here's some issues and some revelations ortiz, caleb martin. the escalation of the conflict in ukraine has certainly re shuffled a lot of relationships globally. but not necessarily in the way washington wants at a time when the united states is announcing that they will punish and sanction anyone investing in russia. you have a top, saudi investor announcing that he will do just that, no shame in doing business with moscow. but when it comes to the united states, saudi arabia is diversifying its investment portfolios. it has already decreased its holding of us treasury securities by 36 percent over the last several years. meanwhile, business in the country, joe biden once said he was going to make a pariah, is going great guns, a 90 percent increase over this quarter last year, amid this flow of cash, saudi arabia has announced it has no interest in playing politics with the oil markets. when we get into the co cooking room overview of the building, as you may recall, everybody leaves his politics at the upset go to that and that country has b

that's becoming more and more clear each day. caleb martin, archie new york. ah. several wall street banks have been considering returning to trading russian bonds for those who want to sell their assets. having reportedly received a nod from washington despite the u. s. sanctions on the market. bloomberg has reported that j. p. morgan and bank of america are among the banks offering the move. the u. s. treasury department has said it would not be a violation of un sanctions for individuals to wind down their positions. bank of america has sent a note to investors saying the trades would be for those seeking to dispose of their russian holdings. the u. s. ramped up at sanctions against moscow after russia began its military campaign and ukraine in february, with many western banks withdrawing from russia and deals in the nation's assets being halted. jack ross moves and in economics and politics professor at st. mary's college in california says them move, exposes a loophole in the u. s. sanction regime. what it represents is that the sanctions are for holes a

r t is caleb martin, has more. the us centers for disease control have revealed some shocking numbers when it comes to the details of america's ongoing opioid epidemic. the number of deaths across the country reached nearly 10802021. that's an increase of 15 percent over the previous year on top of a 30 percent increase in 2020 drug overdose deaths in the united states has actually gone up and increased every year since $970.00 except for 2018 with americans dying around the clock. the public wants some accountability, this is common, the form of a new court ruling against walgreens, walmart, and cbs sports and ohio. i have rule that the firms must pay over $650000000.00 for their responsibility and distributing addictive medicines. these companies are rending the fabric of society apart. they should not only show remorse they should show, they need to rectify what they've done and they won't do it. so the judge is doing it. the judge who issued the ruling observed that in lake and trumbull county, ohio, cbs walgre

s. officials really are. caleb martin, r t. new york. karen crowd. tough sky. a retired usa, a force lieutenant colonel says the u. s. policy if about promoting democracy and more about exerting global influence and power protection. i think that hypocrisy does lead to a drop in trust, but i don't think there's that much trust there to begin with. i think the saudi government understands exactly what they're dealing with with the united states. i follow the money. i think the defense industry is the biggest export that the united states has even bigger than energy and even bigger than agriculture. and tunisia specifically is an example of a country that has been extremely useful to the united states, certainly as a recipient of military hardware. america's role in the world to, to control things to interfere with countries that are doing what we tell them to do. this is where fundamental power is exercised politically in this country. and so they're not about democracy. they are about influence, arm sales, and having allies that will obey. well, that brings us

producer, even trying to push beijing out of its position as a global high tech market leader art is caleb martin has a story. the endo pacific region is finally starting to simmer down in the aftermath of the heated tensions caused by nancy pelosi provocation. and as the smoke clears, we are now getting some clarity on what motivated the entire debacle. the taiwan strait is the main route, connecting the east china sea and the south china sea. therefore, the peace and stability of the strait is critical to the stability of the global high tech product supply chain. brand lation microchips that's taiwanda specialty. the island produces 65 percent of the world. semiconductors and 90 percent of the world's advance ships, a pretty big chunk of the global market for a vital commodity. pretty much everything we, you airplanes, medical equipment, i phones, refrigerators, these ships are everywhere. no coincidence that nancy pelosi took time to sit down with the chairman of t. s. m. c, the world's largest chip maker. while she was on her visit to the island of taiwan monday, another american delegation

escalating as much as possible, even if it means the possibility of war between 2 nuclear armed powers. caleb martin artsy, new york. i for more, we're in a cross live to michael rather than walden author and professor at new york university. so nancy pelosi is recent trip to taiwan, almost lead to a military stand off. and now there's yet another us visit that's increasing tensions. is it a fair price to pay for a leading position in the world's micro chip industry? this is a really high price to pay for that, and it's very much not guaranteed in any case that the us will gain ascendancy. and the chip market which taiwan dominates can, which they're trying to keep china from, from ascending in. so this was a very high price to pay and, and there the disruptions could be substantial. china, of course, stopped export in sand and taiwan. but as it turns out, that sand is not necessary for the chip production because it's not high grade. and nevertheless, these kind of gestures are showing what china's willing to do to retaliate at least rhetorically. and otherwise, what we're seeing here is us attempt

prosecution of mr. trump would be a necessary 1st step towards fixing americas problems our teeth. caleb martin, takes out the story when you have more than 40 percent of the u. s. public saying that they believe a civil war is coming within the next decade. that's a pretty big deal. now when people explain this, they don't really explain where these beliefs are coming from. a major factor might be that the democrat run whitehouse is labeling the g o p and branding millions of their followers as fascists. i was very clear when lane out and defining what make america great again, republicans have done. and you look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they are doing in attack in our democracy. that is well that is, it is very clear over the history book, the word fascism brings back memories of world war 2. it's quite an extreme label, but the democrats are not shying away from it. joe biden and his allies seem hel band on pinning this on. republicans. what we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme maga. philosophy is not just trump is the entire

that's becoming more and more clear each day. caleb martin r t new york. ah. several wall street banks are considering returning to trading russian bonds. having reportedly received a nod from washington, that's the spite continuing us sanctions on the market. the u. s. treasury has said it wouldn't be a violation of sanctions if investors wind down their positions with the bank of america, reportedly one of 2 banks behind the move, notifying investors that trades would allow the disposal of russian holdings, jack rasmus, and economics and politics professor at st. mary's college in california says the move expose is a loophole in the us sanctions. what it represents is that the sanctions are for holes and oftentimes even been u. s. government as a lift them temporarily perhaps, but the alleged lifts them, not just gas, natural gas and oil in europe, but they be surprised how much of the industrial commodities have have exemptions, especially for american corporations who need nickel and some of the other key resource is so the, the sandwiches are pretty m

prophet mohammed has been stopped in the neck in new york state in front of dozens of people. ortiz. caleb martin can tell us more about the incident according to eye witness accounts when salma rushdie was going to give a presentation in chautauqua, new york was being introduced as he was being introduced that attack around the stage punching and stabbing the introducer suffered a serious blow to the head and rushed de was stab, you received a neck injury and he felt the floor. he received medical treatment on the stage. he was able to walk away from the stage and he was rushed by helicopter to a hospital where he is now receiving treatment. so the audience was a little bit of shock. the, the presenter, the person introduced him with also injured. it was quite a serious moment now, as has been noted, some on rusty is certainly a controversial figure in 1988 published a novel called the satanic verses which infuriated muslims around the world because of the way it depicted the prophet mohammed at mock religion, et cetera. there was a thought was issued against solomon rusty by the supreme leader

us made weapons certainly are makes you wonder what the priorities of us officials really are. caleb martin, r t new york. kevin feel tough ski over time. he was a force for tenant colonel, says us policy is mission less about promoting democracy and more about exerting global influence and power protection. i think the hypocrisy does lead to a drop in trust, but i don't think there's that much trust there to begin with. i think the saudi government understands exactly what they're dealing with with the united states. i follow the money. i think the defense industry is the biggest export that the united states has even bigger than energy and even bigger than agriculture. and tunisia specifically is an example of a country that has been extremely useful to the united states, certainly as a recipient of military hardware. america's role in the world to, to control things to interfere with countries that are doing what we tell them to do. this is where fundamental power is exercised politically in this country. and so they've been on about democracy. they are about influence armed sales and ha

of public record that the united states has been spreading this information across the world. caleb martin artsy, new york let's cross now live to danielle lazar journalist and author. so now there's this probe into these accounts. what do you expect to come out of this investigation? i expect the investigation to not go very far. i'm sure the u. s. government will do what i can to bring pressure to bear on, on, on facebook matter, whatever. to see that this is, this is short circuited and the investigation does not go because i penetrate very deeply into the u. s. agencies that are responsible america. busy control of the flow of information, it is the term and to use the flow of information to advance american foreign policy priorities. and so therefore, i expect that that facebook will fall into line pretty quick pretty quickly. yeah, it's normal for america to rush and point the finger at russia. why do you think it's not happening this time? what is the difference this time around? no, i think i think it's a tribute to the, to the integrity of, of facebook that they are willing to be

what dissident voices get silenced. caleb martin r. c. new york. economic cooperation between turkey and russia has strengthened in recent months, much to western officials, dismay at the time when the european community is scaling down its ties with russia in response to its aggression against ukraine. it is not really appropriate to increase links or engagement with moscow. according to the turkish statistical institute, the country is exposed to russia group and 46 percent of the last 3 months compared with the same period last year. and the value increased by 75 percent for last month alone, come off the anchor, allow turkish companies to step into the gap created by an exodus of western businesses from russia. but turkey is not the only country that has increased is economic ties with russia. a midwestern sanctions, the international north south transport tornado has facilitate the high volume of trade between india and russia by iran, over the last 3 months. well, data from beijing is general administration of customs shows that chi

r t is caleb martin, brings us the details is always supposed to be those evil conspiring russians who are spreading fake news with their box and their troll farms, making us distrust our oh, so benevolent western leaders and are great democratic western institutions. but it looks like some shady internet activities had just been uncovered and they're coming from the united states. how joint investigation found an interconnected web of accounts that used a septic tactics to promote pro western narratives in the middle east and central asia. these campaigns consistently advanced narratives promoting the interests of the united states and its allies, while opposing countries including russia, china under room. we believe this activity represents the most extensive case of covert pro western influence operations on social media to be reviewed and analyzed to date. so fake news from the u. s. state department bashing, russia, china and the iran stanford university. and graphic i issued the report and meta, the parent company of facebook and instagram provided the necessary data to promote

us made weapons certainly are makes you wonder what the priorities of us officials really are. caleb martin, r t new york. well, that brings us to the end of this bulletin for more stories and breaking news to our website at i c dot com. i'll be back to the top of the hour with more updates until then take the ah. the news ah, not another while you while div easy while furnace us. ah. yeah. do you have one slide? yes. south. yeah. thrash a south with a new dock garza for years now which thumbs up for me at that a bullet by peter is emma? yeah. the little girl from shelby. she's kim's room. she thought seriously the why fi ella? a bill? yes, my thought or change in the again, deal with fortune pretty up my. be a lot about it. more than just financial. ah, hulu! [000:00:00;00] with hello and welcome to cross thought were all things are considered i'm peter a level.

to restore the damage to communities across what was once the prosperous american heart land, caleb martin, r t new york international recovery advocate, robert g cantor claims the government is doing a lot to fight the opioid epidemic. but bureaucracy is lowing down the process. well, we have, there's 3 reasons why overdose federal government go straight. talent is in the united states, the skyrocketing and they all know fentanyl and fat, and all the fentanyl is being manufactured in china. it's being brought in and into the drug cartels and mexico. it is extremely powerful and extremely with, and it is being put into or laced into just about every other substance, whether it's heavy and whether it's cocaine, even marijuana. there was a tremendous amount that's being done in banking, 2 weeks of international, over those awareness day. we just have bent and all awareness state. there were commission that they were task force, but would you happen to stand is that the wheels of congress turn very slow and so a bill is introduced and then the bill has to be broken. committee committee will m

to restore the damage to communities across what was once the prosperous american heart land. caleb martin r t. new york. we spoke with journalists and author, robert are not who says the government's attempts to hold big pharma companies responsible. make a difference while the ceo of the washington pain center highlight the importance of both treating, recovering addicts and cutting off the drug supply from mexico. is one of the greatest medical tragedies in the us. every family has been touched, one way or another, know somebody or is had had a death in their family. and i remember when this all began, you know, the representatives, these companies come to myself as a physician and others and say, look, you can give people as much as you want, is completely safe. you really have to treat the pain. and now you have also like $70000.00 a year. so it's not a terrible, terrible tragedy because sony's or arguing people and you know, it doesn't, doesn't have to be more than your 1st time. you know, the threat of how she directed the doctors is having a huge effect. stockers are very, very rel