the public statements ukraine hasn't been mentioned asshole. however, a backstage behind closed doors. ukraine has been the biggest of what we've been told that by several different sources. now, here at the gas exporters are some, it is very much been about what if, how do we get a gas into europe if there are sanctions against russia, or if russia actually stopped supplying europe. now russia is a huge supplier to europe, 50 percent of the domestic needs of germany, for example, are supplied by russia. that's going to increase when the node stream to pipeline comes into effect is what russia is very much involved in europe's gas market. so there is a lot of technical tool or what we're being told a by ministry of foreign affairs sources here and cattle. is that a cattle is encouraging. western european nations to look to their asian allies, are to be able to supply them with gas if something like that happens. so worry

also hearing that that's what's the idea about this, this particular summit, sorry, much about the technical side of it, not the political side of it. it's not as easy as just putting gas on to a ship and sending it into europe. there are 2520 year deals being made. there are agreements that already been signed that cattle, for example, and trend and spago and mozambique and other gas exporters need to commit to. so whether they even have the spare capacity for that, but that's all behind closed doors. the declaration you just heard there from the energy minister was very much about taking cattle, taking the gas exporters into the future, about the environment about it being a clean energy supply. so very much publicly, it's all about energy security and maintaining a constant supply of energy. ok, many thanks for that iran con, bear for us, even though ha,

okay, less get up to date with the fast moving developments in the ukraine crisis. russia's president vladimir putin have recognized to pro moscow breakaway regions of ukraine as independent republics. this led to the un security council holding an emergency meeting over night with most members criticizing moscow smooth the u. s. and the u . i expected to announce further sanctions on russia. later this tuesday, russia says it is acting to launch what a cause a peacekeeping mission, and to put an end to a bloodshed in the dispute division will properly what group the diploma you will remain open to diplomacy to a diplomatic solution growing. however, when allowing a blood bath and don bass is something we do not intend to do. unfortunately, we are forced to note the extremely negative role played in all of this by our

western colleagues. led by the us. that was, instead of forcing kia to implement its obligations, or they have instead been openly egging ukraine on so how has ukraine responded? he is what ukraine's ambassador had to say. the united nations is sick. that's a matter of fact. it's been he'd by the wires spread by the kremlin will lead to come to these wires. it is in the hands of the membership or one of russia's closest allies, was careful not to take sides during that security council session. china's ambassador called on all involved to avoid making things worse. katrina, you has more from beijing on tuesday, beijing sent out a statement warning all of its citizens in ukraine to try to avoid unstable areas,

but it stopped short of actually telling them to leave the country completely. unlike many other nations. no ton and recent weeks has criticized the us for what it says is hyping up. the threat of war. china has said that it believes that russia's security concerns all legitimate and the 2 countries all very close to pearson was justin beijing about 2 weeks ago. emphasizing the strength of his friendship with china and with she's in pain. but that doesn't necessarily mean that she didn't ping would welcome or support any war over ukraine. he's also has very good ties with. he has, and china very much relies on trade with europe. so china's ambassador to the ambassador to the un on tuesday. jung jones said that all policy should really return to dialogue and exercise restraint. we're going to shoot for the weekends on the current situation and ukraine is a result of many complex factors. china always makes its position according to the

merits of the matter itself. we believe that all countries should solve international disputes by peaceful means and in line with the purposes and principles of the un charter. we should certainly, beijing is watching what is happening in ukraine very, very closely and waiting to see how the international community responds to any possible invasion by russia. well let's look closely at the minsk project hole named off to blemishes capital where the talks began back in 2014. it was written by representatives of ukraine and russia's governments, as well as the organization for security and cooperation in europe, france and germany mediated fe, along with the latest off danielle and hans all signed the agreement about the fighting never actually stopped and a follow up agreement commence to also failed russia for its point argues it was never potty to the conflict, nor the terms of the mints agreements. or we spoke about the ongoing crisis with

monica butcher. keith, he is a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic councils, eurasia sent, and a full mis spokesman for the o. s. c. e. in europe. he says, developments of the last 24 hours a chilling this speech last night was nothing short of like curdling 8. it was coming from a man who i believe, had no intention of stopping at the so called frontline, dividing the occupied in government control areas of ukraine is the big fear here at the moment is that he will actually try to control of the other parts of lives can to that they basically control at the moment above one 3rd of 2 blocks. and then another possibility is to move further south and create that land bridge between russia proper and crimea. so this has a long way to play out, and i don't believe the sanctions out so far by the white house will do anything to determine if diplomacy was on the floor 2 days ago. i said it was in the basement

yesterday. it's down the drain. now, clearly put in, it's not listening to, you know, the day that the statements coming out of the road based international world. he's going to choose his own pass, and i think there should be a wake up call to the entire world that he is a thought that was to see his own way. that was to remake the international security structure of europe. it's again, a very, very chilling development. well, more from last night, 10, c, u and security council meeting washington's ambassador to the un dismissed the russian leaders claimed that his forces would have a peacekeeping role. he calls them peacekeepers. this is nonsense. we know what they really are in doing so he has put before the world a choice. we must meet the moment and we must not look away. history tells us that looking the other way in the face of such hostility will be

a far more costly pass. meanwhile, the british and master said rushes actions would have severe and far reaching consequences. an invasion of ukraine unleashes the forces of war, death, and destruction on the people of ukraine. the humanitarian impact will be terrible on civilians fleeing the fighting. we know that women and children will suffer most under some ins as life for us in the ukrainian capital, kiev, andrew. or what is the reaction been from ukrainian leadership to the developments of recent alice subdued fury would be one way of putting it. ukrainian politicians are trying to put sir,

a calm face on this, the president himself talking about a violation of sovereignty. that diplomacy would be the only way forward. he would stick with the peaceful and diplomatic way is how president le zalinski is putting it. but really, how far is that road of diplomacy go? because it would appear the vladimir putin as put a row block on that. and we're seeing now russian armory a move in to don yet. so there are reports now that there are further movements by russian forces within the self declared republics which um now are declared as an independent by moscow. and of course, sir, what's being said here in the capitol amongst the government is that effectively russia has legalized what is a ukranian territory? they've always referred to be diplomatic. so the a, to

a popular republics as temporary occupied territory are no longer temporary. it would seem so the question everyone is asking what across the board, particularly on social media, where you're seeing really, really angry responses of the question is, what is put into next? is this the 4 runner? we've seen all this of the false. busy flag operations, we've seen a fake incidence, and there's no doubt these a have been fake incidence like bombings like alleged incursions into russian territory. are they going to continue? is that going to be provocation along the contact line, the front line with heavier or armory being brought in now, by the russians? is the, the pretext now going to switch from those false like operation. so aligned from the rot from russia saying, we've already heard that they're going to be making moves towards

a peacekeeping mission. is that now going to be a reasoning for further military action as quite possible. and ukraine's message is we're not going to do anything. we're going to pursue diplomacy, but sooner or later, i could that reached reach its final a points because we're looking at now the columns of tanks, apparently multiple missile launches. this is not been confirmed, but reports of those sort of weapon weapons going into the both republics of the hans and also don yet at so what is going to happen with all the forces which are mounted 30000 troops, hundreds of aircraft or multiple missile launchers s $400.00 anti aircraft, m, that weapons all massed ants to the east,

which is the bella roost border. all of those mass they could be used in a pencil operation. and we've also got the, the russian navy and considerable force. busy at least 2 large landing craft in the sea of aus off off mary paul. all assembled that effectively and exclusion zone in place there. so you have the navy in place, you have the army in place. you have aircraft apparently fueled up according to us and british intelligence. the word was out 12 hours ago that vladimir putin could press the button for an all else invasion of ukraine at any time. now we've heard this so many times, but now we have some sort of timeline playing out. will it stop when the next few hours with a declaration computing that the he wants can nations as there isn't concessions and he'll make further moves. this is, i'm, though, it's, it's to some degree speculation, but in form speculation, or is there

a cut cut off point? could there be, as some military strategist or speculating, could be a cut off point somewhere beyond the separation line that would but basically go across the country, south of, of, of, of, of sort of major, major cities. but taking in mario poll report, and also possibly one theory that odessa could be involved as well. could it cuts off the whole coastline, making ukraine landlocked is sounds far fetched, but it is possible that that could be in the mind of vladimir putin. and vitamin putin's mind is the only area where you could possibly predict what's going to happen because no one including his own generals, including his own people. no one knows what's going to happen next. as a cliche goes, because putin is the man who's going to make that decision. and there's some interesting comments yesterday from the spokesperson, ukrainian space person at the united nations security council. and saying that

ukraine will now find out who it's real friends are. and where will you crane now be turning to nato and the west and to make sure that they are really there for them. fair, fair ukraine? a very important question. and walnut zalinski wants an answer to you have heard him on, on saturday, the munich security conference, or making the point that look, we need friends, we need allies. he also using sometimes coded language. basically said look, why haven't we really had a seat at the table of the main negotiations because you've had this sort of twin track approach. you've had the u. s. dealing directly with moscow. you've had the u . s. the u. n. also dealing you've had a president, sir, a manual micron having this dialogue to the very last moment with person. but and

he actually mccrendon referred to stakeholders, announced that the stakeholders needing more involvement in, in the negotiation pro process. that was really, he was inferring there, that wasn't so much a stakeholder. it was a main player. that was lensky zelinski is feeling a bit better about the fact that he's had to have his own line of negotiations with, with moscow. whereas the big players have done their bit, zalinski was particularly annoyed that sir of the sanctions which have been much talked about sanctions from the u. k. from the u. s. from european union. he said, look, put him up front, you know, spell them out, get straight there with this is going to happen. boots in, if you go much further, militarily that hasn't happened having talked about and, and so on and so forth. but that's, that's 11 area of many. he wants to know. he wants the cup to know the color of the money. he wants to know which countries will support him not just with, with,

with contributions, with what he described on saturday in the unix joe to conference us. like don't money like, you know, he's very grateful for it whole, but we're not a charity. he was more or less saying, so what, what, what ukraine wants is who's going to actually be on the ground sporting is when the answer is not many people at all, maybe later on. but this is obviously such a crisis for europe, not just ukraine. and he is saying, and he did say categorically that we are holding by one of the strongest armies in the world. and that's the truth right now. you, you could have that russian army right face to face with ukrainian army and that is so, so serious, you have a 150000 troops, nettie engaged in, surrounding this country. you have a navy poised, ready to use landing ships if, if need be. busy you have in better ways such a large number of troops and weaponry, extending what was a,

an exercise with, with armory and troops coming all the way from the far east. that doesn't normally happen for an exercise. but 10 days. surprise, surprise, that's been extended. and then suddenly this navy exercise in the sea a vessel which was not expected. so yes, this is a major stand off. it's probably the most serious points in many, many years of european history. and certainly the biggest assembly of troops surrounding a european country. since the 2nd world war, many thanks to that angie simmons that 1st in the ukrainian capital key f ah let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines. shrine cas,

as it's open to discussions with the international monetary fund as it faces its worst economic crisis in years. the countries out of cash to buy fuel as pumps in most filling stations have one dry. people are also facing shortages of milk, powder, cooking gas, and albert essentials. foreign exchange reserves have plummeted to $2360000000.00 a political leader, nicaragua has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for conspiring to destabilize the country. victor hugo tellico was one of dozens of opposition leaders who president daniel ortega ordered to be arrested last year. those arrest cleared the way for take her to be re elected virtually unopposed. clinico was deputy foreign affairs minister in 1979. the latest split from ortega, journalist, and mexico, calling on the present to stop verbally attacking them. falling a wave of violence against news media workers. 5 journalists have been killed in

attack. so far this year. manuel rattler reports from mexico city book. these are news professionals in mexico, protesting violence against journalists. the protests of marc ripped between journalists and mexico's president and this manuel lopez over the other. one of the for the, during a press conference with the president reporters staged a silent demonstration over the growing list of slain journalists, kelsey. and let's get in. we have to know, but if he didn't, we would like to abstain from asking questions, was like a weapon, bringing new coverage of gas producing, calling frontier. and i hope i have met to discuss the future, the energy source under the shadow of the claim, crime threatening global supplies, less listening to the closing media. clean and reliable source of energy to satisfy the growing world energy needs and to address climate change. the summit also encourage the expanded use of natural gas to address the gap in achieving the un

sustainable development goal number 7, and to have the most vulnerable around the world. notably those without the access to more than energy sources. it also results to strengthen the environmental credentials of natural gas through efforts to reduce gas flaring and meet then emissions, and the development of echo for these technologies, including cars and capture utilization and storage police to join to be joined by his excellency mister part of the minister of petroleum and mineral resources of egypt, and the president of the forums, ministerial meeting, and 2022 and his accidents, him, i have met him on the secretary of the g. c, f. we will take your questions and i'll have tickets from here. all right, thank your excellency. we will now move to the remarks of the excellency article

one, lead the minister of petroleum and mineral resources of the arabic republic of egypt . thank you. black men or him near noali can milan well below my dish member tobacco? i don't have a particular thing to say i'll, i'll says something in arabic at the beginning. i mean, there was a big honor for us to me. be here with the, his highness, the amelia of the sate of guitar. that is at hand. this is a very important summit, dual and full. the heads of government states of the gas exporting come has forum g e sierra. it was very important the conference and as his excellency, my brother said, the cabby band said the summary of the final declaration of the summit. murder.

fact bill is not very likely issue to be the maximum usage of natural gas and her command her own. what has been mentioned by my brother, the minister, and we spoke about the importance of natural gas and an initiative will be launched and went through the forum and men in a climate change a he summit in transit, in the coming november in egypt. and this goes in accordance with the mom, her sustainable targets and goals are when it comes to the natural gas and as well, and the air outcome clinical customer business over the national climate change in income for us unaided. once again, thank you very much for our brothers in the center of cut out for this very successful conference and for the great hospitality we received it. thank you and see we will now move to the remarks of his excellent theme. i met him on the

secretary general of the gas exporting countries. foreign g, c, f. thank you very much. ursula, my local monumental law had the hello america to face be of dawn. you old. a very warm welcome or on behalf of the gus exporting countries forum. at the outset the i would like to express my thanks and gratitude to his highness shake them in. been hammered, the 30, the amid of the state of arthur. and to the people of utter for the excellent arrangements and warm hospitality of the 6 dcf summit as the g c, f, verses thaddeus berman at home base at thus continued support to the forum is extremely valuable. i wish to thank his excellency saturated that kettle cabby, minister of state for energy affairs, for always facilitating the g. c. f. my opposition also garza to his excellency thought amolla,

minister of petroleum and minute under the sources of the arab republic of egypt. for president of the g. c. f. in 2022. an important year for edge ift as it will host the $24.00 g. c. f ministerial meeting in the same month as the all important cop 27 in november. the 6th sir. g. s. yes. summit the marked a great success in the 20 year. his story of the g. c. f. we were honored by the presence of head of state and government and ministers from 19 countries. as you made a corridor the 1st year it's yes i met was held in 2011 in this city of the ha and a decade late that the 6 d. c. f. summit was an occasion to celebrate the great progress of natural gas at the, in that dime, natural gas, is it global demand increased by 23 percent and its share in the global energy mix expanded. meanwhile, natural gas infrastructure extended into new countries and new regions. while

markets became more global and interconnected, and these are good news. the 6 i met also and aligned the great contribution of natural gas. and it's that zillions in the face of the pandemic crisis. natural gas had keep lights on homes, warm hospitals functioning, and the economy running the summit also delivered a powerful and comprehensive declaration that though had declaration reflecting the spirit of corporation among the g, a, c, f member countries. the declaration is that are all dom up for us in the secretariat to achieve more successes, increase its validity visibility, attract new members. extent corporation and technology support member countries in move to latino negotiations. in particular in relation to climate change. facilitate dialogue between producers and consumers and to broaden corporation with

relevant inter governmental organizations. so if i'm miss smith up in my view, the past few days have been an outstanding celebration of multilateralism and respectful dialogue. they reflect a profile to believe that the golden age of gus is still ahead of us, or to quote his excellency minister, the cabbie, the best is yet to come. and thank you very much. thank your excellencies, we will now be moving to the q. any session we'll be taking the 1st question from a f p please. the microphone is dead. thank something is wrong with the audio. okay, fair. you're just joining us sir. we're just watching at the end of for the 3 day

conference that has been hosted here in cas, are by be exporting gas producing nations or, and dough we heard there from cut as a mere, as well as the many other leaders or in cats are course the russia ukraine crisis are playing heavily on the minds of fir gas. exporting nations are because of the impact it could possibly have on european gas supplies. lots more news coming up at the top of the hour. if you want any more detail on any of our stories, or you can of course, refer to our web sites al jazeera dot com. yeah. so i think the oh, so if he just joining us, her cat, i was hosting at the leading gas producers in the region. let's have

a listen to the closing statements and i'm very bright. okay, more news at the top of the our come our santa maria will be here with the news our ah, in a notorious waterside community. what kinda sucks rule one theater director ventures to stage a play. there can be misused to him. how with the winning down that old man sitting right there with and redefine their status in society. misses and nigeria as women walk on water witness on al jazeera. ah allow government.

oh, ah, this is heading on here a couple of minutes early for this news hour. this is the current president low to mid savanski speaking in. yes. i suppose i'm right. or is or lose your, or the respect your one should. okay, you, me a lot of the week, i think with escalation a guy, i guess you're quite a challenge. not only for you frame book, for the, with the well dish as a whole ukraine. darcy, new security girls are you will be with you and the world cannot, cannot. i afford some mistakes which are committed back in georgia in 2009. we on demand a new package of sanctions against regression of ukraine. h should be including the

full scope of the node stream on the gas pipe. and now a week ago, a talk about a defensive capacities of ukraine and ukraine. it's very ah, grateful to estonia for the a javelin, a rockets and a bolton a military hospital. this is a big help see maintained a defensive capacities of ukraine. we also were discussing that crimean a platform of 4 months, and it's tanya can cited either a white supports or the occupation of ukrainian peninsula of crimea. and we also discussed the european and saw era integration operations of ukraine who are some of which are fully supported by an

estonia to on our way to the e u. and of.