u. s. s. all together as a staunch socialist or she was also an outspoken critic. all but then president mikhail gorbachev. seeing his actions as the course. so the unions collapse. and now in her late sixty's, i'm a lot of a, it's still active and political life serving as chair of rushers, peace and unity party. and i'll be correspondent donald quarter, got a chance to go to the time. and the doff by some serious back then in the huge soviet union of any person created work to leave and believed that tomorrow would be better. and in fact, it was him to day, we see what a beautiful planet we had a long as we looked abroad. and it seemed that all the democracy, all the beauty was there and we wanted to be like them is. although our culture's music and morality, which was in love with union, wasn't in any other country. luckily, i don't want to offend anyone like you are. this is affecting the great soviet union was the 2nd world power in most respects i. although in some it was ahead of the united states, this country did not need to be rebuilt. it needed to be imp

u. s. s, all would disintegrate, and i would never have left russia. i worked in a local store for more than 7 years. i was paid amiga salary, but i agreed because i had to feed my son. eventually i lost touch with all of my relatives. i went to human rights organisation for help with getting catholic citizenship in the year 2000. i put all the documents together and sent them off, but they just disappeared. i was angry about that, but i gave up and did not try again, which i was always told you were not born here. you were born in lithuania. is that my fault where i was born and that i came from russia recently, i received lots of help. but who returned my pension for all these years? i wasn't on the waiting list to get a flat. hospital refused to help me. i was deprived of all right, of course i have no saudi for the soviet times, but then i knew i was needed. if you could get a job, you could cross borders. and of course, every person holds on to their past memories. i hold on to those years, but the later part of my life was very hard. i just had t

now with this northern, with, nor stream to, for example, it is allowing l d, u s. s, all is europeans to, to obstruct that is pipeline simply commencing the russian stuff issue, cheaper gas to asia. so as a consequence, your industry will not be competitive against asians have a future. so you don't, you don't have any. i don't see him being able to make the relevant and by doing what's needed to be done. so i don't, i don't see handbook. and again, there's a lack of alternatives at this point. yeah, that's a they a you did. does that all the time? no alternative and i think that's my design on. fortunately, patrick, your thoughts here because mac round is actually, and i've never been a big fan of the, the french president he has matured in office. he is, he's a lot more articulate and, and willing to take some chances here and place these up for reelection in the spring here. so, i mean, maybe it's not the right question. is france able to do it instead of micro? i don't know, what are your thoughts a just looking at the internal domestic political situation in france u

u. s. u s. dollars would plunge max, all right. i should mention that if we can hear, i believe it's your dog in the back. yeah. that's, that is my dog in the background. apologies for that. whenever you hear someone at the front door package from amazon or whatever, you know, a bar. so that's, that's what happened there, and i thought, you know, i thought you train the doc to bark whenever he hears the word j. powell. now we're speaking of bar b, r j. pow. did you see what the former fed governor of wash came out and said, he explicitly accused the fed of purposely causing inflation these guys after they retire, they normally go on and say some sort of wishy washy kinds of things, but they usually don't come out with a full scale blast like that this guy came out worst, came out and accused the fed, or purposely doing inflation and blowing asset bubbles. quite refreshing to see i was hoping that someone died during the after the f o m c meeting would actually ask how hard question on this, but no, they keep lot of in the softball

u. s. law for crimes not committed in the u. s . was suppose it crime stuff committed in the u. s. to all of this, think of a political prosecution and that is excluded within the extradition of the you case judge earlier in january said that she would not exercise your massage based on medical grounds. now that this has been somewhat denied by the united states. where does the campaign go now and what ground does the u. k. i have to see with this on to stories going anywhere up to the grounds that have been tested mean that the medical condition has not been overturned by the u. s. all that has been overturned. is this idea of diplomatic assurances and we know from recent information provided both in the u. k. adam saying that the u. s. is diplomatic assurances are not work. the paper they're written on. there are several instances of people who were given assurances and who would then, you know, in the us treated up to a very different kind of the other thing they've, the judges have taken a decision on is the fact that he will not be detained on the sounds but sounds enough or session

u. s. is blocking them because they want to basically shift all of the u. s. pollution over to the middle east and import all of these oil assets. well, that means that the u. s. is basically just going to be dependent on the middle east for on other countries for their energy resources. and by that, by that means, that means that they basically control the supply and demand. so if demand goes up, as is expected to within the next couple of years, the u. s. is going to be left hanging and we're going to be completely dependent on them on higher oil prices, higher natural gas prices in the immediate future on top of the playstation. absolutely, i will continue to keep an eye on all of these stories boom, but ben swan and christy, i. thank you so much breaking down. thank you. and there is a lot of red on the board for global market this week as investors keep an eye on rising inflation. the effect of the i'm a crown barrier and a whole host of moves by major central banks. let's start in russia where the mo, x is down. the central bank of russia raised its key

u. s. politics and the u. s. itself, it's, it's ribbon by all sorts of factions, lyrical stalemate, violence on the street. i don't know that this is a country that can stand up and say, look, you should follow us. look at our how well we're doing. it's time for us to lead by example, instead of by preaching china has had a 40 year track record of improving the lives of its people. and i think this is, in essence, the problem. how do you confront system that you say should not work with yet? is working, whereas the system you say is the best system is not working for your people. and attacking and begging, but he thinks indeed thank if you open government forces of one more battlefield victories against rebels from the north. the dry and people liberation frontal t p l f. appears to be retracing in a mata and a fall regions which neighbor to grey. and that's where the rebels are based. soldiers loyal to prime minister, i'll be, i'll magic, have now taken back to towns of jesse and come bolger. the strategically important because they sit on a national highway will a spokesman for the decry and forces confir

u. s. is allies have in all of they say if the u. s. is laying out the groundwork that we're going to do a, b, c, d. where does europe whole even allies in east asia sort of come in on this? you know, i don't think the united states and decided how exactly it's going to respond and all of that engagement has already taken place with our allies. secretary blinking had a nato foreign minister ariel meeting in the baltics last week, where i think he previewed and engaged and coordinated the u. s. response with our european allies. the primary focus of the binding ministration from the beginning of this crisis has been to coordinate and solicit feedback and cooperate with their european allies for any effective response. and primarily, i do think that our response is going to be economic in nature. it's going to be focused on sanctions, and that is going to be coordinated with the you. so actually think the use playing a critical role also in signaling to the russian federation that it is also going to take parallel steps. and that's why bef

u. s. u. s. and of course, we can't even get testing to buy anymore. they are all sold out. so i think as many things as you do, as you can, will mitigate the damage that's already in progress that said dr. peter chin hong in san francisco. thank you, sir for your time and your perspective. he is a round up now of some more developments in the pandemic, australia recorded another record surgeon cases as an outbreak of the highly infectious alma khan variant disrupts the plan. reopening of the economy. turkey has also seen infections spike according to the health ministry, new cases ruined by 30 percent. that's the highest percentage rise so far this year . and indonesia has detected its 1st locally transmitted amok on case the patient had no recent history of overseas travel was asymptomatic and now isolating at age of carter hospital let's get a round up of some had other headlines at this hour. thousands took to the streets across germany to oppose national covered rules. they come into force to day clashes with police were reported in several cities. germany is tightening

u. s. at least these, these missionaries came from all over the over the u. s. they were organized by an ohio based mission regroup. and their report stay that those who knew the missionaries and were part of the congregation of the missionaries from michigan received a call from someone or a text message rather early this morning from quite someone connected to the situation. telling them that all the, all the missionaries were now free. and we have this interesting quote from michigan congressional member or a member of congress saying, i want to thank the members of the hostage negotiation team for the diligence and securing the safe release of all the hostages. so this was apparently then a negotiated release. we don't know whether, whether that $17000001.00 for each $1000000.00 for each hostage was actually paid. but this was a release that was negotiated. apparently we knew that the f b, i was helping facilitating in negotiations as well. a kidnappings that become a major problem for a t n. a now has the highest abduction rate in the world. this year has be

u. s. u. s. and of course, we can't even get testing to buy any more. they are all sold out. so i think as many things as you do, as you can, will mitigate the damage that's already in progress that said dr. peter chin hong in san francisco. thank you sir for your time and your perspective. tougher. curbs on public life also went into effect in much of germany to day. several regions have tightened restrictions on public gatherings and access to public events ahead of new year's eve. thousands took to the streets overnight and protest covered restrictions mostly in germany's classes erupt it in a number of cities with at least 10 police officers reportedly injured. here's a round up of some more developments in the pandemic. china has expanded locked downs with hundreds of thousands more people ordered to stay home in northern areas . the measures come as beijing prepares to welcome thousands of overseas visitors to february's winter. olympics. australia has recorded another record surgeon cases as an outbreak of the highly infectious american variant disrupts the plan. reope

u. s. u. s. and of course, we can't even get testing to buy any more. they are all sold out. so i think as many things as you do, as you can, will mitigate the damage that's already in progress that said dr. peter chin hong in san francisco. thank you, sir for your time and your perspective. some breaking news for you just now. germany's a constitutional court has ordered parliament to immediately issue laws. protecting people with disabilities in pandemic, related tree are situations. treasures course is the process of prioritizing patients for treatment. for example, if hospitals are unable to cope with demand for intensive care, the case was filed by a group of disabled people in pre existing conditions, fearing they would be left behind if the pandemic pushers hospitals to their limits . we'll have more on this story in upcoming diligence. here's a round up of some more developments and the pandemic china has expanded locked downs with hundreds of thousands more people ordered to stay home in northern areas . the measures come as beijing prepares to welcome thousands of o

u. s. promise to maintain its level of truths in south korea and up on you all the secretary and i reaffirm the u. s. commitment to continue maintaining the current 4th of all of the us forces korea. furthermore, the rock in the u. s. agreed to continue cooperating in order to achieve the shared objective of completing the position of and establishing a permanent piece on the korean peninsula. based on the rock us alliance, there's been a peace and stability of the korean peninsula and northeast asia bundle. this elias contribute to stability throughout the endo pacific. we also reaffirmed our shared assessment that the dpr k is continuing to advance dismissal and weapons programs, which is increasingly the stabilizing for regional security. united states and the r, okay, remain committed to a diplomatic approach to the dpr k. and we continue to call upon the dpr k to engage in dialogue. human, why schools fail? saudis, in bella rules have rated the homes of dozens of journalists and activists. more than 800 people are reportedly already in prison for political reasons. since guffman crackdown last

u. s. but the u. s. would obviously go to nato, but everybody looks to you at the u. s. a guidance really on all of this. and so therefore, what one does it as sort of an after russia sort of invaded an annex ukrainian territory. it's demanding nato withdrawal, or else, i mean, nato isn't ukraine in terms of an uncertain countries are in terms of supporting and training ukrainian personnel. it's just a complete red line for the russians. and what one does, how nato is going to react to that particular part of the, the request. well, yes, just completed the summit. this kind of might give you a barometer of how some of the europeans, not all you member states are members of nato. but they said that there will be sanctions if russia continues to increase military committee in ukraine. so there are a lot of tensions. it's quite interesting the timing of all of this because put in has, who are coming to the 30th anniversary of the demise of the soviet union. so be december 25th and it seems i couldn't put a lot of things, you know, lining up all those ducks. he has a machine that he, he publishes st

u. s. amounts, they will permanently deploy and attack helicopter squadron and artillery units in south korea. and up on you all the secretary and i reaffirm the u. s. commitment to continue maintaining a current 4th of all of the us forces korea. furthermore, the rock in the u. s. agreed to continue cooperating in order to achieve the shared objective of completing the presentation of and establishing a permanent piece on the korean peninsula. based on the rock us alliance, there's kind of peace and stability of the korean peninsula and northeast asia. you bundle this elias, contribute to stability throughout the endo pacific. we also reaffirmed our shared assessment that the dpr k is continuing to advance dismissal and weapons programs, which is increasingly the stabilizing for regional security. united states and the are ok remain committed to a diplomatic approach to the dpr k. and we continue to call upon the dpr k to engage in dialogue. the united nation says it will require a record of 41000000000 dollars next year to make humanitarian needs around the world. un officials say millions more people will need help to impart to growing instabili

u. s. government should deny mary's family justice. we don't know why this happened. all we know was that it was a, it's a terrible decision on the part of the u. s. government. and supposedly our strongest ally, why you would want to condemn a totally innocent family to, to this torture. this mental torture is beyond me, but i were very pleased now that i'm with your help and your colleagues helping the media that they have now clearly been left with no choice other than to change their decision and allow justice and whatever form that takes to now take its, its natural course. i think the turning point was when president biden came into office and we know he suffered a, a similarly similar family tragedy himself. and we, we learned from, from him that he was going to take a different approach to the one that president trump took. i think my other theory is that inevitably, governments, when they make a decision, find it very difficult to change their minds. but the, the courage of this family and the help of the media all around the world, the americans ultimately were left with no choice and other than to change their decision. these things, u

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u. s. u s. bonds, or when japan had it savings before the plaza or spend all the money? oh, real estate. when like rockefeller center, they lost the $1000000000.00 or across the stove or so. so the question that they don't want other countries, they have savings that are not under the us control. they don't on other countries to be independent. and part of that dollar had gemini and keeping the us dollar as world reserve currency and control over various global economies. as the ability to inflate that dollar supply, correct, you can just printed a what's trying to like, there's no limit how many dollars. and the important thing is that you can print out, isn't it for free? if you buy gold, you actually have to produce something. they get the revenue to spend on the goal because the united states can simply print the dollars either and paper or electronically, essentially by foreign resources or by imports or spend on monetary operations. so a moment ago, when i mentioned that, that big claim community has embraced your book super imperialism. year comment was that they see it as a how to

u. s. is announced over a $125.00 cancellations on friday. united airlines. so another major airline here in the u. s. over a $160.00 cancellations. they say this is all due to a pilot flight attendant and other staff shortages staff that have been hit by the new armory crohn barrier. it is hitting the north east of the united states, new jersey, washington dc. new york, particularly hard new york city is the us epicenter of the crime variant. u. k prime minister boys johnson is urging people to get a boost of vaccine shot over the christmas holiday. cases are surging across europe with britain reporting another day of record infections. though the time for buying presents is theoretically running out, there is still a wonderful thing. you can give your family and the whole country that is to get that job, whether it's your 1st or 2nd, or your booster. so that next year's festivities even better than this years. and in the meantime, i think, you know, she will a very merry christmas. at least 30 migrants have drowned after the boat capsized in greece as a g and c. the 3rd is asked in many days, the coast guards managed to rescue dozens of others can b

u. s. and russia, over a military build off on the border with ukraine, russia and the u. s. all jude whole talks on january the 10th. and kristen salumi joins us now from the united nation. so did the russian deputy ambassador, talk about what he thinks these talks can achieve? well, russian deputy ambassador to the united nations dimitry poly ascii, made it clear that russia is looking for security guarantees to come out of these talks. first and foremost from the united states and more broadly, from nato. the deputy ambassador described nato as the aggressor in the situation on the border of ukraine, where troops have reportedly been building up. he described relations between the united states and the way between the western russia as a new cold war, a cold war, 2 point oh and said that russia had a right to conduct a troop exercises along the border in its territory. of course, you'll remember that russia did seize the crimean peninsula from the ukraine in 2014. and the united states has been threatening sanctions against russia in the event that it would invade that territo

u. s. scramble the slow, the spread of the all me. kron buried the netherlands heads into christmas lockdown, closing hobbs and shops. while the u. s. experts plead with the population to get booster didn't think twice about traveling. also coming up chile, alexa left this candidate to become its next president, former student protests liter gabriella burridge won a convincing victory over his fall right rival and influenced league, a soccer primer to leapfrog labor crews and to jump into 3rd place in the last match before the winter break. ah hello m terry martin, thanks for joining us. authorities on both sides of the atlantic are scrambling to slow a highly contagious variant of the corona virus. in the u. s. top health official antony fall. she is urging people to get booster shots. wear masks and reconsider travel plans as the army kron variant spreads. well, the one thing that's very clear, and there's no doubt about this as is extraordinary capability of spreading. it's trans miss ability capability. it is just, you know, raging through through the world really. and if we're going to deal with armor crohn's, successfully vac

u. s. ah, i'm robot this, and this is all 0 life. and doha also coming up the leaders of russia and the u. s . threatened each other with consequences over an escalating crisis in ukraine. ah, the u. s. to says it stands with people and saddam after a lethal crackdown of protesters killed 4 people. bonfires and the usa to colorado, burn hundreds of homes and force and evacuation of tens of thousands of people. ah, and one of africa is old anti colonial. and so the congolese rumba gets major international recognition with and exactly 2 years ago, china told the world health organization about new and mysterious cases of pneumonia and han city know, the world's been changed by a pandemic that killed almost 5 and a half 1000000 people across and delta variance covered 1900 shattering new daily infection records in the us. across europe, france has reported 200000 new cases for a 2nd day in a row, the u. s. has been recording more than 300000 cases on average for days across the atlantic. the u. k is also broken. it's daily infection talley, with over 80809000 new infections. already challenged

u. s. have shortened isolation for positive asymptomatic people from 10 to 5 days. it comes as an average of a $100000.00 cases all reported daily. but the u. s. president says the health system is prepared. company health reports in the u. s. cases of cove it caused by the arm across very, and are soaring, had expected to get worse in the coming weeks. the stream is being felton hospitals. new records are being fat with daily infections rising past last winter's pandemic peak. in ne states like delaware new jersey, new york, and massachusetts, but also hawaii and puerto rico, there is no federal solution. this gets solved, state level on speaking to the nation's governors in a virtual meeting on monday. us president joe biden admitted white house efforts to combat the highly contagious. i'm a crime very. it have been insufficient, but it's not enough. it's clearly not enough provide. we'd know we would have gone harder quicker if we could have but new reporting indicates the biden administration was pushed to ramp up, testing as far back as october in anticipation of a holiday covered search, but declined. bided denies the report we did reje

u. s. as i said is seeing a such a while the co infection rates all searching in the u. s. up 55 percent in the past 2 weeks. now in new york, texas and new jersey, they've more than doubled with the spread of the on the con variant and in florida they've jumped sevenfold while on tuesday, joe biden promised half a 1000000000 free test the for americans. he will so pledge to open more testing sites, although many testing centers have actually closed down to staff shortages, including 13 in new york, new jersey. the lines are growing here in new york city and so is the frustration. 13 different coven testing centers throughout the city close down to day. all while demand for tests is rising amid and increasing infection rate. we spoke to some people who are waiting to get coven tests here and manhattan. that is a horrible, honestly, you know, you see how many people are on this line right here. and most of my friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get tested. i've had to wait on the lines for hours to get tested. so it makes no sense to be that's not good. it's p

u. s. and further, if i say what i know, they'll be red face is all round but as i fuck met was now obvious that the people also in the u. s. had no idea what to do any more and were at a complete loss for chickasha was free, it was an awful atmosphere. god should i and we realized that they were sweating. the fans were at their wits end midway from vision. eventually v w faced an ultimatum from the u. s. so sorties, either you provide an explanation or we won't certify your new cause. with disaster looming, vw held one crisis meeting off to the next vin to con himself faced deming testimony from his confidant bent, got vice vendor columbus jungle. when vin, to con, cold me. i told him that we'd been chatting thus that the cars had a device that could differentiate between test bench and road. grasso decided into corn would lay to challenge that accounts. while confirming the cool had taken place, he denied he'd been given such a warning. not long after that phone call, a 3rd and crucial decision was made on july 27th, 2015. the v w headquarters involves book was the scene of a product failure analysis meeting at which mar

u. s. navy, in the summer turkey, selling armed drones to ukraine, and russia and the u. s. military arming the ukrainians. all these russia putin sees as a problem. now let me put in may be things that bite and can't give him these guarantees. but put in now has this bargaining chip the build up of those troops on the border with ukraine and analyst. the saying that build up continues, then by the end of january, russia will be in a position to invade ukraine, although that will come at enormous military cost and human cost, not just to ukraine, but to russia as well. ukraine a much better trained army now than it was in 2014. when russia annexed crimea, at least 4 people have been killed by an explosion in iraq. southern city of basra last happened near the hospital. several other people were injured. awkward. i'm the one that has more from doha. the governor over as basra city has called it a terrorist attack, despite the fact that he has not given any more details about the causes as or who behind who is behind the attack. a. but he calls it a terrorist attack. now the bus or a girl province has just decla

all regions and departments in 2022. but we're seeing the opposite of stability when it comes to tension between china and the u. s. as report say the u. s. is planning to add at least 8 chinese firm to the commerce department investment blacklist. so joining us now to discuss all the latest to host with the i am, professor richard will post the economic update. christy, let's start with you here. what do you make of the latest economic data from china? i mean, is this just a temporary slow down, or is there more cause for concern here? well, yes, it is quite concerning china. economic slowdown this quarter has mainly been dragged down by worsening poverty markets. lumps caused by ever been prices. and china is timing up their financing. so it stricter rules to discard speculation and using homes as investment vehicles, china, home sales plunge. and as we mentioned before, the real estate market has made up nearly a 3rd of china, g d, p growth. so you touched on a bit earlier in the us now the chinese government is now prioritizing debility. so that's usually the period that come after growth growth in all of the classes and sectors. chi

u. s. in all the diplomatic contingent, both in the u. s. and in russia has diminished drastically since 2016 when the relations began to alter the u. s, for example, at that stage had some 1200 diplomats in moscow. now it has a number roughly 120. so this tit for tat situation going on. the country is expelling diplomats from each of the embassies. the other country then doing that in retaliation. so this is an ongoing situation, and this is the context with which entity bring can, will be meeting survey leverage a situation in which both countries i'd loggerheads with each other. they had that just diplomatic dispute. but layering on top of this, the crisis in the eastern ukraine, you have got a diplomatic problem that is immense. so certainly that meeting is going to be very interesting and probably fairly provocative. indeed, mike, on our washington dc. mike, thanks a lot. the ear tubes says it's time for the blog to consider making covered 19 vaccinations. mandatory cases are on the rise across the continent for a 3rd of the population

u. s. navy, in the summer turkey, selling armed drones to ukraine, and russia and the u. s. military arming the ukrainians. all these russia putin sees as a problem. now let me put in may be things that bite in, con, give him these guarantees. the putin now has bass bargaining chip, the build up of those troops on the border with ukraine and analysts. the saying about build up continues, then by the end of january, russia will be in a position to invade ukraine, although that will come at enormous military cost and human cost, not just of ukraine, but to russia as well. ukraine, a much better trained army now than it was in 2014 when russia annexed crimea. there, on that point, bernard, we are talking about russia, which is facing significant financial problems in its own light. obviously it's got having to deal with cobra, 1900, spite of that. the problems and many other countries are facing around the world. is there a sense that you're guessing about whether or not russia is actually in a position to wage some sort of concept like this? so as i, as you say, is this essentially just brinkman ship balance of

u. s. and china. there are genuine fears about where this could all end up. the only way that the u. s. in china would go to war, would be over taiwan. so why his taiwan such a flash point between 2 of the world's biggest powers? why is the islands not officially considered a country? and what do microchips have to do with it? all with taiwan is an island stuck in a kind of political limbo. it's a democratic self governing territory just over the waters, china, which claims taiwan is its own. but many taiwanese take issue with that. then you out in the us, which is taken on the role of neighborhood cock. and you end up with taiwan is the focus for many big competing interests. but to understand how we got here, you have to know the back story. i long as ruled by imperial china for 200 years. then japan had it for 50 years after winning a war against china, but winter pan loft and world war 2. china, one of the victors got taiwan back again. then you had the chinese civil war. now, so don't communist forces took over the mainland while the other side, the nationalist forces a chunk i shac