u. s. well, that's it, i mean the u. s. has been central to, to the whole piece agreement that the whole piece process in the north of ireland. and a lot of that has been the fact that it brings significant economic muscle to the table. a lot of the investments that we're seeing in there are coming from, from the u. s. you know, we're seeing microsoft, you know, a lot of the spill over even from the boom and the south is going to the north, largely being driven by u. s. pressure, they've made it clear that if they don't, if the u. k allows brakes it to get in the way of the peace deal that there won't be a trade deal, which the u. k needs post breakfast. so biden's really and he's really pushing his irish routes. so i think it's going to be central to how this plays out. all right, my colleague quit for kuhn and thank you very much. let's go now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. tesla will build a new factor in shanghai to produce large scale batteries. the roughly the size of a shipping contain

u. s. well, vice president, pamela harris, was quick to condemn the ruling out of texas for what she described as undermining the work of the you with food and drug administration. allow for with a couple of hours that let's get around up now some of the headlines today, north korea has carried out another test of what it calls an underwater attack, drawing capable of carrying nuclear weapons, state medias to the drawing to travel for over 70 hours before it was detonated, it's in response to joint military drills by the us, south korea and japan. russia has charged wall street journal reporter evan gush cabbage with espionage rational authorities arrested him last month in the city of catherine book, accusing him of trying to obtain classified material. the newspaper denies, given with buying and is demanding his immediate release. go to afghanistan. now since the taliban retook power in 2021, women have been banned from participating in sports. while some female athletes bravely continue to pr

u. s. over its own european allies going so far as to attacking france in this case. but also perhaps advocating in favor of sending that e u defense cash for ukraine in the u. s. well, more with he also announced this week that poland wants to set itself up as washington her eyes to serve as uncle sam. you're a fabulous event. don't watch him. i want the service center for album stands for the whole of you will play to maintain their battle readiness to be located in poland. the skies were also striving to be able to produce depleted uranium ammunition course for adams to be located in poland. the adar, that's s e u is dick going to let poland crank out toxic, depleted uranium for washington state when it won't even let that's farmers heat many, daphne katie. cows for fear. harmon nature fall is one of ease taught one day reset the us, france is one of its top providers who are side pretty nice then acting like a teenager who is demanding that his parents let him set up a gun, a saw and a math lab is garaged, serious foreign minister has arrived in saudi arabia and the 2 nations and to restore relations after more than 10 years. we had said it hope to put an end to

u. s? well, there are all sorts of inducements for any military assistance intelligence assistance plus retribution. if they fail to follow through and these requests and the u. s. use is it's a ponder. and so military and economic power to make these countries bend to their will. and you've got some other examples of kind of bizarre extradition cases that you can tell us about. well, i think the most egregious occurred in milan in 2003. this was an egyptian national, who i mean, right out of peano chaise chilly was stashed in extraordinary rendition off of the streets of milan. and it prompted investigations by in italy culminating the convictions in a sense of 22, c. c. i. a operatives u. s. air force, colonel and to italian accomplice accomplices. and we actually know because of wikileaks, that there was tremendous pressure put on the bell, a scone government, not to request or demand the expedition of these people already been found guilty of a crime. and was, he was taken to egypt, put in p

u. s. out. so we see, well, the u. s. has been increasing, you know, it's, it's bilateral trade ties with a lot of these countries and trying to work through regional organizations and trying to create a block against china. i don't see its behavior changing that much from the obama administration, but more so we're seeing a much more confident and assertive china on the world stage. donald, would you say the vietnam is foreign policy? can be somewhat limited due to its sheer proximity to china that vietnam will, will always be keen to keep her relations with its northern neighbor on a sort of a level playing field. what time has to be asked to be very concerned about china. the chinese vietnamese relationship goes deep, deep into the history of the region into their history. and obviously they will, they want to stand up against china, but they don't want to infuriate janet either. i'm just getting back to the point i'm about to cough just getting back to the point that was discussed a minute ago. the battle lines i had

u. s. well that would be a good something called an accommodate clause provision, and that's not actually how was argued. inno burger fell like all of the other so called substantive due process cases. i've listed all of the progeny cases of substantive due process which are inclusive of griswold. versus connecticut. stanley versus georgia roe vs wade. lawrence versus texas. they simply argued that of all of these issues, contraception porn sodomy, a gay marriage, unmistakable vices from the decisive perspective of the christian tradition. our natural rights are natural rights that cannot be reached by law, even state law, which is supposed to be sovereign in the realm of moralizing legislation in this country. they said, look, these rights are so important that they are what we call thought they received fundamental rights protection. which is nonsense because in cases like 2005 q over to city of new london, they're taking away the fundamental right of private property. they're taking away the

u. s. well, manila grants washington more military bases, the house, the philippines, going to strike a balance and it's relations with this isn't my story with .

u. s. if it has the e u, as as a power piece. well, i think for europe has been understood to be supporting the u. s. a. whether it's willingly or unwillingly earl, or being held hostage in a sense, that's up to everybody's interpretation. i think europe has been taken hostage in my view or when it comes to the ukrainian conflict, or, you know, to, to be all the us side to support ukraine in a sales. but i think this trip of president mc crohn in china as reviewed that the europeans, or at least mac chrome, being one of the european leaders is coming to his sensors that it should actually look after their own interest charge. as i always say, facts are facts because inflation is going up in europe. and the cost of energy is going up like crazy of the last year. so it's people's lives. we're talking about when you have people that are not happy with what they have. the politicians, their leaders will have to think and to do something about it. a u. s. navy ship has sailed into the south trying to see at the time when beijing is conduct

u. s. as well. i think i think that the amount of alcohol to bohemia alcala, people are consuming, it's probably on a downward shattering most countries will have fastest growing and will vary from place to place where a peak to that is different from place to place. oh lou, just because people are drinking glass isn't necessarily economically bad news if you can, for example, and encourage people to trade out some premium products. so, drinking glass for drinking, drinking or premium products, or if people are drinking in papason bars and restaurants like where generally that will be higher margin compared to buying and buying. and it's like super markets and grocery stores in the life quickly which be lower margin. so yeah, i think overall we're probably hopefully i think from it from health perspective, hopefully coming over the crest of the wave. and but that was necessarily certainly in the short term how to mean kind of bad news for the alcohol industry. thank you so much of a quiet time and i

u. s. government and other governments as well. are those governments aware of the allegations that we just heard in that report? very much so, and shortly after the, after the rav 4 found it in 24. and those allegations came up and was brought up by human rights organizations. and we know from cable thickly, cables from 29 that the u. s. was well aware about the human rights of violations, but that they is still considered the rep and i called here an important partner in the war on terror. and we also got confirmation about that from the, from the support from his folks person in the, in the dagger embassy, u. s. embassy and decker. and they said they stopped the support for the rab in 2018. and finally, we all know in december 2021, they imposed sanctions. and this was a move with which was very much welcomed by many people we spoke to in bangladesh. and 11 woman who is whose brother was taken a 10 years ago. she said it was like a light at the end of the tunnel because after the sanctions were imposed there, according to the nu

u. s. as well. i think i think that the banks, about all the people are consuming, is probably on a downward shattering. most countries have fastest growing will vary from place to place where it peaked. it is different from place to place. although just because people are tricky, glass isn't necessarily economically bad news if you can. for example, encourage people to trade out some premium products. so drinking glass patricky drinking premium products, or if people are drinking in papason bars and restaurants like where generally that will be higher margin compared to buying and buying. and it's like super markets and grocery stores in the like, which would be lower margin. so yeah, i think overall, probably hopefully i think from it, from our perspective, hopefully coming over the crest of the waves and but that was necessarily certainly in the short term how to mean kind of bad news for the alcohol industry. thank you so much. have a great time and insight and when we come back, what are the hi

u. s. is a significant trading partner accounting for at least 16 percent of total u. k. trade. but a free trade deal between the 2 nations has told. well, johnny is now from london, is vicki price, who is the chief economic advisor at the center for economics and business research? vicki, welcome. by its own reckoning, the u. k. government estimates this will increase economic outputs by less than 0 point one percent. so really just how significant is this? i think the significance is mainly not highlighting the fact that the u. k wants to be a global player rather than necessarily the impact you may have on g d p, and hopes that that will lead to maybe more tre deals with more countries. possibly even joining. there's thought to ship them in their suggestion, the south korean, maybe china. my do so as well. of course, you know, expand the reach if you like, but the u. k. has been trying to find new areas to trade with the realities that of those 11 countries right now in this partnership, 9 countries already have agreements with the u. k. some of them had been rolled over after we left the you. so they were, the result of breck said,

u. s. seems to think, well, my car seems to think that the u. s. is using the e as a vice, as a, as a way to sort of, you know, push the u. s. is terms, do you think of us that could be a possible that that could be a possible know of advantage for the us if it has the e. u, as as a power piece? well, i think the europe has being understood to be supporting the u. s. a whether it's willingly or unwilling, les or, or being held hostage in a sense, that's up to everybody's interpretation. i think europe has being taken hostage in my view or when it comes to the ukrainian conflict, or you know, to, to be all the us side to support ukraine in a sales. but i think this trip of president mc cross in china has reviewed that the europeans, or at least mac chrome, being one of the european leaders is coming to his senses. that it should actually look after their own interest. as i always say, facts are facts. because inflation is going up in europe and the cost of energy is going up like crazy over the last year. so it's people's, i swear talking about him

u. s. could be in a position to make up the gap where ukraine has said and what these leaks showed is missing air power and not sure, well the u. s. has allowed to stop all of these kinds of ammunition, but i think altura needs oil, countries in europe would have to step in as well and to deliver that's why this combine does support to coming to the the petra. there the fence also important that the dutch stepped in as well. they didn't deliver a whole fire unit, but just to launch us and an unspecified number of rockets. so everybody in the west has to contribute. i think. ok, now i also asked how these leaks could affect russia. i'll put this question to you, mr. guzman. some of the files have suggested that special forces from nato are actually including the united states countries where nato members are operating inside of ukraine. do we know who these people are and what they're doing? and what russia might say about this development? okay, this, this was, of course, a very nice for the russian propaganda. and for people in the west to believe that this whole conflict is made up by the west and western soldiers alre

you know, well, if you take part of take crimea back that we can have negotiations and then the u. s. as well though, that's probably not going to happen. least not this year, not next year. here, i mean, they seem, this is mean like a role roulette wheel to me. i mean, they're looking for their lucky number to try to move forward, but there is no lucky number. this is a, a debt in for the west are not going to win. there and how, how they get out of it is anyone's question right now. and what i worry about is a false flag and things like that because that's the only thing that's going to mix things up in our major way. brian. absolutely. and you just asked, what else will they? why about? well, there are lying about the status of this proxy more there, waging and you crate against russia and you're right, better absolutely, out of everything. and as a matter of fact, is starting to admit that all across the western media, i'll be in a very incremental way. and it, it really is clear that this is all in a traditional war that russia was prepared for. nato is not. and as we have seen

u. s personnel. well listen, that's right yesterday, all u. s.overnment personnel in sudan were evacuated from the country that includes all the u. s diplomats that were their their family members and a small number of diplomats from other countries. so totaling about 100, people that were evacuated now what you guys said in the introduction there. this was described as a clean and fast operation. it was conducted by about 100 special forces who were on the ground in sudan. for less than an hour to carry out this operation. getting those u. s government personnel onto department of defense aircraft and out of the country now, of course, the secretary of state ordered this departure of these u. s diplomats, including along with president biden himself, and the secretary of state, said that the conditions on the ground simply pose an unacceptable risk. to those u. s government personnel at the time. and now as we look to see what happens to the state department's embassy there in khartoum, the secretary of state said operations have been temporaril

u. s. m. well, that's the french reading at least step of france in the back in this region. and i think my calls comments on the relationship between the, the us, china and the european union is at least an echo to that. but yes, i think he has done damage, and we will see hopefully, if this debate as dip the brain, that comments will spur a healthy and helpful debate for the european union going forward. yeah, we will see that is for sure. yeah. cobra's, with the alfred oppenheim center for the future of europe yucca. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you. ah. and finally, like mother like sun, 24 year old australian pro surfer ethan ewing has just won the same title that was clenched by his late mother, helen lambert, back in 1983 you're going to achieve. read has been a lifelong dream of his ever since he lost his mother to breast cancer back in 2005 . 40 years ago. it was ethan ewing to mother who wow. judge is on the way to victory at bales beach in australia. the longest running event and competitive surfing ewing used to sleep next to

u. s. is well to large consumer of oil, but also the world's largest producer kind of just stop producing more. well, i mean, the think that this is where it gets really complicated with different types of true grades going to different refineries. you know, the oil comes from, from your sales sector, which has accounted for the big surgeon in us all production of a particular grade, generally speaking. so there is still very much a global market and, and what happens in the rest of the world definitely impacts prices. at the pump in the united states, again, you know, the strategic petroleum reserve is something that u. s. has used effective in the past, but when it comes to refilling that, you know, some of those volumes has to come from oil that isn't from the united states. so it's, it's, it's, it's not a local market is very much a global market, so that, that is why it's, it's difficult for united states to kind of push back against these, these cards, you know, especially because they, they

u. s. navy a. u. s. navy veteran. well, i think it is very interesting and it could point to potential covert operation if they're trying to leak linked to a russian, you know, they're trying to link it to russia that russia was somehow connected with this major leak. but now it's coming out that this woman was actually working for us, you know, was in the u. s. navy. so perhaps this is our cover was blown. i mean, we don't know exactly what's going on, but this has the appearance, maybe of some kind of botched, this information operation. because if you remember, i mean, they were trying to link, you know, and julie saw the wiki leaks. they tried to claim that that was a rush. no rush was behind that. and then there was a group of intelligence professionals who saw that it was actually internal leak. and they found based on the be in the mold and had to been a week and come from the united states and couldn't been russia. so this may have been another operation to, you know, and in general, it's interesting and, you know,

u. s. well, even under the best of circumstances, this would have been a difficult mission for a number of different reasons. firstly the distances we're talking about here looks are large, heavy lift helicopters and they had to get from djibouti, some 750 or 800, miles to khartoum in sudan, make the pick up in a conflicted environment. and then, of course, get home with that refueling stop in ethiopia. you see it on the map right there. and then onwards to djibouti. so that was the first difficult factor. of course. it's also the situation in which this is going on two warring factions in sudan , the armed forces and the rsf they both committed to a 72 hour ceasefire around the eagle federal holiday this weekend, but there have been violations of the ceasefire. and it's unclear how much faith us leaders d o d state department, the white house all watching this believed in that ceasefire , and whether it would hold but they've been monitoring the situation very carefully, and eventually, the dec

u. s. from the i n f treaty as well. so that causes quite a danger for the rest of the world. switching gears here, professor, let's talk a little bit about the recent un vote on nord stream. the russian delegation spirit had a vote at the united nations to conduct a joint investigation into who was responsible for destroying this multi 1000000000, multi, multi $1000000000.00, multi national project. only 3 votes in favor, russia, china, and brazil. all the other 12 security council members abstained, rushes un ambassador by ceiling. a ben via said this ahead of the of the vote. he said, quote, without an objective and transparent international investigation, the truth will not be uncovered as to what happened. so the draft resolution seemed necessary, i would say, given that russia was borrowed from conducting their own investigation into the blast and their own pipeline. how do you read this vote and what happened there at the u. n. s. c? well, it's not many ways to read it. really. it's the west does not want an indep

u. s. intelligence community. well, yes, officials of course, a fear that these revelations could jeopardize sensitive sources. and of course also compromise important for rain relationships, especially with u. s. allies that apparently are being spied on during today's press briefing in the safety department, the spokes person was asked by colleagues from south korea and from israel. what this means for their governments who are being spied on. and the answer was that the u. s. administration that takes is very seriously that they are investigating and that at the u. s. position in support of democracies worldwide and their allies that, that has not changed. however, obviously the u. s. allies are concerned about this leak and what this could mean for them. yeah, you mentioned self career, you mentioned ukraine. these are all u. s. allies. i'm wondering now with, with this leak, are we seeing the u. s. government, the pentagon, are they know engaging in some serious damage control? well 1st they have to investigate an

go down very well with irish voters and voters of irish ancestry back in the u. s. as well. so ubs, from the diplomatic and p r. perspective, so fire, it's been a resounding success. but just as you're talking to us, we can see live pictures of fear. the president moving towards the is car. now with leo, veronica, we've just her certainly had, they'll make their way on to their further engagement. st. just being a bag, a load are helped into the car. at least leave what i could appears to be holding the door open forums. they're having a brief discussion after that meeting they've had this afternoon. paul, thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to date from dublin, that's paul brennan. while in ireland, president biden's commented on a leak of classified u. s. military documents relating to the war in ukraine. they're said to contain both true and false information. and they've appeared and social media, and recent wolves writer says investigators are getting close to establishing the source. i'm not concerned about the lady is and i'm concerned it happened. but there

u. s. as well as visits by american law makers to the island they, she responded with drills to send quote, a serious warning to pro independence forces is not clear why exactly. china is closing space over tie one. on tuesday, the chinese president inspect to the navy's southern fits a command and called on armed forces to set up military training. these kellum open brings with more details. the government on taiwan says that china is preparing to launch a war. and they say this in response to the latest drills from the chinese military stimulating and circle many of the islands. look at the military exercises and also their rhetoric. they seem to be trying to get ready to launch a war against taiwan. beijing says these drills were a warning to the government on taiwan and to independence forces. similar drills were conducted after the visit by then speaker the house, nancy pelosi last year, but rather than trying to de escalate this anyway. recently we saw they had of the us house foreign affairs

u. s. currency well, history if history is have any truth to it, which it does. then these nations know very well what's gonna happen to them if they don't get out of the way and to ally their partners with china. china has always believed in serve the people, and it is now showing other nations that it is serving other nations of best interest right now. well, alex reports of a political analyst on blogger. thank you very much for your time and your full sedate here on h. c. r t. present of you in the program. thank you. well, that's is all for now. mine is peter scott's my back in just over 30 minutes time with all the lights this, but do have it's all websites for any developments on that unfolding situation in sudan. thanks very much. the company. ah ah ah ah. ah henry sanchez in, i've been doing news now for 30 years and 2 languages around the world. and here in the united states, i've interviewed for presidents, founded a $1000000000.00 business. i think new should be honest and direct and impactful. that's why we call this direct impact. ah, okay, here we