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breaks down this hour and all throughout the next 3 days old voting ah, it is a thursday morning, september the 16th and just after 8 am here in moscow, it's a busy program for you today here on our national welcome to it. so france has lashed out at a 3 of its allies after being sidelined from a strategic defense packed in the pacific that is seen as an attempt to counter china. a french diplomat describe the deal between the us, the u. k and australia. as a stop in the back the world is a jungle. france has just been reminded this bitter truth by the way, the u. s. and the u. k of stopped her in the back in australia, the american choice to exclude the european ally and partner such as franz from a structuring partnership with australia at the time when we are facing

unprecedented challenges in the, in the pacific region shows a lack of coherence that frans can only note and regret. so the new agreement is called our cos. the 3 nations will show data on strategic areas including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and nuclear defense. and under the times, australia will acquire a nuclear power submarine fleet with the use of american and british technology. now, when a further stop to paris, australia has now scrapped a 66000000000 euro deal with a french firm to build 12 military submarines. and that's just the latest blow to the u. arms industry at a time when members states are struggling to meet the funding commitments to nato are also long running divisions in the block of creating its own army to ensure a, quote, strategical tommy, from the trans atlantic alliance. now while announcing this large agreement, president joe biden made a bit of a slip up, apparently forgetting the name of australia's prime minister scott mars. thank you

for me, and i want to thank that come down under. thank you very much from appreciate the premise of the deal between the u. s. u. k and australia doesn't make any direct reference to china, but the 3 allies have repeatedly cited the suppose a security threat from beijing in the pacific region where it is the dominant power nadia this year. britain infuriated waging by sending its war ships to the south china sea and to join the so called freedom of navigation operations led by the united states. well, let's learn a little bit more now. live now to professor benjamin shout from the shanghai international banking and finance institute. great to see you today. thanks for coming on the program. do you think china seas this brand new pack as some sort of threat? yes, of course, because the nuclear power is marine, you know, potentially wind made a text right. capability was significantly boost. the royal australian navy ability

to combat various kinds of under the warfare opperation in folk try to see a region especially now that. ready there is increasing tension between china and australia. so china is what you're very closely. the next steps i'll do this free country alliance. trying what do you make of the what some calling an aggressive storms coming from australia earlier this year. the former defense minister christopher pine, he said that a wall with china was likely within 5 to 10 years. can you see that happening? i use you don't have the biggest trailer really need china in the economy. the economy, highly complimentary. you look at the home, how many raw materials, australia ship to try to do it because loser to operate a war between australia to china and china is well when the,

when the former chinese defense minister said that australia will be dragged into a confrontation with china that might suggest a bit of reluctance, perhaps on australia's part. what do you think professor? i think that you'd like to be the case on the surface. we see that the u. s. and the k is empowering australia to have the nuclear submarine. but since the range of a marine is unlimited, christine in water for about 70 days, they are only limited by applied of the men power. they need to be a few human food actually. so i think the under one that keel and alive, reason for this and poem and is the us in the ability to provide more defense budgets to produce a large spending of nuclear power summaries. so

it says it is for single trade to share the cost of maintaining such ships and also strategic positions and also forces in there. so china and also in the pacific region, professor emerged in the recent days that the chairman of the u. s. joint chiefs of staff, general mock millie, contacted china during the trunk presidency, apparently worried that washington could attack china. now if true, what does that tell us professor about america's plans in the past when it comes to the in the pacific? i think it's a good story. i believe you said there was a fear that that from administration could backfire to make a boy trying to. that is that it seems to be a conjecture. you be what be up. so the trauma, initiation had been doing is a construction immediately construction in,

in many places in the world. and that it is extremely unlikely that there is what between china and the us, i think to, you know, to threats, to provide spreads, give some threats to have the war, a sign that the us wants to make business with china. but we've a better deal for the chinese president. she has made comments in the past year. and even beyond that, saying that child needs to be combat ready for some, some court sort of conflict with america who, who is, who is beating the war drum more loudly here. is it a washington, or could it actually be beijing? well, if you look at the defense system in china and the us china defense system is, is very passive in a sense, in terms of, for example, nuclear heads, most of the defensive purpose not for attacks. so,

you know, if you look at what did us has died in the past 100 years, the launch war every 2 to 3 years. but china has rights to is current that is largely through peaceful means. professor benjamin charles from the shanghai international banking and finance institute. joining us live here on this thursday morning on are you into national a very good morning to you. thank you for your time. while europe is currently reeling from a price shock on its energy market, the natural gas price in all time record on wednesday of almost a $1000.00 per 1000 cubic meters of this comes ahead of the winter demand surge and it's being driven by a gas storage shortfall and a shop drop in wind power. the crisis is likely to meet higher builds for households or across the continent. and off the skyrocketing on wednesday, the price has now stabilized with analysts warning of the swings. well,

the current crisis is being blame partially on energy policy is being pushed by various western governments. let's take a bit of a closer look here with ortiz charlotte duping scheme with news, the gas prices of historic highways. many people are already concerned about the difficult decisions that lay ahead high school and also it's a bit scary. it's purchasing power that is decreasing. that puts more money in the pockets of shareholders of big companies. it will be quite difficult for many households. some will not be affected much, but most will be the price of gas is already high enough. i've already decided not to heat my apartments for a while longer. it's quite difficult in winter, but it's still in habitable. if i put the heating back on at home, the bill will easily climb to 250 euros a month because i'm worried about this increase. and the fact that will have in my bills and the cost of living with what we have left at the end of the month, it will be complicated, except for the money. so forgot, i hate my home with gas,

you think crease the price of a year. time will come when we will no longer be able to afford to keep ourselves warm. you see is a real issue here in europe because the block significant numbers of people say that they just simply call to food to keep the home warm enough prices. why? this is only like you to find further, particularly for those who income such as pension is soaring. prices have been blamed on a variety of factors, increase the weather, and even the tough will between european and asian buyers liquefied natural gas. all of this has led to gas reserves long wishing level. so why is you really facing such a potentially winter? that is not purely a supply problem. it's not purely a supply chain problem. this is a monetary induced problem. part of what politicians do in this case is they've

tend to concoct conspiracy theories to cover up for their own failures. so in the case of europe, everybody rubs to blame russia. i think there's a lot of scrambling and it starts now around the world to try to figure out how to get the fuels to people who need it for the, for the, for the coming winter. but it's a little bit late in the day to be thinking about this right now. so i think we're headed for a very difficult 6 months. it's also claimed that you have been aggressive with the shutdown of coal and also own domestic gas fields, coupled with a heavy carbon and taxation. while at the same time, it hasn't gotten quite enough to make up for that by committing fully to carbon future this tremendous attack on fossil fuel chills going on all over the western world. you know, in the name of abating climate change and so on. but it's been very reckless and,

and it's, and it's really has injured the capacity of the market to respond to, to pi signals and to demand properly. so you have all these factors working in. so you've got the supply restrictions, artificial in many directions, regulatory restrictions and so on. and all of these things are combining from an economic point of view to drive up prices that are going to make people tremendously suffer and multifarious ways of now. and for the next several years. so what is the solution? will be companies could hook to complete a high level with asian counterpart for liquefied natural gas food. that does mean that there is the potential then the higher prices and phase always russia. last week, the long awaited new stream to pipeline which runs under the baltic sea was completed no big concern,

55000000 cubic meters of gas directly to you repair for you. that's enough to supply 26000000 household annually. russian company gas says it's ready to feel void, that according to the country's government could solve europe's problems. there is no doubt that launching nor stream to as quickly as possible would significantly balance out the price of natural gas in europe, including on the spot market. that will though depend, don't be easier to find the pipeline quick shawl fish and accepting that it may need to bolster it supply from russia. so what all you repeating governments doing right now will, spain has already intervened to attempt to shield its population from higher prices . new emergency measures will see profits problem with energy companies being used to cap the increase in gas prices. meanwhile,

italy has said it will look at changes in energy sector to combust of expected 40 percent rise in retail power prices in the next quarter. what's clear is the, you need a strategy, and if it's to push ahead with plans to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, it needs to dig deeper quickly. so the tv sci fi paris, was caught up on the, out here on the russian capital. and now just a day to go before russians cost that balance in elections for the state duma. that is the lower house of parliament. his art is neil harvey. now with our in depth coverage of the parties in the race. and what they stand for voting will be held over 3 days. it will run from friday to sunday. and across the way, we're introducing you to the different policies in the race, giving you an insight into the world of russian politics. for now, let's just take you through how the entire election process works.

ah, the news, we saw the $450.00 seats up for grabs lots of competition for them. let's get cracking on the 14 parties hoping voters will be putting a tick in the box. first of the russian party of freedom and justice is among the socialist parties involved at pleasure to build a society based on social justice and equality for most free education. and hope can the 1st on this body's been involved in such an election and the chair told us why they deserve people's like what we sent for civil rights and freedoms, including people's rights to teach in their own languages and really practice their

religion. and we aim to create a social state. we did not have the goal of establishing a left wing party. we are a wrote civil movement, and this is what makes us unique. there is no time to divide people into left and right. will continue with our dave dive into the 14 parties who are running for the state duma. let's take a quick look at those with an environmental agenda. the greens promote. so course conservation of nature this year, the party go this of a new chairman and continuous push to unite all. but if you care about ecology here in russia, the started as a social movement did. 993, seeking a so called green revolution. of all the one little less than one percent of the vote though in 2016 who's on the bodies new chairman, set out his store for this is violet. money, if you were not in a position party where a central nazi will bond our agenda, focusing on the environment to be represented in the duma. so we can all slow as the citizens and country need, and probably the raise,

a change of the hearts of minds of people who have become more environmentally conscious. so the past couple of years like for example, sorting, sorting to garbage and so on and so forth. recycling and all of that. and of course this would be something that the greens would pin their hopes to that people have indeed become more conscious in this sense of the word and that they will back them and back their initiatives. again. they are stressing that they're not strictly speaking and opposition party. what that means is that they are supporting the current geopolitical course of russia, but they want to see most spotlights on the environmental agenda. russia recently did pass a law that encourages companies to be more green and even it was them with so called green point, that they will be able to cash out. so we'll see if this helps the greens with their agenda. and would that cause well at the election? let's take a look at another party taking and be involved in this election, who you will know pretty well. i would say they are among the left rear parties.

the most popular, this is the communists. so the communist party of the russian federation is the 2nd largest party in russia, led by canada, a gun of old time leader since 990 s. this is the biggest and oldest of russian communist parties. it's pledge to deliver modernized version of socialism, and he can only program includes the nationalization of the countries natural resources and also a strong support for small businesses. previous election was the full time in a row that this party finished in 2nd place. we spoke to the leader about the gulf room. we have a huge outflow of capital that could have been stopped long ago. and we need to take certain measures is necessary to provide support the old branches of small and medium sized businesses and short sustainable production. it is necessary to hold a referendum on the nationalization of mineral sites. so most old countries do another party competing. the election is road and this is a right wing nationalist party and do for social justice and the preservation of

traditional values. the policy is demanding for immigration rules and lobbying for the interest of russia's region beyond moscow. it wasn't just one and a half cents support in the previous election. with all these chad took us through the main points of the manifesto, which in morning every official should pass the test for patriotism and live in russia. if officials administers have families living here and not there, they will do everything to raise the standard of living in this country. health care is one of the states priorities as well is possible to rebuild our health care system in less than 5 years. the question is whether people really want that to happen, where the officials want it, they're all using private care. well, let's move to the center of the political spectrum now and take a look at the current majority party and the re election favor united. russia was considered the defacto ruling party, so also the largest in the country, his job and is the former prime minister to meet him. inventive the party supports

the program of the president. and among his goals is strengthened in russia sovereignty, and he cannot make program include support for domestic industry, including high tech, non russia. the current majority party took more than half the votes in the last election, but can maintain that grid. and if a trinket takes a look at what the new ballot could mean, they are the ruling party. they are the favorites. always pretty much they are the party which 5 years ago, set a record by winning 344 seats out of 450. but how well united russia fair in this year's election, at some point, any long standing champion inevitably faces a career way, 2 months before the vote support for the party dropped to 27 percent. it didn't get that low. in 13 years, many have called. busy it a crisis of trust. it required swift, daring, sometimes surprise moves, party leader dmitri, me advantage was removed as one of its top 5 candidates. the light up is now

a mix of political behemoths who enjoy huge public support and new names who won the people's respect. like the countries beating covert, dr. ah, the lot of our food and though isn't on the list and isn't even a member of united russia officially, but the president has long been associated with the party and even let it for a while in the past. he's been talking of the immense responsibility that united russia has to bear as the ruling party. you should have. i want to reiterate my position. it is one thing to write something that is right and important. and it is another thing to implemented you and i are aware that the ruling political party is

responsible for everything and all the country's problems. but you have act responsibly so far. and the program has turned out to be quite feasible. united russia proud the calls. busy it's manifesto the people's program. it was put together after considering online suggestions from $2000000.00 russian citizens. ah, me, i still, like i said, united russia isn't going through the easiest of times. serious blows to the parties, reputation have included criminal charges, and in some says, jail terms for mayor's governor's cabinet ministers, even who had to be kicked out of united russia for fraud and corruption. in some cases lately, however, the party was left red faced because some of its senior members simply forgot about

decent matters scenes. more reminiscent of a dog owner playing with his boots. were certainly unseemly for a governor, given the keys from new fire trucks to a brigade. well, soon after that the official lost his job party membership and definitely lost united russia support in his region. but it still remains the most popular political force in the country. yes, it scheme to take advantage of the experience and trust behind some old school. big names like mister lab, rav and mister shaw i group. but on like a stagnating bureaucracy, the party is ready to count on fresh faces. it's ready for reform and it's trying to get as many russians as possible involved in its decisions using contemporary online methods. the news

that his aunty international. so it's all change at the heart of the british government, off department, it's a boars. johnson carried out a big cabinet re shuffle. shakeup had long been expected, however, more details now with the correspondent artes ethos. quite dramatic. re shuffled there by bars johnson, the british prime minister, and the most notable perhaps of those re, shuffles is dominick rob, who of course is will was, should i say the foreign secretary, he's been demoted. and now dominic rob is the minister who was presiding or supposed to be presiding over the case strategic withdrawal from afghanistan. that was anything but so those cale 2 teams, we thought couple airport last month. while all of that was going on in the taliban were advancing on couple dominate. rob was on holiday and didn't return to his post criticism was coming in for dominic rob from all corners of the political world is

important to me. what we're doing and way of doing it from when did people hold them? i mean, i'm not looking to brush over this. i just wanted to when you went things, when did you, what holy, when the facts on the surface, this looks like a family of planning on, on grunz. when was the last time a foreign minister went to based on went to perspective. i'm not sure how to check if you would like to know the busiest, very have to come back to 3rd grade what seems particularly reading because high come us was recently in his best ranging evacuation of german people through tashkent and it seems to be a route that works for the effectually, from germany in terms of your own leadership in your own actions pop until this point. did you ever any point consider offer to reside? now i consider getting home with the job. rob here still quite an important

character, important figure within the cabinet. he's the deputy prime minister. busy the law chancellor and the justice secretary, so i move for him, but others perhaps haven't been as lucky. kevin williamson, robert bucklin and robert generate, they're all out of the positions, but you're the chancellor richie said that he remains. and interestingly pretty to tell who is the home secretary, she's still to clings on to her job despite chris's. and yet again, of her holding meetings with businessman and breaking the ministerial code, all of those allegations, not enough to bring pressure on board austin to get rid of her just yet. earlier we heard from the former home office, mr. norman baker. he thinks there's a high level of incompetence across the british cabinet and no re shuffle is going to solve that was clearly sensible that govern williams has been rooted education secretary, he was completely useless and it's also run the dublin rob is gone from the foreign

office given the failure, i think, to deal with the dentist on any sensible and effective way. however, the trouble is we've, we've had a capital of the inadequate se at the moment because the conservative party has refused to have people in the capital or on staff who don't believe impressions and eliminates a whole range of people who are quite challenges. johnson, as a prime minister, that was punish. we've had a living memory and therefore we've had people who been audiological reasons rather than because they're any good at the job. so we'll see what happens. but i don't think rob coach remains a deputy prime minister to that kind of reward or failure like will be pleased that we've seen the back of government williams has been a particularly useless education. secretary, i don't think those have consulted foreign affairs. recognize that dominant robin didn't perform well in terms of again, and i will welcome his and the removal. i'm not particularly hopeful that the final

outcome of this re shop will be very much better than we've had before. i know you've been put in for talent position as as home. secretary, she in my view is always mrs. process. jensen sort of image which i believe book one but one see. many chances are in place and the chancellor is probably the, the one member, the government with some credibility. yeah, the covenant shake up is being discussed. the op ed section of r t dot com right now for the meantime. but we are back in about half an hour's time with more of your walk in, ah, or ex markets are kind of thing food shortage in and what's been claimed, you don't need it for the market. that's the plain and simple truth and country after country is beginning to realize they can escape the b matrix of 4 eggs with

dominated by current players who control us dollar. and they can have sovereignty. true sovereignty. if you have rely on the us dollar, you do not have sovereignty. both the the, the calls, the deal milles resignation are growing. following revelations and secret conversations with the chinese really says he was acting as a good faith precaution to prevent a war with china following the events on january 6th. however, the timeline of 1000000 others conversations regarding president trump. she has a much different picture who will lay out all the details for you, and who benefits from the continued division between the united states and russia. all of this,

all new wargames are involving the world's most powerful military are beginning. we will tell you, and the recall is over new, some get to hold onto his title was governor. however, the race has major implications for the upcoming 2020 to mid term. we will examine the effects on both parties, platforms, moving forward, gymnast to the capitol hill to testify on the f. b, i sexual abuse investigation with a very harsh words for usa gymnastics. and the usa olympic committee will their emotional testimony bring any reforms for not only the organization, but how the f b, i handle these types of investigation in the future and identical contract proposals for men and women will be offered by us soccer. we will tell you what motivated this change and what this could mean about the future of soccer in the united states. i'm sorry now you the stories are more on today's news views. hughes right here on our team. erica, let's get started. ah.