ah, the u. s. and russian presidents hold virtual talks to diffuse tensions amid fears at moscow plans to attack ukraine. ah, lauren taylor says al jazeera live from london, also coming up at least 38 dead after a fire breaks out the main prison in burgundy capital, while many were asleep. indonesia, as president visits villages blanketed by ash from the mount, samira volcano was the death toll rises to 34 and ancient artifacts smuggled out of iraq in the last 30 years. go display in baghdad, including one of the world's oldest surviving works of literature. ah, hello, the leaders of the u. s. and russia have held a high stakes virtual meeting as tensions rise over russia's activities on the ukrainian border. the city again president joe biden invited me fujen spoke 5 video link for more than 2 hours. attention to hi with the u. s. and its allies concerned. russia may be planning to invade its neighbor after massing tens of thousands of troops near the border. russia denies any such plans and descr

the u. s. says it won't attend the event because of what it calls, human rights atrocities and genocide. usually yvonne, diesel yonder, ga d u. s. standing opposed to athletes and sports lovers across the world. china deplores this and rejects this and has large, solemn representations and will take resolute counter measures. the u. s. should stop politicizing sports and stop disrupting the beijing winter olympics with words . otherwise, it might harm bilateral dialogue and cooperation in a series of important areas and international regional issues. she would all continue has more now on china's reaction from beijing. china's clearly furious. it says that the u. s. will pay, but it hasn't detailed what those counts measures might be. an earlier in his statement. jolly jen, the foreign ministry, spokes person accused the us of political prejudice. ideological bias, political manipulation and having sinister intentions. as we heard, beijing says that the limpid should be yours as a tool for inte

s. war crimes, basic civil liberties, and not to mention julian assange, the u. s. says astonishes on trial for endangering lives. pretty sure that the u. s. or the guys with the missiles and the wiki leeks guy had a website. well, we still gotta find out how he did it. was it square space to go deeper into the unprecedented case against assange? i'll talk to journalist mohammed l mossey mohammed l mozy is the founder and editor of the new site. the interregnum has by lines in the canary, jacobin the grey zone and the real news. then we'll go to corresponding anders lee with some mind blowing old news about how sweet an almost me to turn towards real socialist economic policy in the 1980s, but was stopped by a very popular musical group. first, here's my interview with mohammed o mossey. hello and welcome mohammed. it's so great to have you on to talk about this. so before we get into the charges, let's go through a short history of sanchez captivity. can you help us go through it? for 1st he was at the ecuadorian embassy, then he was at bell marsh prison, and now h

the u. s. is also suffering from soaring inflation. many americans are blooming the biden administration for that with a 5th of respondents and a recent nationwide policy per leadership in the country. so the problem doesn't include democrats with some quitting the party and even switching sides, breaking it all done for us. ortiz kill of morphin. apparently, it's not only working families throughout america who are disappointed by the biden administration's handling of several crises. it's also members of biden's own democratic party, some like the former spokesperson for the washington dc. mayor, have decided to switch over to the republicans in hispanic and also black eyes. i should be democrat by default, but i'm going against their narrative and i feel like right now, everything is crumbling for the democrats biden is completely destroying the economy right now. and people can feel it in. so that's what's happening in washington, d. c. now, washington, d. c is a city that is pretty solidly in the democratic camp. democrats sometim

the u. s. also applauded the woman's tennis association for suspending all tournaments and china over concerns for the safety of chinese ton of star peng. why? with the olympics coming to the u. s. in 2028. there are now questions about how china may respond both in the short and long term. katya low priscilla young al jazeera, while more now on the asian reaction with katrina, you who's in the chinese capital. they have been repeating the same kind of sentiments over the past few weeks when these 1st rumors came out that the u. s. was mulling over this move. china has accused washington of political grandstanding, political, political, manipulation of distorting the spirit of the games. and we've had chinese states media similarly express the same sentiment saying that this is the us trying to contain china and reflect a cold war mentality. so this will no doubt escalate tensions just weeks after president jor biden. and present, she didn't think, sat down to a video colon at the time the busi

if russia were to invade ukraine, the u. s. would send more defensive material and the u. s. would fortify nato allies on the eastern flank. it also looks like the u. s. will joined the minsk agreements. these are the stalled peace accords. the u. s. has not been party to these agreements, and i think russia hadn't really wants the u. s. to join in. it would be an opportunity to revitalize these discussions. but when you read the statements, but moscow and the united states want very different things that the point that jumps out me to me the most is that moscow is, is saying they're, they're engaging. and what about is them? they're blaming nato. and they're blaming key of for the aggression. they're not taking responsibility. this crisis is far from being result. victor, a leverage in belgrade. i'm sure you want to respond to some of that, but i want to ask you as well. russia has said that these fears about a russian invasion are unfounded. if that's the case, what a president puts his intentions over ukraine and what's behind the, the troop build up near its border with u

he indeed has no obligation to the u. s. government, and yet they are seeking to apply the u. s. a spinach act against a journalist and publisher who is located outside of united states for actions he took outside of the united states, which would normally be covered under the 1st amendment. so it's yeah, very disconcerting for. yeah, but yeah, there's a number of unprecedented things going on here. you have that. it's a, a foreign journalist and you have the fact that they're targeting his, his publishing. so let's, let's talk about how independent reporters and news organizations should be really concerned about this. what should they be alarmed by? well, it's the extra territorial application of u. s. law. normally something people associated with imperialism, right? so for example, if a u. s. citizen, or anybody else killed somebody outside of your jurisdiction. normally you can't be tried rights for actions that have occurred externally thus in a separate legal jurisdiction. but yet, for some reason, with the espionage act, we're saying that he can be, i'm, and well imagine

the u. s. left the deal in 2018 under then president trump, under president biden, washington wants back in, but only if tehran upholds its commitments mixed were convinced that if iran pro approaches talks in vienna, with urgency and good faith, we can quickly reach and implement an understanding on mutual return, we cannot, however, allow iran to accelerate its nuclear program and slow walk. it's nucular diplomacy, ron's ambassador blame the us. vienna talks can succeed, auntie, threw genuine political, real and good faith negotiations. engaging in blame game or flying artificial impatience is not constructive. the rhetoric in the council chamber was strong. both iran and the united states say they want to return to the deal. and the un says that's encouraging. but clearly, members of the international community are concerned that iran is closer than ever to a nuclear weapon. and time may be running out. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations, the u. s. sector state antony blinkin says

he indeed has no obligation to the u. s. government, and yet they are seeking to apply the u. s. a spinach act against a journalist and publisher who is located outside of the united states for actions he took outside of the united states, which would normally be covered under the 1st amendment. so it's yeah, very disconcerting for, but i think, yeah, there's a number of unprecedented things going on here. you have that. it's a, a foreign journalist and you have the fact that they're targeting his, his publishing. so let's, let's talk about how independent reporters and news organizations should be really concerned about this. what should they be alarmed by most the extra territorial application of u. s. law. normally something people associated with imperialism, right? so for example, if a u. s. citizen, or anybody else killed somebody outside of your jurisdiction. normally you can't be tried rights for actions that have occurred externally thus in a separate legal jurisdiction. but yet, for some reason, with the espionage act, we're saying that he can be, i'm, and well imagine

w is on thin ice in the u. s. and further, if i say what i know, they'll be red face is all round but as i fuck met was now obvious that the people also in the u. s. had no idea what to do any more and were at a complete loss for chickasha was free, it was an awful atmosphere. god should i and we realized that they were sweating. the fans were at their wits end midway from vision. eventually v w faced an ultimatum from the u. s. so sorties, either you provide an explanation or we won't certify your new cause. with disaster looming, vw held one crisis meeting off to the next vin to con himself faced deming testimony from his confidant bent, got vice vendor columbus jungle. when vin, to con, cold me. i told him that we'd been chatting thus that the cars had a device that could differentiate between test bench and road. grasso decided into corn would lay to challenge that accounts. while confirming the cool had taken place, he denied he'd been given such a warning. not long after that phone call, a 3rd and crucial de

s. as they're no longer comfortable with the u. s. as a jurisdiction for chinese tech and the scrutiny that they will face. apparently the u. s. doesn't seem to want china to list here anyways. so it seems like this is one point that both nations can agree upon. it's just a shame that you have all these companies that are just caught in the middle that want absolutely nothing to do with the politics of it all. absolutely. now bad, i have one more thing i wanna hit on here. it's been a tough year for chinese internet billing. there's a lot more than that. the $3000000000.00 from there combined network since april. and i have about a minute left. what the story there? yeah, i think the story of the 2 words use there. it's important internet billionaires is not all billionaires. it's those who have made their money. where in that internet space, because as christy just said, it comes right as china is cracking down on companies that are too big and spread out into too many different industries. and so if you are a part of dd or if you're

s. and the u. s. backed political actors at the time that created their crisis, and russia did not invade crimea or sylvester pool. they were there already, and there was a, there was a transition to crimea was reunited with russia and had been separated in 1954. so these nuances never get talked about. and so they think rushes in, violation of all these international laws. and that justifies nato expansion. so if we come to a forum, if we come to a negotiation table, these details should come out. we'll say though, is this what the u. s. wants do they want to have that conversation? i don't think they do. i don't think their allies do, they want to keep it in the realm of hyperbolic aggressive, to drive by comments and accusations. because there, you don't have to have, you know, you really don't have to abide by any international agreements or treaties. you just seem to be reacting to russian aggression. so i think this is a really important point. you know, a document set out for present, for ea

the u. s. has not been able to tackle those challenges itself. so when the u. s. president says it that he wants to lead by example, i think that many of the audience may be listening to that and wondering whether the u. s. president should cast his eyes on his own country 1st before offering advice to others. quickly, some of those examples, the u. s. president saying this is a, a defining challenge of our time in terms of all of the world, but that democracy is capable of self correction. and that, that can be done when parties sit down and work together. but we've seen division in this country that has only been exacerbated with each election. notably, of course, january 6th, when many conservatives in the united states attempted to overturn the results of the last u. s. presidential election when it comes to justice and rule of law that the u. s . president says needs to be upheld around the world. we see gross racial and equality, socio economic inequality and a widening wealth cap in this country. and when it comes to freedom of speech, the u. s. presiden

so of course, and on the u. s. as well, this is part and parcel of the hybrid war is the hybrid wars that we see against the boulevard in camp and land america against china. this is the unipolar hedge of mine, in decline, afraid of more, ah, multi polar world, where different countries can team up together in overcome the sanctions in the blockades, in the hybrid war. so that's what this entire war effort is and here in the west here in the united states, we only hear about quote unquote rushes aggression. but they never mention that nato in the us of the ones that since 1991 after james baker promised the secretary of state at the time that nato would never creep even one inch east every day. they creeped further and further in violation of rushes, borders, and sovereignty. we've also got her g 7 group advanced economies as well. this was much singular on threatening russia, with a severe response, a detox you crate. these threats themselves are pretty dangerous, and again, russia said has got no intention of doi

the u. s. and russian presidents have spoken for the 2nd time this month in a bid to de escalate tensions over ukraine. the white house says the cold between joe biden and vladimir putin lost at 50 minutes. they held a virtual summit back in december on the 7th, and vowed to stay in contact on the issue. russia has repeatedly denied its planning to invade its neighbor, despite massing tens of thousands of troops along the border. as to correspond, john, hindrance who is live for us in washington dc. john, give us the details of this conversation between putin invited well, last time this call happened on december 7th. it was the russians who came out 1st with their read out of that called owning the narrative of it. this time it was the white house jen. saki, the press. secretary issued a statement saying, president biden urged russia to de escalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear of the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia further invade ukraine. pre

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as new reports indicate u. s. federal agencies, including the military, have purchased china, made video surveillance equipment banned from youth in the federal government. now, according to purchasing records, seen by tech crunch and video surveillance news site i p v m. the agency called elective li, spend thousands of dollars on purchasing video surveillance equipment manufactured by laura x. a wholly owned subsidiary of di was technology. now you probably never heard of this company, but it is one of several from china that were banned from selling to the u. s. federal government under 2019 different spending law over the years. fears that the technology could help the chinese government conduct. so for more on this let's bring in, boom, that's fun. and christy i to discuss ban. let me start with you. we break down for us. what this report found, what government agencies were buying this equipment? yes, pretty interesting as, as we've talked about for about 2 years now, right, there was been a huge concern abo

u. s. withdrawal and afghanistan may have been found out. he speaks to the family that took the boy in and joined the search for his parents. do it suddenly i saw this baby on the ground crying in pain. it was too hot and the baby was just wearing a shirt. so it was difficult for me to leave him there. ah, by the way, the weekends developments and the biggest store is covered here over the past 7 days. welcome to the weekly with me calling bright 1st for your tension. so the ukraine ran high this week with russia slamming a west for fueling, the escalation and voicing concern and nato's actions in the region. moscow says they could potentially lead to a large scale conflict. the escalation occurred, offer ukranian navy ship approach to rushing waters without authorization. on thursday evening. i moved the brush are regarded as a threat to the navigational safety of other vessels in the area. are you crying? denied all allegations and insisted the ship was an unarmed search and rescue vessel that never entered restricted waters all posed any

the u. s. national security advisor reiterated ukraine can associate with whoever it wants. when analyst believes joining nato is unrealistic, it ought to be clear to them that we're not coming to the rescue. so you get to have to live in nest, russia without a u. s. security guarantee. there were also questions about the controversial nord stream to pipeline which runs from germany to russia and whether it could be used as leverage and discussions over ukraine. the white house says it will pressure the german government to stop it. if russia invades the biden administration, will continue to work with it's european partners, promising a coordinated response, should russia ignore their warnings? president biden will also speak with ukraine's president lensky on thursday. kimberly, how can al jazeera, the white house will steal? clemens is the host around, there is the bottom line and that large for the hill. he says moscow wants to undermine the u. s. president's credibility. and this is going

s. u. k. and canada to provide military support against the alleged risk of a russian invasion is also warning of a potential migrant crisis. if war does actually break out. we spoke to political commentator, crisp ambrey, on why he thinks kia is being, is becoming increasingly aggressive. ukraine is becoming more, more almost hysterical in demand, so they'd be allowed to join nato. and it should be supplied with high tech weapons by america in the west. so it's becoming more warm cervical because it's going to the situation and it's not getting what it was totally, something needs to membership. but there are growing voices in the way. you will say, why is you create not be allowed to join nato despite the fact was no peace is very clear. this is a read why image russia will know to be cross. good. if ukraine was to join nato, a little over a 100 miles in some ways to 300 miles from boston, something russia is going to do with accidents. reputation breaks the promise given to mikhail gorbache

this is the start of a new u. s. campaign against russian line behavior. the u. s. government claims the strategic culture foundation is in fact control by russia's foreign intelligence agency, the s v r. and that is also linked to the russian foreign ministry. while a foundation denies this and calls itself research platform. but your age and global affairs, either which way doesn't result says a dangerous president, sol, ready? been set. i think of the that the at the s. c. f, the foundation hosts honest journalism. even though i don't, i don't, i don't agree with much of it. this is, this is serious work by serious. ready journalists, and that is a supporter of a free speech and a free press. i believe that readers should have access to this kind of stuff. and, and yet the, the u. s. government is trying to close it down and therefore trying to stop information, which is usually at variance with official us policy, from reaching from reaching audiences, including audiences in the us, to stop journalists from writing for these kinds of websites as a new step. a

while the u. s. has been pursuing assange after he revealed classified information on american military activities during was in afghanistan and iraq. ah, with me, while russia's foreign ministry has slammed the court verdict highlighting that it coincides with the end of the summit, the democracy hosted by the united states. this shameful verity can a political case against a journalistic and public figure is another manifestation of the cannibalistic world view of the anglo saxon tandem. the west marks international human rights day and the end of the summit for democracy with dignity. now i also spoke with your political analyst, patrick kenny sin. he says that the west us think it's rhetoric on democracy and freedom of speech only applies to other countries. the. they like talking about journalism early like talking about media freedom or they like to impose it on various other developing week countries. target nations. nations singled out for regime change, but when it comes to actually living u

so the u. s. has joined with you and other countries, pushback multilaterally on the kinds of practices that we see in russia and china. it's a scary world where tyranny and slave labor become routine. it's important that the west suppose that we can do that diplomatically. we can do that through dialogue and essentially building with russia and china, if they will. but if they don't, and they persist in their ways, then there's clearly going to be a cost to pay for them. the us and the west will also pay. and what does that cost? he's saying is china worried about the cost? no, i don't think china is really to worry about what the americans are pushing at the moment. jiving in china. it has a lisa who is incredibly confident in so any, in the direction of travel which that china is going when can question that and they are good ground to questioned whether the direction of troubleshooting picks. china is the white. one is the good ones, but he is very competent. there he is, right? so he is not s

you know, a u. s. warship has now entered the black sea. we can see it through binoculars or the crosshairs of our defense system system alone or multiple missile systems just across the fence. it what it was with him look at where nato's military infrastructure is located, just a short distance from our borders in romania and poland. and to miss our defense systems have already been deployed and they can easily be converted into offensive missile systems that targets us. it only takes a matter of minutes to change the software. now, instinct tells me that a russian destroy was spotted steaming into new york harbor. it would be a flaming red line for washington, but believe it or not for us all, this is a pink line at best. the real issue is nato, or rather, nato's expansion and expanded it has from this humble state in 1990 to this empire in 2020. now back in the day, russia was promised, nater would grow not one inch eastward of berlin. wel, that's berlin. so no, it's not an inch, it's over a 1000 kilometers. and now it's knocking out rus

the other 2 grounds were the assurances that the u. s. would not subject julian to extreme isolation or put him in the florence, colorado maximum, secure superman prison. but they came with caveats which even the judges acknowledge. so that if julian did anything that was deemed by the c, i a to legitimate the use of sam, special administrative measures, which is just extremely installation and monitoring all contact with your attorneys, how he could then those sam's could be imposed on him and he could be held chris in florence, it was interesting this. yeah, we've only got 30 seconds. i want to so i want to pick up one of the you said about there, but his mental state, that's the whole key today. the judges said, well is mental state is not valid, but in the consideration. and that is why they've allowed it no literary 30 seconds . all the sun just low is going to find strong enough ground to appeal the decision really successfully or not using what she got on it. i think he's being railroaded into the embrace of the united states. i me

ah, the u. s. has warned russia consequences if it invades ukraine, the, to our virtual call between j bought and vladimir putin ended with no break through the talks follow a massive russian troop build up out of the border. the house western nations worried that moscow will invade its neighbor. i white house correspondent, chimney hawk. it begins our coverage with a massive build up of russian troops, new ukraine, shared border, and u. s. intelligence indicating an invasion of ukraine could happen early next year. u. s. president biden met virtually with russian president. vladimir poo. good to see you again. the pair spoke for 2 hours. potent denies russia intends to invade ukraine, calling it fear mongering. but the u. s. president made clear today that if russia did tough economic sanctions would follow. i will look in the eye and tell you as president biden looked, president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014. we are prepared to do now. that reference is to

the u. s. is forced to resume a controversial trump era immigration policy that makes migrants weights in mexico while their cases are hard. and where we wanted vaccines, they just kept, you know, you bring us the crumbs from the table. so africa as president hits out at governments over their failure to deliver on promises of coven, 19 vaccines for africa. ah, now china is threatening firm counter measures against the u. s. after an announced a diplomatic boycott of next year's winter olympics, and beijing, american government officials will not be attending the event because of what they call human rights atrocities. and genocide, chinese embassy in washington has called that decision, a grave distortion of the olympic charter, who will have more reaction from beijing in a moment. but 1st, this report from catalogue has had a young political tension between the us and china, now playing out and next year's winter olympics and beijing, you as president joe biden said for weeks he was consideri

and then u. s. i saw that in your case should force them in the less i will as soon as the weekly's of me with i'm follows you or henders different shops killer. he's he get i have, we're on. there were sort of, we feel the contra money out of my little bit of the with quickly understand. okay . understand that i've got you even there you're pulling on her la. mainly just the only response of the union. did julian assange encouraged chelsea manning to steal secret documents as the prosecution claims manning was pardoned by obama and is now a free woman. but just before the start of the trial, she is again summoned to appear before the grand jury asked if his hunch helped her leak secrets, she tells the judge, i'd rather starve myself to death and change my position on this case. as a result, she goes to prison again and has to pay heavy fines. but she does not give in the fascination of insect a villi either in the killing of rogers generally the killing of children. that is the real harm that shoul

the u. s. is overly sending arms 10 key f. washington reveal that 30 javelin anti tank missiles systems were delivered to ukraine, back in october, as part of a $60000000.00 military aid package and a further $200000000.00 or on the table. t am with the ongoing military build up on russia's borders. the g 7 group of advanced economies is threatened to russia with a severe response if it attack she crane. moscow though, denies any plans of invasion, as we said, and in says it is nato which poses a threat to russia by expanding further east close to its borders. the white house, though, does believe that only it has the right to draw the line. yes, of course, the diplomacy is out and red lines of that to be crossed when the big bad wolf is planning a land grab ring a bell. a similar warning came in the spring when russian troops gathered for snap training exercises. and again, when military drills were conducted in crimea, and only recently moscow was supposedly the mastermind of the qu, in key of remember the currency of no mea

the u. s. has been pursuing us on after he revealed classified information on american military activities during war's in denison and iraq. the with the right to me, the doctor. but i think you're very good medical the me in a major publications like the guardian in london, the new york times. they're spiegel, they all published this material, in fact one awards for it. julian, in fact, was leaked the material and did what any publisher would do, which is to put it out. he's never been charged with publishing material. it is false. are incorrect. there's a pretty amazing track record. but yes, it's very myopic on the part of us media outlets, not to understand that if julian is extradited, which is unfortunately looking more and more likely. this will set a legal precedent that any journalist who has in their possession classified material or any publisher that publishes classified material can be held in criminal contempt. it changes the game completely and eviscerate any investigation into t

the u. s. and russia's top diplomats meet for the 1st time while tensions flare rushes military build up near the border with you quite. u. s. reinstates a trump iraq policy requiring asylum seekers to remain in mexico. ah. arising corona, virus infections and the arrival of the new variant are pushing several nations to look at stricter measures to contain the spread in germany, unvaccinated people will be banned from much of public life. outgoing chance. langler merkel calling the restrictions an act of national solidarity. germany's parliament duels or owes also considering imposing a vaccine mandate. andrew simmons reports on the situation across europe in less than a week. the abi chrome variant has swept the globe with more uncertainty about covert in many countries, especially in europe. new restrictions were being introduced anyway, with the winter surgeon delta variant infections. germany is the latest to announce new measures. signs like these vaccinate immunized is the way this count

u. s. president pointed out what he called the threatening nature of russian troop movements near the ukrainian border and said severe sanctions were being drawn up. moscow insists it can move its troops wherever it wants on its own territory, while saying its nato that is making the dangerous move. the cremeans spokes person talk to r t about how nato's actions are being regarded in russia. you see jeanette intuitive, which is rhetoric is coming from the u. s. and e u leaders sounds pretty aggressive . we see plenty of fake news about russia allegedly planning an aggressive invasion . at the same time, no one talks to kia, non warns kiev again, even thinking of a military intervention in the guns conflict with him on that issue. and you know, we need to need to take in an extremely aggressive position and they all say they don't accept any red line voter. second, they say that nato will do what everyone wants, that it will do it on whatever territory one day. i mean, florida, that all of t

this weekend, a trip to the u. s. by oliver schmidt allowed epi i agent to intercept him saturday at miami airport. haps love miss so to let her soft a capsule lockers off. i made it to the restroom or dont i was able to pull my pants up if the i bought and then 5 f, b i. agents and 3 airport police storm the toilet. when in vessel had was i was put in a cell because given prison clothing on when as lives or it would have been all, i was booked at exactly 2 o'clock when the news was on new fans. the story was my arrest progress. while i had mine of her big welcome to the cell block, oh, i see it isn't it isn't st huckabee hotfoot oliver schmidt pleaded guilty and spent 3 years in a prison in the u. s. in 2020. he was transferred to a prison in germany. this is the 1st time he's talked on camera about his involvement in the emissions scandal. he had good connections with us, environmental alsera teeth being economical with the truce, cost him everything. line ashley, discuss, i'm thought. and if my crime was flying to

the u. s. and russian presidents have spoken for the 2nd time this month in a bed to deescalate tensions over ukraine. the white house says the call between joe biden and vladimir putin last at 50 minutes. they held a virtual summit on december the 7th, and vowed to stay in contact and the issue. russia has repeatedly denied its planning to invade its neighbor, despite massing tens of thousands of troops along the border. john engineers live 1st in washington, d. c. john, give us the details of this conversation that took place between putin and biden. well, it was a 50 minute talk. it was the 2nd one this month after a previous conversation on december 7th, and each side laid out their diplomatic positions ahead of lower level talks in europe. next month. that white house put out a statement in which jen, saki, the press, secretary said, president biden urged russia to deescalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear that the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively of

well, china has accused the u. s. of political manipulation for going ahead with the democracy some it's even going as far as calling it a joke. katrina, you passmore beijing has been saying according to beijing, this summit is about promoting us self interest and making sure that the u. s. stays on top of the world stage. now china has many reasons to be angry. one of the foremost is that it was not one of the more than 100 countries or regions invited to attend this summit. and they took issue with that. and they were further infuriated by the invitation, extended to taiwan, which china considers a rogue chinese break away province. another participant, they are not happy with is the speaker nathan law. and now he was a former hong kong legislator, a well known activist, and he fled hong kong before the position of the national security law. last year now he's been invited to speak about his experiences. he will talk on human rights and standing up to authoritarianism on friday. now in recent days, over the past wee

and for the 1st time, put the u. s. in the backsliding category and the democracy summit guest list has also raised some questions with participants such as zambia pakistan and nigeria classified by the index as hybrid regimes, not democracies. participants, iraq and nisha were even declared as authoritarian, and the democratic republic of congo was nearly at the bottom of the list of the least democratic countries. i meanwhile, the us national security adviser says american policies are less and less guided by the revere to global institutions. of the un i m f and the world bank. he says the u. s. needs more flexibility. we have entered a phase, i believe in foreign policy and international relations where it's no longer the formal, you know, the united nation and the i, m f and the world bank and so forth. we now have more of a complex mix of structures. there is no power the united states isn't you know, establishing its authority. it's a guy, it's a nation on the decline right now. and the amount of trickery will ch

it looks like the u. s. after finally leaving afghanistan is, is, and after 20 years of occupation and 40 years of intervention. if we go back to the time that the u. s. was supplying the so called insurgence or g harness in, in afghanistan, 40 years. so the us has left there. it looks like the u. s. in the military. industrial complex is looking to to increase the conflict in ukraine and have ukranian blood and russian blood you know, as they don't care about that, it seems so put in recently stated that the west and nato have lied to russia many times and that he is now demanding legal security guarantees that's very important to him. do you think there will be forthcoming with those guarantees, or is it going to be business as usual? well it's, it's really hard to say it would be very much in the interest of the american people as well. as people all over the world to come to some kind of agreement. but we don't know right now there's so many factors that work. there's domestic politics in the united stat

but the u. s. i think it's, they're really interested in making it work because it's because international law may make russia right on some issues may make china right. and somebody here and i don't think the u. s. is likes to be told that it's not right. or some of the issues and a couple of words about democracy. sure, it's not as powerful as it was before, but no actually has any alternative. china, but not constant tucker system in russia does not have done. i don't know traditional value summit. so that's where the us actually seems to have the upper hand. i need to have something to show for it for a while while we don't. and i think that international law is something that may help us driving forward, but i don't think until the us is taken off. it's purch asked a so super power or, or and until it realizes it is no longer a sell super power. we cannot have a functioning international law unfortunately when, when they have a countries, as far as the united states, which is not real, like to