u. s. republican savvy lendlease act, which was accepted by a majority in congress this week and signed off by president biden to expedite military aid to key if will just lead to more debts and ukraine. every vote to provide military assistance to ukraine draws us closer to a war with russia. this is not our fight. i reiterate my hope for immediate peace talks and resolution of hostilities, sending more weapons of war is counter to peace and will extend the death and destruction. for some details on this, washington is no worth arise to transfer any weapon of war. other than those with nuclear capability to ukraine, the act is also exempt from laws that normally govern such a lease, such as a 5 year duration on the requirement to pay all costs of loaning the equipment. the lethal aid comes in addition to biden's request to approve another $33000000000.00 and assistance to your brain. geopolitical comments or minear med, say such support will drive the country into severe debt for generations. if you go to the act, it is basic. the activation of world war 2. c act, f ob britain has to t

u. s. senate delegation. he needs more powerful weapons. republican leader, mitch mcconnell, leads a u. s. senate delegation on a stroll through kiff to show their support for ukraine's war effort. to me it was all smiles and handshakes as they met with president zelinski follow you. good and regular. well har, thank you. we know each other a little bit. yeah. but zalinski made it clear that smiles and hand shakes and polite small talk won't drive the russians out of ukraine. his armed forces need more long range artillery and strike aircraft to be able to hit russian forces and disrupt the supply lines. ukraine's general staff said the russians were pulling back from ca, keith, as they pressed their offensive in the southeast residence of villages around khaki for our coming to terms with the destruction left in the wake of russia's retreat. weeks of artillery bombardment and occupation have taken a heavy tall. so are you doing? russia launched fresh ground and air attacks in the eastern doughnuts province aiming to deplete ukrainian forces and destroy their fortified positions. the rus

u. s. senate and that's where it seems to stall, largely because there are many republicans in the u. s. senate who are beholden to the national rifle association, or the largest gun lobby in the united states. as many of them have received donations for their campaigns to be elected, and as a result will vote a guess this legislation because they have been directed to do so by the national rifle association. so that's why this happens. but you also have to remember that these legislators are put into the senate by americans who support these actions and hold very dear the right to bear arms, which is entrenched in the 2nd amendment of the us constitution. so, oh, well the often these legislators are blamed and they really are representative of a larger body of americans that the support the ideals of the national rifle association. so this is part of the problem that many democrats and the president is battling will earlier texas governor greg abbott says the gunman posted his plan on social media shortly before the attack. abbott was speaking at a news conference about the shooting,

u. s. senate and that's where it seems to stall, largely because there are many republicans in the u. s. senate who are beholden to the national rifle association, or the largest gun lobby in the united states. as many of them have received donations for their campaigns to be elected, and as a result will vote a guest this legislation because they have been directed to do so by the national rifle association. so that's why this happens. but you also have to remember that these legislators are put into the senate by americans who support these actions and hold very dear the right to bear arms, which is entrenched in the 2nd amendment of the us constitution. so, oh, well, the often these legislators are blamed and they really are representative of a larger body of americans that the support the ideals of the national rifle association. so this is part of the problem that many democrats and the president is battling, is that there are millions of americans that don't want to see the background checks or a limit on high capacity magazines, or even assault rifles. and that is why you don't

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u. s. will provide more military assistance to give, including artillery and rates. the u. s. senate has approved a $40000000000.00 aid package to ukraine despite republican lawmakers warning that there is a serious lack of opening that money might end up you asking price inflation and other problems that aid money would be better spent at home. and or if people are going to have a proxy war, and we're going to get $40000000000.00, the ukraine, because we want what all fancy, what are blue and yellow ribbons? feel good about ourselves. maybe we should actually have a debate in this chamber. a debate in this body because the american people expect us to do that when the border of this country is wide open and cartels have control of it. and fennel is pouring in and we have $30.00 trillion dollars a diesel. and we go blank check, $40000000000.00. and by the way, i'm looking at my colleagues on this side of the aisle on that same point. that concern has been echoed by many americans. has gasoline prices have surged across new us, recorded at $4.00 or more per gallon in all 50 states this week? many americans have voice should solve their own country's proble

rival, the top republican in the u. s. senate. mitch mcconnell, who we should point out was in stockholm, sweden over the weekend and really underscored his support that the goal was to see both finland and sweden admitted to nato as soon as possible. so of course we have to remember that the reason for this is russia's invasion of ukraine. and the other thing that is likely to be discussed at this meeting of these 3 leaders when they sit down here at the white house on thursday, is really the, the focus of all of this mat is supporting ukraine. a, in the midst of expanding nato membership, who, meanwhile, russia says almost 700 ukrainian fighters at the as of style steel poncho, surrendered in the past 24 hours. it's unclear though, what will happen to them next? an alley, a group was taken to a form of penal colony and russian controlled territory. while the wounded, when taken to hospital for treatment, and ukraine once a prisoner swab, but says parliament is considering banning the exchange of as of members fess russi

rival, the top republican in the u. s. senate. mitch mcconnell, who we should point out was in stockholm, sweden over the weekend and really underscored his support that the goal was to see both finland and sweden admitted to nato as soon as possible. so of course we have to remember that the reason for this is russia's invasion of ukraine. and the other thing that is likely to be discussed at this meeting of these 3 leaders when they sit down here at the white house on thursday, is really the, the focus of all of this that is supporting ukraine. a, in the midst of expanding nato membership in avenues pheasant. joe biden has condemned what he calls the poison of white supremacy. he's been in buffalo, new york, where he met families of victims of the latest mass shooting. she advertising of a force from buffalo after visiting the sight of saturday's massacre at a supermarket in a predominately black neighbourhood of buffalo, new york, jo bike and spoke specifically of the philosophy that underpin the guns rampage. that whi

u. s senate primary celebrity dr mehmet oz is separated from former hedge front ceo david mccormick by just a fraction of a percent. in the republicanmary for an open u s senate seat with thousands of mail in ballots still to be counted, both candidates are predicting eventual victory. we can see the path ahead. we can see victory ahead and it's all because of you. thank you, pennsylvania. we are making a ferocious charge. but what is this close? what else would you expect? everything about this campaign has been tight. john fetterman here. pennsylvania's lieutenant governor won the democratic primary for the u. s senate seat . you'll go up against the republican winner in november to replace the retiring said it had to me. 7 35 investigators in buffalo, new york, are learning more about a deadly mass shooting that left 10 people of color dead. president biden went to buffalo, new york, called the shootings an act of domestic terrorism and urged all americans to condemn white supremacy. white supremacy is a poison. it's a poison running through. it really is the president and the first lady put flowers at the shooting scene and met

ah ah, a republican senator, blogs of $40000000000.00 u. s. aid package for ukraine, saying the american economy will be doomed if washington continues to spend more money there. what you have here is a ukranian snipers nest. it has been set up on a roof of one of them military bases, and it has been abandoned well along with the rest of the base. our correspondence reports from ukrainian military bases in murray, you poll, which they abandoned as russian forces advanced. thus as russia none done yet. so just continued to fight the hours of steel plant on the outskirts of the city. busher threatens vitality.

u. s. a. package. the ukraine is delayed by republican senator party launches special coverage focused on the unfold. stories of ukrainian refugees who fled to russia, they mean they were given little help to escape the conflict with my son is he ukrainian soldier while crossing the border? i didn't hide anything. my son honestly told the mom, go to the russian border, go to russia. they will help you and residents of done yet, lou guns take part in victor day celebrations as a more peaceful life. slowly returns to cities in the dumbass up to years of being on the front line with welcome to the weekly here on our see international monitors feature scott's bringing you the stories that shape the news this week. we start with the latest on the war in ukraine, though, multiple residential areas in the done yes. for public came and intense shelling by ukrainian troops on saturday. one woman suffered shrapnel wounds and was taken to hospital. a village in the belgrade region of russia was reports of the shelled by ukraine. one civilian was injured, while the 90000 people were evacuated from high risk areas of ukr

so the republican side the u. s. is easing some of it's a crippling sanctions on venezuela allowing major american oil company chevron to restart operations in the south american country. that's after years of washington . heavily criticizing venezuelan president nicholas maderos government and encouraging and overthrow of his leadership. washington authorized us and european oil companies to negotiate and resume operations in venezuela. on the surface, it looks like a total turn around a zigzag. the united states is saying that chevron and american oil companies can start doing business, some of the sanctions are being lifted. now you'll recall that then as whale is led by the united socialist party, i started by hugo child as than later. now it's nicholas maduro. leads the country and the u. s. a has been trying to crush venezuela, the u. s. as owes crippling sanctions, they say that are intended to put maximum pressure on the country to remove its elected leaders from the socialist party. there have been qu attemp

the democratic president joe biden support this, but also i, his republican rival, the top republican in the u. s. senate. mitch mcconnell, who we should point out was in stockholm, sweden over the weekend and really underscored his support that the goal was to see both finland and sweden admitted to nato as soon as possible. so of course we have to remember that the reason for this is russia's invasion of ukraine. and the other thing that is likely to be discuss at this meeting of these 3 leaders when they sit down here at the white house on thursday, is really the, the focus of all of this that is supporting ukraine. a, in the midst of expanding nato membership. and the sticking point, as we mentioned, might be turkey. what's administration saying about and we've had the opportunity to hear from the new white house press secretary green, jean pierre. and what she said is that really the white house is pretty confident that this is not going to be an obstacle that can't be overcome. in fact, when it comes to turkey's reservations, the white house press secretary is pretty firm. she's confident t

who, suddenly, is surging in the polls in the republican u. s. senate primary, and pennsylvania. if you have recently become aware of kathy, it may be because of this campaign video she released, earlier this month. and, it she explains, she wants to make abortion illegal, with no exceptions for rape, or incest, because she, herself, is the product of rape. her mother, ray today 11, and kathy barnett says, she's glad abortion was not an option for her mother. therefore, her position appears to be, all 11-year-old girls who are raped in the united states should be forced to carry their rapist babies to term. which, apparently, struck a chord with many republican primary voters in pennsylvania. but, although that is how kathy barnett made a national name for herself most recently, for the last year and a half, she has been a stop the steal advocate. ever since she, very expectedly, lost a congressional race to a democrat, in a blue pennsylvania district in 2020, kathy barnett has been crisscrossing the state, hunting for phantom voter fraud that, supposedly, cost her the race. this

u. s. a package, the ukraine is delayed by republican senator the launch is special coverage focused on the on told stories of ukrainian refugees who fled to russia. they mean they were given little help to escape. the conflict with my son is a ukrainian soldier while crossing the border. i didn't hide anything. my son honestly told the mom, go to the russian border, go to russia, they will help you with resident of done yet. the guns take part in victory day celebrations as a more peaceful life. slowly returns to cities in the dom bus to get a being on the front line.

u. s. president joe biden has signed a $40000000000.00 a package for ukraine us despite republican lawmakers warning. this is a serious lack of oversight into way. exactly that might not, money might end up u. s. a congressman chip roy emphasize dots as america faces surging price inflation. another problems that's 8 money would be better spent at home. and i'm wondering when we voted to go to or if we were going to have a proxy war and we're going to get $40000000000.00, the ukraine, because we wanna what all fancy with our blue and yellow ribbons. feel good about ourselves. maybe we should actually have a debate in this chamber debate in this body because the american people expect us to do that when the border of this country is wide open in cartels have control of it. and fennel is boring in and we have $30.00 trillion dollars, a debt and gas prices are spiking and 1100 hours to fill a tank, a diesel and we go blank check $40000000000.00. and by the way, i'm looking at my colleagues on this side of the aisle on that same point. many americans are struggling to meet that basic needs as th

ah, ah ah, a republican senator blocks, a $40000000000.00 u. s. a package for ukraine saying the american economy will be doomed if washington continues to spend more money than what you have here is a ukranian snipers nest. it has been set up on a roof of one of the military bases, and it has been abandoned. well along with the rest of the base. all correspondence reports from ukrainian military base is the money you pull, which they abandoned, as the russian forces advanced. as russia none done yet, so just continued to fight the hours of steal plans on the outskirts of the city. russia threatens retaliatory stats if neighboring. finland joins nato, but tell think he insists it must apply without delay. and latvia paves the way to demolish a soviet. there are memorial and lost probes against people who protested against the removal of flowers from the sides, laid dead during victory day commemorations with moscow to the world. this is all the international. i'm peter scott. and we start with the latest on the conflicts in ukraine. according to t

u. s. government to take a stronger stance and demand for an independent investigation amongst them. a group of congress members led by the republican under carson, who will be submitting a letter to the u. s. government later on thursday. the monday that intelligence approach sits of the united states government take a lead in such an investigation, to bring about some sort of justice for the murder of shirley and buckler. all right, we appreciate that update, jamal ow shall live for us at the pentagon. thank you. moving on now and doctors are concerned by a rare infection, usually spread by rats and monkeys in africa. monkey paul has infected an american man had recently been in canada, and the world health organization is concerned by discoveries of the disease in britain, portugal, and spain. in britain, a cluster of infections has affected game in bar at pac. com. yeah. is from the university of exit at medical school, he says, monkey polk spreads between humans. it can also catch the disease from animals. the reservoir for monkey box, we don't know, but we think it is mostly rodents, meaning rats. and it may also be monkeys. s

republican voters tuesday night. in an editorial under the headline after the pennsylvania primary, the threat to u. s. democracy rises, the washington post says quote, republican voters overwhelmingly nominated state senator doug mastriano, one of the country's most ardent deniers of the 2020 presidential election results. if mr. mastriano is elected in november, he could directly threaten u. s. democracy going forward. that is all it takes to destroy the absurdly fragile electoral machinery that produces a winner in american presidential elections. just one person. that is all it takes. one breathtakingly ignorant pathological liar. that is all it takes to and any semblance of democracy in presidential elections. pennsylvania state senator doug mastriano was at donald trump's january 6th rally, and was seen near the grounds of the capitol after donald trump told everyone to march to the capitol, and that he would march with them. after donald trump told them to fight like hell, doug mastriano was at the capitol watching them fight like hell. he is under investigation by the january 6th committee. the

u. s will finally sway enough republican lawmakers in the senate to allow a vote on hr eight, a bill that would expand background check requirements nationwide to include all firearms sold at gun shows. and online gun laws don't know state lines were always susceptible to of folks from other areas or guns from other areas. california universal background checks on firearms are already required. gabriel vaughn, the owner of sportsman's arms and petaluma, not opposed to the proposed federal law. i don't have a problem with it if that's something that we can do. why not give it a shot wednesday , governor newsom, also unveiling a series of state bills targeting gun sales. those states like california. that have the most progressive policies. in restricting the abuse and proliferation of guns have consistently outperformed other states in terms of gun murder rates and gun death rates. one bill would go after those who make ourselves ghost guns are assault weapons, but not convinced that that bill would address what he considers roots of the problem. mental health and situations akin to april'

u. s will finally sway enough republican lawmakers in the senate to allow a vote on hr eight. a bill that would expand background check requirements nationwide to include all firearms sold at gun shows. and online laws don't know state lines were always susceptible to of folks from other areas or guns from other areas. california universal background checks on firearms are already required. gabriel vaughn, the owner of sportsman's arms and petaluma, not opposed to the proposed federal law. i don't have a problem with it if that's something that we can do. why not give it a shot wednesday , governor newsom, also unveiling a series of state bills targeting gun sales. those states like california. that have the most progressive policies. in restricting the abuse and proliferation of guns have consistently outperformed other states in terms of gun murder rates and gun death rates. one bill would go after those who make ourselves ghost guns are assault weapons, but not convinced that that bill would address what he considers roots of the problem. mental health and situations akin t

u. s attorney, nathan hochman, a republican who was endorsed by his party and another republican , los angelesased attorney, eric early, joining us now from or is alex michaelson, host of the issue is who recently sat down with eric early, so why does he think he's the right person for the job? well alex. this is one of the closest and most important races, especially with the governor's race, not taught to be all that close. crime of course, is issue number one in this race. eric early is by far the most conservative of the candidates that are running . he's a proud trump supporter, and he has a very different view on how to deal with crime. here's some of what he told me a little earlier today. i call rob bonta criminal lover rob bonta is a clone of george gascon. okay they have created what i call in california criminals paradise. i will do everything possible to lock up the prison cells again. i will do everything possible to set cash bail again. i will do everything possible to repeat this repeal this crazy law. proposition 47 let you steal up to 9 50 had a shot multiple times a day, by t

earlier republican senator ran paul had managed to delay the legislation by several days. he called on the u. s. public to oppose the spending of $40000000000.00 of taxpayer money on ukraine instead of helping americans at home. but said the majority leader, democrats, chuck schumer, hit back at brent paul, even calling him a pawn of the kremlin. i went home and i had a standing ovation from 200 people at a lincoln day dinner claw. say, thank you for holding up this money. we need help at home. we can't get baby formula. we can't pour our gas, but it is repugnant that one member the other side, the junior senator from kentucky chose to make a show and obstruct ukraine funding, knowing full well, he couldn't actually stop its passage for sen pull to delay ukraine, funding for purely political motives is to only strengthen putin's hand. and while the biden administration gives up to send $40000000000.00 to ukraine, many ordinary americans are struggling to cope with the highest price inflation and for decades. gasoline prices are a buy more than a dollar a gallon from just last year. many america

u. s. u. s. senate approach, of course, senators have their own mind and how they want to do this. but we already see strong signal to support both from republicans and democrats in washington to move this forward. then each need a member state has their own process and the one, the one simply like that we see right now is what you raised earlier, which is jerky. you've got a, you know, address these issues right now and move forward. but i don't see any stumbling blocks across the nato allies that we couldn't see this move forward quickly, but it's hard to tell what each government is going to do. this is all being laid out right now for the jonathan katz from the german marshall fund. thank you. thank you. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers are facing an uncertain future after surrendering to russian forces in the port of matthew pal. moscow says most have been sent to a prison camp in eastern ukraine, controlled by russia. cave hopes to get the soldiers back in a prisoner swap. but moscow has threatened to put some of them on trial. soldiers surrender to an unknown fate. this footage, released by the russian defense ministry, shows ukrainian soldi