u. s. and the rest in germany, switzerland, the u. k, and the u. e. those countries have refused to release the money to taliban leaders in cobble. as the dispute dragged on, afghanistan's economy deteriorated. foreign aid and banking services also were cut off. the un believes 97 percent of afghans will fall below the poverty line this year. more than half of the countries 40000000 people face acute hunger. now the u . s. president has signed an order to redistribute the funds and keep them out of the taller bonds hands under the executive order. joe biden used emergency powers to split the 7000000000 dollars held in the u. s. federal reserve bank in new york . hill. ask a judge for permission to put half of that into a trust fund for humanitarian relief in afghanistan. the other half will be used to compensate the families of $911.00 victims. some economists say the plan will do more harm than good. they argued strips afghanistan of resources that could be used to stabilize its economy. all right, joining me now our, our guests in falls church, virginia i

u. k. the u. s. and the e. u murray is a car of the russian for mr. spokesperson, so they have not in the you what price will impact? do you think the sanctions will have on those figures? i think the impact direct impact very negative. however, this is the malec impact, which i think is very dangerous. and it further goes to severance of diplomatic relations, which, which i think is stupid and very doing for even more issues. and they should expect counter as well. or now the years so far refrained from introducing traveled bonds. do you think they are likely to be imposed in the future? well, if you really want to do the pharmacy i, you wouldn't necessarily do prebble specially on senior diplomat. i also think travel ban are poor decision. depending where you're doing. if you're doing it nationwide, you're, you're impacting people, you're impacting business, impacting farm, or not just for russia, i would say more. so on the european side, it's a very poor poor strategy to go in that direction. now it's been described as the the nuclear option, the nuclear sanction cutting russia off from the swift banking system. the sofa also been referring thus not yet bee

the u. k. next, on top of these financial measures and in full concert with united states and the e u, we will introduce new trade restrictions and stringent export controls, similar to those that they in of the u. s. are implementing will bring forward new legislation to ban the export of full dual use items to russia, including a range of high end and critical technological equipment and components in sectors including electronics, telecommunications, and aerospace legislation to implement this will be late early next week. these trade sanctions will constrain russia's military, industrial, and technological capabilities for years to come. we are bringing forward measures on unexplained well photos from the economic crime bill to be introduced before the house rises for easter. and we will set out further detail before easter on the range of policies to be included in the full bill in the next session, including on reforms to companies, house and a register of overseas property ownership. we will, we will set up a new dedicated clip talk chrissy. so in the national crime agency to target sanctions, evasion, and corrupt russian assets hidden in the u. k. and that means al

chancellor ala short says the under see link needs to be reassessed because of what russia is doing in ukraine, e. u and u. k. have also now sanctions against moscow. so those are the headlines and he's continues here now to sierra after a witness statement. that's what i cannot yet march on. i just either south korean vote in a presidential election, but i scandals in controversies overshadowing policy. people in power as here as investigative document. the program looks at the use and abuse of power. nato conduct the biggest military optic exercise in the cold war with 35000 troops from 28 countries. climate and antics explores lessons learned from the global h i. v epidemic. and how that would help fight coven 19 after recent to mil 5th, period vend site makes it empower hong kong goes to the poles to chief executive march on a jazz eda move ah wow! well then you go. you will kill schedules awfully fast. it with them, they but sticks goodly at the lower. supposed to been dick who has got dent caucus, there is to say it was by seems silly, but i gotta ah, with us not under the addition to a nurse ministry at the william the extent that a protein. yes. but

and again, much broader sanctions on those around him who like to send their kids to various se e u countries in the u. k. a and so forth. and so on. right? i still some say, as biden announced all these sanctions that you were just talking about, but he still without military intervention, some say put in has nothing to fear. what you may want to do is lot to fear. again, keep in mind the, the biggest fear he should have is that ukraine would be the ricky pine that is very difficult to digest. i was just at the munich security conference was great to be back in germany by the way. and, and in that trip, what i found was the greatest solidarity among nato members and others actually that i've seen since i went there as young, major as a speech writer for the supreme allied commander during the cold war. did putin help nato? of course he did, he is the greatest gift to nato since the end of the cold. busy war, you know, he set out to make russia great. again, what he's really done is make nato great again, by his actions. i that threat has unified nato in a way that it hasn't been again since the walk him

the e u. and particularly from those german call manufacturers who want to do more business with the u. k, there will be pressure from them. because even though we just have the announcement about the chip manufacturing the semiconductor chip manufacturing, don't forget very bolton. he's the one in charge of that the e u has their own regulations to have to mitigate because they usually don't go in for subsidies. and that whole plan includes subsidies for the chip manufacturing industry. and that won't be easy for them to get over. absolutely, and we will continue to call it as we go along. hilary ford, which of the british american business association. thank you so much for your time and insight pleasure. and that's it for this time. just boom, both on demand and the portable tv app available on smartphones and tablets. play in the apple app store by searching portable tv where it was easy. you can also download it on samsung, smart tvs and roku devices, or simply check it out at portable dot tv will see you next time algorithm. the 7 year old networks have been following us everywhere.

for example, the e u has said that add those sanctions will include the halting of access by russian banks to european financial markets. and the u. k. has described it's in new sanctions as being the largest ever. now it wants you leaders to follow its lead when it comes to the swift international a payment banking situation. it's going to ban russia from accessing that in the u . k. but it doesn't seem for the moment as if the you will follow seat on that are but of the restrictions for russian nationals in the u. k. will include the amount of money that they're able to hold in banks there and also access to russian banks to the u. k. economic system at boris johnson saying that this would essentially really put the pressure on russia. and ursula vaughan delay and also saying that these were wide ranging sanctions that would be painful the occasion onto the largest most of your package of economic sanctions. the russia has oversee with new financial measures. we're taking new powers to target russian finance. in addition to the banks, we've already sanctioned these pounds, reuben us totally to exclude russian banks from the u. k.

and then yes, can contain, as you know, the e u, the u. s. a number of other countries. the u. k. have announced limited sanctions against russia in response to its latest moves. do you think those sanctions are going to get most goes attention? well frankly, i think terry, the sanctions that got more attention. actually one point, ah, is the decision by chance a shot to freeze a cation sorry. i'm not going to get back like this is very serious. and not only because it's probably 11000000000 a loss of by moscow and building it. but because in the credit is on an important thing is for you to be ready to suffer for your principles to be taken serious. the rest of the sanctions that you mentioned still do not go up to that level. oh no, i would say that the u. s thank which deal with russia sovereign debt and with the children of some of the closest pollutants allies. some of the people that he's on the rush, they, she'd closer to home from the point you the credit of the summer and that look, it will be much more difficult for the russian government to burrell and internationally. at the time when inflation is quite high in russia, it's not deadly, but it's, it's a complication.