how's that for loophole? u. s. military training mission officials told us that all of the equipment, the u. s. cells through f m. s to saudi arabia must be for defensive purposes in accordance with the arms control export act. however, these officials could not provide a definition for equipment that is defensive in nature when we asked how they distinguish between equipment used for defensive purposes and equipment used for offensive purposes. there are some weapons p g m. so precision guided munitions, for example, hooked to jets and used for as strikes, very offensive. what the u. s. government did to avoid any scrutinise silva missiles in parts, thereby by possible the bureaucracy. we didn't sell them a missile, they claim we sold them pots and with instructions on how to put them together, all hands are keen. the state department had been selling p gm's in component parts, so that each individual transfer fell below the threshold, requiring congressional approval. over the last 8 years. saudi arabia has made

for that year, as the u. s. looks for human rights violations worldwide, it seems a bit fell to fully investigate its own role in perpetrating such abuses in yemen. as according to a congressional watchdog report, ortiz mark garcia has the details a quarter of a 1000000 deaths later, the united states still hasn't been able to figure out whether the $60000000000.00 of weapons that supplied the saudi arabia were used to kill innocent people. in fact, the united states openly admits they didn't even bother to try to find out there have been reports of extensive civilian harm in yemen. however, d o, d has not reported and state could not provide evidence that had investigated incidents of potential unauthorized use of equipment transferred to saudi arabia or united arab emirates. joe biden came to power promising to wind america's role in the blood buff these yemen than to stop supplying saudi arabia with all the bombs and missiles they wanted. he promised to stop supplying offensive weapons. everyone cheered and cl

u. s . for an explanation about his bio loves in ukraine after discovering 30 facilities, moscow believes united states has spent more than $200000000.00 to develop biological weapons, the ukranian. so this is washington has denied any involvement, calling the allegations, classic russian propaganda. the russian accusations are absurd, there, laughable, and a, you know, in the words of my irish catholic grandfather, a bunch of marking, there is nothing to it. it's classic rush, russian propaganda, the united states government does not own or operate biological laboratories in ukraine. full stop. ukraine does not have a biological weapon program. there are no ukrainian biological weapons laboratories, daniela's journalist, and also says that russia's concerns over the bi loves in ukraine are very legitimate. us has an obligation to, to clarify the purpose and role of those bio bio labs to open up its files to submit the public inspection to essentially to, to answer any relevant questions, etc. a

u. s. navy for more than 30 years. we asked him what this latest pledge of weapons from the u. s. will do for ukrainian forces. it's really more about maintaining their ability to do what they, what they can do right now. which is, you have to have these replenishment packages flowing every few weeks. if you cranes it, if you crating to succeed in and preventing further russia, russian encroachment in the dom boss region, they're burning through artillery very rapidly. and they need these replenishment packages, not just from the u. s. from the rest of our european allies and partners in the contract, it's a question of persistence will the u. s. and it's a european allies show the same resilience, the ukrainian people and their army are showing on the battle front, where we continue to provide these packages every few weeks. you know, every 2 weeks with united states, every 2 weeks from europe to bring artillery rounds. the rocket rounds that are also include in this package, but also vehicles artillery vehicles. there's 18 in this package, but we need other ones from our european

u. s. for decades. at least 8 have taken place since the tragedy in you valley. but there's huge resistance to reform in a country where around one 3rd of adults legally owns a gun. this is a video produced by the powerful gun lobby. the an are a. it opposes any reform with a backwards argument of making america safer. f, a good guy with a gun, thought the bad guy with a gun in texas, an 18 year old can buy and use a gun, but to buy a bottle of tequila. the legal age is 21. bill roman is a licensed gun dealer. he doesn't want to see any change and us gun laws buying a firearm in texas requires sufficient funds and a 10 minute background check. that's all robin says, the problem lies what the user not the gun to many times we blame the weapon or not the person. whenever there's a terrible accident with alcohol or drugs involved, r u. s. highways, a rear. we immediately blame the driver. we don't blame the car or the gasoline and the take a gun is just the easiest way to commit these terrible tragedies. but it goes back to the individual that decides to do them. i

for sanctions relief. but in may 2018 them president donald trump withdrew the u. s. and began re imposing sanctions only ran the following year for may rainy and president half m re honie told the remaining signatories his government would reduce its commitments every 60 days until they own it. they're part of the deal. iran has since limited access to its nuclear sites. they can not expect you wrong. so full collab delivered beyond its commitments, you know, all safeguard related cameras on the commitments. but you, ron, are being operated on there on the right. you, ron is not stopping them. iran is only stopping those voluntary measures that they're supposed to be implemented under the nuclear bill. the i. e a chief has described the situation as tents with negotiations at a low point and both sides blaming the other for lack of progress. victoria gate and be al jazeera, the palestinian foreign minister has been at the international criminal court at the hague. isn't delivering the findings of an investigation into the killing. a veteran journalist shooting a block

u. s. for a long time, and i think it's a dangerous problem because if, if the public isn't getting the truth, it really is hard for a democracy of republic operate because you're, you're counting on an engaged and informed public to cast a valid notes. and when they're not accurately informed. busy they're just being led down the primrose path by politicians and, and by news outlets that are acting in concerts. we saw with the cobit reporting, we now learned that much of what we were told in the united states and globally about cove. it about the risks about the need to get back to native that the vaccination really didn't work like we were told they were trying to cover up the information from the visor for 75 years. but because those documents have now come forth, we now know that they knew that the vaccine was safe as they were claiming. and yet media outlets, politicians, our government was forcing vaccinations on people against their will. and they were all acting in concert. it's importa

u. s. prison for revealing americans dirty secrets. which makes publish to leaked classified information about the iraq and ask on was revealed video of the u. s. so just indiscriminately slaying civilians proving torture on prison. a death due to mistreatment of the guantanamo bay prison camp. it exposed a proteins, immediate bias and asking to push bernie sanders after the presidential race while posting documents specifying c, i a spy tool kit and cyber warfare. steve sweeney international edits of the morning star newspaper se julianna's, on she's facing a continuous threat when the u. s. because they want to silence them at all costs. just last week, the british government were found liable and admitted to having spied on one of duty massages lawyers. i mean, this is a blatant attack on democracy in his right to a fair trial as well. and that's also not forget, more importantly, that last year it was uncovered that the state i, i had colluded with the british intelligence services, who would apparently agree that judy in a song cou

u. s. is in effect calling for a solution that simply doesn't exist. and thus there is a vacuum and i think what, what they haven't come around to is this notion that actually dispatch, you can really only be filled by the u. s. government. because the only other government that has an obligation to showing is the american government. so we start to draw the adult from an organization called bits to them and it's a reality check for what the past months has been like in palestine. and this is what told us idea since the number 9 close to the in for killed the each really military and police allies and systematic balance against 1st along with punitive take crater in the corner, stalling needs for the past and for jeans in order to end the violence you must mental israel need it has the feeling in palestine changed in the past month. are people thinking about showing death as a some kind of milestone that something has to change, even though over the many years that they're almost resigned to well, how can that be accountability? how can there be justic

u. s. for it's both deep rooted in gemini mindset america, once again to christ, beijing's growing influence and with across the globe around the clock. this is our team from the team and myself, you know, nail hello and welcome to the news. our ukraine has fired its human rights commissioner, in part for spreading on verified information by the atrocity she allege were committed by russian troops in the country. her removal comes after her claims were widely covered by western media or senior correspondent, murat garcia, picks up the story for us day. a nice week saw then months after month the world over was barraged with stories horrific stories of rape and unspeakable acts committed, allegedly by russian forces in ukraine and such acts of violence, raping children little girls, 11 years old, repeatedly in front of their mother's or repeat bathing their mothers and friends the children with each day more and more credible reports of re killing st torture are merging. if you soon soon you, hu

if any of her, we'd never set up a tro portion co calls for more weapons to push back the russian assault. that as the u. s. announces its biggest package of military aid for ukraine so far is too little to blake for keith. fast disney defies. sent us over to new light year movie . the film is denied release in more than a dozen countries showing to women sharing the cure. ah m. anthony howard welcome. russian forces are advancing in their assault on the key ukrainian city of severe that the nets, regional governor says ye crime is outmanned and outgunned for weeks severe that the nets and the surrounding area have been the focus of russia's efforts to capture the entire don best region, the fierce fighting is taking a heavy toll on civilians there in the distance, the sound of russian shelling for the people in missy chance the twin city of seattle, john, yet the chance to escape is getting smaller and smaller. ukrainian police officers drive from house to house to find those who want to leave, but for many here it feels like they're giving up that town to. she really felt that your partner, we weren't su

spoke to nelson wong, the vice chairman of the shanghai center for international series on the vile di club experts. it says that the u. s. is policy of using taiwan. it's true cod against china will lead to no good. let's, despite china seeking peaceful unification with taiwan for decades. i think the u. s. government has always been using the tie one issue as it's one of the measures to contain china in its relations, which china, taiwan, the pie, one card is always in their hands to play with from time to time. and i think this is, they believe this is the time to create trouble for china to, to mess around with the internal affairs of china. so it's nothing new, it's nothing new to china. but if they play it too hard, i think the chinese government what take some actions and in terms of any upcoming threat to separate to taiwan from the motherland. and then the chinese government is going to take actions and announcement has already been made. what china has been expressing itself quite clearly over the years over the decades is that this is an internal affairs of china. and taiwan issue is a left over issue from chi

for hostage taking by states. this is going to continue to happen. and you know, the u. s. government job is to, to bring people home as quickly and safely as possible. i think for me so many of those similar things were said about me. mean obviously the charges against me were different. i was accused of being a spy for the u. s. government. and iranian authorities repeated those claims over and over again. never produced any evidence. and by the way, i didn't have an opportunity to defend myself in any public setting. brittany greiner isn't we haven't been able to hear from breaking ground for over a 110 days. i mean, this is, this is ludicrous. and so, you know, if it takes doing a swap to, to bring her home i'm sure that there are, there are a russian citizens who are nearing the end of long prison sentences that probably fit the bill. well if i mean, i don't, i think the next trade the next deal is pretty clear. right. the russians have been pretty clear about it's been a national priority of their since 2016. they've been sent a member of their legit human rights com

u. s. for juveniles convicted of murder. 51 years behind bars on a jesse era, we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. if the human suffering that we report i, we brave bullets and bomb and we always include the views from all sites. mm. ah. the only wrenching testimony from a mash shooting survivor as the us house passes a new gun control bill, but it stands no chance of becoming law.

u. s. for juveniles convicted of murder. 51 years behind bars on a jessina, blue warnings of spiraling starvation in the hold of africa where scarce food supplies a dwindling further because of the war in ukraine. milan inside ukraine, the president declared stalemate is not an option as his soldiers fight. frank, eastern industrial city.

u. s. presidential candidate and socialist activist, many thanks for joining us on a program. really appreciate your time your insight. thank you so much. r u. s. president joe biden has declared an energy emergency saying potential power shortages jeopardize national security on the quality of life of americans. find and has blamed russia on the climate change for the looming crisis thing, the us might not be able to generate enough power to fulfill consumer demand. multiple factors are threatening the ability of the united states to provide sufficient electricity generation to serve expected customer demand. these factors include disruptions of energy markets caused by russia's invasion of ukraine and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change. and the pentagon has added fuel to the fire, saying that china could undermine us national security, 3 beijing's control of key global supplies of ram, minerals vital for the production of american military electronics policy is caleb morgan, explain when it comes to rare earth minerals. china has the market cornered, almost

u. s. government is even encouraging american companies to purchase russian for fertilizer in order to increase supplies overall. but actually the question of whether that would violate the sanctions. the u. s. currently has in place. 2 the answers are not entirely clear here. the story that the sanctions are causing the problem i think is deeply misleading. sometimes companies are confused about what's allowed and what's not. and we will try to clarify so that they're able to go forward. but we are also working proactively by trying to inform companies about what they are allowed to do. now, as for the question of who is to blame for the current prices here in the us. well, president biden has tried to put the blame on everyone from russia to republicans in congress to even former president trump, essentially everyone other than himself, even though biden's own approval rating continues to remain your record low faces ever work. they always hurt the sanction or more than the saint to me. i have been watching this scene myself. these were never the sanctions. i rush, we're never going to work w

u. s. for grain market disruption and accused washington of colonial, arrogant, up on the fulton also said that a new global order is emerging, where states like russia would set the rules. it is, you do a, we're talking about object of processes even about truly revolutionary tectonic changes in geo politics. and the global economy is not exclusive, but in the technological sphere. and in the whole system of international relations . you know where the role of dynamic and promising countries and regions is rapidly growing. worship those countries and regions whose interest can no longer be ignored. no more than with bulimia. it's a mistake to assume that one can wait out the times of rapid changes, that everything will be the way it was. it won't take a couple years nibble. we're joined now by our former moscow correspondent, you're in raw strato, who is now currently in riga uri. what do you make of this claim of the new global order in that the dynamics of global politics have forever change

u. s. president, something to reset the relationship at a time when the u. s. wishes for more oil to be pumped to reduce high petrol prices . ukraine says it's military is trying to get the last remaining civilians out of scary on yet. russia is getting closer to taking over the eastern. so is it tightened its grip and the dumbass region. authorities and northern india, or being accused of ordering the demolition of people's homes for protesting against is i'm a phobia, a state government of ot pradesh says the homes were built illegally. it happened soon after an angry response to senior members of the governing at b. j. p making offensive remarks about the prophet mohammed has limited reports from silent book. ah mama, that he cries in pain, he says his arm is broken as he leads for mercy. he was recently arrested for allegedly taking part in a protest. his mother says the accusations of false and authorities are threatening to demolish her family's home by view. godaddy do it no more than what had you. my sister in law visited him. she said his hands were swollen. he t

u. s. for europe really should accept the american people are suffering and why should they suffer from the sanction? why should they tolerate this? you know, we don't have baby formula in this country. there will be food shortages here. why is that acceptable to the american people? the sanctions are hurting people. that's who it's hurting people in russia, people in europe, people in the united states, i think the u. s. is given up on the economy. it's given up on the american people were sending billions of dollars down the toilet on. busy military aid, much of it, which will never even reach the people we're trying to send it to. meanwhile, homeless is increasing. we're seeing this on the streets of america. i'm seeing it on the streets of pittsburgh. people can afford food, they can afford fuel, they can't afford health care. and the u. s. government doesn't care that that's what's clear in the polls are reflecting the approval for the white house or historic low levels, which shows the am

u. s. is concerned, it's better for the u. s. if this war drags on as long as possible, and the u. s. can make that happen by continuing to supply weapons and weapon systems to the ukrainians. french leader, a manual mccrendon coles for peace talks to continue during a meeting with ukraine's president zalinski that happened today. mister mcqueen, german chancellor, will have shelter. i'm italian prime minister mario drug. they are all currently in ukraine. the trio of european leaders made the trip a sizable divisions, helping emerging within the u over support for key ebs demands in the conflict. now the trio, travel to key, if by train with air raid sirens in the city, sending shortly after, at their arrival before the meeting, they made their way directly to the suburb of or a pin, nor the leaders had been criticized in care for not providing ukraine with the steel of weaponry, it's been asking for on for not visiting the country sooner, but the french president is trying to mitigate the situation to a different story situated i have always been consistent. france has been at ukrain

u. s. is concerned, it's better for the u. s. if this war drags on as long as possible and the u. s. can make that happen by continuing to supply weapons and weapons systems to the ukrainians. china has overtaken the u. s. as the foreign power with the biggest positive influence in african. now that is according to a survey among young adults in the content. let's go through some of the details. the survey was conducted among those aged $18.00 to $24.00 and a total of 16 african countries. it found that 76 percent off that group in consider china is activity as positive for the continent leaving 2nd place to the u . s. which had held the top spot in the survey just 2 years ago. the results show china is rising influence on the continent with investments, infrastructure development projects and affordable chinese products listed as the most positive contributions. me, china is a better friends in america. i think it's china because it believes in giving and receiving better with china and tony, shut it because i'm with china is better because it could take over the world economy in th

u. s. capital in washington, manila champ for the u. s. marine and political commentator john mark doogan, who recently returned from the dawn bus, has these reservations about the investigation. i don't know whether to laugh or whether to be outraged. but the, the very thought that the united states who's killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians since the, since the start of the 1st gulf war could ever engage in some kind of war crimes. ah, court is just outlandish. they are always looking to prosecute those that they don't like. and they are protecting those that they do like just in 20192021. congress worked to designate the as off battalion as terrorist organizations, extreme as terrorist organizations. and now they're giving them weapons. why? because they have an agenda and their agenda is to destabilize russia. ah, and to keep their money laundering operation continuing in ukraine or so for now, whatever you know to this weekend, i hope you having a good one. my name is peter scotts gonna be back with another look at thi

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we'll have to try and find a compromise that everyone can agree on in the future. demand for mortgages and the u. s. fell to the lowest level in 22 years last week. the mortgage bankers association said applications for mortgage to buy a home dropped by 7 percent. it comes as interest rates rise and the number of homes available decreases in the u. s. will for more. let's go to youngs corta at the new york stock exchange. hi there. yes. can you tell us why aren't americans buying houses like they used to? chrissy, i just look at what happened to home prices here in the united states. recently, it typical us home was worth about $344000.00. that was a good $70000.00 more then at the end of 2020. so this is a one side of the medallion. and then on top of it also the price for her mortgage . it's have increased quite a bit. so at the beginning of the year, the 30 year mortgage rate was at about 3 percent now it's almost at 5 and a half percent. so it's also more expensive to find in those houses. right? yeah, i'm talking about more expensive. a lot of things are more expensive these days. how might a

s what's, what's to stop? in 2020, the boy scouts of america declared bankruptcy over a flood of sex abuse claims larger than for any national organization in u. s. history. around 82500 cases. greater mom, josh russia with online sy, josh, how are you? i'm good. it's nice to meet you. nice to meet you. this is your chair. james turley was the national chair of the boy scouts of america. at that time, what we've had, you've seen the, the cases you've, you watched the bankruptcy. ah, we've had, you know, many, many, many more cases than we expected. it's horrifying. how many did you expect? i don't know, but i didn't expect 80000. and. and if it's less than number, because i'll think about as a number, think about it as a person, every one of these people was hard in our program. i wanted to know the boys got americans doing to address the gaps in their system. the college children vulnerable to predators. when, when, when people to register with the boy scouts, it doesn't require a government id, photo id. it is that a policy that you're satisfied when you feel safe with you getting in details of our policies, the that are not something that

of the regional president biden has once again blamed vladimir putin for a serge energy and food costs. rocking america off the u. s. consumer and station hate its highest level moving for decades and 8.6 percent increase. but a top russian diplomats has poked fun at biden's attempts to accused the criminal days of leisure report. confirm what america is already know. prudent price, i consider america hard. gas prices at the pump. energy in food prices cover, half of the monthly price increases since may my ministration do everything we can to lower the prices, the american people, and the congress has to act and they have been of late. it sure sounds like president putin also runs the u. s. considering he can impose taxes on food and gasoline there that was a lame and futile attempts by president biden, to shift to blame and dodge his own duty. biden's claims fly in the face of the fox, the us inflation has been on the wise ever since before since they've turned began back in january 2021. soaring from an average of 1.4 percent to 7 by december. all that's happening months before the outbreak of the conflict in uk

u. s. for juveniles convicted of murder. 51 years behind bars on a jessina al jazeera correspondence bring you the latest development on the war in ukraine. we had to take cover. this is what's happening on a daily basis. the medics is a, he is incredibly lucky. those coming out across the lines a no, no man's land where one of the few to gain access to this embattled parents, they take us to their basement, where we find others sheltering from the shelling. please evacuation now by 2nd 3 days journey. devastated buildings are now a grim reminder that the russians were here. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan dough. with a quick reminder at the top stories here.

us both are among the regions largest oil producers and mexico provides the main route for the migration to the u. s. journalist been, you mean norton believes that the regions countries are now looking for ways to improve connections with other major powers 1000 uses by the end of the u. s. seeing that there is crisis in the region, and that's why they want to use this summit to basically say, we're still the head of the america. but the response from a several countries in the region shows understanding that there are alternatives at the u. s. there's not the only power they can improve relations with china, russia, ron, or india. in this 10 by the failure of the summit of the americas reflects the major changes in today's world and in g o policy. that's the u. s. may greenlight shipping venezuelan oil to europe by italian and spanish companies resuming an oil for debt swap, halted to 2 years ago and aimed at cutting european dependence on russian crude dance. according to it, reuters a report. now the move wouldn't see. washington backtracked from a position it took just 3 years ago. we're going

u. s. an u. k. for nuclear powered submarines. both australia and france hope the payment will allow for a reset in their bilateral relationship. the british government has one legal backing for its controversial planted to port international asylum seekers from u. k. territory to the east african nation of rwanda. in return for taking britain's unwanted migrants were wanda, is to receive economic aid. the idea behind the deal is to discourage would be asylum seekers from trying to cross into britain illegally. but human rights campaigner said their fight against the plan is not over. the british high court ruling gives the green light for the removal of asylum seekers from the u. k. the threats had been looming for some time, but the decision still had many migrants, hard. this stuff with for the record, is it even policy? was refugees or spoken to more than a 100 years, given these notices that say they're going to be forcibly removed from the country . the court's decision means the 1st flights to rwanda could get underway. in

of course to overturn roe vs wade is going to be devastating for, for everyone in our country in the u. s. but particularly for communities that are the most vulnerable here. and my organization represents the latino and let the next community here. and we know that our communities and other communities of color will be the most effected. and what will that look like? we know that this decision means that the states can now decide whether or not to restrict access to abortion band abortions, or to do nothing. what's that going to mean for the look tina community? well, for community, the latino community that already faces a lot of barriers to access to care. so, you know, i want to make clear that even before this decision to overturn roe vs wade, our communities already faced very steep barriers to be able to have access to care in this country. our health care system also does not necessarily provide us adequate health care coverage in general. and so you know what these bands do is for, for those of us who are already marginalized, who already lack access, it will make things much wor

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the challenge for the u. s. is to rebuild and then maintain its influence in the region while blunting that of russia and china. that will take more than a 3 day summit here in los angeles. but these meetings could be a start. rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. at least one person's been killed on 2 people are missing after landslide in southern argentina's patagonia region. more than a day and a half of non stop rain caused the landslide next to a hotel. the victim was a tourist from uruguay. 3 other people were injured. now the days of rummaging through draws looking for different phone charging cables, a number for those who live in the e. u. the blocks universal plug policy for tech companies will take effect in late 2020 full. one big manufacturer though, isn't happy. natasha butler explains why from pass it's so many small electronic devices on the market. there's a constant demand for charges shops like this one in paris. so the 3 models that are available in the european union, but soon they'll only ne

u. s. would have gone completely fokker. so this empty arctic rules based order is essentially a double standard. it's one standard for the u. s. a 2nd standard for europe and a 3rd standard for all those countries that sort of wind up in america crosshairs. and the problem is that there, though that certain category now includes the majority of the world. yeah. which is why the majority of the world is refusing to line up behind the u. s. in this conflict of the ukraine. so the u. s. essentially has back itself into a corner, its policies are so absurd and contradictory that no one is going to follow them. no one can even figure out what the even mean. so the us actually finding itself and growing minority. and meanwhile, garland is totally right. the, the economy is, is, is imploding. and that's the new york times that said yesterday the day before. i mean, the sanctions have completely backfires. so this is, this is one of the really most agree just screw ups in foreign policy, u. s. foreign policy of the last 20 or 25 years and that, and considering that includes the invasion of afghanistan and iraq. that is sayin