u. s. defense department has just released footage that it says shows a russian air off intercepting a u. s. spy drone over the black sea on tuesday. now, according to u. s. authorities, this video shows a russian su $27.00 fighter jet, approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it. as the air craft passes closely by and washington is saying the jet collided with the drones propeller on a 2nd path. that collision isn't shown in this edited video released, although damage to the propeller can be seen later. and we will be bringing you more on that as it comes in. but we're going to go back to our main story now. and european markets are appearing to rebound off to switzerland's embattled bank. credit suisse secured a big financial lifeline. our concerns over the troubled lender had earlier than asian stock market's falling. credit suisse has said it will borrow up to 50000000000 euros from switzerland central bank and a bid to show up it's liquidity, meaning how much cash it has on hand to finance is business. the some collapses of to us banks last week have sparked growing fears. world

u. s. defense department has released footage to back up its complaint that a russian aircraft intercepted a u. s. drone over the black sea. according to us authorities. this video shows a russian su 27 fighter jet, approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it as the aircraft passes by in close proximity without appearing to cause any damage to the dr. but washington says the jet did collide with the drones propeller. on a 2nd pass, that pass is also shown here, but the actual collision isn't visible in the editor at video release by the pentagon, although damage to the propeller and be seen later after the picture is re established . we spoke earlier with military analyst frank leverage and asked him what stood out from the video. the 1st thing that's flagrantly obvious is that this was a deliberate action by the russian fighters. it seems that they were in the vicinity for more than half an hour. and that would indicate as well that there was some element of commission or did command to this 2nd thing is by dumping fuel as you see there on the screen now. but sir, the intention there i

u. s. defense department's take on what happened over the black sea. you know, we are continuing to assess exactly what happened. but i think based on the actions of the russian pilots, it's clear that it was unsafe unprofessional. and i think the actions speak for themselves what we, what we saw again we're, we're fighter aircraft dumping fuel in front of this you a v. and then getting so close to the aircraft that it actually damaged the propeller. on the m q 9, we, we assess that it likely caused some damage to the russian aircraft as well. ah, to our knowledge, what we know that the aircraft, the russian aircraft did land. i'm not going to go into where they landed. but again, it just demonstrative of a very unprofessional unsafe airman ship on the part of these pilots. one d, w. 's, washington correspondent michelle, a covenant sent us this update. this was a very significant incident, and one of the indicators is that it took hours for this to become public and both sides. the u. s. and russian side are currently talking to each other that's at l

u. s. defense department has released the footage that it says shows a russian, a craft intercepting a u. s. by drug of the black sea on tuesday. according to us or authorities. this video shows the russian su 275 digit approaching the drone. and then dumping fuel of it as the air craft passes by, in close proximity without appearing to cause any, any damage to the us drunk. but washington says the jet did collide with the drones propeller on a 2nd pass. that pass, which is also shown here. but the actual collision collision rather isn't visible in the edited video released. although damage to the propeller can be seen later, after the picture is re established. now that the actual footage has been released asked military analyst, frankly, which what stood out to him. this was a deliberate action by the russian fighters. it seems that they were in the vicinity for more than half an hour. and that would indicate as well that there was some element of commission on the command to this. second thing is by dumping fuel as you see there on the screen. now that the intention there is to blind

u. s. defense department's take on what happened earlier today. you know, we are continuing to assess exactly what happened, but i think based on the actions of the russian pilots, it's clear that it was unsafe, unprofessional. and i think the actions speak for themselves what we, what we saw again we're, we're a fighter aircraft jumping fuel in front of this, u a v. and then getting so close to the aircraft that had actually damaged the propeller on the m q 9. we, we assess that it likely cause some damage to the russian aircraft as well, to our knowledge, what we know that the aircraft, the russian aircraft did land. i'm not going to go into where they landed, but again, it just demonstrative of very unprofessional unsafe airman ship on the part of these pilots. when i got an update on the situation earlier from our washington correspondent telecom, what was behind is really what all sides are trying to assess. we heard here in washington from the white house today, we heard from the state department and we heard from the pentagon and the messag

u. s. defense department has just released footage that it says shows a rush, an aircraft intercepting a u. s by drug, either the black sea on tuesday, according to us or thirty's. this video shows a russian su 275 digit approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it as the aircraft passes closely by without appearing to cause a me any damage to the drone. but washington says the jet collided with the drones .

u. s. defense department has released footage that it says shows a russian aircraft intercepting a us spy drone over the black sea. according to the pentagon, this video shows a russian su $27.00 fighter jet, approaching the drug, and then dumping few all over it as the aircraft passes by in close proximity without appearing to cause any damage to the drone. with the pentagon says the jet collided with the drones propeller on a 2nd pass. that path is also shown in the video. the actual collision is not visible in this video, although damage to the propeller can be seen later after the picture is re established. so after days of a heated war of words between washington, moscow, the pentagon says it has now delivered proof. but does that change anything? i put that question to the founding director of the modern war institute at west point and co author of the book, understanding urban warfare, corporal, liam collins. no, i don't think it's changed because of the video, and it was pretty credible when begin with one of us reporting that it was struck by a russian aircraft. i don't think it'

u. s. defense department has released footage that it says shows a russian warplane intercepting a us spy drawn over the black sea on tuesday. the pentagon says the video, it shows a russian fight.

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u. s. defense department has released footage that it says shows a russian aircraft intercepting a u. s. spy drone over the black sea that happened on tuesday. now, according to you esl socrates, this video shows a russian se 27 fighter jet, approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it as the aircraft passes closely by without appearing to cause any damage to the u. s. drone. but washington says the jet collided with the drones propeller on a 2nd pass that's also shown, although the actual collision isn't visible in the edited video that's been released now, damage to the propeller can be seen later on the more you can speak to military analysts, marina miran his with the war studies department at kings college london. she's joining us now from munich. welcome marina. can we talk about what this for? sage, obviously, an edited version actually shows how would you describe the behavior of the russian fighter jet? thank you for having me. well, if look at the footage, we see that see russian flying cur passes the throne very closely from above. so it's speeding up to the drone and, and

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u. s. defense department has been increasing its spending. i mean, just in the last 3 years, the military budget increased by 15 percent. it went from 740000000000 to 858. some media report say the final sum for 2024 could be as high as 950000000000. well, we heard from sarah flounders, co director of the international action center. she says that washington is just going to spend more and more money on not on the every day, hard working, american citizen, this amount of money, the largest military budget of all time, exceeding any past military appropriation is a disaster for working people in the u. s. and for people around the world, it is a catastrophic amount of sheer waste into militarism by tens of billions of dollars. additional ad on working people in the u. s. and globally, really standing up to us imperialism. it won't come from congress. the democrats and the republicans via, with each other to add on more and more to the military budget, to pass it almost unanimously year after year. i mean, it really is a staggering and criminal

u. s. defense department has just released footage that it says shows a brush and aircraft in the intercepting brother i us spied run of the black sea on tuesday. according to u. s. or thirties, this video shows a russian su 275 digit approaching the drawn, and dumping fuel over it as the aircraft passes closely by without appearing to cause any damage to the us drone. but washington says the jet collided with the drones propeller on a 2nd pass, which is also shown, but the actual collision that moment isn't visible in the end of the video released, although damage to the propeller can be seen later after the screen scrambles. now that the actual footage has been released, i asked military analyst, frankly, which what stood out to him. this was a deliberate action by the russian fighters. it seems that they were in the vicinity for more than half an hour. and that would indicate as well that there was some element commissioner in the command to this 2nd thing is by dumping fuel as you see that on the screen. now that the intention there is to blind blind to the instruments on the, on the drug

u. s. defense department has released footage that it says shows a russian aircraft intercepting a u. s spine joint earlier this week over the black sea. now, according to the pentagon, this video shows a russian issue 27 fighter jet, approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it as the aircraft passes by in close proximity without appearing to cause any damage to the u. s. jerome. but washington says, the jet did collide with the drones propeller that you see there on a 2nd pass that pass, which is shown here. the actual collision is not visible in this video, although damage to the propeller can be seen later after the picture is reestablished. i'm going to pulling out leon collins. he is a retired colonel who served in the u. s. army for 27 years. he's also the founding director of the modern war institute at west point. he's co author of understanding urban warfare, colonel is going to have you on the program. so is this a case of seeing is believing? we've now seen the footage of what happened to this drone has the volatility of the situation. has that changed because of the vide

u. s. defense department has just released footage that it says shows a russian aircraft intercepting a us spy drawn over the black sea on tuesday. according to us authorities, this video shows a, as an su, 27 fighter jet, approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it as the air craft passes by closely without appearing to cause any damage to the u. s. drive. but washington says the jet collided with the john, the drones propeller on a 2nd pass, which is also shown that the actual collision isn't visible in the edit. the video that's been released, although damaged to the propeller can later be seen after the screen goes blank. now that the actual footage has been released, asked military analyst, frank led, which what stood out to him. the 1st thing that's flagrantly obvious is that this was a deliberate action by the russian fighters. it seems that they were in the vicinity for more than half an hour, and that would indicate as well that there was some element commissioner and did command to this. second thing is by dumping fuel as you see there on the screen. now that so the intenti

u. s. defense department was reluctant to clarify when asked whether the drone was armed going forward, or company aircraft, or whizzes aircraft armed. so i'm not going to get into the specific profile of this particular aircraft. as you know, the m q 9 does have the ability to be armed. it was again conducting an ios, our mission in international airspace. something that we've been doing for some time. the pentagon has said that the drone, it will, it claims that roy was carrying out surveillance, but it hasn't said whether or not the drug was armed. and earlier, the u. s. air force issued a statement accusing the russian aircraft of acting. what it said was a record environment, the unsound, an unprofessional man accusing the russian aircraft of incompetence. one of the jet struck the propeller of the dreams of the operator's ditch the into the sea. that's according to the us european command. now the russian is believed to be heading toward crimea when the incident occurred. us officials have said this, and president joe biden was informed of the incident on tuesday morning. well, th

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u. s. defense department has released footage that it says shows a russian warplane intercepting a us spy drawn over the black sea. on tuesday. the pentagon said.

u. s. defense department has released footage that it says shows a russian aircraft intercepting a u. s by drone over the black sea on tuesday. now, according to you, esl sororities, this video shows a russian su $27.00 fighter jet, approaching the drone and dumb pink fuel over it. as the air craft passes closely by without appearing to cause any damage to the, the washington says the jet did collide with the drones propeller on a 2nd pass, which is also shown, although the actual collision isn't visible in the edited video that's been released low damage to the propeller can be seen later out earlier i spoke to military analyst marina miran his with the war studies department at kings college london about the black sea drone footage that's been released by the pentagon. she gave me her view on the russian fighter jets behavior . if you look at the footage, we see that see russian flying curve passes thrown very closely from above so it's speeding up to the drone and, and passes it. so the, the, it, the behavior is obviously indicating that they are trying to intercepted prone, perhaps

u. s. defense department has just released footage that it says shows a russian aircraft intercepting a u. s by drug or the black sea on tuesday. according to us authorities, this video shows a russian su 2075 digit approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it as the aircraft passes closely by without appearing to cause any, any damage to the drug. but washington says the jet collided with the drones propeller on a 2nd pass, which is also shown, but the actual collision collision rather isn't visible in the edited video released. although damage to the prop can be seen. later. we're joined now by military analyst frank lead, which joins us from oxford. good to say frank, yesterday we were speculating. now we had the actual footage. what do you say? what stands out to you in that footage? well, good afternoon. actually, the 1st thing that's flagrantly obvious is that this was a deliberate action by the russian fighters. it seems that they were in the vicinity for more than half an hour. and that would indicate as well that there was some element of permission or did command to this 2nd

u. s. defense department has been consistently upping its spending. and the last 3 years the military budget has increased by 15 percent rising from $740000000000.00 to $858.00. some media reports say the final sum for 2024 could hit as much as $950000000000.00. so to go further, ends up on this. let's cross live now to the executive director of the world beyond war global movement. david swanson, david, it's great, have you on the program today. now, given the current economic turbulence, the u. s. is under. do you think this amount of money is flowing in the right direction when it comes to their so called national security budget? of course not, and it has very little to do with national security or anything justifiable. it's, it has a lot to do with the sort of sick war propaganda that we just watched on this channel 2 minutes ago. i'll be it for the other side of that war. this is money to escalate war make, you know, around the world. and it is in the u. s. budget as much as most of the other countries on earth put together. there are only $29.0

u. s. defense department has been consistent, increase the spending. and the last 3 years, a budget has increased by 15 percent rising from $740000000000.00 to $858000000.00. some media reports a, the final sum of for 2024 could hit as much as $950000000000.00. we heard from, sorry, founders cook, director of the international action center. she says that washington is just going to spend more and more money on military equipment, this amount of money, the largest military budget of all time, exceeding any past military appropriation is a disaster for working people in the us and for people around the world. it is a catastrophic amount of sheer waste into militarism a $186000000000.00 and it will grow. it's not the end with the white house. it sends to congress always grows by tens of billions of dollars, additional add ons cost overruns, what it would take to reverse it is working people in the u. s. and globally, really standing up to u. s. imperialism, it won't come from congress. the democrats and the republicans of vine with each other to add on m

u. s. surveillance drone ended up in the black sea. it came down on tuesday after being pursued by russian fighter jets near the russian annex region of crimea. the u. s. defense department has released edited video taken by the m q 9 reaper drone . it shows a rush and su, 17 fighter jet, approaching, and dumping fuel. as it passes. us says the unmanned drains propeller was struck, forcing it down, and that it had been operating an international airspace. the russian defense spokesman had a different version of what happened, ordered them to the roseville model, the decor show ago them. on the morning of march 14th, 2023 russian air force control systems detected in american m q. 9 drone flying over the black sea near the crimean peninsula, towards the russian state border of the unmanned aircraft was flying with its transponders, turned off and violated temporary restrictions to air space usage will set for the special military operation. on november, those restrictions were passed to all international airspace users and published in accordance with all norms. fighter jets from the on duty air defense force were scrambled to identify the intruder report as a result of s

u. s. defense department says there's no indication russia plans to use this nuclear weapons. president vladimir putin says he and president alexander lucas shanker bridge to deal from moscow to station nuclear weapons and bellow roofs. more than 100 people have been killed in kenya in the past 6 months by armed castle writers, internal politics and the lucrative tried have made it difficult for the government to deal with the problem. catherine saw reports from barringer county in the north rift valley. this is a road in north rift valley that cost through 3 counties. it was supposed to make movement in hard in communities easier, but it's a road that is hardly used because of crime, kenya security forces or targeting a 62 kilometers stretch of rolling heels, gorges as comments and caves that are hard to excess wear cattle feats hide out we passed through an area called tatty people who live here say young man used this roads to carry out cross boat. our talks. the community leaders in the village of charl told al jazeera that they've been stigmatized and labeled bandits. i po, mail ab

u. s. defense department was reluctant to clarify when asked whether the drone was armed with any aircraft or when was this aircraft armed? shall not gonna get into the specific profile of this particular aircraft. as you know, the m q 9 does have the ability to be armed. it was again conducting an ios, our mission in international airspace. something that we've been doing for some time. washington accused moscow of intentionally bringing down the military drone and allegation which rushes ministry of defense has denied the u. s. claims russian jets flew in front of the reaper drought and dumb fuel on it, forcing it down on international waters. the u. s. has long flown surveillance plains near russian borders, and washington has admitted to sharing intelligence with ukraine. this isn't the 1st incident involving drones around the black sea region. last october, ukrainian forces carried out a massive drone attack on the russian fleet in the port city of a stobel with moscow accusing the british navy of being involved in the attack, which the u. k. denied former pentagon security policy ana

u. s. defense department was reluctant to clarify when asked whether the drone was armed. what kind of caution going forward or company aircraft, or where was this aircraft armed? so i'm not going to get into the specific profile of this particular aircraft. as you know, the m q 9 does have the ability to be armed. it was again conducting an ios, our mission in international airspace. something that we've been doing for some time, the u. s. as acute rushing jets of downing a drone over the black same what it described as an unsafe, an unprofessional intercept. one of the jet struck the propeller of the drug, so the operators into the sea that's according to the us european command. now the russian is believe to be heading towards crimea when the incident occurred. us officials have said this and president joe biden was informed of the incident on tuesday morning. the u. s. has someone, the russian ambassador in washington to the state department in relation to the incident. and the pentagon has said that the drone, it will, it claims that jerome was carrying out surveillan

u. s. defense department says there's no indication moscow plans to use it's nuclear weapons. russian president vladimir persian has announced to deal with fellow russian president alexander lucas shanker, to put tactical nuclear weapons and battle ropes. or cubans will elect a new national assembly in the coming hours. there is no campaigning or opposition, challenges and sit, voters will endorse the nominated candidates. the country is facing rolling blackouts and an economic crisis with a cost of living. a major issue proposes to re support reports from havana money, sol. morales makes a living in havana by lining up at the market to buy food and other items for other people. it's become a paid job in this carry be a nation and made chronic shortages of food and medicine. and the lines get longer, every day went out on our way up the gully. there was no ground beef done. it arrived. and as things arrive you come and you keep getting it. we come here with a card where it's all written, what we get. it's very difficult for everyone. hardship is everywhere in q where these days and experts say

u. s. defense department says there is no indication russia plans to use its nuclear weapons on jurors has formerly into decades long diplomatic relations with taiwan and switch to china. type hi has accused beijing of intimidation and coercion. as you, as president joe biden has declared a state of emergency and mississippi opt tornadoes killed 25 people. and the cellphone, you wis. tens of thousands of people in mississippi, alabama, and tennessee remained without power. people and lebanon are waking up in 2 different time zones. as a political and religious route deepens, can take a prime minister. naji mccarthy says daylight savings will begin at the end of ramadan in april, allowing muslims to break their daily fast. earlier christian authority said they will stick to the tradition and change the clocks on the last sunday in march. then holler has more. from beirut. there is more chaos in lebanon, a country already close to collapse because of an economic and political crisis. this morning, the lebanese woke up to 2 times on, usually at the end of march of this country to shift into t

u. s. defense department says there's no indication russia plans to use its nuclear weapons. president vladimir putin says he and president, alexander lucas shanker, rich to deal from moscow to station nuclear weapons. and belarus. 2 people have been killed in the shooting in the city of hamburg in northern germany. the public prosecutor said one of those killed was the suspected gunman, but his in cuba to elect a new national assembly in the coming hours. no campaigning has taken place and there are no opposition challenges. voters will instead endorsed nominated candidates. the cost of living is a major concern for voters. both are the headlines. the news continues after talked to al jazeera up next. this is a region that is laughingly developing, but it's one also that is afflicted by conflict. political lupsi world. we've tried to balance these stories, the good, the bad, the abby, and he's the people who allow us into their lives, dignity, implementing. he asked him to tell their stories. with brushes, invasion of ukraine has prompted, traditionally neutral countries such as finland and sw

u. s. various u. s. government departments, the u. s. department of defense saying that the secretary lloyd austin underscored president biden's firm belief in the imperative of strong institutions, an independent judiciary for vibrant democracies. but do you think that the government, the u. s. government is using any of the leverage it does have i think that we saw some unprecedented action when another extremist minister of its olives much rich planned his visit to the u. s. just a couple of weeks ago. i think both from the american jewish community and from the administration, it was clear that the ideology, that patella's mattress beside beth's silence muggeridge represents an espouse is, is over our red line. it's my hope that the administration extend that to consequences for the entire fitness and yahoo administration for the acts that they're taking to dismantle what's left of israeli democracy and also the policies of fear and separation that will ultimately lead to more violence. so i don't think that the administration has leveraged their position