nato chief yens stoltenberg is also in kiev as zelinski seeks more western support for ukraine's counter offensive against. we discussed the possibility of supplying what we really need, the supply of air defense by the member states of the alliance. the secretary general has agreed to exert his efforts to help and support us in this matter, to mobilize the member states of the alliance for this very purpose. zelinski also described nato as defacto ally and said it was only matter of time before uk lawfully becomes ally of nato as well. stoltenberg for his part said nato has secured over $2.5 billion dollars for key ammunition for ukraine. the us and its western allies have pumped tens of billions of dollars in military aid into ukraine since the start of the war in february 2022. moscow has time and again warned the military assistance will only prolong the war, siting nato's eastward expansion as a reason for its military operation against ukraine. bad news just keeps on coming for europe's largest economy, germany, some leading research institutes have warned that the recession in the

zelinski also described nato as de facto ally and said it was only matter of time before uk warfully becomes ally of nato as well. stoltenberg for air spar said nato has secured over $2.5 billion dollars for key ammunition for ukraine. the us and its western allies have pumped tens of billions of dollars in military aid into ukraine since the start of the war in february 2022. moscow was time and again warned the military assistance will only prolong the war siting nato's eastwoord expansion as a reason for its military operation against ukraine. bad news just keeps on coming for europe's largest economy, germany, some leading research institutes have worn that the recession in the country this year will be worse than previously feared. in the joint forecast, the institutes said german economy or the german economy will shrink .6% in 2026. the projection came from bodies including the ifo institute and the harley institute for economic research, which cited slow. industrial production and private consumption. german policymakers face challenges on multiple fronts, including inflation

we're discussing zelinski the . okay, let's go back to anthony here. um bill bill crystal, the arch neil con. you don't have to say g o p or democrat, he's just a neo con. he'll go with uh, you know, he'll go with it. whatever, paymaster, here the g o p is in the name of the g o. p. bill kristol is going to be promoting a, a commercial, a goes along the lines when american arms, when america arms ukraine, we get a lot for a little. essentially war is good. this is a campaign to kick in the forever war. i don't know how many of my guess or audience saw josh holly after a briefing, and he said the quiet part out loud. this plan is to keep the world going on forever. anthony, go ahead. well, it is terrible who would have to say, so nobody suspects. i'm america's getting bobby for money because that does a lot of destruction of russia. russian forces we've out says spend the lives of americans service people because really pass those inside of a trade because a number of americans service people have to. all right, that's uh, it's a little bit in caps on t

the name of, of name is program zalinski watching zelinski, george citrix digit. uh, i found his address and the way getting crazy immediate presented it is. um, well it's, it's, it's just a textbook case. and really she bad propaganda. what am i saying? as zalinski, according to ukrainian television, i'd say what is addressing the general assembly, keywords in the audience, okay. he's pulled off something, but no one is ever done before being in 2 places at one time charge that this is a remarkable, interesting lady was also in the account of the is addressing the problem and thing time of the and along side zelinski was a 98 year old, the old culture, who was fighting for ukraine in independence in world war 2. the newest guy, so breathless, explain, actually he was fighting for the nazis. so they went to canadians, let the ro is one of the bottles. c 98 years old. yeah. he was fighting for the nazis. i don't know whether they fully understood it or they just don't care. probably they just don't care anymore. well i, i don't think they know any more. okay. i, i

so lensky is an actor and zelinski is making money and there is corruption. and those things kind of flip through the cracks of american media. they sort of are past off as if they're extremist pacifism, right? what i think people don't understand. and really, i think, you know, for me, that looks beyond the media narratives. but what are the facts is that the lensky allowed the people of the don boss to be attacked for 10 years? he ordered extra attacks on the don boston 20212022 was preparing to attack crimea, and that the people there asked for russian protection and voted to become a part of russia. those things are undeniable. they are not being presented to the west, and the rest of it is being packaged as extremist or passive, as to propaganda. and that's the thing that makes me so crazy is that there are facts there. so when you put zalinski on your social media or a ukrainian flag as your profile, what your saying is that i don't know, i don't care or i don't understand that this government has been firing and attacking civilians and then escalated a

the processing zelinski, i'm joined by my guess, lionel in new york. he's a legal and media analyst and we're then we have anthony webber. he is an independent political commentator. and in lisbon we crossed to natalie morris. she is the host of the redacted podcast, right across black roles in effect, that means you can jump any time you want. and i always appreciate, i'm going to kick it off with lionel lionel. i said in my introduction, but uh, zalinski is a, an invention, a construct of the west. uh, particularly the united states with the u. k. goes along with it, nato lad. good. so i'll put it together. well, what do you think? how is it? uh, i'm gonna ask you, how would you say that that construct looks what, what, what makes it tick, lionel, as well as to those who understand it, that's one thing. but i'm sorry to say, i hope i'm not taken out of context. but the majority of people in my country here are completely disconnected as to who he is because we live in a world a fog of make. believe it any way from taylor's web to kim car session. wha

because, so what you're saying is zelinski is buying is fueling the war on ukraine by buying russian oil the on the black market rusher, russian. the diesel is roger is obviously funding ukraine because with no upstream gone, it has to be transmitted fees for gas and going through you. crew are actually and that's part of it there. you know that there's the price of diesel, but there is still a gas line that was uh, uh, it was operational, i think in the sixty's a long time ago from russia through we do crane into is of some of the countries um that in less than your own warsaw block countries, you know, the old member, the warsaw block that existed as, as in opposition to our natal. i guess i'm oh, it was. and they have to pay the transit fee or sometimes even to every, every get some russian continues to pay a transport fee for that pipeline. and oil does flow, but it doesn't go to ukraine. it goes through ukraine. and but a, and there's always been incredible complaints over the years. i mean, for decades about ukraine plug into a legal way and size. it is something that you don't

right let's, let's just go back to december of last year when a president zelinski made his 1st visit during the war to washington at the time of the house of representative was controlled by democrats and the speaker of the house. at the time, nancy pelosi invited the zalinski to address uh, you know, a joint session of the senate and the house, you know, to speak in congress. a very, very rare accolades given to a foreign leader and now fast forward. now you know that the midterms happened now the house is controlled by republicans and the reception is different that the speaker mccarthy has actually refused to give president zelinski a you know, a for him to address lawmakers. he instead has met with him in private and he's had to meet with, you know, house representatives privately individually and so that we still don't know what's going to happen with that. there's no a budget proposed to give you credit an additional $24000000000.00 us dollars. um and so we'll have going to have to wait and see what the vote on that goes to see whether president zalinski was able to convince pe

and it was precisely that power zelinski called into question paralyzed by a russian.

zelinski was saying that it's important to speak to the fighters who are facing the battle to see whatnging. deputy prime minister says the country's armed forces are advancing along the southern frontlines. liberating more areas around the village of routine.she also says heavy fighting is raging in the east.joins us from london and following all these developments soma ÃÃ president zelinski was there and he was a bear in that region for a reason. and this comes like an analyst in the state of war and others say they agree with ukraine. that tactically there have been some significant advances. what more are we learning about those advances? >> yes, absolutely paula. we say that ukraine is able to pierce through the first line is russia's defensive positions along the south and apparition access. for months now this counteroffensive has been going on at least publicly for about three months. we have seen mainly minor gains and relieve shipping operations. the softening of targets, the redistributing of assets, piercing through that first line of defense is absolutely significant ukrai

went to, they're not supposed to be funding the war on landscape, not easily finding the war on zelinski and it's it's just, they were able to apparently, uh, the chest in sales cuz i, that were, they were buying the oil from rush i, i just, i you know, it's just, you know, as a all, you know, the, the old wind b as a while ago walks and money talks. and the phone to me was just a few. the estimate that i had been told by people i've known for decades. i was, was the skim on just the oil money, but let alone it's sort of disturbing that ukraine's buying oil from russia, which a little more, i mean, but, you know, the oil and money transcends every bit of rationality, i guess. but then to discover the ford demand is it isn't all. i mean, you know, all you have to do is look, look at the high life and key of the day. there's a really good highlights and key and i've, the fancy restaurants are going. you can find liquor stores and everything in it. there's a lot of money being pushed around. and so what happened was, this would have been 3 months ago or so the c i a director, a r c i direct

i think that will exert some pressure on the united states as well, and essentially what zelinski hass ky“s zelensky“s call was always defend our skies. zelensky“s call was always defend ourskies. "i“m zelensky“s call was always defend our skies. "i'm asking you to arm our skies. "i'm asking you to arm our soldiers so that your soldiers don“t our soldiers so that your soldiers don't have to be armed in this fight." that's it simply —— essentially what we're seeing. president biden goes past that red line in terms of that weaponry. we did see president zelensky meeting

ukrainian president vladimir zelinski has announced the arrival of the first batch of us-made abrahams battle tanks. now zelinski did not mention the number of tanks or the time, they'll be uh joining the brigades in the front line. according to us officials though, tanks are armed with 120 millimeter rounds of depleted. uranium strong enough to appear is conventional tank armor. deployment comes less than a week after the us president joe biden announced plans for the delivery in a meeting with the ukrainian president. this is part of a $43 billion dollar security assistance promised by washington, other western countries have already supplied kiv with advanced weapons in its fight against russia, and moscow is constantly warned these arms deliveries to kiev will only prolong the war. thousands of ethnic armenians in nagorno-karabakh are streaming into armenia following azerbaijan's lightning offensive last week which caused the full surrender of separatists. now thousands of refugees already crossed over into armenia, separates fighters in the long disputed region were forced into a

zelinski did not mention the number of tanks or the time that will join the brigades in the frontline. according to us officials, the tanks or the tanks are armed with 120 millimeter round of depleted uranium strong enough to pierce conventional tank armor. the deployment comes less than a week after us president joe biden announced plans for the delivery in a meeting with the ukrainian president. this is part of a $43 billion dollar security assistance promised by washington. other western countries have already supplied kiev with advanced weapons in his fight against russia. moscow has constantly warn. that the west arms deliveries to ukraine or to kiev would only prolong the war. early in a news review program we discussed the significance of the us deployment of abraham's tanks to ukraine. let's take a listen. and now we're going to speak about a us, abraham's tanks deliveries to kiev. with our guests in our news review program, everybody, welcome, joining us is scott ridder, former us marine intelligence officer, joining us from bethlehem, new york and gilbert doctor independent

he didn't agree to meet. sorry, he just mixed me with ukrainian president vladimir zelinski. but you did talk about the hard issues, right? sort of. what do you mean by sort of? well, i talked about relations with america, and he promised to send me yet another aid package. so what was that aid package about? told me he was delivering the aid package to kraco. krakov in poland. why krakov? because it's sounds like kiev in ukraine. ah, okay. mr. prime minister, thank you very much. at the united nations netanyahu warned iran of nuclear threat. netanyahu has repeatedly used the un stage to launch ominous warnings towards tehran, briefly caused moment of alarm at the general assembly. when he appeared to threaten to nuke tehran. seriously, he actually said, "iran must face a credible nuclear threat." sanctions must be snapped back. and above all, above all, iran must face a credible nuclear threat. while the threatening speech was, i presume, intended to present powerful image of the israeli regime, netanyahu's office quickly jumped into action to claim the nuclear threat was a mere sli

and here are some other stories making headlines you prints. president vladimir zelinski has met with soldiers on the front line and the don't ask region. the eastern area has been the scene of some of the heaviest fighting since russia's invasion. the visit came a day after zelinski announced a substantial shake up to ukraine's military establishment, saying that he was replacing the defense minister typhoon hi corey has made land fall in se china. the heavy rains and floods submerged vast areas of agricultural land. thousands have been evacuated from their homes. schools remain closed in some areas. authority said that 5 people who were on board a fire truck are missing after it plunged into a river of the world. food program is cutting food aid to another 2000000 as can citing a mass of short fallen funding. that means that a total of $10000000.00 ask guns are now cut off from food support. the new one is raising the alarm over, shrinking a to ask you understand, warning of a catastrophe. if things don't change in the mediterranean, the number of migrant crossings to europe is high

and it was precisely that power zelinski called into question, paralyzed by a rush as veto power. he accused the you, when a failing to meet its founding purpose and called for russia to be stripped of its permanent seat. i'm gonna call for elation berlin and this is the day. the most of the will recognize is the truth about this was rushed to the invasion of ukraine in clear violation of united nations chart that a international law says let's it is a criminal and unprovoked aggression by russia, against our nation executive, raising your political tensions of the vision, so that's an egregious role stability in producing the nucleus so that i'm, i'm a boy should recognize that the un finds itself instead, lock on matters of aggression and creating efficiency lower. increasingly multi part of the human kind no longer rests its hopes on the un when it comes to the defense of the self employed as of nations. also on the day, british prime minister originally soon access, he's changing the u. k. is commitment to find in climate change to give people longer to adapt, to rise and cost

this is an opportunity for zelinsky to reach out to international organizations. asu during the counter-offensive. i think that zelensky will say that ukraine can win, but for this it needs support not only from the united states but also from other countries, including those that are not nato members. african countries middle and far east zelensky will need to convince western leaders to continue to provide military and financial support to ukraine at a time when global food and energy prices are rising sharply, and also try to convince leaders in the middle east, africa and latin america who still adhere to neutrality join the west in helping ukraine after this zelensky will have an audience with the most powerful man in the world, the president, he is the biggest supporter of ukraine and now faces tough challenges from republicans' growing stance on continued military aid. president zelensky faces a difficult task at the general assembly. he will have to convince skeptics to continue supporting his country in the war, but at the same time express gratitude for

the federal was applauded during a visit by ukraine's president to landscape to also, but not both zelinski and kind of his prime minister. true, joe, were among those giving the watson soldier a standing ovation and peas, anchored by kudos handling of the scandal or calling on him to take direct responsibility. the speaker of the house took the fall and the prime minister continues to blame everyone else, a full blown international embarrassment for our country, for our allies. and for everything this nation did to defeat the nazis and actual nazi invited to the house of commons. welcome and celebrated as a hero and a government that vetted everyone here. the pm has called canadian citizens, nazis. well, he muster the courage and stand up on his feet today and take responsibility. what just intruder earlier choose to deflect attention from the instant. blaming the high speaker and calling the reaction to the scandal russian propaganda. this is extremely settings. this happens. the steve or speaker has no excuse mistake. it's going to be really important. and all of us push back against rus

okay, we've heard all the speeches from zelinski and from all of his backers, particularly joe biden. this is all about democracy in territorial integrity and all and the children, of course, they always mentioned the children at the end of the sentence here. but what's, what's really going on. the reason why i want to set this down is because it's a huge money laundering operation, just like afghanistan was. that's why there's so much hesitation and what's, what is really a working in the, the, the advantage of the us and its allies, is that they have a willing participant. you know what, what we have here is that ukraine is not a victim, it's a volunteer, it's volunteering for this and it's leadership. and that's what makes it so morally repugnant. okay. because they're in on the money laundering, matthew. yeah, everyone's morally compromised or playing this thing, even the pandora papers back in or the animal paper back in the date as a demonstrated zalinski was the eyeballs deep in, in all sorts of shady business with, with offshore bank accounts in the cayman islands. in virgin i

i've said this for you, i also want to tell the prison zelinski never to insult pulls again as he did we simply do in his speech at the un poles will never allow this and defending the good polish name is not only my duty and honor, but also the most important task of the government of the republic a fully furnished or victor or bond of neighboring. henry explained in parliament this week that he's fed up with being gas with by the e. you over ukraine siding its promise to get ukrainian grain to africa, but then letting it get dumped into hungry instead. and also the hypocrisy of brussels, which constantly bangs on about minority writes everywhere except in ukraine. they want to transform hon gary and schools into your credit in this course. so if that doesn't watch, they want to close them. we do not support you crate in any sure on the national scene until it's restores the lowest the guarantee, the rights of honey. i rims so that he also had a great band in place, then walked it back, causing its farmers to take to the streets with black keys and all this right before an election i

you just mentioned, we're now starting to see conversations crop back up about the corruption from zelinski. and that's always been the case that has always been as you said, that this was something that was widely covered prior to the conflict broke out. and so now that they're starting to bring that narrative back, it looks as if they're trying to set the stage for, you know, winding this thing down, because i think that the goal was never us going to san said many years ago about afghanistan. the goal is not a successful war. the goal is, unless we're in the bid, the, the whole point of the situation in ukraine was not for ukraine to beat russia. everybody knew that that was not going to happen. the goal was to use ukraine to try to we can rush up both economically and militarily and so we are trying to get whatever we can, whatever bank for the, our buck that we can in doing that. and then we will, uh, you know, very gracefully walk ourselves out of this situation and blame it on zillow and see . well, rachel, i think i've already set on this program. the, the, the ultimate spin is, how

he didn't agree. meet, sorry, he just mixed me with ukrainian president vladimir zelinski, but you did talk about the hard issues, right? sort of. what do you mean by sort of? well, i talked about relations with america, and he promised to send me yet another aid package. so, what was that aid package about? he told me he was delivering the eight package to kraco. krack off, why krachoff? because it sounds like kiev in ukraine. ah, okay. mr. prime minister. thank you very much. at the united nations, netanyahu warned iran of nuclear threat. netanyahu has repeatedly used the un stage to launch ominous warnings towards tehran, briefly caused moment of alarm at the general assembly when he appeared to threaten to new tehran. seriously, he actually said. iran must face a credible nuclear threat, sanctions must be snapped back, and above all, above all, iran must face. this a credible nuclear friend. while the threatening speech was, i presume, intended to present powerful image of the israeli regime, netanyahu's office quickly jumped into action to claim the nuclear threat was a mere slip

and yeah, because you say that your sources are telling you yeah, has had woods with zelinski, and i should say, the savanski denies old corruption who was named in the panama papers. but according to you, you're saying, this is lensky. i'm was told off by bill burns about all is so then skis, officials riding around and cabin humans a these benches and the like the actual message as i understood. and he was not alone on the trip. so the actual message that is there are other people from the community with him, intelligence community, the actual mattress. and one of us lansky was the agenda of the bureaucrats and the general goals are getting very angry at you because you're taking too much of the, of the scam. hope you're taking a bigger cut. and he was given a list of 35 people that were involved in um, and corrupt activities. zalinski did fire 10 people on the list, some generals and officers, and some civilian bureaucrats. most of the agencies in the government and normally do a contracting work normally do directly with a normally you do a contract with somebody, so blind toilet

we get our company in the countries in that, and how can we make sure that we keep somebody like zelinski in charge? that will facilitate the wholesale transfer of all assets in all available methods of making money in ukraine into the hands of these western corporations. yeah, mostly, i think the hunter biden has a lot of free time. maybe he can do some painting and yeah. okay, see it apparently have some kind of affinity with ukraine as a matter of fact, the whole buying a family has an affinity with you guys? mostly. so would you be investing money in postwar ukraine? no, it'll only take you less that. that's even a conversation that we're having, frankly, the idea that 1st of all, that there's going to be, if you set a post were ukraine's there may not even be want it. and especially given the fact that we're now shipping off depleted uranium and it costs are munitions. i mean, that's going to be causing, wreaking havoc in the country for decades to come. and so it, and frankly, i think it's, you know, as board galloway pointed out on twitter, i think you know, that the, uh, the u. k.

last month zelinsky fired all 24 regional military recruitment achieves because they were, quote, involving illegal activities, including enrichment. last october we learn that u.s. shipment of grenade launchers, machine guns, rifles, bulletproof vest and thousands of rounds of ammunition were ending up in the hands of criminal gangs, and weapons o traffickers posing as humanitarian organizations. and what did the senate do? a voted against a special inspector general to make sure they're not stealing our money. what are we doing? is this fair to the american people? millions of americans are struggling each day to make ends meet. millions of americans are struggling to provide for their families and put food on the table. can we honestly look our constituents in the eye and tell them that this is a good investment of their dollars? some say the war in ukraine is a fight to save democracy. but those who say that need to be honest with themselves. ukraine is far from a shining example of democracy. and while the strain of war can make for questionable government action, we have to live with

that was elena zelinski, _ is what we all need right now.ukraine speaking to me on the impact of mental health on herself, herfamily, and millions of ukrainians, there is a piece on our website where you can read more about that interview. around the world and across the uk this is bbc news. fairly basic cybersecurity test before it was hacked last month, names and addresses of a0 million voters were accessible, a spokesperson for the commission admitted the feelings but claimed they weren't linked to the cyber attack. she also added that the commission had still not passed the test. an original proof of harry potter and the philosopher's stone was founded in primary school in oxford, it was bought for £1 was founded in primary school in oxford, it was bought for e1 in 0xford, it was bought for e1 in 1997, expected to fetch up to £20,000 at auction. your life with bbc news. the largest local authority in europe, birmingham city council in england, has declared that it is in effect bankrupt. the announcement has been linked to a bill for near