runs with the negative thoughts, but you don't go in and buy those gosh. the headlights are on our teeth. the u. s. on germany strike a deal on the north stream to gas pipeline project. but the vow action against russia over the election threat to security posed by the energy project. moscow and the pipeline is purely commercial. the for the worst of flooding in china in a 1000 years, cause death wiped out the transport, infrastructure, breach dimes, in bob, a huge block of one minion. we understand the situation is going to get was nobody suggestions, inflation on the way?

no serious kind of present abide and the highest us inflation rate in 13 years was foreseen and won't last long. that's not bringing much comfort to those who are already quickly feeling the pinch in their pocket. groceries are definitely up. and also the rents are also going up, i don't buy anything, one of the what the even says now when i truly truly know, ah, with you what latest news headlines live for moscow. this is our see international from the entire team here. a very welcome to you in germany and the united states have reached a deal over russia's nordstrom to gas pipeline, to europe. the sides agree that dependence on russian energy poses a security threat. well, this deal, it's been struck between berlin and washington,

essentially means that the united states will not actively try and stop the north stream to gas pipeline from opening up. some would say the time for doing that with already well past the project is almost finished in about the start running. but what this deal does mean is that there will be major investment in ukraine from both germany, the united states. germany will be acting as a mediator, or at least at cold on germany, to act as a mediator between russia, gas problem, and ukraine's enough, the gas in order to get a new contract. a new deal, sir, for transit rights for russian guest pass across ukrainian territory into europe. they're looking for an extension of the deal until 2034 or so the current deal expires in 2024. so it's a 10 year extension. thereafter. at the moment, the rumblings from the russian side of being for quite a while that they're quite keen to do that deal. so it'll come down to whether jeremy can convince the ukrainian side to get on side with that. there's also set

to be major investment in green technologies in ukraine by both germany and the united states. but while the steel, as they say essentially remove the chances of the u. s. trying to actively stop the pipeline and those comb, with some threats towards russia. the deal saying the part, the wording of the, the joint statement following the dale, saying they should russia to try and use energy supplies to put pressure on any nation in europe. well then there should be sanctions and there should be consequences. the united states and germany are steadfast, in their support for ukraine sovereignty territorial integrity, independence, and chosen european pass. the united states and germany are united in their determination to hold, rush her to count for its aggression and malign activities by imposing costs were sanctions and other tools. well, a couple of weeks ago it was announced that next month the pipelines construction

phase will be over then it should take around 3 months for specific taishan and safety checks to be carried out. and guests from the gas fields of siberia will be connected under the baltic sea, directly into germany. and not gus can start flowing. and it's got that there is a big demand for here in germany for the 1st half of 2021. we saw gas supplies from russia to germany, increased by 43.4 percent, and we can expect that to rise in the coming future as well. the united states had wanted to be the one to supply the gas that germany needs with liquefied natural gas. the l n g. the problem is, is that needs to be shipped across the atlantic, they have to be re justified in special plants. ultimately, it costs a lot more money. the u. s. has said it won't stand in the way of the pipeline right now, but it certainly doesn't mean that they like it in washington. you told this

committee that you believed the nordstrom to pipeline would have disastrous effects on u. s. national security. that it would have disastrous effects on european security by making them subject to economic energy blackmail from russia, and that it would enrich and power to carry out that blackmail. do you continue to believe that i do sen? while this is clearly a political issue in the united states, as far as russia is concerned, this is all about business. everyone should know that russia has consistently denied any accusations that it uses energy resources for political leverage. it never has done and never will do the project. it's purely commercial or this deal between the united states and germany does seem to mean that be no stream to gas pipeline will be up and running and sending rushes death into germany and into the

rest of europe. or sometime by the end of this year. tell people of the cross lots of jack rasmus, the economics and politics professor at st. mary's college and santa clara university is great to have you with us on the program today. thank you for coming on without this this gas pipeline nor seem to it is essentially finished. that gas is about to start flowing any day. now, why is the u. s. and now germany, why are they still posturing over this gas pipeline? well, i think you got to look at in contexts as a recent meetings of discussions between biden and europeans, particularly germany, you know, the germans, the europeans, considered us position on the global tax, and not taxing us tech companies. i think this is probably a quid pro quo to some extent of biden can feeding. what as everyone knows is already a done deal and allowing the germans to continue and get the cheaper gas. you got to understand that this whole sanctions over

a gas began nordstrom to begin under trump, when the us had a lot of natural gas and prices were falling. and you know, the industry and oil industry, which trump was running interference for their solution, was to make the europeans forced them to buy us gas. that would cause prices arise in the us as well as more volume sales in europe. but the problem was, the gas was just too much more expensive and the pins just re, did it out in the now you got to know the done deal and they got to cover it up somehow. you know, buyers come back with his tax concessions and they position the whole thing with regard to ukraine to make it look like the u. s. is still being tough and isn't considered in russia. it's interesting how you say that interesting analysis to me that jack, i want to ask you, do you think you think biden's concession at the end of the day over no stream to was really about saving america's relationship with germany and i guess western

europe now i don't think so, i think, you know, some drops out of the picture. they were pretty much glossed over their differences and they're working together as they were under the old deal liberal foreign policies. this is just moving the, the chess pieces around, you know, the north shampoo chest piece numbers through the back of the table and other things and more importantly to global tax and other agreements. so this is just re shuffling, shuffling the trump policies which weren't working by the way, along a wide spectrum. trade with china and north stream too. and everything was pretty much of a total failure. they're just putting it back together and, you know, this is part of the concessions here and you agree with us there that's, that's going on once again. now it's interesting that you know, stream to it's one of many pipelines. if russia right now has 12 different gas

pipelines, 12 different gas pipelines from russia, feeding into parts of europe. why would know stream to be any different from the other 12 different russian gas pipelines? well, i think because it's a direct prior winder, in some sense, there's no intervening countries that the u. s. could put pressure on to, you know, to deal with any dispute by refusing to buy russian gas. they know the big differences is what the pandemic, the u. s. stopped pumping up a lot of oil, shale oil and gas, and the prices are back up. so you don't charge the oil companies, the conservative, not a big issue they, they've got plenty of supply given the on demand. so it was an easy concession by the us. jack, i've seen reports basically say that, for example, europe will be out of oil domestically produced and drilled oil in the next 3 decades. when it comes to gas, it doesn't have much more time left with the gas. so at the end of the day,

rushing gas really ultimately is critical. it's crucial for the, for the european economy. but what do you think the future holds for knowledge stream to once it starts operating? i think it'll be an operation for quite, quite some time because as you point out, europe needs fuel. well, it's oil which are trying to get away from a natural gas, which is kind of a way of saying, oh, we're moving away from fossil fuels by buying more natural gas. so that solves that . deliver on the climate change in politics a little bit. but, you know, you're going to need fuel and natural gas even in the us as the future fuel until they can really get to alternative energy profitable. you know, comparable to natural gas. so, you know, you're, you're going to do that the u. s. needs that's the future economics and politics, professor jack rasmus, joining a live on our international a thank you very much. we appreciate your time. my closure at least 25 people

have been killed and more than 100000. evacuated to safely after devastating floods had china on tuesday. the country's been deluged with what weather forecast was all calling the heaviest rains in a millennium i use or let's our breakdown, what's actually happening across the country will bring up the map for you. we can show you the red part right there. you can see that that is a china central hand on province. its largest city jang ju, is located on the yellow river whose banks have bust. weather forecasters paint a grim few days to come with more heavy rain and strong winds. the typhoon, causing all this havoc is expected to hit the nearby coastal regions in yellow among them. of course, the huge metropolis of shanghai. now let's just zoom in for the meantime. on jing

ju, which has seen some of the most dramatic events so far. what we can show you here is a waterfall inside jane juice airport coming straight down through the roof. i things were so bad at the travel hub. it was unable to accept incoming 26 hours to the local subway system as well were completely submerged. leaving terrified commuters trapped underground network had to be completely shut down. people like, well meantime above ground cars were seen floating down flooded streets, while rescue was plucked. a few people from the raging torrent, it was water that also triggered a huge explosion as an aluminium cloud. the, the incident happened after nearby river bus its banks, its waters. as we understand, reacted with chemicals at the site. a massive plume of smoke could be seen rising high into the sky. a local reporter, white men g brings us the latest from the streets of ginger. i'm here at one of the

area that has been blocked by the to actual way in the capital city of central china as a whole, not probing where the rescue was due on the way to have a re for a capital role has left a call one say in the ring, you have for you to find it right now. the weather forecast say it will last until tomorrow's latest from the local authority and say the re for in a capital city hungry and let me clean up half of 3 days. well, it's probably year rainfall remains around $614.00 millimeters, which means the city has with me today the whole year ring for each of the 3 days. the central theatre people's liberation army said on wednesday morning. it has sent for more than 3000 men and a 2 sets of equipment supply to the flood and to carry out your walk in the city emergency response level, a flat being raised to level one. the railway operator has to have

a parent asked us to ensure safety such services and lowering the operation region at the residential area. so you must have to be cut off the water supply and electricity. the providential flow control and it dropped really had a quarter. so reported up more than 140000 residents have been effected by 2 racial rings and who and since july 16 and 10000 half the relocate to the state police. so fall dozens of cities are right now. tackling huge disruption to transport services . roads destroyed, swept away rail lines, damaged as well. the extreme rainfall is also threatening several dams, and relative was. authorities have reported a 20 meter breach in a dime near the city of lou, all young with a warning that it could actually collapse at any given moment. soldiers, police, all sorts of military personnel have been deployed to help with all these rescue efforts. thousands of people also landed in

a suburb of jungle. many have been waiting for luck to subside. last night, we follow a rescue team into one of the worst effect is areas where a 100 people have been commanded for 24 hours. rescuers have resorted to life both in areas where the water level reaches beneath michelle for a ride to help on tuesday night. his company is dedicated to dissolve the rescue for the same issue really with all the water can reach a depth of up to 2 meters. many are surrendered at it's going and they don't have any food. we're in a difficult situation right now. i believe has to both moves forward. the water gets deeper and cause have been merged. local resident led us when area where around 20 people waiting for how many cars are still under water and people in the area can get out on the 3 of us swam out to find the residue for help. there is

no more signal at all due to the loss of internet and communication tools. the stranded on their own, a dozen people were found trapped in the lap dated building started talking about within an hour the ring water reached by now. the shortwell was submerged in the water with the mail mail, mail, where you were to move out. whoa, whoa, whoa, not yet a migrant worker in jungle now has to find a hotel to stay in. many hotels either fully, both flooded. no easy task. this is one of the worst effect in areas. the 3 all inundated the traffic lights are not working. there is no electricity, no internet, daily supply, and not available for the locals. what's worse than will be more rainstorm in the

next few days, we didn't see dtn. don't go on and providence with inflation in america hitting a 13 year high. people are rapidly feeling it in their pockets. a new poll says 88 percent of americans are worried about the disproportionate increase in living costs. president biden bo claims it has not come as a surprise to him, and it's certainly not impacting his spending plans. our experts believe in the data shows that most of the price increases we seen are, were expected, and expected to be temporary. nobody suggestion is unchecked inflation on the way. no sir, is the kind. let's check that no one checked inflation claim. now if you have a car, it costs you twice as much to run it as it did last year. fuel prices have double your daily breakfast now comes with an 8 percent price. i am going to milk bacon and fruit have gone up. on top of that,

you've got consumer prices that have hit their highest amount since 2008. now, despite the presence assurances, america's working families already being hard hit by the pandemic are starting to feel the pinch. the groceries are definitely and also the rants are also going up and just household items making serious progress to ensure that it works the way it's supposed to work for the good of the american people. while construction material is out of this world, somebody's making some good money, and i think it's because joe biden, we could help families in small business, is whether the ups and downs or as the economy recovers. i don't buy anything. what is the, what the government gave us says nowadays, i, i truly, truly don't look, we brought this economy back from the brink. now biden refuses to hear those voices . perhaps you listen to those within his own party labor market tightness, behavior of housing, markets, and asset prices all rising in a more concerning way than i worried a few months ago. this raises my degree of concern over heating scenario. there are

huge uncertainties, but the focus of concern now should be on overheating. and if that's not enough to change the president's mind on the economy, perhaps this comparison is the wake up call. he needs. the u. s. is in the very best position from a long term point of view. i don't see how these can and well, when we're running now, budget deficits, something like 15 percent of g d p. this is beginning to look a little bit like a latin american con, pre printing and spending money like there is no tomorrow, as pretty clearly got people concerned. biden gave the excuse that the spending is necessary to tamp down inflation, which is ridiculous, has nothing in common. the, you can't stop the consequences of monetary printing by doing even more monetary printing, which is what it means to spend this level of money. and the fact is that biden, and all of his advisors and the political party that he represents our big spenders,

and they want to spend more money, they think that the u. s. government can go into infinite amounts of that. there's no limits whatsoever. they really believe this 5, mature is us. the problems are just temporary, but perhaps it's a bit like the pandemic and the economic aftermath. it's a bigger problem than was 1st thought. but it seems to be a problem that biden's apparently incapable of recognizing failed mop and r t new york. more than one and a half 1000000 hectares of forest have been consumed by raging wildfires and rushes north east cootie region. some 50 towns and villages have been blanketed with choking smog, emergency services, volunteers, and locals are old battling to bring the flames under control. around 2000 people and 300 vehicles have been deployed. corresponding what goes via has been taking a broader look at the scale of the tragedy. wildfires in just one russian region have consumed an area that is larger than jamaica. we'll monitor

that group and forecast aren't good. it's hot, it's dry and it's burning. with me the to put a far out, you have to, you have to get to it, which is a problem. given the vastness of rushes force firefighters are literally parachuting into the fire zones to join the efforts. the government is sending more and more resources and manpower and vehicles and fire fighting across to combat the inferno. but local activists said, still not enough that reaching out internationally for help. they've even us leonardo dicaprio for assistance. okay. i've heard you. i, in my management's,

we'll look into it, then we will talk with your thoughts in charge to see how we can be of help. siberia is dying now. also very hopefully help. can you post on your official page about 5 in siberia, please. okay, i'll fix a meeting with my management. thank you very much. leah siberia loves you. the activist who published the exchange later, the lead to that, but authorities will already have the response. if we received an official offer of help, then of course we would be happy if he came over and provided some assistance. but to be honest, i find it's hard to imagine what he can do to extinguish the awkward fires. sit in hollywood. publicity is always good. the more noise that people raise, the more attention that these funds will get. this is a perfect fall storm. historic heat level lack of rain,

dry forest. all came together in these fires that have burned down thousands of square kilometers of ancient woodland. and killed countless wild life. this is a taste of what's to come as the climate changes. because the overwhelming prognosis is that these 5 will rage, worse and worse every sama all over the world. alright, still the come here on your program on offering international, the works of william shakespeare have been dropped, that one prestigious u. k. university. as it tries to deep cold denies its creative writing course will give you that story on the reaction to it as well. laura, that just a moment. mm . i join me every 1st day on the alex salmon show when i was speaking to guess in the

world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me in democratic society with free speech rights, words are spoken freely in those words that catch attention and result in something that is beneficial to all have a place in the market in the marketplace of ideas, in those words and ideas that don't benefit society as a whole tend to get discredited or weaned out of the conversation off through the magic of open dialogue through the magic of free free. so the you, as the thing is that they no longer have the competence to respect the 1st amendment. they are not a competent nation, they see the rise of china, and they've lost all their confidence. and they're going to be repealed effectively . the 1st amendment the

the, the, the, ah, it is good to have you with us. well, there's been a new victim of council culture. would you be surprised to know it's william shakespeare, a renowned creative writing course and the u. k. is to be the colonized which includes dropping the works of the english play right at the move was immediately ridiculed with many branding it anti academic. now it comes off to some students. so the university of east anglia complain the course was dominated by privileged white male experience. so now a new module will focus on quote, the emotions of modern english from a multilingual medieval society and his colonial expansion. that essentially means the body being booted and off is born in africa,

asia and south america. now top the reading list, well, we did ask some people in the u. k. for the today, everybody must bring their own set. thanks to chase. this is imposing one to speak with you on it and basically family it it's censorship because if you think some of the attitudes don't correspond to your own things, absolutely short term isn't completely misguided, obviously that each of them might find it offensive. well, that needs to be addressed to, you know, i've only told that it would be a big mistake. the fact is that the place were written when they were in time to they were i think that people, i think people are big enough to better understand what kind of a time was wouldn't be, wouldn't right, like that today. i don't, i think sort of effect dumbing down, but nobody,

nobody able to process the information themselves. i don't think that's progress. the university has defended the move, saying the changes make the course more diverse and inclusive. i think the students will now study literature from all around the world, including publications, from its very own award winning graduates. a talk radio isn't having it in the world. did that creative writing course. so they'll actually attacking their own needs just seems to me to be deaf. of course, let's make sure the syllabus has writers from other ethnic backgrounds. let's make sure we show it's in its whole new clarity. but the idea is that you start by counseling. shakespeare no, or that you counsel white male writers. how does that play the one you can't just cancel it and pretend shakespeare didn't exist. i mean, they would never do this in some way, like crowns with molly. this is council culture outage,

worse is woke agenda and the students need to basically get a life you can learn from classics wolf's and all. no one asked necessarily by studying the merchant of venice. for example. think that everything in there is acceptable because you don't. you look at it in the whole and that's what needs to happen. we want our kids to get education. not indoctrination, don't we? iran is facing its worst drought in half a century. the countries at southwest and problems of who just on has seen days of autumn protests over severe water shortages to young men of been shot dead in the progress as has one policeman. president has done the ronnie. it's called a draft unprecedented with average rainfall down over 50 percent compared with 2020 professor site mohammed mirandi from the university of to raleigh told us that water shortages may not be the only reason for the unrest. that protest don't mean

that people are against the astronomy republic of iran. it means that people on the streets in different cities and the sun are upset about the shortage of water and the problems that the drought has cause. and those are legitimate. what happens though, is that people with guns infiltrate these gatherings? well, it's going to be a tough time for iran. we have sanctions, americans, and europeans trying as much as possible to make life as miserable as possible, ordinary iranians, that their objective and simultaneously because of global warming, we have a very severe drought. and that drought has had an impact on agriculture. and it has created water shortages and certain parts of the country are that just about wraps up this and use program for this half hour here. when are you into national with me, rory, to say thank you for joining me and the entire news team here at moscow. and my

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