inflation? there are different ways to look at this. so for americans it means the hiring continues, 263,000 jobs and it was pretty broad-based hiring, but when you look at the trend, poppy, it is the slowest pace of hiring since about april 2021, it matches april 2021. so when you look at that nice bar chart you can see slowing jobs growth and that s exactly what the fed is looking for. it s been raising interest rates now for six months and it actually takes about six months for monetary policy to effect these kind of economic statistics. back in march raised interest rates 25 basis points, now this is where we are in september. but the jobless rate fell back to near that 50-year low of 3.5%. that s near full employment and we ve seen from other statistics people who want a job have a couple of jobs to choose from really in this economy here. so 3.5% still low across the board hiring. leisure and hospitality 83,000, health care 60,000. now you are back to pre-pandemic lev
reporter: the chaos of ukraine s front lines through the eyes of a wagner mercenary. legs, guts, arms, boys, it is all this stuff. reporter: a video shared exclusively with cnn by a member of vladimir putin s so-called private army. one of those has seen enough. i m sorry, bro. i m sorry. reporter: a far cry from the slick propaganda used by wagner to entice recruits to dep pleating russian front lines. long kept in the shadows by moscow, the elite para military group or the muse icians news lionized for their role in the russia. like the surrender of afa stoll and initially making all of the difference to moscow according to this former wagner commander.
in reducing the global supply of energy. the immediate effect would be to raise prices at the pump for americans. and also to pad russian profits with rising prices. so we ve been carving out payments for energy trade and transport from the sanctions that we ve been inlaying but we have a strong interest in degrading russia s status as a leading energy supplier over time. this is a profound shift. that is why nord stream 2 was shut down. that is why we re surging lng to europe right now. to help accelerate its diversification away from russian gas. it is why we re denying critical technologies to russia for further energy exploration going forward through the export controls we put in place. this is part of a process to reduce reliance, dependence on russian energy. so, that is where our focus is. but again as i said, we re
trying to help europe with getting off dependence on russian oil which is providing huge income to vrld vld to continue this war. and he said no strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy. the united states has no strategic interest in reducing the global supply, driving up prices in russia and padding their profits obviously. and then dep pleating the supply elsewhere. so clearly this is something of a last resort. nothing they ve been entertaining over the last several months because it would jack up prices in the united states potentially effecting the president and his administration politically and it is just not feasible for them to completely sanction the sector because of how reliant europe is on russian oil and gas. now, what did he mention there, which was a key kind of victory that the united states has been promoting, is the destruction,