to -- of support to ukraine. our friends from europe and outside, in asia, have brought $150 million. so we know that our partner are doing what needs to be done, and i'm sure that they will continue to do so for ukraine. moderator: thank you, ministers. one more question. >> thank you so much. alex raufoglu from news agency turan. secretary, i want to take my chance and follow up on ukraine again. president zelenskyy gave an interview early this week, and he said that in his view there can be no meaningful security guarantees for ukraine if the united states is not part of it. do you think europe alone can do it? and mr. foreign minister, same question, but differently, given the incoming administration's viewpoint, can you see there, in european countries that would be willing to provide guarantees to ukraine which would be enough for lasting peace? or do you just think that willpower is not there? is america still a key on this? if i may very quickly follow up on concerns across the continent over russian inte

and that has helped ukraine turn ukraine's struggle and to one of the great military success stories of our time. ukrainian military has shown breathtaking courage and the ukrainian people have shown magnificent appliance. ukraine's cause has inspired free people everywhere including in my country and back in the desperate days in february of 2022 ukrainian citizens were making molotov cocktails to defend their homes. but today with the help of this contact group ukraine has a battle tested military and booming defense industrial base. we are meeting the most urgent needs of the cranes troops even as we are building ukraine's future force and over the past three years we have helped coordinate striking improvements to ukraine's capabilities all while managing our own readiness. we know that no single capability will turn the tide so we have always stayed focused on what works and on the combined effects of ukraine's capabilities. ukraine has started to fly fourth-generation fighter jets. it now fields advanced western air defense capabilities. and it produces and operates state-of-th

ukraine is a sovereign country, it is a decision by ukraine and the nato members whether ukraine enters or not, not anything to do with russia, per se. guest: let me just reflect on the colors analogy. i don't think we have to imagine circumstances whereby russia or china places nukes close to us. we actually ran that experiment in the cuban missile crisis and we brought the world to the brink of annihilation. so i think we actually know how america would react to provocation with nuclear adversaries dropping strategic bombs pretty close to our home shores. i am a little less suede perhaps regarding the benign neglect of nato vis-a-vis russia. i do think that when russia watched giving assurance, they were concerned, alarmed, and even if ukraine was not going into the alliance, it did appear that the alliance was going into ukraine with arms sales and upper ability. i think those concerns underlined russia's determination to alternately invade again. host:nother question we've received from text message, is israel guilty of genocide in gaza? several prominent hughts organizations have s

number one, new story. ukraine, new crane, and create a new, crazy crane ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine. within the down to discussion, russian troops invited to crane on a one perspective ukraine suffering from russian regression to be happening down in the eastern part of ukraine. this would genocide in distress as needs help. this morning i sent 2 presidents give you credit, and i assured him of the unwavering support of united kingdom. i have never experienced propaganda as bad. the brain has turned into one monstrosity of psychological manipulation where the people have been rudely brainwashed. today, the invasion begins as vitamin pollutants as russian forces into ukraine. it was obvious that the american public was being deceived about what exactly was happening inside ukraine in this war. so what's really happening in western countries, genuinely convinced that protecting a weak ukraine from up spicy russia. when i started uncovering those reasons, it was shocking to me mentally was very, very shocking of a mistake. and we'll deliver today manipulating the audience. so

that ukraine was attacking their own people in eastern ukraine for russian speaking russian. identify people in the don bass region. they've been attacking them, killing them, murdering them, raping them for the past decade. and the west paid no attention to that nature. it was former secretary general admitted last year. see that there's no start and the when ukraine will join the block if at all. but washington couldn't 10 use the flood you created with arms, despite the course of the conflict, clearly favoring russia. so why is that west prolonging this war? what are they getting from? well, i think the military industrial complex is good to me to sell weapons, manufacturer weapons that we sell to us, the defense establishment and others. again, my gears will follow the money, see where the money trail leads. that again, the defense establishment is, is profiting from this deal. certainly the bureaucrats and the corrupt, the crowds in ukraine are profiting from this deal. i think it remains to be seen how much of that money is flowing back into the pockets of americans beyond the b

the ongoing support for ukraine. one of the strongest and burden sharing and we see that in france leadership. bilateral security earlier this year firms to strengthen transatlantic industrial base. france leadership will be essential for ensuring ukraine in the strongest possible position to defendant's independence whether it's on the battlefield for the negotiating table. one thing discusses ukraine is maybe the best example of a proposition security in europe is intertwined with. around the world. look at ukraine right now, what is allowing russian aggression to continue? should support with artillery ammunition and troops and everything china is doing to support the defense industrial base. and that is a demonstration of security. the fact that far from ukraine and europe what is the biggest european security since the end of cold war in our countries have worked to deepen on the prc and security shared values. should we have worked to forge together a common vision for the global economy governed by rules of th

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a difficult picture across, especially, western ukraine.ring us up to date with what you know. i bring us up to date with what you know. ~ , . know. i think the full, full picture is still emerging. _ know. i think the full, full picture is still emerging. we _ know. i think the full, full picture is still emerging. we have - know. i think the full, full picture is still emerging. we have just i is still emerging. we havejust heard from president zelensky writing on social media, what he described as a massive missile strike overnight. he said there were some 70 transit launched by russia and some a0 missiles. he said at least 30 of those missiles were downed by ukrainian air defences but that does mean some of them reached their targets. and the president suggested the targets were again energy infrastructure in ukraine and also he described gas facilities being targeted. now, we understand from the authorities in lviv in the west of the country that suddenly two of the targets were hit there, what they described as critical infrastructure

i have a ukraine question. there are running critics of the biden administration's policy that have waited too long to provide f-16s and munitions realizing this is largely a white house policy question, but from did a consensus emerge that providing those weapons sooner could have shifted the conflict in ukraine's favor? maj. gen. ryder: i think it is important to remember how we got here in the first place. if you go back to february 2022, president putin's strategic objective was to eliminate ukraine as a country and that is still clearly his objective. he has failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives three years later. ukraine is still a free country and importantly it is still a country. nato is of course bigger now and stronger and russia, when it comes to a lot of the strategic variables to include the manpower that it is committed to and many of the other factors including its industrial base seven weekend. since the very beginning of this conflict, the united states and in particular the ukrain

i'm thinking specifically of, of ukraine. do we have an idea of more it's of what is actually a head for ukraine under the trump administration? we have an idea because we, because we have a keeps catalog. who is this ben boy for ukraine? dresser of farmer, general size. i know him and he has late hours of strategy for ukraine like last year, which means basically that the contract will be frozen along the front line. and that's uh the you want to move these territories will not belong to a rush. i'll be in touch always the dresser occupies, but they fucked to what they will be controlled by russia. it will mean that the piece, the controlling force will be stationed along the contact line. and the but it also will also mean that we don't give up ukraine to, to russia. it will mean that's we will have to invest in ukraine to make it so called a part you pine. so it will be military military li ripped enough to um, to keep russia out and to keep brusheart from attacking, attacking once again, i'm sure it's your thoughts becaus

if the country continues to challenge ukraine's actions, it is a very serious issue. i mean it's not just the loss of uh, gas uh for uh, slovakia but it's also a loss of revenue because um, so lock is gonna have to pay a lot more for its gas. and those, those are so accurate and squared a lot of money. uh, through uh, transiting gas to other other countries such as the czech republic and hungary. i think it's going to get um a lot worse because the european commission isn't going to help us. so voc, it's made clear that it really does. he does, they don't thing, but as the login deserves any help because it looks like it has explicitly opposed you policy the warranty period. so i would expect to lock in now to take the steps that is making which, which is threatening to take, which is to stop selling electricity to ukraine. stop providing humanitarian assistance to ukraine and probably a couple like cutting off uh, welfare to um you ukrainian migraine. since we're back here, the news from troy show where the country's president is set to be comfortably re elected for

point man for ukraine. his son ends up on the board of verisma working for and paid by overgaard majeski. in february 2014 in the wake of anticorruption uprising by the people of ukraine he flees the country. he flees ukraine. he's well known. george kent is very first witness of the democrats called during their public hearings testified he stood out for his self dealings even among other overgaard's. house ma didt tell you that. transport .... you know what it was, a child's contest and the prize was a camera. they were so bad, burisma, our country wouldn't even cosponsor a children's event. with burisma. in march of 2014, united kingdom fraud office opened money laundering investigationnv to oligarch, and his company burisma. the next month, according to public report. hunter biden quietly joined the bored of burisma. early, 2014 is when vice president biden began leading ukraine policy, here is our hunter biden came to join burisma board. he of brought onboard by devon archer his, partner, he was colleg

the athlete support system in russia is fundamentally different than the ukraine in ukraine. actually, it's a captain sports mainly by some very symbolic payments on the constant fit that in 2 to 3 months. you will simply be kicked out of the national team left without funding. and again, by the threat of being otherwise center was sounds a little, however, in russia, athletes, and no detained or intimidated. instead, the encouraged with like a normal full fledged support support system has been created starting from children and youth schools and up to professional sports through the system of regional sports training centers. there's no atlas vista know atmospheric pressure until i do think work in russia is also much better i'm more professionally conducted as it shouldn't be, according to the generally accepted international doping testing methodology. and the situation in ukraine is exactly the opposite. first, in general, the anti duping monitoring of ukrainian athletes at the international level is carried out with all eyes closed. if it's even carried out. and in gene

i have a ukraine question. there's a running narrative among critics of the biden administration's ukraine policy that they waited too long to provide f-16's, anti-personnel munitions and munitions such as attack meervetion and allowing them to be tired boo -- fired into russia. i realize this is a white house question but from a strictly defense, do you think providing those weapons sooner could have shifted the conflict in ukraine's p favor? general ryder: i think it's important to remember how we got here in the first place. and if you go back to february of 2022, president putin's strategic objective was to eliminate ukraine as a country. and that's still clearly his objective. but nearly three years later the fact is he's failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives. ukraine is still a free country, importantly it is still a country. nato is bigger and stronger now. russia, when it comes to a lot of the strategic variablestin do to include the manpower it has committed to this fight and many of the ot

ukraine policy. here's how hunter biden came to join burisma's board in april 2014. he brought on the board by devin archer. his business partner, devin archer was college roommates with chris hynes steps of secretary of state john. all three men. hunter biden devin archer and chris hynes had all started an investment firm together. public records show that april 16th, 2014. devin archer meets with vice president biden at the white. just two days later, on april 18th, 2014 is when hunter biden quietly joins burisma. according to public reporting, remember, this is just one month after the united kingdom's serious fraud office opened a money laundering case into burisma. hunter biden joins the board and only ten days after hunter biden joins the board. british authorities seize. $23 million in british bank accounts connected to the oligarch still chayefsky. the owner of burisma. did hunter biden leave the board then? no. the british authority has also announced that it had started a criminal into pote

, but ukraine. if you're not satisfied with what's happening, the if you do not want to die for the interest of this and then ski regime and west and corporations and government run away from the runaway and any pretext mobilization and ukraine is constantly expanding and they will reach everyone see it, they keep saying that everyone will fight, but it's not just meant it's also women for these of today's teenagers when they turn 18 from the full. i would advise you if you have plans to leave that territory not to delay because leaving it becomes more difficult every month. we're used to the some of us flying these cars in the system along the belie, at the, the main difficulty was festival, not to review your reviews. you'll position that it's not anti russian and has never be nationalistic. i need it to be a mouse, like everyone in the military unit. on the other hand, not to encourage suspicion and simply to save money to escape from ukraine. you know, there was no easy to do this because pride

under such conditions, my trip to ukraine is currently excluded. if i have to go there just to take a picture and i am told that not a single drop of oil and gas will go to slovakia, then i don't have to go there. i'm so lucky as prime minister has joined to the e. u. countries president in slamming the landscape. robert pizza says he's sick of seeing ukrainian leader begging for handouts from the west. a gosh, now is what you're going to do. you, cranium, president continues to damage just like this. if the courtney president continues to damage the entire european union like this, the slovak republic will show that it is a sovereign country. at this moment, zalinski deliberately damages the slovak republic and the european union. so what can we do? first, we can stop all humanitarian aid, even what was recently approved by the government of the slovak republic. the 2nd possibility is that the government of the slovak republic is determined to significantly reduce or even completely remove various social benefits that have been given to printing a

the needle members do not have that capability because of course we have the war and ukraine, but ukraine is not the only problem. the as a problem that european needle members are having is ensuring their own security. if the us decides not to provide the same amount of support or the sides to pressure europe and members to increase their defense spending. and so look here and here is what to do about ukraine. and of course, what will come out of the trump put in a meeting, which is supposed to take place, allegedly without the participation of ukraine or what kind of agreement will be reached there. so that, that why am i, is here? how do we em, provide security guarantees to ukraine and how do we keep support the ukraine without potentially us support? yeah, as we mentioned there, donald trump saying you can have this solved within 24 hours, even if that is high. probably. what's your assessment of the mood on either side, ukraine and russia, towards finding some sort of solution to the war in ukraine, whether without it's donald trump as well. the problem is if with a donald trump aut

you've got the europeans, and of course you've got ukraine. and at least from the rhetoric from mr. zalinski, he's living in some other world and doesn't actually know see the situation and i think uh, i think the same thing was mr. blinking and mr. barton. um, but uh it definitely appears that that uh president trump, uh, vice president elect to advance uh miss scabbard. uh mr. waltz have a more realistic perspective and perception of what actually is occurring on the ground. and i think that that's acknowledging that and accepting that in, in, um you know, trumps come and see other day where he kinda understand the situation. the rush was in prior to this and the number of agreements that were just basically thrown out the window and not even looked at side by the west. he understands this is a much better grass, but i think the infinity of the current leadership. so i that alone, he create a dialogue, this new a lot of big gaps in the have to be overcome. how do you resolve those? that's another story. so i don't think it's going to happen

so under such circumstances, my trip to ukraine is out of the question at the moment. and let's see if i have to go there just to take a picture. and they tell me that not a drop of oil or a cubic meter of gas is going to go to slovakia. oh, i really don't need to go there and they put you on a clock that will be what's the fact is the prime minister has joined the countries president in slopping. mr. zalinski, robert faith. so say he's, he's sick of seeing him. the monday him died from the west. a gosh, now is we do going to do cranium, president continues to damage us like this. if the courtney president continues to damage the entire european union like this, the slovak republic will show that it is a sovereign country at this moment, zalinski deliberately damages the slovak republic and the european union. so what can we do? first, we can stop all humanitarian aid, even what was recently approved by the government of the slovak republic. the 2nd possibility is that the government of the slovak republic is determined to significantly reduce or even completely remove

ukraine is not just about ukraine for the united states. it's about how world war ii ended and what world war ii was fought about which was the so-called rules-based international order. it is written into the very first paragraph of the united nations charter. at the end of world war ii, we americans wrote, as you are jamie diamond say, we wrote the rules that has made us prosperous and safe for the last eight decades. those rules are under incredible stress. they are under stress in europe, to be sure, by the attack of russia into ukraine. the very first rule that underwrites that is countries cannot use their military to attack smaller and weaker countries arbitrarily unless it is in active defense. in the case of russia-ukraine, ukraine was never going to attack russia. so, this was an act of aggression by putin, which by definition, is an illegal act. the u.s. stands for something in the sense of international order and it is our job to stand on that principle. but we are committing all kinds of resources in terms of weapon and money a

this was about democracy in ukraine surviving as rudy is ramping up this campaign in ukraine to try and get these investigations, he starts feeling like he's running into this roadblock. >> and that is the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. >> i heard very, very bad things about her for a long period of time. >> not good. >> yovanovitch was recalled by president trump because rudy giuliani accused her of hampering efforts to dig up dirt on joe biden. rudy giuliani was saying that she was the corrupt one, even though she was there, pushing back on corrupt figures in ukraine, the taking down the smearing and the attempt to destroy the career of a career foreign service official. >> for this obscure political personal errand. it was the early warning signal. it was the shocking moment of clarity that should have been, but wasn't the idea that rudy is this powerful international wheeler dealer and that he was going to go over to ukraine and he was going to pull the strings of power? >> this whole thing was shambolic. it was crapulous. it was just a it was a it was going to be ex

russia, ukraine, some estimates recommended that ukraine is going to lose something like $800000000.00 a year in terms of fees can, can you kind afford to lose that money? is? that's an excellent question. so from the russian perspective, what they're going to lose is relatively small compared to the size of the air economy and the size of the federal budget. from the ukranian perspective, where the economy is already facing extremely challenging conditions as a result of the war. this is money that they can afford to lose, but clearly this is a strategic calculation that they've made. and i think the ukranian energy ministry, the ukranian government, c, ukraine's energy future as well as being part of the integrated european gas market rather than as a conduit for russian gas. so they've already started to develop a business case encouraging europe and gas market participants to use your credit and on the account gas storage to use the territory of western you credit to deliver gas from uh to the north, to south and one past due to the other, so they're developing a different business

most of the kids stopped sol transit through a ukraine. but some of those states are not happy about the prospects as long as he contributes a racial mazda and explains as soon as i can. delegation arrived in moscow over the weekend to talk about the obvious question of how or if they can keep getting cheap for us and gas. now that ukraine is turned off, the tap on the pipeline that runs across the country and into europe via slovakia. and getting to moscow apparently wasn't even straight forward. one of the delegation chiefs, dyslexia, and by speaker andre danko, says that poland wouldn't let this fellow e u. countries delegation fly over its territory. because while the was just one big kindergarten class in poland is apparently the self appointed hall monitor. so this will vacuum plane. how do we had west on that ariel scenic tour of germany and the czech republic all the way around hole in just to then go north and then east to russia, a real dream for frequent flyer point collectors. anyway, the group of lawmakers is now in town to me

but ukraine of course, opposed it. and we also recall the north stream attack in 2022, which rendered a great deal of russian exports to germany as well as the rest of the e. u, essentially meaningless. and this of course leads to other alternatives. the blue stream and the charge stream both which run under the black sea serves not just russian or turkish and interest, but we understand that it also serves the interest of countries like hungry serbia, boston hartzog, avina, slovakia, as well as greece. this is a significance, a step. this is a significant development if we take all of this into context. and we also understand that there's been a great deal of opposition or at least the slow, but prime minister has been quite vocal in his position, suggesting that the you create in a liter of let them is that not to someone who rooms you're begging, and black mailing western nations in the hope of extracting more military assistance to find russia. we understand that much of the motives of course, is going to be under

europe should be responsible for ukraine.n is what should europe do to guarantee ukraine's security. that comes down to, call peacekeeping forces but in fact tripwire forces in ukraine, so a fresh attacks again we have troops on the ground in a much bigger war, viewed as being a disincentive for pressure to do it -- ben: tony, i'm sorry, we are out of time, but i think we got the gist of what this piece talks could look like. sir tony brenton, former british ambassador to russia. you are watching bbc news. announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... announcer: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪ announcer: "usa today" calls it, "arguably the best bargain in streaming." that's because the free pbs app lets you watch the best of pbs anytime, anywhere. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

bbc news, eastern ukraine.comes as russia and ukraine each exchanged 25 prisoners of war. the latest swap brokered with the help of uae. volodymyr zelenskyy confirm the swap saying those who were returned were members of the military and civilians. they have serious injuries and illnesses and will receive all the necessary medical care. thousands of captives have returned since russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine in 2022. prisoners of war who alleged war crimes by russia. russia denies the crimes and accuses ukraine of doing the same. the prisoners of war include people who spent more than two years in russian captivity and shared their experience with me. a warning -- this interview contains graphic images. i want to start with you because you spoke at a u.n. council meeting about being a prisoner of war in a russian prison. can you share about what you told the un security council? >> my purpose in the security council in the united nations was to share my own experience of being in russian captivity. my

we will help ukraine, but we will also protect our national interest. so you know that we can, this is obvious for both sides of the global sit on post prime minister dial to a screw, just stepped into the rotating you presidency. role has this fetish where he's always dreaming up these scenarios where poland is being width and spanked. by russia and now he's trying to get the whole u roped into the fantasy. the latest one involves some sort of aerial terror plot against poland and europe. he's not presenting any receipts. of course, he talks also about warsaw being the quote object of aggression of rational like the guy who thinks every woman is just totally obsessed with him. it's all about keeping the cash rolling in from the tax payers for pollings own us back, burgeoning military industrial complex helping ukraine has been used as a pretext for that. poland clears out. it's closet of some, 500 all tanks, giving them away as hand me downs to ukraine and gets 160 new us abrams tanks to replace them, at least in part, paid for by you aid. because well

president elect vladimir po to the our underway according to trump's team with a settlement of the ukraine, conflicts at the top. the attend also ahead. slovakia warrens, it will cut a 2 year crane if not the mirrors. the landscape doesn't resume the transfer of russian gas to europe. thoughts and fixing the streets of the medium capital, demanding the resumption of a presidential election and notified the constitutional court. after an empty brussels candidate tops of polls, the from must go to the world. welcome to the news, rough of the week that was on right up to the moment developments as well. the us is preparing for a meeting between donald trump. vladimir puts an that's according to trump national security advisor, designate mike walls, who also stated that a telephone call between the leaders may help and as soon as this week, well, we have a uh, yeah, set the exact framework for it. uh yeah, we're working on that, but i do, you know, expect a call for uh at least uh, in, in the coming days and weeks so that, that would be a step. uh, we and, and we'll take it from there. everybo

again, that's also ukraine, shutting down transit. some european politicians find file over the continents, fire and energy trying to put it very clearly. once again, the sanctions have nothing to do with morality. they have nothing to do with human rights. they have nothing to do with love of peace. they are simply an economic stimulus program for the us economy. the a very good morning to you. this is all the international with the world news update is great to have you with us. civilians are being safely evacuated deeper into russia for my key front lines on best se taken by most goes troops. some citizens of caroll cuz i described the now fully ukrainian occupation as lawlessness. there's so many which falsities aussies more against the, than bedded with russian troops. the freed this is a, is the 1st international corresponded reporting from the ground, the cds, early morning we our own roof to put off the wall lock is on us side. the it is room 5 degrees, which means a fee during the plaza. oh, and you drove the tool, condensati

again, because of the ukraine, shutting down the transit system. you are p and politicians, cry foul of the continent fire with it. and if you try to put it very clearly, once again, the sanctions have nothing to do with morality and they have nothing to do with human rights. they have nothing to do with mind. they are simply an economic stimulus program for the us economy. the is very welcome to you. this is all the international with the world news update is great to have you with us. so if it ends up being safely evacuated deeper into russia from a cape front line going by city. taken by most goes troops, some citizens of colorado because i did quite the now full, the ukrainian occupation, as normal as so many atrocities, policies more against the of them that with russian troops are freed. this is a, is the 1st international corresponded. we're posting from the ground, the cds. early morning. we are on roof to put rocks about. lock is on our side. the . it is warm 5 degrees, which means a fee during the plaza. oh, and you drove the tool. conden

and now ukraine seems to be targeting the all the pipelines to go to the south of ukraine as well as the north stream, which was blowing up. one of the north stream to pipelines is intact. if that was the political well, this could be turned on very, very quickly. and gas could be coming from russia, from the north end to germany, and then that would provide more for the whole european gas infrastructure, because everything is insulating, including even the, the, the gas infrastructure and pipelines in the u. k. they're willing to get, i mean, the u. k, for example, never too much gas from russia, but it's insulation. so we phase less gas coming from not sure the prices of gas coming from norway, for example, the increase. so timing on this pipeline is something that really needs to happen, and it's the sensible thing to do. why keep a pipeline off when it can be turned don't provide gas, the heat homes and keep businesses running. because the alternative is that people freeze, um businesses go bankrupt because someone used to tell you about now ukraine has launched a must have misse

ukraine is not just about ukraine for the united states. it's about how world war i, i ended and what world war i, i was all fought about, which is the so called rules based international order. and it's a matter of principle, it's written into the very first paragraph of the, of the united nations charter. so at the end of world war, i, i, we americans wrote, as you heard jamie dimond say earlier, we wrote the rules that have made us prosperous and made us strong and safe for the last eight decades. those rules are under incredible stress. they're under stress in europe to be sure by the attack of russia into ukraine and the very first rule that underwrites that is that countries cannot use their military to attack smaller weaker countries arbitrarily to change boundaries unless it's an act of defense. and in the case of russia, ukraine, ukraine was never going to attack russia. so this was an act of aggression, a war of aggression by putin which by definition in the united nations in the post world war i i documents is an illegal act. so

the assessments of ukraine cut in the don't. yes, with public has been taken by most of those forces which of losing more than 1500 troops. just over the phone, say, meanwhile ukrainian vest, wendy of nazi offices are attempting to justify kias to us to send most citizens to a will. it's losing. they come on, the author re branded as of battalion has these, how to dissolve to on the front or promoting move mobilization, or the principal or the situation is complete. it's just like everywhere else, a task is assigned to a brigade when it should be assigned to an entire division. as everyone knows what of our senior commanders like to have us answer according to regulations. but they like to set tasks, absolutely not according to regulation. certainly, our brigade is told to defend 50 kilometers upfront lines of us while all those 50 kilometers are under attack. the if you said inadequate tasks, then don't be surprised when you get inadequate results sample. and as washington pushes, you have to send teenagers to sign to fill out

we have to keep helping ukraine and giving them the weapons off our backs. but let's not forget that we need more cash for weapons to. he's projecting poems needs on to the entire block, because that's what these guys do in their 61 presidency stance. so that's an easy position to take when you're not actually paying the bills. hey mom, it's a pretty nurse why i gave away all my old toys to my friends, whiskey who keeps bagging me for them. so now i'm going to need some shiny new ones . and while she reaches into her wallet and pulls out another mass of wad of use taxpayer cash that pole, and then send straight to the u. s. military industrial complex. but what about the countries that are putting these bills for the block, the big contributors to the budget, like germany and france, they don't have another country that can just give them money for weapons buying sprees. well, they have tax fairs, but the patients there is wearing pretty been particularly ahead of a national election next month in germany for example. and especially when there isn't enough a

stop providing humanitarian assistance to ukraine. and probably a couple of cutting off uh, welfare to um, you ukrainian migrant since the lock you building a south africa that belongs to all that is the rallying cry for president serial. around the post marketing the 113th anniversary of the african national congress. remo pose a is head of the ruling amc that has shaped the south african history and its fight for independence. the party originated as a liberation movement, fighting against apartheid under the leadership of nelson mandela in squeak to buy in the mail actions and is focusing on the future and the country's economic growth . to show up the new coalition government we heard from the south african foreign minister says bricks is and a central part of that future of the of received video overboard. that is able to help us at a low, low to the, to the is in mrs. sorry for the development and also need to buy the home for the, for the picture that most of the solve it continues to be in the country and really save lives on

and now ukraine seems to be targeting the all the pipelines that go to the south of ukraine as well as to the north stream, which was blown off. and in 2022, september 2022. so, um, yeah, that, you know, every country in europe is, is resistant to giving more money to ukraine. there are some countries that is absolutely support that. so was the key every team is doing here is, is nonsensical by thing bad. just trying to destroy as much as they kind of rushing infrastructure because they've got these long range weapons, but they've been supplied by the west. so in this, in essence, basically the worst, these hurting itself. this is an act of a self home by giving you cry weapons to far, long distance into russia. and now they are trying to destroy infrastructure that actually the west means the thing needs to come to an end or use a written, very interesting article, addressing the energy issue, suggesting that at walton, on damage pipeline, remaining out of the for north stream at pipelines, could still be used for gas supplies at to the west. just give us a sense why you'd think it is

because it bypasses ukraine completely. is yeah, so it's highly controversial in to say that we are keeping communication channels open with the us at the same time saying we need to drop sanctions on russia. and we want to start with the importing rush and gas is it is a kind of contradiction, then a lot people don't see how that makes sense. but that's their message right now. yeah, but that's not what i can basically have good relations with everyone. and you know, i talk to people there and they say like we don't have friends, countries don't have friends, the quote that the country to have friends have interest and, and we will have to set our interest and we will, we will push through and she said that i was final said that in the to that to the same type of you mentioned mikaela. she said that she would be prepared to make that call with us that were gonna start re importing russian gas, which obviously controversial because of the moment. jeremy imports last l n g from the us. and so i think that donald trump appear