a very long time. and i think it's highly unlikely the u. s. would, would be able to come out victorious in such and such a scenario. and so the question is, what, what are they do? what are they trying to do? what they hope to achieve? this is an incredibly dangerous situation because of course, as we have seen in ukraine, it's very, you know, once, once you start the proxy was, they can ask, they tend to escalate relatively quickly. once they start escalating it, it becomes increasingly hard to, to, to, to do, to, to dial back the tone of the, of the conflict. and that's what we're seeing, the ukraine and what we risk seeing a repetition of that in the south china sea. i think that would be, you know, that the consequences could be potentially catastrophic 1st and foremost for, for us. but of course, for the world at large. absolutely. sorry to interrupt you. we are running out of time author journalists and active as thomas fuzzy. thank you very much. you're welcome. the former pakistani prime minister in wrong con has claimed washington fore

u. s. a. few years ago and 2021 a u. s. army war college paper on keep at taiwan should threatened to sabotage the planks themselves in response to an invasion in order to deter beijing from attacking. oh, nelson wong valves. i club experts on vice chairman of shanghai center for wim, pack, strategic and international studies. say the u. s. is undermining the one. china policy is trying to benefit from the control they are using this to, you know, as, as a means to launch this technology war against china. because yes, tie one is the leader in the, the production of chips, the convent to by the former security advisor of the white house does mean a lot. and it shows really, this is a sinister contingency plan of the u. s. but the excuse they use was quite worrying. they call it in case of a chinese invasion of high watt. and this is totally out of place because i want to bother china. this is a very warrior, some tendency, if the world is going to develop towards that direction. this is very bad news or of us. ah, the us

yeah, off some merger between her, her credit suisse and a u. b. s. a is a kinder offer, hugged, and marriage between 2 lame dogs, of course, ah, to situation with a kid decrease, i was going badly, but u b. s. as now a longstanding aisd traits are also bad records are in banking and i'm, i don't believe that it's east kind of marriage a clue. so, in the long term, that crises for ordinary workers and communities, it essentially means that regardless of what your economy actually produces, be the cars, energy medicines are high tech services and all accounts for nothing. if a major bank fails, leaving ordinary citizens to face the catastrophic consequences of that failure, this leaves us to ask ourselves what the actual value of these vast financial institutions is to the societies they've so badly failed. while these institutions provide some payment and transaction services to their wealthy depositors and borrowers, the rest is essentially investment banking, which focuses exclusively on making money for guess who. that's right, the investment bank a

and the u. s. is at an all time low and especially, or probably the worse since the cold war. and russia actually stated that they consider the u. s. maneuver a pro vocation, but they also claim that they don't want any confrontation with washington. the russian ambassador and tone of actually went father and accused washington of using drones for intelligence and passing the information the again through the drones to key f. so p f can use it in the war against russia. but what is very unlikely is that the tensions will escalate over this single event is specially because both parties will try their hardest not to let it happen. ok, thank you for that, jennifer. i corresponded over polco. will mike martin is war study senior fellow at kings college london? i asked him about those fears of escalation. yes, i think that is a fear, although there are 2 points that i would, michael not firstly. it's quite difficult for this war to escalate all for the relationship between russia and america to get any worse. and secondly, i think we can see now from the comments, particularly of the, the russian ambassador that both sides are very keen to, you k

u. s. always needs a fall guy and, and they treat their proxies really in a shoddy way, and they will drop them at a moment's notice. and also there's the u. s. quote, experts that will always say this is a wrong war at the wrong time. so let's pivot from russia to china. that stuff went going on. but i do think that the biden administration is absolutely politically committed to this war and keeping it going. and the whole team is committed in that way. so they may drop zalinski or act like they're going to, but i think they're going to try to keep this going in one way. it's been a success for the u. s. as a war. it's a total disaster for all of the people involved. but it broke the relations that tween germany and russia, and that was its intention between the you and russia not only on north stream on oil, on gas, but on the extensive trade, which was 10 times the size of their trade. the you trade with the u. s, so they've managed to sanctions to break that and they want to keep that broken. they want to batter this down, even though it's a disaster for the entire e. u. and frankly, ru

and funny, a very strange excuse. but it's also the role that ukraine plays as a proxy of the u. s. and as a complete on, and that means in anything they are supposed to take the fall. and it's like saying my dog did it, you know when you have a pitfall on a leash and it's doing the barking and so on. i didn't do it now. everyone knows, at this point, not only based on seymour hersh, his article, which was extremely well researched in depth and, and really interviews and new information from the very beginning. the north stream explosion was contested in the u. s. in europe, throughout and in germany. of course it by russia, seymour hersh,

and friends. but the u. s. has a lot of catching up to do, and they may be joining this fight already. a beck, africa affairs and analysis lorenz freeman says u. s. officials, a scrambling to make an impact in africa made washington's waning influence on the continent. it's a well known secret in washington that the whole purpose of this a fed so i think is really in the 1st 3 months of this year, also as a result of united states being panicked over its loss of funds in africa. this is evident in the momentum that china has 20 years in funding infrastructure projects and creating expansion wealth on the continent. and also in this, in the road by the african nations. the majority of which did not go along with the united states and every russia issuing sanctions. the united states is saying, well, we're going to give you democracy. we're going to give you good coverage. we're going to give me my rights and, but we're not gonna give you economic development. and this is what african me, i've been on the continent 25 more times. everywhere i go, we need to eliminate poverty and hunger. a

and now there is a, something like running and throwing the blame on someone else, and the u. s. a might be behind this test. i think this is not the way to do it now. throwing in new and new ideas, how it caught them without any proof that can be proved by independent investigators. there should be an independent investigation of the united nations, of the security council, or whatever with people involved from all those who are in the conflict. and then might be, we would find out the truth like this. it's more or less what's your belief, what you don't believe and keep all. so what is useful for the long side can be always brought into the life without any evidence which can be proved by independent people. that is not the way to find eligible checklists if we look at was profiting is most likely the was a property of this. and of course you're trained in the wall. the apple and they are linked together and there was so we don't know who was responsible, but it's kind of is a bit like best game that shouldn't go on there should be serious investigation. one thing these 2 new re

uh, there may be a debate and a vote in the u. s. congress, at least in the house, to morrow on ending u. s. war making in syria, and so there is a need to, to prop that justification up to insist that the u. s. is there not because of some 20 years ago disastrous war, but because of a more recent successful, victorious defense of civilization against barbarians in both iraq and syria? this is, you know, this is the story they want told. now you mention there that the iraqi government, right, it is standing because of the support it has received from the u. s. and it has that requirement for continuous support. arguably, in your opinion, do you see that continuing in the years to come? especially when taking into consideration where the people of the country actually stand and the fact that after 20 years of us occupation, they could be getting to that point of being ready for something new and a new direction for their country. i it certainly wouldn't be surprising if the iraqi people are made a new push to get us troops out of the

aircraft and force it to crash into the black sea. russia says there was no contact and described the u. s. statement as a provocation. it's the 1st direct encounter between us and russian forces. since russia's full scale invasion of ukraine, the u. s. m. q $93.00 per jerome. like the one in this file footage, was forced to crash into the black sea. because the dangerous russian interference . that's what the u. s. military is alleging that the aircraft, what we shall, again, we're, we're fighter aircraft jumping fuel in front of this, you avi. and then getting so close to the aircraft that it actually damaged the propeller on the m q 9. this type of behavior from these russian pilots that is uncommon and unfortunate and unsafe. the u. s. summoned brush as ambassador over the incident. moscow denies direct involvement. it's ambassador is calling the incident a pro vocation, but says russia wants to avoid a situation that could cause unintended clashes. medical. we don't want any confrontation between the united states and russian theories varying fever of late relations. for the sake, for the interest of

and told tucker that the u. s. government was actually planning on leaking his tax essentially unmasking his identity as a u. s. citizen, a journalist who was in contact with rob cobb in order to embarrass him and, and do this for political reasons. this shows the length to which these powers are getting abused us authorities are using these buying powers. they weren't actually interested in leaking this information because they believe that i or tucker, had in some way violated the law and had an inappropriate relationship with the russian government. they were c simply seeking to embarrass tucker carlson to discredit him by implying that he was communicating with the russian or kremlin agent, me a u. s. citizen who has no formal relationship with the russian government or financially or otherwise. my and alan that i work for the gray zone is completely independent. we don't get money from states or even state funded organizations. and so they were using me in order to imply through innuendo that tucker was somehow speaking with russian agents in a way that was inappropriate. and then by extension, they were

so there are a huge questions, but for political reasons, the u. s. and the u. k. having already bombed syria because of the so called attack, they needed to have a report that came to the conclusions that they wanted. and that's why they exhorted all the pressure they did on the o. p. c, w, and really compromise the integrity of the organization. well, i read the statement of john kelly, i'm not sure who he is. he's probably just a regular state department bureaucrat, diplomat. it really seemed like an exercise in projection basically everything that he was accusing the russians of doing with regard to the o. p. c. dummy was very blatantly done by the us and the partners. i think the statement was pretty low level look like something written out of hillary clinton's office using the russians of deception. just information, you know, the same, the basically the same things that they've always been doing. well, that's are up for now. money's pizza, scott. so i'll be back again in around 30 minutes time with another rundown of all today's top stories. thanks very much

a u. s. citizen. as it's c e o, and the company has set up privacy protection centers, a transparency centers in both the united states and in europe in order to ensure the privacy and protection of its users in order to make clear that their data not being used for some nefarious purpose i, however, these answers have not been satisfactory to the u. s. government u. s. officials continue to hurl allegations against tick tock as we saw in today's congressional hearings. a. it's also worth noting that a 150000000 people use tick tock around the world, and that number continues to rise despite the heated allegations leveled from voices in the united states. however, a poll did indicate that 40 percent of americans would favor a ban on tick tock. now there have been a number of us states that have passed a law for bidding tick tock from being used on government devices. we saw the scenes today in congress. the heated exchanges that went on so the controversy continues surrounding this social media app. legal media analyst

and risky actions from russia. however, he added that the u. s. does not seek an armed a conflict with russia, and at that the u. s. will continue flying international space and that it's up to russia to encounter the u. s. aircraft in a save and a professional manner. this is a clear alert towards russia, but nothing more than that they don't want to escalate the situation. and in that pentagon briefing, we also learned that they are not certain if this encounter a yesterday was intentional or general milly. he said that the aggressive behavior was intentional, but the actual that the actual physical contact of the aircraft that they are not sure if that was intentional as well. correspondent carlindo troy in washington as ukrainian forces hold off rushes continued, attempts to take the eastern city of buttonwood cube has signaled it is gearing up to launch a counter offensive. many in government are pending their hopes on a supply of western weapons, including german, made leper tanks, which they're expecting soon. the new hardware could help you crane break the stalemate in some areas and take back more territ

s or the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with a mid air collision between a u. s. drone and a russian war plain. and it was apparently no accident. washington saying that on tuesday, a russian fighter jet struck a u. s. surveillance drawn forcing it down over the black sea, and russia has denied that its fighter jets came into contact with the us drone. it says it didn't use any weapons against the drone either. before the drone went down, the russian warplane reportedly dumped fuel on it several times. the u. s. airforce saying the maneuver was unprofessional, and could have also forced one of the russian fighter jets to crash. all right, for now i want to pull in marina miran. she's with the war studies department at kings college london. marina's going to see you again. marina 1st thing, you know, we've just heard from the kremlin. they're saying that the drone was in russian air space headed for the russian border, and that they are not responsible for the drone crashing. and is this it? is this going to be a case of, you know, 2 versions of a story? are we going to be able to verify what rea

a lot. and it shows really, this is a sinister contingency plan, not the u. s, but the excuse they use was quite worrying. they call it in case of a chinese invasion of high watt. and this is totally out of place because i was part of china. this is a very warrior, some tendency, if the world is going to develop towards that direction. this is very bad news or of us. ah, china says the orcus alliance or the quote, well part of era and danger, australia plans to buy multiple nuclear power submarines from america. beijing has slammed if a destabilizing the region. also raising concerns the deal jeopardizes nuclear nonproliferation agreements. may you all top of that? so you can actually email me the latest joint statement from the u. s. u k. n. a trailer. demonstrate that the 3 countries for the sake of their own sale, political interests, completely disregard the concerns of the international communities and our will can further and further down the path of error and danger. well, the us president, u. k prime minister and australia prime minister, they announced

fragility in light of the current situation, unless with financial system now will only have a single big bank, u b. s. and that is not good. it's good to have competition and we won't have that em warn you off some merger between her, her credit suisse and a u. b. s. a is a kinder offer, hugged, and marriage between 2 lame dogs, of course, ah, to situation with sir kit decrease. i was going badly, but can you be s, as now a longstanding is 3. 0, off bad records are in banking. and um, i don't believe that it's east kind of marriage or who sold into long term that crises for ordinary workers and communities. it essentially means that regardless of what your economy actually produces, be the cars, energy medicines are high tech services and all accounts for nothing. if a major bank fails, leaving ordinary citizens to face the catastrophic consequences of that failure. this leaves us to ask ourselves what the actual value of these vast financial institutions is to the societies they've so badly failed. while these institutions provide some payment and transaction services to their wealthy depositors and borr

i and germany have a very different approach when it comes to china. the u. s. biden has taken on a much tougher stance implementing economic sanctions. whereas on the german side, chancellor sholtes has been more cautious. and that obviously also has to do with the economic dependencies that do exist when it comes to trade ties with china. and of course, you know, now will be the question is, of course, that if china does decide to send weapons to russia and it will be in the u. s, it is currently trying to find out who will who will sort of play along with functions towards china. and i think that's a difficult question that germany has to answer. of course, the war here in europe took center stage in washington. but i imagine that for each leader, there were some political benefit domestically. yeah, i mean, for chancellor schultz and, i mean, let's go back a week ago in berlin, hannah city, we had 13000 people who took to the streets, protesting against weapons deliveries. so um that being said, if you look at the public look at polls, yeah. that was, that

a u. s contractor and wounded several other service members. u. s service members was a one way suspected iranian attack drone that intentionally crashed into its target. we are told, of course, the us did retaliate. they targeted facilities in syria that the u. s believes were being used by iranian proxy groups in order to support those groups with munitions and intelligence secretary of defense lloyd austin saying that this strong right. this airstrike was carried out in response to several recent attacks by these iranian proxy groups. president joe biden ordering a u. s airstrike in eastern syria thursday after us intelligence assessed that an iranian origin drone killed an american contractor and wounded five u. s service members and another u. s contractor, biden authorized the straight quote against facilities used by groups affiliated with iran's islamic revolutionary guard, corps secretary of defense lloyd austin said in a statement. the department of defense said quote took proportionate and deliberate action intended to limit the risk of

and we'll visit gone away, young artists and a small label giving new appeal to discarded clothes. it's that time again dw business, welcome. the u. s. banking sector is stabilizing after recent worries over the state, u. s. banks, and some high profile collapses, rattled the industry. the a beat assessment comes from us treasury secretary, janet yellen speaking at bankers association, meeting on tuesday, saying the steps taken to protect deposits, had shown us banking system as safe and had strength and public confidence. she also said, authorities were ready to take similar actions to protect small institutions if they suffered, runs on deposits. and james sweeney is in new york with more on this. james allen's comments appear to be helping to lift a banking stocks in tuesday, trading with 1st republic leading the pack that's. that's correct. janet yellen has pretty much come into the rescue today. her comments alone led the way for more than 50 percent in today's search. today for 1st republic, a much needed bounce back for that company. and for those wondering what you said, well, you know, i'm pretty much pledged or support to

and rich uranium to non nuclear weapon states. this constitutes a serious risk of nuclear proliferation. u. s. president u k prime minister and australian pm announced plans to develop a new generation of subs that will be built in the u. k. and australia with us technology and support the subs that fuel by it, weapons grade, highly enriched uranium, and could enter service in the late 20 thirty's or early twenty's. forty's, australia's foreign minister has asserted that the vessel was, will not be nuclear. armed on with that for not a lie later than on the anti proliferation x commitments. will that says the u. s. is praised the controversial new deal calling it a prospects of peace stag. got the inflection point in history, where the hard work of enhancing deterrence and promoting stability is going to affect the prospect a piece for decades to come. the united states can ask for no better partners in the pacific where so much of our shared future will be written when it's not discussed, this with him on this and director of the center for counter hedge, a monic studies many thanks for join

and a garcia t. his stand. your has been marked by a series of scandal and he has been appointed at the u. s. envoy in new delhi. now disappointment took bass after a gap off to we're as that's been the longest gap ever, that india did not have a u. s. ambassador, but as far as this man and before we, before he got appointed done, he basically said that he wants to, into fair, in india's matter. never mind that his own tenure has been marked by a series of scandals. but i intend to engage directly with civil society. there are groups that are actively fighting for the human rights of people on the ground in india that will get direct engagement from me. for me, these will not be after thoughts, my master's degrees and human rights international law. i've fought for human rights on 4 different continents. do we have your commitment that you will be a voice in regards to any discrimination against minority groups such as the muslim population within india? i would not only just bring it up, but it would not be something at the end as an obligation. it would be a core piece of what all the enga

a lab. and that has raised a lot of outrage republicans or calling for dr. valgy to be put behind bars. and this comes as a way of the immunization of china from u. s. officials and u. s. media blaming china for the pandemic. now china has was back and said the united states should be turning serious public health issues into political weapons, new report, anatomy, origins of coven, 19 the u. s. energy department, now differing from some other government agencies that of the f. b, i and the united states has said the corona virus pandemic is most likely to have emerged from a chinese laboratory, created deliberately for research, but leaked unintentionally into the world. china predictably is furious and pushing back the lack of cooperation from china has made it difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of the pandemic seems lovely, is extremely unlikely. this is an authoritative scientific conclusion that experts from now and the world health organization region. after visiting the relevant laboratory and blue hand and holding and exchanges with relevant researches, the relevant party should stop playing up the large league theory, stop smearing chin

c of a soldier, even from australia and the u. s. is never going to try to cooperate in something like that. so it just seems to me that the ice he sees hands are tied and dead. they would not a they would not be able to carry out a successful prosecution. thousands of protesters of hit the streets of kenya's capital to protest against rise and costs of living upon local reporter brought us details about the demonstrations and that of the international response. the bloody aftermath of the gum in protest. the attention of the international community with africa now political faith and restraint. in kenya, the 1st round of the month, protest, people killed their home, that ablaze was looted on businesses and destroyed private property, incubate and it'll be known to be the better off of that position. the name of the anything didn't commit to the position you really trying to fight 3 election been use medicaid to try and create some of it for them. but actually you will be to wait for the community for that. but you are wondering when

advancing 5 g and other related technologies, antique talk is a far more advanced, a nice states in alga reason and a i technologies. so that somehow has frightened united states and the u. s. companies cannot compete with these chinese companies. so they've began to adopt this kind of approach, which is a unfair and also very me the on the other hand, they see tick tock. and now has over will i be 1000000 active users in the united states? or so my, my sympathy for the american users of tick tock. it's so easy to use, so much fun, but he can not enjoy. they have to, you know, whatever, cook with secondary surgery rate technologies. now we're seeing china and it's, it's taking a much more i don't correct me if i'm on a much more active role in global politics as the de belts and rhode scheme does. the infrastructure projects in africa, the mediation between saudi arabia and iran, the bilateral relations with russia. i would definitely see that a more active china. where do you see the countries direction go the next 510 years or so? do you envision china will keep on this, this path of, of taking a really major, rolling global politics counterbalance in the u. s. at gemini

u. k. beijing accused the 3 countries of going quote, further down a dangerous road and of disregarding the concerns of international community. the u . s. u. k. and australia unveiled the plans on monday at a meeting of their security alliance known as office a room. welcome to the 3 global leaders that have come together to a not, not just the major arms, dale, that's an historic strategic partnership. the oak is agreement. we confirm hearing sandy, i represent the biggest single investment in australia's defense capability in all about history ah, australia will buy as many of 5 of these nuclear powered submarines and like to build a new one themselves based on british design with u. s. technology. it's a long term upgrade that will make australia a full partner in fielding top secret us nuclear technology, previous the only shag with the u. k. warden has no partnership. we're showing again how democracies can deliver our own security and prosperity and not just for us, but for the entire world. oh, chris is an attempt to count growing chinese military power in the asia pacific region, including beijing's construction of a sophistica

a u. s. military veteran and author of the book, the burn pitts. good to have you back joe. the u. s. defense department is now estimating that 3 and a half 1000000 troops. that's u. s. troops in kosovo, iraq and afghanistan eventually returned to the u. s. with respiratory or other health problems because of, of exposure to the burn pits. that is a gigantic number. but the problem that we've seen since 2010 is that the pentagon didn't bother to keep records of what was actually burned, where it was burned, how it was burned, and who was exposed to the smoke. as a result, the u. s. department of veterans affairs has been reluctant to admit that these diseases were service related. has that finally been fixed, or veterans finally receiving the care and the benefits that they deserve. a lot more better and you get to hear this packet. that recently happened was a huge, but again, it moves so slow. we're still seeing a lot of people being denied that we shouldn't be there. but it is turning around. it's getting better. it should've been better a lot faster. what happens with agent oran

and if you're, what happens to the economy, be damned really. as the u. s. tries to ring fence a, russia and china and the other countries who may align with them, the u. s. is bifurcated a slowly the global economy, the global capitalist economy. but it's all because the geopolitical objectives, i believe and it's, it's going to be a big price to pay, i think eventually by young couple years from now. i think it's too early, much too early to say that. and unlike in 2008, oh boy, the government is jumping on this thing, ensuring bailouts and so forth. already within 24 hours, see how they learn their lesson of not dragging their feet back then i, i think one of the consequences if, if there is contagion, is the feds gonna stop raising rates because they're going to take care of the financial sector 1st. and that means inflation is going to stay high and 345 percent. it's not going to come down. so then between a rock and a hard place and how do they try to keep bringing inflation now my raising rates are by raising rates, do they cause a further financial stress that the fed doe

u. s. plays a very decisive role and the u. s. recognizes that just as it cannot compete with china fairly economically, that it has to resort to these kind of underhanded tactics to try to slow down china's development rather than improving itself. it also recognizes that it cannot engage in these military efforts to contain china on its own and has to marshal what resources it can. i think this is where we see nato coming into play here. but the other thing we have to recognize to, to come back to this idea of changes unseen in a century is that the original logic for nato was to keep germany down russia in the u. s. in. and i think there's a growing awareness in europe and in germany that should germany be kept down forever. and that is it time for germany to take a greater role. and in fact, a reproach more with russia makes a lot of sense. and i know many german business people that it's very impolitic to say these things, but you know, they recognize the reality of we may be again witnessing and unraveling in a realignment