even in our guiding documents, the national security strategy, the national defense strategy. words should provide clear and unambiguous roadmaps for our military to develop the strategy . there are war plans that support our national policy but they are not very definitive. i assume that the authors of our national security strategy selected every word very carefully. i want to look at the words they used. specifically, one word that we will get back to in a minute. i wanted to make the presentation of little interactive. larry, i hope you are ok with that. i want to call on volunteers in the audience to answer a simple question. i don't know if i would have three or four people that might raise their hands to volunteer and answer? we have marines in the audience. you cannot be that timid. i have one volunteer. anyone else on the left-hand side wanting to volunteer? there is not a violet -- a wrong answer or letter grades. in one sentence can you describe our national policy in the end of pacific region? thing about it for a second. if you look at the joint doctor notes. our n

these are all people who work in a bipartisan basis for strong national defense. in will be voices of reason in our leadership in the building and or other leadership on the hill can work with to basically tamp down some of the extreme positions on the far left and far right. conferences like this can help make the case for what is required for you have some terrific speakers and panels that will provide needed insights and information for it again welcome and we look forward to many more years of supporting expeditionary warfare in our stellar exponent division and activities. it's now my privilege to introduce the 78 secretary of the navy the honorable carlos del toro for a class of 83 at the naval academy, he was commissioned as a service warfare officer. he served 22 years including command of the uss. he had a very promising continuing career in the navy and he had a family situation, he put that ahead of his naval career. this is why today he is so supportive in laser focused on supporting the marines, sailors, families that serve under him today. he brings

we do this not just because of our damages at sea, but because the national defense strategy demands it's part of an agile and responsive force and we work to realize the divisions set forth in the national defense strategy through integrated deterrents with advantages, well-trained, well-equipped expeditionly force is necessary. our ability to project forward at a time and place of our choosing is supported through the three enduring priorities that i have set in my initial guidance of the department when i took the helm in october 672021. first, maintaining our maritime dominance. our first priority is maintaining maritime dominance, we do so through the combined strength of navy and, marine corps and coast guard as well. we operate in the same environments and doe mains as our adversaries, demonstrating our ability to sustain operations ranging from competition to conflict. maintaining an expeditionary force forward requires tremendous sustainment effort for fighting. and let me speak to the importance of the industrial base. we're able to do so through the strength of our partner

security positions pretty currently serves 2022 national defense strategy commission. our objective today is to examine national security issues that this committee should consider as we prepare for the fiscal year 2024 authorization act. the biden administration national defense strategy makes clear, china is our primary contender for is the only nation with both the intent and capability to have a sustained district challenge and security interest of the united states and its allies and partners around the world. at the same time russia remains violent destabilizing force assault on ukraine has inflicted horrific suffering of innocent civilians seeking to a free and democratic society. it is threatened european stability and harm the global economy. in addition issues like iran and north korea continued to press the boundaries of brinksmanship, and issues like terrorism and climate change remain persistent. the condition of these threats is widely understood. the question is how to address them in order to mitigate the threat to national security and international st

in the context of having a sound economy and a good, strong national defense. host: in pennsylvania, they want to know if your office is tracking weapons sent to ukraine. but we can also add to that. overall, just money that congress has approved, are you tracking that? guest: yes, we are. we just received a request to do that in the consolidated appropriations act that passed in december. we had already started based on requests from some congressional committees peered we have done this in the past. we had teams in the baghdad and iraq war. we had teams in a couple. we were in afghanistan. we are already looking at that and will be tracking funding, equipment, and accountability over that by the defense department, the state department, and the humanitarian assistance that comes from the united states aid for national develop in. we will be auditing all of that in conjunction with the inspectors general for those three departments and agencies. yes, in a word. host: in the "new york times" this morning, there is an article about republicans on thing to cut sp

according to the faa, it is for the use of national defense air space. that area are told to leave in as expeditious a manner as possible for the duration of this until 2:45 p.m. local. it is right along the trajectory of the balloon from the latest sightings in north carolina and now towards the coast where it's headed between that border between north and south carolina. significant because the pentagon until now has recommended not shooting this down because of the risk to people and property below. that risk largely vanishes once this is out over the water. that's where this temporary flight restriction is. as people have been looking for this balloon, we've been tracking flight websites. a couple refuelling tankers right there, which is what fighter jets would need to use as they waited for this balloon to arrive. the faa now putting out this temporary flight restriction for a national defense effort. president joe biden said just a short time ago we'll take care of it, hinting perhaps strongly that the intent now to shoot this down as it gets over

host: when it comes to 2023, legislatively we saw something called the national defense authorization act. remind our viewers what that is. guest: every year, two bills we get for defense, one is an authorization bill, the other is an appropriations bill. ideally you want both. in the past years we have gotten both every year. the nda is a policy bill. it sets rules, policy, limits, it has reporting requirements. and it implies a certain level of funding. the ndaa this not provide funding. only an appropriations bill can provide funding. once you pass the ndaa, a lot of people say, they passed in the defense budget. not quite. you still need the appropriations bill. the appropriations bill usually come second. it doesn't have to. the appropriations bill specifies how much money the department gets and how it is going to be used. how much money goes for each and every line item in the budget. you always need an appropriations bill each year. an authorization bill is great, very important to have it. you couldn't get by without it. other parts of government will go for several years at

connected with my struggle against finding a lyovochka in the verkhovna rada's committee on national security, defensend intelligence, that's the news. lyovochkin is in the verkhovna rada's committee on national security, defense and development, so i think the representatives of the exup-psj should not be in such a committee at all in the ukrainian parliament. p. veneslavskyi, is it possible for maryana bezugloi ? well, if there is, of course, such an opportunity. well, we 're going on. i wonder how the broadcast hardware is reacting to this information. god, it's scary. now let's see. they pick up the phones and now they are starting to try to rest, respectively, the people 's deputies. this is an important story - this is the committee on national security, defense and development . i like it. yazka vadim denysenko, executive director of the ukrainian institute of the future, vadim , congratulations, glory to ukraine, i would like to start with the fact that literally at the end of autumn, approximately from the moment when putin announced that these their partial mobilizations are supposed to be o

[applause] i mentioned that we will meet our commitment to national defense. we must meet it. defense is just not another budget expands. keeping america strong, free and at peace is solely the responsibility of the federal government. it is governments prime responsibility. we have devoted five years trying to get a dangerous gap borne of delusion and we made important gains. the threat from soviet forces, conventional and strategic, from the soviet drive for domination, from the increase in espionage and state terror remains great. this is reality. closing our eyes will not make reality disappear. we pledged together to hold real growth in defense spending to the bare minimum. my budget honors that pledge. i'm not asking you, congress, to keep its end of the bargain. soviets must know that america reduces her defenses, it will be because of the reduced threat not a reduced resolve. keeping america strong is as vital to the national security as controlling federal spending is to economic security. as i said before, the most powerful focused we can and lest against the federal

roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine and secretary of the committee on national security, defense voting on the internet has started on independence of 5 regions of russia, this online vote is conducted by activists of regional and national movements who also participate in an organization called the forum of free peoples of the post of russia, they are supporters and where are of the non-violent and controlled disintegration of the russian federation, but they themselves are outside russia, what do they propose? at midnight on february 16, novosibirsk time, the so-called online referendums on the independence of five regions of russia, the urals, siberia, the kuban, and ingria, centered in st. petersburg, and konigsberg , began. the name of the city of kaliningrad, the vote on the status of these five territories was organized by organized on a single website where, in particular , the appeal of the organizing committee of the referendum, which presented arguments for independence of these regions well, for example, the authors of the text claim that the regions of the urals prov

d national defense and security council law funds. you should rules imposed sanctions against 100 ukrainians. the so called black list, the u. s. black list of those were the people that were sanctioned there. and there were a lot of well known businessman hiring can officials in that list. but also some people were missing and that list and they should have been their us treasury imposed sanctions against him by dr. unfortunately, he's not to under sanctions now and you know, what kind of person he is, you know, that he's been and a ukrainian, a prosecuted by our ukranian law enforcement. so the question is, how can you explain that to a, during the 9th year of the war and 2nd year of the full scale war people from ya, nicole, which circles still have businesses in ukraine, and it is not to sanction and a, well, what is but it just a minute. let's, let's answer. let's address this one. first of all, i'm not quite clear. ah, who you were talking about? well, every time the usaa, i gave us a list of person to sanctions to we would mirr

can't ukraine as quickly as possible under talk us to the discussions on potential changes to national defense budgets. what about that's right. everyone has, has heard the complaints about countries not spending 2 percent of their g, d, p on their own militaries. and, and, you know, most countries don't. most nato countries don't do that yet. but this, this pledge which was made in wales is expires in 2024. and so nato wants to come up with a new formula about how much country should spend on their defense in order to keep nato's capacity at its maximum level. so that's where the discussions are now, they didn't intend to make a decision today, but rather at the summit in vilnius in july. but this is a very touchy topic for, for many countries, including termini. of course, thank about her social sign process. a consortium of investigative reports a says it's exposed a group of israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world. and forces accused a group of former military officers and secret agents co named a team. jorge of using hacking, sabotage and

and so we want to take it down. >> while this is declared national defense airspace now, do you see that it will be f-22s involved? what kind of military aircraft do you see will potentially be involved and what are the risks involved? not just for people on the ground, along the coastline, but risks involved involving the military or any kind of vessels anywhere in the water? because we don't know what the debris feel, if there's going to be a debris field, how big it might be. >> right, i think you'll see a couple pair of aircraft up there. it could be f-15s, f-22s. they'll use air-to-air missile, they could. they probably won't close enough to use a gun on it. you could back that up with naval vessels offshore using one of their surface-to-air missiles. but i think in terms of keeping an eye on things and having a good grip, it's probably wiser to use aircraft. probably have a couple come in relatively close, five, ten miles. probably have another air standing off further. this is a big balloon and normally balloons like this are not as easy to bring down as you think. it's not like a

let the foreign affairs and national defense policies in this country be strong, strategic, and steady. if we are not, our sovereignty will soon erode to nothing. i appreciate the bipartisan support on this issue and in doing so, i stand in support of the sovereignty of these united states and the security of its people. i yield. >> i'm please to yield 1.5 minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, a member of the foreign affairs committee and the chairman of the subcommittee. >> thank you for yielding me time. mr. speaker, arise in support of res. 104 which rightfully condemns this violation of u.s. sovereignty by the chinese, and his party. last week, we saw the chinese commonest party reach u.s. airspace with the intention of openly surveilling sensitive u.s. national security facilities, including locations housing nuclear missiles. this is unacceptable and demonstrates again that the ccp is willing to challenge the united states and luncheons intelligence gathering operations in our country. the american people next nation as to why earlier action was not taken against this threat.

so the discussions on potential changes to national defense budgets. what about that's right. everyone has, has heard the complaints about countries not spending 2 percent of their g, d, p on their own militaries. and, and, you know, most countries don't, most nato countries don't do that yet. but this, this pledge which was made in wales is expires in 2024. and so nato wants to come up with a new formula about how much country should spend on their defense in order to keep nato's capacity at its maximum level. so that's where the discussions are now. they didn't intend to make a decision today, but rather at the summit in vilnius in july. but this is a very touchy topic for, for many countries, including termini. of course. thank about her social sign process. is a look at civil stores making headlines around the world. iran's present abraham racy, has criticized sanctions as weapons of mass destruction during the 2nd day of a rare state. is it to china that ran is thinking closer ties with beijing, which is already one of the biggest a bias of writing oil and economy has bee

predicted by the representatives of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense and the secretary of the nationalecurity council and british intelligence, all they say that the russians are preparing for an offensive, in particular in the east of ukraine, the head of the russian ministry of defense serhii shoigu said yesterday that the situation near bakhmut is developing successfully for his troops we have a video from bakhmut from a serviceman with the call sign kyivan about the operational situation in the city of on the morning of february 8th , let's hear from a kyivan about the situation in the bakhmut conglomerate and the line from soledar to bakhmut. artillery mortars tanks there are efforts to penetrate, grope for weak spots, to sneak in, er, and corro- in small groups and large units, but all these efforts are repelled with great losses for the enemy there in the afternoon, he lays down to the battalion, somewhere approximately provided by our intelligence, infantry , armored vehicles, probably not so long ago already, they are tightening their grip on aviation, they are trying to sell

i have instructed those in charge of national defense. what are the armed forces and police that we need to deploy through our territory to provide security that will at the present the get him because the state is present fighting the fire, providing security taken care of the victims and doing everything that was necessary that a victim or e that look at santa studied with the current heat wave, showing no signs of cooling off. seen fire fighters will need all the help they can get to pit out the blazes. singapore has held his annual parade, celebrating the lunar new year. some $3000.00 performance danced and sang in the event with thousands more watching the display. this year was special because the parade was held live again after a 2 year pause due to pandemic event. showcasing of course, diverse culture with performance from china, the chinese community joining ethnic malays, indians and europeans. turn off for a quick recap of our top story. this, our, the pentagon says it has detected a 2nd chinese spy balloon over latin america

her vocation is to help the state develop their national civil defense systems. know that, unfortunately, the level of development of national civil defense systems. there are systems that are less developed than others. taurus of the situation is usually divided into natural man-made natural include earthquakes caused by tremors flood tsunamis. eh, everything that is, as it were , beyond the control of a person, they occur arbitrarily, as a rule, unexpectedly and lead to terrible destruction and big soviet. only long-term protective measures aimed at preventing houses and critical infrastructure facilities can help here. uh, a modern system, as a rule, can notify about an impending threat, but the main thing is the coordinated response of all the specialized services of the state, on which the lives of millions of people depend. today , the international humanitarian project is doing a lot to create a tsunami early warning system. commercial companies from russia switzerland usa and nicaragua are involved in nicaragua with in the event of an emergency, sirens in

and we're very supportive from the national defense sovereignty and, and territorial integrity. and today, i hope we have a chance to discuss our united states and our allies are keep in constant contact group on our partners can most effectively support you and your cause. me to present ukrainian president, florida mears, to lensky voice, his gratitude to the huge moment for supporting the green. and, ah, what can i say? i really appreciate that president water america, society being from the where and when you know all this tragedy from the world, you know, this poor kid war on being together with us feels whole supportive was from winehouse to ukraine. and thank you for your leadership. thanks. bios or thanks, congress. i think that is historical moment for all, for all kinds. the 2 presidents paid tribute at the wall of remembrance to the thousands of ukrainian soldiers who have lost their lives since 2014 biden's visit comes at a crucial moment in the war as the us needs to keep allies unified in their support for ukraine. if ukraine is to fend off russian offensives in the

over all spend more of a budget and resources on the necessary aspects of as military and also national defense . but if we start to let the discussion about the political implication of these trainings and exchanges to dominate the overall dialogue and also the focus of this training, then perhaps it's going to start to create some misleading and also misconception inside the civil society. so i think it's very important for the government to try to focus the purpose of the training on what is actually going to help time one william young in type a always a pleasure talking to you. thank you so much for the context. thank you. and that's it for today on our website. can find plenty more on growing tensions involved in the us, china and taiwan. and as everywhere you can follow us on facebook and twitter, 3 to back here to more of your mind is your grid. as i said, meet the found is increasing nigerian value of human grid as a resource, as the people. and i was why i think you guys all to please give them the power to make down decisions and to courage. now, future our series found is benny. i d

i have instructed those in charge of national defense, what the armed forces and police that i wanted you to deploy through our territory to provide security and that will establish them to get him think of a status present fighting the fires, providing security taken care of the victims and doing everything matters necessarily that a victim or e that ball. okay, santa said you with the current heat wave showing no signs of cooling off soon. fire fighters will need all the help they can get to put out the blazes. in other news, singapore has held its annual parade, celebrating the lunar new year. some $3000.00 performers danced and sang in the event with thousands more. watching the display this year was special because the parade was held live again after a 2 year pause due to the pandemic. the event showcasing of course, diverse culture performers from a chinese community joining with ethnic malays, indians, and europeans. with ton for a quick recap for our top story, this, our, the pentagon says it has detected a 2nd chinese fire balloon over latin america a day after another such

overall spend more of a budget and resources on the necessary aspects of as military and also national defense. but if you know, we start to let the discussion about the political implication of these trainings and exchanges to dominate the over all dialogue and also the focus of this training, then perhaps it's going to start to create a misleading and also misconception inside a civil society. so i think it's very important for the government to try to focus the purpose of the training on what is actually going to help tie one. brigham young in taipei, always a pleasure, talking to you. thank you so much for that context and you and that's it. for today on our website, you'll find plenty more on going tensions involved in the us, china, and taiwan. and as emma you can follow us on facebook and twitter. things you beckett more of a bite with people and trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. order families, please see the reason for the credit on it is we load it. administrative people lean, extreme ross getting 200 people in around the

to trump are all grounded in the same principles, the same ideals of a strong and unwavering national defense, a commitment to the limited government described in the constitution of the united states, defense of all the liberties enshrined there, and then a commitment to protecting our liberties and our traditional values in the courts of the land. so, i really do, i really have sought to put all that into practice. in my career and i try to capture that story as a conservative journeying through years in congress and the governorship and as you're vice president in the book. mr. heubusch: one of the hallmarks of ronald reagan's success is in addition to the importance of mrs. reagan, family, he was known for surrounding himself with really talented people, jim bayer, baker, mike dever. i get the sense that you have that same talent, guys like nick ayres, mark short, kellyanne conway. you have really been able to build a world-class team. mr. pence: thank you. mark short and his wife kristen, mark is with us tonight. they were the founding director doors of the reagan ranch. so they come fro

over all spend more of a budget and resources on the necessary aspects of his military and also national defense. but if we start to let the discussion about the political implication of these trainings and exchanges to dominate the over all dialogue and also the focus of this training, then perhaps it's going to start to create some misleading and also misconception inside the civil society. so i think it's very important for the government to try to focus the purpose of the training on what is actually going to help tie one william young in type a or is a pleasure talking to you. thank you so much for the context. thank you. and that's it for today on our website. can find plenty more ongoing tensions involved in the us, china, and taiwan. and as them or you can follow us on facebook and twitter 3 to back here . tomorrow with every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some test one day and in the footsteps of the races home, i'm in your northernmost count to play with 3 times along still very much alive, dw channel, your guy to the special with recognizing where exactly

historic in versment in our national defense.illingness to allow our military to prosecute our interests and take the fight on our enemies and our terms or their soils. that changed under this administration and it is emboldened not only putin but other leaders around the world. with that said, we are in the fight. i believe we got to stay in the fight. it was 1985, state of the union address by ronald reagan which came to be known as the reagan's doctrine. we must not break faith with those breaking their lives. as the bible says there is nothing new under the sun and what is now been before. we are involved in a proxy war against the soviet union, the ukrainians are fighting it. i really believe that it is essential that we see it through and we demand our european allies do more than their share because it is their front yard. i think it is absolutely essential that after a slow start in providing support to the ukrainian military by the biden administration, we are getting them what they need, the tanks and f-16 and support t

the national defense strategy rightly identifies the prc as the defense department's facing challenge. this is because, as articulated in the administrations indo-pacific strategy, the prc is, quote, combining its economic, diplomatic, military, technological might as it pursues in fear of influence in the indo-pacific and seeks to become the world's most influential power. and quote. china's military is central to these aims. in fact, in recent years, the prc has turned to the pla as an instrument of coercive statecraft in support of its global ambitions including by conducting more dangerous, coercive, and aggressive actions in the indo-pacific region. in contrast to these revisionist goals, today i'd like to provide an update on the secular taking with our allies and partners to an advanced an alternative vision of a free and open indo-pacific. a vision that is widely shared throughout the region in the world. in particular, i'd like to highlight the steps we are taking first to strengthen our alliance capabilities, second to develop a more distributed and resilient force posture,

have voluntarily weakened defense procurement and all these components have led to the fact that our parliament prime minister - our committee i apologize for issues of nationalurity and defense intelligence at its meeting based on the results of this consideration of problematic issues in the field of procurement made a decision to return to e actually constant monitoring of defense procurement e on the other hand we registered it in the parliament and the day before yesterday in the first reading it was approved the law on the declassification of defense procurements, but not before they are carried out by aposphat, that is, state customers in this case, the ministry of defense must inform the public about defense procurements that concern or grow that are carried out in the amount of more than uah 200,000, and if these are guaranteed needs of the defense of the state, then everything is for the amount of pi 2. that is, we now see that for society this is very sensitive information for vla, and it is also very happy information, so we are doing everything not to allow any even hypothetical accusations of possible abuses and the actions of the minister of de

louis, you, i have instructed those in charge of national defense for the armed forces and police that, i mean it is to deploy through our territory to provide security and double if the percent to get him to come a status present. fighting the fires, providing security, taken care of the victims and doing everything that has necessarily the victim or eat the ball. ok, santa said you with the current heat, we have showing no signs of cooling off soon. fire fighters will need all the have the can get to put out the blazes. but france says, urged churches in south sudan to raise their voices against injustice on a pace mission. south sudan is the world's youngest nation founded in 2011, but it's short. history. has been marred by poverty, climate change, and conflict. high school visit for the thousands of people who turned up to see the pontiff. there's a lot to writing on his piece mission. we need now we need, ah, a wood to lincoln and people of really suffered and now we are started all over the warranty. and to me is coming and was his message is a message of hope and a message. so

i have instructed those in charge of national defense. what are the armed forces and police? i mean, it is to deploy through our territory to provide security that will at the present to get him because the state is present fighting the fires, providing security, taken care of the victims and doing everything that is necessary of the victim or e that all of the senate said you with the current heat, we have showing no signs of cooling off soon. fire fighters will need all the have the can get to put out the blazes and that is in sports. he is now when has been an emotional day in the bundle, legal for thought been strike at sebastian island. he scored his 1st goal for the club since being diagnosed with cancer and july, he helped fill a big win over title, rivals, fibers and portland, on the tails of buy a new neck. dorman strike a sebastian a layer was making his 1st league start at home. since treatment for testicular cancer, dormant marked world cancer day by redesigning their center circle urging men to check for lumps. fryeburg killian cecilia, did his teammates no favor

the faa lifting a brief restriction over lake michigan near wisconsin that shut down for national defenseir space but the exact reason is not disclosed. it follows similar restrictions several times in the last week after a chinese spy balloon and other objects over the u.s. and canada. kylie atwood is tracking the developments. what are you learning? >> reporter: yes. this temporary flight restriction for less than two hours is lifted. what we are hearing from norad and the faa due to operations but what they aren't saying is what the operations were. the concerning thing that folks are thinking act is what are the objects in the sky to potentially be causing the flight restrictions? this is the same kind of flight restriction we saw in place last weekend when that chinese spy balloon was downed off the coast of south carolina. looking about this short lived temporary flight restriction we should note that there was also a short lived temporary flight restriction in place over a place in montana. after that was lifted norad said it was an anomaly and not actually any object to actually i

but joining us now, canada's minister of national self-defense, anita annan.rpart, i should say, secretary of defense lloyd austin at the pentagon on friday. only a day before the object over canada was shot down. we're so glad that you could join us this morning. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> since your meeting, have you spoken to our secretary of defense? >> yes, i have. we are in regular contact. i spoke with him not only on friday in washington, d.c., but also on saturday, as we discussed the cylindrical object that was over yukon territory, which norad shot down and we are now moving to obtain the debris and examine it. >> okay, so then, can you share with us anything from your conversations about what this is. you said it's cylindrical. it was similar to the chinese spy balloon shot down off of south carolina, but smaller. correct me if any of my information is wrong. what did you learn and what did you discuss that you can share with us in your conversations since then. >> well, perhaps the most important thing is that we can continued

people's deputy of ukraine, a servant of the people representative of the committee on national security, defense and development well, recommending a candidate for the post of the head of the sbu is, i remind you, a prerogative of the president, that is, volodymyr zelensky, have you seen the video today, he came to the verkhovna rada and addressed the deputies before voting for vasyl the kid , listen to what he said security service ukraine can be the way the people of ukraine want to see it. the security service of ukraine carries out successful and often truly unique special operations. some of these operations have changed the picture of the war in our favor. collaborators in the occupied territories realized that they cannot escape from justice and this is also one of the achievements of our security service. well, as i already said, for the appointment of vasyl makyk to the post of head of the sbu, the deputies cast 324 votes, this is a lot, but not all. for example, the european solidarity faction did not vote zero votes were given by this political force, and the faction did not vote, and

and the allies are also discussing potential changes to national defense budgets among all of this, right? that's true. i mean, all these things we're talking about cost, a lot of money more than nato was. it was prepared for when it made this 2 percent pledge 7 years ago. that's of course one that's become famous in germany because germany was very slow to scale up its defense spending and has come under a lot of criticism for it. but it's certainly not the only country. so now what nato is talking about is not making 2 percent the lower thresh, the upper threshold, but rather the lower threshold. some countries are already spending 3 percent of their g, d, p on their defense. and they'd like to see other countries ramp up as well. so by 2024, nato is going to need to come up with a new formula to replace the so called whales pledge. and that's something that they plan to decide at this summer's summit in vilnius. what about ukraine's playing for fighter jets, any progress on that issue? if you're ukraine, you certainly don't see any progress. this is not something nato has any appetite

not only housing, roads, security and national defense. finally, these costs. it's not a secret.own noticeably. we all understand why and even for individual entrepreneurs this year the simplification was completely canceled, leaving only two general tax regimes. this is a 20% income tax. and single tax the simplified system by and large was the benefits for businesses of abuses of the mass with one clear goal to minimize payments in the tax is knowledge. so by and large. changes are overdue, well, or simply in full swing, this is the people's version of the forecast of the ministry. our business will no longer achieve for the sake of tax savings, creating a lot of individual entrepreneurs . lena fedorovna well, if we look at our tax system as a whole. here are some it performs macroeconomic functions in other words, for which we pay taxes. what state tasks are solved in this case? the two taxes are regulatory and fiscal, but if we speak in such a way that it is probably understandable. and now the main function is to ensure the economic security of the state, its stability, macr

by the way, the secretary of the national security and defense council oleksiy danilov warned about putin's new plans for the people of kadiliv and moldova, according to the secretary the national security and defense council, e.e. the kader people who fought in chechnya, who fought against ukraine, have started working as so-called rescuers in turkey since february 24, allegedly for two matches, the consequences of a terrible earthquake, and from there they can move to the territory of moldova with a task, so now we will ask if there are any threats for such actions, volodymyr volodymyr , the ferret of the editor of rise moldova , i congratulate you, volodymyr, it is important that the secretary of the security council in ukraine says that there is a threat in moldova, we border these countries with yours the country understands what the threat is. how do you assess the threat? well, regarding the cadets in general, regarding the possible organization of a coup in moldova on the part of russian mercenaries or the threat of the occupation of russia and moldova , we talked about these threat

we've also reached a pivotal point in our national debate over defense. the united states for a decade or so has trouble passing budgets on-time which each the funds away. this debate ongoing within the government and the public sphere about what type of conflicts, of what nature come withinfl the united states should be preparing for, and the choices the united states makes in the coming years on defense will shape its ability to compete and stabilize international order for years andor perhaps decadeso come. we couldn't have better guest and senator cornyn to help us make some off these issues toda. the senator has been a member of the senate since 2002 representing my home state of texas. he's the sting was himself on the select committee on intelligence as well as senate financial and judiciary committee and he's been a thought leader and put himself at the center of a number of debates on national security on everything from semiconductor issues to military assistance forth ukraine, how the united states should think about its competition and the pro

. >> canada's prime minister of national defense outlined what happened as u.s. f-22 fighter jets shot down an unidentified object in the air about 100 miles from the u.s. border with canada. hours later, the federal aviation administration closed air space to support activities, norad detected the anomaly, and fighter jets were sent, nothing was found. in canada, they focused on recovering the octi. f-22 fighter jets have taken out three objects over the air space of u.s. and canada the past seven days. leaving new questions about who sent them and what might be next. >> given the global and domestic context in which the objects have been discovered, the biggest fear really is that no matter what the origin, it could lead to violent conflict between china and the u.s. >> reporter: the doctor is a political science professor, specializing in international security at san jose state. she said after president biden waited for ordering a spy balloon shot down, the u.s. may take more quick action. >> given the heat he took from not acting as promptly as some wanted a