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s. congress as well both in the house on the senate side. and we really worked in detail on the report which we gave us in the national parliamentarians. we have had a very, very fruitful exchange and, and my hope is that after some initial exchanges, that there is a general understanding that they really need to work to, to, to accept what has been done. for example, in georgia by secretary of state reference burger. in georgia, who did a great job in administrating these elections. so what we try to do is really to explain these conspiracy theories regarding the elections are wrong that they are invented and they are groundless. michael league from the free democrats, a member of the german parliament as well. mr. lee, we appreciate your time and your valuable interaction. i thank you. thank you so much are. let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world . police and sudan if use tear gas against thousands of demonstrators demanding of transition to civilian rule. there are reports that at lea

this year because the u. s . congress hasn't renewed child tax credits. there was part of president joe biden, corona virus relief package. monthly cash payments were praised for sharply reducing child poverty. now some organizations are pushing for their return. kristen salumi reports from new york. 5 month old garrett was born in the middle of a pandemic. while his mom, maureen gardner, was unemployed. she says keeping up with his growing needs can be a challenge, but she has reason not to worry. let's hold a lifesaver. thanks to an unexpected economic lifeline from an experimental program called the bridge project, which is giving her $1000.00 a month. this is the only income that i receive. i receive no public assistance. i do receive food stamps, so i'm able to feed myself. but other than that, you know, i kind of rely on this money to pay my cell phone bill, keep the internet on by close. he's a growing baby and he's like growing really fast in new york city, wanting or children under the age of 3 live in poverty. the program is helping $100.00 fami

s. congress coming up in november biden needs to deliver something to motivate voters. he needs a when, because already to be quite honest, ah, present by has not been able to get his agenda pathway to policing and reform the george lloyd bill. he's not been able to get any agenda pass with respect to voting rights. the new justice is expected to be younger and could sit on the court for decades. the senate has promised to take up biden's nomination quickly. president biden wants a quick confirmation of his nominee. well, democrat, still controlled the senate after congressional elections in november. that's no guarantee republicans could take control and block any future by denomination to the supreme court. kimberly help get al jazeera, the white house of british prime minister bars. johnson's confirmed he intends to release a complete report and to the parties at his residence during locked on senior civil servant. sir grey has been investigating social gatherings at number 10 downing street, which were allegedly in breach of corona virus restrictions up time. are yo

s. congress in the upper chamber have said, in the absence of this lack of specificity on the consequences, russia could face that. they have drafted legislation that outlines exactly what they would like to see sort of the punishing consequences be, should russia invade ukraine? and what they've signalled is that they want to sanction, not just top government and military officials, but in fact, the russian president himself, vladimir putin. we should also point out that in this legislation there is bolstered security for ukraine and also an effort to ensure that the nordstrom to gas pipeline from russia to germany that is currently not in operation, that it does not progress. so the message that the senate is saying is that the united states is serious about this. they are fearful of the escalation, and they are already taking actions. putting blood procedures in place in the form of legislation, should russia follow through on the threats to potentially invade ukraine? something that the west is strongly opposed to. kimberly, how can thank you very much indeed. still to come analogy, er

s. congress that needs to be advised in all of this, and the leaders of both us senate and the house of representatives. you chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, respectively. they have requested classified briefings, that the way how says is being coordinated and to that. and we should also point out that the white house is also underscoring, that it's not just sort of the weaponry that is being discussed, but also those punishing financial sanctions that are also being potentially levied against russia. should vladimir putin decide to you evade ukraine. ok, thank you so much. kimberly health reporting from washington d. c. well, let's get more on the situation on the ground and ukraine. we have a they have need who is near the front line of the conflict in the eastern part of the country. that's where people are increasingly concerned about a possible russian attack is here in eastern ukraine that people are concerned to most of a possible escalation in the conflict. this part of the country has seen fears of battled back in 2014 and 15. this is what's left of the industrial area where

s. congress coming up in november, biden. needs to deliver something to motivate voters. he needs a when, because already to be quite honest, ah, present by has not been able to get his agenda pass with the policing and reform the george lloyd bill. he's not been able to get any agenda pass with respect to voting rights. the new justice is expected to be younger and could sit on the court for decades. the senate has promised to take up biden's nomination quickly. president biden wants a quick confirmation of his nominee. well, democrats still controlled the senate after congressional elections in november. that's no guarantee republicans could take control and block any future by denomination to the supreme court. kimberly hell kit al jazeera, the white house, the us defense secretary wants a pens again to limit civilian casualties caused by american ass drugs. lloyd austin says it is a moral imperative to protect civilians. it's also vital to the military success. he wants an action plan within 90 days and hopes the pence can can implement the recommendations. it comes o

s. congress coming up in november biden needs to deliver something to motivate voters. he needs a when, because already to be quite honest, ah, present, buying has not been able to get his agenda pass with the policing and reform the george lloyd bill. he's not been able to get any agenda passed with respect to voting rights. the new justice is expected to be younger and could sit on the court for decades. the senate has promised to take up biden's nomination quickly. president biden wants a quick confirmation of his nominee. well, democrat, still controlled the senate after congressional elections in november. that's no guarantee republicans could take control and block any future by the nomination to the supreme court. kimberly hell kit al jazeera, the white house china is to my lead. united states immediately improve its trade practices with beijing or face retaliatory tariffs. it follows a ruling by the world trade organization along china to take action, or what it regards is unfair us duties and it comes to a decade long dispute. katrina, you is more from beijing.

s. congress woman. and she says it's important for politicians to work together to make the payment available. again. this money which was authorized in the american rescue plan has kind of childhood poverty in america by 40 percent over the last 6 months. this represents the largest single tax break for middle class and working families. our country has ever seen and it's hundreds of dollars into the pocket of our families. it's been helping our families put that on the table, a roof over their head to pay for child care. and when you think about the impact it's helped regular working families get through the day, especially in the panoramic, in terms of being able to get back to work, enable these families to really need their basic needs during the pandemic. but even before the pandemic, there were so many families that were struggling and this child tax credit, we know that if we can get it extended, will continue to cut poverty and will continue to invest in our children and will continue to cut po

s. congress as well both in the house on the senate side. and we really worked in detail on the report which we gave us in the national parliamentarians. we have had a very, very fruitful exchange and, and my hope is that after some initial exchanges, that there is a general understanding that they really need to work to, to, to accept what has been done. for example, in georgia by secretary of state reference burger. in georgia, who did a great job in administrating these electrons. so what we try to do is really to explain that these conspiracy theories regarding the elections are wrong, that they are invented and they are groundless. michael league from the free democrats, a member of the german parliament as well. mr. lee, we appreciate your time and your valuable interaction. i thank you. thank you so much will finally to night, joe biden delivered a speech to day, the likes of which no living american or living person anywhere has ever heard from a city u. s. president scathing words about his predecessor who incited violence to hold o

s. congress, as well as from the greens here in germany, everyone in agreement that the north stream to natural gas pipeline that linked germany and russia should be killed. and despite hawkish language this week from the german foreign minister, berlin refuses to move on this pipeline. why do you think that is the pipeline is in the 1st instance quite vital to german energy concept and secondly, they. busy are hoping that they don't have to sacrifice it's very clear to me and i think the chance there was a little bit of lee but recently clear tonight and. ready the event of major russian incursion or string to pipeline would very much be on the table. but it seems to me that they've been taking that view for many years. this is an economic and economic project and they're planning to stick to that you. i think this gets to the point that everybody is against what the russians is doing are doing in the last, but nobody really wants to, to pay for the solution. and that, to a degree why the americans ended up in that room alone. no kid wants the west to provide it with weapons to defe

unfortunately, congress passed a law that they cannot be brought to the u. s. for any purpose, including a prosecution. there is this military commission process in 12 of them, it stays churches there. that process has had many, many problems. it itself, the reason the others haven't been brought to trial. there is, there simply is not the evidence to do so. and that is why they need to be transferred out of one kind of mo, immediately. that's unbelievable that we're still talking about this situation. 20 years later. cliff sloan, obama's, former envoy for the closure of going talk about joining us tonight from washington . mr. song good talking with you. thank you. thank you for having the i appreciate it. you watch the w news, and here's a reminder of the talk story that we're following before you. the world health organization to your director. issuing a strong warning of the spread of the o. micron corona virus variant which has become dominant here in europe. he says that over half of all europeans will likely become infected by the end of the winter. if t

s. house and the u. s. senate. congress could certainly shift if the poll data continues to go the way it's going. joe biden is quite unpopular a year into his presidency. our doctor kill him up and staying across the politics there in the state. thank you for that. let's also cross live for more on this to derek gibson, who's running for new york state governor. by the way, thanks for being with us on our team for national. so let's get down to it. what do you think about these recent polls? why such bad news? for the democrats, ah, the recent polls is not good for president joe biden at this time, and i don't see it change in our time in the future. i think the polls are going to go low because democrats, of course, me, his government and his policy that is clearly failed in here in america. so i think the uh, polls would drop even little job by net particular patch. the economy is crash in the virus is ad is has one elbow, and he seems to can't do it thing about it, but test test test, but nothing on

i know we've heard a lot of talk about the need to update infrastructure here in the u. s. from members of congress. specifically, over the last year, we saw that they passed that massive one trillion dollars spending bill back in november, which is supposed to be aimed at infrastructure. but why is it that in the world's largest economy, we're still dealing with these basic infrastructure problems? why isn't this more of an important priority that these lawmakers are looking to fix? well, i don't think law makers are really in touch with what's going on within our communities. i think they've taken a lot of time to deal with a lot of international issues. they taken a lot, a lot of time to deal with their, their personal issues. and then we have this partisan back and forth between democrats and republicans would make, which makes it extremely hard to get anything done. but, you know, one thing that i am a strong proponent of enough enough investment infrastructure. i think a lot of times we have attorneys and bureaucrats creating these packages. the packages are not speci

s. capital police fire because of them. congress was able to defeat the insurrection, to return to the capital that same night to ensure that the peaceful transfer of power took place. because of them and our members, the insurrection tailed. oh, as night fell duelling vigils took place across the city. this small event outside dcs, joe, to protest against the continued incarceration of some january 6 protested these guys here who were at supper, maybe a dozen or you doesn't you actually, you course subs, pepper sprayed, more or less just followed the sea of humanity that they were trapped across town approaches to mounting that congress protect voter rights. as republican controlled states use the law of an illegitimate election to restrict access to the ballot. this event also remind her of the terror of the storming of the capitol on per day for us. i remember ah, crawling on my knees under banisters with a cane in one hand because i just had a knee replacement surgery 5 weeks before. i remember lying on the floor with the gas mask in one hand and the cane and the other thinking abo

s. position. if you don't, said lethal weapons in the united states, that opens up joe biden to criticism from congress at a time when he needs congressional support for domestic programs. so where we're seeing here is the consequences of allowing your foreign policy, your national security policy, be hijacked by domestic will. the fact that tony blinking his meeting with lab rob to discuss a diplomatic off ramp for the current crisis. at the same time, the united states is green lighting of the delivery of weapons for the sole purpose of killing russians. because you don't have deterrence, unless you have a real capability, it's totally counterproductive and it undermines the american position when they say, hey, you know, we won't allow nato to join for years. you don't need to worry about what's the difference between a ukraine that's a member of nato receiving western military aid and ukraine, who's not a member of nato receiving western military from the russia perspective, there is no differ

the u. s. joins other nato member states in ramping up supplies of weaponry to key if that tells russia to pull back its own troops on its own soil and a fight of thank checking russia lashes out at american officials and the media that for pushing fresh and proven claims against moscow, publish right ahead of those crucial security talks with to scroll through a couple of random pages to be sure, none of the provisions stand up to any critical analysis. in many cases, it is simply a very good morning. thanks for joining me for the weekly on it looks like showing even the slightest support for russia can cost you dearly in the current political climate. the german navy chief assad to resign have to st. crimea is now part of russia, and that the west just stopped demonizing vladimir putin, but his words font, a major diplomatic backlash. the details of that his aunt is peter oliver, vice admiral k. r. him shown by caused big shocks on saturday evening, as he stood down from his role as chief

s. fears that it will, and certainly that's the position of the u. s's at nato allies and its european allies. and it's also the position of a large number of people in congress who been putting pressure to bear on the bite and administration to take more forceful stops to stop russia from a creating any incursion into ukraine. but you, you have the secretary of state saying that sanctions are there as a deterrent, that they've just got to be one part of a whole brand shop diplomatic moves to try and prevent any russian action. this is a tad confusing and something that may confuse the u. s. as nato allies as well. and certainly it's going to away criticism from those in congress who are arguing very strongly that the by didn't administration, is weak in terms of any action threatened against russia. should it go ahead with an incursion into ukraine? mike, is this that odds at all? ah, with the u. s. is nato allies. well, it is, and it is inter, certainly the secretary of state there, outlining something that is allies might not agree with in public, at least to the u. s. has gone out

that's how the russian u. s. foreign policy chiefs described. brown to that talks in geneva this week, which gave him a mid rise intentions of ukraine and nato expansion. we recently notified congress of our intent to deliver in 17 helicopters. after the latest round of de escalation talks, the u. s. joins or the nato member states is ramping up supplies of weapons to key at the tells russia to pull back its own troops on its own soil. and a fight of fact. checking russia lattice out of american officials under may differ pushing fresh unproven claims against moscow. public right ahead of those crucial security tools such not police thought is enough to scroll through a couple of random pages to be sure none of the provision stand on any critical analysis. in many cases, it is simply a very good morning watching the weekly here or not. now, it looks like showing even the slightest support for russia could cause she dearly in the current political climate. a german navy chief had to resign there. he said the crimea is now part of russia and that

that's how the russian and u. s. foreign policy treats describe their talks in geneva, which come mid rising tensions over ukraine and nato expansion. we recently notified congress of our intent to deliver and 17 helicopters. the white house announces it's sending military helicopters to ukraine just hours after de escalation talks with russia. other nato members are also ramping up weapons supplies with it's enough to scroll through a couple of random pages to be sure none of the provisions stand up to any critical analysis with at the news conference after the talk survey lab, rob lashes out at u. s. officials and mainstream media coaching fresh unproven claims against moscow. we will examine those flames this hour with kathy live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our 2 international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. are now the top diplomats of russia and the united states have finished their security, talked in switzerland as tensions over ukraine remain high. washington is expecte

public to blast the u. s. internal revenue services, new demand to use a 3rd party facial recognition app for tax returns with one congressman warning the, this is america, not china. the iris insists the i d dot me app is secure and won't be required for all services, but taxpayers point out clear potential for abuse and unsanctioned sharing with other government agencies breaking the i r s are now trying to require facial recognition to view your tax returns this is america, not china. do you mean there is a problem with id theft for tax returns, but not for voting ballots? thank you senator. especially given what we know about the i r. s ability to share data with other federal agencies. i see the f, b i, d, e, a, etc. this is essentially creating mandated us government facial recognition database that will inevitably be abused by facial recognition. the host of the politics, politics, politics, podcast, told us the iris has a worrying record when it comes to data protection. the iris has had a problem a

there was a commission from congress. and today it's the secretary of state, from the u. s. m. all this is of course, to prevent a russian attack on did to go get diplomacy going, as long as it can seems that the u. s. and for in secret services have decided that a russian attack or an escalation is imminent. and this activity is of course, to prevent it from happening, hoping that as long as talks are going on, there will be no shooting. but he has a blink and we'll go on to meet with his russian counterpart on friday. how much space is there still full diplomacy? after a whole series of meetings between western allies and moscow, including germany, foreign minister, i'm alina babel just yesterday, failed to achieve anything. well, what we can see is that russia is engaging in this diplomacy. the problem is, we do know what put his overall goal is. it is to extend or to re establish a part of the soviet sphere of an influence that the soviet union used to have and to bring ukraine back into this sphere of influence. but we do not know what his priorities are. is this whole bui

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s. president has already been able to convince the congress in the united states to pass part of his infrastructure jenda. and this would allocate 27000000000 for repairing bridges. so that is underway. and what he'll make the argument is, is that now is the time. and it couldn't be more timely. because not only will this repair bridges in a state like pennsylvania, about 4 hours drive north of washington dc where we should point out it is the number 2 in the united states for needing bridges repaired. but also it will do things like repair some of the crumbling infrastructure, airports, also highways, and even provide internet to rural areas that have no internet access at all. but he'll also make the case that this is going to create jobs will help bring back the economy still struggling from the coven pandemic. and it counter the high inflation of, of the supply chain problems that have resulted in bear shelves that have really impacted ordinary american so, well this initially looked like is be a problem for the president. he is going to talk about how he's coordinated with state

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