland fees, a, it's a dangerous, it's, it's, it's a dangerous operation. and we see how well, how careful, how careful and how attentive to those matches of the united states and the europeans for that matter are in africa for instance. so again, the united states, the will have to cut corners and cut to just to cut the losses to cut their investments to make this project to can normally viable. and you. so again, the prospect's of this is rod, the unclear but indeed ukraine does. she have bossed resources and especially the don't boss here like lithium, for instance, which is in your phone and your batteries pretty much and it sits in your tesla.

it's pretty much in every thing you own that has a bad for you. so it's understandable. but why the united states wants access to that? because of the rule, it is better than nothing given all the money and it will be support that the united states have already taken out of that tax pay as poking to send to ukraine. all right, are to use ego stand. i'll see gar. thank you. so china has slapped back at washington with retaliatory tariffs within minutes of us levies on chinese products coming into effect. the aging brand of the us move a threat to global markets in order to defend its legitimate rights and interest. china has sued the us taxation measures to the world trade organization, dispute settlement mechanism. the united states has imposed tariffs on chinese in ports, which is a serious violation of w t o. rules and has a bad nature. it is a typical unilateralists and trade protectionist approach which seriously harms the

rules based multilateral trading system. destroys the foundation of economic and trade cooperation between china and the united states and, disturbs the stability of the global industrial chain as well. the new terrorist included sweeping restrictions on a number of rare metal exports crucial to defense, clean energy and other industries. china also promised to implement additional duties on energy, agriculture, and large engine vehicles imported from the us. the tit for tat move response to the trumpet. ministration is 10 percent across the board lobby on chinese imports. in march the new stage and the longstanding trade dispute between the world's top economies with the brisk exchange of sanctions. china has also announced a range of measures targeting us businesses including google. all right, we can cross out to nelson. wong, vice chairman of the shanghai center for rim pac nelson. good to have you on the program with us. um, of course we know that during his campaign, um,

trump promised that he would continue this trade war on a china, which he started in his 1st term. so these tariffs on china are really no surprise, but i'm wondering what will be the impact on the general public, especially now that china has kept back with its own terrace up. well, i think we, uh, it's fair to say that the chinese government has the wrong to become more careful and diligent 12 dealing with relations with the u. s. and we have to accept the fact that the thing is donald trump is now returning back to the white house. the new administration in the u. s. is becoming more of a protectionist government, and it's a, i would call it a return to programmatic. so what does that mean to the trade relations between our 2 countries? i think the chinese government is, has already announced a, you know,

retaliation measures. but i would rather call that as a response, more of a gesture up towards the unilateral measures like us as adopted, you know, 10 percent across the board on chinese imports. so what, but if you look at exactly what china has made the items that china has named to levy attacks like coal, oil, agricultural machinery, l, n, g. the import of trying to of these items from the u. s. is quite a significant. so that i quoted more of a gesture because there are so many things that china and the us need to poke about when it comes to solving our trade disputes. yes, there is a huge cage surplus of china over the us,

but it cannot be solved by the imposing sanctions. this is not the right way to do it, but things uh, president, trump is not resolved to take sanction as a priority. let's you know, face it does not believe the chinese government is quite a few and in that respect and the we're also expecting a donald trump, to visit china, to visit the beijing in the near future. so it's more of a, a wait and see attitude on the part of the chinese government, i believe so, nelson talk to us about this and t monopoly investigation into google that china has announced, i remember from when i lived in china, which was a few years ago now google was actually blocked there. talk to us about these plans is, is this related to the latest, the tariffs well, i think there are so many cards chinese government can play when it comes to

dealing with the us at the moment. and the google thing got nations it's, it's basically one of the cards. uh, the fact that i'm to today google is do blocked in china. my personal take is that it has a lot to do with where the data is going to get stored up. if all the data is get that going to be, you know, stored outside of try and then it's against the chinese law and the chinese government wouldn't allow that at. so i think it's more of a national security issue rather than anything else. china has restricted exports to the us, so some crucial metals and energy resources. how much leverage do you think that step will give china in upcoming talks between trump and she as well? the, the, the restriction,

all the export of i read many rules and read us. i believe these are quite crucial material role material for the us military. the complex industry is actually and, and also for the high tech industry as well. trying to announce that a while ago in retaliation was the us government's continued support and the selling of arms and military related stuff to tie one that's a different meta actually. and, and what about panama? that's been in terms crosshairs as well. he claims it's failing under chinese authority and once the us back in charge. now, panama has announced its withdrawal from projects related to china is built in rhode initiative. we think that's a sign that trump tactics are working. and what does this all mean for bathing to

or think the new us secretary of state the, his recent visit to panama has suddenly put a lot of pressure on the panama government. and this is, uh, you know, one of the, the, the gestures that the pad of me is government has decided to take, i mean, to, to, to give a response to the pressures to back out of the, the, about from road initiative. but it is absolutely against the interest of the pet them or government because under the belt from the road initiative, the agreement between china and palamedes government, the china is funding on a lot of projects infrastructure projects. so i, well, what they have announced is that they're not going to renew it at all possible a to early terminate. it's agreement on trying that we haven't seeing any immediate response from the chinese government on this particular issue. but i believe pops

will have to be held between our 2 countries to tackle this issue with, along with this uh, a recent visit of the secretary roby over to the secretary of state romeo to panama. uh, the, the management of the ports in panama have also be made up. these ports are being managed by contract. it's actually the, by the hutch is a won't pull the group out of phone call. so if that's going to be a, put all the issue. i think it's not going to be something easy for both size because 1st of all, it's not a chinese state of the company. it's a private company out of hong kong, and it's owned by a, you know, the richards,

demanding on call, the caution and the trunk. home group a, this is a, you know, a 20 a management contract and that has nothing to do with the management of the canal, which is actually in the hands of the panama government. so it's a standalone project of full management. so there are also many issues that i think the pay them a government is now facing it in its own handling of relations ways the us. so these are the things that the panama government has picked, you know, to, uh, to use kind of an excuse or as a measure or remedy to, to, to solve it's disputes or to solve its problem. where's the us government, which has become so aggressive in taking over the canal itself. so let's see. i think it's do the early stage and what, what, what do you need to,

to watch and, you know, white, tennessee, and aside from the economic aspect, what effect do you think is from strategy having on the us is image globally. and what does this mean for a rising alliances, such as bricks and seo? the shanghai cooperation organization. what role are they like? is it likely to play or i think president trump is very much used to giving out sweats to people. uh, but uh uh, i believe by the end of the day, monday talks and he is a more pragmatic then anyone else in terms of protecting his own country's interest . he has all the rights to protect his own country's interest and so does everyone else. so i keep saying that when a donald trump says he's gonna make america great again, every country.