navy and naval forces in europe and air forces in europe. it had a huge effect, a huge, positive effect. on the back of that, we have increased activities with our albanian allies. if i am confirmed as the commander, i will continue to pay close attention to the levels of our presence and the amount of interaction we have with our allies and our partners in the balkans. i think it is important. >> that is great to hear. to stay with the theme of partnerships, i am proud to represent the michigan national guard state partnerships in latvia as well as liberia, two programs that i expect well given your current position as commander of the u.s. army both in europe and africa. my question is if confirmed as commander of the most powerful alliance in the world, how will you leverage the national guard programs to achieve your objectives? >> senator, in my current role, we use and leverage state partnership programs every day. if i am confirmed, you will be able to add me to the list of combatant commanders who love the state partnership program.

europe needs gas, but russia needs money. so in that sense, you will not get into a situation where russia will just arbitrarily turn the gas off, because it needs a financial lifeline in order to sustain the economy and provide employment subsidies, social subsidies, et cetera. the situation in russia will be very difficult and very different tomorrow if those gas flows were cut off and the money stream was disrupted. so in that sense, there is a lot of bluffing. there is a game of brinksmanship, there's a game of chicken. it will play out over the summer when the energy market requires less volumes. it's a good time to play it. the hope here in moscow is that, as far as i can hear, that they hope all of this will be resolved and dusted and finalized before we get to the autumn delivery season. laura: that will be interesting. andreas, do you think the russia might lose this bluff? the e.u. is standing resolute, saying it's response is immediate and coordinated. is it going to be enough to wean themselves of precious fossil

this is europe talking about peace. this is europe talking about, of course, supporting ukraine. and this is europe talking about it's future because they are worrying about their future. the war and ukraine has really threatened all the old assumptions or what the future of this continent would look like. and in one of the early speeches here, then we already heard the sentence, that is the, the future of the world is being dominated, will be dominated by empires. and europe doesn't stand a chance if it doesn't, more or less become an empire. that means if it doesn't really become united and speak with 11 voice, if it won't be able to defend itself, if, if a won't be able to def, define its own policies. so this is really what is at stake here. and this is what ursula fund line will be speaking about because this is her task. she will have to lead europe at this point into this very uncertain and rather threatened future. and so just so we're clear this conference on the future of europe is vis a response to the war in ukraine or does bid this precede that. now it did, of course

. >> the countdown is on in europe. this is bloomberg markets: european close with guy johnson and alix steel. guy: 30 minutes to the close. this is what the price action looks in -- looks like in europe. nietzsche is having a good day. tech is not. but we are watching carefully what is happening on the others of the atlantic. the pound is on offer as well, but it had a strong day yesterday. i will talk you through the inflation narrative in a moment. we haven't had this inflation since 1974. that was quite some time ago. in terms of the bond market, german 10 year yields on offer a little bit. we are seeing bond prices come up just a touch. but i think central banks are as confused as anyone else by the story. we will talk about the european data in just a moment. alix: part of that might be the bid coming into the bond market in the u.s. as a stocks rollover. the nasdaq 100 up by over 2%. pretty good to is here with the latest. >> this is interesting, because this is coming off of a strong rally yesterday. to see it a

the turning point in history requires that in europe, we think beyond just a day. and we will also be following the many good doctor proposals that the european citizens gave us as part of the future conference and europe day that we presented their proposals. all gonna give us a monopoly, your chin citizen, just want to have a more efficient european union that is closer to the citizens and of it. we'll be focusing on this. many of the proposals are very specific. one doesn't want us to make moral progress with european union that with the environment rather, they want a better progress with defense capacity cap abilities and closer ties within your don't. many of these things can be put into practice quickly. that's good office, healy dean. only this is also true for many of the ideas about making the european union indian more efficient. for example, in the council having majority decisions and in recent weeks and months, i have seen that this idea is and is becoming more and more popular and verify that and where necessary. we could talk about an amendment of t

in addition, we added another 5-6 pcm of gas to europe. dani: have your customers been reaching out to you concerned, trying to secure more supply? anders: yes. we have constantly, customers talking about securing supply from us. we are in a very good dialogue. we have been relied on for decades to europe and for us it is important to deliver gas at the same level as we do at the moment for now, but also to be a reliable provider of gas in the future, meaning we will have to also continue exploring in the continental shelf to make sure we can keep up the level of production we have today. francine: you are sitting on a lot of cash. what will you do with the cash? given a lot of countries in europe are trying to stop their reliance on russian gas and oil, what does this mean for the transition? anders: for the cash, we are investing in our future. we have an attractive portfolio within oil and gas but also within renewables, particularly in the u.k. where we are investing in the world's biggest offshore wind park. it is important that we ar

between nato and europe. that is the reason why we made it clear that we will support ukraine to uphold the rights for self-defense and -- enshrined in the u.n. charter, but nato will not be part of the war. we will not send in nato troops on the ground. support, yes, not be directly involved. also the reason why we saw -- we so significantly have increased our military presence, especially in the eastern part of the alliance, there are 30% more u.s. troops in europe now. we have 40,000 troops under nato command in the eastern part of the alliance. significantly increased over the last month since the invasion. and we have significant air and naval presence. this is not to provoke. this is to make sure that there is no room for any miscalculation in moscow about nato's ability to protect every ally so they don't think about attacking a baltic country or another nato ally. as long as they are certain that the whole of nato will come to the defense of any ally, one for all, all for one, a core of nato, then the

and sending them by pipeline into europe. because europe,. [inaudible] it takes a very long time for the upper section but if you like we're on it. but because it takes a long time and with regret it will be necessary, it will be necessary to rely on fossil fuels longer than we ever expected to do so when we signed, when everyone signed that commitment. but that doesn't mean we are not constantly trying, constantly trying to reduce that dependency and find ways of turning it to our advantage over all. but i think it's one of those curves that goes down before it goes up because of the situation. the other thing i would like to put on the table in the auto context is the government. i do think there are many more ways that some of the gulf countries could be helpful to the world fuel supplies. >> mr. ambassador? >> there's one country in europe which will actually become entirely independent of russian gas, namely polen. we made a bold decision many years ago to render our country independent of imports of raw materials. one hand, and so many

a think tank dedicated to public policy in france and europe versus lab. how do you explain rushers resilient economy despite the string of unprecedented western sanctions? yeah, as you mentioned in your coverage. so it's been a much better than expected. so i would like to stress that russian oil and gas low grow and so still, despite all the conversation about implementing strong, better than not helping stopping or actually goals, then despite the fact be dependent on the russian get why and europe is very high. so it over the russian market in europe, all the 30 percent and even now, just about 40 percent. and some countries like central to europe, it's more than 80 percent and gas balance covered by russia. we've been that it's not easy actually. it's a great one. just talk, flowing and the buying and having some trading relationship. so in this, by the oldest press, all this political now just political dispute. it give more to the market. it's very nervous about the, you know, stopping, and then the just, you know, not having russian supply and pres

europe has to defend europe. as mrs. america does. >> i'm a -- believer that says nations should spend at least 20% on modernization. -- it is a great moment, if confirmed part of rado will be to help diplomats and the agency of the united states to convert those good intentions into facts. >> what about legislation i'm working on? >> i would rather not comment on legislation if you don't mind. >> thank you. >> thank you, senators sylvan. --- sullivan. >> thank you. i ask the following questions. since you became an illegal -- a legal dult have you had any sexual requests or -- ? >> no. >> -- what countries are taking in the millions of refugees from ukraine? >> that is an amazing story and heartwarming. as you know, early on, my command was directed to prepare for assistance for americans coming out. but we anticipated needing to help with the refugees. we correctly anticipated about 6 million refugees in europe. it was unnecessary. the people of poland, romania, hungary and slovakia have opened their doors and hearts t

for example, the western europe. it's all kinds who are involved in gauged me, accession process focus and that needs to continue. their vocation is clear, quickly, almost, but we obviously festival context as you're pretty t also need given the new geopolitical context left well to find help, a way to see ability ah, your little to ensure that it's unified and stifle a better without under nathaniel making the intimacy within the european union, more fragile to leak. we have a historic 2nd one, a duty here, not to do things that the way that we've always done and to say the only response is obsession and fictional is to look at that. we need to do that mocking of some is open up a historic and process of reflection given the events that are currently locked, taking place on the construction of our continent community. i don't need thought of. ah, family who can say is always one of common values. it's been abandoned by russia. we only begin melody. stella. we are being shaken by the tides of history. a clever enough

of a post-war europe but that overlooks the reality of europe at the stage in the war if we look at the blue on the east side of the map. this is all the red army. occupies and controls and this is going to be the thing that's going to shape. the european settlement much more than whether or not the americans take berlin or the soviets. take berlin because what truman's going to have to wrestle with. is the reality of the auto agreement in this conference happened in february of 1945 and it's between roosevelt who seated in the middle? churchill who is on the screen's left roosevelt's right and stalin who's on the screen's right roosevelt's left. this is the big three and they're coming to discuss what a post-war europe is going to look like who is going to be responsible for occupying which countries and what are these occupied countries? going to do how do we move them from liberated and occupied? to autonomous and independent and one of the things that the alta conference codifies is self-determination that the countries of a newly liberated europe. should be able to determine their

it is the linchpin of security in europe. when i, mary sarotte, read that in the documents almost fell out of my chair because it's incredibly prescient. president clint was saying we need to offer birth to ukraine and we can't just put ukraine in nato in 1983. so, this partnership for peace is great because it doesn't draw you line it off for his birth for ukraine. which, by the, way have been born nuclear. it had so much of the soviet nuclear arsenal of territory, that on the day of independence, it was the third largest nuclear power in the world. -- around the world. so, he wanted to do something for ukraine. this was an approach that i think would've made more sense then, was a perfect now at the time. people hated it because it was not a sexy has expanded nato. the polls really despised, the checks as well. they really wanted to get to the nato, which is understandable. and as a new sovereign democracy they had that right. but they had a huge advantage, it was minimally acceptable to all stakeholders. so, it actually st

your lover deluge your refugees coming to europe, coming to europe from syria and again in syria. i mean to sit here in this problem was going on. i mean, again, girlfriend of india, but we'll continue to recognize bush out because we believe many of the people supported by the united states and by the rest of nato, were people who were one day i've seen that the same people who are all guys on ices after a couple of weeks, they go back and reconsider like, get replenished, get money, and then after a few weeks, this look back into being ok then isis. all this has been happening. so this is not the 1st time that nato is making a horrible mistake. now speaking about consequences of those decisions. i think one of the things that separates these conflicts from all the others is that american population at home can already feel the pain of sanctions because prices are going on. there is an interest in fuel prices. there are some of the price increases. do you think the american populace, the american democracy in the state? because people are affected, the thing, it can be policy of

there are a lot of the supplier, you'll see europe. so if he has a plan, is probably already backfired time the russian economy withstand the loss of so much energy revenue. well, the thing at the moment of course, is that it's when you talk about revenue, the price is so high that the volumes for the revenue still remains quite high. and in fact, in the last 6 months, natural gas in ports of huge amounts of money and in the past, they used to be very much 2nd, 2nd place to oil. again, the price is also high, but russia is trading. it's a very significant discount at the moment, but it is finding buyers, i think over the longer term. this will start to have a major impact on the russian economy. it will take time for russia. syrup final turn into sources of supply, and it will be costly and difficult for russia to find a solid markets restoril. so i would think, you know, over the long term period this would really stop the impact on the russian economy . you say that russia is finding buyers where all those buyers, china, that they're

so, for western europe, for europe, where the price is, the price is being much greater. europe is shooting itself in the foot. i think the, the dramatic expansion in the production of cheryl gatson, united states, is literally as leveled off. so do i think that europe could cope without russia? i guess i think the answer is no. it, it won't be able to, it will be able to impart by bringing and gas from the united states as it's currently drilling and trying to expand whether or not with success in l n. j, from the united states at higher cost. i guess that can be bought from russia. so there's a cost to the european economy. notice belonged in longer term deals. ok to another part of the world, the pakistan where thousands poured onto the streets of ram comes home town on friday as people continue to show to support the former pakistani prime minister who was arrested last month addressing the cried mister can once again reiterated his claim that the current government was imposed by the united states quote, the prime industry is also calling for new election saying to be the main demand o

this could be a wake up call for europe, not just in europe. it could be a wake up call for europe to also look at ation. india has so far defended its neutrality over the war and ukraine as it maintains close times with moscow. ukraine has been a central topic of discussion between the indian administration and western counterparts for the past 2 months. in the top. diplomat has insisted that his country needs to rid itself of the idea that a foreign power could define new deli policies as it should not need to seek approval from the west. we got reaction from a former senior official in the indian foreign ministry who pointed out numerous tragedies in asia that were ignored by europe. we are being given summons about how we should behave and i think the minister gash and go was right to point out that they showed me more prices, whether it vanished on the problem or for dinner isn't and to which the europe in countries paid no attention not the concerns of the asian country each. so i think that he was quite right in pointing out that if not

troops in europe now. we have 40,000 troops under direct nato command in the eastern part of the alliance, significantly increased over the last month since the invasion. and we have significant air and naval presence. this is not to provoke, this is to make sure that there is no room for any miscalculation in moscow about nato's readiness to protect every nato ally, so they don't think about attacking a baltic country or another nato ally.ve as long as they are absolutely certain that the whole of nato will come to the defense of any ally, one for all, all for one the core of the nato then they won't attack. so then we are preventing war and preserving peace. and that's the reason why we have strengthened our deterrence to preserve peace. >> thank you. last question. we just heard the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, talk about europe's and the eu's response to the war by unity and support. how do you feel about the prospects for a closer cooperation between nato and the eu on s

she'll become a bridge between europe and russia. ah, come into your life from i had was it in the russian capital? you're watching r t. my name is peter scott and here are the top stories this hour. we start with breaking news coming out of the u. s. states of texas where at least 18 children have been killed in a mash shooting as an elementary school. it's believed officers responding to the incidents also shot and killed the suspects identified as 18 year old salvador ramos. he entered the school with a 100 and possibly a rifle report. the shooting is a grandmother as well. who is currently in a critical condition will have full details on this later in the program. ah brushes, opening a humanitarian card or for foreign vessels from the ports of marty you pull this morning. that's after the cities waters were cleared of mines. now the mining works are also in progress of the territory of the as of steel plans, which is now under full control of the joint russian underneath forces of the final ukrainian soldiers there surrendered l

, ukraine, to europe. so it was by suspending russian gas trans it through a key a former french soldier, russell's western media, by claiming he saw ukraine's radical ease off battalion torture and murder captured russian groups. he's off fighters were everywhere displaying nazi symbols. you know what they talked about in front of me. they left saying that if they see jews or black people, they would skin them. a lot fear authorizes a demolition of a prominent world war 2 era memorial to soviet soldiers, amid a conflict between luffy and authorities and residence over commemorations of the monument the mid day and cato midnight in jakarta. and in the evening right here in moscow, welcome to the global news updates on our team. the russian foreign ministry sees it will take steps to eliminate any threats caused by nature expansion, including quote, military technical measures. thus after a finished leaders call for nato membership without delay. the statement by the president of finland is a radical change

so for western europe, europe where the price is, the price is being much greater. europe is shooting itself of the foot. i think the, the dramatic expansion in the production of shale gas and united states is literally as leveled off. so do i think that europe could cope without russian gas? i think the answer is no. it, it won't be able to, it will be able to impart by bringing and gas from the united states as it's currently drilling and trying to expand whether or not with success in l n. j, from the united states at higher cost. the guess that can be bought from russia. so there's a cost to the european economy most belonged in longer term deals. the number of people killed in a hotel explosion and the cuban capital has reportedly reached 25. the incident happened on friday with a gas leak, named as a potential cause of the blast. the 5 star hotels not been close to tourist, at the time with renovation happening when the explosion went off, the emergency services remain up the sites. it's unclear whether more victims may be trumped into the debris. k to the other side of the worl

we won't immediately draw new line between article five europe and non-article five europe. and by the way vaccination for nine need experts, article five is a a heart of the nato treaty. it's the article that refers to every member state treating an attack on one as an attack on all. it's one of the most powerful military guarantees in history. so before we get into a lot of places we will have this aids in process to make sure they're interoperable to make sure that civilian control over the military and so forth. president clinton initially agrees. he says yes, that is a a good fit for vision of your. i president clinton are conscious of the fact that i have an unbelievable chance the first time in millennia to actually create a peaceful order in europe. i don't think i should just draw a new article five line across europe right away. i think that we should do this diffuse method, not least because that opens up possibilities to post-soviet states. against this is also president clinton and president clinton said i'm really concerned that post-soviet states are being for

and europe. earnings have done reasonably well. and importantly, valuations have come down sharply, particularly around the -- outside the u.s. europe is trading lower than its average, u.k. trading around 10 and a half times earnings. dividends are high-end balance sheets are strong, so there is some support i think. tom: examples of support are out there. let's stick to that six to 12 month timeline, where would that take you on a sector by sector basis? or to be more bold, do you look to even add technology at this point? peter: we have been in favor of value sectors for some time now, believing that higher inflation expectations and rates would generally leave to a derating of the longest duration parts of the market, and provide some relief for some like garden areas from the previous cycle. but i think it is increasingly the wrong way to look at the market as a prison up the split between growth and value. we see value beginning to emerge across a range of different sectors now, and we have a much more diversified approach. w

so our security environment in, in europe and also in northern europe, europe, it has changed. ah, it's now more insecure. and i think this, this move or to increase our corporation and become member of, oh, nato is the right step. the alliance has always made clear to finland and sweden. there's a place for them here, room for more flags and some offices that could use new tenants. but as some of the most wealthy well equipped countries in europe, these new nordic members would feel much more important gaps than those sweden, england bring difference. assets to nato. finland famously brings the ability to guard a barren lat long land border with russia. we even brings a 500 year old navy and a navy that is among the largest in the baltic sea where we should remember. nathan doesn't have very many large mabis. accepting the 2 country should be a no brainer for nato says. former finish prime minister alexander stood that morning to compatible the most nato member states himself, so deck fiddler as an example. we always spent about 2 percent of our g, d, p on military ah, expendi

in eastern europe, portugal, and on the classic trains of europe, ordinary tickets are very cheap. and, in luxembourg, all public transport is free. so, how to make the most often interrail pass? of an interrail pass? i'm going to meet the railway historian and writer, christian wolmar. christian, i give you a interrail pass valid for one month — the traditional, original interrail. where are you going to go? oh, i am going to the farther reaches of eastern europe, you know, into kind of deep forest, you would probably see some bears. you'll go to the back end of romania, the odd places in bulgaria — all those places which, you know, were closed to us until the fall of the berlin wall, and are still somewhat mysterious. we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of interrail, but isn't itjust a bit of railway nostalgia? very relevant today in terms of the greenness, the sustainability, and also that wonderful thing, slow travel. you know, we don't want to kind of have to rush everywhere, go to some ghastly airport. whereas, on the train, you go there slowly, and the scenery changes

in europe as well. i don't think the $800 billion fund is going to be enough to alleviate what is clearly an energy crisis which they have no response to. otherwise all of that money, all those many trillions is just going to be wasted. and for what? alix: when we going to know if the cure will be worse than the onus? assuming we do not get what you want your governments to do, does the cure look worse than the old list? marcus: i can fairly say i can bet i will not going -- i'm not going to get this. this is the problem. if you keep hiking interest rates and talk about doing it and quantitative tightening at the same time the fed is doing, that may seem wise for the u.s. economy, and it is devastating for the rest of the world. you can see this in the euro and sterling and yen prices. the big economies around the world are suffering at the expense of an over-strong dollar. at some point the fed is going to stress test the u.s. economy too much. guy: let's talk about communication and that stress test g

the question is, europe helping modernized, shy in us army? we joined a team of investigative journalists of uncovered links between european academia and chinese universities that are fostering a fusion between the military and self civil society. ah, i'm gab elvis, thanks for joining us. the united nations says air the war in ukraine could make a global food crisis, much worse, leading to hunger and famine that could last year's speaking as a major un summit in new york secretary general antonio terrace said, russia's invasion of ukraine was the latest factor driving global food insecurity on top of the pandemic and global warming, with harris said he was an intense contacts with russia and other countries. to address this situation. there is no effective solution to the food crazes without reading the grade. think ukraine's woods with action, as well as the food and fertilizer products produced by russian bellows into world markets. despite the war, russia must permit the safe and secure exports of great install the new canadian ports. alte

, not just in europe. it could be a wake up call for europe to also look at asian india has i find a friend that is neutrality over the war in ukraine is it maintained close ties with moscow? ukraine has been essential topic of discussion between the indian administration on western counterparts for the past few months and he has top diploma has insisted that insisted that his country is to rid itself of the idea that a foreign power could define new deli policies as it should not need to seek approval from the west. we got reaction from a former senior official in india's foreign ministry. we are being given summons about how we should behave. and i think the minister should go was right to point out that the show me more prices, whether it goes on the song on the problem or for dinner ism, and to which europe in countries paid no attention, not the concerns of the asian country each. so i think that he was quite right in pointing out that if not the re country looks at the problem from the perspective of

how do we get from a non-integrated europe to an integrated europe in this new europe? >> this is a conversation that needs to happen and it's excellent. it's going to be difficult to do that in the current moment. even getting to some sort of idea of how their will be a negotiated sentiment, the unity across the west and the drive-by finland and sweden potentially to move into nato means the unintended consequence of all of this could be a hardening of a line between east and the west that will stay with us for a lot longer than this war. that would do none of us any favors as we look ahead. tom: the general talked about our holiday from history. we have gotten used to the end of the holiday for those what you watching from london? >> there are multiple things we are watching. we are watching the fight on the ground as moved to the east. are we seeing a serious conversation on how to bring this war to a close? most people are pessimistic how it's running. they say could run for several yields. what will the stated goal be? that will require some indication that russia

the see if you don't want to go to europe is seen and beyond all europe. there are clearly important social, international questions. and these months are important, where germany is ensuring the presidency of the free 7 am to france to the european council. i welcome our perfect coordination, but this regard it, we are mon, coordinating, beyond the europeans to be perfectly commendable, committed together with all our fellow allies and powers of the g 7 faced with the war in ukraine where a corporal carrying out little coordination from an energy point of view, as well as to have a good response in terms of world food security, which is put in danger by the russian war and ukraine, germany, france of launched and initiative would really much in this field. monday for our president says to bring forward the food projects on a world level or so pursuing our cooperation on gives you an international subjects, including relations with china, will have the opportunity to speak with the president of china in the next few hours he gets you as well as the quest s

that is the system for delivering it's gas to europe. but could those pipelines be coming into play with 2 major transit pipelines, cross ukraine to europe, so use and brotherhood. a gas volumes through them are through both of them are now becoming a bit harder to pin down due to the war. and the so use pipeline runs through the loo, hans region and eastern ukraine, which is now occupied by russian forces. ukraine announced last week that it would suspend gas transit at one of the pipelines hubs to stop service to that occupied area. on the stoppage effects at most, one 3rd of the gas supplied to europe flowing via ukraine. but russian gas also flows from other directions. europe only gets about 30 percent of its total gas via transit and ukraine. and there are workarounds available or for more or less. let's go to our corresponding keith. funny fashion. a funny. do we have any more clarity on exactly why there was this stoppage at this point in the pipeline that is going through ukraine. so the picture to ukraine is quite clear, they s

if europe isn't buying it, someone else, well, the ordinary people of europe will be paying that price. not a single ukrainian life will be saved. with unity among the each member states is being challenged by their failure to agree on new sanctions against the russian energy sector. with hungry speaking out against the proposed e bound on russian fuel imports, while italian and greek officials have also emphasized that it's european citizens who be the most effective we are in a war economy in this war economy. some countries will be much more affected by these energy choices than others. we in europe know perfectly well that we are not able to impose sanctions, that will ultimately harm us more that russia and greece insists on this position. the discord comes amid plans to make the e u independent of russian energy with the block due to restart its attempts to cut gas in for the next week. a proposed program would c e o members with sufficient energy sources resources such as spain. then being forced to share supplies with fellow use states a need. brussels also plans to demand ener

off europe is again, is very special needs. and under my under alliance, our strong relations and credit on stuff. in neural police didn't i for, to the colors and under augustine, and also in thought and symbols are in the colors of ukraine in crowns in the eiffel tower. for example, only europe in 2000. thank you. me wanted to look at the time of the pon, fleming. i used to be the strongest challenge. no one could have imagined that they the praise all through a rope or could have been broken by the invasion of the train. the fact that the european and labor, the country had bill quarterly attacked and millions of people are having to flee. and it was, i'm surprised, facing the recession is very much sure putting us together because they have to react and act together. and at the same time, we are, one's us only targeted when on the i not of the shock symbol. and so our solidarity and the unit he grows together is double chassis europeans and in the chance of land lake community. in these days, the are again a rare about the

the thing is, the caveat is that was supposed to be good for europe. it's not good for europe and it's actually bad for the west in general. go ahead philip. yeah, this is one of the great mysteries. and this is, as i said before, i mean the most incredible con job because this whole thing is being sold on the basis of, of the, to a crunch word, you know, freedom and democracy. once you get below that level, you see that there is absolutely no reason for any of this happening. taken place and all that. this was a negotiable issue over a number of years. yes. that the west and the united pushed by the united states was, was not interested in negotiating. and does so, we have had this situation where it will be the american people, the europeans, will suffer more than the russians and her russia will not to go through regime change. so it's going to be an endless, endless conflict. as i said in the beginning to weaken russia, whatever that is supposed to mean as a competitor, as a, as a force for a non american perspective of what the world is and should

a europe heavily dependent to germany in particular, few other countries. i've been coming back to you. what sort of reaction are you hearing from the delegates there in dub was to the discussions about supporting ukraine in his reconstruction efforts. maybe not so much on the military side, but there is talk of a monumental, a colossal task of that was the word that both zalinski and on the line used in trying to rebuild the country. that's going to require an, a monumental amount of capital. a lot of help from outside, what are you hearing from the business community? they are represented in doubles and, and of course a country leaders of different countries as well. when it comes to tackling that task. well, it would literally be like the commission president said, rising, you crime from the ashes? that country it has been reduced to rubble in so many places in so many towns and cities. i was talking to a doctor yesterday from mary opal who left her hospital and walked 20 kilometers through rubble and shelling to then be picked up and rescued and taken o