u. s. just passed the defense field defense be all with $10000000000.00 us dollars . the military aids for taiwan and china believes it severely, severely affects peace and stability across town street. now did tell us more about this u. s. defense authorization law that boosts military assistance for taiwan. so us our president joe biden on december 23rd to sign into a law and a 150 a 1000000000 us on defense policy bill said to increase security cooperation with ty, one, the legislation authorize up to $10000000000.00 us dollars in security assistance over the next 5 years to more the rise tiwana security capabilities to deter aggression by b gene. the act also affords taiwanda sim treatments as major and non nettle allies to are in receiving the priority to obtain exist defense mer to material from the u. s. it also said to holding joint military exercise with taiwan is important in import or improving combat readiness and how one well comes to the choice. and also said this show the importance washington attached to taiwan us, ties and strengthening the island sec

u. s. just seem to get away with that one for us are up for now. whatever you want to this weekend, i hope you having a good one on pizza scott's and i'll be back again in around 30 minutes time. but tuesday tuned from all great programs, right. say ah ah ah ah. 2 victor boot the russian arms dealer who had been incarcerated in one of the highest security penitentiaries in the united states for the last 12 years is now home with his family. after being exchanged for american, w and b, a star, brittany griner. she had been imprisoned in russia after being convicted on drug charges. in a handful of interviews, boots seems like a normal russian citizen, not somebody who has seen the worst of what the american prison system has to offer . today we'll talk about what the experience was like for him. i'm john curry. aku . and you're watching the whistleblowers. ah. when i was at the cia in the early part of the last decade, victor boot was one of the agencies top targets the cia, the f, b i and interpol searched for boot all over the world. they accused

you've got just a u. s. political system that is fragile and fractured, which is fighting each other from well. we don't even know what left or right is any more, really there's none of that going on. so you know, unless you can stabilize the economy. and the u. s. economy is, it's the largest economy in the world in terms of, in terms of how it projects itself to the world. so in less that can be stabilized . it's going to be very, very hard to see how they can reduce inflation. so i'm reading that the, the fed zone for costs if the inflation rate will stand at 3.5 percent by the end of next year, which is still an unacceptable rates. well, consequences would that have for the us economic and financial system. and of course for american households. yeah, well we're already seeing the, the, the, the ripple effects of that because they're my market reactor forecasts in general, right? so if we look at, we look at the amount of money that has been now drained out of the, the global financial system in stock,

u. s. just seems to get away with it. christ peruse the military has been accused of using extreme violence to suppress protests against the ousting of former president. whether you the country's official human rights organization has claimed that the military use helicopters to shoot protesters and dropped here gas on them. in these unverified images. you can see what appears to be an army helicopter opening fire on demonstrators. the military has yet to respond to the accusations. the crisis escalated after dina was stored in as for ruth new president, last week after x president castillo was removed in an impeachment, vote by congress. the us ambassador to peru praise the countries new leadership on her social media out describing them as democratic. i met with president bush watch to reiterate the u. s. commitment to the defense of democracy and respect for institutions together with the peruvian precedent on the union government. this promise to form, we hope to strengthen all bilateral rel

u. s. just intentionally sabotaged that, but this standard that was in the round, it was the highest that we've ever seen. an international agreement with verification on nuclear energy facilities. and the i e, a verified that iran was implementing it. they are not developing nuclear plants. we know what they're doing. so i think that was just intentionally trying to portray the treaty as bad when it was actually a very high standard treaty. i was really a huge diplomatic achievement to get it. so when it was spoken, of course, it's really hard to put these things back together and you have undermined trust from iran, from all the other countries that were part of this treaty. so i think it's a, it's a real, it's a really good sign that these countries are still trying very hard to get it back together to get a treaty back together. and i think that it shows a commitment from all sides. and i really hope that they will, but will succeed. now, proponents of deterrence, they argue that the best wa

u. s. just seems to get away with that price to build on to other news. now, the united nations has condemned a terror attack on the head of the russian humanitarian mission in the central african republic. the official is currently being treated in the hospital after a parcel bomb exploded in his hands. we've obtain exclusive footage from the crime scene where local investigators are now 15 through forensic evidence. local police have described the incident as a para with moscow foreign ministry condemning the incidents. the russian humanitarian official dmitri city opened the explosive package in his office. images from the scene also show a note left on the table. it's written in russia and says, this is for you from all the french. the french foreign minister has denied allegations of involvement in the bombing, the russian business men and co founder of the wagner's military group says the note came with the package an echo similar threats of the past. on november 11th, dmitri city received a package from togo with a photograph of a son who lives in

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to give you a sense of the timing of this, the senate's move came just the day. after the u. s. president had launched a fresh military aid package to keep worth just shy of $2000000000.00. the bill has to be approved by the house of representatives before it can be signed into law by joe biden. political commentators, the gill said, washington said features from russian officials, businessmen and entities will do little to alleviate the u. s. financial burden. its support for us lead to it is certainly a moral and it is just definitely wrong to think that we're going to somehow repay american taxpayers with money stolen from private individuals who are simply business people died the rush. the crazy thing about this is that the mark twain, american humorous ones that the difference in the right word and the almost right for the difference in whitening mit. but it's interesting that they're using the term russian all regards to it, to refer to these russian private business individual because they call them by the business people that some americans might be a little bit more o

just want to mention. let's start with china 1st. the official wording is that the u. s. is just fighting corruption and to serious human rights abuses. but clearly, i mean, this is the big rivalry between the 2 biggest economies on the planet. i mean, to be seen with former us president donald trump, using mostly a terrorist to fight china. the biden administration is also in a pretty aggressive mode of what they might try to do, especially when it comes to the illegal fishing and to get a sympathy from companies that are not from companies on countries that are negatively affected in the pacific region. so it could be a move for the united states to get some an allies in the pacific. again, there also the sanctions against yet more russian individuals was the view over there as to whether or not the, the, the existing sanctions against many russian entities have been working well, i mean, not just the russian individuals, but in general, i mean, since the war started doing i did state them have started to bring in more than 1500 and thanks and again company. it's also ag

the senates move came just a day after the u. s. president and the fresh military a package to care worth, just shy of $2000000000.00. so if there's something in the timing, i'm not sure will. the bill, though, has to be approved by the house of representatives before it can be signed into law by joe biden. we got some analysis in this, including from political commentator, steve gill, who said washington's, i'll said seizures from russian officials, businessmen, entities will do little to alleviate the u. s. financial burden its support for a key of has let it is certainly a moral and it is just definite, the wrong. the think that we're going to somehow repay american taxpayers with money stolen from private individuals who are simply business people died the rush . the crazy thing about this is that the mark twain, american humorous once that the difference in the right word and the almost right word difference in whitening mit. but it's interesting that they're using the term russian all regards to it, to refer to these russian

u. s. policy to what you are just saying that it's a dispute, but it isn't, do it. the u. s. congress ratified an act that says there is no dispute. taiwan is part of china. there's no dispute, no debate. well that there's the legality or the diplomatic language which you're referring to, but in terms of the actual estimation is there is a dispute because the p r says peer c says we're going to take this by force if we can't get it through other non kinetic means you just have to go back to the back form in october of 2013 we're shipping should. we cannot wait forever for a political solution to taiwan. so g is put the p r c. it was already on a timeline, but he's publicly exposed of the chinese communist parties timeline to take time on, and they have to do it before the 100 anniversary of the p r. c, which occurs on 1 october 2049. and given that you're not going to be able to use military force and couple of years before 2049, it's been my estimation. that the p r c is calculated at the latest that they could use military force and still expect the world to come to a gra

u. s. if you talk about china, obviously the u. s. also has to be looked at very closely and the u. s. is just probably surprisingly low a consumer price index as 7 point one percent rather than the 3.7 percent that economists were expecting. do you think the federal reserve, the u. s. federal reserve is starting finally to, to have a firm grip on inflation. yes, it welcome signed the inflation number a while then i think what is also reassuring the court inflation also appears to be relatively under control. we obviously saw 50 basis points increase and interest rates is also interesting to hear with your own pile you see he was sick knowing of course, that the feds will be very watchful about inflationary pressures and the us. but i think also listen carefully. it's what he said, it does appear. a piece of pipe will slow and the us peak at some point. actually, greg, before i go to to mariano, what about global inflation? do you expect that to, to stabilize? well, google lation will be glides if for no other reason than simple arithmetic. the annual inflation rate headline, which most people

u. s. officials just say that it needs reform. they go right along with what they're doing, saying they have no intentions of adjusting their policy. whenever you don't like the results, just declare that the system is rigged against you and continued doing what you want to do was recall the reaction of u. s. officials when they did not like the world health organizations findings in an investigation of woo hon labs. here's how they respond it across the board. the united states believes as a general matter, when we're at the table, we can help shape events. and when we're not in the w h o, we don't have any influence that it is functioning the way it's intended to function by re engaging with the w h o. the united states will be in a position to push any necessary and needed reforms. and to be clear, there are necessary and needed reforms, according to logic of u. s. officials, a system functions the way it's intended to when the united states gets what it wants and when it doesn't, it clearly needs reform and until then it can b

u. s. is just happy to have another reason to send the defense industry money. but at the same time, this certainly take most to russia that the role of the u. s. and deepening in ukraine that therefore it really just reaffirms russians believes that they're not so much by the ukraine as they are fighting the collective. wes met him interesting point that you transferred. and he said that once the us patriot missile systems are installed, cave will still ask for more weaponry. you touched upon this, is this an escalation of the conflict? yeah, i believe it is. and i believe russia will see it is such which is just as important as whatever the objective back. so we know that russia will see it as such. and so this moves as ever so closer and more dangerously to a greater complex gratian that could end up in either or both sides using nuclear weapons. this is highly irresponsible. and may i point out that this is happening on the eve of the christmas holidays is why i wanted, isn't it? when we will be celebrating the birth of the printer piece is shocking. when i r

just i was like a guinea pig in a lab that they will not used as a testing ground. back in 2016, the russian newspaper comments that the recited, the u. s. department of state and just saying that bout would serve his full sentence because he proved to be too stubborn and i did not agree to a plea deal. those case would be a start warning to all other russians who again, to capture so that they would quickly agree to a plea deal before the court. was the plea deal it back to the office 30 years instead of a life sentence 30 years 30 years after what meeting want from the family. although i rejected it straight away, i was initially assigned a court appointed attorney who is well known in the circles. whenever she came to visit me, she was start to kind of shuffling her breasts, tried to establish some report, make you buy into this plea, dale fly. at some point i realized we had to replace the lawyer and were ready to announce it to the quarter. so that woman brought an interpreter and in the hold room before the proceeding, she told me my wife alice asked me not to make that statement at the judge than yet that you say, they're not jus

just unpopular with china. they were also unpopular with some of the u. s. is traditional longstanding allies and this time china is not standing alone either. there's also turkey and switzerland who supported china's complaint that was lodged in the world trade organization as well. so we're gonna have to see how far the biden administration is willing to go to continue this trade war. that his predecessor started author and a financial comment that a jim rogers, he joined us a bit or other in the program. now he believes that washington's measures against china, semiconductors industry is not only dangerous, but actually a very counter productive move whenever the us says something is always blames national security. at one point we were claiming that sugar had to be protected because of national security. let's suppose that china cannot important from the us . they're going to develop their own industry, and the u. s. is shooting itself in the foot. next, you know, we're going to have the chinese making me cindy conductors as good as way you. that's not g

the says this came just a day off, the u. s. person announced the fresh $1850000000.00 murphy, a package to achieve a made present semanski visit to washington. the bill is yet to be approved by the house of representatives before it would be signed into law pointer. broaden this course live now to us radio host and little commentary to steve here. steve, i'm, i'm perplexed here. this is almost as if, you know, your, your friends with somebody, i like that friend or you like that for the and i'm from son to steal bits and pieces from you. just to sort of punish you. i mean, what you make of this is more the acceptable for the u. s. a c's russian property. well, 1st of all, if anybody believes that lindsey graham of the u. s. government are going to give american taxpayers a rebate on the billions that we have funded to ukraine. if we collect anything from so called russian oligarchy than the i've got, i've got a bus depot to say you in long island back about 20 miles off shore. that the crazy thing about this is that the mark t

u . s. just this past year alone. and heidi, what was the response from the biden's administration? yeah, they're really under fire over this. the white house has said that it is asking the u. s. congress to intervene by getting more money. there is legislation pending in congress hoping to get some $3500000000.00 approved or more order management asset. we want are 23000 federal agents who are already working the border. and then we have the states that are trying to deploy acids themselves and in some frightening manner for some of the families that have been crossing because many are encountering now. you as soldiers, as their 1st point of contact with us authorities, some 400 us national guard members arriving here in el paso. yesterday. they're now sounding bull horn, trying to shout across the river that divide the us and mexico for those migrants to not try to come help or the desperation that's pushing them north toward the us remains as strong as ever hassle. joining us there from el paso in texas, i thank you. nurses in the u. k. has stays a 2nd unprecedented strike amid an

u. s. blood, just to extend it, come back the preparation program for ukrainian soldiers and thousands more troops already being prepared in other nato countries. we speak with ukrainian p o w, who went through the program a funny thing for 2 days. they taught us how to hold a weapon. did you use any of the skills that you learned in england, or at least try to know why there was no where to use them with the u. s. or the crack down on protested in for a while? that's according to the else that president pedro castillo, has now been sentenced to at least 18 months in jail by prove new us back to government. a very well can see from the russian capital this afternoon. my name is peter scott and welcome to the program wherever you join us from. and we start with some breaking news this our on our see the russian humanitarian mission. the central african republic says they've been targeted in a terrorist attack. well, for more on this less cross live now to our correspondence, corolla, toddler, cro, good afternoon. see you still breaking news, but what can you tell us about this upon terrorist

u. s. corruption and actually increasing your spending actually just help the governance body of china. well, i've been warned for 2 decades that the, the u. s. should be paying attention. what's happening with the people's republic of china and the p l. a specifically. and we saw as you, i think you were alluded to, and mr. broadcast america spent quite a number of years from desert storm desert shield, desert storm until the ignoble retreat from afghanistan. we spent 30 years in the middle east and i had been one of the people who had said, we need to, you know, deal with terrorism obviously for what happened on 911. but we have to deal with the rise of china. and we, we, as an institution, the department of defense and as a nation, didn't pay attention to that. and i think history will judge that to be a wrong decision. does that mean it's over for america? not, you're not on your life. we have many things that we can still do. we're still very powerful, but we need to wake up and recognize that if we do not deter the people's republic of china, much like ronald reagan did against the

u. s. was just the to impose sanctions than india would have been sanctioned for producing one from russia, which hasn't happened, boxed on would be under political pressure. unlike india, which is taken from standard this and some european countries which have come out in the open and said that we have energy needs and these needs have to be met. and russia is the only country. russia, as our solution is something that the west has aggressively working on, and in my view, it has succeeded to quite an extent. however, one of the verticals on very show russia has been banking is the fact that it didn't fill. the energy needs countries all over the world and it is playing cards quite smartly, very good bills of expanding your footprint in the, in the region and over it to go the now where a group of palestinian sees, have put their disabilities behind them to form a football team, another aiming even higher, hoping to join in our oblique and compete internationally. ah massage, pollock i said i was injured in the 2014 war before the injury. i was a soccer player and gaza them. but because of

u. s. jail. just a moment. we will be bringing that to you live in a few moments. also in the headlines, one civilian is killed in the to wounded in the latest ukrainian shelling over going yes, republic that is important to local authorities. they state that residential areas were again targeted by kia ford is also using nato supplied with china as president praises his country's deep now collaboration with gulf states majoring will help to establish a nuclear research and security center and many other issues as well as part of a strengthening partnership with that region with . well, it is a pleasure having you with us for this ours program from moscow. of course, it's ozzy international and if you will like to pay with us just a moment away from now, we're going to go live to an exclusive interview with a guest who currently has many clinton politicians up in arms. we're talking about the russian business man, victor boot, who's been in a us jail for more than a decade. he's now back here in russia, and he was freed a few days ago. this is a very high level pri

u. s. blood just to extend its combat preparation program for ukrainian soldiers. thousands more troops already being prepared in other nato countries. we speak ukrainian p o w who went through the program. she said, it's a funny thing, but for 2 days they taught us how to hold a weapon. did you use any of the skills that you learned in england, or at least try to know why there was nowhere to use them? us order to cut down on protesters inquiry, well that's at least is according to the ousted president pedro castillo. he's now been sentenced to at least 18 months in jail by prove new us bank government. and the african leader summit wraps up in washington with american diplomats, bringing up the west colonial passage to criticize worship with july from our studio here in moscow, you're watching r t i p just got here the latest this friday launch time. thank you for joining. we're start off with some breaking news this our, the russian humanitarian mission, and the central african republic says they've been targeted by a terrorist attack. mission says the head of the russian house recei

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u. s. has just experienced the record breaking number of people encountering border patrol as they try to cross into the u. s. than to 1000000 for the 1st time in one year. and here in el paso, it's sort of an episode center there, about $10000.00 migrants being released to el paso weekly. and we're seeing some of those people here. these are asylum seekers, their families from venezuela, from nicaragua, from ecuador as well. and they have turned themselves in at the border to us order agent. and they were released here temporarily as we wait for their a silent cases to process. some have had to sleep out here in the cold overnight, even as temperature. 50 low freezing. she has the shelters in this town are all full. even the airport has been converted into a makeshift shelter, but they help themselves. lucky they tell me because about half of all migrants who tried across the us quarter, don't even make it this far. they're held up in mexico because of that title 40 to who, which is still in place and will be in an in limbo in a sense. because the republican lead states told the supreme court

u. s. presidential by just like brilliant all my appreciation from my heart, the heart of ukrainians, fully grave from our nation. strong nation, all the appreciation to you. well, mr. president for your big support and leadership because you are many cockers helped us at all helping now because the worst door should be the button anyway, but that is your leadership. thank you. well, we're gonna continue to strengthen your credit ability defense, so particularly care defense. and that's why we're going to be providing you credit would pay to missile better and training are forced to be accurate. we use together our partners. we're also going to change pros cost on the kremlin and will support your credit for shoeing a just peace frames with great people in crane. we stand on the grid by with we have a famous thing with a man of the year times a year in states of america is washington bureau chief in his pole is with me and in the studio, our chief international editor, richard walker. in it, i want to go to you 1st. president zalinski is holding talked with joe biden in the oval office. we

u. s. blood just to extend it, come back to preparation program for ukrainian soldiers and thousands more troops already being prepared in other nato countries. we speak with ukrainian p o w. he went through the program to do that. it's a funny thing for 2 days, they taught us.

u. s. actions that just for gas on fire now and again that we couldn't continue this business as usual. but the moment a u. s. wants to come back to the table and resume strategic security dialogue with russia will, will be there. ah, on the other hand, that aids are away too premature for me to predict. when a russia will come back with bell turns if dates for this forcible bilateral consulting commission meeting, ah, in any case, lease is not going to happen right away. ah, and i have my doubts in regard to possibility to do so. before christmas, before new year, it was rumored that during recent talks in an cra deputy foreign minister between russia and the u. s. that the nuclear issue was raised. can you perhaps tell us a little more about that discussion you heard before from russian high ranking officials. but this conflicts a was a very close one. ah, i am not supposed to dwell on any of the details with respect to what was discussed, what was not discussed there. and he said that i would also offer you a point on how we see for public messaging on the part the washing them. this

u. s. they're just vacation, they said the protection measures will harm the ease auto industry and may 4th european companies to move abroad. investment expert jim rogers says this policy is going to exasperate current global economic challenges. the main problem, we have a serious inflation problem in the world. now, this is just going to add to it whenever you put on restraints or tower ups or waters, it leads to higher prices, whatever we're discussing, we already have a serious inflation problem. it's just going to get worse, and this is going to make it worse, is protection is by any name you want to use. yes, it's clear as clear to most observers, it is true or out now protection. no. so now let's take a look at the reality of the situation. natural gas prices in the u. r. 600 percent higher than in the across the ally in the atlantic. while enterprises are almost double. this has treated the relocation of waterman in production from europe and south korea to the u. s. destructing years of investments. jen rogers again believes european, i koreans are doing the right thing, if tempti

u. s. is a military occupation in iraq. i mean, just look at the civilian casualties over 600 unarmed men, women and children were killed in the 1st battle for felicia and another 500 of those people, unarmed men, women and children were killed by the end of the 2nd battle for it. there was even an instance in which u. s. troops fired upon a crowd of protesters and killed 13 people that were simply demanding an end to the u. s. military occupation there. but for many observers, probably the most scandalous thing that happened was the fact that the u. s. used white phosphorus as a chemical weapon in civilian areas. and then on top of that, they lied about it for years. it was only after actually a documentary came out showing previously on showed unseen footage and interviews that we started. c u. s. troops coming clean about this kind of stuff i received from the us department point for susan, susan to leave the weight and dimensions of this tracy rain fresh from use. hampton's, a loosing solution of these attempts to manipulate the nar

u. s. a taught that they were 72 genders. were talking about 6 to 7 year olds here. not just gazes straight people, but at 72 genders, voice in their school curriculums to educate small kids on this. but i tell that even if you're a boy, you can still be a girl and just put on a dress. what can you do that in prism to transition to end of the gender? i mean yet, how about i give you an example? if there was an inmate who was serving a life sentence for a quote, drupal homicide, 68 years old, teeth knocked out belly and he had tattoos all over the man murdered for people. can you imagine before that he served in vietnam and a tough guy? and then one day he shows up as a woman, he's got a hair clip either his remaining hair makeup on his face, and some permanent makeup lipstick abroad under his shirt for him. so i say to him where you are, jeff, what's up with that girl? and he's like, don't call me jeff and he bolted from now won't my name is jessica all when i 1st saw him like that. i thought it was some kind of a frank ball, but that was just the beginning because one day i

believe it's just a method of recycling us public money into big multinational arms companies. why do you don't think it's a be ironic that the u. s. military uses all these chinese components for their naval activities, but any increase in u. s. military spending there. and i know that just in the past few months or it failed. another audit in november, pennington, comptroller, mike mccord conceded, only 39 percent of its 3 and a half trillion dollars of assets could be accounted for. do you not see that that? the problem here is u. s. corruption and actually increasing your spending actually just help the governance body of china. well, i've been warned for 2 decades that the, the us should be paying attention to what's happening with the people's republic of china and the p l. a specifically. and we saw, as you think you were alluded to in the south broadcast, the america spent quite a number of years from desert storm desert shield, desert storm until the ignoble retreat from afghanistan. we spent 30 years in the middle east and i had been one of the people who had said, we need to, you know, deal with terrorism, obviously for

u. s. has just announced what it's calling a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion. the department of energy says scientists carried out an experiment using the technology, producing more energy than it consumed. fusion is seen as a potential clean power source that could revolutionize the energy sector. last week at the lawrence livermore national laboratory and california scientists at the national ignition facility achieve diffusion ignition. and that is creating more energy from fusion reactions than the energy used to start the process. it's the 1st time it has ever been done in a laboratory anywhere in the world. simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century. advocates say if the technology is perfected, it can provide limitless clean energy calling. baker explains how it works. nuclear fusion is joining adams together at high speeds. it's what happens in the sun, and it releases huge amounts of energy. scientists have wanted to replicate that process since the dawn of the nuclear age. unlike vision, power fusion does not d

u. s. we just want to be a partner and whatever you decide is in your best jews, strategic interest. well, you know, we're, we're fine with i mean, really it's or to say that their skepticism about that is, is an understatement. given the u. s. isn't i, history of for geo politics in africa? not to mention kirby there for example, saying well, we don't people to cheese but, and he can't help him. so he's always talking about china and russia and how maligned their influences in africa. which therefore, suggests that the african nations themselves, they aren't aware that they're being used, or that they're, that they're, that they're stooges that i'd really understand. i mean, that's sort of, as it doesn't go down very well, not to mention to the wind in the sales. well, we know the un, the u. s. ambassador, there was scolding african nations for abstaining on various resolutions on ukraine . we have the federal reserve here in washington jacking up interest rates making balance of payments very difficult on the constant sanctions on russia making or the oil prices life very difficult