u. s. around leadership. how long pledge to conduct retaliatory measures against israel in the case of such an attack around president bray. see also recently accused israel's close ally the u. s. of attempting to the stabilize the western asian country by inciting deadly riots. we heard from international of 1st specialist side mohammed, but on the of the university of tehran. he says if israel conducts an attack on a run, it will have to deal with severe consequences. israeli regime makes many claims, but 1st of all, the iranian nuclear installations are very well protected. and in addition to that, iran's retaliation would be very severe. a barely regime is small. it is very vulnerable. and i think they already know the sort of capabilities that iran has when it comes to miss aisles and drones. so if there is any attempt to strike you run their italy, asian would be very harsh. it would be much they would receive much more than they hand out. and in addition to that, they will be the ones to blame for any a

now that's one way around it rushes on, buffalo t u n says the u. s. must immediately written billions of those in the afghan state funds that it sees at sams, both of us and all the major donors to use african fonts as a way to achieve their own goals are immoral. we called for the immediate return of the stolen fonts to the african people. the us and its partners did not seem to understand their math, had safin fluency, regimes they dislike through unilateral sanctions, political, and economic pressure. and and less ultimatums have long ago lost their effectiveness doze. only lead to an increase in the assurance that countries need to find their own path of self sufficient development. without waiting for western financial assistance, the u. s. sees around 3 and a half $1000000000.00 from afghanistan central bank last year as it withdrew its forces from the water and central asian country, saying it didn't want the taliban to get the money. yes for them, jo boynton has said some of the funds should compensate the families of victims of the 911 terror

u. s. government governments around the world have to be doing to take care of their populations. why does this matter for ordinary people beyond just the inspiration aspect? well, again, i can just go back in time to the sixties and they said, you know, the different version of the same thing. you know, why are we doing this when, till in the black and i, i would just fast forward a bit. and i mean, we're all excited here in the us that this is happening in canada and europe and so forth. but i would still the question back you wire was india spending billions of dollars to put a person in space wise try to doings why are with the new artemus accords which brings had several dozen nations in why do you see cell a little countries are gonna and depaul flying satellite took a space station. it's because of the technological advantage it does give you, it is inspirational. that is important. but also it's now something where space is now something that virtually any country in almost any high school and he were the world can do. so this is a natural thing that now we can say, well,

u. s. lead around 60 western and latin american countries in recognizing him as leader with some allowing him to employ ambassadors. maduro bard, the u. s. humanitarian aid and cut diplomatic ties. the trump administration replied to crippling sanctions, including on vital oil exports up to 5000000 people with forced to leave when his while of western allies gave guido control of the countries foreign assets domestic supports for him with it after he failed to take power. most e u countries back to guido, but dropped their recognition of him as president last year. but the u. s. continues to recognize him. ah, let's bring it, i guess wrong, caracas tamir for us. he's the managing director of global sovereign advisory, and was previously deputy foreign minister adviser to president hugo chavez in chief of stuff to president nicholas meadow or in neil vanessa norman. she's the founder and ceo of asymmetrical political risk firm. she's also the former official represent sit for one guy in the united kingdom and ireland and also from crackers, full guns, and he's a senior analyst, the in spec

u. s. and around the world to appreciate the fact that this, this merchant of death label that they put on him, we really and the fair. and that the way this retired russian citizen living in moscow was targeted by the u. s. was really a terrible, a front to rush and sovereignty. and as a result of that, i'm jumping ahead a little bit. as a result of that, you can actually pinpoint the deterioration of relations between the us and russia to that moment when, when victor was target. and, and as, as i've said many times the u. s. agencies involved decided to target victory route because because they could, without any giving any thought to whether or not they should and the repercussions that followed a lot of helpful things happened along the way. and it starts with all a boot. victor's wife, who never gave up and never hired of trying to ensure that he would be freed president pollutant, who never gave up the notion that victor booth was wrongfully taken from from, from his fellow citizens in his family. and that i should say, for mister roth, was, was insistently in victor's corner, as wa

u. s. and around the world to appreciate the fact that this, this merchant of death label that they put on him was really une fair. and that the way this retired russian citizen living in moscow was targeted by the u. s. was really a terrible affront to russia sovereignty. and as a result of that, i'm jumping ahead a little bit. as a result of that you, you can actually pinpoint the deterioration of relations between the us and russia to that moment when, when victor was target. and, and as i've said many times, the u. s. agencies involved decided to target victor rude because because they could, without any giving any thought to whether or not they should and the repercussions that followed. we were fortunate that the judge and victor's trial judge shalon made some very important findings at his sentence, saying that were that were really strong and supportive. and pointed out several of the things that, that undermined this merchant of death. the narrative that had taken hold in the us . the 1st thing i did was i gave her call. she had been retired at the time to migrate the surprise she

u. s. and around the world to appreciate the fact that this, this merchant of death label that they put on him was really unfair. and that the way he was, he was this, this, this retired russian citizen living in moscow was targeted by the u. s. was, was, it was really a terrible, a front to, to russian, russian sovereignty. and as a result of that, i'm jumping in a little bit. as a result of that you, you can actually in point the deterioration of relations between the us and russia. to that moment when one victor was target. and, and as, as i've said many times the u. s. agencies involved decided to target victor booed because because they could, without any giving any thought to whether or not they should and the repercussions that follow. so, you know, step number one is when take over a case that, you know, when i took it over is 13 years old. but, but by that time it's a struggle to change the narrative. but a lot of a lot of helpful things happened along the way and it starts with all a boot victors wife who never gave up and never hired of trying to ensure that he would be freed pr

u. s. well, around has also a rock there between china and the american tech giant google. it's off the google refuse to change your search results to display china's national anthem rather than a protest song. when use a search for hong kong, national anthem. the sound glory to hong kong was used by demonstrators during the mass protest in 2019. it was banned a year later on to security laws. however, it now comes out when googling the national anthem of the financial hub. the company says the ranking of search results is done by algorithms and it won't change listings manually. that is to spite a flea from hong kong authorities we actually asked google to pin the correct national and from on top of its page, but it refused. this is unbelievable. and hong kong people will not accept it. the hong kong government will definitely use all means to correct this situation. i was discussing the story earlier with international and independent china specialist. andrew long is normal at google practice. i have to list it the, the highest search items on the top of the list, and som

u. s. general said around a $100000.00 russian, and as many ukrainian soldiers were killed or injured. since february, south africa is present, serial rama poster has entered crisis talks with his governing and see party the leader is under pressure to step down or face impeachment proceedings or proposals accused of breaching anti corruption laws in the alleged cover up of a cash burglary at a farm he owns, interested in c. authorities in brazil say, flooding has killed at least 2 people in the country. self rescue teams are trying to evacuate. hundreds of families trapped in their homes. some were air left to safety. and such teams are still looking for dozens of missing people after a landslide. hit a mote away. earlier this week a u. s. president o biden says he's willing to speak to vladimir putin about ukraine. but the, the ukraine, the russian leader must commit to ending the war. biden has been meeting with french president emanuel micron at the white house where the pair have been discussing solutions to the conflict and strengthening transatlantic trade relations. emanuel mac

u. s. in ukraine. everyone needs to get around the shipping table as russia have offered and on continue to offer the u. s. needs to get the ukrainians around the negotiating table. and this conflict is not going to restore, you know, harmony in terms of the energy market and have the food security for the most poor, poor nations in the world, particularly in africa. that's really got to be phase one. phase 2, we were moving away now from this unit polar, well, the us to stop giving us the real facts of just where their economy is, whether financial, how they couldn't fit too many us dollars or how they know, how do we know they need to stop being honest with chris many thanks for talking to us today. it's been very interesting and enlightening aut he contributed. chris ends, thanks nicki speak, say i thank you for joining us. harold asi international based friday. we're back at the top of that with a very nice with brush in the west to revive the cold war. because both recognize and practice, the concept of indivisibility of security. one country should not attempt to attain security at the expense of

u. s. u k. is that around 1011 percent or something now? is, could this also pose an inflation risk? absolutely, because at the end of the day, inflation is caused by, by, by currency movements and manufactured asians and an effect from economy. the fact of, if you can account for where money is and money is needed in order to buy things, then you've got a really big problem that could cause a situation situation of hyperinflation, whereby a currency becomes worthless. it becomes, at the end of the day, this just shows us, we can't trust the us dollar. if the wealth stop trusting the u. s. dollar tomorrow, which is sort of starting to happen. we've seen these moves from russia, china, and a lot of other nations where they're starting to trade in other currencies, apart from the us dollar that can have a massive knock on effect, particularly for western economies. so do you think that this, this would obviously help, you know, and the head gemini, of the, of the u. s. dollar and stuff. it's a good thing that the schedule of the dollarization going to maybe even a shift to solve crypto

u. s. where the populations around as far as that said, there are some big names. cities there, aberdeen peer bismark, over billings, montana, temperatures reaching those crazy levels, which indeed, that is celsius, 50 below 0 celsius for the actual windshield and about 40 below 0. in many places for the air temperature. and so we're down those if you have to travel, have an emergency getting your car even. it's only a 5 minute drive. 5 minutes is all it takes in an emergency to get frostbite for your skin to literally essentially die. and your traverse rented a, there was also quickly become deadly. so people have to have operations with them. what about holiday travel and getting in your car to go? 5 minutes is dangerous. does this mean a lot of people around the country are going to have to cancel their holiday plant? i think so, or at least push them back one day friday to morrow is going to be a bad roundly for millions. i think saturday, we'll see some improvement in mosul. cows. but in addition to the driving issue, we talked about the north central u. s. air travel in big concern do a

u. s. government designated around, revolutionary gods as a terrorist organization. you say that germany and presumably also that you should move to do so. now, what do you make of, of the fact that that has not happened yet? i think that the german government for the past 3 years, or 5 years in the last legislative term, that is my fear of expertise. i would say the last government has not been looking with a realistic i to was ron and what was happening there. but these demonstrations that we're witnessing now, the courage that people bring to the streets, even though they, they, they might be imprisoned by, by these actions just demanding freedom. this is a new level of the situation and the brutality and iran. so i think it, this decision is over and i think our current government will move forward with a realistic i that the former government in germany didn't have german lawmaker get against. and joining us with that perspective, thank you so much. ah, took a tar now and the world cup where play resumes in coming hours with 8 teams in the quarter finals. there

u. s. ambassador to peru, and as they say in the u. s. is really no such thing as a former cia agent. the reality is that many people around the world know that the u. s. embassy is used to organize coups and it's used for intelligence and spying operations. and in latin america, there is a joke that you often hear people say they say, why is that as there never been a coup in washington? and that the answer is because there's no u. s embassy in washington. and that's a rob on the hour's top news stories from around the world for more coverage, head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on rumble, odyssey and gap, we'll see it back next hour. ah ah, lisa canter, rush in the state. little narrative i side as i phone and ignore some scheme with 55 with. okay, so mine is 2000 speedy when else with will ban in the european union. the kremlin. yup, machines. the state aren't russia today, and split ortiz spoke neck, given our video agency, roughly all band on youtube and pinterest. and with then lou molly la la la la la la la la la la la la la, la, la la, with ah .

u. s. should be around the table as well. i agree . i agree. i definitely do agree. i do think that the americans should be involved here in order to come to an agreement, which would bring the war to an end. look, i'm living in hungary, i i and we hung areas have been faced with the really, really variable. let's say situations. $1000000.00 refugees arriving 90 percent. those are torn apart families without fathers. so the mothers are bringing the children. sometimes the grandparents you know, and it's heartbreaking to see the winter is coming. if there is no electricity in the country, if there is no proper heating system operational country, you can imagine the scope or the extent of the humanitarian catastrophe in this regard. so i think we europeans, and the americans as well should concentrate on the bringing this war to return. now, we are a small and low countries, country europe, as i told you. so we have a limited leverage in this regard to say a maximum. so i think that the biggest, strong conscious should bear the flex. oh, someone to talk about finland a

u. s. but, but around the world. yeah. i think it shows that the solutions to these problems are going to be grassroots and they're going to mean listening to the people affect it. because the people affected don't exist along these clean lines. are you disabled or are you a woman, or are you black or are you brown? we all exist an intersection of a lot of these identities, whatever they may be. and i think ahead of on and aaron and i keep saying, you know, disability and lead disability lead. and that mean reading from these other marginalized groups as well. i mean, disability is far more common in these multi marginalized communities and black and brown community, poor communities. so you're going to find that if you want to include disabled people, you have to include all disabled people at the intersection of the thing. it's right and, and, you know, we all love it. i love it. you know, i love that she spoke about intersectionality because even the migrant, she didn't say migrants, but migrants with disabilities also

u. s. custody. tensions around high and northern kosovo were ethnic serbs of blocked roads. after a night of gunfire and explosions and awe booms and beats, one of west africa most popular musical genres. and how it's taking over the world . ah, a senior official in the east enhanced screech and says ukrainian forces of hit a hotel that was being used by mercenaries from russia's wagner group. so he could die. the governor of the russian occupied region is saying that a number of fighters were killed in a blast in the town of can give her. the wagner group has a private military contract to with close ties. the kremlin, which is known to be operating in ukraine. russia's defense ministry is not confirmed or commented on the attack. also the porter, the data, has now stopped operating after rush or attack regions, energy grid. this is a vital transport hub for delivering grain to much of the developing world. but ukraine's agriculture ministry said exports will continue from 2 other ports. russia blocked ukraine's ports for months during the invasion until 3 were allowed to o

around the globe. i'm paralyzed about the u. s. is to expand training of ukrainian troops as it plans to prepare $500.00 soldiers a month on german soil. since april the u. s. at its allies have trained around 15000 ukrainian soldiers r t z or start of got the chance to speak to a ukrainian prisoner of war who had previously been trained in the u. k. we should warn you. the interview was filled with the person being held in captivity. the u. k. prides itself for an overwhelming amount of support. it's provided for ukraine in the war against russia. london has scooped its own stockpiles of weapons, too near critical levels. it has brought tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers to britain's training sites and claim they've evolved into proper commandos. but now the smith is ready to bust overseas training did nothing for this fresh ukrainian captive moved one or will in september they called me. i got a draft notice and i joined the army here. that is what happened. then. we'll put a full, i began training. what training? nor will i

u. s. u. c. now ukrainian, you see libyan, you see theory and you see iraqis and africans, of course, from the past 2 decades of war. so ultimately, anyone who's anyone around the world knows the u. s. cannot be trusted. the u. s. is not a trustworthy partner. and the u. s will always backstab its allies for its own game. christopher holly, political analyst and researcher, thank you for that. thank you very much. the ukraine wants to hold a p summit up the united nations to put an end to the conflict, but it doesn't anticipate russia taking part that's according to the ukranian foreign minister. and he added that russia must face a war crimes tribunal prior to any direct negotiations. the idea of the peace formula is to fault on the one hand, not to allow russia to manipulate the issue of peace. because they regularly say that they are ready for negotiations, which is not true because everything they do on the battlefield, cross to the opposite, prove the constable to the contrary. they're not, they're not seeking peace. what seems the idea that western leaders and have in mind is not so much peace talks as it is just kind of a huddle or some kind of local

u. s. is, is really playing catch up here. that is, kimberly was just talking about their unit in trumps time. everything went backwards at u. s. relations around the world receded, didn't then, especially on the continent of africa. absolutely. and you asked about the about what's on the agenda and i'll tell you some of the criticism already out is that i everything under the sun is on the agenda. meaning it has like a really open big diner menu where everything is there. and hence there are no a parent or clear priorities for the united states. so the question for us is not what's on the agenda. what is the priority of the united states at this point in time? and how would that help with to catch up with china? and thus, believe it or not is still not clear. the united states now says that there will be certain deliverables, but that they will not announced them until the summit actually ends fair enough that on us for the surprise, clearly they might have something in mind, but there's not sharing it with us. when i looked at the, the, the state department website like the department of defense, you would see the department of defense listin

u. s. after world war 2 union membership. it was around a 3rd of the u. s. workforce was was, were union members. that's down to one in 10 now. and that number's including the public sector when you take them out. public sector as, as strong union density. remove them in the private sector. it's down to 6 percent rights. are you talking one out of every 16 workers? that's it. in the private sector are members of unions. i think a lot of americans are, are coming around to the idea that maybe they do serve some, some important function here. when union density is dropped so low and they see that that there really is no kind of counter veiling force to manage men into corporation. so i think that's one reason why a lot of people have general public and workers in particular sees, see a need for unionism right now. i want to add, and it's really important because we're talking about as late as experienced with starbucks and jordan's experience with amazon and, and many of the small and large companies around the us who are having issues with not being able to

u. s. managed to collect around a 3rd of what's needed and for ethiopia, just half of the money needed has been received. we spoke with a climate activist from uganda who says that africa climate change issues of being caused by the global north. the actions or the global know over is treat and action and you king polluting industries for the prices because the, the heaviest. and they want to be more to the crisis. africa needed competition because africa is the most affected continent in the world when it comes to climate crisis. and even the decisions made by other civilizations affect the african quote in so much. so africa was presented especially by the global most by providing the loose and i made you found which they missed. are people a suffering people? we have our mother than to the west lake tombstones across the landscape of our point in it because the b that's does the splitting us every bit. people are moving group for survival and they can't find that was so the global news is heavily to blame for closing that climate crisis failed to stop on a good investment love. how was

u. s. and taiwan as war rages around the many ukrainians mark christmas earlier than usual to distance themselves from moscow's orthodox christian holiday calendar. residents of the town of boucher alysia putting on their own traditions sandy state and the big fries continues across north america. after a bit of christmas storm that has claimed dozens of lives. ah, i'm glad of his welcome to the program. more than 70 chinese military aircraft have entered taiwanese air space over the last 24 hours. that's according to the islands government. this is the largest incursion to date by china, which claims sovereignty over the self governing territory. ty wants defense, ministry said doesn't suffice. a jets crossed the median line and the taiwan strait, which acts as an unofficial buffer zone, begging said it had conducted strike drills in response to provocations from taiwan at the united states. and earlier we spoke to the w corresponded pon wang in taipei, and i asked him why these drills have been conducted now. so on christmas day, the chinese army conduct takes try trials in the sea and air spac

u. s. energy information administration around $55000000000.00 have poured into american coffers from the you in the 1st 9 months of 2022. and that's up from just $8300000000.00 in the same period of last year. economic consultants, i mean a, i, you, the says that european governments are making survey poll financial decisions. well, with the, with the drop in the temperatures in europe, actually russia is always, is trying to get where house, full hand to europe and mitigate the financial crisis. europe is actually struggling right now, and with the, with the high prices of the american airline, g is costs in europe. there. they should be looking for other sources of real energy. they're in the winter months. and russia is actually trying to, to give them, have to hand i, as you know, with the, with the korean russian, the crisis in 2022 european governments. these not actually think about the cause of actually even a hard time to russia and the title. i think the european governments need to be twice about to the next supplier. and the destruction of the supply chain globally is going t

u. s. and taiwan as was raging around the many ukrainians mark christmas earlier than usual to distance themselves. moscow's orthodox christian holiday calendar. residents of the town of boucher are this year putting on their own traditions sent to stay and dozens of people are dead from a bitter christmas storm wiping across north america. and it's not over yet. ah. i've got else as welcome to the program. more than 70 chinese military aircraft of entered tie with his air space over the last 24 hours. the islands government reports. this is the largest incursion to date by china, which claims sovereignty over the self governing territory. ty, while defense ministry said dozens of fighter jets, crossed the median line in the taiwan strait, which acts as an unofficial buffer zone. begging said, had conducted strike drills in response to publications from taiwan and the united states. and earlier i spoke to the w correspondent poem when in taipei and i asked him why these drills are being conducted now. though, on christmas day, the chinese army conduct takes try truce in the sea and air space. ther

u. s. ambassador to peru, and as they say in the u. s. is really no such thing as a former cia agent. the reality is that many people around the world know that the u. s. embassy is used to organize coups and it's used for intelligence and spying operations. and in latin america, there is a joke that you often hear people say they say, why is that as there never been a coup in washington? and that the answer is because there's no u. s embassy in washington. 3 explosions have brought the city of daniel over night. 6 grad missiles were fired at a residential area. according to local authorities. one of the buildings reportedly caught fire with windows blown out and an entire floor destroyed in another whiteness as say, some missile fragments hid a car, injuring a family and side. we heard from local residents about their life under constant shelling lane, cities, units of blood, the option, the ukrainian regime ignores all the rules and targets purely civilian areas. there are no military personnel, they're only local residence, small children leave here. i have no idea what they're doing and when it will end those 3 vanilla

u. n. s reported that around 370000 people have been displaced by the violence. the bloomberg is reporting about the use suffered losses of around one trillion dollars due to its rejection of russian natural gas imports. the blocks refusal to accept regular supplies from its traditional provider as cause prices to search, leaving many european struggling to heat their homes on sparking protests, write the continent. our t contributor rachel morrison has put the following together for us. french protesters hit the streets here in paris over the weekend, and absolutely freezing sub 0 celsius temperatures because well, protesting vigorously is probably far cheaper to keep warm than sitting at home and turning on the heat these days. here in europe. and marchers don't seem to have any problem. identifying those responsible for their energy was pointing the finger at nato and tipping their brace to european commission. president ursula vander line by chanting. ursula, shut up, flavio filippo. the leader of the populace sovereign to slip athletic party, who routinely s

u. s. allies have trained around 15000 ukrainian soldiers. eager to donna spoke to ukrainian prison of war had been trained in the you, k. and we should warn you. the interview was filmed with a person held in captivity and therefore may have been given on the dress. the u. k . prides itself for an overwhelming amount of support. it's provided for ukraine in the war against russia. london has scooped its own stockpiles of weapons too near critical levels. it has brought tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers to britain's training site and claim they've evolved into proper commandos. but now the smith is ready to bust overseas training did nothing for this fresh ukrainian captive moves one or will in september they called me to read. i got a draft notice and i joined the army with the east. what happened then? we'll put a full, i began training. what the training, nor will i was abroad in england. gutless. how did you get there? without them on a plane, they dropped us off somewhere in england. then we rode a bus for around 9 hours. did the plane take off from ukraine today? no, from polan

u. s. ambassador to peru, and as they say in the u. s. is really no such thing as a former cia agent. the reality is that many people around the world know that the u. s. embassy is used to organize coups and it's used for intelligence and spying operations. and in latin america, there's a joke that you often hear people say, they say, why is there is there never been a cou in washington? and that the answer is because there's no u. s embassy in washington. 3 explosions have wrought the city of don yeske overnight. sakes grad missiles were fired at a residential area. according to local authorities, one of the buildings reportedly caught fire with windows blown out, and that entire floor destroyed. and another witnesses say, some missile fragments hid a car, injuring a family and side. we heard from local residents about their life under constant shelling, larry in cities, units of blood, the auction. the ukrainian regime ignores all the rules and targets purely civilian areas. there are no military personnel, they're only local residents, small children leave here. i have no idea what they're doing and when it will end th