u. s. is putting a lot of pressure to make sure that the dutch government and the japanese government follow as well. d u. s. government is hoping that this is going to be a multilateral thing going forward because they need to stop everybody from selling high and tools to china. having successfully pressured europe into breaking off from its chief russian energy supply to the point where the e leadership was running around, repeat this mantra of bam. take that putin like a bunch of brainwashing sheep. apparently, washington is now decided to see if europe can be talked into doing a bam. take that. she's in ping and cut off their largest economic trading partner china. remember that for washington? everything's always binary. you're either with them or you're with the terrorists, and now it's either with us or with china. and washington is so afraid of losing to china on the global economic plane. feel that it's now demanding that its allies pick aside, particularly when it comes to cutting china off of western technology with which beijing can make semiconductors, thereby hindering its ability to c

and he's saying, well, this has to be done because of the economic impact of such a strike. it would be devastating on the u. s. economy. well, many americans are looking at that and saying, well, what about all the inflation he's provide presided over. i mean, that's going to certainly have an impact on the u. s. con my, when it comes to ukraine, the us congress, both the house and the senate are happy to open up their checkbooks and legislation in may. there was $40000000000.00 provided to you, grand by the added states in september, an additional $12300000000.00 was passed by the us congress and provided to ukraine. meanwhile, if one looks at the polls, the u. s. public isn't deeply concerned about you. ukraine just isn't showing up among the top issues that americans are concerned about. americans are concerned about inflation, the economy. they're concerned about the danger of war. but this notion that, that ukraine and sending weapons and a do grant is one of their top concern. doesn't seem to be a priority, but regardless, we'd now see the binder administration on the brink of essentially turning it bac

u. s. well, i think that is that a, you know, in the context for your crane, there's been extraordinary pressure. you're not just with china, but also with russia now, and you know, that's fair enough. each, each country has its own interest in the way it has to rate you know, to achieve those interests. and so the u. s. has it said positions on these issues, but the africans also have their own and they don't necessarily show all the sort of interpretation of what's going on in that international route. i did want to just pick up on some of the points that were, were made. i think, you know, very, there are opportunities for us to get this right now for me that they just opportunity. it was something that was a little earlier, which is increasingly there's now a very dynamic african diaspora, new african diaspora in the u. s. traditionally, a lot of the policies from the you know, sort of was factored through the prism of the old african, the, the historic desperate. now there's a new sort of c

u. s. move to block export control measures on computer chips. it's a well doing, so by launching a trade dispute this way, at the w t. i should say china is the one launching this dispute. it all comes off to washington passed a sweeping set of regulations in october, ultimately aimed at suppressing china's semiconductor industry well widowed or the program here. what are you to national? i had details without he's donald quarter right here in the studio. whoa, very, what we're seeing here right now is really an, a continuation of this trade war that's been going on since the trump administration between the u. s. and china. this recent complained to the world trade organization from china's ministry of commerce comes after the us actually put export controls on chinese semi conductors back in october. now these export controls are aimed at preventing china from getting semiconductors anywhere in the world where they're potentially produced using american tools. so naturally, beijing said that this is an example of trade protectionism and they said that the

u. s. well, nicole, a fast reaction was won. i was surprised because as i can imagine this tre, pause and broadly advertise for clear security reasons before it took place. now it's not something that president soleski is a come to lately a foreign to he's traveled a day ago, only he was on the front line in the city of bar mode. this is one of the hot spots of this war or so he is used to a taking risks, but a people always find out afterwards and perhaps a better than me telling you what people say. let's say here, directly from the people from kia home, i asked earlier today what they made of that are overseas trip of the president's enjoying the right. it's good that he's gone there. it will improve our partnership in awesome. it looked ruskie more. doris knows it's a little bit scary because he left and something bad could happen to him. but it's very good because it means there's a very close relationship with the us. and i think it will mean additional support . the more and it proves that we are serious partners at a hig

u. s. well i just a bit later on the program here on our 3, you can find out how google and the hong kong authority, the locking horns over search results of national anthem will tear that up for you . and just for now the whole, the corruption scandal that's erupt this week around the parliament has seen the acts fall on the greek deputy chairman, a book kindly, she's been dismissed from her post office. she was accused of money laundering on bribery, aussie contributor rachel martin has a few more details. so this corruption scandal as europeans asking how deep the corruption rabbit hole goes with you institutions. and where's european commission president ursula of underline? well, she was in paris tuesday with french president, emmanuel michael, and is conference for the resilience and reconstruction of ukraine, talking about ukraine's energy needs. hang. what about europe's energy needs and europe's resilience? when do we get to talk about that? when is a re get to come up with diplomatic s

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 sov

and he's saying, well, this has to be done because of the economic impact of such a strike. it would be devastating on the u. s. economy. well, many americans are looking at that and saying, well, what about all the inflation he's provide presided over. i mean, that's going to certainly have an impact on the u. s. economy. now there's a separate piece of legislation that has passed in the house of representatives that would grant 7 paid sick days to railroad workers. however, it looks like, even though this has been passed in the house of representatives, and this is seen as getting a concession to the railroad workers. it looks like it's not going to pass in the u . s. senate, they don't feel confident that the u. s. senate will go ahead and pass this piece of legislation. the president of course, support. he supports paid sick leave for all americans and for including real workers. this is something, as you have seen him over the past, almost 2 years. talk about that and try to move forward and making sure and improve in, in getting paid sick leave. but he understands there are not 60 boats, right? there are

u. s. policies. well, on the face of it, nick, it sounds great that the u. s. would be putting 400000000000 euros more than 400000000000 euros in fact, into environmentally friendly processes. and products, but the problem for europe is that a lot of these measures and the inflation reduction act are aimed at boosting domestic production for u. s. companies. and that, of course could put europe at a disadvantage and there's a lot of worry over this. and what ursula under lion is saying is that the, you need to re balance the playing field. she laid out in this speech in bruce that the you needs to become more assertive in its policies and not let the united states take advantage of it. at the same time, the president said that she's very much urging cooperation over confrontation. but i'm telling you that nerves are so afraid over this i r a that the head of the european parliament trade committee said today that he believes the i r a rises to the level of the u. s. the you needing to file a complaint at the world trade organization. so certainly the tensions a

u. s. trip. well, the reaction from the russian side want as expected kremlin the spokespersons meet your past call, expressed to disappointment, since there was neither a cold for peace, nor readiness to listen to russia. security concerns as he puts it according to the kremlin. this means that the you ass indirectly fighting with russia. essentially what moscow does is to reinforce, once again, good narrative about total dependency of flood him is the last, is a decision making on the binding administration. and here it must be sad that in russia it's widely believed that that's ukraine, that washington is fueling the conflict by providing military equipment for ukraine . vladimir put in has stated several times that he wants peace and military assistance. the ukrainian hayes view is somewhat alienating cave and moscow from peace talks. i will show on this as a proxy where maria, i want to ask you, do you think that the u. s. s. promise of more support and the delivery of patriot missile systems is

u. s. now, well, i mean a lot to could happen at this point term. i mean, it is a huge scandal if you ask me and are under the trump administration, there were a discussions to maybe a been a tick tock entirely from the united states, or fed by dentists to sell the business or the u. s. business, at least of tick tock go to an american corporation. so right now, the idea is to put the user data from american users and we're talking about officially a 100000000 users here in the united states alone on a cloud server from the usa company. i'm oracle, so there could be more regulation, there could be a been, or there could be a cell of or the u. s. m, entity of tick tock. so, but something i guess will and it has to happen. right? well again, thanks for that update and have a happy christmas chat g p t is taking the world by storm. the chap bought developed by open a, i uses a large language model to answer questions and complete tasks. what's what a lot of people worried is just how good it is that a range of tasks from brightened letters to checking

u. s. m, entity of tick tock. so, but something i guess will and it has to happen. right? well again, thanks for that update and have a happy christmas chat g p t is taking the world by storm. the chap bought developed by open a, i uses a large language model to answer questions and complete tasks. what's what a lot of people worried is just how good it is that a range of tasks from brightened letters to checking developers code to even programming games. so i decided to give it a try myself. let's take a look. first, ask it to pitch me a sick. com set, an eighty's west berlin. it came up with the characters and an outline of the story all by itself. and i asked it to write a scene with a few jokes, but hilarious but possible. then i told chat g p t to draw a hallowani meal plan for the week. you can see it here, just a sec building the table. there we go. and the ideas were pretty good. and then comes coding. i asked chat g p t to write a simple to do app in python, and you know what? not only did it write the code, but it actually works when i tested it out. script writer nut

u. s. m, entity of tick tock. so, but something i guess will and it has to happen. right? well again, thanks for that update and have a happy christmas chat g p t is taking the world by storm. the chat brought developed by open a i uses a large language model to answer questions and complete tasks. what's what a lot of people worried is just how good it is that a range of tasks from brightened letters to checking developers code to even programming games. so i decided to give it a try myself. let's take a look. first ask it to pitch me a sick. com set in eighty's, west berlin. it came up with the characters and an outline of the story all by itself. and i asked it to write a scene with a few jokes, but hilarious but possible. then i told chat g p t to draw a hallowani meal plan for the week. you can see it here, just a sec building the table. there we go. and the ideas were pretty good. and then comes coding. i asked chat g p t to write a simple to do app in python, and you know what? not only did it write the code, but it actually works when i tested it out. script, right nutr

u. s. as well tis the season for shopping, of course, but also returns a logistical nightmare in and of themselves. refunds and exchanges are nothing new for retailers, but online shopping has made the whole process a lot more complicated. what is wrong with this washing machine or these mattresses, or any of these large furniture items? well, that's objective. all these items were returned by customers and sent to this huge storage facility in the german city of lune. by just one online retailer, it turns out online shoppers have all sorts of reasons for returning purchases. i'm one of order, i'm 0, one customer wanted to order a freezer but accidentally ordered 4, so 3 of them were sent back. that's one example of product wars or large tv screen . some customers ordered them without realizing how big they really are. and then they find out they don't have enough room for the gun forester, every return, no matter how big or heavy has to be unwrapped and checked, was there any damage? are there any

u. s. specifically? well, we've watched the chinese and the russian forces operate together since the establishment of the shanghai cooperation organization in 2005, the china and russia just announced a new naval exercise with a full squadron of russian naval assets leading bladder bar stock. so these chinese almost a dozen worships and submarines were out for a week from the chinese side are probably going to be operating with the russian carol arts, i would expect chinese or naval forces to circumnavigate japan. go along and up the side of hon shoe and then come up to the north to operate in the sea of japan, at least at 1st. and then we saw just about 3 weeks ago, russian and chinese fighters and bombers operating again once again together the 5th time this year. and at the end of that exercise, russian bombers and fighters landed in chinese or fields. and chinese bombers and fighters landed in russian airfields. so i have been very vocal that chinese and russian military forces have a strong military all

u. s. as well as well. and government, these, these agreements can be ratified and it's a process didn't sit down in mexico and discuss these things and discuss those where it's the process that i'm referring to, that negotiating process which ought to work according to the plan of the, by to ministration reciprocally. so the concessions on a side match with sanctions release primarily from the u. s. that will to work, but it needs to be started by you know, government hearing, correct. that is, we actually contemplate down the line at some point losing power, which currently doesn't seem to be willing to do. i want to thank all our guests and norman and phil guns, and i want to thank you as well for watching. now you can see the program again, any time by visiting our website out there a dot com for further discussion. go to our facebook page at facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. and you can also join the conversation on twitter. handle is at a inside story. for me, i'm wrong count on the who

u. s. have we're wanting presence on this tiny island way over on the other side of the ocean . well, the u. s. thinking is twofold. number one, the australians have asked us to become involved. and because the australians are panicked about the chinese, we're more than happy to do that. but secondly, you have to look at the broader u. s. policy toward china. we made a conscious decision, probably going as far back as the reagan administration, to challenge china at every opportunity, whether it's chinese expansion or globalization or, or whatever it is. you know, one of the things that we're having trouble confronting is the chinese are not going around the world to spread an ideology. they are going around the world to build things, right? roads ports, as i said, they're, they're truly assisting in the economic development of a lot of countries that really do need economic development. that something that the united states has been unwilling to do. we say that we don't have the money for it. the truth is we have plenty of money, we just, we've chosen to spend it on right. we allen

u. s. a significant trade partner. thus, the countries prime minister sets abide in june. his september visit to the u. s. or the u. s. is well, very far away from this country. as well, so keep your fights and debates to yourselves. your enemy is not my enemy. that's ally and emerging in the pacific. we will not compromise democracy or our relationships with the west as far as democratic values are concerned. at the same time, we will never compromise our trading relationships. we spoke to the director of the center for counsel hedge a monic studied him understand he stays, the pup when you get, he doesn't want to get drawn into global politics. in terms of multi polarity, it's not something that's discussed enormously there, but it's certainly the case that they want to maintain the sort tommy and not get drawn into big politics. i mean, you, its influence in this part of the pacific is largely through its proxies or sometimes called deputy sheriffs, lieutenants, australia, new zealand, australia, new zealand have exercised a lot of influence in the region, particularly through the pacific, all in forum which they dominate

u. s. a i d, she's able to exert u. s. soft power in the form of international development. as i said, a few minutes ago, building bridges and digging wells, and building roads and hospitals, and electrical grids and, and sewage systems. as a way to, to expand the u. s. footprint all over the world, including in the solomon islands. so the fact that she has these pro war views makes perfect sense to me when the united states is using every, every thing in its arsenal to confront the chinese. she would be the person to do that. yet i, i found that such an interesting, interesting air quotes appointment. so anyway, id, i agree. now in the chinese they view the solomons as their neighbor on. it's a country in their head spear as we mentioned. if you look on a map, pretty simple, there's cause for that relationship to strengthen. what reason does the us have for wanting presence on this tiny island way over on the other side of the ocean? well, the u. s. thinking is twofold. number one, the australians have asked us to become involved. and because the australians are panicked about the chinese, we're more than happy to do that. but secondly,

u. s. and his meeting with the u. s. president. well, there's a lot of symbolism playing into this as we saw russian president vladimir putin over see his defense minister basically announcing that the russell military will be expanded here as symbolic meeting in the united states. romeo lensky. visiting by far his most important and biggest factor, the united states, the u. s. president. yes. but also u. s. congress that has sent some $50000000000.00 in assistance already ukraine's way and is about to potentially do the same. this is the crucial day in washington d. c. where a almost 2 trillion budgets could be decided upon and voting is zalinski. it has been increasingly making the case that he needs more weapons and he needs more sophisticated weapons systems. and that's why we're not just announcing 2000000000, that's what we heard from a white house official in extra assistance, but also cruise to the of the deployment of a patriot defense system. which could be a game changer both in defense technology, but also diplomatically wit

u. s. regulators have ordered banking colossus, wells fargo to pay $3700000000.00 in fines and customer refunds. it's the largest fine. the consumer finance regulator has ever slapped on a bank. wellsfargo has spent years dealing with a series of scandals tied to its sales practices. executives have repeatedly said the bank was cleaning up at the fact, but the fines have kept coming. who better to talk about this forest against quarter on the new york stock exchange against the settlement covers a lot of different allegations. so what was wells fargo accused of? yet any and wells fargo by assets is the 4th largest them, us bank, and the allegations are pretty, a rough. so according to the consumer financial protection bureau, consumers were illegally assessed fees and interest charges on auto and mortgage loans. had their cas wrongly repossess that had payments to order and mortgage loan, so misapplied by the bank. so some of that misconduct happened years ago, but some, as recently as this year. and so now you have a $1700000000.00 a penalty. that is the largest him ever a given a, fro

u. s. foreign policy for decades. well, i mean, i think we have to go back to the reality that the u. s. has been supporting neo nazis and even nazi's hardcore nazis in crane for about 80 years. now these are the friends of the u. s. these are the folks that the u. s is using it's world 1st against the soviet union and now against russia. so really, it's not surprising at all. this is part and parcel of us for policy for decades. what i guess is knew about it is that now you've been out of celebrities like sean penn embracing you speak? well, i guess that's what's really do. people have been programmed now to view the as all battalion as heroes of ukraine in the fight against russia. it's an incredible thing that really we witnessed only since february, right. i mean, so the media campaign has been amazingly effective as to convincing the population of the u. s. ironically, particularly the liberal population, right. rank and file the democratic party. but the, as all battalion are the good guys to africa where the south african parliament has postponed a long awaited vote on impeachme

u. s. a? well, they will be, continue escalation, all often see it moves 5 aging and i think the chinese problem of we just stop, stop investing money in the semiconductor industry and they would look some more. yeah. now the tricky situation is the high end the most high, and so we conduct the user story. obviously has been slowed down by the u. s. measures, but red. i'm the rain from the wrong look site paging. starting to enlarge and even low. it's also the stabilize the kind of family and literally assembly called the the eventually to support the high end assembly from the multipoint advisement. so this is, this is not we'll have to see what will happen deserve is might say that washington is big to suppress chinese economic growth are becoming more and more evident. if that is the case, how. * nasty, can you see this getting in? do you think we'll see other countries dragged into it? well this way, countries who are being dragged into it, for example, because of the u. s. and expect control m

u. s. ukraine, germany and italy voted against heads off resolution one. well discussed this now with terry harrison radio host of kerry harrison dot com. welcome. welcome. thank you. are welcome to me. thank you. so were you surprised to see countries like ukraine and the u. s. as well as germany in italy, among those who objected to this landmark resolution. well, reasonably, let's understand where the united states, germany, austria, others are coming from. the argument on the west here is that it's a free speech issue. we do not prohibit or prescribe or ban, or block, generally under our constitution, anybody's right to say anything politically they can be on either side. they can be fundamentalist christians, they can be absolute naked pagans. it does not matter. and we protect and enshrined that in our constitution. that is the argument from his side. the argument from russia is that russia is somehow this bastion of protecting from xena phobia and giving all these glorious human rights. if there is a true record of that, that i think that also ought to b

u. s. attorney general will actually prosecute them trump? well, anthony, at the u. s. as in the very early stages of this extremely complicated process, as we just heard, the general 6 committee announced its unprecedented recommendation to reform a president from 44 different criminal charges. the justice department is already working on cases against trump. and also his associates, so we do not know what stage they are in or if they plan to move forward with any charges. but enter anthony, i think it is fair to say that this is still a monumental moment on capitol hill. you make the point that we don't know exactly where we are in this landscape, but if we take it to it's in the scenario, would these charges, could these charges stop trump from running again for president? well, if, if the president were to get charged for inciting an insurrection, sorry, which was one of the 4 recommended charges he would be disqualified from running for office again. but at this stage, at this very moment, nothing can prevent him from continuing to pursue to hold public office in h