but overarching, this is strong symbolism with key announcements of a patriot defense system, a to be sent to ukraine. that is also a key method to was russia. u. s. of course sir has played a key role michela and helping ukraine defend itself, but it's very costly. is it clear that congress will maintain its massive level of support moving forward? well, that's also a question that was put to a senior official here. and this visit was then described as an important injection of the momentum of u. s. support. the u. s. is set on remaining. that key is supporter of ukraine. to buy this val time and time again to be the political leader rallying world leaders there. but there is more debate in congress now despite the fact that after some 50000000000, already having been sent ukraine's way more than of 40 of 1000000000 are in that new budget that is due to be decided. so it's very timely. we could see all of this happening within the space of one day here in the united states. and that's also why voting is it in ski stressing that he wants to thank the american people for their support with the awareness. yes, most americans are in favor of backing

is about to speak before lawmakers in the u. s. congress, he's on a surprise visit to washington to the 1st trip outside ukraine since russia invaded in february. the u. s. is key of most important ally in the war, having supplied tens of billions of dollars in military aid. ahead of his arrival, the biden administration announced another aid package for key of cooney for the 1st time, the patriot air defense system. now we're crossing live to the u. s. congress. that's what you're seeing there. nancy pelosi and camilla harris. us vice president . we're going to washington, well, we'll be talking to t w's bureau chief poll to get an analysis of what's going on there. you know, thanks for joining. i mean, thanks for joining us. sure. we're expecting zelinski to give a speech now to congress. what's the significance of this speech? well, this is the opportunity for president lensky to address those who are not in favor of all the money, which is a sent to ukraine with a new come for new congress coming in place in the beginning of january. and might be much harder for him to get the funding. he needs to have a chance to keep kind of

this is supposed to have your orders ukrainian, ledger conscious and the u. s. found especially ramped top military held in ukraine over $97000000000.00, which is more than the u. s. has the event in afghanistan, some of the equipment that so it was abandoned by the american forces in afghanistan is now spilling out to other areas across the globe and used by terrorists. the u. s. is helping ukraine with organizing information, operations and propaganda operations against russia. at the command from washington, thousands of fake messages of being posted every day at the same time there, glorifying the crimes of neo nazis in the ukrainian regime and that gotcha. one of these are terms of plans for 2023. the defense minister outlined 3 goals. the 1st one is that russia will continue to strive to accomplish its objectives in the special military operation. the 2nd one is that russia will continue to maintain peace in the nagondo carrabas region. and the 3rd one is that the defense ministry will continue to strive to curb nato expansion. so that's basically a rundown of what circ, a chicago and vladimir putin spoke ab

u. s. former president donald trump was impeached for withholding nearly $400000000.00 in aid for ukraine. the total allocated formula they're expanding in the latest bill is $858000000.00. this is the highest price sac. the u. s. has ever seen ukrainian presidential adviser has called for the targeting of you rail weapons factories over there, alleged upcoming supplies of arm. so russia, which both moscow and teheran, have denied iran plan and seduce me. saw drawn supplies for russia, blood and li cumulate, dissertation of international sanctions. important to abandon none the walk in sanctions invalid to you and resolutions concept. i moved to more destructive, two's liquidation of plants. arrests of supplies also says keith has failed to present any evidence of his allegations that the russian ministry has been using iranian, made weapons for his thoughts are on, did admit to supply a small number of joins to russia, but stressed that the shipment was delivered prior to military opperation in ukraine, iran has also so many denied sending any missiles to russia as now cross live to discuss these developments with the university of ron professor site moha

the bottom ministration shows no sign of relenting and its support of ukraine. jealous and author, daniel lazar believes the u. s. is using ukraine's achieve its own foreign policy goals. hillary clinton is a very happy to have others do america dirty work board. doesn't matter. it doesn't matter to her how many ukrainians die, how many ukrainian cities are devastated. as long as the u. s. gets what it wants, and that is essentially a heavily militarized, the nato wise, the ukraine, and a russia that is surrounded and militarily weakened and eventually leading to regime change in moscow. that's what america wants and, and it thinks that by, by finding a proxy war in the ukraine, that's what it will get. other allies will pay a price as well. i mean, germany is seeing it, industry gutted. europe is, is reeling economically and politically. so they will pay an enormous price to, but the only thing that the washington cares about is america's own fortunes. my name is peter scotts, and that's all the news we have here for this hour. do you feel those freights? check out our website, r t dot com or telecom china for the

ukraine, nato and letter countries. and the u. s. have, are ramped up or military held to, to in ukraine a little over 90. $7000000000.00 were spent by $27.00 countries, which is more than the u. s. has spent in afghanistan, some of the equipment of that. so it was abandoned by the american forces in afghanistan is now spilling out into other areas across the globe and used by terrorist care submits. we must say that also note that some american specialists or artillery specials and intelligence are present in, in the ukraine, helping the ukrainian armed forces going on as much you, there are legitimacy with various types of equipment that are being sent to ukraine and he's them just go with the u. s. is helping ukraine way of organizing information operations and serve yucca was for bordinez up with well, pearson and propaganda operations against russia. we now see that at the can at the command from washington. this is your break of thousands of fake messages are being posted every day 30 to lose you on the card. yes. hundred's all for tv channels and printed media and other media resources are being used to target russia. hudson's mom. it is cynical and ser

ukraine's defense. is that an indication that the u. s. is more important than the e and assuring ukraine's independence. terry, i don't think the europeans will find this either a slight or a surprise. in fact, they may well be reassured by the very close friendship, the jovial, almost relationship that we saw. the 2 presidents share there in washington with the united states, the most powerful ally in nato, as well as the biggest contributor of assistance to ukraine in real terms. i think that europe will be also feeling a much more comfortable in knowing that the us plans to maintain this kind of support for ukraine. and that is something that it was important for vladimir zalinski to go sure up in person because with house the house being taken over by republicans in january, there been some signs that they're not quite is as enthusiastic about continuing spending at these levels. and finally, i actually think this was more a message to moscow than it was to any european country. it shows that zelinski feels comfortable leaving his admi

is doing with the u. s. government when it comes to ukraine. even saying that he believes this is something that russia would have never contemplated. now the u. s. military has been very open about the fact that it shares intelligence with ukraine. but it appears to be one of the 1st times when we're seeing raytheon actually speak out and say that it is also directly involved. washington is always said a wants to avoid getting directly involved in a situation in ukraine has in it. so how does that statement look now? right, we continue to see sort of his back and forth with almost blurry lines there when it comes to what the u. s. is saying versus what it's actually doing regarding it's involvement in this conflict. and yet that bind administration continues to say that it is just helping ukraine and that it is not directly involved and a proxy war against russia. here is one of those statements, or we effectively at war with russia. no, we're not, not at all. russia is at war inside ukraine, and despite the rhetoric we heard from bruton last n

ukraine journalists. i'd also darya, lazar believes that the u. s. is using ukraine to achieve its foreign policy goals . hillary clinton is very happy to have others do. america's dirty work for it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter to her how many ukrainians die, how many ukrainian cities are devastated. as long as the u. s. gets what it wants, and that is essentially a heavily militarized, the nato wise ukraine and a russia that is surrounded and militarily weakened and eventually leading to regime change in moscow. that's what america wants and, and it thinks that by, by finding a proxy war in the ukraine, that's what it will yet other allies will pay a price as well. i mean, germany is seeing it, industry gutted. europe is, is reeling economically and politically. so they will pay an enormous price to, but the only thing that the washington cares about is america's own fortune. that's easier for you now. getting to groups with a resurgent china, as i've seen right from the host of all to go on the grounds, falls with formal u. s. navy captain james,

u. s. have ramped top of military help to in ukraine over $97000000.00, which is more than the u. s. has spent in afghanistan, some of the equipment that so it was abandoned by them. merican forces in afghanistan is now spilling out to other areas across the globe and used by terrorists. the u. s. is helping ukraine with organizing information, operations and propaganda operations against russia at the command from washington . thousands of fake messages of being posted every day at the same time there, glorifying the crimes of the nazis in the ukrainian regime on terms of plans for 2023. the defense minister outlined 3 goals. the 1st one is that russia will continue to strive to accomplish its objectives in the special military operation. the 2nd one is that russia will continue to maintain peace in the nagondo carbonic region. and the 3rd one is that the defense ministry will contain to strive to curb nato expansion. so that's basically a rundown of what circ, a chicago and vladimir putin spoke about at this meeting and attention now to the queen conflict, 2 people have been revolt

is doing with the u. s. government when it comes to ukraine. even saying that he believes this is something that russia would have never contemplated. now the u. s. military has been very open about the fact that it shares intelligence with ukraine, but it appears to be one of the 1st times we're seeing raytheon actually speak out and say that it is also directly involves washington, as always said, a wants to avoid getting directly involved in a situation and ukraine has in it. so how does that statement look now? right, we continue to see sort of his back and forth with almost blurry lines there when it comes to what the u. s. is saying versus what it's actually doing regarding it's involvement in this conflict. and yet the bind administration continues to say that it is just helping ukraine and that it is not directly involved and a proxy war against russia. here is one of those statements, or we effectively at war with russia. no, we are not. not at all. russia is at war inside ukraine. and despite the rhetoric we heard from bruton last nigh

u. s. government is involved in helping ukraine's military select targets on the battlefield. that's according to the chief of raytheon technologies. one of the u. s. is largest defense contractors. the admission is in stark contrast to washington's claims that it is not playing an active role in the conflict. we do work with the government to provide real time intelligence on the battlefield. ukraine. we can see russian tank, we can see a russian, apc, we can see a russian missile get launched and that information gets fed to the ukrainians and they can actually act on it almost immediately, which is something i think the russians never contemplated when they invaded the governments raytheon as one of the largest defense contractors in the united states generating nearly $65000000000.00 in revenue last year alone. and while they have been very open about the fact that they are supplying ukraine with weapons, this appears to be the 1st time that they are admitting that they are also supplying real time intelligence. and that's according to c. e o. greg hayes, who spoke out in a

u. s. is supporting ukraine more so than any other country? you know, this is almost unprecedented in modern history. for us to get involved. you know, i was a part of nato, back in the eighty's when we, it was nato versus the soviet union. nieto was a defensive alliance at that time. but when the, when the wall fell, when, when the soviet union dissolved, the nato did not dissolves the worse or packed dissolved. but nato remained is very real post force. and it became a force of aggression. instead of being a defensive alliance, suddenly it started to move steadily eastward and, and it could only do this by creating an illusion that, that the russian federation was sort of identical to the old soviet union. but in many ways it's, it's exactly opposite to what the soviet union was so so nature has become a very dangerous organization. and i hope at some point we can, we can perhaps rein them in, but i don't, i don't see that happening anytime soon. so interesting, richard. hi, how you called nate? so was a defensive organization. interesting ho

so we do not know where the arms in ukraine will end up in the future. the u. s. is helping ukraine organize information operations, and psychological and technological warfare against russia. we now see that at washington's commands, thousands of fake messages about russia are being posted every day. and hundreds of television channels and print outlets are being used to target russia is kim, it is cynical to see that western media are silent about ukrainian war cry and was external there glorifying the crimes of neo nazis. is a terrorist methods used by ukrainian armed forces presented as heroic axle shovel on terms of plans for 2023. the defense minister outlined 3 goals. the 1st one is that russia will continue to strive to accomplish its objectives in the special military operation. the 2nd one is that russia will continue to maintain peace in the nagondo carrabas region. and the 3rd one is that the defense ministry will continue to strive to curb nato expansion. so that's basically a rundown of what circ, a chicago and vladimir putin spoke about at this meeting

the backdrop to this, of course, is russia's war in ukraine. diner, a u. s. citizen is one of the world's best basketball players, or supporters considered her upon in russia's political game. this man was seen as grinders, best hope of being released, and so it proved victor boot or russian arms dealer serving a 25 year sentence in the u. s. had been considered as part of a prisoner swap, but russia was apparently unwilling to negotiate. while greiner trial was on going, after her appeal was rejected, craner was sent to one of russia's notoriously harsh penal colonies to serve the rest of her sentence. no, she's on her way back to her loved ones in the u. s. were according to her wife, she intends to do all she can to free fellow american citizens imprisoned by russia . let's get more on this story from carolina shamore in washington, d. c. carolina. we just saw those emotional scenes with grinders wife in the white house. how big do you think the pressure was on the white house to make this deal happen? here, there has been a lot of public pressure in the

weaponry is going and what ukraine is doing was that so appearing there personally might help to strengthen the ties and show it to the international community. and specifically, to put in that the u. s. is still standing behind ukraine, and that us will be supporting ukraine because if ukraine were to lose the help of the united states, europe combined wouldn't be able to make up for that help both in terms of financial aid and in terms of military aid. so it's very important to make sure that the united states doesn't withdraw. and of course, the lansky might plead to get more advanced weapons so that the ukrainian forces can achieve the aims outlined by lensky to push back to russian forces them to retain crimea. especially important that says, amidst the skepticism growing among european leader as such as macross who is considering that the risk venue for a dialogue was put in ok. the key role of the united states will be keeping a close eye on that meeting. of course, thank you so much for joining us with that update. i think marina myron meanwhile, in a speech to his defense chiefs of vladimir putin has vowed that russia will achieve all of its goals in ukraine. the russian pre

the backdrop to this, of course, is russia's war in ukraine. diner, a. u. s. citizen is one of the world's best basketball players, or supporters considered her upon in russia's political game. this man was seen as grinders, best hope of being released. and so it proved victor boot a russian arms dealer serving a 25 year sentence in the u. s. had been considered as part of a prisoner swap, but russia was apparently unwilling to negotiate. while greiner, trial was on going, after her appeal was rejected, craner was said to one of russia's notoriously harsh penal colonies to serve the rest of her sentence. no, she's on her way back to her loved ones in the u. s. were according to her wife. she intends to do all she can to free fellow american citizens imprisoned by russia . and each of these kelvin ashmore has more on how much pressure the biden administration was under to secure the steel care. there has been a lot of public pressure in the united states to get a grinder back home despite the recent release. we know that the negotiations have not been an easy,

u. s. has profited greatly from supplies all the heavy weaponry ukraine cream desperately needs to think that the u. s is happy to give that money, whether the patriot missiles are used or not. it's also a matter of putting money in the coffers of the defense industry. us criminal institution, i'm forgetting which one, but that they are now sounding the alarm bells that they expect these weapons end up in the hands of criminal elements by the ministration has no interest in handling. and how do we know this? we know this because the democrats voted down to a house committee and a republican proposal to audit the weapons that have already been sent to you. so we know that the us has no interest in being held accountable on any of this. fox news anchor tucker, carlson questioned why washington should keep supplying you with tons of billions of dollars in financing and weapons doing the historic debt to ukraine. do the historic animosity with non soviet russia? no, no. how do we win here? what's in it for us? isn't this our country, and where are you going off talking to us like that? we hate ourselves so m

u. s. as ukraine's main western back is still amenable to sending vital weaponry over this comes at a critical time in this war 10 months off to the invasion ukraine facing unprecedented challenges. notably these attacks, these kind of calls you driving attacks miss all attacks on critical infrastructure energy infrastructure. at least a 1000 missiles and drones launched on substations electric substations in the last few weeks present. sitting ski only last week saying that the damage was estimated to be worth around $1500000000.00. and that was before 2 more giant biologies attacking these very important stations and obviously putting millions of ukrainians into a situation of having to endure rolling blackouts and, and freezing conditions when the heating goes. because of course the winter temperatures are dropping all the time. in addition, of course, there are increasing phase certainly amongst the military establishment in ukraine . notably the head of ukraine's armed forces last week saying that he was convinced that russia would, in his words, have another go at key. if there are incre

u. s. is directly now involved in conflicts with ukraine this year. but a problem. let's look at that in a broader way. if you don't wish to solution to them, why? because the u. s. has when you leave the ceiling with them for a long time, they have yes, you know, should have been involved to lease you to the robot and trying to undermine us and influence ukraine. soviet science. they have been perfectly hospitalized these global. they have a preface ellen lewis have known that they have we have known that you and got to in fact during the soviet times, which you got to really say prepare the ground. dave, smooth low but looked for people. they were supposed to just fine with normal values and new ideas in planting them in ukraine. this is not a typo for the format where we cannot go deeper into the history of the subject to the logic of the unity of demon the russian and russia speaking world to lucy merely politic. it is something that finds its place in global policies in today. so our potential bones have always dreamed of trying to break our unity. they have alw

is among those detained u . s. government is involved in helping ukraine's military pickets targets on the battlefield. not according to the chief of raphael technologies. one of the pillars of the u. s. military industrial complex, with his admission flying in the face of washington's claims, but it is not playing an active role in the conflicts. we do work with the government to provide real time intelligence on the battlefield. crane. we can see russian tank, we can see a russian, apc, we can see a russian missile, get launched in blood information, gets fed to the ukrainians, and they can actually act on it almost immediately, which is something i think the russians never contemplated when they invaded the government, or joining me in the studio with the details now is r t that rachel blevins way too many thanks to coming in to bring the details on. what exactly does the raytheon chiefs admission mean for the conflicts in ukraine? will raytheon as one of the largest defense contractors in the u. s. generating nearly $65000000000.00 in revenue last year alone. and they're now revealing that they're n

u. s. has since this war began, been ukraine's staunchest ally, now the lens, his 1st trip outside of ukraine since the war began to the u. s. how symbolic is. yeah, it is incredibly symbolic. i mean, if we sort of been having a conversation about the situation 10 months ago when this war began, the thought that lensky would be able to stand on the steps of the white house. as a wartime leader visiting joe biden would have seemed very, very far fetched. i mean, in a sense he has travelled the world for the virtually, during the course of this year. he's made address is 5 video link up to the u. s. congress to the board to start the parliament here in germany and to many other places. so beating that drama support, you know, getting international support, friendships being so, so important. and he's proven himself as we saw with his gesture the in this just mentioned that as an incredibly talented communicate. and i think going to be seeing more of that press conference coming up to where you have this dressel. so to congress and where we can see this kind of combined message of, of, of saying thank you to the united states for the support w

notice, the latest roll back draws international condemnation, also coming up ukraine's president is reportedly heading to the u. s. capital for his 1st trip abroad since the war began. lensky has been visiting troops on the front line in ukraine and thanking them for their sacrifices and a national holiday and argentina to celebrate its world cup. when the team is given a hero's welcome. but with celebrations, turning chaotic on the ground, they abandoned their bus for a helicopter fly over. plus germany calls it long overdue, foreign minister, annalynne a bad bach hands back beneath bronzes to nigeria. europeans looted the artworks more than a century ago. ah . i'm ami in use of welcome to the program. we begin in afghanistan, where the taliban have ordered an immediate and indefinite ban on university education for women. it comes as a huge disappointment, thousands of afghan women and girls, especially those who took their university entrance exams just 3 months ago. the band is the latest of many restrictions on women's rights in the country. most girls are already banned from middle and high school education

welcome to the program. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski is making a surprise visit to washington. it's his 1st trip outside ukraine since the russian invasion in february, u. s. is key of most important ally in the war, having supplied tens of billions of dollars and military aid ahead of his of his arrival. the biden administration announced another aid package for a key of including for the 1st time patriot air defense systems. a short while ago, the 2 leaders held a joint press conference. we'll hear now 1st from you as president joe biden, and then ukraine's president bohemia zalinski. president zaleski. i'm honored to welcome you back to the white house. we spent an awful lot of time in the telephone as well as on video with it's good to see you in person. and we've been in close, infrequent communication throughout this conflict from the very beginning, particularly particularly meaningful to talk with other person. look, each other in the eye because leadership through this terrible crisis has inspired ukrainian people as you have done, mister president and the american people in the entire world. this year has brought so much needless suffering and l