Good evening. This is John Bachelor. To not on the show, attention again to bricks meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Emphasizing that the bricks is not a cohesive organization as we understand it regionally, or borders, or same continent, or even same hemisphere.

It's an ambition, however, to put together not only these five nations, but additions that begin to describe the global South.

The global South is at risk because of migration, because of climate change, because there's weak governance generally speaking in the global South, where once upon a time the European colonial empires exploited natural resources, and abused the leadership that existed in the global South.

The sovereignty question remains unsolved in many instances, many borders in South America, Central America, Africa, and Asia.

Also attention tonight to what we know, what we can say, about the migrants come to New York City, speaking with Win Hogan of the City, an online journal.

The mayor, the governor, and the federal government, all levels, are overwhelmed. The planning was inadequate for the numbers that have arrived and are arriving in New York City.

In one instance, the young people who arrived here, one Sudanese young man said, he was in San Diego in a homeless shelter. For two months and was told, go to New York, there's work there for you, there's jobs, they'll take care of you.

He arrived and when, when Hogan talked to him, he was on the street waiting and hoping to get attention.

The city is upgrading all of its facilities, but that means large tents with hundreds of people, migrants, crowded in together.

The city has for many decades had a mandate to shelter whoever needs it, and that is overwhelming the city's ability to find space, to expand, to feed, to take care of people.

And there's no end to this because they cannot work legally. They've come to New York as in a hope, but it's a dead end right now for policy.

Also tonight, a conversation about Russia, now gripped with the assassination or apparent assassination of leaders of a mutiny earlier this year, but in underneath this is the Russian economy profoundly troubled by sanctions, and the decision by the Putin regime to bludgeon Europe,

making demands, attacking Ukraine, and expecting Europe to buy its natural gas and oil. No, Russia has to sell or must sell to India and China.

What does it get in return? Unclear at this moment, although there's speculation that China is increasing its trade with Russia, and that trade includes such as trench digging equipment and microchips, both of which are applicable in warfare.

Also, a conversation about Iran, Iran's representatives in Moscow to discuss collaboration, cooperation, collegiality working together with Russia's military, not only missiles, not only drones, but also ground troops, special forces.

And a conversation with Victor Davis Hansen about the unusual reasoning of the President of the United States for his objectives, which he claims have never been failed, have never failed.

Victor asked a series of questions from Afghanistan to the border to the Department of Justice and asked, where is the success here?

It's a provocative recitation of the President's presentation of success when, to all apparent observations, it's either not a failure or not concluded yet.

And finally tonight a conversation with David Margolin, who traveled to Moscow right before the war started, to seek out the burial place of his great-grandfather Solomon.

Solomon was a Communist Party member, comes from Irkutsk, where his father and his grandfather made a great success of farming.

In Moscow during the revolution he joined the Communist Party as his older brother Mikhail, and in Stalin's purge of 1937-38 both were identified as counter-revolutionaries, quite fantastic.

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