u. k. authorities determined that he posed no threat of the time he was left on record as a person of interest, but was able to fly to the u. s. and by a firearm there, it appears the u. k. authorities had not relayed any of their concerns at bottom to their american counterparts. before the attack. the alleged perpetrator was killed after an 11 hour standoff at the synagogue in cali. vill a suburb of dallas. all the hostages survived. police in england tub, detain 2 teenagers as part of the ongoing investigation into the attack. while i'm delighted to welcome live on to the program now. une michelle and the former m. i 5 intelligence officer in the u. k. on a pleasure to have you on, you, of course, will know better than anyone the sheer amount of potential terrorist cases being investigated by intelligent services. but given this alleged perpetrator had a criminal record on mental health problems, according to his family. surely a basic warning, at least should have been passed at side. well, i think it was a failure to level one is that and i 5, did drop the investigation into him and it might well have been because he was

u. k. u s. homeland security act is supposed to be the, precisely to blog people coming in to the us on these grounds. so it's not just my fault, i think, although i do think we have a problem one in the ship holding the transmission that getting the ship volume of people they have to investigate. but for the u. s. also to have allowed him in, not have caught out the u. k and said, miss mans got convictions all over the place. we can't let him in and send him back . noticing that when you read into it, that he was able just to get a gun like that, a lethal weapon without being on any authority watch list at all. that just shows an absolute failure on every front face, the intelligence agencies in the u. k. the border security usa policing security in the usa as well. and i think, you know, it's great now that we can pinpoint what happened, what went wrong in this case, but that's not how our intelligence agencies based in the usa. i'm the case working . they all there to preemptively gather int

u. s. isn't the only country taking such measures. canada the u . k. and the netherlands have also warned their athletes about potential surveillance in china. given the same recommendations about using disposable cell phones, we heard from an asian affairs expert who believes the u. s. is hypocritical, accusing others of what it itself is guilty of. this. i think this to part of the campaigns to stigmatize china. and also, we're not forgetting ever. snowden to western countries cannot prove that they themselves are not spying on other people. in fact, they are quite infamous of doing so, right. i was so they had said about what did because find countries in the world you there now even that you at east dropping off its allies is already quite common knowledge to well, christian, or is allies, had openly criticize to us on that. on the contrary, why they not reporting how much china has done to protect it at this time in the olympics, you see robots delivering food for the athletes in the canteen to prevent corporate transmission. that's i think china's

u. s. state of texas at the weekend was previously flagged by u. k. authorities, molig, vice, all our crime had been seen as a potential islamist terrorists during a 2020 investigation by britain's m. i 5 intelligence agency. now the u. k. authorities determined that he posed no threat at that time, and he was left on record as a person of interest, but was able to fly to the u. s. and by a firearm there, it appears the care stories had not relayed any of their concerns about him to their american counterparts before the attack of the alleged perpetrator was killed after an 11 hour stand off at the synagogue in collinsville, a suburb of dallas, all of the hostages survived police in england have detained 2 teenagers as part of the ongoing investigation into the attack. earlier my colleague union o'neill spoke to a former and my 5 intelligence officer who said the incident resulted from a failure on both sides of the atlantic. a failure to level with one is that and i 5, did drop the investigation to him and it might well have been because he was seen

u. k. authorities determined that he posed no threat at that time. he was left on record as a person of interest, but was a to fly to the u. s. and by a fire on there, it appears the u. k. authorities had not relate any of their concerns about him to their american counterparts before the attack. now the alleged perpetrator was killed after 11 hours stunned off from the synagogue and cali vill sir burb of dallas. all the hostages survived. police in england have detained 2 teenagers as part of the ongoing investigation into the attack. earlier i spoke with a former m, i 5 intelligence officer who said the incident resulted from a failure on both sides of the atlantic. failure to level one is that and my 5 did drop the investigation into him and it might well have been because he was seen to have mental health issues rather than terrorist to contention. but the other m astonishing thing from my perspective is the fact that he was out into the states as well, with a string of convictions and with his mental health issues in the background. and, you know, the u. k. u s. homeland security act is supposed to be the precisely to blo

u. k. u. s. extradition treaty, nobody can be expedited under political grounds, and then of course when it comes to the future of reporting many of students, sanchez, defense team and of course is supportive like those outside the high court here today. they said that the u. s. is making an example of june is sancha pool revealing all of these alleged rule crimes relating to the war in iraq, afghanistan. so what happens here on, in what will happen later on today is the high court refuses to certify any of these 10 points of order. they will then go back to the magistrate pull the lower court here in the united kingdom. and essentially, it will all boil down to the home secretary free to protect. she could indeed refuse act tradition is not likely to happen. many people think it's very unlikely indeed. and then, of course, in the meantime, you decide, remain pulled up in bo, motion, prison. the most notorious prison here in the united kingdom. now this is essentially a long ordeal for doing thi

u. k. u s. all withdrawing some of that stuff from guest over phase all of a russian invasion but i won't says china flu. 39 more planes near its air space and what's being described as the largest operation for 3 months. the taiwan air force issued radio warnings and activated ed fence missiles systems. there's been no immediate comment from china, which considers the island a break away province between a you has more from beijing. this was the largest incursion by china's military close to taiwan. this year, the sunday exercise involved $39.00 chinese warplanes, which flew close to the ty when he controlled protest islands. now, china's foreign ministry would not elaborate on the reasons behind this exercise, but it follows just one day after a huge show of military force by the u. s. and japan in the philippines. see now this exercise, this joint military exercise included to us aircraft carriers. and the u. s. navy said that this exercise was designed to preserve a free and open indoor pacific. now china considers taiwan rogue chinese province that will inevitably be reunited with the mainland, and beijing has not ruled out using force in order to achieve this. in recent months, it's increased the number of military exercises taking place close to taiwan and the highest number of incursions and record it took place in october, which included $56.00 chinese war planes which flew close to taiwan on the same day . now, begging does the denies that these exercises are designed to intimidate the ty when he's government. but analysts say that that's exactly what they're meant to do levels. prime ministers meeting his competence for the 1st time in 3 months. the government has been divided since october about the investigation in the 2020 bay route port explosion. t

u. k, the u. s. and even south africa where south africa is already running 30 percent excess debt over their normal $3000.00 excess deaths per week in the last 4 we. so december got is what is the head of overwhelming hospitals and therefore if you have other conditions, you don't want to get sick. so the best way is the slow transmission as much as you can stay safe. interest mentioned there will be many, many more people in hospitals. what's that going to mean for health systems? here in europe? i think it's going to overwhelm health systems in europe, just like your own grooming completely overwhelming health systems and hospitals in the u. s. i think people do or have been misled by the it's mild oh misinformation too much. it's only slightly milder, but it's been short increase. will definitely send way more people to the hospital if you have to go to hospital work car accident on heart attack, stroke cancer, you may not get the chair that you need because the hospitals are full and therefore other diseases may also see excess. yes. and this is why, you know, not getting infected and we're at least spreading out. the curator fraction to a longer period is so much of course the flattening the curve we talked about in 2020. we have to do that again. world many other people will be hurt not just absolutely. it's a very serious wanting their epidemiologist. doctor eric 5 will ding in washington d. c. thank you very much for your time. will israel is among the places seeing record new cases of cove at 19 residents, they could get a full fax nation before anyone else in the world. but now the fast spreading on the kron appe

u. k. to fight this on a legal level and possibly to prevent his extradition for back. i want to ask you about those assurances that you just mentioned from the u. s because the high court last month overturned the lower court decision, saying that the u. s. promises were enough to guarantee that julian assange would be treated humanely. why do do do? why does report without borders? believe that she won't be? it's really concerning. there's a, there's a number of levels that you could kind of pick apart the issue of the assurances, which i hope that the supreme court will get to scrutinize properly. but one thing i will say is, even if they are respected, even if they're fully respected in the u. s. owners, what it has said to this court, which we have no guarantee that they will even so julianna's lunch is very likely to be held in conditions of solitary confinement. were extreme isolation, whether it's called special administrative measures, whether it's the specific facility, you know, that was under discussion in the assurances, he is still very likely to be held in conditions that will exacerbate his mental health risks and leave him a very high risk of suicide. so that is what is at stake here. his mental health is not improved

u. s. the u. k. and australia as it grapples with an outbreak of the army kron corona, virus variance in france, uproar in the parliament after controversial remarks by president emmanuel macklin about the unvaccinated. ah, hello malcolm and peter w. watching al jazeera alive from dough are also coming up another round, a protest in kazakhstan, where the government's resignation has failed to quell anger. about fuel prices today is about acknowledgement about being seen and heard some relief. so canada's indigenous people whose children were taken away and put under state care as the government announces a 31000000000 dollar compensation plan. hong kong is banning flights from 8 countries, including australia, the u. s, and the u. k. as it battles rising cobit 19 cases, it's also imposing a raft of new restrictions as of friday, including shutting entertainment venues. jims and clubs. officials are worried the ami chrome very and could be spreading undetected through the community. hans, while you go

u. s. the u. k. 's high court is allowing him to launch an appeal with the supreme court, which will then decide if you'll hear the case or not. it's been wanted in the us in 2010 when the whistle blowing site published classified military documents about the wars in afghanistan and iraq. a luxury cruise ship that was due to doc in miami has changed course to the bahamas to avoid being seized. the crystal symphony owes more than $4000000.00 in unpaid fuel bills. crystal cruises announce earlier this week, it would be suspending all operations after its parent company said it was seeking to wind up the business. the world's biggest and most expensive space telescope has arrived at his destination one and a half 1000000 kilometers from earth. nasa says it will now begin firing up the james web observatories, infrared detectors. gdc has the ability to look at objects from mars on out. so it can, of course, again, it's orbiting i just outside the orbit of the, of them the moon about it's about 4 times fur

u. k. prince andrew has been stripped philip, his military title amid a high profile, sexual abuse case. it comes after a u. s. judge refused to dismiss a civil lawsuit from a woman who accuses the duke of york of sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager ortiz shantia edward dusty told us more earlier from london. while it's a huge move from buckingham palace as prince. andrew will no longer use his royal highness in any official capacity as the queen has now stripped him of all of his appointments. so as a member of the royal family, how many of these sort of duties they will now be handed to all the members of the royal family and that's been made official. and this statement was the queen's approval and agreement that you could york's military affiliations. and royal patronage is happy in return to the queen. the duke of your will continue not to undertake any public duties and he's defending this case is a private citizen. i can look at the statement in a bit more detail because it read that the duties have now been returned. of course, if we read between the lines the queen may have applied a bit more falls under prince andrew than give back all of those duties. but the 2nd part defending this case, as a private citizen. of course that's referring to the civil case that a u. s. judge gave the go ahead to just yesterday, the queen, 2nd son to face a sexual assault civil law. in fact, the duke review is facing the most serious now of allegations of sexual assault against minor, but junior to fray alleges that she was traffic by jeffrey eps the when she was just 17 years old and poor to have sex with andrew. now, since these allegations suffered some 2 years ago as military appointments were in a bad and softer, he's step down somewhat. but he's still very much linked to around 8 british regiments, including the granted the gall to stream the angry consent. and they've been quite vocal about that because at many events they were asked even coast to prince andrew . so over the last 24 hours more than a $150.00 veterans wrote directly to the queen, off to strip andrew of all of his honorary military rolls. now that cause of course happened, we don't know whether that's because andrew will try and fight this case or try and reach some sort of settlement. princ

u. k, the u. s. and france, atlanta, se, but when she spoke to reporters wanted again, just to speak about what happened in abu dhabi at the start of the week. not about the saudi led coalitions response, so i pressed her. your defense under law has to be proportionate. does it not? and the part of the plan, the council, no way speaking in a national cock capacity, said the attack that took place and saddam was on accept what you have heard to day . and you will know, following the work of the council that this is rec, what you have heard today is the unanimous condemnation by the security council against the terrorist attack against the united arab emirates on monday, the 17th of january. okay. and that is regular schools and that was proportionate given that at least i think as many as i'd like to refer you to the coalition statement on that matter. but i also like to affirm here that the coalition undertakes to abide by international law and proportionate response in all its military operations. that was the comments from the ambassador of united arab emirates. i can tell you that human rights groups have been watching what's been going on in the security council. yes, they say the security council should be condemning that attack that took place on abu dhabi. they say that was very wrong and it should not have that, that hoof is should not have been targeting a civilian infrastructure in abu dhabi, but they say it's one sided. the security council also should be looking at what's happened in recent days. and particularly in recent hours in who the hell territory in yemen has been father international reaction with you and such a general antennae. the terrors holding a news conference just a short time ago where he did address. he asked, writes on fry dana. now any bombardment or that target civilians on the or that he's not careful enough to protect civilians is of course, also an acceptable that what we need is to stop these vs circle in which things get escalating one after the other. what he needs it is to have, as we have been proposing from long ago a ceasefire together with the opening of harbor and the airports. and then the beginning of a serious dialogue among the parties. these escalation needs to stop. want to take it down in our east 13 people a confound dead after. huge explosion in the west and part of the country which flat into a rural community. another $59.00 were injured after a truck carrying explosives collided with a motorcycle in the small mining town of yeti. and in barbara reports. now. this crater hints of the size of the explosion in western gonna blast happened on thursday when a truck collided with a motorbike gunner, no trotter was carrying explosives to a gold mine. results was shocking. as filmed by eye witnesses ah, law, dozens of homes were destroyed in this village near the town of bogo. so 300 kilometers west of the capital. a crow that on friday morning, gunners, vice president mohammed to buy women, visited a shelter as food age started to arrive. he assured the community his government would help them recover and rebuild a government his leave to be with one's will fully fully all the medical and everything. the gone, a in government says it's investigating the explosion. i witnesses say after the collision, the truck driver jumped out of the vehicle, which was on fire and shouted at people to stay away. a police spokesperson has said the truck did have a police escort who also helped alert people. but with so many dead ghanaians, doubtless wondering how this could have happened. nadine baba al jazeera the now hi stace talks to calm fears of a devastating war unfolding. and you kind of ended without breakthrough. although the u. s. in russia have agreed to keep negotiating top diplomats from both countries of met in geneva as tension spike of a russian troop build up new ukraine. the west is wanda serious consequences of russia invades, although the kremlin denies its planning and attack. russia has a master around a $100000.00 troops around ukraine's borders along with tags, heavy artillery and on the vehicles. russian soldiers are also to put in the annexed region of crimea, and back thousands of fighters into rebel held eastern provinces. ukraine's military has around 255000 personnel, and they're getting some western support. u. k. a sent around a 30 elite troops to train ukrainian soldiers along with surveillance aircraft. and 2000 anti tank missile launches and ukraine's biggest ally, the united states is sending $200000000.00 worth of military aid, including anti all missiles and ammunition around $200.00 national guard. soldiers are also in ukraine to train local forces, nato members, estonia, latvia

u. k the u. s just sent the fourth recent supply of so called lethal aid. and as for the people here, we spent the morning with a group of civilians outside of kiev. practicing the fine art of combat, just in case there is an invasion. as we drove back in to give. we were stuck in traffic, a lot of people out and about on a saturday shopping or whatever. keep calm and carry on wherever you are in kiev, greg palkot fox news. changes are coming to bay area changes are coming to sunday area cities and the requirements next week, oakland will implement a new vaccine requirement on tuesday. the policy will mandate people provide proof of vaccination to dine indoors at restaurants and bars. the ordinance also applies to jim's entertainment venues, theaters and large indoor events . oakland is allowing exceptions for those who can show proof of a medical condition. that precludes them from getting the vaccine, but they have to provide a recent negative covid test the first time a business fails to comply, they will get a warning letter after that businesses will b

u. a ambassador, came to speak to reporters. she was flanked by 6 other ambassadors, including 3 of the permanent members, the u. k, the u. s. and france and lawn, no say, but when she spoke to reporters wanted again, just to speak about what happened in abu dhabi at the start of the week. not about the saudi lead coalitions response. so i pressed her, your defense under law has to be proportionate. does it not? and the president and the counsel, no way speaking in a national cap capacity said the attack that took place and saddam was unacceptable . what you have heard to day. and you will know, following the work of the council that this is rec, what you have heard today is the unanimous condemnation by the security council against the terrorist attack against the united arab emirates on monday, the 17th of january. okay. and that is regular schools and bush given that in the system though it may be as many as i'd like to refer you to the coalition statement on that matter. but i also like to affirm here that the coalition undertakes to abide by international law and proportionate response in all its military operations. tha

u. s. and the u. k. are sending military aid to ukraine with baltic nations set to follow the u. s. secretary of state and e u foreign ministers are meeting via video link monday to discuss a unified response to russia. from were on the store, i am joined now by d. w. brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena, alexandro and the foreign minister is meet to day. they'll be joined virtually by secretary of state from the united states. anthony blanket. ukraine is expected, of course, to be front and center. what are you expecting to hear today throughout this meeting? well i think that you foreign ministers are very eager to hear from you as secretary of state blink. and what is his assessment of for he's meeting with his the russian counterpart in geneva last friday. whether he thinks that there is still a chance for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. and as you know, some within the block of feel quite site lions aligned in the current crisis with russia focusing on talks with the you as and to need to to discuss their security concerns. so member states wants to make sure that

u. k. in u. s. continue to give weapons to ukraine. so of course, we keep hearing this word plumber see from the west, but it seems like their actions are saying something completely different. a short time ago, i interviewed political analyst i got hammer, he gave us his take on why the us is insisting on further nato expansion. despite the fierce russian concerns it disturbs the aim of wild. busy dominance and the world dominance is started by making a border between russia and germany and vessel states like the baltic states, poland nowadays, the ukraine and down they want more modo, of course, to, to join the nature of public state club. and this would form a border that they can hint the new soap road or belt and road as a chinese called it from the land wife. and couldn't germany or the german middle then to work together with rushes. and therefore even but not for him to pipeline is disturbing because it causes that to germany can be energy in independence. and this is not in the interest of us and they to, because they want to keep germany blackmailing that german politicians, even if that happens some accident and people who are not. so in line with the american politics, are getting gaining power. but they can always blackmail them and keep them on the village. while washington stretches the need for diplomacy is the only way out of the crisis. there are some john list to a striking, a slightly more belligerent tone, just buying time till they replaced to invade ukraine, making you jump through hoops like han, delivering written responses to questions that yvonne said time and time again. in the past, meanwhile, that the stabilizing ukraine from within the economy's crumbling, you're spending 100 millions of dollars showing them up. what point do you stop playing rushes game and take preemptive action? now? we can walk and chew gum at the same time and that's very much what we've been doing and well, some journalists are in the well war mongering mode. others seem to have lost the plot entirely when it comes to ukraine, with some western media outlets or something else. and pretty absurd stories as a sky at taylor now explains. they say you should be coo and a crisis on last your the media, in which case, why when you can become hysterical and so panic instead. and never mind the kremlin battle, probably european bickering old by didn't nick night cream. just after warning about world war 3 off rule will never understand what goes on in his head. the media pundits what we'll skip to boulder the back to the more outlandish the better, like this random women. and here they found just hanging out in a window holding a gun. i have never hunted in my life. i but this carbon, after listening to some soldiers discussing the best rifle to get if it comes stood, then we'll fight for key if will fight to protect our city. i don't see any sense in the rush and starting a war and leaving key of alone. it's strange because usually the meter is pro gun control. i guess it doesn't count a rush of the target. well, that's how bad the crisis is. the media says that housewives have what they're rags for rifles. the thing is, marianna juggler is in fact a simple ukrainian woman from the territorial defense forces. her uniform is british, another fake story about militants whom western propaganda turns into anti russian freedom fighters. again, just like guns fake, he's as great when it's directed against the russians. i guess there's only a certain number of undercover housewives in ukraine. so the media is happy to look elsewhere specifically at a map. and it's noticed that the quickest way from moscow to key f as a fire churn noble making at the lowest logical invasion route. also making russians pretty much the only willing visitors essence, well, 1986. the risk of a war for the spreading radiation seems minimal, but one object in the zone is particularly vulnerable. a new $1700000000.00 stainless steel arch over the destroyed reactor. it was completed in 2016 to prevent the spread of highly radioactive gust. yes, on route to the landscape office, the press things that putin's troops might just topple a giant radiation containing structure that we've more than 29000 tons. you know, some light texas either toxic exposure before the real fighting stops. talking about the real fighting and have you read the mirror recently? no. oh, well see you. i can see hooton's terrifying arsenal of hi tech support. well, these include, i warn you, the pools actively far raising power tupa dogs. i agree, it really doesn't look like that dog in the article, so i signed up for regular sky diving. and that's because he didn't. and thought photo is all they such an rescue dog. not one of the kremlin tin canines fabricated by the mirror. but if the ukrainians a don't surrender at the sight of a flailing dog and a harness. what the world, what types and flight kalashnikov are ready as back up? the so firing a kalashnikov rifle with its own brain is still at the prototype stage and a pit recently it's an arm show. it can identify target some, pull the trigger with all the need for a human shooter, said, protest dragging out the very latest innovations. the special occasion, the thing is, the ai kalashnikov rifle has actually been around since 2017, the thing yet, the mera fide, it's entire back jackson department, at themes. but never mind all this, because the most disappointing thing about this entire crisis is that puts his pad block, the world will put a stop to travel, highly of old, extra terrestrials probably regard warfare as something the only primitive civilizations engagement. so the ukraine situation means we're unlikely to get an invitation to join the federation for the time being, quite frankly, who can blame the media driving to aliens and told us, because once they finish driving, this wild population to a nervous breakdown, they'll need some new readers for all of the welding, panic and dispatch that they've got a cookie. the german parliament just held the debate on the russia ukraine crisis and the risk of a military escalation. author, peter, all of it has the latest now from both. on the german foreign minister, elinor bare, bog confirmed that the gnawed stream 2 gas pipeline, the runs between russia and germany was part and is part of the what she called a strong package of sanctions that had been agreed between germany and its allies. that could be imposed against russia, should there be an invasion of ukraine? the 10000000000 your robe infrastructure project has been controversial for a long time. there was a lot of pressure on berlin to make sure that it was included in sanctions. it does seem that is the way it is right now in abilene about confirming that in the bundle stack. and there's also been an awful lot of pressure on germany from it's e u partners, such as poland and the baltic states and from it's nato allies, such as the united kingdom to provide weapons to ukraine. now the german foreign minister said that berlin continues to support ukraine, but absolutely no way would there be weaponry, sent from germany to that country? does jack, this is alyssa, that a simple political sam cloud, our strength in this lands, happy that we have a clerical and position there. and at the same time, why use our strengths? many different roles, seminar demands in his robins, his id is very simply in difficult situations. you have to repeatedly discuss your action, se cleaned, initiative and we have to strengthen ukraine economically and financially. august the 21st century. we don't throw loose cannons inc. love going bow from the social democrats, also speaking to parliament. he said that there would be no weaponry as well going from germany to ukraine. he did say that the current situation, it's unfolding was the fault of russia, bu

u. k. n. u . s. continue to give weapons to ukraine. so of course we keep hearing this word, diplomacy from the west, but it seems like their actions are saying something completely different. our correspondence talking to my colleague, worry sushi there earlier. now, staying with the tension between russia and the west with the us piling weapons into ukraine, much to the ire of moscow, russia has slammed western accusations that it is the aggressor and is preparing to invade its neighbour ukraine. our nation has likewise repeatedly stated that we have no intention to attack anyone. we consider the very thoughts that our people may go to war against each other. unacceptable. as we just heard from the foreign ministry, russia has been making clear that if it weren't for the fact that the west has been pouring weapons into ukraine, this entire disagreement would have been resolved a long time ago. we are convinced that without western assistance, the conflict in eastern ukraine would have been settled long ago. ukraine's foreign sponsors have other ideas and appear determined to implement the scenario according to which russia must attack ukraine. now, russia's concerns are not groundless by any means that we have seen the united states and its allies pouring weapons into ukraine. very consistently. we understand that the united states, as has been announced, is speeding up the promise of over $200000000.00 of security assistance to ukraine. and it was promised back in december. now among what's already been delivered, there have been lethal and non lethal. our weapons that have been delivered by the 1st shipment from the united states this week included javelin anti tank missiles. now it's important to keep in mind. there are also 200 us national guard currently in ukraine where they're operating as instructors training the ukranian military. and there is no decision from us leaders that indicates those $200.00 american national guard will be removed at any time soon. now anthony blank in the u. s secretary of state has repeatedly said that the united states prefers diplomacy and communication and cooperation. that's how they prefer to resolve the situation. however, the actions from the united states of piling more weapons into a country right on russia's borders seem to have the opposite effect. ideally, you'd indicate perhaps the opposite intention. what it went from on this. i can now cross to can stone. he is from the hamilton coalition to stop the war and joins me on the line right now from ontario. i believe um, can you and i've had many conversations about similar topics in the past. the us keep calling on russia to choose a diplomatic path, but washington sends military aid to ukraine. when did tons of weapon returning to diplomatic tool. let's be clear. if russia had wanted to invade ukraine, it would have done so 2 months ago. ready without any warning, and before the where the u. s. britain and canada started pouring tons and tons more weapons into the, into it s

u. k. a u. s. on withdrawing some of the stuff from the embassies in ukraine over fear of a russian invasion. taiwan says china has flown 39 wall plains into its i depend so that the largest incursion the 3 months, there's been no immediate comment from china, which considers taiwan as it's territory. lebanon's prime minister is meeting his cabinet for the 1st time in 3 months. now the government has been divided since october about the investigation into the 2020 bay route port explosion. the standoff has happened. does the countries economic crisis worsens? say, dakota has more from beirut. economic hardships are war. sitting 80 percent of the population is now poor. so there is an urgent need for the authorities to take measures to alleviate the suffering of the lebanese people. but what they have been doing over recent years really is adopting ad hoc measures which are proving really to be on sustainable. at 1st, they use the foreign currency reserves in the central bank to subsidize basic good

u. k. in u. s. continue to give weapons to ukraine. so of course we keep hearing this word, diplomacy from the west, but it seems like their actions are saying something completely different. well, among the re actually got 2 developments was from political homeless nike, homer. he gave us his take on why the u. s. is insisting on further need to expansion despite russian concerns it disturbs the aim of world. busy dominance and the world dominance is started by making a border between russia and germany and vessel states like the baltic states, poland nowadays, the ukraine and down they want more modo, of course, to, to join the nature of public state club. and this would form a border that they can hint the new soap road or belt and road as a chinese called it from the land wife. and couldn't germany or the german middle then to work together with rushes. and therefore, even but not for him to pipeline is disturbing because it causes that to germany can be energy in independence and this is not in the interest. busy of us and they to, because they want to keep germany blackmailing that german politicians even if that happens some accident and people who are not. so in line with american politics are getting gaining power, but they can always blackmail them and keep them unable is another a

u. k. n u. s. continue to give weapons to ukraine. so of course we keep hearing this word, diplomacy from the west, but it seems like their actions are saying something completely different. that was our corresponded non quarter earlier speaking with my colleague, roy, sushi right now, staying with tensions between russia and the west with the us piling weapons into ukraine. much to the eye of moscow. russia has slammed western accusations that it is the aggressor and is preparing to invade its neighbour ukraine. our nation has likewise repeatedly stated that we have no intention to attack any one. we consider the very thoughts that our people may go to war against each other, unacceptable. from our on this, let's cross live. georgie corresponded caleb martin who is in the states. caleb, we see russia being branded as the one on a war footing. but the west is cranking of military a to ukraine. can you take us into what's being said right now? sure. well, russia has consistently made clear that they have no intention of invading ukraine . and they've also emphasized in more recent statements, that if it weren't for the united states pouring weapons into ukraine, this whole situation would probably have been resolved long ago. take a listen. we are convinced that without western assistance, the conflict in eastern ukraine would have been settled long ago. ukraine's foreign sponsors have other ideas and appear determined to implement the scenario according to which russia must attack ukraine. now, russia's concerns are not groundless by any means. we have seen the united states and its allies pouring weapons into crane very consistently. we understand that the united states, as has been announced just speeding up the promise of over $200000000.00 of security assistance to ukraine. and that was promised back in december. now, among what's already been delivered, there have been lease all and non lethal weapons that have been delivered. the 1st shipment from the united states this week included javelin, the anti tank missiles. now it's important to keep in mind. there are also 200 us national guard currently in ukraine where they're operating as instructors training the ukranian military. and there is no decision from us leaders that indicates those $200.00 american national guard will be removed at any time soon. now anthony blank in the us secretary of state, has repeatedly said that the united states prefers diplomacy and communication and cooperation. that's how they prefer to resolve the situation. however, the actions from the united states of piling more weapons into a country right on russia's borders seem to have the opposite effect. analyze that you do indicate perhaps the opposite intention. what is actually in this document without going? all right? are to kill them up and they're in the states keeping track the situation for us. we know it's more developed, you'll stay on top of it. all right, thanks. and while washington stresses the need for diplomacy as the only way out of the crisis, some journalists in the us are striking, a more belligerent note. just buying time till they replaced to invade ukraine, making you jump through hoops like and delivering written responses to questions that yvonne said time and time again. in the past. meanwhile, that the stabilizing ukraine from within the economy's crumbling, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars showing them up. what point do you stop playing rushes game and take preemptive action? now, we can walk and chew gum at the same time and that's very much what we've been doing . and while a number of journalists are seemingly in war mongering mode, others seem to have lost the plot altogether when it comes to ukraine, even named checking you f o's south, you taylor has her own take and can tell us more. they say you should be coo and a crisis on last your the media in which case why, when you can become hysterical so panic instead. and never mind the criminal battle probably european bickering old by didn't nixon, ice cream just after warning about world war 3. after all, will never understand what goes on in his head. the media pundits one real scooped the boulder, the better, the more outlandish, the better. like this random women and kids, they found just hanging out a window holding a gun. i have never hunted in my life. i bought this carbon after listening to some soldiers discussing the best rifle to get. if it comes stood, then we'll fight for key if will fight to protect our city. i don't see any sense in the rush and starting a war and leaving cave alone. it's strange because usually the major is pro gun control. i guess it doesn't count of washes of the target. well, the, how bad the crisis is, the media says that housewives have flipped their brands for rifles. the thing is, marianna juggler is in fact a simple ukrainian woman from the territorial defense forces. her uniform is british, another fake story about militants whom western propaganda turns into anti russian freedom fighters. again, just like guns faking is as great when it's directed against the russians. i guess there's only a certain number of undercover housewives in ukraine. so the meat is happy to look elsewhere specifically at a map. and it's noticed that the quickest way from moscow to kia is via chernobyl, making it the lowest, logical invasion route. also making russians pretty much the only willing visit possesses. well, 1986. the risk of a war for the spreading radiation seems minimal, but one object in the zone is particularly vulnerable. a new $1700000000.00 stainless steel arch over the destroyed reactor. it was completed in 2016 to prevent the spread of highly radioactive gust. yes, on route to the landscape office, the press things that putin's troops might just topple a giant radiation containing structure that weighs more than 29000 tons. you know for some like texas eyes and toxic exposure before the real fighting stops. talking about the real fighting and have you read the mirror recently? no. oh wow. so you have seen hooton's terrifying arsenal of high tech support? well, these include, i warn you, the pools actively far raising power tupa dogs. i agree, it really doesn't look like thank dog in the article site i signed up for regular sky diving, and that's because he didn't. and that photo is all they such an rescue dog, not one of the kremlin tin canines fabricated by the mirror. but if the ukrainians a don't surrender at the sight of a flailing dog and a harness. what the world, what tanks and flying kalashnikov are ready as back up the so firing a kalashnikov rifle with its own brain is still at the prototype stage and a pit recently it's an arm show. it can identify target some, pull the trigger with all the need for a human shooter. so protest dragging out the very latest innovations, the special occasion. the thing is, the ai kalashnikov rifle has actually been around since 2017, the senior, the mera fide, it's entire back, jackson department, at themes. and never mind all this, because the most disappointing thing about this entire process is that puts his pad block, the world will put a stop to travel, highly of old, extra terrestrials probably regard warfare as something the only primitive civilizations engagement. so the ukraine situation means we're unlikely to get an invitation to join the lactic federation for the time being, quite frankly, who can blame the media and drive into aliens and told this. because once they finish driving this wild population to a novice break down, they'll need some new he does for all that out the while can panic and despair that they've got cookie. dozens of protests swept across france on thursday with workers across all sectors demanding a salary hike to cope with the ever increasing cost of living the past few hours, there have been scenes of chaos with police chasing students and making several arrests. there have been reports of vandalism, with trash cans overturn the organizers say it's a show of support for low paid workers. hit by soaring living costs. one group of students. 7 set up barricades outside the school in solidarity with teachers. trade unions are playing a prominent role, threatening strike action and demanding pay rises and sweeping reforms limits. mrs . we're here to demonstrate over our working conditions which are continually getting worse. our means of teaching were being taken away from us and everything has been degraded when that is all to saw. we see people who got rich during the crisis. billionaires who got richer than ever, while in the public and private sectors. salaries have sung to loan and uphill deal . we're here to say that society needs to work differently with more recognition for those who serve the common good school and health care staff. those who build social cohesion and ensure our safety, those who keep our communities together and our society doesn't show enough recognition, it's gone crazy. the bad news keeps piling up for the british prime minister. a series of emails have been leaked, suggesting boys, johnson lied about his role in the evacuation of a plane load of stray cats and dogs from afghanistan during last summer's withdrawal. the animal rescue mission in question was run by a former british army officer who reportedly had links with carry johnson, the pm's wife. it happened when thousands of people desperate to flee, the taliban were being left behind pets before people. that was the accusation. some 6 months ago, it's resurfaced more recently now, but forrest johnson, i, he's denied that he actually approved the an adult animals out of afghanistan at the time when cobble was falling to the taliban. cooling the claims total rhubarb, but it's all emerged yet again, according to some leaks. emails that have come to light, they said that the prime minister personally authorized the evacuation of course birth johnson has always denied it and he's denying it again today. this whole thing is, is, is total revoke. it was an amazing thing to, to move 15000 people out of bolton in the way that we did. i thought it was also additionally very good that we were able to help those bits. so the question now is, did the prime minister actually authorize pen farthings animals to get out of the country via a private chart to flight? according to these leagues a emails and was involving virgin atlantic and the prime minister's top parliamentary aid. she told the adeline that she could actually secure a plane to evacuate these animals from krupel, and they were actually backed by abhorrence chosen the prime minister, uneven fost tracks. now foss trucks being a key line in that email, because it suggests that she could get a plane in and out of the country at a time when it was nigh on impossible. now, number 10 denies all of these claims. as does boris johnson, he calls it title nonsense that does the story really adds up at the time back in august of last year, the prime minister and then foreign secretary. they would know it to be seen. both of them were away on holiday leaving junior ministers and juno, junior civil servants to pick up the pieces and deal with the crisis. the government has repeatedly been severely criticized and condemned for how it reacted when thousands of desperate people in afghanistan was scrambling to get out of the country. the prime minister's biggest critics are saying his story doesn't tied up at all. forest johnson is unable to make the serious decisions that are needed. in this case, people were fleeing in terror as the taliban took over kabul and british forces were putting their lives at risk. the prime minister was once again prioritizing the wrong things and making the wrong calls this deming, revelation shows that boris johnson has once again repeatedly lied to the british people. this is not the man who is fit for office. so how has all of this come up? now, we're right now there's currently an investigation inquiry into how the government handle the crisis in afghanistan. but of course, it comes visa, the other investigations that burse johnson is embroiled in, particularly the su gray investigation. and the police investigation into allegations of downing street parties throughout the pandemic as we await the su gray findings burst. johnson's role as prime minister really does hang in balance. now, there are numerous schools across the political spectrum for him to give up and go . it's time for him to resign. they say his time really is up. meanwhile, in the polls, we see labor skipping ahead of the conservatives quite comfortably. now plus though, there are some serious concerns and serious worries at all of these scandals upon scandals as far as johnson is finding himself in may affect the tories comfortable majority. so in a desperate bid to try and salvage and rectify or if there's some senior cabinet ministers, a coming out to warn or perhaps even threaten that the only way this is going to end up is in a general election. and if that were to happen, they say it be highly likely that the tourist could actually lose their seat. so what they're trying to now do is deter. 8 tore back benches from submitting these letters of no confidence in the prime minister as rumor has it. there are almost enough of those that is being submitted that could actually trigger a leadership context. old and old. really what they're saying force is back as a basically hello, tory button says you must now back the prime minister because a far is johnson guys down we'll. well, we spoke with former british army officer trevor colt who served in afghanistan. he says, the latest scandal at number 10 is just a distraction from the bigger issues. i think this is a bit of a smokescreen, right? i've, we've got to remember that there's a lot of toys going around, a boat president, putin on a boat, my own prime minister vs president. this is a smokescreen to try to hide what's happening. cats and dogs. no one gives a crop when need to start looking at the proper news. yes, you can be that the minutes are getting on like like rottweilers as it. yes, we not have something to write about. we've now got something to, to do, to replace party get. no, we don't, we're throwing the stupid stories which don't have any credit whatsoever. right. and i, i do believe that the main thing that we should be doing is trying to preserve life . and there is a possible conflict between both the russia on the u. k. we should be talking about thought rather than cats and dogs. we are going to lose pretty shoulders on russian blood spelt and ukrainian border, and that's where we should be cockpit on, maybe a diplomatic approach rather than a military strike. so let's forget about cats and dogs. and bars, johnson and party get the rest of the wished and let's concentrate on trying to ship lives and stop people from being killed at a senseless war. events are taking place around the world for international holocaust remembrance day. but while most nations are taking a unified stance against anti semitism, others are being accused of falsifying the atrocities of world war 2. with more, here's our cheese post. we're between one to 33 and 1945. 1 3rd of the jewish people were murdered by the nazi regime and its collaborators. for the 1st time ever these ladies speak of parliament is in germany. we will address the bundle. in hebrew, it comes a few days after the un general assembly adopted and is w

u. k. a u. s. continue to give weapons to ukraine. so of course, we keep hearing this word, diplomacy from the west, but it seems like their actions are saying something completely different at our correspondence, speaking with our colleague royce, who show you their now staying with the tensions between russia and the west with the us piling weapons into ukraine, much to the ire of moscow, russia has slammed western accusations that it is the aggressor and is prepared to evade its neighbour ukraine. our nation has likewise repeatedly stated that we have no intention to attack anyone. we consider the very thoughts that our people may go to war against each other. unacceptable. as we just heard from the foreign ministry, russia has been making clear that if it weren't for the fact that the west has been pouring weapons into ukraine, this entire disagreement would have been resolved a long time ago. we are convinced that without weston assistance, the conflict in eastern ukraine would have been settled long ago. ukraine's foreign sponsors have other ideas and appear determined to implement the scenario according to which russia must attack ukraine. now, russia's concerns are not groundless by any means. we have seen the united states and its allies pouring weapons into ukraine, very consistently. we understand that the united states, as has been announced just speeding up the promise of over $200000000.00 of security assistance to ukraine. and it was promised back in december. now, among what's already been delivered, there have been lethal and non lethal weapons that have been delivered. the 1st shipment from united states this week included javelin, the anti tank missiles. now it's important to keep in mind. there are also 200 us national guard currently in ukraine, where they're operating as instructors training the ukranian military. and there is no decision from us leaders that indicates those $200.00 american national guard will be removed at any time soon. now anthony blink in the us, secretary of state has repeatedly said that the united states prefers diplomacy and communication and cooperation. that's how they prefer to resolve the situation. however, the actions from the united states of piling more weapons into a country right on russia's borders seem to have the opposite effect. analyze that you do indicated, perhaps the opposite intention. what is while washington stresses the need for diplomacy as the only way out of the crisis is some journalists in the u. s. are striking, a more belligerent note, just buying time till they replace to invade ukraine, making you jump through hoops like han, delivering written responses to questions that yvonne said time and time again. in the past. meanwhile, that the stabilizing ukraine from within the economy's crumbling, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars showing them up. what point do you stop playing rushes game and take preemptive action? now, we can walk and chew gum at the same time and that's very much what we've been doing . and while a number of journalists are seemingly in war mongering mode, others seem to have lost the plot altogether when it comes to ukraine. even name checking us false, actually saw sky taylor can tell us more. they say you should be coo and a crisis on less your the media, in which case, why when you can become hysterical and so panic instead. and never mind the cremmit battle, probably european bickering old. but i didn't miss an ice cream just after warni

u. k. n u. s. continue to give weapons to ukraine. so of course we keep hearing this word to missy from the west, but it seems like their actions are saying something completely different. well, i'm delighted to welcome live onto the program. now journalists on political aml as jonathan steel for his pick. jonathan, good to see you. russia's clearly disappointed that the u. s. has rejected its key demand on nato expansion. do you think there's still a basis for meaningful talks there? and i think number of kids says that they would continue talks on this. he called secondary issues like confidence building measures, announcement and troop movements to maneuvers and that kind of thing. but as you pointed out in your correspondence, emphasize to the big issue of the non expansion nature was ignored by v and drink and people and by the americans and nature in fact, not ignored, but they rejected it and said to every state has its right to right, to choose its own answers. there are, i suppose, plenty of other russian demands, including the poll back of nato forces in eastern europe on the removal of us, new killer arms from the region. can you see washington making concessions there? it looks like a, i mean, they taking it pretty hard line at the beginning when russia made these demands free rate. so 4 weeks ago, there was some hint of the biting people mi

u. k, u ab regulatory laws in the u. s. and in the u. k, the govern, what can go, an air will, can be printed, et cetera, because we view them as being corporations. now, is it, is there a need to change the definition of what a social media company is? yes, so that's a contrast. the question actually very well with what i was going to reply and since what already was fact, let's say for the g p r. so just like to take a moment to go back to that point because while, for example, that particular law was welcome in the sense of its emission to regulate and to put the interest in the consent of individuals and privacy of the forefront itself and mentally does not challenge the business model under which the corporations work. and actually i have many scholars and myself have argued that is at the heart of a problem. and this links with what you're asking, which is, is it just a question of design or is lying itself away? has it's, are it's tools outdated to actually deal with the kind of problems that the current technology and the crown co

u. s. that has that type of legislation here in the u. k. r official secret talked also locked a public interest defense. so the same type of case could be brought here. that's why it's been possible for a fonts to be pursued in this way. and we call not only for the case against him to be dropped for the legislation that allowed for the kids to be open to be amended. the espionage i need the public interest of an all relevant legislation around the world does as well. i'm just gonna go to youtube because there's some curiosity about public opinion in the u. k. about julianna's sanchez case. is it in the papers? is it on the radio? is it in the news? thank people cast data. i think they care more and more. and in fact, i think the papers have been covering the case. increasingly they're starting to understand how this, the implications of this case for them. because joanne case is going through the u . k court, and that means the u. k. courts are making determinations about how you know, how the equivalent of the espionage act, the official

u. k. have been bringing in some anti tank javelin missiles, the u. s. has his 4th shipment that has arrived also from that $200000000.00 defense 8 packet. so ukraine is getting a lot in return. they are also on the ground trainers from the u. k. from the u. s . are they our military men, they here to train and advise, but there is a presence already on the ground here. so you quinn is getting a lot out of this in the long run. even though you do also feel when you hear do ukraine ambassador at the end of the day, it is diplomacy that should prevail. and ukraine is saying that is willing to on to go on bout, go down that path as much as possible. we heard him say that the ukranian president, as the lensky had said, and he did say that several times on the bus that he was willing to meet russian president vladimir putin. while the response from russia so far was yes, you can come, we can meet, but we are not discussing the issue in dumbass or in crimea. so that's a nonstarter for the ukrainians here. as a certainly a very complicated situation for the country. ukraine obviously sitting there in new york trying to get as much international support as it can while at the same time telling the people here ukraine is do not pan

u. s. and the u. k. and other nato countries egging on the ukraine government to start another conflict when we're there is a mechanism minsk agreements that i've mentioned here to resolve that this is something very maniacal. go ahead, right? yeah, it's, it's hard to, as you know, there's a balance when you're trying to think this through. is it like a maniacal design or just maniacal maniacally stupid? i mean, you know, it's really a question in my mind when you think about the last 20 years of u. s. policy, the u. s. invaded afghanistan. and 2 months later, the taliban agreed to surrender in exchange for amnesty and the american said no, we don't negotiate with terrorists. and then 20 years later, the taliban, when the war in afghanistan, the invasion of iraq, you know, you can go through the entire history of the, you know, states and all of these endless wars. and they're marked by these catastrophically, dumb decisions, really stupid decisions. so there's a maniacal stupidity that exist, but becaus

u. k, where the u. s. are confirmed without in sourcing it in the public anyway, that russia has designed for regime change and care again, no details provided. at the end of last week i talked to a number of experts and too much to my surprise. so someone were a little bit more optimistic than usual that yes, there hasn't been a breakthrough, but maybe that's a good thing. and then we have this over the weekend, and now we have evacuations from embassies here. where do we stand after 2 weeks? go ahead. well, i don't think we stand in a far different place than we were at the beginning of this period 2 weeks ago. i'm in washington d. c. what an uproar over the evacuation of the u. s. embassy, and you have, i mean, the, the sense here is a great for voting that the russian invasion is imminent. that the u. s. government is taking, you know, dramatic measures to save american personnel. a real hype has been created. and at the same time, if you look at the washington post news paper, front page headlines, bi

u. s. u. k. and candidate seemingly support a diplomatic boycott. u. s. diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the p. r. c's agree, just human rights abuses and atrocities. and john, and we simply can't do that. there will be effectively a diplomatic boycott of the there will be a diplomatic voice out of the, of the wind through the big invasion. no ministers are expected to attend. i do not think that sporting boycotts are sensible. that remains the policy of the government. the chinese viewed to move as manipulation, but shrugged it off as unlikely to cause too much trouble. in fact, no one would care about whether these people come or not, and it has no impact whatsoever on the beijing winter olympics to be successfully out. not only you allies agreed with the us decision to keep government officials away from the olympics, making some american politicians angry. i am deeply concerned that l i seem less determined than we are to stop china from using the olympics as a huge propaganda when and

u. k. a u . s. central bank, they're creating more long term solutions are bad and we're going to move to some other topic here and just one second. but i did want to hit on one more point about german inflation. how much of this has to do with e c. b policy about for me. yeah, i think a lot of it has to do with easy the policy just like here in the i think it has to do with bed reserve policy. listen, central banks are driving inflation right now. there are not many other factors that are doing it. it is cheap, money being printed as a resolution to the fact that economies suffered under not unnatural conditions through the pandemic. but government impose condition, government imposed conditions, government, and post solutions. and now you have high inflation. i think it's entirely the responsibility of the e. c. b just says, here's the responsibility of the federal reserve on i'm glad you bring up central banks because that's the next topic we want to get into. and i know when we're talking about inflation, we can't mention it without. of course. also talking about the federal reserve right here in the united states. now, right now, the expectation is for the fed. you raise interest rates for the 1st time since 2018 as early as this march. and you then begin to reduce its more than a trillion dollar balance sheet in the months after that, that is all comes as fed officials have spent months saying that it's past time for the central bank to pull back on their easy money policies that were put in place nearly 2 years ago, at the start of the pandemic. now ben will come back to you to start this one. now we know that the bud policies, as we've said, had flooded the economy with cheap money. so what happens when they finally start to pull back and do you see them sticking to this current schedule? so, so my honest belief here is, i don't think the federal pull back, i think they are indicating that they might, i believe i would hope that the fed does actually want to do that. i'm not sure that they do, but i would hope that they do. here's the problem. that the moment the fed decides that they want to do this, if they actually do, and they begin to make moves to raise interest rates again. wall street doesn't want that. the banks don't want that, the cheap money that's floating around out there that the markets are eating up and gobbling up. they don't want that. and so what i believe will happen is that wall street will respond with a tantrum. that's what they've done in the past. every time there's any kind of indication whatsoever, that there might be an effort to even slightly raise interest rates. there is a response from all walter and it looks like, oh, there's problems on wall street and then the fed back. so i think that's what happened again, the markets like the conditions right now. they like that cheap money. they don't care that it's bad for the economy overall. that ultimately these policies would crash the dollar very likely. and yet, they want to keep things as they are. so i don't think there's enough of a backbone in the federal reserve bank. actually see this group are and i want to bring in peter shift into this conversation. he is the chief economist and global strategy at euro pacific capital in our friend here on boom. but i don't know how much about you heard peter. but what do you think when it comes to the federal reserve actually pulling back on these policies? what's actually going to happen here because of all, even though the federal reserve follows the route with what is indicating it made do, and gradually raises interest rates over the course of the year. so that by the end of the year, they're all the way up to one percent. one percent is a highly stimulative rate. remember that's the same rate that they slash interest rates to in 2008 to deal with the financial crisis and the great recession. you are not going to fight inflation with that piper steamboat monetary policy. you're just gonna make inflation worse. so the inflation problem is going to get worse, not better. the cpi is going to be moving up and even faster rate at the end of 2020 to that it is. now, if the fed actually follows through with its time table, so what we actually need if the fed is going to fight inflation, we need to go lose money to type money. and that means interest rates have to be above the inflation rate. well, even if you buy the government's inflation rate of 6 or 7 percent, that means they've got to go up to 7 or 8 percent. what percent is nothing? so everybody is making a big deal about about nothing. imagine what the market would be doing. it had to factor in that type of interest rate that would actually be necessary to do something about the inflation problem. yeah. then certainly doesn't seem like they're going to do much more than that one percent, at least at this moment. no. be interesting to see how the markets react to that. now, christie, we've got about 30 seconds left in the segment, but i do want to get your take on how much have investors come to really rely on the fed easy money policies over the last 2 years. and is there a lot of panic when they start pulling back? absolutely, there will be in the markets become extremely reliant. i think that goes without saying, everyone will take risks when money is free. so now on all of a sudden the spigot has stopped. then you see equity is falling and we've attained some crazy evaluations. a lot of techniques, in particular over the past couple years. the validation that are simply mind boggling and really out of proportion with the actual business. but now all the pumping is going to be rained and so there's going to be some major headwind the market as a fed moves down a more hawkish path. and in response to the hawkish minutes from the federal reserve, december meeting, we've seen a significant reaction from both markets and crypto currency. this comes as a new report says crypto currency linked crime in all time high in 2021. but that really hasn't taken away from the interest in crypto currency. in fact, even goldman sachs said, is it expect bitcoin to hit $100000.00, but that, that it will take, it will take store a value market share away from gold in order to make that move. now i want to bring back our panel, obviously here, and i want to start with peter. now peter, we know that you are, are well known a well known crypto currency skeptic. what do you make when you hear these reports? number one of all of this crypto currency related crime and scams and how much that's been involved in that? well, 1st of all, you know, there are no hawks at the fed. their hawks are is extinct as the dodo bird. they're just degrees of doves. but when goldman sachs is talking about big coin going to a 100000, i would take anything they say with a grain of salt. they are notorious for doing the opposite privately of what they say publicly. so if goldman sachs is touting big, quite 200000, they probably have some big coin they're trying to get rid of. and they're trying to pump up the market. but i think bitcoin is probably dead. i can't think of any valid reason why any institutions would be looking at bitcoin. now if they were thinking about, look out it when it was 50060000. now that is barely $40000.00. i think they're going to lose interest. there is no way you can make an argument that bitcoin represents any kind of store value. it doesn't have any value to store. it's simply a speculative, okay, and, and i don't think the speculation is worth it. i don't think the upside potential is worth the downside. risk, i think if you want to speculate, there are much better ways to do it. if you really want to save haven, if you want to store valley or water with lation hedge, i think goal this far superior to bitcoin. if that's your goal, chris, the i want to give you a chance to respond to that. what do you make of peter's comments, and how do you see that race between bit quinn and gold playing out over the next year? might i add the gold is a non interest, very acid. so if there actually is an interest rate, high gold is going to be one of the 1st assets to get dumped. so right now we're in an environment where we have high interest rates and on stability and people want a flight to safety. so when you're looking at a flight to save the asset and in consideration for bit quiet or goal, i feel like big coin is going to be the acid of toys. because one, there is actually appreciation value. there's a ton of intrinsic value to bitcoin. as we talked about in the pot, that gold really doesn't have because right now, gold is just a standard. the dollar is no longer back, a 5 gold anymore. whereas hey, coin actually has its intrinsic value. and to that point, even like special money, high store cars, they propel, they actually made a joke of the fact in the grand finale like spoiler, they made a joke that gold and the central banks have absolutely no value at all. to this presentation. i'm going to say that big point has intrinsic value. it's just a lie. and 1st of all, we don't have high interest rates. we have negative real interest rates. that's what competes with when, as long as interest rates, we're not going that we're, we're, we're not gonna have positive real interest rates. the fed as talking about moving interest rates to one percent by the end of the year. inflation is 7 percent. even if you buy the government numbers, so when you have a negative 6 percent real yield, that is extremely bullish for an asset like goal. but it has, for as far as bitcoin is concerned, since it has absolutely no intrinsic value. the only value point to place allies ation of it. yeah. because the ledger all those are brand new to the internet has never seen before that the internet you don't have as well as d. my has been truly an alley industry. interesting is a value on that and we had it down to primrose path and financial ruin. but why don't you learn something about about the comics before you come out of program like peter let that be installed to here. and fortunately, we are at a time with this conversation. i appreciate all 3 of you having this discussion, peter ship of euro pacific capital, i boom by co host fed swan and christy, i thank you all for for joining us in it. all right, and the nor strip to pipeline may be 100 percent complete, but the campaign against it continues to bite. administration has been vocal and its opposition to the pipeline that runs from russia to germany. claim me, it would give more control. busy over europe while taking gas transport profits away from the u. s. allies like ukraine. however, as the project continues to move forward, secretary of state antony blinking, took a different approach. falling a meeting with germany's foreign minister. take a listen. somebody seen what st. tooth is leverage that russia can use against europe. in fact, it's leverage for europe to use against russia. are now rachel, and i have to wonder here because it feels like the united states government and the opposition to the nordstrom to pipeline has spent months. if not years, saying this was going to allow russia to have leverage over europe and over germany, but that's not what it's me blinking just said, yeah, he's saying the exact opposite. and it's fascinating to see how the binding administration has carried on this campaign from the trump administration, and which they specifically said that europe should not have this pipeline, that they themselves negotiated with russia for their own region. and they've said that it would be because russia had to

u. s. u. k . and e, you impose sanctions on better. ruth, what are the broader international implications of this case in terms of aircraft piracy and international law? sure, well, this is an issue that is, it goes beyond the baylor root situation. you're talking about international air piracy. and if lucas shanker was allowed to get away with other dictators in the region, could be tempted to do the same. so it's important to take a tough stand against this elicit corrupt and cruel regime. that's what the u. s. is doing. we hope and expect our european partners to do the same even next when i got to get your insight. thank you very much and thanks for talking to us. thank you for having. sedans, military chief, has appointed 15 government ministers falling a visit by u. s. officials to end the countries political crisis, general abdel photography han agreed to form a technocratic government and begin a national dialogue. sedans, ruling counselor promised to amend the documents governing its tran

u. s. and the u. k. are sending military aid to ukraine with baltic nations set to follow the u. s. secretary of state and you foreign ministers, are meeting the a video link monday to discuss a unified response to russia or more on that meeting of joy now by our brussels beer chief alexander phenomena. alexander, what can we expect from this meeting of u foreign ministers and their u. s. counterpart today will, of course ukraine is front and center on the agenda and the foreign ministers are very eager to hear what you are. you as secretary blinking has to say, and what is his assessment of his meeting with the russian foreign minister lever off last week. and then they will talk about the situation about potential next step sir. they are expected to issue a statement at the aunt of to day a statement that is certainly aiming to stressor the use unity and also to send once again, a strong signal to moscow that to you is ready to impose massey 3rd sanctions. if a russia is going to use force against the ukraine, and there will be 2 things and i will be watching out for and this st